This collection reveals how the fields of dance and science informed each other’s development and engaged with dominant European worldviews during a time of unprecedented colonial expansion.

In this memoir, Dedé Mirabal offers an intimate account of the lives and legacy of her sisters Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa Mirabal, Dominican revolutionaries who were assassinated in 1960 by order of dictator Rafael Trujillo. This is the first English translation of Dedé’s story, introducing new readers to a tragedy and international outcry that heralded the fall of the Trujillo dictatorship.

A business and leadership guide for neurodivergent leaders, and leaders of the future, with insight into finding your own leadership style, the unwritten rules of management, well being and self care, and holding open the door for others.

A shame-free, illustrated sex-ed guide for adults and young adults, that embraces queer, gender diverse and neurodiverse experiences, written by a qualified RSHE educator.

The junctions between play and ritual are many and complex. Play is for fun and joy, but it also demands a total commitment and serious respect for rules. Rituals involve nearly endless varieties of social arrangements and can truly transform people, but they also include improvisation, testing, and pretending.
 
 

Nahua Horizons: Writing, Persuasion, and Futurities in Colonial Mexico challenges the notion that the Spanish erased Nahua culture. Ezekiel Stear’s bold new approach sheds light on ways in which Nahua people forged paths ahead in times of uncertainty and sweeping change.

Approaching James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake with attention to the theme of guilt, Talia Abu presents a clear and thorough interpretation of the work that shows the importance of the theme to Joyce’s craft.

A thoughtful look at how mainland US observers perceive and portray Puerto Rico

In Unfinished Business, Charles Bazerman considers long-standing puzzles in writing studies, from the most fundamental ideas about humans as writers and writing as constituting modern society to the most practical issues of curriculum and teaching. 

The untold history of a small town where a stand for civil rights had lasting, wide impacts

Tender Labour investigates the paid and unpaid labour that young migrants from the Philippines engage in to hold their families together and build a better life.

The first full-length biography of a trailblazing DC attorney and judge

Reflection-in-Motion considers how reflective practice is embedded in daily course happenings, centering the experiences of students and teachers in Minority Serving Institutions to amplify
underrepresented viewpoints about how reflection works in the writing classroom. 

A study of the call narrative storytelling tradition centered on four influential Black leaders

Alaska preserves and exhibits its own culture and history in the Andrew P. Kashevaroff Building in Juneau, the home of the State Library, Archives, and Museum. With this catalogue and guide, the meaning of the museum exhibits gains new depth. 

An extensive deep-dive omnibus from one of cinema’s most indefatigably ardent auteurs

The contributors to Learning from the Mess: Method/ological Praxis in Rhetoric and Writing Studies argue that there’s much to be learned from the messiness of research contexts.

Human Dispersal, Human Evolution, and the Sea is the first book-length treatment of what has become known as the global Palaeolithic seafaring debate. 

The first complete account of all the music, song, and dance in the WPA ex-slave narratives

A powerful, intimate portrait that weaves history across five generations of an American family

Almost fifty years of interviews chronicling the Nebraska writer’s rise from a regional poet of the Great Plains to a Pulitzer Prize–winning artistic luminary

The first full-length volume to showcase the critical corpus of an eminent scholar of Black literature

A scholarly revelation of the Latinidades characters and works that have crossed multiple borders

A thorough study of the many links between the Golden Age of children’s literature and a global storytelling powerhouse

Explores the untold impacts of colonialism in New England through diverse colonist lives, Indigenous encounters, and environmental legacies

A comprehensive historical account of race and healthcare in the segregated South

Investigates the interdisciplinary dimensions of countermemory through a rhetorical lens

A unique collection of Fitzgerald family photographs, many never before published, hand selected by a curator of the Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum

Illuminates how algorithms, intertwined with human biases, damage political discourse and civic engagement