University Of Missouri imprint: 246 books
Rethinking Rights
Historical, Political, and Philosophical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2008
As reports of genocide, terrorism, and political violence fill today’s newscasts, more attention has been given to issues of human rights—but all too often the sound bites seem overly simplistic. Many Westerners presume that non-Western peoples yearn for democratic rights, while liberal values...
Alcatraz Screw
My Years as a Guard in America's Most Notorious Prison
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Alcatraz Screw is a firsthand account from a prison guard’s perspective of some of the most storied years at the infamous U.S. Penitentiary at Alcatraz. George Gregory began his career as a guard for the Federal Bureau of Prisons in 1940. Following his training, he was sent to the federal prison...
by Tom Quirk
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Mark Twain once claimed that he could read human character as well as he could read the Mississippi River, and he studied his fellow humans with the same devoted attention. In both his fiction and his nonfiction, he was disposed to dramatize how the human creature acts in a given environment—and...
by Grant N. Havers
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2009
America has seen faith-based initiatives and “the audacity of hope” in twenty-first-century politics, but few participants in our political scene have invoked the other Christian virtue of charity as a guiding principle. Abraham Lincoln extolled the merit of “loving thy neighbor as thyself,”...
Prairie Sky
A Pilot's Reflections on Flying and the Grace of Altitude
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
“It’s almost like ballet. Preflight. Starting. Warm-up. The voices from the control tower—the instructions. Taxiing. The rush down the runway. Airborne. There are names for every move. The run-up. Position and hold. Every move needs to be learned, practiced, made so familiar you feel the patterns...
The Forgotten Generation
American Children and World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
Two days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt addressed the nation by radio, saying, “We are all in it—all the way. Every single man, woman, and child is a partner in the most tremendous undertaking of our American history.” So began a continuing theme of the World War II years:...
by Lisa L. Ossian
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
As Americans geared up for World War II, each state responded according to its economy and circumstances—as well as the disposition of its citizens. This book considers the war years in Iowa by looking at activity on different home fronts and analyzing the resilience of Iowans in answering the call...
J. C. Nichols and the Shaping of Kansas City
Innovation in Planned Residential Communities
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Born and reared on the outskirts of Kansas City in Olathe, Kansas, Jesse Clyde Nichols (1880-1950) was a creative genius in land development. He grew up witnessing the cycles of development and decline characteristics of Kansas City and other American cities during the late nineteenth and early twentieth...
Southern Frontier Humor
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
If, as some suggest, American literature began with Huckleberry Finn, then the humorists of the Old South surely helped us to shape that literature. Twain himself learned to write by reading the humorists’ work, and later writers were influenced by it. This book marks the first new collection of...
From Oligarchy to Republicanism
The Great Task of Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
On December 4, 1865, members of the 39th United States Congress walked into the Capitol Building to begin their first session after the end of the Civil War. They understood their responsibility to put the nation back on the path established by the American Founding Fathers. The moment when the Republicans...
Captive of the Labyrinth
Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
Media Kit
Since her death in 1922, Sarah Winchester has been perceived as a mysterious, haunted figure. After inheriting a vast fortune upon the death of her husband in 1881, Sarah purchased a simple farmhouse in San José, California. She began building additions to the house and...
by Donna L. Potts
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
In Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Pastoral Tradition, Donna L. Potts closely examines the pastoral genre in the work of six Irish poets writing today. Through the exploration of the poets and their works, she reveals the wide range of purposes that pastoral has served in both Northern Ireland and...
The Power of Two
A Twin Triumph over Cystic Fibrosis, Updated and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
For most people, a diagnosis of cystic fibrosis means the certainty of a life ended too soon. But for Isabel Stenzel Byrnes and Anabel Stenzel, twin girls with the disease, what began as a family’s stubborn determination grew into a miracle.
The tragedy of CF has been touchingly recounted...
Demon of the Lost Cause
Sherman and Civil War History
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
At the end of the Civil War, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman was surprisingly more popular in the newly defeated South than he was in the North. Yet, only thirty years later, his name was synonymous with evil and destruction in the South, particularly as the creator and enactor of...