Voices and Visions
Essays on New Orleans's Literary History
An insightful survey tracing the influence of New Orleans writers, past and present, on the literary canon
Unpalatable
Stories of Pain and Pleasure in Southern Cookbooks
An examination of how narratives of suffering balance the conventions of joy and success in the southern cookbook tradition
Reading LGBTQ+ Children's Picture Books
An engaging collection of original scholarship on LGBTQ+ children’s picture books
Radical Advocate
Ida B. Wells and the Road to Race and Gender Justice
On the Very Edge
Bidentities in Michelle Cliff’s Fiction
The first book-length study of Michelle Cliff’s entire literary corpus
Intersecting Worlds
Colonial Liminality in US Southern and Icelandic Literatures
An innovative global resituating of two literatures that intersect in revealing ways
Comics Art in Korea
The definitive volume on the rich and dynamic field of Korean comics
Urban Bikeway Design Guide, Third Edition
—Gabe Klein, former Chicago Transportation Commissioner
The completely revised and updated third edition of the NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide sets a new standard for street design in North America. Developed for cities, by cities, the new guide is more than a permission slip for better street design—it's a prescription for safe, connected, equitable bike networks. It captures lessons learned and emerging practices to set a new bar for the design of city streets. Every transportation professional, from design to maintenance and from field staff to executives, needs a copy for their daily work.
The Dressing Room
Backstage Lives and American Film
A recurrent and popular setting in American cinema, the dressing room has captured the imagination of audiences for over a century. In the only book-length study of the space, Desirée J. Garcia explores how dressing rooms are dynamic realms in which a diverse cast of performers are made and exposed.
The Archaeology of Early Colonial Manila
A Hybrid City in Global History
This book uses archaeological, historical, and ethnographic resources to document the ways Manila was transformed by the arrival of Spanish colonists in 1571 and how the city in turn shaped the modern world.
Supervillains
The Significance of Evil in Superhero Comics
