This collection of essays offers a new interpretation of the WNIA's founding, argues that the WNIA provided opportunities for indigenous women, creates a new space in the public sphere for white women, and reveals the WNIA's role in broader national debates centered on Indian land rights and the political power of Christian reform.

Shook tells the story of resilience, nerve, and survival on the deadliest day on Everest.

In Chile Peppers: A Global History, Dave DeWitt, a world expert on chiles, travels from New Mexico across the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia chronicling the history, mystery, and mythology of chiles around the world and their abundant uses in seventy mouth-tingling recipes.

At the Precipice explores the question many of us have asked ourselves: What kind of world are we leaving to our children?

Manuel Peña chronicles his transformative journey from migrant worker to academia in twenty-six poignant life episodes.

Chapters covering fiction, drama, nonfiction, and literary criticism and scholarship offer readers a comprehensive guide to all forms of prose and their many sub-genres.

Filled with both common and rarely heard of forms and prosodies, Turco's engaging style and apt examples invite writers to try their hands at exploring forms in ways that challenge and enrich their work.

The Book of Dialogue is an invaluable resource for writers and students of narrative seeking to master the art of effective dialogue.

These stories by early Yellowstone Park visitors helped propel the popularity of this American wonderland.

In Grief Land Carrie Shipers explores the paradoxical nature of bereavement as both a universal human experience and an intensely personal one.