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In this rich exploration of Rene Girard's insights, his French editor and longtime collaborator Benoit Chantre brings Saint Paul's Letter to the Romans into dialogue with both Proust and Girard in order to push to its logical endpoint the idea of a back-and-forth movement from chaos to order.

The northern white-cedar's future is uncertain. Here scientists Gerald L. Storm and Laura S. Kenefic describe the threats to this modest yet essential member of its ecosystem and call on all of us to unite to help it to thrive.

In his seventh book of poems, celebrated poet Todd Davis explores the many forms of violence we do to each other and to the other living beings with whom we share the planet. Here racism, climate collapse, and pandemic, as well as the very real threat of extinction are dramatized in intimate portraits of Rust-Belt Appalachia.

Natascha Wodin's personal homage to her mother's life story is an important lyrical memorial for the thousands of Eastern Europeans who were forced to leave their homes and work in Germany during the war, and a moving reflection of the plight of displaced peoples throughout the ages.

A compelling collection of poems, Late Self-Portraits conveys an intimate description of lives through a collage of portraits and affliction, weaving history and the sacred, both intimate and worldly.

In this post-Arab Spring novel, Ahmad Tarawneh tells the story of conflicting loyalties between two Jordanian brothers, one who serves in the Jordanian national security division, and another who belongs to an extremist militant Islamic group.

Offers an examination of the phenomenon of the call. Characterizing the call as a rhetorical event, the book identifies how speakers can use eloquence in the service of truth. The authors offer the rare combination of a phenomenology of the call linked closely to eloquence and explore this linkage by examining the components of eloquence.

Remix is not an exclusively digital practice, nor is it even a new one, as there is evidence of remix in the speeches of classical Greek and Roman orators. Turntables and Tropes is the first book to address remix from a communicative perspective, examining its persuasive dimensions by locating its parallels with classical rhetoric.

From 1940 to 1970, mid-Michigan had an extensive legacy of modernist architecture. While this book explores buildings by renowned architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright and the Keck brothers, the text - based on research and oral histories - focuses more heavily on regional architects whose work was influenced by international modern styles.

From its first scene in a benighted Great Lakes river, where lake sturgeon thrash and spawn, this powerful book takes readers on journeys through the Great Lakes, alongside fish and fishers, scuba divers and scientists, toxic pollutants and threatened communities, oil pipelines and invasive species, Indigenous peoples and federal agencies.

Demonstrating how Indigenous science fiction expands the boundaries of the genre while reinforcing the relevance of Indigenous knowledge, Brown Spiers illustrates the use of science fiction as a critical compass for navigating and surviving the distinct challenges of the twenty-first century.

Never before translated in English, this 1973 discussion between Rene Girard (1923-2015) and other prominent scholars represents one of the most significant breakthroughs in mimetic theory. The conversation was an opportunity for Girard to debate with his interlocutors the theories he expounded in Violence and the Sacred.

Louise Erdrich is one of the most important, prolific, and widely read contemporary Indigenous writers. Here leading scholars analyse the three critically acclaimed recent novels - The Plague of Doves, The Round House, and LaRose - that make up what has become known as Erdrich's 'justice trilogy'.

Inspired by a 1968 US Commission on Civil Rights six-day hearing in San Antonio that introduced the Mexican American people to the rest of the nation, this book is an examination of the social change of Mexican Americans of Texas over the past half century.

In 2017, Laura Apol's daughter, Hanna, took her own life. Apol had long believed in the therapeutic possibilities of writing, having conducted workshops on writing-for-healing. Yet after Hanna's death, she had her own therapeutic writing to do, turning her anguish, disbelief, and love into poems that map the first year of loss.

Why do police officers turn against the people they are hired to protect? This question seems all the more urgent in the wake of recent global protests against police brutality. Historical criminologist Paul Bleakley addresses this by examining a series of intersecting cases of police corruption in Queensland, Australia.

People avoid speaking about race in the presence of another racial group for fear of saying something wrong. This was not the situation at JB's, a Mexican cantina in one of Houston's oldest Mexican barrios. Tatcho Mindiola, a regular patron, kept notes on the racial exchanges he heard. These form the basis of this insightful volume.

Providing an examination of both the challenges and importance of renewable energy, this book will be of value to anyone interested in grappling with the complexities of our ongoing efforts to eliminate fossil fuels in favour of clean renewable energy.

The first and most prolific professional architect to reside permanently in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, D. Fred Charlton crafted the distinctive style found in buildings throughout Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Anyone interested in architecture and in the history of the upper Midwest will find this book both fascinating and informative.

The first-ever poetry book set on a llama farm, Daniel Lassell's debut collection examines the roles we play in the act of belonging. It is a portrait of a boy living on a farm populated with chickens sung to sleep by lullaby, captive wolves that attack a child, and a herd of llamas learning to survive despite coyotes and a chaotic family.

Drawing on a wide array of historical sources, Theresa Weller provides a comprehensive history of the lineage of the seventy-four members of the Agatha Biddle band in 1870. A highly unusual Native and Metis community, the band included just eight men but sixty-six women.

The United States, the People's Republic of China, and Taiwan have danced on the knife's edge of war for more than seventy years. By mapping the history of miscommunication between the US, China, and Taiwan, this provocative study shows where and how our entwined relationships have gone wrong, clearing the way for renewed dialogue.

Presents international perspectives on US-China relations in President Xi Jinping's 'New Era' with case studies that offer readers informative snapshots of how these relations are changing on the ground, in the lived realities of our daily communication habits.

Presents significant new research and insights to the fast-growing scholarship on social media in China at a time when online communication is increasingly constrained by international struggles over political control and privacy issues.

Identifies the importance of studying environmental communication in, about, and with China. Organised into three sections on communicating crisis, communicating care, and environmental futurity, these essays span multimodal communication practices and methods in green public culture.