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Collects many of the most important recent essays on the history of scent, aromas, perfumes, and ways of smelling. With an introduction by Mark Smith, this volume introduces to students and to historians of all fields the richness, relevance, and insightfulness of the olfactory to historical study.

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Darrick MacBrehon, a government auditor, wakes among the dead. Bloodied and disoriented from a gaping head wound, the man who staggers out of the mine crack in Redbird, West Virginia, is much more powerful - and dangerous - than the one thrown in. An orphan with an unknown past, he must now figure out how to have a future.

Brings together key essays by Imre Szeman, a leading scholar in the field of energy humanities and a critical voice in debates about globalization and neoliberalism. Szeman's most important and influential essays, in dialog with exciting new pieces written for the book, investigate ever-evolving circuits of power in the contemporary world.

Explores the bureaucratic roots of genocide, building on insight from Hannah Arendt and others to better understand the Khmer Rouge and its implications for the broader study of life, death, and power James Tyner analyses thousands of Cambodian documents both as sources of information and as objects worthy of study in and of themselves.

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Includes resources for readers who want to become Universal Design for Learning (UDL) experts and advocates: case studies, active-learning techniques, UDL coaching skills, micro- and macro-level UDL-adoption guidance, and use-them-now resources. It is is aimed at faculty members, faculty-service staff, disability support providers, student-service staff, campus leaders, and graduate students.

The residents of The Sound of Holding Your Breath could be neighbours, sharing the same familiar landscapes of twenty-first-century Appalachia. They could be your neighbours - average, workaday, each struggling with secrets and losses. Yet tragedy and violence challenge these unassuming lives.

First published in 1973, this debut novel is the deeply moving coming-of-age story of Speer Whitfield, whose recollection of his upbringing and his large, remarkable, and often peculiar family evokes the forces that set the path for a boy￿s growth into manhood in 1940s Appalachia.

This gonzo-style metamemoir follows Chuck Kinder on a wild tour of the back roads of his home state of West Virginia, where he encounters Mountain State legends like Sid Hatfield, Dagmar, Robert C. Byrd, the Mothman, Chuck Yeager, Soupy Sales, Don Knotts, and Jesco White, the "Dancing Outlaw”.

Enables faculty to create and implement effective assessment methodologies - research based and field tested - in traditional and online classrooms. In doing so, the book reveals how the daunting challenges of grading in the arts can be turned into opportunities for deeper student learning, increased student engagement, and an enlivened pedagogy.

In exploring the ways that Appalachian people speak and write, Amanda E. Hayes raises the importance of knowing and respecting communication styles within a marginalized culture. Diving deep into the region's historical roots - especially those of the Scotch-Irish and their influence on her own Appalachian Ohio - Hayes reveals a rhetoric with its own unique logic, utility, and poetry.

A geographer who has contributed to this literature with several highly regarded books, James A. Tyner in this book turns to the bureaucratic roots of genocide, building on insight from Hannah Arendt, Zygmunt Bauman, and others to better understand the Khmer Rouge and its implications for the broader study of life, death, and power.

In 1986 Lon Savage published Thunder in the Mountains, a popular history now considered a classic. When Savage passed away, he left behind an incomplete book manuscript about a lesser-known Mother Jones crusade in Kanawha County. His daughter Ginny drew on his notes and files, and her own research, to complete this book-length account of the Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Strike of 1912-13.

Tells the story of oilman Ralph Bramel Lloyd, a small business owner who drove the development of one of America's largest oil fields. Putting the history of extractive industry in dialogue with the history of urban development, Michael R. Adamson shows how energy is woven into the fabric of modern life, and how the "energy capital” of Los Angeles exerted far-flung influence in the US West.

The first book dedicated to telling the stories of West Virginia's extensive community of songwriters. Based on oral histories conducted by Stimeling and told largely in the songwriters' own words, these profiles offer a lively overview of the personalities, venues, and networks that nurture and sustain popular music in West Virginia.

In the late 1970s, a Jeff Koons art exhibit featured mounted vacuum cleaners lit by fluorescent tube lighting and identified by their product names: New Hoover Quik Broom, New Hoover Celebrity IV. Raymond Carver published short stories such as "Are These Actual Miles?" that cataloged the furniture, portable air conditioners, and children's bicycles in a family home. Some years later the garbage barge Mobro 4000 turned into an international sca...

Offers a broad study of the literature and culture of the "long 1980s". The Argument about Things in the 1980s contributes to of-the-moment scholarly debate about material culture, high finance, and ecological degradation, shedding new light on the complex relationship between neoliberalism and cultural life.