West Press imprint: 125 books
Tolkien Studies
An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume IX
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review presents the growing body of critical commentary and scholarship on both J. R. R. Tolkien's voluminous fiction and his academic work in literary and linguistic fields.
Tolkien Studies
An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume VIII
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review presents the growing body of critical commentary and scholarship on both J. R. R. Tolkien's voluminous fiction and his academic work in literary and linguistic fields.
by Peter Randolph
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
This book is the first anthology of the autobiographical writings of Peter Randolph, a prominent nineteenth-century former slave who became a black abolitionist, pastor, and community leader.
Randolph’s story is unique because he was freed and relocated from Virginia to Boston, along with...
Company C
An Americans Life as a Citizen-Soldier in the Israeli Army
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
When American-born Haim Watzman immigrated to Israel, he was drafted into the army and, after eighteen months of compulsory service, was assigned to Company C, the reserve infantry unit that would define the next twenty years of his life. From 1984 until 2002, for at least a month a year, Watzman, who...
by Greg Bottoms
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
An innovative, hybrid work of literary nonfiction, Lowest White Boy takes its title from Lyndon Johnson’s observation during the civil rights era: “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket.”
Greg Bottoms...
by Linda Lambert
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
When an earthquake nearly buries anthropologist Justine Jenner in an ancient crypt, she finds what appears to be an ancient codex which, if real, could radically threaten the world's great religions.The Cairo Codex is a riveting novel of two women, two millennia apart, set in the exotic cultures of ancient...
by Steven Joiner
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers for Sector Switchers is the comprehensive resource for transitioning professionals pursuing new career options in the nonprofit sector.Get indispensable advice, relevant strategies, and nonprofit-specific resources to strengthen your job search. Written by nonprofit...
Oil and Nation
A History of Bolivia's Petroleum Sector
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Oil and Nation places petroleum at the center of Bolivia’s contentious twentieth-century history. Bolivia’s oil, Cote argues, instigated the largest war in Latin America in the 1900s, provoked the first nationalization of a major foreign company by a Latin American state, and shaped both the course...
The Spark of Learning
Energizing the College Classroom with the Science of Emotion
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Historically we have constructed our classrooms with the assumption that learning is a dry, staid affair best conducted in quiet tones and ruled by an unemotional consideration of the facts. The field of education, however, is beginning to awaken to the potential power of emotions to fuel learning,...
Untapped
Exploring the Cultural Dimensions of Craft Beer
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Rural America in a Globalizing World
Problems and Prospects for the 2010's
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
This fourth Rural Sociological Society decennial volume provides advanced policy scholarship on rural North America during the 2010’s, closely reflecting upon the increasingly global nature of social, cultural, and economic forces and the impact of neoliberal ideology upon policy, politics, and...
Against Authority
Freedom and the Rise of the Surveillance States
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
In both his novels and in his 2005 essay, How We Live Now, John Twelve Hawks was one of the first authors to warn us about the growing power of surveillance technology. Now he has written a personal and controversial book that shows how our lives are watched and analyzed by governments and international...
The Italian Letters
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
The Italian Letters lies in the sensuous curvature of ancient, 20th and 21st century Italy. The sequel to The Cairo Codex follows the adventures of anthropologist Justine Jenner after she is expelled from Egypt in the wake of discovering the diary of the Virgin Mary. Exiled into Tuscany, Justine finds...
by Carol Buggé
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
New York mystery editor Claire Rawlings spends her days scrutinizing the motives and methods of fictitious criminals--but her precocious thirteen-year-old friend Meredith Lawrence has a keen eye for the cold, hard facts of crime. So when Meredith comes to New York to visit, the two mystery buffs put...