Riveting, often heartbreaking stories that take readers through country that is figuratively and literally unmapped. These stories are set in a nameless community too small to be called a town, a place where wanting an education is a mark of ungodly arrogance and dowsing for water a legitimate occup[...]
Extensively class-tested, this textbook takes an innovative approach to software testing: it defines testing as the process of applying a few well-defined, general-purpose test criteria to a structure or model of the software. It incorporates the latest innovations in testing, including techniques t[...]
Virgil, a soft-spoken Kentucky boy, must choose between the unwritten code of the hills and his own sense of morals when his hell-raising oldest brother Boyd is killed[...]
Seven years ago, Chris Offutt made his literary debut with "Kentucky Straight, " a fiercely original collection that earned him not only critical praise but many prestigious awards. The eight new stories in "Out of the Woods" mark Offutt's return to the form in which he first displayed his astonish[...]