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Focusing on the intimate relations that develop between plants and humans in the northern rural region of El Salvador, this book explores the ways in which more-than-human intimacies travel away from and return to the milpa through human networks. The chapters present innovative methodological and conceptual contributions to the study of relationships that form between plants and people.
"This book follows a two-decade journey in urban conservation gardening on a four-acre irrigated parcel in Phoenix, Arizona, from the perspective of a retired botanist and her partner. Through a playful use of language and humor, the book not only introduces the plants who are feeding them, buffering the climate, and elevating their moods but also presents the animals and fungi who are pollinating the plants and recycling the waste. This work shows all of us the importance of observing, appreciating, and learning from one's surrounding ecosystem"--
"When Language Broke Open is a collection of writing by Black queer and trans writers of Latin American descent who help us see Blackness as a geopolitical experience that is always changing. In centering the multifaceted realities of the LGBTQ community, the anthology's trans contributors challenge everything we think we know about gender, sexuality, and what it means to live a livable life"--
"Humans have always been fascinated with the possibility of extraterrestrial life, often wondering if we are alone in the universe. Drawing on the author's 50 years in the field, this book looks at the subject of extraterrestrial life, separating knowledge from conjecture, fact from fiction, to draw scientific and technical conclusions that answer that enduring question and examine the possibility of remotely exploring life on other worlds"--
"This multiple viewpoint novel, set in El Paso, Texas, is a story of two families-one Mexican-American, one Anglo-who find themselves unexpectedly entangled with one another when each of their households separately implode. When the Mexican maid working in both houses begins to suspect that all is not what it seems, she is implicated in the unfolding of a web of mysteries, history, and border politics that forces all concerned to question their own pasts, their understanding of family, and their relationships to a place on the map that is never as clear-cut as it seems"--
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