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Book features Don Barclay's caricatures


Don Barclay’s Caricatures
Joe Kullman

Caricaturist, cartoonist, animator and actor Don Barclay was among the creative types who gravitated to the emerging arts community in Scottsdale ...


Cover of Veer Ecology edited by Cohen and Duckert


Veer Ecology
A Companion for Environmental Thinking
Edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Lowell Duckert

The words most commonly associated with the environmental movement — save, recycle, reuse, protect, regulate, restore — describe what we can do to ...


Hegemonies of Language book cover image


Hegemonies of Language and Their Discontents
The Southwest North American Region Since 1540
Carlos Velez-Ibanez

Spanish and English have fought a centuries-long battle for linguistic dominance in the southwest North American region. Covering the time ...




Republican Character
From Nixon to Reagan
Donald T. Critchlow

"Politics makes for strange bedfellows," the old saying goes. Americans, however, often forget the obvious lesson underlying this adage: ...


Cover of Winged by Sarah Grieve


Winged
Poems
Sarah Grieve

"The first poem in 'Winged' takes you from a dive hotel near LAX to anywhere you want to go with stops for meditations on language and ...


Cover of Selected Proverbs by Michael Brooks Cryer


Selected Proverbs
Poems
Michael Brooks Cryer

"Selected Proverbs" was the winner of the Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award in 2016. Contest judge Seth Brady Tucker had this to say about it: " ...


Cover of Analyzing Syntax through Texts by Elly van Gelderen


Analyzing Syntax through Texts
Old, Middle, and Early Modern English
Elly van Gelderen

To describe a language, it is necessary to get as close to the sources as possible. This textbook takes manuscript images, explains the various ...


Cover of Quo Vadis, Baby? translated by Taylor Corse and Juliann Vitullo


Quo Vadis, Baby?
Grazia Verasani
Translated by Taylor Corse, Juliann Vitullo

At first glance, Private Detective Giorgia Cantini is not a pretty sight as she sits at a bar, downing her fourth cocktail of the night, feeling ...

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