Modernism in the Green traces a trans-Atlantic modernist fascination with the creation, use, and representation of the modern green. From the verdant public commons in the heart of cities to the lookout points on mountains in national parks, planned green spaces serve as felicitous stages for the performance of modernism. In its focus on designed and public green zones,Modernism in the Green offers a new perspective on modernism’s overlapping investments in the arts, politics, urb...

Northern Appalachia is one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth and home to a broad range of ecological and human cultures. With A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia, editors Todd Davis and Noah Davis recognize and celebrate this diversity and the fact that humans are storytelling creatures who develop relationships with their landscapes at the intersection of art and science.A companion volume to A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, this gui...

She's fleeing scandal. He's given up on love. Can a proper gentlewoman and a salt-of-the-earthsingle dad embrace a second chance at forever?England, 1916. Elizabeth Edwards's humiliation is complete. Jilted by her cheating beau beforehe flew off to war, she bolts to her grandparents' house in Boston away from the luridnewspaper stories. And when her ex-fiancé tries to kidnap her, the frantic woman hops a train toNebraska to answer a charming ran...

She’s fleeing scandal.He’s given up on love.Can a proper gentlewoman and a salt-of-the-earth, single dad embrace a second chance at forever?England, 1916. Elizabeth Edwards’s humiliation is complete. Jilted by her cheating beau beforehe flew off to war, she bolts to her grandparents’ house in Boston away from the luridnewspaper stories. And when her ex-fiancé tries to kidnap her, the frantic woman h...

In Building Natures, Julia Daniel establishes the influence of landscape architecture, city planning, and parks management on American poetry to show how modernists engaged with the green worlds and social playgrounds created by these new professions in the early twentieth century. The modern poets who capture these parks in verse explore the aesthetic principles and often failed democratic ideals embedded in the designers’ verdant architectures. The poetry of Carl Sandburg, Walla...

Helena Glory, as the daughter of a major industrial power's president, is a woman on a mission. She faces the island factory of Rossum's Universal Robots, the world's leading company in robotic engineering. She is convinced that these new creations called robots they make are deserving of rights like humans do. Everyone else is convinced robots are nothing more than tools for human use. Is it so, or is a robot rebellion becoming a more likely prospect as the robots start to seem more intel...

Amidst the turbulent backdrop of a manufacturing town in the grips of the Industrial Revolution, Elizabeth Gaskell penned the timeless passion of Mr. Thornton and Margaret Hale. A mixing of contemporary and Victorian, this short story anthology by twelve beloved authors considers familiar scenes from new points of view or re-imagined entirely. Capturing all the poignancy, heartbreak, and romance of the original tale, Falling for Mr. Thornton is a collection you will treasure again and agai...

Modernism and the Anthropocene explores twentieth-century literature as it engages with the non-human world across a range of contexts. From familiar modernist works by D.H. Lawrence and Hart Crane to still-emergent genres like comics and speculative fiction, this volume tackles a series of related questions regarding how best to understand humanity’s increasing domination of the natural world.

In the public sphere, it is often assumed that acts of violence carried out by Muslims are inspired by their religious commitment and encouraged by the Qur’an. Some people express similar concerns about the scriptures and actions of Christians and Jews. Might they be right? What role do scriptural texts play in motivating and justifying violence in these three traditions?Scripture and Violence explores the complex relationship between scriptural texts and real-world acts of violenc...

Your drive to create change, catalyze impact, and build relationships all come from neuroelectrical energy—real, electrical impulses—firing in your brain. Who you are as a person depends on how you work with this energy. When this energy rises within you, you feel empowered and dynamic. But when this energy falls, you feel down, stressed, and defeated.You may feel as if you don't control your emotional energy, that it's an inevitable consequence of the world around you and the forc...

**NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book 2019 SelectionNSTA Best STEM Trade Books for Students K-12 2019 Selection2019 Amelia Bloomer List Selection2019 Mathical Honor BookMeet Raye Montague—the hidden mastermind who made waves in the U.S. Navy!**After touring a German submarine in the early 1940s, young Raye set her sights on becoming an engineer. Little did she know sexism and racial inequality would challenge that dream every step of the way, even keepi...

Chicago Public Library Best of the Best SelectionNSTA Best STEM Books for K-12 SelectionA Mighty Girl Book of the YearIf you like to think big, but some say you're too small, or they say you're too young or too slow or too tall... Meet Dr. Bath—the scientist who never lost sight of her dreams!As a girl coming of age during the Civil Rights Movement, Patricia Bath made it her ...