This is the first book to celebrate the life and writing of one of the most charismatic Southern leaders of the middle twentieth century, Don West (1906-1992). West was a poet, a pioneer advocate for civil rights, a preacher, a historian, a labor organizer, a folk-music revivalist, an essayist, and an organic farmer. He is perhaps best known as an educator, primarily as cofounder of the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee and founder of the Appalachian South Folklife Center in West Virginia. In his old age, West served as an elder statesman for his causes. No Lonesome Road allows Don West to speak for himself. It provides the most comprehensive collection of his poetry ever published, spanning five decades of his literary career. It also includes the first comprehensive and annotated collection of West's nonfiction essays, articles, letters, speeches, and stories, covering his role at the forefront of Southern and Appalachian history, and as a pioneer researcher and writer on the South's little-known legacy of radical activism. Drawing from both primary and secondary sources, including previously unknown documents, correspondence, interviews, FBI files, and newspaper clippings, the introduction by Jeff Biggers stands as the most thorough, insightful biographical sketch of Don West yet published in any form. The afterword by George Brosi is a stirring personal tribute to the contributions of West and also serves as a thoughtful reflection on the interactions between the radicals of the 1930s and the 1960s. The best possible introduction to his extraordinary life and work, this annotated selection of Don West's writings will be inspirational reading for anyone interested in Southern history, poetry, religion, or activism.

No Lonesome Road: SELECTED PROSE AND POEMS

Literature & Fiction

Biggers, Jeff

West, Don

Brosi, George

Poetry

University of Illinois Press

This is the first book to celebrate the life and writing of one of the most charismatic Southern leaders of the middle twentieth century, Don West (1906-1992). West was a poet, a pioneer advocate for civil rights, a preacher, a historian, a labor organizer, a folk-music revivalist, an essayist, and an organic farmer. He is perhaps best known as an educator, primarily as cofounder of the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee and founder of the Appalachian South Folklife Center in West Virginia. In his old age, West served as an elder statesman for his causes. No Lonesome Road allows Don West to speak for himself. It provides the most comprehensive collection of his poetry ever published, spanning five decades of his literary career. It also includes the first comprehensive and annotated collection of West's nonfiction essays, articles, letters, speeches, and stories, covering his role at the forefront of Southern and Appalachian history, and as a pioneer researcher and writer on the South's little-known legacy of radical activism. Drawing from both primary and secondary sources, including previously unknown documents, correspondence, interviews, FBI files, and newspaper clippings, the introduction by Jeff Biggers stands as the most thorough, insightful biographical sketch of Don West yet published in any form. The afterword by George Brosi is a stirring personal tribute to the contributions of West and also serves as a thoughtful reflection on the interactions between the radicals of the 1930s and the 1960s. The best possible introduction to his extraordinary life and work, this annotated selection of Don West's writings will be inspirational reading for anyone interested in Southern history, poetry, religion, or activism.

United States

Sacrifice Unto Me

Pyramid Books

This book on Pipeline Integrity Management Under Geohazard Conditions (PIMG), includes 42 peer-refereed papers prepared by key industry subject matter experts. The papers compile the results of extensive research as well as assemble pipeline operators' experiences in tackling geohazard challenges for both new and vintage pipelines. In addition to the experts' papers, the editors of the book prepared an introduction to each section that includes summary review of the different papers in the section. The papers are presented in 10 sections addressing all aspects of geohazard integrity management. The fi rst section highlights the geohazard impact on pipeline integrity. The next four sections focused on the geohazard demand and its management by addressing geohazard characterization, monitoring, management and mitigation. The following four sections focused on the strain capacity by addressing strain capacity predictions, management and monitoring. The last chapter tied both strain demand and capacity through structural reliability and risk assessment protocols. The information in this book is not only intended for use by pipeline designers and operators but it is expected to also be used by regulators and standards writing organizations. It is therefore, the intention of ASME to update this book on a regular basis as new data, case studies and advancement of the state of practice become available.

Pipeline Integrity Management Under Geohazard Conditions

Engineering & Transportation

Salama, Mamdouh M.

Wang, Yong Yi

Engineering

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Millions of horse owners enjoy trail riding and horse camping, and every U.S. state has an active trail riding association. But many riders may find themselves banned from the back country because of the environmental impact they cause. LOW-IMPACT TRAIL RIDING offers a solution: Don West's "Go Right, Go Light," leave-no-trace strategies for low-impact horse camping.
 West, an internationally known expert on basic horsemanship and back-country travel, tells you everything you need to know with his generous wit and wisdom. He covers planning and packing for a low-impact trip, back-country ethics, cooking on the trail, tying a horse responsibly, conditioning both the horse and the rider, orienteering, sanitation, and dealing with emergencies. Included are checklists for horse, camping, and personal items, as well as trail-savvy menus for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. A source guide provides lists of trail riding establishments in the United States and abroad.
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Have Saddle, Will Travel : Low-Impact Trail Riding and Horse Camping

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pets & Animal Care

Storey Publishing, LLC.

The Outsider: a novel

Literary

dancing bear books

Dream of the Great Blue - a unique coming-of-middle-age tale about love and transformation. The Lawrences struggle to keep dreams alive. Change and aging forced upon them. A love story &amp; an astute commentary on baby boomers. Illuminating, compassionate, DGB shows another romance, a younger couple, alternate chapters, like The Hours by M. Cunningham. Interwoven tales mesh - a powerful, touching, surprising, and hopeful end.

Dream Of The Great Blue: A Novel

Romance

Paranormal

Dancing Bear

Sicario Meets The Big Sleep at The O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, the town too tough to die. At what point does killing someone become a moral act? Ex-cop, ex-private investigator Nestor Pike is mercilessly dragged along to Tombstone Arizona by his own unerring sense of responsibility. Initially there are sinking allegations of child molestation against a beloved but thorny old activist priest, Father Frank Alvarez, that Daisy Vasquez, Nestor Pike’s ex-lover and partner is attempting to disprove. She has gone missing in the process. All Nes knows is that her body has not been found and that her ex-husband, Danny Ochoa, ex-cop, is somehow involved. Southeast Arizona is a war zone. Conflict assails Nes from all directions: Tucson to Tombstone, Bisbee to Juarez, Naco to Nogales, death hunts along the Amnesty Trail in this blistering landscape. Turning over rocks to see what’s beneath is dangerous business. Snakes and coyotes of the two-legged variety abound. Heavily-armed cartels are beheading people in their quest to control smuggling routes for drugs, guns, money and the most profitable of all, human flesh. Worse still, amidst racial, environmental, border and illegal immigrant issues, he’s apprehensive, unable to trust his intuition, losing his edge and his marriage. Having lost his only child, Nes is not himself . . . but is he a hitman? The bottom has fallen out of his world. And he's is on a dire personal journey to rediscover just who and what he is. In transit, he’s befriended by Thomas Thundercloud, a mixed-blood Chiricahua Apache who becomes a catalyst for transformation within the moral landscape of Nestor Pike. Ultimately, Nes’s deeply experienced journey into his personal relationships, his country and his culture is a life in progress that challenges the reader to delve deep inside him or herself for the resolutions to the universal moral conundrums that vex us all.

HITMAN: A Nestor Pike Mystery Thriller

Don West died for twenty minutes and was brought back to life by a team of firefighters. He spent the next 48 hours in hypothermia in the ICU and the following three weeks in step-down/rehab. Death and resurrection had left him an outsider to himself. He was unable to return to certainty. The centrality of his need for human dignity and understanding about how to live with one another had been forever shattered.\nUntethered, a sexually explicit emphatically honest memoir, is his coming-to-terms with death. But even more importantly, it’s the indispensable catalyst for a 75 year old man, searching his repressed personal history to describe the 
events that had made him the man he was before dying, and now illusion-less, the man he has become, before facing his death a second time.

Untethered: a sexually explicit emphatically honest memoir

Erotica

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