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At twenty-three years old, Dan Simmonds wants nothing more than time: time to listen to his favorite death metal bands, time to replay the video games of his childhood, time to study the dreamlike paintings of Hieronymus Bosch, time to watch all the classic action movies of the eighties and nineties. But as a recent college graduate with a liberal arts degree in one hand and a threat of eviction from his dad's house in the other, Dan has to fi...

To know the story of the life and times of Judge Gilbert Merritt is to understand modern U.S. politics of the mid to late 20th century-how it came to be, and how it worked-particularly in the American South. Judge Gilbert Merritt and his circle of young lawyers and journalists in Nashville were among the South's earliest Kennedy Democrats in the late 1950s. Their brash political strivings, though not always victorious at the polls, affected th...

The 14th Ward of Wire City has become a mecca of sin and excess ever since a depression virus tore its way through the denizens of the slumsphere. Only one man, Lester Proctor--having buried his family who succumbed to the disease--is determined to find the mythic 'Cure' and restore some semblance of order to his city. On the way, he'll encounter androids in search of forbidden love, stalkers, pimps, teeth salesmen, evil dwarves, slumlords, kn...

Linked stories trace the vocational and emotional bargains made by workers at a Colorado sausage factory. It's almost a decade after the Great Recession, and in Colorado, St. Anthony Sausage has not recovered. Neither have its employees: a laid-off railway engineer, an exiled computer whiz, a young woman estranged from her infant daughter, an older man with cancer who lacks health care. As these low-wage workers interact under the supervision ...

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One of the first new interpretations of West Virginia's origins in over a century--and one that corrects previous histories' tendency to minimize support for slavery in the state's founding. Every history of West Virginia's creation in 1863 explains the event in similar ways: at the start of the Civil War, political, social, cultural, and economic differences with eastern Virginia motivated the northwestern counties to resist secession from th...

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A collection of evidence-based insights and intersectional teaching strategies to inspire transformative student learning and interrupt stereotypes about what a professor looks like. Picture a Professor is a collection of evidence-based insights and intersectional teaching strategies crafted by and for college instructors. It aims to inspire transformative student learning while challenging stereotypes about what a professor looks like. Repres...

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How Hawai¿i became the epicenter of the biotech seed industry, and how a resistance movement arose to confront the industry's power. Hawai¿i is a primary site for development of herbicide-resistant corn seed and, until recently, was host to more experimental field trials of genetically engineered crops than anywhere else in the world. It is also a node of powerful resistance. While documentaries and popular news stories have profiled the biote...

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Martina's past and her depressions have come back to haunt her, even though she should be content to see her time-traveling daughter, Celestia, married to Laken Meta, a Time Portal Guardian. Instead she flees to The System, putting herself and all her family in jeopardy.Will they be able to get Martina back, despite the dangers they all face? Will Dain and his younger brother, Evin, two teens from present day Earth, be able to help-with their ...

An environmental humanist's study of extractive capitalism and colonial occupation in Indian fiction.Rogues in the Postcolony is a study of Anglophone Indian picaresque novels that dramatize the impacts of extractive capitalism and colonial occupation on local communities in several Indian states. In this materialist history of development on the subcontinent, Stacey Balkan considers works by Amitav Ghosh, Indra Sinha, and Aravind Adiga that c...

Commands your attention from the first page to the last word." --Morgan Jerkins When Neema Avashia tells people where she's from, their response is nearly always a disbelieving "There are Indian people in West Virginia?" A queer Asian American teacher and writer, Avashia fits few Appalachian stereotypes. But the lessons she learned in childhood about race and class, gender and sexuality continue to inform the way she moves through the world to...

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