Catastrophic storms, searing heat waves, crumbling waterfronts, warming oceans, air-fouling forest fires and mass extinction have become facts of life. Under these conditions, it is difficult to imagine that the global industrial civilization will continue in its present form. This requires us to reconsider the subject of ecocomposition from a new perspective: “What does it mean to teach college writing in the face of this sobering reality?” The introduction reviews the history of ecocompo...

Archie O'Neill, A Birkenhead Boy, is based on a true story of a boy's lifelong journey -- from under the wheels of a tram to the front of the footlights -- and home again. It features some of the British music halls' biggest stars, events and theatres in the early 1910's and through the first World War. At its heart, however, is a family story about a man who, while deeply scarred as a child by abuse, poverty, and a life-changing accident, overcomes it all to become "the world's g...

Discover the inspiring story of Augustus Jackson, an African American entrepreneur who is known as "the father of ice cream," in this beautifully illustrated picture-book biography.Augustus Jackson was born in 1808 in Philadelphia. While most African Americans were enslaved at that time, in Pennsylvania, slavery was against the law. But while Augustus and his family were free, they were poor, and they depended on their garden and their chickens for food. Augustus e...