Winner of the 2024 Best Book Award from the Council of Writing Program AdministratorsAn expansive look at the discipline of writing studies, with a focus on serving and supporting first-year writing students and instructors at open access institutions.There is a huge gap between perceptions of the field of writing studies and the material realities of those who teach in it. Materiality and Writing Studies: Aligning Labor, Scholarship, a...

The amazing chronicle of a primate scientist's fifty-year journey studying baboons—and what her findings can tell us about primates, resilience, and human coexistence.In 1972, renowned anthropologist Shirley C. Strum traveled to Kenya to study the origins of human aggression through observing baboons. What Dr. Strum discovered completely defied her expectations, scientific notions about baboons, and even well-established assumptions about primate behavior writ larg...

In the summer of 1997, Charles Moore set sail from Honolulu with the sole intention of returning home after competing in a trans-Pacific race. To get to California, he and his crew took a shortcut through the seldom-traversed North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, a vast "oceanic desert" where winds are slack and sailing ships languish. There, Moore realized his catamaran was surrounded by a "plastic soup." He had stumbled upon the largest garbage dump on the planet—a spiral nebula where plastic ...

Reaching All Writers brings together decades of writing studies experience, research, and scholarship to help organize first-year writing courses around inclusive teaching practices and foundational concepts that support disciplinary learning for all college writers, including students who have been excluded from more selective higher-education institutions.Using threshold concepts and transfer as a foundation, the authors provide an invaluable resource for multiple contex...

"What is REAL?" asks the little Rabbit. "It's a thing that happens when a child loves you for a long, long time," answers the Hand-Carved Horse.First published in 1922, Margery Williams' timeless tale of a toy who becomes Real through love has comforted and enchanted generations. This beautifully crafted edition preserves the original heart of the story while gently updating the text for today's readers. It also features all-new artwork by award-winning artist Phillip Bates, whose ...

The Healthy Diet Book covers dieting foods recipes, comfort food recipes, and the blood type diet. All of the recipes follow healthy diet plans which include ingredients that are made from healthy diet foods. You will enjoy good dieting tips along with the healthy diet recipes and even recipes from the comfort food diet.

One body. Five suspects. Total darkness.A tense, claustrophobic historical mystery set almost entirely underground at the onset of the Great Depression about the discovery of a 150-foot waterfall in the middle of a mountain, the unthinkable crime that happens in its caves, and a woman who’s never felt more alive.In 1928, a Chattanooga man disappears down a hole in the ground and discovers a 150-foot waterfall in the middle of a mou...

A delightful collection of cozy fantasy stories set in the coziest of worlds!Grab your picnic basket and favorite cold beverage because the latest offering from the Cozy Vales scribes has hours of summer reading waiting for you!This anthology features stories set during Summer's Tide, a two-week holiday celebrating life, love, and nature. Summer's Tide culminates with High Summer, where residents enjoy a day of festival frivolity and an all-night celebratio...

Experience the amazing benefits of the Mediterranean Diet in just one month. The Mediterranean Diet is certified as one of the healthiest diets by trusted organizations from the American Heart Association to the Mayo Clinic. With a focus on flavorful produce, healthy fats, whole grains, and wholesome natural foods, the Mediterranean Diet is a lifestyle change that is so enjoyable it won't feel like a diet. The Mediterranean Diet for Every Day will guide you through the first month of a suc...

Need some motivation for the popular 17 Day Diet? Or any diet? The Tasty Companion provides more recipes than you will need to cover the first 17-day Cycle 1 without boredom and with loads of taste while at the same time keeping your food low-fat, low-carb, low-calorie and high nutrition. You will even find Vegetarian and Vegan options, as well as advice on accomodating the nutritional needs of your children without having to cook separate meals.The Companion also includes a guide ...

Now you can whip up quick, filling vegan meals straight from your slow cooker. Vegan Slow Cooker for Beginners will take the time and frustration out of cooking vegan at home. Vegan Slow Cooker for Beginners offers healthy, simple vegan slow cooker recipes designed perfectly for the busy vegan. Vegan Slow Cooker shows you how to use your slow cooker to make hearty vegan meals and save hours of time every day. With 150 easy and delicious vegan slow cooker recipes, Vegan Slow Cooker for Begi...

A family-friendly collection of simple paleo recipes that emphasize protein and produce, from breakfasts to entrees to treats, from the popular gluten-free blogger of Elana's Pantry.Whether you are looking to eliminate gluten, dairy, grains, or processed foods from your diet, Paleo cooking is the perfect solution for food allergy relief and better all-around health. Naturally based on the foods our Paleolithic ancestors ate for generations, the Paleo diet ...