West Press imprint: 125 books
Meet the Deplorables
Infiltrating Trump America
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Ripped from the headlines, Meet the Deplorables: Infiltrating Trump America ventures deep into Red State territory and explores the current shape of our divided country, providing a fresh, first-hand perspective of right-wing subcultures and the mindsets of the so-called “deplorables” who helped...
Tribespotting
Undercover Cult(ure) Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
Legendary infiltration journalist Harmon Leon has gone undercover again and returned with a new book. Gentleman cartoonist Keith Knight provides popular comics that enhance Leon's enlightening narrative.
"This book was eye-opening ..." –David Litt, author of NY Times bestseller Thanks, Obama
The...
by Ben Stoltzfus
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Equal parts sociological lore and screwball comedy, Dumpster, for God’s Sake bends reality into fiction in a uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human.
"Profoundly dystopian and completely believable." −Dean MacCannell, author of The Tourist
Loviers City believes...
by John B. Watson
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Preface: While this volume is written as a series of lectures and in a somewhat free and easy style, every effort has been made to present facts in unmutilated form and to state theoretical positions with accuracy. In approaching subjective psychology for the first time, the reader meets with one...
by Robert Eisler
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
by Austen Layard
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Originally published in 1849, this early work by traveller, archaeologist and collector Sir Austen Henry Layard is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It details the religion, art and military of the ancient city of Nineveh. This is a fascinating read for anyone interested in the...
by Manfred Curry
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
A guide for racing yachtsman that is as useful today as when it was first published. Teaching the fundamentals of the start line, beating to windward, rounding a mark, wind abeam, before the wind. This book is a wonderful collection of anecdotes, tactics and case studies. Many of the earliest books,...
by Rom Landau
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
by W. H. R. Rivers
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
William Halse Rivers Rivers, FRCP, FRS, (1864-1922) was an English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist, best known for his work with soldiers during World War I who were suffering from shell shock. Rivers's most famous patient was the poet Siegfried Sassoon. He is also famous...
Hillside Fields
A History of Sports in West Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
West Virginia’s championship teams at WVU and Marshall and athletic superstars like Jerry West and Mary Lou Retton are familiar to all, but few know the untold story of sports in the Mountain State. Hillside Fields: A History of Sports in West Virginia chronicles the famous athletic triumphs and...
Hippie Homesteaders
Arts, Crafts, Music and Living on the Land in West Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
It’s the 1960s. The Vietnam War is raging and protests are erupting across the United States. In many quarters, young people are dropping out of society, leaving their urban homes behind in an attempt to find a safe place to live on their own terms, to grow their own food, and to avoid a war they...
Songwriting in Contemporary West Virginia
Profiles and Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Songwriting in Contemporary West Virginia: Profiles and Reflections is the first book dedicated to telling the stories of West Virginia’s extensive community of songwriters. Based on oral histories conducted by Stimeling and told largely in the songwriters’ own words, these profiles offer a...
The Rebel in the Red Jeep
Ken Hechler's Life in West Virginia Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The Rebel in the Red Jeep follows the personal and professional experiences of Ken Hechler, the oldest living person to have served in the US Congress, from his childhood until his marriage at 98 years of age.
This biography recounts a century of accomplishments, from Hechler’s introduction of...
The Backyard Brawl
Stories from One of the Weirdest, Wildest, Longest Running, and Most Instense Rivalries in College Football History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The West Virginia University Mountaineers and the University of Pittsburgh Panthers, separated by less than eighty miles of highway, have battled it out on the football field for more than one hundred years. Now, with Pitt announcing its departure from the Big East Conference to join the Atlantic...