University Press Of New England: 148 books
by Robert J. Begiebing
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
New England. 1648. The Piscataqua Settlement. A young woman has been found dead, her violated body stripped naked and thrown in a river. Her husband, a reclusive and learned man, has mysteriously halted his legal proceedings against the most likely suspect, who has disappeared into the wilderness....
Boston Ballerina
A Dancer, a Company, an Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
As a charter member of Boston Ballet and its predecessor, New England Civic Ballet, Laura Young has been affiliated with the company longer than any other dancer in its history. This book is both a memoir of her personal journey and a fascinating account of Boston Ballet’s rise from a regional troupe...
The Infinite Resource
The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Climate change. Finite fossil fuels. Fresh water depletion. Rising commodity prices. Ocean acidification. Overpopulation. Deforestation. Feeding the world’s billions. We’re beset by an array of natural resource and environmental challenges. They pose a tremendous risk to human prosperity, to world...
by Howard Frank Mosher
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Howard Frank Mosher is one of the best-loved writers of northern New England, one who has “created a literary landscape as textured as anything produced by the U. S. Geological Survey,” according to USA Today. His “greatest gift,” says the Washington Post, is “his talent for creating lively,...
Going to Boston
Harriet Robinson's Journey to New Womanhood
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
As a poet, author, and keen observer of life in 1870s Boston, Harriet Robinson played an essential—if occasionally underappreciated—role in the women’s suffrage movement during Boston’s golden age. Robinson flourished after leaving behind her humble roots in the mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts,...
Dining Out in Boston
A Culinary History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Over the years, Boston has been one of America’s leading laboratories of urban culture, including restaurants, and Boston history provides valuable insights into American food ways. James C. O’Connell, in this fascinating look at more than two centuries of culinary trends in Boston restaurants,...
The House on Ipswich Marsh
Exploring the Natural History of New England
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2014
In 2003, Bill Sargent bought a big pink house in Ipswich, Massachusetts. His home sits on what is known as the Great Marsh, a fascinating patch of wetland shared by Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Sargent received a grant to study some of the rare and endangered ground-nesting birds that inhabit...
Eastern Alpine Guide
Natural History and Conservation of Mountain Tundra East of the Rockies
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
This unique book celebrates and documents the incredible and colorful biodiversity of the mountain landscapes of eastern North America, covering all of the major alpine ecosystems in New England, New York, Québec, Newfoundland, and Labrador. Twenty scientists, explorers, naturalists, and land managers...
New Wilderness Voices
Collected Essays from the Waterman Fund Contest
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Guy and Laura Waterman spent a lifetime reflecting on and writing about the mountains of the Northeast. The Waterman Fund seeks to further their legacy of stewardship through an annual essay contest that celebrates and explores issues of wilderness, wildness, and humanity. Since 2008, the Waterman...
Disrupt This!
MOOCs and the Promises of Technology
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
In this smart and incisive work, Karen J. Head describes her experience teaching a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) and the attendant pressure on professors, especially those in the humanities, to embrace new technologies in the STEM era. And yet, as she argues, MOOCs are just the latest example...
Picasso and the Chess Player
Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, and the Battle for the Soul of Modern Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
In the fateful year of 1913, events in New York and Paris launched a great public rivalry between the two most consequential artists of the twentieth century, Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp. The New York Armory Show art exhibition unveiled Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase, a “sensation...
The Legacy of Fort William Henry
Resurrecting the Past
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Fort William Henry, America’s early frontier fort at the southern end of Lake George, New York, was a flashpoint for conflict between the British and French empires in America. The fort is perhaps best known as the site of a massacre of British soldiers by Native Americans allied with the French...
The Sea Is a Continual Miracle
Sea Poems and Other Writings by Walt Whitman
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
From his earliest days on Long Island and in New York City to his last years in Camden, New Jersey, Walt Whitman lived close to the sea he knew and loved. The “liquid-flowing syllables” of Whitman’s poetry and prose tell specific stories of particular voyages and known shores, as well as vivid...
They Used to Call Me Snow White . . . But I Drifted
Women’s Strategic Use of Humor
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Published by Viking in 1991 and issued as a paperback through Penguin Books in 1992, Snow White became an instant classic for both academic and general audiences interested in how women use humor and what others (men) think about funny women. Barreca, who draws on the work of scholars, writers, and...