A gathering of 5 veteran Appalachian poets who embrace the zen Buddhist aspects of that life. The book is the publication of two Appalachian presses. Blair Mountain Press and Bottom Dog Press. It features the work of Victor Depta, Edwina Pendarvis ,Barbara Sabol, Timothy Russell, and Larry Smith. Th...

A vivid, first-hand account of Nobel Prize-winning singer and songwriter Bob Dylan as an artist, friend, and celebrity, illustrated with never-before-seen photographs, and told by an engaging raconteur who cut his own swathe through the turbulent counterculture. August 2014 marks 50 years since Bob ...

A Beloved Grandfather's Death. A Quiet Village with a Dark Secret. A Clue That Could Cost Her Everything. When young journalist Lena Schmidt receives the devastating news of her grandfather's death, she is told it was a tragic accident—an old man who slipped and fell near an abandoned mill in the ...

Three decades (1946, 1957, 1968), three summers, and three families in southern West Virginia are the subjects of this trilogy of novels. The Gate of Paradise ...At any rate, the novel itself doesn't wave incest-and-all-that in the reader's face at all. It's simply about an American family, no more ...

Language. Literature. Lechery. Thirty authors, including acclaimed editor Rachel Kramer Bussell and Good Sex Award winners D. Fostalove and jem zero, share clever, sensual stories of the many ways we communicate about and around our desires. From erotic epistolary tales to steamy retellings of cla...

Little did Robert A. Long, Victor Bell and Robert White envision what the Long Bell Lumber Company would become, when they formed their lumber business in 1875. The rapid growth of settlement throughout Kansas and Oklahoma and the opening of the Oklahoma Territory gave emphasis to Long Bells expansi...

My earliest connection to the Gould’s begins in England in the fifteen hundreds with Richard Gould I. Most of the early information came from two sources, R. L. Gangwere and the books about Zaccheus Gould. I will try to list resources to consult as I discuss the different families. Much of the inf...

How did working-class immigrants from Poland create new communities in Chicago during the industrial age? This book explores the lives of immigrants in two iconic South Side Polish neighborhoods—the Back of the Yards and South Chicago—and the stockyards and steel mills in which they made their l...

There’s something magical about the mountains: the way the light hits the peaks, the quiet curve of a trail, the stillness that speaks. Wonders of Colorado is a line art tribute to that magic... a coloring book that invites you to explore, relax, and reconnect with the wild beauty of this unfor...

The Maps for Curious Minds series is back―with 100 vivid infographic maps that transform the way we understand the cultural and geographical wonders of North America. And don’t miss the other books in the series, Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds  and  Wild Maps for Curious Minds ! No matter...

In Lincoln’s Generals , Gabor S. Boritt and a team of distinguished historians examine the interaction between Abraham Lincoln and his five key Civil War generals: McClellan, Hooker, Meade, Sherman, and Grant, providing fresh insight into this mixed bag of officers and the president’s tireless ...

Fantasy Delight Whitman (her birth name bestowed on her by her madam mama), has been through a lot getting where she is in life. Now the successful journalist and single mother to college-aged Kameron is about to get more than she bargained for when she looks up a long-lost love on the Internet. Vic...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The New York Times bestselling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates turns to two other heroes of the nation: Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. In The President and the Freedom Fighter , Brian Kilmeade tells ...

"Oregon history is the richer for Perseverance ." From the beginning, even before the wagon trains, African Americans have played an essential part in building Oregon. In Marion and Polk counties, they overcame the obstacles of wilderness, prejudice, and isolation, helping to create a vibrant com...

"Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?" -- Mark Twain When Lucifer Dye is released from three months in a Hong Kong prison, debriefed, handed a false passport, a new wardrobe and a $20,000 check, his haughty control makes it clear that Dy...

General George Crook’s controversial “Horsemeat March” culminating in the battle at Slim Buttes is considered the turning point of the Sioux Wars. After Lieutenant General George A. Custer’s shocking defeat at the Little Big Horn River, Montana Territory, in 1876, General Crook and the men o...

Bringing Aztlán to Mexican Chicago is the autobiography of Jóse Gamaliel González, an impassioned artist willing to risk all for the empowerment of his marginalized and oppressed community. Through recollections emerging in a series of interviews conducted over a period of six years by his frien...

Control of Robot Manipulators in Joint Space addresses robot control in depth, treating a range of model-based controllers in detail: proportional derivative; proportional integral derivative; computed torque and some adaptive variants. Combinations of the text’s four parts: robot dynamics and mat...