A thorough study of the legendary producer and his creative business savvy

In Reconstructing Response to Student Writing Dan Melzer makes the argument that writing instructors should shift the construct so that peer response and student self-assessment are more central than teacher response.
 

Maya-British Conflict at the Edge of the Yucatecan Caste War interrogates the 1862 alliance forged between the San Pedro Maya and the British during the Caste War of Yucatán (1847–1901). 

TL;DR is a clear, accessible, and short guide to what students need to know about writing for university.

An examination of the art in superhero comics and how style influences comic narratives.

A heartrending and engrossing memoir that challenges narratives of racial progress and postracial America.
“Every so often, a book comes along that changes the way we see, speak, and think about the world. Shattered is one of those books.” —Frank B. Wilderson III, author of Afropessimism and Incognegro

Acclaimed author Erik Reece spends a year beside a rural Kentucky stream, in close observation of the natural world’s cycles, revelations, and redemptions.

A visual narrative of the Black emancipation experience, voiced through the sculptures of two nineteenth-century African American female artists

The first full-length biography of the children’s book author and creator of King Aroo

Interviews that capture the complexities and contradictions that have defined Carter’s life as a national public figure for the last fifty years—and that have helped to both reflect and shape the highest aspirations of the American experiment

This book, the world’s first complete (and stereoscopic) atlas of an asteroid, is the result of a unique collaboration between OSIRIS-REx mission leader Dante Lauretta and Brian May’s London Stereoscopic Company. Lauretta’s colleagues include Carina Bennett, Kenneth Coles, and Cat Wolner, as well as Brian May and Claudia Manzoni, who became part of the ultimately successful effort to find a safe landing site for sampling. The text details the data collected by the mission so far, and the stereo images have been meticulously created by Manzoni and May from original images collected by the OSIRIS-REx cameras.

The multiple vivid colors of scarlet macaws and their ability to mimic human speech are key reasons they were and are significant to the Native peoples of the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest. Although the birds’ natural habitat is the tropical forests of Mexico and Central and South America, they were present at multiple archaeological sites in the region yet absent at the vast majority. Leading experts in southwestern archaeology explore the reasons why.

In Telling Stories, more than a dozen longitudinal writing researchers look beyond conventional project findings to story their work and, in doing so, offer otherwise unavailable glimpses into the logics and logistics of long-range studies of writing. 

An accessible introduction to how yoga and meditation affect the brain. Each chapter will guide the reader through the latest yoga and meditation research and break down complex topics into easily digestible points. The book also explores the current limitations in studying these practices and offers tools for interpreting scientific literature.

First guide on aromanticism, the lesser-known cousin of asexuality.

A guide for acupuncturists to help them understand the issues faced by people living with and beyond cancer and equip them to support patients in their process of recovery, renewal and transformation to the “new normal' of life after cancer treatment.

The biography of a poet seminal to postwar American poetry

 

A close study of three of Soloveitchik’s most influential disciples in Jewish thought and philosophy
 

A close study of three of Soloveitchik’s most influential disciples in Jewish thought and philosophy
 

How science fiction films in the 1950s were marketed and helped create the broader genre itself.