Anthologies & Archives
Collected editions preserving decades of work from various publications. Urban Semiotic's explorations of city life, GO INSIDE Magazine's artistic vision, and tributes to those who shaped us.
What the Land Remembers: Essays from Prairie Voice
Twenty-two essays from Prairie Voice on the vanished institutions that once formed prairie citizens, the potluck, the county fair, the one-room school.
Best of Boles Bells Vol. 1: Pressing Over 50
Kettlebell essays for anyone who found the bell after fifty, part practical guide and part philosophy of growing stronger while growing older.
Best of Urban Semiotic Vol. 1 (2005-2006)
The first offline volume of the UrbanSemiotic.com blog, more than 128,000 words on city life and how a place shapes the people in it.
Best of Urban Semiotic Vol. 2 (2007-2012)
A second gathering from the Urban Semiotic blog, another 88,000 words drawn from 2007 through 2012.
Best of GO INSIDE Vol. 1 (1983-2012)
GO INSIDE, in publication since 1983, gathered here across sixty-nine thousand words with Marshall Jamison, Janna Sweenie, and Joseph Baldwin.
Tribute to Howard Stein Vol. 1 (1948-2013)
A compendium honoring Dr. Howard Stein, the Columbia mentor whose thirty-year friendship seeded Boles Books, United Stage, and GO INSIDE.
Mechanized Morality (2016-2017)
Collected weekly newsletters from 2016 and 2017, tracking what gets lost as people hand their moral lives to machines.
Three McGraw-Hill Textbooks
Geographic Information Systems material contributed to three Glencoe textbooks: World Geography and Cultures, Glencoe World History, and The American Vision.