Product Description: For some, a sense of place is about travel, about plunging oneself into new settings. For others, it is about being—and knowing—home. This book is a collection of essays, memoirs, nature writing, and travel narratives that document the impact this sense of place has on writing...read more

Product Description: The task of editing and annotating a nineteenth-century diary seemed straightforward at first, but as Robert Root assembled scattered fragments of lost history and immersed himself in background research, he became enmeshed in unexpected ways...read more

Product Description: Traces the literary career of 20th-century American essayist, E.B. White. The book explores the milieu in which White began writing the Notes and Comments section of the New Yorker, and puts in perspective the influence of popular colyumists like Don Marquis and Christopher Morley...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "Time by Moments Steals Away" records a year in the life of a young woman newly married to one of the most experienced geological explorers in Michigan's early copper mining period and sheds new light on state history. Ruth Douglass's diary recounts her winter journey from Detroit to Wisconsin and then her life through autumn and into the following winter on Isle Royale, where her husband had been hired to supervise a mining operation...read more

Product Description: Wordsmithery, Second Edition, offers an apprenticeship in composing based on the practices of working writers, showing students what approaches, attitudes, and strategies those writers use to successfully complete work-in-progress...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A survey of the composing processes of seven working writers—columnist/ essayists Jim Fitzgerald and Kathleen Stocking, political columnists Tom Wicker and Richard Reeves, drama critic Walter Kerr, and film critics David Denby and Neal Gabler—Working at Writing offers rich and unique insights into how writing is actually done...read more

Product Description: Supplement for any course/any book on auto electricity and electronics as taught in 2-year college Auto Mechanics Department.These are real-world, practical worksheets that can be used in a classroom, shop, or at-home setting. Each sheet includes specifications, procedures, and anticipated results...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)