University Press Of New England: 148 books
Winning Marriage
The Inside Story of How Same-Sex Couples Took on the Politicians and Pundits—and Won
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
In this updated, paperback edition of Winning Marriage, Marc Solomon, a veteran leader in the movement for marriage equality, gives the reader a seat at the strategy-setting and decision-making table in the campaign to win and protect the freedom to marry. With depth and grace he reveals the inner...
Seven Million
A Cop, a Priest, a Soldier for the IRA, and the Still-Unsolved Rochester Brink's Heist
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
On a freezing night in January 1993, masked gunmen walked through the laughably lax security at the Rochester Brink’s depot, tied up the guards, and unhurriedly made off with $7.4 million in one of the FBI’s top-five armored car heists in history. Suspicion quickly fell on a retired Rochester...
American Sweepstakes
How One Small State Bucked the Church, the Feds, and the Mob to Usher in the Lottery Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
By 1963 public lotteries—a time-honored if tarnished method of raising revenue for everything from the Roman roads to Washington’s Continental Army—had been outlawed in the United States for seventy years. The only legal gambling in America was found in Nevada, where mob involvement had at first...
The Decibel Diaries
A Journey through Rock in 50 Concerts
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Sometimes a rock concert is more than just an event. Every so often a band’s performance becomes a musical milestone, a cultural watershed, a political statement, and a personal apotheosis. On any given night a rock concert can tell the truth about who we are, where we are, and what’s going on...
The Lives of Dillon Ripley
Natural Scientist, Wartime Spy, and Pioneering Leader of the Smithsonian Institution
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
A Yale-educated Renaissance man, S. Dillon Ripley was a “courtly, determined, hugely ambitious, energetic, funny, and colorful ornithologist, conservationist, and cultural standard-bearer” who led the Smithsonian Institution for twenty years, during its greatest period of growth. During his watch,...
Mad Music
Charles Ives, the Nostalgic Rebel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Mad Music is the story of Charles Edward Ives (1874–1954), the innovative American composer who achieved international recognition, but only after he’d stopped making music. While many of his best works received little attention in his lifetime, Ives is now appreciated as perhaps the most important...
The Great Siege of Malta
The Epic Battle between the Ottoman Empire and the Knights of St. John
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
In the spring of 1565, a massive fleet of Ottoman ships descended on Malta, a small island centrally located between North Africa and Sicily, home and headquarters of the crusading Knights of St. John and their charismatic Grand Master, Jean de Valette. The Knights had been expelled from Rhodes by...
Dirigible Dreams
The Age of the Airship
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Here is the story of airships—manmade flying machines without wings—from their earliest beginnings to the modern era of blimps. In postcards and advertisements, the sleek, silver, cigar-shaped airships, or dirigibles, were the embodiment of futuristic visions of air travel. They immediately captivated...
The Book Smugglers
Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
The Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts—first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets—by hiding them on their bodies, burying them in bunkers, and smuggling them across borders. It is a tale of heroism and resistance,...
Blessings from Beijing
Inside China's Soft-Power War on Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
As we approach the sixtieth anniversary of China’s 1959 invasion of Tibet—and the subsequent creation of the Tibetan exile community—the question of the diaspora’s survival looms large. Beijing’s foreign policy has grown more adventurous, particularly since the post-Olympic expansion of...
Tell
Love, Defiance, and the Military Trial at the Tipping Point for Gay Rights
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
In 1993 Margie Witt, a young Air Force nurse, was chosen as the face of the Air Force’s “Cross into the Blue” recruitment campaign. This was also the year that President Clinton’s plan for gays to serve openly in the military was quashed by an obdurate Congress, resulting in the blandly cynical...
Cannabis Consulting
Helping Patients, Parents, and Practitioners Understand Medical Marijuana
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
As the movement for legalization of marijuana spreads across the country, it is important to weigh the possible benefits and pitfalls of cannabis use. Cannabis Consulting is both a handbook and a report from the front lines of medical marijuana use. Writing from the perspective of a parent and veteran...
Dirt
A Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2015
Community farms. Mud spas. Mineral paints. Nematodes. The world is waking up to the beauty and mystery of dirt. This anthology celebrates the Earth’s generous crust, bringing together essays by award-winning scientists, authors, artists, and dirt lovers to tell dirt’s exuberant tales. Geographically...
by Stewart Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Stories of disasters at sea, whether about Roman triremes, the treasure fleet of the Spanish Main, or great transatlantic ocean liners, fire the imagination as little else can. From the historical sinkings of the Titanic and the Lusitania to the recent capsizing of a Mediterranean cruise ship, the...