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Cow Stories (Hardcover): James Welch, Anne Welch Cow Stories (Hardcover)
James Welch, Anne Welch
R998 R860 Discovery Miles 8 600 Save R138 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fools Crow (Paperback, Revised ed.): James Welch Fools Crow (Paperback, Revised ed.)
James Welch; Introduction by Thomas McGuane
R428 R402 Discovery Miles 4 020 Save R26 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The 25th-anniversary edition of "a novel that in the sweep and inevitability of its events...is a major contribution to Native American literature." (Wallace Stegner)

In the Two Medicine Territory of Montana, the Lone Eaters, a small band of Blackfeet Indians, are living their immemorial life. The men hunt and mount the occasional horse-taking raid or war party against the enemy Crow. The women tan the hides, sew the beadwork, and raise the children. But the year is 1870, and the whites are moving into their land. Fools Crow, a young warrior and medicine man, has seen the future and knows that the newcomers will punish resistance with swift retribution. First published to broad acclaim in 1986, Fools Crow is James Welch's stunningly evocative portrait of his people's bygone way of life.

Winter in the Blood (Paperback, Revised ed.): James Welch Winter in the Blood (Paperback, Revised ed.)
James Welch; Introduction by Louise Erdrich; Foreword by Joy Harjo
R376 R346 Discovery Miles 3 460 Save R30 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The author of Fool's Crow and Indian Lawyer presents an extraordinary, evocative novel about a young Native American coming to terms with his heritage--and his dreams. "A nearly flawless novel about human life".--Reynolds Price, New York Times Book Review.

Engineering Agile Big-Data Systems (Hardcover): Kevin Feeney, Jim Davies, James Welch Engineering Agile Big-Data Systems (Hardcover)
Kevin Feeney, Jim Davies, James Welch
R2,902 Discovery Miles 29 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

To be effective, data-intensive systems require extensive ongoing customisation to reflect changing user requirements, organisational policies, and the structure and interpretation of the data they hold. Manual customisation is expensive, time-consuming, and error-prone. In large complex systems, the value of the data can be such that exhaustive testing is necessary before any new feature can be added to the existing design. In most cases, the precise details of requirements, policies and data will change during the lifetime of the system, forcing a choice between expensive modification and continued operation with an inefficient design. Engineering Agile Big-Data Systems outlines an approach to dealing with these problems in software and data engineering, describing a methodology for aligning these processes throughout product lifecycles. It discusses tools which can be used to achieve these goals, and, in a number of case studies, shows how the tools and methodology have been used to improve a variety of academic and business systems.

Winter Wheat (Paperback, New Ed): Mildred Walker Winter Wheat (Paperback, New Ed)
Mildred Walker; Introduction by James Welch
R547 R507 Discovery Miles 5 070 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For this Bison Books edition, James Welch, the acclaimed author of "Winter in the Blood" (1986) and other novels, introduces Mildred Walker's vivid heroine, Ellen Webb, who lives in the dryland wheat country of central Montana during the early 1940s. He writes, "It is a story about growing up, becoming a woman, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, within the space of a year and a half. But what a year and a half it is " Welch offers a brief biography of Walker, who wrote nine of her thirteen novels while living in Montana.

Winter in the Blood (Hardcover): James Welch Winter in the Blood (Hardcover)
James Welch; Foreword by Joy Harjo; Introduction by Louise Erdrich
R641 R490 Discovery Miles 4 900 Save R151 (24%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Killing Custer - The Battle of Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians (Paperback): James Welch Killing Custer - The Battle of Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians (Paperback)
James Welch; As told to Paul Stekler
R456 Discovery Miles 4 560 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Custer's ill-fated attack on June 25, 1876, has gone down as the American military's most catastrophic defeat. This historic and personal work tells the Native American side, poignant revealing how disastrous the encounter was for the "victors," the last great gathering of Plains Indians under the leadership of Sitting Bull. Telling of the pride and desperation of a people systematically stripped of their treaty rights, hounded from their ancestral hunting grounds, and herded into wretched reservations, Killing Custer reveals how this defining moment in American history was no more a "Last Stand" than a final celebration of waning power and freedom.

Structural and Sedimentation Study of the Shawnee Group in Central Kansas and the Possible Relationship to Oil Producing Areas... Structural and Sedimentation Study of the Shawnee Group in Central Kansas and the Possible Relationship to Oil Producing Areas (Paperback)
Vorin James Welch
R384 Discovery Miles 3 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Westlake Village - Tengo Amor (Paperback): James Welch Westlake Village - Tengo Amor (Paperback)
James Welch
R523 R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Save R29 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fear.Death.By.Sword (Paperback): Cameron a Madison Fear.Death.By.Sword (Paperback)
Cameron a Madison; Cavanaugh James Welch
R450 Discovery Miles 4 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Wayfarer (Revised Edition) (Paperback): James Welch The Wayfarer (Revised Edition) (Paperback)
James Welch
R675 R612 Discovery Miles 6 120 Save R63 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The crowning gift of heaven (Paperback): James Welch The crowning gift of heaven (Paperback)
James Welch
R460 Discovery Miles 4 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Between Worlds - The Promise of the Road (Paperback): Andrew James Welch Between Worlds - The Promise of the Road (Paperback)
Andrew James Welch
R484 Discovery Miles 4 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Between Worlds chronicles a real journey of discovery from the harsh winter of Georgia to the wilds of Mongolia by bicycle. A lone ride which began in Tbilisi and continued through Armenia, Iran, Pakistan, India and Nepal ending in Mongolia. It is one man's exploration of place and space, full of detailed architectural observations which question the nature of the spaces we inhabit and encourage consideration of the profound effects of architecture on our thoughts and habits. The personal journey of discovery, which is interwoven with the factual observations, mirrors much of the landscape travelled through and provides an insight into loneliness and displacement. The ongoing personal theme of a space or place in which to belong runs through the book as the reader is taken on a ride along the long, dusty, desert roads of Iran, and the spectacular mountain passes of Nepal. Combined with the colourful backdrop of India or the chaos of Pakistan, the book introduces characters along the way, from the Nepalese girl deity to the American evangelical Christian, turned Hindu. Each city or destination has its own flavour, dictated by the local people and buildings and the quality of its hospitality. Yurts, ashrams, temples and tents punctuate the ride like points on a dot to dot.

The Women of the Confederacy (Hardcover): Francis Butler Simkins, James Welch Patton The Women of the Confederacy (Hardcover)
Francis Butler Simkins, James Welch Patton
R1,275 Discovery Miles 12 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Women of the Confederacy (Paperback): Francis Butler Simkins, James Welch Patton The Women of the Confederacy (Paperback)
Francis Butler Simkins, James Welch Patton
R980 Discovery Miles 9 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Indian Lawyer - A Novel (Paperback): James Welch The Indian Lawyer - A Novel (Paperback)
James Welch
R579 Discovery Miles 5 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Raised in poverty on a Blackfeet reservation, prominent lawyer Sylvester Yellow Calf is now secure in the knowledge that his business and political success seems limitless--until a disgruntled convict, denied parole, threatens to destroy his career. A gripping suspense thriller . . . a complex psychological portrait".--San Francisco Chronicle.

If a Lion Could Talk (Paperback, Bison Books Ed): Mildred Walker If a Lion Could Talk (Paperback, Bison Books Ed)
Mildred Walker; Introduction by James Welch
R432 R407 Discovery Miles 4 070 Save R25 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Harriet Ryegate, the proper daughter of Massachusetts Puritans, is the first white woman to go far into the wilderness beyond the upper Missouri. With her husband, a Baptist minister, she seeks to convert the Blackfoot Indians to Christianity. But it is the Ryegates who are changed by their "journey into strangeness." Marcus Ryegate returns to Massachusetts obsessed by a beautiful Indian woman. For sermonizing about her, he pays a heavy price. Harriet, one of Mildred Walker's most fully realized characters, writes in her journal about "the effect of the Wilderness on civilized persons who are accustomed to live in the world of words." "If a Lion Could Talk" reveals the tragic lack of communication that stretches from Massachusetts to Missouri and beyond in the years before the Civil War--and the appalling heart of darkness that is close to home.

The Real West Marginal Way - A Poet's Autobiography (Paperback, Reprinted edition): Richard Hugo The Real West Marginal Way - A Poet's Autobiography (Paperback, Reprinted edition)
Richard Hugo; Edited by Ripley S Hugo, James Welch, Lois Welch; Introduction by William Matthews
R554 Discovery Miles 5 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Edited by Ripley S. Hugo, Lois Welch, and James Welch, with an Introduction by William Matthews

Of Richard Hugo's Making Certain It Goes On, David Wagoner has written: "Richard Hugo spared himself (and us) no pains or joys in making the wonderful, vigorous original poems brought together in this single collection. His was and is a very important voice in modern American poetry."

Hugo was also an editor of the Yale Younger Poets series and a distinguished teacher and master of the personal essay. Now many of his essays have been assembled and arranged by Ripley Hugo, the poet's widow and a writer and teacher, and Lois and James Welch, writers and close friends of the poet. Together the essays constitute a compelling autobiographical narrative that takes Hugo from his lonely childhood through the war years and his working and creative life to an interview just before his death in 1982. William Matthews, also a friend of Hugo's, has written an introduction.

"A rare glimpse into the poet's creative process." —Library Journal

Riding the Earthboy 40 (Paperback): James Welch Riding the Earthboy 40 (Paperback)
James Welch; Introduction by James Tate
R515 Discovery Miles 5 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Now with an introduction from celebrated poet James Tate, "Riding the Earthboy 40" is the only volume of poetry written by acclaimed Native American novelist James Welch. The title of the book refers to the forty acres of Montana land Welchas father once leased from a Blackfeet family called Earthboy. This land and its surroundings shaped the writeras worldview as a youth, its rawness resonates in the vitality of his elegant poetry, and his verse shows a great awareness of a moment in time, of a place in nature, and of the human being in context. Deeply evoking the specific Native American experience in Montana, Welchas poems nonetheless speak profoundly to all readers. With its new introduction, this vital work that has influenced so many American writers is certain to capture a new generation of readers.

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