From 1970 to 1976, a small residential community located in the Maine woods was home to an assortment of teenagers (some delinquent, others that were actively seeking a novel learning experience) with a small, paid staff of idealistic young adults to serve as mentors and role models. They lived year...

Joe Redington Sr. was an ordinary man with extraordinary dreams and buckets of determination! His vision was as vast as the majestic Alaska landscape he loved to explore. This firsthand account is of the man whose love for the Alaskan husky and the Iditarod Trail evolved into the Iditarod Trail Sled...

Although readers and filmgoers are strongly familiar with Disney's sanitized child-centric fairy tales, they are quick to catch on to reworkings of classic tales into a contemporary context. The rise is such retellings seems to indicate that readers are hungry for a new narrative, one that hearkens ...

Beyond the His Dark Materials series lies a vast fictional realm populated by the many diverse character creations of Philip Pullman. During a more than 30-year career, Pullman has created worlds filled with quests, trials, tragedies and triumphs, and this book explores those worlds. The picture b...

Many female figures in recent fiction, film, and television embody the Artemis archetype, modeled on the Greco-Roman goddess of the hunt. These characters are often identified as heroines and recognized as powerful and progressive pop icons. Some fit the image of the tough, resourceful female in a s...

In 1978, Dick Mackey claimed the most dramatic victory ever in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, crossing the finish line in Nome a mere one second ahead of Rick Swenson after a two-week, 1,149 mile-run from Anchorage. Many years later Alaskans still shake their heads in amazement. In One Second to ...

The Tampa and St. Petersburg, Florida Street Map by Kappa Map Group has Tampa on one side and St. Petersburg on the other. The Tampa map includes an inset map of Downtown Tampa and the cities and neighboring communities of Citrus Park, Gibsonton, Keystone, Lake Fern, Lutz, MacDill AFB, and Temple Te...

Joe Redington scooped the trembling puppy into his arms. It seemed strange to him to find such a fine animal wandering alone in the woods along the Iditarod trail. Joe gave the pup, Solo, a home until the two were separated after a plane crash. Harry Conroy found Solo and took him back to Fairbanks ...

“Each time a musher sets out from Anchorage, pointed towards Nome in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, he or she writes a new story.” ~Lew Freedman, from the Introduction Adventures on the Iditarod Trail: Fast Dogs, Freezing Mushers and the Alaska Wild , by Lew Freedman, features engaging int...

The heart of this book is a dramatic love poem, the Rasa Lila, which is the ultimate focal point of one of the most treasured Sanskrit texts of India, the Bhagavata Purana . Judged a literary masterpiece by Indian and Western scholars alike, this work of poetic genius and soaring religious vision i...

This is the seventh book in a set of ten published under the collective title of Foundations of Quantitative Finance . The targeted readers are students, researchers, and practitioners of quantitative finance who find that many sources for financial applications are written at a level assuming sign...

On March 27, 1964, a magnitude 9.2 earthquake lasting more than five minutes rocked south central Alaska, leveling waterfronts, collapsing bridges, and crumbling landscapes. The most powerful quake in North American history and ensuing tidal waves left homes broken, children orphaned, and infrastruc...

After Phil Karber's last book, Vagabond Memoirs , he thumbed the pages of his Nat Geo World Atlas for what came next and decided to circle back to his unpublished material of a bus trip down the Pan American Highway through Mexico and Central America. Though eighteen years had passed since that mem...

This is the first in a set of 10 books written for professionals in quantitative finance. These books fill the gap between informal mathematical developments found in introductory materials, and more advanced treatments that summarize without formally developing the important foundational results pr...

“Musher after musher agrees that no one – racers or officials – knew what to expect.” ~Bill Sherwonit in Iditarod: The Great Race to Nome (Alaska Northwest Books, 1991)This book is the result of several years of researching, interviewing, and writing, beginning with an idea which took shape ...

This is the definitive story of the Iditarod, the dogsled race that has been run for over a century--told in brisk inviting stories and fully illustrated with color photographs, including updated information through the 2018 race.   The famed 1000-mile dogsled race from Anchorage in Southeast Alask...

Each summer, men and women travel from all over the globe to the Lumberjack World Championships in Hayward, Wisconsin, to compete before thousands of spectators and prove who is the best at chopping and sawing wood, log rolling, and boom running. The event, with its impressive international fan base...

50 Years of Iditarod Adventures, The First Fifty Years of the Last Great Race covers five decades of the 1,049-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska. Detailed synopses and stories from each annual race by author Lew Freedman are backed up by records of every award winner,...

When does a man have enough? When his wife is viciously attacked. What comes next? Well, if the woman attacked is Katherine Anderson, beloved wife of Joseph Anderson, what comes next is a nightmare for anyone foolish enough to harm the single most important person in his world. Joseph Anderson is th...

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