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Focusing on creative responses to intensifying water crises in the United States, Hydronarratives explores how narrative and storytelling support environmental justice advocacy in Black, Indigenous, and low-income communities.

Taking the Field draws on the experiences of U.S. soldiers to examine interconnected ideas about nature and empire during the Progressive Era.

Geoffrey Kimball presents the first grammar of the American Indian language Atakapa, Yukhiti Koy, once spoken in coastal southwestern Louisiana and coastal eastern Texas.

Shape Shifters presents a wide-ranging array of essays that examine peoples of mixed racial identity across a broad swath of space and time to understand the fluid nature of racial identities.

Restoring Nature examines how the National Park Service has sought to reestablish native species and eradicate the exotic flora and fauna from Channel Islands National Park, and explores why the damage happened in the first place.

The poems of Might Kindred wonder: “can a people belong to a dreaming machine?” Conjuring mountains and bodies of water, queer and immigrant poetics, beloveds both human and animal, Mónica Gomery explores the intimately personal and the possibility of a collective voice.

In this new edition James A. Pritchard has added a summary of recent developments in wildlife science and management and discusses historical continuities in the role of Yellowstone Park as a wildlife refuge and conservator.

By synthesizing scholarly work at the intersection of political ecology, digital geography, and science and technology studies, The Nature of Data analyzes how new digital technologies affect environments and their control.

This sixteenth installment in the complete collection of Henry James's letters records James's ongoing efforts to care for his sister, develop his work, strengthen his professional status, build friendships, engage timely political and economic issues, and maximize his income.

Living Room imagines the lived reality of other organisms and kinds of life to explore the permeability of human and nonhuman experience, intelligence, language, and subjectivity, and to consider an experience of self and world that cannot be objectively quantified.

French St. Louis places St. Louis, Missouri, in a broad colonial context, shedding light on its francophone history.

Deputy US Marshal Bass Reeves was also an African American who had spent his early life as a slave in Arkansas and Texas. This biography traces Reeves from his days of slavery to his soldiering in the Civil War battles of the Trans-Mississippi Theater to his career as a deputy US marshal out of Fort Smith, Arkansas.

The stories in Vanished involve women and girls dealing with something or someone who has vanished—a person close to them, a friendship, a relationship—as they seek to make sense of the world around them in the wake of what’s been lost.

Following in the footsteps of an imagined ancestor, one of the daughters of the house of Akhenaten in the Eighteenth Dynasty, Egypt, Sherry Shenoda forges an imagined path through her ancestor’s mummification and journey to the afterlife.

Playing like a lively mixtape in both subject and style, If This Were Fiction takes on gender-based violence, trauma, recovery, and motherhood, focusing an open-hearted, frequently funny, clear-eyed feminist lens on Jill Christman’s first fifty years.

Elizabeth Cooperman celebrates artists who have struggled with debilitating self-doubt and uncertainty, while she reflects on her own life, grappling with questions of creativity, womanhood, and motherhood.

Voice First offers writers and teachers of writing an opportunity not only to engage their voices but to understand and experience how developing their range of voices strengthens their writing.

The poems in Cotton Candy were written during Ted Kooser’s daily writing routine of getting up long before dawn and snatching out of the air whatever comes to him in words, rhythms, and cadences.

A combination of travelogue, history, and storytelling, this is the story of David Haward Bain's family's travels from their home in Vermont to the West in search of America's past.