Winner of the 2024 Green Earth Book Honor Award and the Bookstagang Award – Best Conversation Starters of 2023Composting for Community is an STEM infused, intergenerational Latino-American story about how trash destined for the landfill can be turned into something good for the community and the Earth.About the StoryMateo's father is a composter. When the class falls silent during Mateo’s career day present...

Larry Long Ears is just your regular young rabbit, but his gigantic ears give him extra great hearing that leads him to great adventures. A year ago, Larry went on an amazing journey. It seemed like a dream at that time, but now with the discovery of these bushes that grow candy instead of fruit, it may have been real after all. So, the day he and his best friend Greg Grizzly discovered the candy growing bushes that, by the way, sprouted from candy that Larry got from a strange land of can...

Stop relying on supermarkets! Learn how to grow your own vegetables, fruits & herbs today and become self-sufficient!★Special Invitation To Get FREE Ebooks Inside!! ★Are you tired of spending countless dollars going to the supermarket to buy produce? Have you ever thought how nice it would be if you could just walk a few steps and grab a couple of FRESH JUICY tomatoes for your salad? Maybe you have even encountered the problem where you were at the supermarket and the only ap...

**Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award in PoetryWinner of the National Poetry Series Competition, selected by Cornelius Eady--an exploration in verse of imperial appropriation and Mexican American cultural identity"Marvelous, argumentative, and curiosity-provoking" --The New York Times Book Review**The poems in J. Michael Martinez's third collection of poetry circle around how the perceived body comes to be coded with the trans-historical consequence...

In some places, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was a social fraternity whose members enjoyed sophomoric hijinks and homemade liquor. In other areas, the KKK was a paramilitary group intent on keeping former slaves away from white women and Republicans away from ballot boxes. South Carolina saw the worst Klan violence and, in 1871, President Grant sent federal troops under the command of Major Lewis Merrill to restore law and order. Merrill did not eradicate the Klan, but they arguably did more tha...

Libertines seeks to understand why public figures sometimes take extraordinary risks, sullying their good names, humiliating their families, placing themselves in legal jeopardy, and potentially destroying their political careers as they seek to gratify their sexual desires. From Hamilton to Trump and the many in between, each case of sexual misconduct in this book shows the seamy side of political lives, with calculations about covering discretions or portraying them favorably oc...

For a brief time following the end of the U.S. Civil War, American political leaders had an opportunity—slim, to be sure, but not beyond the realm of possibility—to remake society so that black Americans and other persons of color could enjoy equal opportunity in civil and political life. It was not to be. With each passing year after the war—and especially after Reconstruction ended during the 1870s—American society witnessed the evolution of a new white republic as national leaders aband...

This fascinating book recounts the compelling stories behind 14 of the most important criminal procedure cases in American legal history.Many constitutional protections that Americans take for granted today—the right to exclude illegally obtained evidence, the right to government-financed counsel, and the right to remain silent, among others—were not part of the original Bill of Rights, but were the result of criminal trials and judicial interpretations. The untold...

The Congress of the United States operates in the shadow of the American presidency, which can make the legislative branch appear less important than the executive in our constitutional system of government. And yet Congress is a co-equal branch of government, deriving its powers from Article I of the United States Constitution. Love it or hate it, the institution is a source of incredible power. It behooves all Americans to learn more about Congress. Although a single slender volume canno...

Understanding the context of terrorism requires a trek through history, in this case the history of terrorist activity in the United States since the Civil War. Because the topic is large and complex, Terrorists Attacks on American Soil: From the Civil War to the Present does not claim to be an exhaustive history of terrorism or the definitive account of how and why terrorists do what they do. Instead, this book takes a representative sampling of the most horrific terrorist attacks on U.S....

In some periods of American history, members of the legislative branch have been as influential, and sometimes more influential, than a particular president in crafting public policy and reacting to world events. Congressional Lions examines twelve influential members of Congress throughout American history to understand their role in shaping the life of the nation. The book does not focus exclusively on the biographical details of these lawmakers, although biography invariably plays a rol...

In his award-winning first book, J. Michael Martinez reenvisions Latino poetics and its current conceptions of cultural identity. In Heredities, he opens a historically ravaged continental body through a metaphysical dissection into Being and silence. The hand manipulates a surgical etymology through the spine: the longitude where “history gathers in the name we never are.” The poems seek to speak beyond codified aesthetics and dictated identity politics in order to recognize a territory o...