West Press imprint: 125 books
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The Creative Life of Nashville Session Musician Charlie McCoy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
From Ann-Margret to Bob Dylan and George Jones to Simon & Garfunkel, Nashville harmonica virtuoso and multi-instrumentalist Charlie McCoy has contributed to some of the most successful recordings of country, pop, and rock music of the last six decades. As the leader of the Hee Haw “Million-Dollar...
The News Untold
Community Journalism and the Failure to Confront Poverty in Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
The News Untold offers an important new perspective on media narratives about poverty in Appalachia. It focuses on how small-town reporters and editors in some of the region’s poorest communities decide what aspects of poverty are news, how their audiences interpret those decisions, and how those...
The Argument about Things in the 1980s
Goods and Garbage in an Age of Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
In the late 1970s, a Jeff Koons art exhibit featured mounted vacuum cleaners lit by fluorescent tube lighting and identified by their product names: New Hoover Quik Broom, New Hoover Celebrity IV. Raymond Carver published short stories such as “Are These Actual Miles?” that cataloged the furniture,...
by EMORY L. KEMP
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
A tributary of the Ohio River and significant commercial route in the nineteenth century, the Muskingum River in southeastern Ohio presents a remarkable case study of how Americans have managed their waterways. In Taming the Muskingum, esteemed scholar Emory Kemp traces this history, emphasizing...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
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. The founding editors are Douglas A. Anderson (The Annotated Hobbit), Michael D. C. Drout...
California Dreaming
Boosterism, Memory, and Rural Suburbs in the Golden State
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
At the turn of the 20th century, the California dream was a suburban ideal where life on the farm was exceptional. Agrarian virtue existed alongside good roads, social clubs, cultural institutions, and business commerce. The California suburban dream was the ultimate symbol of progress and modernity.
*California...
Algerian Diary
Frank Kearns and the "Impossible Assignment" for CBS News
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Frank Kearns was the go-to guy at CBS News for danger- ous stories in Africa and the Middle East in the 1950s, ‘60s, and early ‘70s. By his own account, he was nearly killed 114 times. He took stories that nobody else wanted to cover and was challenged to get them on the air when nobody cared...
Freedom's Witness
The Civil War Correspondence of Henry McNeal Turner
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In a series of columns published in the African American newspaper The Christian Recorder, the young, charismatic preacher Henry McNeal Turner described his experience of the Civil War, first from the perspective of a civilian observer in Washington, D.C., and later, as one of the Union army’s first...
The Jericho Deception
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
At the intersection of science and spirituality lies the human mind.The Jericho Deception is a psychological adventure into the interplay of mind and spirit, science and religion, mystery and mysticism. A mysterious death in a Yale lab, a secret facility hidden in the Egyptian desert, a desperate chase...
The Politics of Lists
Bureaucracy and Genocide under the Khmer Rouge
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
2019 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award winner
Scholars from a number of disciplines have, especially since the advent of the war on terror, developed critical perspectives on a cluster of related topics in contemporary life: militarization, surveillance, policing, biopolitics (the relation...
Modern Moonshine
The Revival of White Whiskey in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
The craft of making moonshine—an unaged white whiskey, often made and consumed outside legal parameters—nearly went extinct in the late twentieth century as law enforcement cracked down on illicit producers, and cheaper, lawful alcohol became readily available. Yet the twenty-first century has...
Memorializing Motherhood
Anna Jarvis and the Struggle for Control of Mother's Day
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Isidorean Perceptions of Order
The Exeter Book Riddles and Medieval Latin Enigmata
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
This book discusses the considerable influence exerted by Isidore’s Etymologiae on the compilation of early medieval enigmata. Either in the form of thematic clusters or pairs, Isidorean encyclopedic patterns are observed not only in major Latin riddle collections in verse but can also be detected...
The Old English Poem Seasons for Fasting
A Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Seasons for Fasting, a late Old English poem probably composed in the early eleventh century, focuses on proper fasting observances in England. This poem, composed in eight-line stanzas, survives only in a sixteenth-century transcript made by the antiquary Laurence Nowell. With its topics, vocabulary,...