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West Virginia University Press is the only university press, and the largest publisher of any kind, in the state of West Virginia. A part of West Virginia University, they publish books and scholarly journals by authors around the world, with a particular emphasis on Appalachian studies, history, higher education, the social sciences, and interdisciplinary books about energy, environment, and resources. They also publish works of fiction and creative nonfiction, and collaborate on innovative digital publications, notably West Virginia History: An Open Access Reader.

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Minding Bodies

How Physical Space, Sensation, and Movement Affect Learning

West Virginia University Press

What happens to teaching when you consider the whole body (and not just “brains on sticks”)?

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Remaking Appalachia

Ecosocialism, Ecofeminism, and Law

West Virginia University Press

A critical legal scholar uses feminist and environmental theory to sketch alternate futures for Appalachia.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Ghosts of New York

West Virginia University Press

Literary novel with a New York setting and a dash of speculative fiction, for fans of Colum McCann, Colm Toibin, and Dana Spiotta.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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So Much to Be Angry About

Appalachian Movement Press and Radical DIY Publishing, 1969–1979

West Virginia University Press

A richly produced, craft- and activist-centered celebration of radical DIY publishing, for readers of Appalachian Reckoning.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Feminist Geography Unbound

Discomfort, Bodies, and Prefigured Futures

West Virginia University Press

A field-defining collection of new voices on gender, feminism, and geography.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Working It Off in Labor County

Stories

West Virginia University Press

Humorous and wry stories of misfits and ordinary people in an Appalachian community struggling creatively to make sense of an often nonsensical world.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Red Harvests

Agrarian Capitalism and Genocide in Democratic Kampuchea

West Virginia University Press

Reassessing the Cambodian genocide through the lens of global capitalist development.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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The Road to Blair Mountain

Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2021
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Ungrading

Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead)

Edited by Susan D. Blum; Foreword by Alfie Kohn
West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Opioid Epidemic and US Culture

Expression, Art, and Politics in an Age of Addiction

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Political Ecology of Education

Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement and the Politics of Knowledge

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Bluegrass Ambassadors

The McLain Family Band in Appalachia and the World

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Transportation and the Culture of Climate Change

Accelerating Ride to Global Crisis

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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This Way Back

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Appalachian Englishes in the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Kirk Hazen
West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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A Place Remote

Stories

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Like Light, Like Music

West Virginia University Press
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Learning to Leave

The Irony of Schooling in a Coastal Community

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Storytelling in Queer Appalachia

Imagining and Writing the Unspeakable Other

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Wheeling's Polonia

Reconstructing Polish Community in a West Virginia Steel Town

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Heeding the Call

A Study of Denise Giardina's Novels

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Famine in the Remaking

Food System Change and Mass Starvation in Hawaii, Madagascar, and Cambodia

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Radical Hope

A Teaching Manifesto

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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I'm Afraid of That Water

A Collaborative Ethnography of a West Virginia Water Crisis

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Beyond Populism

Angry Politics and the Twilight of Neoliberalism

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Mountaineers Are Always Free

Heritage, Dissent, and a West Virginia Icon

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Hillbilly Hustle

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Beyond Populism

Angry Politics and the Twilight of Neoliberalism

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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St. Christopher on Pluto

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Teaching about Race and Racism in the College Classroom

Notes from a White Professor

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2019
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Intentional Tech

Principles to Guide the Use of Educational Technology in College Teaching

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2019
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Geography's Quantitative Revolutions

Edward A. Ackerman and the Cold War Origins of Big Data

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2019
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Energy Culture

Art and Theory on Oil and Beyond

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2019
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American Grief in Four Stages

Stories

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2019
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The Painted Forest

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2019
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The Black Butterfly

Brazilian Slavery and the Literary Imagination

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2019
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Fatherless

A Memoir

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2019
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Mountains Piled upon Mountains

Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene

Edited by Jessica Cory
West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2019
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Geeky Pedagogy

A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2019
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Appointed

An American Novel

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2019
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Governing the Wind Energy Commons

Renewable Energy and Community Development

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2019
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To the Bones

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2019
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Modern Moonshine

The Revival of White Whiskey in the Twenty-First Century

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2019
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Lowest White Boy

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2019
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LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia

Edited by Jeff Mann and Julia Watts
West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2018
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Far Flung

Improvisations on National Parks, Driving to Russia, Not Marrying a Ranger, the Language of Heartbreak, and Other Natural Disasters

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2019
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On Petrocultures

Globalization, Culture, and Energy

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2019
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Capitalist Pigs

Pigs, Pork, and Power in America

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2019
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