Like the Puritan-era narratives she studies, Hannah Guttentag’s early-1990s narrative is a chronicle of the strange places she travels?Nashville, Ithaca, New Orleans, Cleveland, Nebraska?the savages w
Josh Karp first played golf in the sixth grade before going on to become one of the worst players on some very bad high school and college golf teams. In his early twenties, his handicap hit 18, where
A ghost in his own life, Franklin Brophy is a man who goes through each day looking forward only to the end of it. Like most of his co-workers at Uris & Parsons Financial, Franklin long ago grew i
It's your first day on the new job. You've got the programming chops, you're up on the latest tech, you're sitting at your workstation... now what? New Programmer's Survival Manual gives your career t
Introducing Java EE 7: A Look at What’s New guides you through the new features and enhancements in each of the technologies comprising the Java EE platform. Readers of this book will not have to wade
No Planets Strike, the debut collection of poetry by Josh Bell, reads as a playfully serious record of modernity. Subversive in their treatment of the contemporary voice, broad in their subject matter
This is the first book by a poet whose imagination is intimately related to the physical world around him, which he describes as “a wholly new and startling landscape that is the acolyte deserts of Ar
For baseball fans, Pahigan, who teaches writing at the U. of New England and Western Connecticut State U. and is the author of several baseball books, offers a guide to the spring training locations o
Have you always dreamed of traveling to Japan but were afraid it would be too expensive and too intimidating? You’re right, Japan is not cheap. But despite your concerns, it is such a magnificent pl
"Most South Carolina football fans have attended a game at Williams-Brice Stadium, seen highlights of a young George Rogers, and can recite memorable quotes from the team's "Head Ball Coach," Steve Sp
The bestselling Gotrek & Felix series continuesGotrek and Felix: unsung heroes of the Empire, or nothing more than common thieves and murderers? The truth perhaps lies somewhere in between, and de
Where did all the matter in the universe come from?Why is the universe expanding faster and faster? They say it's because of something called "dark energy." But is there really such a thing as dark en
Poetry. "In the midst of his discourses on love and yearning, terror and the suffering of the flesh—especially in the masterful crown of sonnets of the title poem—Booton displays an originality that i
