Reflections of a Western Rancher in the Era of Climate Change
Noted Montana rancher and world renowned agriculture expert Gilles Stockton's polemic confronts the divide between urban and rural America. In Feeding a Divided America, third-generation Montana rancher and international agriculture development specialist Gilles Stockton explores the causes of what he refers to as the "rural-urban divide" and ......
A tour de force work of fiction with interweaving themes of environmentalism, past trauma, and redemption. Here is a novel that explores the manner in which Clair and Mason take on guilt where none is warranted and its lasting impact on how they navigate their lives. Lynn Stegner's acclaimed novels and story collections have drawn comparisons to ......
A survey of classic literature from Chile born of the repressive Pinochet dictatorship in the seventies. Though the civil-rights abuses by the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile (1973-1990) were later recognized by reparations and truth commissions, the difficult emotions suffered by the victims and their families were often pushed into the ......
Resistance, Renewal, and the War Against the Dutch, 1580-1654
This book examines a crucial turning point in the colonial history of Brazil and especially the enduring consequences of local and trans-Atlantic resistance to Dutch colonialism. From a desert death march in North Africa to the war-torn beaches of Bahia, The Battle for Brazil: Resistance, Renewal, and the War Against the Dutch, 1580-1654 ......
Mexican Necropolitics, Animal Deaths, and Blood Sports, 1870-1920
A deep dive into the history of bullfighting, hunting, and animal control in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Mexico. In Perilous Beasts Stephen B. Neufeld explains how and why Mexicans accepted animal death as a part of daily human life. Whether with casual indifference or with roaring cheers, the death of animals became a feature ......
In conversation with collections like John Ashbery's Some Trees and Wallace Stevens's Harmonium, Punishment Bag is a daring poetry debut that carves its own unsettling territory. Jake Fournier's Punishment Bag asserts that poetry ought to exceed its author's intelligence. At once caustic and tender, this daring debut spans from dense, ......
Photography and the history of extraction combine as Marty Stupich's extraordinary images map the 600 year oppression of the lands and people from the Mexican Conquest to the Guggenheims, from deep inside present-day Mexico to southern Wyoming. For centuries the Spanish Empire's conscripted laborers extracted silver from hand-dug tunnels and ......
Scenic hikes and scrumptious dining are combined in this great guide to Arizona's best vistas and food! No matter where you are in Arizona, you're only minutes from an amazing hiking trail-and there's probably a locally owned eatery nearby if you know where to look. Roger Naylor, "the dean of Arizona travel writers," knows where to look. ......
An Anthropologist's Field Guide to Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life
Are aliens even out there? If so, why do we assume we can imagine what they look like, or how they will relate humanity? Anthony Aveni provides us with a thoroughly entertaining analysis of our fasincation and speculation of what is out there. In this authoritative, accessible, and at times funny and irreverent work, distinguished ......
