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Julija ¿Ukys
Artifact

Artifact is about the stories we tell ourselves after mass shootings. Each college campus shooting leaves a record: archival collections, monuments to the dead, government-led inquiries, internal universi…

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John Antonik
Almost Heaven

Before assembling 40 winning campaigns as head coach of the Florida State Seminoles, Bobby Bowden served as head coach of the West Virginia University Mountaineers for six seasons. Although he logged five…

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Chris Campanioni
North by North/West

A hybrid work of creative nonfiction assembled as several iterative sequences--a discontinuous itinerary--of exile. A personal, critical, and autoethnographic exploration of diasporic identity formation a…

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Sarah Rose Cavanagh
The Spark of Learning

Historically we have constructed our classrooms with the assumption that learning is a dry, staid affair best conducted in quiet tones and ruled by an unemotional consideration of the facts. The field of …

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Jean Max Charles
The Catastrophe of Disaster Aid

The Catastrophe of Disaster Aid critically examines both the effectiveness and limitations of non-governmental organization (NGO) aid, particularly in the attempt to achieve sustainable development in the…

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Mo Daviau
Epic and Lovely

Epic and Lovely is the swan song of Nina Simone Blaine, the daughter of a long-dead 1950s Vegas crooner and a Texas beauty queen forty years his junior. In the wake of her unexpected divorce, Nina returns…

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Zoë Gadegbeku
Blue Futures, Break Open

On a mythical island oasis for Black souls, Lucille, a half-divine, half-human seamstress, juggles the responsibility of ensuring everyone's safety while seeking and losing love in her personal life in th…

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Marc Harshman
Dispatch from the Mountain State

A collection of poems anchored in West Virginia and engaging in the trademark themes of a mature poet--death, despair, dread and the seeming randomness with which all these come into a life.

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William Delisle Hay,
Doom of the Great City; Being the Narrative of a Survivor, Written A.D. 1942

This first critical edition of William Delisle Hay's novel introduces readers to the earliest tale of urban apocalypse and environmental devastation through a curated collection of historical excerpts and…

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Henry T. Ireys, Priscilla M. Ireys
The Keep

When a mid-life couple finds an old farm that promises refuge from hectic lives and encroaching illness, their world opens up to unexpected adventures: breeding heritage goats, hogs, and cattle; managing …

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Helen Kapstein
Petroforms

Petroforms contributes a much-needed theory of form and genre to the cutting-edge field of petrocriticism, itself an offshoot of developments in postcolonial ecocriticism. Studies of resource fiction and …

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Kathryn J Kirkpatrick
Enraptured Space

In the first book-length study of one of Ireland's leading contemporary poets, Paula Meehan emerges as an original voice whose perspectives on gender, class, and ecology are transforming the Irish literar…

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Jennifer Mapes
The New American Small Town

What makes a sustainable city? When planners and politicians talk about making cities more sustainable, they often describe changes to large urban centers like New York City or Los Angeles. Yet when they …

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Sarah L. Morris
Lessons from Take Me Home, Country Roads

You may have heard it at a football game, in an advertisement, or on the radio on a road trip far from home. You may have sung along on a rooftop in Thailand, at Oktoberfest in Belgium, or with a Japanese…

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Oliver Popa,
Drippey Plants A Garden

In this sweet book by seven-year-old Oliver Popa, a humanoid honeybee named Drippey plants a garden for himself. What he discovers as he watches his hard work bloom is how enjoyable a garden becomes when …

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Pedro L V Welch
Could It Be the CONGOS?

This ground-breaking work offers a detailed exploration of the diagnosis and treatment of yellow fever by British military doctors in the Caribbean during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Focusing…

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Rouzbeh Yassini-Fard
The Accidental Network

"How would our lives change," wondered entrepreneur Rouzbeh Yassini-Fard in 1987, "if everyday people had a stable, high-speed data connection to the Internet?" While he wasn't the fir…

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Power Shift

Power Shift traces recent social and cultural shifts in how we understand and imagine energy, the environment, and the challenges of global warming. Across the globe, the need to transition to renewables …

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Power Shift

Power Shift traces recent social and cultural shifts in how we understand and imagine energy, the environment, and the challenges of global warming. Across the globe, the need to transition to renewables …

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Reordering Caribbean Futures in the Fires of Global Change

The Caribbean region is a complex space characterized by the largest concentration of acutely vulnerable small island states, whose existence has always been deeply entangled with the world. Contemporary …

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