West Press: 337 books
Day Hikes in the Pacific Northwest
90 Favorite Trails, Loops, and Summit Scrambles within a Few Hours of Portland and Seattle
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Second book from respected hiking guru covering day hikes in this part of the country.
While Don’s books address a range of trails, they usually appeal to the “peeps who like steeps” crowd. (Daytrips for more hard core/physically fit. Not kids or seniors.)
Great for niche/local gear stores as...
by Deborah Frazier
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
COLORADO’S HOT SPRINGS is an entertaining, comprehensive guide to the state's sweet soaking sites and their histories. The photographs capture each spring's unique character and beauty. Each chapter blends descriptions of the warm water wonders with stories about the unique characters, events, and...
Governing the Wind Energy Commons
Renewable Energy and Community Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019
Wind energy is often framed as a factor in rural economic development, an element of the emerging “green economy” destined to upset the dominant greenhouse- gas-emitting energy industry and deliver conscious capitalism to host communities. The bulk of wind energy firms, however, are subsidiaries...
Washington's History, Revised Edition
The People, Land, and Events of the Far Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Now with a new design and updated content, including three brand-new chapters plus a new preface and a postscript from the author.
An anything-but-dry history textbook in a take-it-with-you package, Washington’s History is a fascinating walk through the sweeping story of a place and its people.
For...
Capitalist Pigs
Pigs, Pork, and Power in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Pigs are everywhere in United States history. They cleared frontiers and built cities (notably Cincinnati, once known as Porkopolis), served as an early form of welfare, and were at the center of two nineteenth-century “pig wars.” American pork fed the hemisphere; lard literally greased the wheels...
by LEE MAYNARD
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
In this sequel to Crum, Jesse Stone is still on the move. He finds himself in a holy-roller church in Kentucky, on the other side of the Tug River from his native West Virginia, "screaming with the cannibals." From Kentucky he heads to Myrtle Beach, where he gets hired as a lifeguard, although...
No Ivory Tower
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Set in the backdrop of a prestigious all-girls boarding school, this provocative novel explores the personal lives of those within the school’s small community and the empowerment, strength, and resolve it must find in the face of a surprise adversary.
After a tumultuous transitional year...
by Olaus J. Murie
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Advertising: Targeted PNBA holiday catalog ad, Ingram e-comm to libraries and bookstores.
Awards: Submitted for National Outdoor Book Award, PNBA Award, Sigurd Olsen Award.
Events: Targeted events at the Murie Center and in California.
Materials: Murie information and related titles flyer.
Online: Dedicated...
The Legacy of Eric Williams
Caribbean Scholar and Statesman
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The book consists of papers that were presented at All Souls College, Oxford on the occasion of the centenary of Eric William's birth. They draw upon recent research and either supported, modified or rejected Williams's conclusions in Capitalism and Slavery.
Animal Stories
Encounters with Alaska's Wildlife
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
These timeless, beautifully written essays share encounters and observations on a variety of Alaskan wildlife and include natural history information.
In these essays about Alaska’s best-known and most charismatic animals—grizzlies and wolves, moose and Dall sheep, bald eagles and beluga...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
This volume is the product of interest in both Howell and the genesis of the Rastafari movement. The volume was conceived and compiled by Rastafari scholars that hail from a range of disciplines at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Jamaica, thus assuring a cross-disciplinary feel for this important contribution to Rastafari scholarship.
Never Cry Halibut
and Other Alaska Hunting and Fishing Tales
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
From the sharp, comic voice of Haunted Inside Passage,Never Cry Halibut is a collection of humorous and thoughtful short essays about hunting and fishing in Alaska.
Accompanied by photographs, each story reflects the author's three-decade relationship with the wildest places left in North America...
Stuttering Meets Sterotype, Stigma, and Discrimination
An Overview of Attitude Research
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
I And I
Epitaphs for the Self in the Work of V.S. Naipaul, Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
V.S. Naipaul, Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott constitute the crest of the wave of West Indian literary achievement that began to build in the 1950s and 1960s. The author's essays trace and celebrate the unique relationships the three writers forged with each other and with their Caribbean readers over the course of their careers.