West Virginia University Press: 89 books
Beowulf and the Grendel-Kin
Politics and Poetry in Eleventh-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Teaching the Literature Survey Course
New Strategies for College Faculty
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Teaching the Literature Survey Course makes the case for maintaining—even while re-imagining and re-inventing—the place of the survey as a transformative experience for literature students. Through essays both practical and theoretical, the collection presents survey teachers with an exciting...
The Contradictions of Neoliberal Agri-Food
Corporations, Resistance, and Disasters in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Employing original fieldwork, historical analysis, and sociological theory, Sekine and Bonanno probe how Japan’s food and agriculture sectors have been shaped by the global push toward privatization and corporate power, known in the social science literature as neoliberalism. They also examine related...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
This collection, the first of its kind, gathers original and previously published fiction and poetry from lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer authors from Appalachia. Like much Appalachian literature, these works are pervaded with an attachment to family and the mountain landscape, yet...
Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone
Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Advocates for the rights of people with disabilities have worked hard to make universal design in the built environment “just part of what we do.” We no longer see curb cuts, for instance, as accommodations for people with disabilities, but perceive their usefulness every time we ride our bikes...
Civics in a Digital Republic
A Transformative Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
This innovative curriculum book provides key materials, resources, and tools to help secondary educators prepare their students to be engaged citizens of their community, state, nation and world. Five complete units of instruction, based on West Virginia Content Standards and Objectives, provide meaningful...
Governing the Wind Energy Commons
Renewable Energy and Community Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019
Wind energy is often framed as a factor in rural economic development, an element of the emerging “green economy” destined to upset the dominant greenhouse- gas-emitting energy industry and deliver conscious capitalism to host communities. The bulk of wind energy firms, however, are subsidiaries...
Capitalist Pigs
Pigs, Pork, and Power in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Pigs are everywhere in United States history. They cleared frontiers and built cities (notably Cincinnati, once known as Porkopolis), served as an early form of welfare, and were at the center of two nineteenth-century “pig wars.” American pork fed the hemisphere; lard literally greased the wheels...
by LEE MAYNARD
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
In the third and final part of the Crum Trilogy, Jesse Stone once again embarks upon his constant search for a place in the world. At the start of The Scummers, Jesse hits the road and heads West, looking to experience something - anything - that will fulfill his intrinsic desires to escape, and...
Stuttering Meets Sterotype, Stigma, and Discrimination
An Overview of Attitude Research
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Just Three Minutes, Please
Thinking Out Loud on Public Radio
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
What’s wrong with the contemporary American medical system? What does it mean when a state’s democratic presidential primary casts 40% of its votes for a felon incarcerated in another state? What’s so bad about teaching by PowerPoint? What is truly the dirtiest word in America?
These...
The Rope Swing
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
A once-booming West Virginia rail town no longer has a working train. The residents left behind in this tiny hamlet look to the mountains that surround them on all sides: The outside world encroaches, and the buildings of the gilded past seem to crumble more every day.
These are the stories...
Believe What You Can
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This collection of poetry by West Virginia Poet Laureate Marc Harshman explores the difficulty of living with an awareness of the eventual death of all living things. Each of its four sections suggests a coping mechanism for this inevitable predicament, from storytelling, to accepting darkness and...
Monsters in Appalachia
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The characters within these fifteen stories are in one way or another staring into the abyss. While some are awaiting redemption, others are fully complicit in their own undoing.
We come upon them in the mountains of West Virginia, in the backyards of rural North Carolina, and at tourist traps...