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The West Virginia University Mountaineer is not just a mascot: it is a symbol of West Virginia history and identity embraced throughout the state. In this deeply informed but accessible study, folklorist Rosemary Hathaway explores the figure's early history as a backwoods trickster, its deployment in emerging mass media, and finally its long and sometimes conflicted career--beginning officially in 1937--as the symbol of West Virginia Universit...

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MK and Colleen get reacquainted while working at different stores in a bankrupt mall. Way back, the women went to Catholic school together and collaborated on racy letters to a soldier in Vietnam who thought they were much older than seventh graders--a ruse that typifies later shenanigans, usually brought on by red-headed Colleen, a self-proclaimed "Celtic warrior."After ditching Colleen's car to collect the insurance, they drive from one unex...

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Annemarie Parker has traveled far in space and time to find her unknown father. Now she wonders what to make of him, and where to take her life next. She desperately wants to find this Fountain in the Desert that her mother talks of. But when GAP-crosser Celestia tries to take her and her parents there, something goes terribly wrong."...Narnia's love child meets Doctor Who..." -The Cat That Reads "...a page turner!" -Judith Seidel"I remember f...

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Thirty Years Later...Ginna and Danny have been back from their time travels with Jon, Jael, and Martina for almost thirty years. Danny has settled into a normal twenty-first century life. But for Ginna, nothing has been 'normal' since her return -- for she discovered she was pregnant, with no idea who could be the father of her child. Then Celestia, daughter of Jon and Martina, appears from the GAP, to take Ginna, and her daughter, Annemarie, ...

Thirty Years Later...Ginna and Danny have been back from their time travels with Jon, Jael, and Martina for almost thirty years. Danny has settled into a normal twenty-first century life. But for Ginna, nothing has been 'normal' since her return - for she discovered she was pregnant, with no idea who could be the father of her child. Then Celestia, daughter of Jon and Martina, appears from the GAP, to take Ginna, and her daughter, Annemarie, t...

Jon, Jael, and Martina have finally found Maia, or Mother Earth. In their travels, they've been told they must search for a fountain on Earth that can wash them clean in both body and soul. But no one seems to know where this fountain is, though many cities claim that their fountain is the 'true one.' This is only one of the challenges they face, as they try to make a home for themselves in this strange, new place. Will Jon and Martina be able...

On the distant planet of Terres, far in the future, a young boy-Jael-finds his family being torn apart by dark forces of the Galactic System. Raised by his mother, and older siblings--who believe in a distant ruler called the True King-he soon finds himself alone in a world that is falling apart. Now he must put his trust in a stranger named Jon, who claims he has the ability to cut across space and time-by Crossing the GAP. Jael convinces Jon...

Jon, Jael, and Martina have finally found Maia, or Mother Earth. In their travels, they've been told they must search for a fountain on Earth that can wash them clean in both body and soul. But no one seems to know where this fountain is, though many cities claim that their fountain is the 'true one.' This is only one of the challenges they face, as they try to make a home for themselves in this strange, new place. Will Jon and Martina be able...

Argues that you can be honest and unflinching in your teaching about racism while also providing a compassionate learning environment that allows for mistakes. Cyndi Kernahan provides evidence for how learning works with respect to race and racism along with practical teaching strategies to help instructors feel more confident.

Argues that you can be honest and unflinching in your teaching about racism while also providing a compassionate learning environment. Cyndi Kernahan provides evidence for how learning works with respect to race and racism along with practical teaching strategies rooted in that evidence to help instructors feel more confident.

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Traces the recent history of geography, information, and technology through the biography of Edward A. Ackerman, an important figure in geography's "quantitative revolution". The book argues that Ackerman's work helped encode the hidden logics of a distorted philosophical heritage into the network architectures of surveillance capitalism.

A funny, evidence-based, pragmatic, readable guide to the process of learning and relearning how to be an effective college teacher. This is the first college teaching guide that encourages faculty to embrace their inner nerd, inviting readers to view themselves in light of contemporary discourse that celebrates increasingly diverse geek culture.

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Focuses on the slavery writings of three of Brazil's literary giants - Machado de Assis, Castro Alves, and Euclides da Cunha. Wood finds that all three writers responded to the memory of slavery in ways that departed from their counterparts in Europe and North America, where emancipation has typically been depicted as a moment of closure.

In this often-surprising book of essays, Krista Eastman explores the myths we make about who we are and where we are from. The Painted Forest upends easy narratives of place, embracing tentativeness and erasing boundaries.