A travel guide covering the history, culture and attractions of New Hope and Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and the surrounding Delaware Valley area. Feature articles about each region are followed by detailed reviews of more than 150 bed-and-breakfasts, inns and restaurants as well as museums, historic sites, parks and other attractions.

Getaway Guides: New Hope and Bucks County

Travel

Einthoven, Wink

United States

Stone Creek Publications

These lively features of Pennsylvania Dutch country cover history and culture, review more than 125 inns and restaurants, offer detailed maps, and provide more than 70 photographs.

Getaway Guides: Pennsylvania Dutch Country

History

Gattuso, John

Gates, Margaret

Jurgelski, Susan

Americas

Boxing gyms are uncovered in all of their glorious grunge in these photographs and essays that reveal both the stark reality of success and the possibility of promise in the sport of boxing. This intimate look at the fighters, trainers, and hangers-on who inhabit these gyms brings to life the tough—and surprisingly tender—world of American boxing. Evocative images reveal the pain, sacrifice, and discipline of the "sweet science" as well as the triumphs, tragedies, and big dreams of the men and women who practice it. A dozen essays by veteran boxing writers such as Katherine Dunn, Carlo Rotella, Kate Sekules, F. X. Toole, Lucius Shepard, Robert Anasi, Loic Wacquant, Joe Rein, and Ralph Wiley explore the community and culture of boxing gyms, an endangered American institution that serves not only as the training ground for the next generation of great fighters, but as a sanctuary in tough neighborhoods, a lifeline for troubled kids, and a repository of a centuries-old tradition of pugilistic knowledge.

Shadow Boxers: Sweat, Sacrifice & the Will to Survive in American Boxing Gyms

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Essays by internationally renowned writers of faith explore the universal significance of prayer in this inspirational volume of lush images and meditative words. More than 100 photographs taken in 50 countries chronicle the diversity of the devotional experience in all of its intimacy, mystery, rapture, and stillness. The experience of prayer is shown to connect all parts of the human family in pursuit of a greater, transcending reality. With its breathtaking beauty and affirmation of life, this volume gives readers new insights into the practices of the world’s many faiths. Includes essays by Karen Armstrong, The Dalai Lama, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Thich Nhat Hanh, Jack Kornfield, Harold Kushner, C.S. Lewis, Thomas Merton, Thomas Moore, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Kathleen Norris, Pope John Paul II, David Steindl-Rast, Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel, Michael Wolfe, and Carol Zaleski.

Talking to God: Portrait of a World at Prayer

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

In the world of big-mountain skiing, Trevor Petersen was a legend. Appearing in countless films, magazines and photo shoots, his ponytail flying behind him, he was the very embodiment of the freewheeling spirit of extreme skiing in the 1980s and early ’90s.
Then it all came to an end. On February 26, 1996, while skiing in Chamonix, France the so-called Death Sport Capital of the World an avalanche swept Trevor away. His body was found sitting up in the snow as if gazing at the mountains he loved.
Nearly a decade later, Trevor’s fifteen-year-old son, Kye Petersen, a rising star in his own right, traveled to Chamonix to ski the run that took his father’s life and, with the aid of some of the world’s greatest ski mountaineers, to become a member of skiing’s big-mountain tribe.
There to chronicle Kye’s story was William A. Kerig, a filmmaker with a dream of his own to create a film about the soul of big-mountain skiing and the band of mountaineers who ski the steepest, wildest, most dangerous terrain in the world.
In The Edge of Never, Kerig gives us not only a ripping adventure tale about a young man coming of age but a frank and subtle portrait of the extreme skiers who "live big" in the face of death and risk everything to experience the fullness of life in the mountains.

The Edge of Never: A Skier's Story of Life, Death, and Dreams in the World's Most Dangerous Mountains

Kerig, William A.

Biographies & Memoirs

The history of Lawrenceville instructs us in the persistence and capacity for growth of a private school that has, from its modest beginnings, pursued a clear purpose... and achieved international stature and reputation... Looking ahead, we confidently assert that, regardless of future demands, changes and turns of fate, Lawrenceville is "gorrisoned with loyal hearts, for evern and for aye."

The Lawrenceville School 1810-2010 A Bicentennial Portrait

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

The Ironbound district of Newark, New Jersey, has been known by many names over the years – Down Neck, the East Ward, the Meadows. There was even a time in the early days when locals called it Texas, owing to its remote setting in the marshes around the mouth of the Passaic River. Then everything changed. Newark boomed with industrial growth, and the Ironbound grew right along with it. The Morris Canal was completed in 1832, followed in short order by the first of several railways – the “iron” that eventually gave the neighborhood its name. Factories went up, immigrants poured in, and the Ironbound became a “district of industrial uproar … its people … a hodge-podge of nationalities … speaking many old-world tongues.” In these richly illustrated pages, Edward A. Jardim tells the story of the Ironbound with all the humanity and dynamism of the neighborhood itself – the shifting populations; the political intrigues; the fortunes and follies; the saints, sinners, and ordinary joes. It’s a story of struggle and aspiration, of social change and economic upheaval, and, perhaps most important, of an urban community shaped by industrialization and its aftermath.

The Ironbound: An Illustrated History of Newark's Down Neck

Jardim, Edward A.

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