Shaun Griffin is a poet of impassioned engagement—in the common joys and suffering of the human experience, in the natural world, in the complexity of language and the poet's craft.... more

The men who inhabit the stories live in precarious normalcy, mostly in northern Idaho, balancing dashed dreams with an uncertain progress into maturity, small-town realities with their largely unfulfilled hopes for lives that are somehow vaster than what they have.... more

When Beyond the Mafia first appeared in 1996 it was hailed as a significant contribution to the history of Las Vegas and of ethnic minorities in America.... more

Glas analyzes the rapid economic growth of Spain’s Bilbao region in the context of its massive exportation of iron ore to Great Britain between 1875 and 1899.... more