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

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 Sound of Mormonism is an annotated and expanded version of the 2023 lecture “Music & the Unspoken Truth”—an homage to the Music and the Spoken Word radio program and a meditation on the relationships between religion, music, vocality, and quietude.
 

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

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

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.

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

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

Unearthing Forgotten Values offers a practical corrective that restores human values to commercial archaeology by putting Indigenous communities first.