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

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

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

In Trees Dream of Water Leo Romero offers up ancestral history and personal journeys through the landscapes of northern New Mexico. The poetry weaves together a lyrical exploration of identity, memory, and the natural world, inviting readers on a captivating journey of self-discovery that spans Romero’s career.

This book uncovers and centers unexpected sites of Black Power activism within the Black freedom struggle. In essays interspersed with oral history interviews, leading scholars look at how we study the past and suggest new ways historians can recognize Black Power and Black radicalism in the future.

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 guide to self-discovery for late discovered autistic women, written by Catherine Asta, an autistic psychotherapist and host of the hit podcast, “The Late Discovered Club'. Chapters include advice on masking, mental health, meltdowns and menopause, with practical tips on coping mechanisms and a hugely wide range of lived experience testimony.

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

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.

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.
 
 

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

The Thin Edge of Innovation charts the origins, potential, and pitfalls of Metro Vancouver’s entrepreneur-led innovation economy, including the tremendous growth of high-tech, apparel, and consumer-oriented life-style businesses in the city.

Innovative poetry, philosophy, theology and new sciences converge in the project of rewriting the word “God”

When teachers with antiracist goals invite students to share in assessment practices, they open up possibilities to reflect on their own and their students’ politics and subjectivities. The contributors to Narratives of Joy and Failure in Antiracist Assessment share their reflections on their efforts to engage in this collaboration.

Caribbean Inhospitality juxtaposes the Caribbean’s reputation for being hospitable to foreigners with the alienation of the Caribbean citizen-subject from nations they call home. Reading literary, cinematic, and digital texts, Natalie Lauren Belisle demonstrates that this inhospitality is institutionalized through the aesthetic, reproducing itself in the laws that condition belonging and membership in the Caribbean nation-state. 

Beyond Cortés and Montezuma examines both European and Nahuatl texts and images that shed light on the complex narrative of contact and the ensuing conflict, negotiation, and cooperation that continued well after the colonial period.
 

Ballots and Brawls, the first book dedicated solely to Canada’s inaugural election in 1867, is an engaging look at the main players, regional concerns, and nationalistic ideals that characterized the country’s beginnings.

In this book, Meredith Reifschneider synthesizes archaeological research on healthcare and medicine to show how practices in the United States have evolved since the nineteenth century, demonstrating that historical archaeology can provide important insights into healthcare and modes of self-care in the past.

In this book, researchers use human skeletal remains uncovered from throughout the Roman world to portray how ordinary people lived and died, spanning the empire’s vast geography and 1,000 years of ancient history.