West Press: 337 books

Texas is unique, not only because it is the only state to enter the Union by way of a treaty, but because a clause in that treaty gives Texas the right, in perpetuity, to divide into as many as five separate states. These "Five States of Texas" reflect the remarkable geographic variety of...

Author events in Alaska. Print and broadcast based on author events. Targeted reviews/excerpts in Alaska regional and national outdoor/nature media. Ingram e-comm, featured on author’s Facebook Fan Page, graphicartsbooks.com, GoodReads. Featured at PNBA, Alaska Wholesale Gift Show and Alaska Library Association Conference.

The book comprises five chapters, which draw on contemporary theoretical paradigms from diaspora studies, cultural studies, feminism, gender studies and post-colonialism. The aim is to provide a critical text that can be utilized in acacemic programmes designed for the critical production by Afro-Mexican writers and oral performers.

The chronicle of a family's first year alone in Alaskan wilderness, here is a poetic exploration into what we value in life. In 1992 Jean Aspen took her husband, Tom, and their young son to live in Alaska's interior mountains where they built a cabin from logs, hunted for food, and let the...

The Kenai is a world-class salmon river that attracts fishermen from all over the world, but is also the “everyman” river of the great fishing paradise of Alaska because of its accessibility. The Kenai River is special not only because world-record salmon are caught in its stunning green waters,...

Features and reviews in regional and national photography media. Photographer regional events. Highlighted in David Muench’s social media, website, and marketi

Editor and sleuth Claire Rawlings and her 12-year-old sidekick Meredith visit a cozy New England inn where murder is an unwanted guest.

While teaching writing at an artists colony in Woodstock, mystery editor Claire Rawlings gets some bad vibes from the writers there. And things only get worse when she finds the colony's resident beauty dead in the bathtub.

Kim Rich was an ordinary girl trapped in an extraordinary childhood, someone who dreamed of going to parties and getting good grades while living in an after‑hours hell of pimps and con men. Kim Rich longed for normalcy, yet she was inescapably her father's child, and she had no choice but to grow...

Hiroona is unique for its style: the entire 9,410 lines are rhyming couplets mostly in tetrameter. The book's greatest strength is that it would be the first printing since the original in 1930.

As Alaska’s Native peoples confront contemporary challenges, they increasingly find strength in the traditional values and practices that have sustained their cultures for millennia. In stirring words, What the Elders Have Taught Us pays tribute to the first Alaskans and the ancient values they...

Mom’s Choice Award Winner I can do anything I believe I can do. I can be anything I believe I can be. I can achieve anything I want to achieve. I am Haibu. In the small, northern village Montooka, Haibu always knew she can do anything she wants if she just set her mind to it. One day...

This is the first book on the issue of school-based assessment (SBA) in a public examination. The book explores the historical, conceptual, theoretical and practical dimensions of SBA in a public examination by considering related literature and the writer's own experience as an educational practitioner,...

This collection is intended to address a range of issues around globalization, sovereignty and citizenship, represents a timely intervention to meet important academic and intellectual needs, while also filling an important gap in the academic literature.