The Rivals William Gwin, David Broderick, and the Birth of California by ArthurQuinn Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1997 by Bison Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-8851-5, ISBN: 0-8032-8851-4
""Brilliantly written with a verve that makes for addictive reading. This is history in the grand manner, all done with drama, humor, irony, and vision. Arthur Quinn opens a window for us, and the story he reveals is enough to make us sit up late, reading compulsively".-Richard Marius, author of After the War. "Fascinating".-Washington Post. "Quinn performs his task in a richly straightforward way, depicting his colorful cast with a keen ..."
Figures of Speech(1st Edition) 60 Ways To Turn A Phrase by ArthurQuinn, Barney R. Quinn Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 1995 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-880393-02-4, ISBN: 1-880393-02-6
"Writing is not like chemical engineering. The figures of speech should not be learned the same way as the periodic table of elements. This is because figures of speech are not about hypothetical structures in things, but about real potentialities within language and within ourselves. The "figurings" of speech reveal the apparently limitless plasticity of language itself. We are inescapably confronted with the ..."
Hell With the Fire Out(1st Edition) A History of the Modoc War by ArthurQuinn Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 1998 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-19937-2, ISBN: 0-571-19937-2
"The American war against the Modoc people of northern California and southern Oregon, fought in 1869-72, has long been overshadowed by other campaigns in the Indian Wars. Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Cochise made the standard history books, but Captain Jack of the Modoc did not, although his contributions as a leader of his people were as great as those of his more famous peers. Arthur Quinn rectifies this oversight by writing a ..."
Hell With the Fire Out(1st Edition) A History of the Modoc War by ArthurQuinn Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 1997 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-19903-7, ISBN: 0-571-19903-8
"The Modoc War, pivotal in American history, pitted the peace policies of President Ulysses S. Grant and Quaker activist Lucretia Mott against William Tecumseh Sherman - the destroyer of Georgia - and his outspoken desire for the Modocs' "utter extermination." When it ended in 1873, with the execution of the tribal leaders and the relocation of the Modoc tribe to Oklahoma, the federal goverment's Peace Commission was in tatters. The way ..."
A New World(1st Edition) An Epic of Colonial America from the Founding of Jamestown to the Fall of Quebec by ArthurQuinn Paperback, 532 Pages, Published 1995 by Berkley Trade ISBN-13: 978-0-425-14956-0, ISBN: 0-425-14956-0
"Historian Quinn brilliantly captures a nation in the making with this ambitious and honest account of colonial America. He challenges conventional historical narrative and allows readers to experience America's tumultuous beginnings with an unparalleled sense of immediacy and drama. A New World intrigues, surprises, and informs in a way that is both rare and rewarding."
New World(1st Edition) An Epic of Colonial America from the Founding of Jamestown to the Fall of Quebec by ArthurQuinn Hardcover, 600 Pages, Published 1994 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-19837-5, ISBN: 0-571-19837-6
"An epic of colonial America--from the founding of Jamestown to the fall of Quebec. This ambitious and extraordinary book challenges conventional historic narrative by presenting episodes in North America's history through the eyes and voices of Europeans who established the first colonial outposts here."
"Writing is not like chemical engineering. The figures of speech should not be learned the same way as the periodic table of elements. This is because figures of speech are not about hypothetical structures in things, but about real potentialities within language and within ourselves. The "figurings" of speech reveal the apparently limitless plasticity of language itself. We are inescapably confronted with the intoxicating possibility th ..."
"... George Gopen, Duke University; Patricia Graves, Georgia State University;
Christine Hult, Utah State University; Linda B. Knoblock, Paradise Valley
Community College; Nancy Lowe, Pennsylvania State University; Jeanette P.
Morgan, University of Houston; Patricia Roberts, University of North Carolina; Tim
J. Saben, Portland Community College; J. Randall Woodland, University of
Michigan; Linda Woodson, University of Texas, San Ant ..."
Broken Shore The Marin Peninsula in California History by ArthurQuinn Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 1987 by Pgw ISBN-13: 978-0-939061-00-6, ISBN: 0-939061-00-7
"Book by Quinn, Arthur"
Broken shore(1st Edition) The Marin Peninsula : a perspective on history by ArthurQuinn Hardcover, 180 Pages, Published 1981 by Peregrine Smith ISBN-13: 978-0-87905-085-6, ISBN: 0-87905-085-3
"Presents a history of Marin Peninsula, Ca., from the arrival of the first Europeans."
Before Abraham Was(Reprint) The Unity of Genesis 1-11 by Isaac M. Kikawada, ArthurQuinn Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 1989 by Ignatius Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-89870-239-2, ISBN: 0-89870-239-9
"Rebelling against a century of Old Testament scholarship, Isaac M. Kikawada and Arthur Quinn persuasively argue that the first eleven chapters of Genesis are not a literary patchwork by different editors as widely supposed, but are the work of one author of extraordinary subtlety and skill. Comparing Genesis 1-11 with primeval histories from the ancient Near East, Kikawada and Quinn urge their readers to appreciate the ingenuity of Gene ..."
"Rebelling against a century of Old Testament scholarship, Isaac M. Kikawada and Arthur Quinn persuasively argue that the first eleven chapters of Genesis are not a literary patchwork by different editors as widely supposed, but are the work ..."
Before Abraham Was(Reprint) The Unity of Genesis 1-11 by Isaac M. Kikawada, ArthurQuinn Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2017 by Wipf And Stock ISBN-13: 978-1-5326-1769-0, ISBN: 1-5326-1769-0
"Rebelling against a century of Old Testament scholarship, Isaac M. Kikawada and Arthur Quinn persuasively argue that the first eleven chapters of Genesis are not a literary patchwork by different editors as widely supposed, but are the work of one author of extraordinary subtlety and skill. Comparing Genesis 1-11 with primeval histories from the ancient Near East, Kikawada and Quinn urge their readers to appreciate the ingenuity of Gene ..."
Figures of Speech 60 Ways To Turn A Phrase by ArthurQuinn 112 Pages, Published 2012 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-136-78498-9, ISBN: 1-136-78498-5
"This is because figures of speech are not about hypothetical structures in things, but about real potentialities within language and within ourselves. The "figurings" of speech reveal the apparently limitless plasticity of language itself."
Pacific Electric Railway(1st Edition) Vol. 3 Southern Division by Donald Duke, ArthurQuinn Paperback, 157 Pages, Published 2005 by Golden West Books ISBN-13: 978-0-87095-121-3, ISBN: 0-87095-121-1
"More than 453 photos and maps, featuring the Catalina Dock Line, El Segundo Line, Gardena-Torrance-San Pedro Line, Long Beach Line, Long Beach Local Lines, Newport Beach-Balboa Line, Redondo Beach Line, San Pedro Line, San Pedro Local Lines, Santa Ana Line, Santa Ana-Huntington Beach Line, Santa Ana-Orange Line, Terminal Island Line (Calship), Watts Line, West Basin Line, Whittier-Fullerton-Yorba Linda Line, Freight Service, Box Motor S ..."
The Rivals by ArthurQuinn Hardcover, Published 1995 by Random House Value Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-517-15897-5, ISBN: 0-517-15897-3
"The leader guide provides guidance and the suggested schedule for weekly group sessions to enable discussion in small groups of what persons have discovered in their individual reading and study.Two pages of guidance per session include directions for u"