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Northeastern University Press
Russians in Hollywood, Hollywood’s Russians
Biography of an Image


The story of Russian émigrés in Hollywood and the depiction of Russians in Hollywood films
Robinson, Harlow

Northeastern University Press
Democratization in the Balkans
Prescription for a Badly Scarred Body Politic


A probing analysis of the democratization of the Balkan states in the post-Communist era Democratization in the Balkan states in the post-Communist era
Farkas, Richard P.

University Press of New England
Mettle
A Novel


A breathtaking novel of Cape Cod and the sea
Michelsen, G. F.

University Press of New England
New Hampshire Patterns

Photographs and text that bring contemporary New Hampshire to life
Fox, Jon Gilbert and Ernest Hebert

University Press of New England
Timber Rattlesnakes in Vermont & New York
Biology, History, and the Fate of an Endangered Species


The fascinating, definitive chronicle of the timber rattlesnake and its fate in the northeast
Furman, Jon

University Press of New England
Golden Wings & Hairy Toes
Encounters with New England’s Most Imperiled Wildlife


A lively and often surprising look at fourteen of New England’s most endangered species
McLeish, Todd

University Press of New England
The New Hiking the Monadnock Region
44 Nature Walks and Day-Hikes in the Heart of New England


Expanded and updated hiking guide to the Monadnock region featuring all new maps for each hike!
Adamowicz, Joe; Virginia Dickinson, maps

University Press of New England
A Natural History of Boston’s North Shore

A beautifully illustrated guide to the flora, fauna, and geology of Boston's North Shore for readers of all ages.
Lindborg, Kristina

Harvest Hill Press
New England Summertime Cooking

New England Summertime Cooking is a collection of authentic recipes from this treasured American region,updated with a fresh style and low fat heart-healthy approach, the simplicity of the region’s cookery remains an essential ingredient.
Eldridge, Sherri

Harvest Hill Press
New England Winterfare Cooking

New England kitchens are known for warming folks on the coldest wintry days. New England Winterfare Cooking provides hearty low fat recipes to nourish, comfort and cheer.

September 2008
Eldridge, Sherri

Harvest Hill Press
Hey Kids! You’re Cooking’ Now!
A Global Awareness Cooking Adventure


The most honored children's cookbook challenges inquisitive young cooks to seek culinary kitchen adventures.
Pratt, Dianne and illustrated by Winter, Janet

University of Vermont Press
Local Action
The New Paradigm in Climate Change Policy


An upbeat and accessible guide for citizens, communities, and local governments interested in reducing greenhouse gas emissions
Linstroth, Tommy and Ryan Bell

University of Vermont Press
Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction
How Passion and Politics Can Stop Global Warming


A call for political action to save the natural world
Goodstein, Eban

Northeastern University Press
The Bitter Fruit of American Justice
International and Domestic Resistance to the Death Penalty


A study of the increasing international opposition to and growing domestic disaffection from the death penalty in America
Clarke, Alan W. and Laurelyn Whitt

Brandeis University Press
The International Judge
An Introduction to the Men and Women Who Decide the World’s Cases


An interdisciplinary introduction to international judges and their work
Terris, Daniel, Cesare P. R. Romano, and Leigh Swigart, foreword by Sonia Sotomayor

University of New Hampshire Press
“The Troubled Roar of the Waters”
Vermont in Flood and Recovery, 1927-1931


A timely look at the Vermont flood of 1927 as a window on the history of America in the 1920s
Clifford, Deborah Pickman and Nicholas R. Clifford

University Press of New England
Harvard’s Civil War
The History of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry


A regimental history of one of the Civil War’s most distinguished units.
Miller, Richard F.

Wesleyan University Press
Physical Evidence
Selected Film Criticism


The first collection from this distinguished American movie critic
Jones, Kent

Wesleyan University Press
Anthony Mann

Classic study of a filmmaker’s career, now including every Mann film. Back in print—new and expanded edition.
Basinger, Jeanine

Northeastern University Press
The Autumn of Italian Opera
From Verismo to Modernism, 1890-1915


The first full-length study of the last great era of Italian opera
Mallach, Alan

Wesleyan University Press
Carriacou String Band Serenade
Performing Identity in the Eastern Caribbean


A Caribbean music festival as a window on social change
Miller, Rebecca S.

Wesleyan University Press
The Hidden Musicians
Music-Making in an English Town


A classic ethnography reveals the worlds of amateur musicians. Back in print with a new preface.
Finnegan, Ruth

Wesleyan University Press
Traces of Light
Absence and Presence in the Work of Loïe Fuller


The first major English-language study of a legendary dancer
Albright, Ann Cooper

Wesleyan University Press
Traveling Spirit Masters
Moroccan Gnawa Trance and Music in the Global Marketplace


The sacred and musical phenomenon of trance
Kapchan, Deborah

University Press of New England
Workplace Chemistry
Promoting Diversity Through Organizational Change


The detailed history of a multi-year effort to promote diversity in one organization
Bond, Meg A.

Northeastern University Press
Criminal Justice Research and Practice
Diverse Voices from the Field


Brings together essays on criminal justice theory, research, and hands-on experience through the lens of diversity issues
Miller, Susan L.

New England College Press
Exiled Voices, Portals of Discovery
Prose, poetry, and drama by fourteen imprisoned writers


A collection of remarkable literary writings that illuminate a world of loss

May 2008
Nagelsen, Susan, editor, Johnson, Robert, introduction, Jones, Lou photography

University of Vermont Press
Southeast Asian Refugees and Immigrants in the Mill City
Changing Families, Communities, Institutions — Thirty Years Afterward


Original, interdisciplinary essays highlight the pain, struggles, and victories of Southeast Asian refugees and immigrants in a mid-sized New England city
Pho, Tuyet-Lan, Jeffrey N. Gerson, and Sylvia Cowan, eds.

Brandeis University Press
Imagining the American Jewish Community

A lively collection of sixteen essays on the many ways American Jews have imagined and constructed communities
Wertheimer, Jack, editor

Brandeis University Press
Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism
Resistance and Accommodation


An innovative analysis of how creative tensions between modern Orthodox Judaism and feminism can lead to unexpected perspectives and beliefs
Hartman, Tova

Tufts University Press
Acting Civically
From Urban Neighborhoods to Higher Education


New multidisciplinary scholarship on civic engagement in America
Ostrander, Susan A. and Kent E. Portney, editors

Tufts University Press
Women, Philanthropy, and Social Change
Visions for a Just Society


The definitive book on women and philanthropy—essential reading for scholars, students, donors, grantees, and philanthropists.
Clift, Elayne, ed.

Tufts University Press
Strong Liberalism
Habits of Mind for Democratic Citizenship


Timely, sophisticated, practical directives for a stronger and more secure liberalism
Scorza, Jason A.

Peabody Essex Museum
Samuel McIntire
Carving an American Style


The first full-length study of a master carpenter, wood carver, and early American architectural designer
Lahikainen, Dean T.

Brandeis University Press
Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses
The Synagogue to the Carousel, Jewish Carving Traditions


A richly illustrated volume celebrating Jewish carving traditions from the Old World to the New
Zimiles, Murray

Lyman Allyn Art Museum
At Home and Abroad
The Transcendental Landscapes of Christopher Pearce Cranch (1813-1892)


This study reevaluates Christopher Pearse Cranch’s career as a Hudson River School artist and considers his landscape paintings within the larger context of American culture
Stula, Nancy and David M. Robinson, foreword by Barbara Novak

University Press of New England
American Art at Dartmouth
Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art


First in a series of publications presenting the Hood’s extensive and varied collections
MacAdam, Barbara J.

Tufts University Art Gallery
Pattern Language
Clothing as Communicator


A unique volume on pattern art
Fox, Judith Hoos and Amy Ingrid Schlegel, eds.

Northeastern University Press
The Olmsted National Historic Site and the Growth of Historic Landscape Preservation

A contextual history of Massachusetts’ Olmsted National Historic Site
Allen, David Grayson

University of New Hampshire Press
Creating Portland
History and Place in Northern New England


The only comprehensive study of Portland’s history, culture, and people.

August 2007 (new in paper)
Conforti, Joseph, ed.

Northeastern University Press
Boston’s Back Bay
The Story of America’s Greatest Nineteenth-Century Landfill Project


A fascinating look at the people, politics, and technology behind the massive landfill project that filled Boston’s Back Bay.
Newman, William A. and Wilfred E. Holton

Wesleyan University Press
Early Connecticut Silver, 1700–1840

The preeminent study of Connecticut’s silvercraft, back in print with a new introduction
Bohan, Peter and Philip Hammerslough

Wesleyan University Press
Welcome to Wesleyan
Campus Buildings


A photograph book of the Wesleyan campus, with historical notes
Starr, Leslie

Salve Regina University
La Gazette Françoise, 1780-1781
Revolutionary America’s French Newspaper


A historical look into the lives politics, and opinions of the French soldiers as they lived on American soil during the Revolutionary War
Poulin, Eugena and Claire Quintal, trs. and annotations

University Press of New England
Architecture, Ethics, and the Personhood of Place

A compendium of new work in the field of phenomenology, hermeneutics, and the built environment
Caicco, Gregory, editor

University of New Hampshire Press
Remodeling the Nation
The Architecture of American Identity, 1776-1858


A rich analysis of how post Revolutionary Americans conceptualized the early Republic through metaphors of home building
Faherty, Duncan

Northeastern University Press
Globalization
Universal Trends, Regional Implications


The definitive volume on globalization from a comparative politics perspective
Wiarda, Howard J., editor

Wesleyan University Press
Little Boat

New poems from a National Book Award winner
Valentine, Jean

Wesleyan University Press
Pieces of Air in the Epic

Innovative lyric poetry breathes new life into 21st century nature and culture.
Hillman, Brenda

Wesleyan University Press
The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen

The collected work of a legendary San Francisco Renaissance and Beat poet
Whalen, Philip and Michael Rothenberg, ed., Gary Snyder, fwd., Leslie Scalapino, intro.

Wesleyan University Press
The Bad Wife Handbook

A courageous and innovative ode to monogamy and its challenges
Zucker, Rachel

Wesleyan University Press
Meteoric Flowers

A bold poetic intervention into the pastoral tradition.
Willis, Elizabeth

Northeastern University Press
What Brings You to Del Amo

Winner of the 2007 Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize
Sutton, Virginia Chase and Charles Harper Webb, intro.

Saturnalia Books
Stigmata Errata Etcetera

Mark Doty introduces this stunning new collection, the third in Saturnalia Books new Artist/Poet Collaboration series
Knott, Bill; Black, Star, collages; Doty, Mark, intro.

Saturnalia Books
Dummy Fire

Winner of the 2006 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize selected by Forrest Gander, this is poet Sarah Vap's first full-length poetry collection.
Vap, Sarah

Sheep Meadow Press
Dolores is Blue / Dolorez is Blues

“Hermine Pinson speaks and sings for herself and others.”
Pinson, Hermine

Sheep Meadow Press
But a Passage in Wilderness

This is a first book of poetry by a recipient of the Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America, selected by Marie Ponsot
Berdeshevsky, Margo

Cavankerry Press
Imago

These elegant poems tackle issues of identity, domesticity and sexuality, shattering preconceived notions of Asians and Asian men in this first collection by a Filipino-born writer.
Legaspi, Joseph O., foreword by Philip Levine

Cavankerry Press
We Aren’t Who We Are – And This World Isn’t Either

These poems tell the story of a colorful and often painful childhood spent traveling around the world in this first book by a newly minted poet and former artisan now living in New Hampshire.
Korfhage, Christine, foreword by Liz Rosenberg

Four Way Books
Lane Changes

In this fifth book by Lawrence, these poems are at once wry, lucid, lunatic, energetic, pithy, dark.
Lawrence, David

Four Way Books
Anxious Music

A first book of poems that enact a great joy and trust in language, building a deliciously slippery vessel to carry us through the deep waters of our humanity, by the Executive Director of Alice James Books.
Ossmann, April

Four Way Books
Degrees of Latitude
Blossom, Laurel

Fence Books
A Best of Fence
The First Nine Years


This is a compilation of writing from the first nine years of Fence magazine that presents a stunningly eclectic compendium of poetry, short fiction, criticism, and creative nonfiction.

July 2008
Wolff, Rebecca and Fence Editorial Staff

Fence Books
Flet
A Novel


This is poet McSweeney's first novel with Fence books and is set in a spaced-out, delimited future in which all cities have been evacuated after an "Emergency", and is named for it's quiescent-but-full-of-agency female protagonist.
McSweeney, Joyelle

Fence Books
Infamous Landscapes

In this third collection of poems, Prageeta Sharma writes of the experiences of a class-displaced, first-generation Hindoo Romantic, and her landscapes and language follow cannily and whimsically from that position.
Sharma, Prageeta

Wesleyan University Press
Jacob Weidenmann
Pioneer Landscape Architect


The first full biography of a groundbreaking landscape architect
Favretti, Rudy J.

Dartmouth College Press
Rousseau on Philosophy, Morality, and Religion

An essential general reader and course adoption anthology
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, Christopher Kelly, editor

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