Life in the Middle Ages can be tough. Nasty, brutish, and short, as they say. War, famine, torture. Plague and intolerance. People getting burned at the stake and all that. And nobody speaks English.All of which sucks if you're from the 21st Century.Martin's just a regular guy. A job that's going—well, not exactly nowhere, but not anyplace fast. A condo in the DC suburbs. A Ford Fusion. A couple of beers on a Friday night. But when Martin finds himself in the 12th Century—n...

The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of long-standing human perceptions of plants as lacking autonomy, agency, consciousness, and, intelligence.The leading metaphor of the book—“the green thread”, echoing poet Dylan Thomas’ phrase “the green fuse”—carries multiple meanings. On a ...

In the dark days of World War II, a special unit was commissioned made up of the toughest and bravest volunteers the Army had to offer, the unit had only one purpose—to hit first, hit hard, and kill without hesitation. In this, their first mission, they are sent on a mission to North Africa.

The old U.S.S.R. is dead—but new evil has risen from its ashes, calling itself Phoenix Group. Led by a brilliant and obsessed rogue officer, manned by the most dedicated, deadly soldiers of the once all-powerful Soviet secret army.Their plan is to launch a biological weapon attack that will throw the fragile new world order into chaos. Their launching pad: a remote state on the northern frontier of India ruled by a power-hungry warlord. And the only people who could stop them: mari...

Posthuman Southeast Asia: Ecocritical Entanglements Across Species Boundaries explores the posthuman in Southeast Asia from various ecocritical perspectives and encourages further and deeper entanglements between ecocritics and the bountiful, but also threatened, multispecies ecologies of this region. Southeast Asia is an area where humans and nonhumans have always been deeply entangled, from the indigenous and ancient traditions of animism to the variegated and blooming creativit...

In the dark days of WWII, a special unit was commissioned by Lieutenant James Dunmore, an intelligence officer on General George Patton's staff. Made up of tough volunteers, the unit had only one purpose—to hit first, his hard, and kill without hesitation. This band of elite warriors would become known as the Mohawkers—and the last thing the enemy would see would be Recon Force Thunderbolt.Two days before the allied invasions of Sicily, Lt. John "Red" Parnell and this Blue Team are...

Staying Together: Natureculture in a Changing World is about staying together, living together, and the dynamics and poetics of togetherness. It demonstrates, through a strong investment in nature studies, nonhuman studies, and nature culture and cohabitative readings, a commitment to interconnectedness. The contributors speak of co-habitation, a kind of co-presence that happens for the good of all and has been happening before we realized its prevalence. They argue co-beingness i...

As war rages in the Pacific, a daring plan is set in motion: the rescue of Allied POWs being used as slave laborers on the main Philippine island of Luzon. Lt. John "Red" Parnell and his elite Blue Team commandos, having proven their fighting worth in every theater of the war, are chosen for this dangerous task.But Fate constantly places a vicious Japanese Marine officer on their trail as they battle through the green hell of the Philippine jungle to carry out their mission. And th...

This book offers interdisciplinary perspectives on nationalism in India and examines the ways in which literary-textual representations intervene in debates regarding Hindu, Muslim and other forms of Indian nationalism.The book interrogates questions of nationalism and nationhood in relation to literary and cultural texts, historic-linguistic contexts and new developments in queer nationalism and ecological nationalism. It adopts a nation-wide emphasis, including chapters on Northe...

Southeast Asian Ecocriticism presents a timely exploration of the rapidly expanding field of ecocriticism through its devotion to the writers, creators, theorists, traditions, concerns, and landscapes of Southeast Asian countries. While ecocritics have begun to turn their attention to East and South Asian contexts and, particularly, to Chinese and Indian cultural productions, less emphasis has been placed on the diverse environmental traditions of Southeast Asia. Building on recent scholar...

How do poets, writers and cultural critics contend with and represent the garden or their own gardening as they are changed by austerity? Gardening under austerity encompasses a diversity of places, spaces, practices, and actors: suburban allotments and zoological gardens, Victory diggers and urban foragers, human gardeners and the unruly more-than-human world. Theorizing the politics, poetics and practices of austerity gardening in twentieth and twenty-first century Anglophone cultural te...

Among the most productive ecosystems on earth, wetlands are also some of the most vulnerable. Australian Wetland Cultures argues for the cultural value of wetlands. Through a focus on swamps and their conservation, the volume makes a unique contribution to the growing interdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities.The authors investigate the crucial role of swamps in Australian society through the idea of wetland cultures. The broad historical and cultural range of the boo...