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O Pioneers! was oh so long ago, and yet Willa Cather's masterpiece has proven to be an enduring template for readers' notions of Nebraska writing. The short stories collected here, so richly various in style, theme, and subject matter, should put an end to any such plain thinking about writing from this any-thing-but-plain state. Nebraska writers all, the authors explore the Midwest, a vastness of small towns, corn, cattle, football, and famil...

This colorful book is a celebration, a tribute to the mirthful and innocent revels of yesteryear presented with vintage photos, decorative images, prose, and poetry. 241+ full-color illustrations.

With Weapons Like These, Does the Emperor Even Need Clothes?

Whether you want to hang a trophy bass or musky on your wall, or just want to spend a few quiet hours catching panfish with your kids, this book is the essential guide to fishing in southern Wisconsin. Author Bob Riepenhoff, outdoor editor for the "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel" for fourteen years, wrote a column called "Riepenhoff on Local Lakes." This collection of forty-three of those columns covers fifty-four lakes in southern Wisconsin. Riep...

What does it mean to describe our society as secular? And what role might religion play in its evolution? Are religious considerations a necessary part of coherent speech about human dignity or human rights? Are religious communities properly accounted for in our talk of a "social contract"? Recognizing Religion in a Secular Society sets aside popular myths about secularism to probe these important questions from the perspectives of law, polit...

Ohio State football coach Woody Hayes was an icon of football for decades and this look at the rough-and-tumble coach is a must for any Buckeyes fan.

Traces the paired history of modern aviation and electronics, or avionics, from its earliest years to the indispensable tool it is today.

This collection of internationally renowned photographer and mountaineer Bradford Washburn's early works will entertain and inspire anyone who loves a gripping story of adventure.

This collection of a journalist's writings for the Canadian Jewish newspaper "Keneder Adler" from the 1920s-1940s offers a vivid evocation of Jewish life during the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution, the stock market crash of 1929, and the events leading up to World War II and the Holocaust.

Filled with endearingly thorny characters and a Scottish atmosphere as dense and savory as oatmeal, "The Sunday Philosophy Club" is irresistible, and Isabel Dalhousie is the most delightful literary sleuth since Precious Ramotswe.

Can a story be both a shrug and a prayer? Can it punch you in the arm because, hey, it is only "joking, " and the next minute fall at your feet, cling to your knees, beg you to listen? Sure. The stories in "Making Light of Tragedy" are arrogant and uncertain. (This is not a contradiction.) They make no apologies for poor taste, or the occasional rhyme, but they do make a few demands. These include: Let there be light. Let there be no more epi...

This touching collection includes 12 true, short stories in which the authors relate how they came to feel the presence of God while enjoying America's favorite pastime as players, coaches, parents, children, or just plain fans.

Michelson had a serene boyhood in an upper middle-class Jewish family in Riga, Latvia Chr(45), at least until 1940, when the fifteen-year old Michelson witnessed the annexation of Latvia by the Soviet Union. This is an account of the Soviet and German occupations of Latvia and of the Holocaust.

Having grown up amid the ravaged coalfields of Ohio, poet and writer David Axelrod felt oddly at home when, twenty years ago, he moved west and saw his first clear-cut forest. In Troubled Intimacies, Axelrod explores his life in the rural interior West, and the way in which surroundings, visible and invisible, shape our emotional and intellectual lives. In describing his life and the lives of his neighbors in eastern Oregon's Grande Ronde Vall...

This is a translation from the French of the complete, behind-the-scenes story of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, from its proposal by Balkan journalist Mirko Klarin through recent developments in the trial of Slobodan Milosevic

Geared toward the advanced beginner, this workbook teaches how to devise and build practical storage solutions for the home. Projects designed to incrementally increase the skills of woodworkers are provided and accompanied by lists of the materials and supplies required for each task. A full-size pattern, which has been bound into the book with a perforated edge for easy removal, and photographs of each project are included. Patterns are prov...

More and more women are becoming involved in woodworking, and this guide helps them put their new-found talents to use with 19 step-by-step projects for book lamps, a child's easel, a utensil rack and more. Full-size patterns are included for each project. Color photos throughout, 19 line drawings.

This searing memoir of an American nun who was abducted and tortured in Guatemala--and continues to search for healing and justice--shows that the human spirit is a force stronger than violence and fear.

Come along with Christopher Camuto for a year of transforming experiences in the shadows of the majestic Blue Ridge Mountains: hunting grouse with his setter through snowbound forests in winter, wading trout streams in spring, closely observing birds and wildlife through summer, exploring the backcountry, cutting wood, and hunting deer in autumn.

In this fascinating collection of essays, noted cultural critic Geoffrey Hartman raises the essential question of where we can find the real or authentic in today's world, and how this affects the way we can understand our human predicament. Hartman explores such issues as the fantasy of total and perfect information available on the Internet, the biographical excesses of tell-all daytime talk shows, and how we can understand what is "true" in...