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Cover of "The Language of Humor" featuring an illustration of a cityscape


The Language of Humor
An Introduction
Alleen Pace Nilsen

Much of today's communication is carried out through various kinds of humor, and we therefore need to be able to understand its many aspects. Here ...


Cover of "Oil and Urbanization on the Pacific Coast" featuring a bird's eye view of a city


Oil and Urbanization on the Pacific Coast
Ralph Bramel Lloyd and the Shaping of the Urban West
Michael R. Adamson

"Oil and Urbanization on the Pacific Coast: Ralph Bramel Lloyd and the Shaping of the Urban West" tells the story of oilman Ralph Bramel ...


Valley of the Guns


Valley of the Guns
The Pleasant Valley War and the Trauma of Violence

In the late 1880s, Pleasant Valley, Arizona, descended into a nightmare of violence, murder, and mayhem. By the time the Pleasant Valley War was ...


Cover of "A Responsive Rhetorical Art" by Elenore Long featuring a woman speaking


A Responsive Rhetorical Art
Artistic Methods for Contemporary Public Life
Elenore Long

"A Responsive Rhetorical Art" explores the risk-ridden realm of wise if always also fallible rhetorical action — the productive knowledge-building ...


Cover of Traditional Ecological Knowledge edited by Nelson and Shilling with fish and animal design


Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability
Joan McGregor
Edited by Melissa K. Nelson, Dan Shilling

This book examines the importance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and how it can provide models for a time-tested form of sustainability ...


Cover of Second Civil War by Austin Davis
Illustrated by: Anne Segal


Second Civil War
Austin Davis

In "Second Civil War," Austin Davis issues a call to action for this generation. Composed of poems on gun violence, racism, immigration and the ...


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Un matrimonio americano (Italian Edition)
Tayari Jones

(Italian edition of "An American Marriage.")

Roy e Celestial sono sposati da piú di un anno. Sono neri di Atalanta, convinti ...


Cover of Indigenous Rhetoric and Survival in the Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Lowry


Indigenous Rhetoric and Survival in the Nineteenth Century
A Yurok Woman Speaks Out
Elizabeth Schleber Lowry

In 1916, Lucy Thompson, an indigenous woman from Northwestern California, published "To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman." The ...

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