More than 500 species and subspecies of amphibians and reptiles can be found in the western United States. This title offers a survey of the frogs, toads, salamanders, snakes, turtles, and lizards that reside west of the Rocky Mountains (north of Mexico) and in Hawaii. It is suitable for the general reader and amateur naturalist.

An island-by-island inventory of Caribbean seabirds that includes colony locations and estimates of the numbers of breeding pairs, the severe threats that seabirds face, and proposals for research and conservation measures. It brings together a set of data on breeding seabirds that nest on the islands throughout the Caribbean.

Compares the methods the British and American navies developed to supply their ships across the vast reaches of the Pacific Ocean during the first part of the twentieth century.

Suitable for amateur or professional naturalists, this title offers information on how to search for herpetofauna, habitat descriptions, captive care, and a special section on reptiles and the law make.

Addresses Joyce's work in the context of British-Irish historical, political, and cultural relations. Comprising contributions by British and Irish scholars, this book theorizes a move toward historical materialism in Joyce studies. It involves a skeptical caution about relations between theoretical models and texts.

HMS Fowey was a small ship, carrying 44 guns and over 200 men, captained by a descendant of Sir Francis Drake's brother. In 1748 was done in by a reef. This book traces the life of this ship, the court martial of her captain, her rediscovery in the 1970s, and the long process of artifact recovery and ship identification.

Contains information on how to search for herpetofauna, habitat descriptions, captive care, and a section on reptiles and the law. This guide is suitable for amateur or professional naturalists, as well as for those living in or visiting a western state who is interested in knowing more about the natural world around them.

Edwin Denby (1903-1983) was one of the most important and influential American dance critic of the 20th century. His reviews and essays were possessed of a voice, vision, and passion as compelling and inspiring as his subject. This book presents his reviews from Modern Music and the Tribune in chronological order.

Avoiding a focus on a single country or style, this book provides a historical and theoretical overview of the subject since the 1940s. It recognizes the important distinction between Arabic art and Islamic art, and views them as overlapping rather than synonymous subjects. It also offers an analysis of the use of the Arabic letter.

Argues that readers should look beyond thematic incest in Modernist texts to its narrative structure, in which father's and daughter's stories call one another into being even as each attempts to forestall the other. The author proposes a fresh way to see and value contests over sexuality, power, and storytelling in Joyce's work.

A memoir that looks at the artists Rudolf Nureyev's and Rudi van Dantzig's relationship.

A guide to Florida snorkeling that identifies fifty snorkeling sites from Panhandle to Keys. It features the best public sites throughout the state, including coral reefs, sea-grass beds, shipwrecks, springs, and rivers. It informs snorkelers on where to go, what to bring, and what to expect.

Through its complex history, alcohol has served many cultural functions, often constructive ones. This book identifies key themes associated with alcohol production, distribution, and consumption. It discusses industrial and home production of alcoholic beverages and both public and clandestine drinking.

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, relations between the Middle East and the United States were generally quite positive. This work analyzes early American missionary efforts in the Middle East, views of New York City in Arabic literature, and the development of Middle East studies as an academic field in the United States.

Presents an account of the Clinton administration's Latin American policies, based in part on interviews and roundtable discussions with more than 50 participants in the Latin American foreign policy process during these years. This book concludes that the Clinton presidency failed to build on the favorable international and regional context.

Examines British literary representations of Latin America from the 16th through the 20th centuries, with particular attention to travel writing and fiction published during and after Latin American independence. This work argues that British representations of Latin America reveal an authorial freedom to advance imperial and commercial projects.

Film noir, which flourished in 1940s and 50s, reflected the struggles and sentiments of postwar America. This book contends that the genre, with its emphasis on dark subject matter, paralleled the class conflict in labor and union movements that dominated the period.

Documents the Apalachicola river's blackwater grandeur as well as the quiet beauty of individual locations. This book features images of waterfalls, cypress-filled creeks, spreading wetlands, an array of rare plants, and the turbid, serpentine tributaries of one of the richest estuarine systems in the northern hemisphere.

More than eighteen million visitors travel to the Caribbean each year, and scuba diving is one of the notable reasons. This work includes information on dive sites, dive operators, pertinent island or country information, diver-friendly accommodations, and more. It is suitable for divers looking for scuba destinations in the Caribbean.

Every spring, hordes of fans descend upon Florida for the Daytona 500, the famed first race in the NASCAR season. But how many know that racers have been bringing fast cars to the beach for more than one hundred years? This title portrays the thrills and dangers of the first automobile races in Daytona.