University Press Of Colorado: 252 books
by Eric Baus
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Winner of the 2011 Colorado Prize for Poetry
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University
Class Not Dismissed
Reflections on Undergraduate Education and Teaching the Liberal Arts
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
In Class Not Dismissed, award-winning professor Anthony Aveni tells the personal story of his six decades in college classrooms and some of the 10,000 students who have filled them. Through anecdotes of his own triumphs and tribulations—some amusing, others heartrending—Aveni reveals his teaching...
by
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
The 2017 volume in the Manifest West series, Women of the West, delves into the rich mixing pot created in the West, derived from assorted cultures and ethnicities and from a variety of beliefs and traditions across the world, all manifested in today’s Western culture.
There is no one type...
by Jeanne E. Colorado Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Denver turned 150 just a few years ago--not too shabby for a city so down on its luck in 1868 that Cheyenne boosters deemed it "too dead to bury." Still, most of the city's history is a recent memory: Denver's entire story spans just two human lifetimes.
In Denver Inside and Out,...
by
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
"Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle."
—George R.R. Martin
The works in this anthology reflect both the myth and the truth about the part of the United States we call the "West." Is there one "true" West? Or have the changes that are overwhelming...
These "Thin Partitions"
Bridging the Growing Divide between Cultural Anthropology and Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
*These “Thin Partitions” *explores the intellectual and methodological differences that separate two of the four subdisciplines within the field of anthropology: archaeology and cultural anthropology. Contributors examine the theoretical underpinnings of this separation and explore what can be...
by T. Zachary Cotler
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University
Winner of the 2014 Colorado Prize for Poetry,* Supplice* is the second installment in T. Zachary Cotler’s sonnet sequence that began with *Sonnets to the Humans.*These are amatory sonnets, but with love and rhyme...
by Derek Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Mountain West Poetry Series
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University
The poems in Derek Henderson’s Songs are “translations” of a film cycle of the same name, shot by American filmmaker Stan Brakhage (1933–2003) to document his and his family’s...
Chilling Effect
A Lucinda Hayes Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2005
Equal parts courtroom drama, intellectual journey, and character study, Chilling Effect is Marianne Wesson's most provocative Lucinda Hayes mystery to date.
When attorney Lucinda Hayes reluctantly agrees to represent the mother of a brutally slain child, she must convince the court that the...
by David Milofsky
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2000
This is a rich, absorbing novel about good, evil, and the inability of the legal system to mediate between the two. Two white Milwaukee motorcycle cops pursue and kill a young black man on a bitterly cold winter night in 1959 and with the help of their su
A Remarkable Curiosity
Dispatches from a New York City Journalist's 1873 Railroad Trip across the American West
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Collected in this volume for the first time are Cummings's portraits of a land and its assortment of characters unlike anything back East. Characters like Pedro Armijo, the New Mexican sheep tycoon who took Denver by storm, and more prominently the Mormon prophet Brigham Young and one of his wives,...
Prairie Ghost
Pronghorn and Human Interaction in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
A Wildlife Management Institute Book
In this lavishly illustrated volume Richard E. McCabe, Bart W. O'Gara and Henry M. Reeves explore the fascinating relationship of pronghorn with people in early America, from prehistoric evidence through the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. The only one...
by Carmen Giménez Smith, Carmen Giménez Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Mountain West Poetry Series
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University
Dinéjí Na`nitin
Navajo Traditional Teachings and History
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Traditional teachings derived from stories and practices passed through generations lie at the core of a well-balanced Navajo life. These teachings are based on a very different perspective of the physical and spiritual world than that found in general American culture. Dinéjí Na`nitin is an introduction...