Books from University Press of New England
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Disrupt This!: MOOCs and the Promises of Technology
By Karen J. HeadConsider Carey's hypothesized “University of Everywhere,”10 which seems very open source and open. ... Elitism There is an old joke about the famous 1970s New York City nightclub, Studio 54: if you remember it, you weren't there.
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Inventing Ethan Allen
By John J. Duffy, III, H. Nicholas MullerHe then went on to urge Stevens to get on with collecting documents that he could use.59 “Among those founders,” Sparks asserted, “most conspicuous in laying the foundation upon which the independent state of Vermont has been reared, ...
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In the Evil Day: Violence Comes to One Small Town
By Richard Adams CareyThis is the story of that town, those people, and that day. In the Evil Day is a moving portrait of small-town life and familiar characters forever changed by sudden violence.
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Civil War Boston: Home Front and Battlefield
By Thomas H. O'ConnorIn this engaging volume, Thomas H. O'Connor examines the unique role that Boston and its inhabitants played in the Civil War and discusses the impact of the turbulent war years on the city's civilian population.
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Golden Wings & Hairy Toes: Encounters with New England's Most Imperiled Wildlife
By Todd McLeishIn addition, nails made in nearby Wareham and wood cut from the Rochester area were hauled south on ships through the bay. In , the first lighthouse in the bay was built on ...
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Winning Marriage: The Inside Story of How Same-Sex Couples Took on the Politicians and Pundits-and Won
By Marc Solomonreached out to Joel Benenson, the Obama campaign's lead pollster, and Jan van Lohuizen, the lead pollster for George W. Bush, asking them to analyze trends on the freedom to marry and write a joint memo that we'd release to the press.
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City of the Soul: Rome and the Romantics
By John A. Pinto234; a facsimile of Sickler's panorama is also reproduced in Hornsby 2002. 3. ANDERSON, PANORAMA OF ROME 1. For Spithöver, see Munich 2005, p. 21. 2. For a reproduction and short entry on this panorama, see Munich 2005, pp.
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Civil War Boston: Home Front and Battlefield
By Thomas H. O'Connor203;Pearson,Andrew, I,pp.219– 220. 89. Fiore, Yearof Trialand Testing, p.36. 90. Samuel Eliot Morison, The Maritime History of ... 78; E. L. Pierce to C. 259–260. 100. Ibid.,p. 290. 101. Ibid.,pp. 301–302; Schouler, Massachusetts, I, ...
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Basking with Humpbacks: Tracking Threatened Marine Life in New England Waters
By Todd McLeishFor instance, Voyage of the Turtle by Carl Safina provided tremendous insights about leatherback turtles; The American Horseshoe Crab, edited by Carl Shuster, Jane Brockmann, and Robert Barlow, is the definitive resource on that species ...
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America's Founding Fruit: The Cranberry in a New Environment
By Susan Playfair“letter home”: Catherine Parr (Strickland) Trail, “The Backwoods of Canada—Being Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer ... Robert A. R. Hurta, Shannon Curtis, Michael D. Matchett, Horace Young, Marva I. Sweeney, and Jess D Reed, ...
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Five Rings: The Super Bowl History of the New England Patriots (So Far)
By Jerry ThorntonRepeatedly, the Patriots denied they had any intention of trading Bledsoe, despite the obvious fact that there was no way they could bring him back. First of all, for all of Bledsoe's high-road good-teammatism, he was miserable—a ...
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American Sweepstakes: How One Small State Bucked the Church, the Feds, and the Mob to Usher in the Lottery Age
By Kevin FlynnIn autumn 1963, Smith, Stearns, and New Hampshire Jockey Club treasurer “Mac” O'Dowd sat down with sportswriters to discuss the barely hypothetical sweepstakes. They conceded the operation would largely be the state's; they were merely ...
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The Golden Age of Boston Television
By Terry Ann KnopfOne night, during a dinner meeting with Leonard Goldenson and aBC president Elton Rule in Manhattan, Bennett expressed his misgivings in no uncertain terms: “'Leonard, in thinking about me for the President of aBC,' I said to him, ...
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Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer
By Katherine Ramsland, PhDA man named Neville Heath had signed the hotel register, so police looked for him, but he had gone to a distant town. There, he posed as a war hero (a ruse that Rader appreciated) to twenty-oneyear-old Doreen Marshall, escorting her for ...
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Away Happens
By Phil Crossmanou'd think with a last name of Roberts that Robert would be a poor choice for a first. And you'd think, too, that Robert Roberts might have chosen a name other than Really for his own boy. But that was it, the boy's name was Really ...
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The Science of Play: How to Build Playgrounds That Enhance Children's Development
By Susan G. SolomonSue Robson, “Self-regulation and Metacognition in Young Children's Selfinitiated Play and Reflective Dialogue,” International Journal of Early Years Education 18, no. 3 (September 2010): 227–41, 228. 11. Paul Tough, How Children ...
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: An American Hero
By Jr., Ronald D. lankfordAccording to the Coronet article, May creates the story of Rudolph to comfort his fouryear-old daughter because her mother is dying of cancer; only later, by a stroke of fate, does the story come to the attention of May's boss at ...
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Sarah Orne Jewett, an American Persephone
By Sarah Way ShermanThe tale of Demeter and Persephone, a central myth of Victorian women's culture, is used to interpret the life and work of a 19th-century Maine writer.
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That's Gotta Hurt: The Injuries That Changed Sports Forever
By Dr. David GeierDistrict Court Judge Anita Brody initially rejected the proposed settlement, citing concerns that $675 million would fail to compensate every athlete who might one day need financial assistance. Brody granted preliminary approval to the ...
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Death by Cyanide: The Murder of Dr. Autumn Klein
By Paula Reed WardIn late August, Karen visited from Australia with her family. Autumn and Bob took them on a full tour of the city, going up one of the city's famous inclined plane railways, eating ice cream on Pittsburgh's Mount Washington and the ...