"Five hundred years ago, in November 1519, Hernando Cort©♭s walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always from the point of view of the Europeans. After all, we have been taught, it was the Europeans who held the pens. But the Native Americans were more intrigued by the Roman alphabet than the Spaniards...

C&FW President, Norman Curtis, journeys to Hooterville to take matters into his own hands as far as dissolving the Cannonball, but becomes enchanted by the people of the valley.

Sustainability offers a vision for business and society that benefits Earth. Yet sustainability is often taught in abstract and disconnected ways. With the Yellowstone River Valley of Montana as its setting, this book introduces readers to sustainability issues, theory, and science. It addresses business profitability, physical environment processes, wildlife, public policies, and American Indian rights. It stresses practical understandings of sustainability...

For many years Green traveled up and down his native Cape Fear River Valley in North Carolina, collecting the folklore of the people of the valley--noting down their speech, beliefs, customs, anecdotes, ballads, epitaphs, legends, proverbs, stories, superstitions, games, folk songs, and the like. The selections from this rich harvest of human laughter and tears represent Green at his best. Originally published in 1970.A UNC Press Enduring Edition...

"REBUILDING IN A DYING POST-COLLAPSE WORLD" What can I tell you of freedom that you do not feel yourself? What can I tell you of the people of the valley that you would not recognize in those around you? There is community and kindness, and there is anger and conflict too, for we are only human. The first after the Factory and perhaps the last. I wish it were different yet I feel it, know it in my heart, that nothing can last forever. This planet...

In a climate changed future, Pickers travel the badlands between towns and farms, salvaging what they can from before the collapse.One family of Pickers is about to start a search for a prize that could change everything.Remy and his family are on the hunt for a seed bank, hidden away before climate change crashed everything. The trail has led them to a hidden bunker, and what they find inside is going to set them on a long journey, back to the community...

On the wrong end of history, a Neanderthal boy fights to get home. For generations, the people of the valley have hunted the bear, killing it to draw on its mystical power. On his first hunt, a young member of the tribe pursues the bear through the wilderness. Moments before their battle begins, the boy plunges into darkness - and awakes in a world beyond his wildest imagination, where nature is corrupted and the boundaries of time mean nothing at...

One of the reasons for the prevalence of Tlaloc in the Valley of Mexico is that in the semi-arid climate, water was a powerful daily symbol. Although there were no naturally occurring water connections to the sea, the high altitude of the mountains and volcanoes that surrounded it caught the rain water well and formed five important lakes: Xochimilco, Xaltocan, Zumpango, Chalco and Texcoco. As the largest, Texcoco was where the Aztecs eventually built...