Best Selling Books by James McDonald

The spread of settlement, 1829-50 considers Europeans coming to terms with an alien land surface and problems arising from popular misconceptions of the colonys geography.

Arthur McKinnon had succeeded in prospering in America. Now there was one more thing he had to do. See the last of the hated Redcoats who had devastated his family

Two signed letters written by James McDonald Smith. The first letter (20 Oct. 1861; with the original transmittal envelope and cancelled U.S. three-cent stamp), describes life in camp, the sighting of a loose reconnaissance balloon, and the Union Army''s unqualified devotion to Gen. George B. McClellan; the second letter (18 Mar. 1862) contains an account of his regiment''s march to Falls Church, Va., in inclement weather.

"This series of experiments used the multiple learning and memory systems hypothesis of the mammalian nervous system to investigate the possibility that the amygdala, dorsal striatum, and hippocampal systems might, in certain situations, interact to produce behavior in the normal animal. Using variations of the conditioned-cue preference (CCP) task, evidence is presented showing that context-specific information acquired by the hippocampus interferes with acquisition of amygdala-based stimulus-reward learning. It was also demonstrated that there are amygdala-, dorsal striatum-, and hippocampus-based forms of place learning and that cue ambiguity and movement are important factors determining which of these learning and memory systems gain behavioral control in place learning situations. These findings provide evidence for interactions among learning and memory systems and implicate the amygdala and dorsal striatum in some types of non-hippocampal based place learning using distal cues." --