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Finalist for the 2014 Weber-Clements Book Prize for the Best Non-fiction Book on Southwestern America

In popular culture, Wyatt Earp is the hero of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, and a beacon of rough cowboy justice in the tumultuous American West. The subject of dozens of films, he has been invoked in battles against organized crime (in the 1930s), communism (in the 1950s), and al-Qaeda (after 2001).

Yet as the historian Andrew C. Isenberg reveals in Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life, the Hollywood Earp is largely a fiction--one created...

Fühlt sich der Hund nicht wohl, müssen wir aus seinem Verhalten und den körperlichen Anzeichen erkennen, was ihm fehlt für den Laien ist das oftmals gar nicht so einfach.
Die etablierte Hundetrainerin Simone Isenberg hilft mit all ihrer Erfahrung und der fachlichen Unterstützung von einer Tierärztin, den Körper des Hundes besser zu verstehen und Krankheitsanzeichen schnell und sicher zu deuten. Informativ und leicht verständlich erklärt sie die wichtigsten Funktionen und möglichen Erkrankungen der verschiedenen Körperteile und Organe von Hunden von der Schnauze bis zur...

Noah Isenberg's study ofthe filmnoir classic Detour draws on archival sources, unpublished letters and interviews to provide an illuminating account ofits production history, its critical reception, its afterlife (including various remakes) and the different ways in which the film has been understood since its release.

The plight of the new teacher has changed little during the last 30 years. Neophytes still confront the same conflicting demands--to foster students' academic development while controlling their behavior, often in crowded classrooms in ill-equipped and poorly administered schools. Thanks to five books, Isenberg (a 30-year veteran of urban classroom teaching) found solace and support. The five books are "Up The Down Staircase," "Teacher," "How Children Fail," "To Sir With Love," and "36 Children." As teaching narratives, these best-selling writings of classroom teachers are a precious...