Yosemite : Art of an American Icon / ... – Los Angeles : Autry National Center, in Association with University of California Press, 2006. - 221 p., il., index; . . – [N. c.] – 978-0-520-24921-9 (cloth), 0-520-24921-6 (cloth), 0-520-24922-4 (pbk.), 978-0-520-24922-6 (pbk.) : 5575 tg.
This volume offers a stunning new view of Yosemite"s visual history by presenting two hundred works of art together with provocative essays that explore the rich intersections between art and nature in this incomparable Sierra Nevada wilderness
Years of Dust [Text] : The story of the Dust Bowl / Marrin, Albert . – 1st ed. .. – New York : Puffin Books Penguin Group, 2009. - 128, [3] p., il., map; . – Bibliogr. : p. 126 ; Index : p. 127-128 . – [N. c.] – 978-0-14-242579-4 : 30 tg.
In the 1930s, great rolling walls of dust swept across the Great Plains. It was a catastrophe that would change the course of American history as people struggled to survive in this hostile environment, or took to the roads as Dust Bowl refugess. The Author explains the causes behind the disaster and investigates the dust Bowl"s impact on the land the people