The town of Westfield was the genesis of Chautauqua County: it boasts the county’s first permanent settlement (1802), first post office, first school, and first church. Formerly known as the…

Marietta Holley was a famous literary humourist of the 19th century whose popular works were forgotten until she was rediscovered by scholars in the 1970s. This volume places her in…

Searching for his missing dreamstone and the answers to the mystery surrounding it, Runner ventures into the northern Icelands and the grim mountain fortress that lies there. In a night…

Includes 65 common academic literacy terms and explores how they relate to genres, writing conventions, and language use. Each entry briefly defines the term, identifies variations and tensions about its…

Dave finds a curious silver medallion in a cave by the Ohio River-and then finds he has changed places with Dewi, a sixteenth-century boy in medieval Wales. When he travels…

Searching for his missing "dreamstone" and the answers to the mystery surrounding it, Runner ventures into the northern Icelands and the grim mountain fortress that lies there. In a night…

This is a history of Poland’s post-World War II Communist era, that approaches the transition from Communism to democracy through an analysis of Poland’s political crises, beginning with the 1956…

Academic Writing in a Global Context addresses the issue of the pressure on academics worldwide to produce their work in English in scholarly publishing, and why the growth of the…