West Press: 337 books
by Steven L. Stephenson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Central Appalachia is the system of linear ridges, intervening valleys, and deeply dissected plateaus that make up the rugged terrain found in western and southwestern Virginia, eastern and central West Virginia, western Maryland, and a portion of south central and southwestern Pennsylvania. Through...
Community Effects of Leadership Development Education
Citizen Empowerment for Civic Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Community leadership development programs are designed to increase the capacity of citizens for civic engagement. These programs fill gaps in what people know about governance and the processes of governance, especially at the local level. The work of many in this field is a response to the recognition...
by Linda Lambert
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
A sizzling new novel set in Taos, New Mexico. The third in the Justine Trilogy, preceded by the award-winning, The Cairo Codex and The Italian Letters.Anthropologist Justine Jenner travels to Taos in search of D. H. Lawrence . . . and her own identity. She stumbles into the conflict and hunt for the...
Cast in Deathless Bronze
Andrew Rowan, the Spanish-American War, and the Origins of American Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In 1898, when war with Spain seemed inevitable, Andrew Summers Rowan, an American army lieutenant from West Virginia, was sent on a secret mission to Cuba. He was to meet with General Calixto García, a leader of the Cuban rebels, in order to gather information for a U.S. invasion. Months later, after...
by EMORY L. KEMP
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Emory Kemp is the founder and director of the Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology at West Virginia University, where he also served as a chair and professor of civil engineering and a professor of history. This collection of essays encompasses over fifty years of his...
by LEE MAYNARD
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
In the third and final part of the Crum Trilogy, Jesse Stone once again embarks upon his constant search for a place in the world. At the start of The Scummers, Jesse hits the road and heads West, looking to experience something - anything - that will fulfill his intrinsic desires to escape, and...
by VALERIE NIEMAN
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Darrick MacBrehon, a government auditor, wakes among the dead. Bloodied and disoriented from a gaping head wound, the man who staggers out of the mine crack in Redbird, West Virginia, is much more powerful—and dangerous—than the one thrown in. An orphan with an unknown past, he must now figure...
by Francis Bret Harte
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Colorful, vivid stories of the California Gold Rush, the Wild West, and the Mexican War made Bret Harte one of the most popular writers of his time. The Bell-Ringer of Angel’s short story title is the epithet of one Alexander McGee, whose accurate aim would pierce the bull's eye of a mechanical...
Build It! Wild West
Make Supercool Models with Your Favorite LEGO® Parts
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Explore your creative side and build exciting LEGO® models with the best-selling Build It! series, a step-by-step instruction guide for all ages.
This series of visually rich instruction books for LEGO® creations is perfect for children ages 5 and up. Inside Build it! Wild West, you'll find...
Appalachian Reckoning
A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and the rise of its author as a media personality, J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis has defined Appalachia for much of the nation. What about Hillbilly Elegy accounts for this explosion...
Hollow and Home
A History of Self and Place
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Hollow and Home explores the ways the primary places in our lives shape the individuals we become. It proposes that place is a complex and dynamic phenomenon. Place refers to geographical and constructed places—location, topography, landscape, and buildings. It also refers to the psychological,...
George Washington Written Upon the Land
Nature, Memory, Myth, and Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
George Washington’s childhood is famously the most elusive part of his life story. For centuries biographers have struggled with a lack of period documentation and an absence of late-in-life reflection in trying to imagine Washington’s formative years.
In George Washington Written upon...
Tolkien Studies
An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume IX
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review presents the growing body of critical commentary and scholarship on both J. R. R. Tolkien's voluminous fiction and his academic work in literary and linguistic fields.
Tolkien Studies
An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume VIII
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review presents the growing body of critical commentary and scholarship on both J. R. R. Tolkien's voluminous fiction and his academic work in literary and linguistic fields.