University Press Of New England: 148 books
Jack Parker's Wiseguys
The National Champion BU Terriers, the Blizzard of ’78, and the Road to the Miracle on Ice
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Over the winter of 1977–78, anyone within shouting distance of a two-mile stretch of Boston’s Commonwealth Avenue—from Fenway Park to the trolley curve at Packard’s Corner—found themselves pulled into the orbit of college hockey. The hottest ticket in a sports-mad city was Boston University’s...
by Howard Frank Mosher
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
The stories of Where the Rivers Flow North are “superior work, rich in texture and character,” says the Wall Street Journal; “the novella is brilliantly done.” That novella, the title story of the collection, was also made into a feature film starring Rip Torn and Michael J. Fox. These six...
Going Up the Country
When the Hippies, Dreamers, Freaks, and Radicals Moved to Vermont
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Going Up the Country is part oral history, part nostalgia-tinged narrative, and part clear-eyed analysis of the multifaceted phenomena collectively referred to as the counterculture movement in Vermont. This is the story of how young migrants, largely from the cities and suburbs of New York and Massachusetts,...
Living at the End of Time
Two Years in a Tiny House
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
In this second book in his Scratch Flat Chronicles, John Hanson Mitchell tells how he set out to recreate Henry David Thoreau’s two years at Walden Pond in a replica of Thoreau’s cabin. Mitchell lived off the grid, without running water or electricity, in a tiny house not half a mile from a major...
The Captain’s Best Mate
The Journal of Mary Chipman Lawrence on the Whaler Addison, 1856–1860
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2000
The diary of a wife who, with their five-year old daughter, accompanied her husband on a three-and-a-half year whaling voyage.
Archeology in the Adirondacks
The Last Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
While numerous books have been written about the great camps, hiking trails, and wildlife of the Adirondacks, noted anthropologist David R. Starbuck offers the only archeological guide to a region long overlooked by archeologists who thought that “all the best sites” were elsewhere. This beautifully...
Preservation Education
Sharing Best Practices and Finding Common Ground
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Over the past twenty years, there has been a fundamental shift in the institutional organization of historic preservation education. Historic preservation is the most recent arrival in the collection of built environment disciplines and therefore lacks the pedagogical depth and breadth found in allied...
America's Founding Fruit
The Cranberry in a New Environment
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The cranberry, Vaccinium macrocarpon, is one of only three cultivated fruits native to North America. The story of this perennial vine began as the glaciers retreated about fifteen thousand years ago. Centuries later, it kept Native Americans and Pilgrims alive through the winter months, played a...
Clearing the Coastline
The Nineteenth-Century Ecological & Cultural Transformations of Cape Cod
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
In just over a century Cape Cod was transformed from barren agricultural wasteland to bountiful fishery to pastoral postcard wilderness suitable for the tourist trade. This complex social, ecological, and scientific transformation fundamentally altered how Cape Codders used and managed their local...
Capturing the Commons
Devising Institutions to Manage the Maine Lobster Industry
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
One of the most pressing concerns of environmentalists and policy makers is the overexploitation of natural resources. Efforts to regulate such resources are too often undermined by the people whose livelihoods depend on their use. One of the great challenges for wildlife managers in the twenty-first...
by Deborah Rivel, Kellye Rosenheim
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
This easy-to-use guide gives seasonal information for both popular birding sites and those off the beaten path. Precise directions to the best viewing locations within the region’s diverse habitats enable birdwatchers to efficiently explore urban and wild birding hotspots. Over 500 species of birds...
States at War, Volume 2
A Reference Guide for New York in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
While many Civil War reference books exist, there is no single compendium that contains important details about the combatant states (and territories) that Civil War researchers can readily access for their work. People looking for information about the organizations, activities, economies, demographics,...
In Pursuit of Giants
One Man's Global Search for the Last of the Great Fish
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
For millennia the great fish—marlin, bluefin tuna, and swordfish—have reigned over the world’s oceans and awed human beings. Naturalists, photographers, sportfishermen, and writers from Zane Grey to Ernest Hemingway have been inspired by their beauty, power, and sheer size. But like much other...
States at War, Volume 4
A Reference Guide for Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
While many Civil War reference books exist, there is no single compendium that contains important details about the combatant states (and territories) that Civil War researchers can readily access for their work. People looking for information about the organizations, activities, economies, demographics,...