A Washington Post Notable Book When Kristin Stevens loses her job at a prestigious California university, she and her husband, Cal, relocate to suburban Massachusetts, where Kristin is forced to take a position at a third-tier college. She becomes entangled in the internal politics of academia, while Cal spends his days alone, fixing up their new home. Soon, Kristin finds herself drawn to their younger neighbor, first as platonic confidants bound by a love of literature and then, inevitably, as something more. In The Realm of Last Chances, Steve Yarbrough gives us a richly nuanced portrait of relationships, loneliness, and a marriage, reinvented.

Translation based on the original, handwritten diary entitled: Tung-pei chieh shou chiao she jih chi. Includes index.

After moving to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, poet Sara Ryan found herself immersed in the isolated spaces of the North: the cold places that never thawed, the bleak expanses of snow. These poems have teeth, bones, and blood—they clack and bruise and make loud sounds. They interrogate self-preservation, familial history, extinction, taxidermy, and animal and female bodies. In between these lines, in warm places where blood collects, animals stay hidden and hunted, a girl looks loneliness dead in the eye, and wolves come out of the woods to run across the frozen water of Lake Superior.

The nightmare scenario -- Hope and determination -- The threat -- Europe reacts -- The deracination of the West -- Saving democracy, 1940s style -- A world in transition -- The way forward.

This book is based upon the 1992 British Election Study, a source since 1964 of how and why people vote as they do. The 1992 study consists of two surveys: in one, 1600 people were interviewed after the 1987 election; in the other, 2800 people were interviewed for the first time.