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The National Park Service (NPS) celebrates its centennial anniversary in the month of August! NPS has served as a valuable resource for many of our authors, both professionally and recreationally. To commemorate the occasion, our authors have taken to the blog...
August Media Roundup
The sweltering August heat pales in comparison to our authors! Check out our hottest publicity this month: Justin Schmidt’s The Sting of the Wild (HC: 9781421419282; $24.95) was featured in a 4-page spread in New York Times Magazine, CNN’s The Big Story and...
Danger and Romance in America: A US National Park Profile
If you could explore another world, would you? Last year, a staggering 307 million people hiked, paddled, skied and meandered through our 58 US National Parks - the highest number of annual visits in history. The National Parks Service is in charge of...
Beyond Yosemite
The National Park Service (NPS) celebrates its centennial anniversary in the month of August! NPS has served as a valuable resource for many of our authors, both professionally and recreationally. To commemorate the occasion, our authors have taken to the blog...
“Really, is there anything new?”
That’s what plenty of people who should know better have been asking us since we started work on this new edition of Women’s Life in Greece and Rome, some forty years after the first. Is there ever! The whole point of the book is the search for the hidden...
Fifty Years of Fond Memories
The National Park Service (NPS) celebrates its centennial anniversary in the month of August! NPS has served as a valuable resource for many of our authors, both professionally and recreationally. To commemorate the occasion, our authors have taken to the blog...
Are our National Parks for animals or people?
The National Park Service (NPS) celebrates its centennial anniversary in the month of August! NPS has served as a valuable resource for many of our authors, both professionally and recreationally. To commemorate the occasion, our authors have taken to the blog...
Our Mysterious Microbial World
Microbes exist around us, on us, and in us. On each of us, microbial cells are believed to outnumber human cells by 10 to 1. Improvements in science and technology are allowing us to learn more about our strange, microbial world. For the past five years, I...
Filled With Gratitude for Our Parks
The National Park Service (NPS) celebrates its centennial anniversary in the month of August! NPS has served as a valuable resource for many of our authors, both professionally and recreationally. To commemorate the occasion, our authors have taken to the blog...