Gotelli (biology, U. of Vermont) offers a primer text on the basic concepts and equations that underlie population and community ecology, focusing on understanding mathematical models. Empirical examp
Having conducted field work in Africa and the South Pacific, Gordon (anthropology, U. of Vermont) argues that popular travel guides are not sufficient to prepare travelers who intend to study the peop
Carmody (geography, University of Vermont) considers the impact of structural adjustment in terms of industrial decline and the increase in poverty. He outlines the internal logic of structural adjus
2013 Laura Ingalls Wilder AwardIt's 1899 in a small town in Vermont, and the turn of the century is coming fast. According to certain members of the church where Robbie's father is the preacher, the e
For a country smaller than Vermont, with roughly the same population as Honduras, modern Israel receives a remarkable amount of attention. For supporters, it is a unique bastion of democracy in the Mi
Phineas Gage was truly a man with a hole in his head. A railroad construction foreman, Phineas was blasting rock near Cavendish, Vermont, in 1848 when a thirteen-pound iron rod was shot through his br
Author Ed Shankman and illustrator Dave O'Neill began creating their award-winning children's books in New England, with stories on Boston, Cape Cod, Maine, and Vermont. In 2011 they turned their atte
Though she had planned to spend the summer in Vermont with her sweetheart, Abigail Harding cannot dismiss her concerns over her older sister. Charlotte's letters have been uncharacteristically melanch
In the deep glens of Massachusetts, in the wild hills of Vermont, and in Australia's sandy wastes, unfathomable things lurk. Things that shine with an unnatural light, that speak and buzz strangely in
On July 29, 1849, after an eight-year courtship, two young schoolteachers were married in a small town in northern Vermont. Their story could easily have been lost to history, except that Alfred and C
On the surface, Ashford, Vermont, seems like a quaint New England college town, but to those who live among the shadowy remains of its abandoned mills and factories, and beneath its towering steel bri
When the Aldens visit friends in Vermont, they're in for a teddy treat--the annual Bear Jamboree, celebrating toy bears from all over the world! The Aldens soon encounter an unbearable mystery: a very
