West Virginia University Press is the only university press, and the largest publisher of any kind, in the state of West Virginia. A part of West Virginia University, they publish books and scholarly journals by authors around the world, with a particular emphasis on Appalachian studies, history, higher education, the social sciences, and interdisciplinary books about energy, environment, and resources. They also publish works of fiction and creative nonfiction, and collaborate on innovative digital publications, notably West Virginia History: An Open Access Reader.
Oil and Nation: A History of Bolivia's Petroleum Sector
- Copyright year: 2016
Cast in Deathless Bronze: Andrew Rowan, the Spanish-American War, and the Origins of American Empire
- Copyright year: 2016
Monsters in Appalachia: Stories
- Copyright year: 2016
The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College Classroom with the Science of Emotion
- Copyright year: 2016
The Antebellum Kanawha Salt Business and Western Markets
- Copyright year: 2016
Believe What You Can: Poems
- Copyright year: 2016
All My Mothers and Fathers: A Memoir
- Copyright year: 2016
The Contradictions of Neoliberal Agri-Food: Corporations, Resistance, and Disasters in Japan
- Copyright year: 2016
The Steam and Diesel Era in Wheeling, West Virginia
Photographs by J. J. Young Jr.
- Copyright year: 2016
Ecological Governance
Toward a New Social Contract with the Earth
- Copyright year: 2016
Bede and Aethelthryth
An Introduction to Christian Latin Poetics
- Copyright year: 2016
The Rope Swing: Stories
- Copyright year: 2016
Algerian Diary
Frank Kearns and the "Impossible Assignment" for CBS News
- Copyright year: 2016
The Night I Freed John Brown
- Copyright year: 2016
Sketches of Slave Life and From and From Slave Cabin to the Pulpit
- Copyright year: 2016
Folk-Songs of the South
Collected Under the Auspices of the West Virginia Folk-Lore Society
- Copyright year: 2013
George Washington Written Upon the Land: Nature, Memory, Myth, and Landscape
- Copyright year: 2015
The Last Great Senator
Robert C. Byrd's Encounters with Eleven U.S. Presidents
- Copyright year: 2015
Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields
The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880-1922 2nd Edition
- Copyright year: 2015
My Pulse Is an Earthquake
- Copyright year: 2015
An American Phoenix
A History of Storer College from Slavery to Desegregation 1865-1955, Commemorative Edition
- Copyright year: 2015
Riding on Comets
A Memoir
- Copyright year: 2015
Isidorean Perceptions of Order
The Exeter Book Riddles and Medieval Latin Enigmata
- Copyright year: 2015
Robert C. Byrd
Child of the Appalachian Coalfields
- Copyright year: 2015
Magnetic North
In Magnetic North an aging warrior and his best friend—perhaps his only friend—ride motorcycles to Alaska, with the ultimate goal of riding to the Arctic Circle. It is a ride that mirrors their lives, a ride that causes old stories, old trials, old darkness to come, once again, through the spinning wheels of the machines they are riding.
Morgan is a man who can't give it up. His propensity toward violence has followed him through all the days of his life, and it follows him now.
Slade has shared much of Morgan's life, and he has been the one of the rare stabilizing factors in that life. Without Slade, it is clear that Morgan has no guidance, no goals, and no potential for living much longer than his next encounter with . . . almost anything.
And so the two old friends ride out from New Mexico and Colorado—heading north.
- Copyright year: 2015
Cinco Becknell
- Copyright year: 2015
Uncle Abner
Master of Mysteries
First published in 1918, Uncle Abner: Master of Mysteries is an anthology of detective stories written by Melville Davisson Post. The popular stories within this collection were serialized in national magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post in the early 20th century.
Uncle Abner is an amateur detective in present-day Harrison County, West Virginia. Throughout his journeys around this antebellum wilderness, long before the nation had a proper police system, the honest Uncle Abner is confronted by murders and mysteries that cannot be ignored. With uncanny intuition, impressive logic, and keen observation of human actions, Uncle Abner is Melville Davisson Post’s most celebrated literary creation and is considered to be one of the most important texts in American detective and crime fiction.
This new edition contains an introduction by Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire novels.
- Copyright year: 2015
Stuttering Meets Sterotype, Stigma, and Discrimination
An Overview of Attitude Research
- Copyright year: 2015