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Understanding Language: A Basic Course in Linguistics
Elizabeth Winkler
Understanding Language is an introduction to linguistics aimed at non-major undergraduate students who are new to the subject. The book is comprehensive in its coverage of the key areas of linguistics, yet explains these in an easy to understand, jargon-free way. Pictures, jokes, diagrams, tables and suggestions for further reading ...Read More
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Cemetery Girl
David Bell
A missing child is every parent’s nightmare. What comes next is even worse in this riveting thriller from the bestselling author of Since She Went Away and Somebody I Used to Know.
Tom and Abby Stuart had everything: a perfect marriage, successful careers, and a beautiful twelve-year-old daughter, Caitlin. Then one ...Read More -
The Poet's Wife Speaks
Mary Ellen Miller
Mary Ellen Miller's book of Poetry, The Poet's Wife Speaks, is the 2011 Old Seventy Cress Press Prize winning manuscript.
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Beyond Postprocess
J. A. Rice, Editor; Sidney I. Dobrin, Editor; and Michael Vastp;a. Editor
Beyond Postprocess offers a vigorous, provocative discussion of postprocess theory in its contemporary profile. Fueled by something like a fundamental refusal to see writing as self-evident, reducible, and easily explicable, the contributors rethink postprocess, suggesting that there is no easily defined moment or method that could be called postprocess. Instead, ...Read More
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Commutability: Stories About the Journey from Here to There
David Bell, editor and Molly McCaffrey, editor
It's safe to say that every trip changes us in some way. We learn something as we travel. And the relationship between the distance traveled and the magnitude of the revelation need not be direct. A walk to the grocery store or up a long flight of steps can change ...Read More
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Bowling Green Stock Car Racing
Jonathan Jeffrey and Larry Upton
Bowling Green became the city of speed immediately after World War II as America began its love affair with the automobile. Stock car racing took the city by storm in its inaugural season of 1951, drawing crowds of up to 7,000 in a city of only 18,000. Soon thereafter, the city attracted the Chevrolet Corvette assembly plant followed by the National Corvette Museum. Images of Sports: Bowling Green Stock Car Racing documents the history of stock car racing in Bowling Green and the emergence of the raceway at Beech Bend Park.
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Harriet Martineau, Victorian Imperialism, and the Civilizing Mission
Deborah A. Logan
In her in-depth study of Harriet Martineau's writings on the evolution of the British Empire in the nineteenth century, Deborah A. Logan elaborates the ways in which Martineau's works reflect Victorian concerns about radically shifting social ideologies. To understand Martineau's interventions into the Empire Question, Logan argues, is to recognize ...Read More
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Barren County
Nancy Richey
Barren County, located in the heart of south central Kentucky, was formed in 1799 and is the commonwealth’s 13th largest county. Pioneers found the land without the usual, extensive wooded areas and so it looked barren to them in comparison. The area is anything but “barren,” as its land and ...Read More
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This Is China: The First 5,000 Years
Haiwang Yuan, Editor
This Is China: The First 5,000 Years contains, in brief, everything we need to know about 5,000 years of history, 30 years of “opening,” and a future that promises to shape the 21st century for all of us. Drawn from the vast resources of the Berkshire Encyclopedia of China, this concise 120-page book is recommended for classroom use, curriculum development, and student review.
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The Girl in the Woods
David Bell
When Diana Greene leaves her hometown for a new life, she thinks she has left the past behind: her sister's disappearance, her mother's illness, and the visions Diana used to see...a clearing in the woods...a moonlit night...and human bones buried in the ground. And her past remains dormant until the ...Read More
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Postscript to the Middle Ages: Teaching Medieval Studies through Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose
Alison (Ganze) Langdon
More than a quarter century after its publication in English, Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose remains a popular novel among medievalists and non-medievalists alike. Its riveting account of a series of murders at a wealthy Italian abbey during the papacy of John XXII, amidst the tensions of the ...Read More
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Berkshire Encyclopedia of China: Modern and Historic Views of the World’s Newest and Oldest Global Power
Haiwang Yuan, Editor and Linsun Cheng et al., Editors
The Berkshire Encyclopedia of China is extensively illustrated from museum and library archives and a wide variety of other sources, including the extensive collection of photographer and Chinese art specialist Joan Lebold Cohen. The volumes have been designed in full color for the online edition. See some of the color ...Read More
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Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture (Encyclopedias of Contemporary Culture) 1st Edition
Haiwang Yuan, Contributor and Edward L. Davis, Editor
This is the first reference book to digest this vast cultural output and make it accessible to the English-speaking world. It contains nearly 1,200 entries written by an international team of specialists, to enable readers to explore a range of diverse and fascinating cultural subjects from prisons to rock groups, ...Read More
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The Condemned
David Bell
The world is at war.the city is dying.and those left for dead within its walls have awakened. A terrorist attack on the water supply has left the city quarantined by the army and inhabited by the City People, the mindless living dead who rule the urban night. Plagued by nightmares ...Read More
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Octopus
Tom Hunley
"Tom Hunley writes with wit, tenderness, and disarming honesty about the joys and travails of being a husband, father, teacher, and poet. Octopus sheds new light on old truths about the world, and reminds us that we’re lucky to be here."
—Charles Harper Webb
"I don't know if this book, ...Read More
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A Century of Symphony: Bowling Green-Western Symphony Orchestra.
Jonathan Jeffrey
Written to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bowling Green-Western Symphony Orchestra, this book highlights significant events in the organization’s evolution. Jeffrey places particular emphasis on the orchestra’s leadership, chiefly its conductors, beginning with the affable Franz Strahm and ending in the anniversary year with Bill Scott. ...Read More
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American Shamans: Journeys with Traditional Healers
Jack G. Montgomery Jr.
Magical healings, ghostly encounters, and alternate realities have been a part of American society since the first colonial settlements. Author Jack Montgomery provides ample historical and personal material to reveal a largely hidden world, primarily influenced by African, Celtic and German roots, that still exists today. It is a spiritual journey into the depths of American folk religion, shamanism and applied mysticism that spans over three decades of research.
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Natural Selection and Beyond: The Intellectual Legacy of Alfred Russel Wallace
Charles H. Smith and George Beccaloni
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 - 1913) was one of the late nineteenth century's most potent intellectual forces. His link to Darwin as co-discoverer of the principle of natural selection alone would have secured him a place in history, but he went on to complete work entitling him to recognition as ...Read More
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Princess Peacock: Tales of Other Peoples of China
Haiwang Yuan
This book fills a gap in the folklore literature by offering representative folktales from China's minorities, as well as background information on each of the ethnic groups. You'll find more than 50 fantastic and engaging tales, such as Princess Peacock, A Golden Deer, and The Toad General. The stories ...Read More
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Celebrate Chinese New Year
Haiwang Yuan and Carolyn Otto
Children have never had so many reasons to learn how Chinese people everywhere ring in the new and ring out the old. As China takes its new place on the global stage, understanding Chinese culture and values becomes ever more essential to our next generation.
For two joyous weeks red ...Read More
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Teaching Poetry Writing: A Five-Canon Approach
Tom Hunley
Teaching Poetry Writing: A Five Canon Approach is a comprehensive alternative to the full-class workshop approach to poetry writing instruction. In the five canon approach, peer critique of student poems takes place in online environments, freeing up class time for writing exercises and lessons based on the five canons of classical rhetoric: invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery.
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The Collected Letters of Harriet Martineau, 5 Volumes
Deborah A. Logan, Editor
This five-volume set brings together the surviving letters penned by Harriet Martineau, the nineteenth-century writer and women’s rights advocate. Throughout her fifty-year career, Harriet Martineau's prolific literary output was matched only by her exchanges with a range of high-profile British, American and European correspondents. This set focuses on the letters written by Martineau, contextualising the correspondence through annotation of the highest standard. This book is a unique and highly valuable resource for students of, and others interested in, the history of feminism.
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Eliza Calvert Hall: Kentucky Author and Suffragist
Lynn E. Niedermeier
In 1907, the author, poet, essayist, and folk art historian Eliza Calvert Hall (1856–1935) published Aunt Jane of Kentucky, a collection of stories about rural life infused with the spirit and gentle good humor of its elderly narrator, Aunt Jane. The book and several sequels achieved wide popularity and placed ...Read More
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Women and Race in Contemporary U.S. Writing
Kelly Reames
This study discovers how contemporary writers have imagined possible relationships between African American and white women that overcome the stereotypical patterns of racism, using novels and autobiographies and focusing on works by William Faulkner, Lillian Hellman, Audre Lorde, Kaye Gibbons, Elizabeth Cox, Sherley Anne Wiliams, and Toni Morrison
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