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  • Audiobook

    Dear Queer Self

    An Experiment in Memoir

    by Jonathan Alexander ...
    Narrated by Donald Corren ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 2 min

    An unvarnished accounting of one man’s struggle toward sexual and emotional maturityIn this unconventional memoir, Jonathan Alexander addresses wry and affecting missives to a conflicted younger self. Focusing on three years—1989, 1993, and 1996—Dear Queer Self follows the author through the homophobic heights of the AIDS epidemic, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the election of Bill Clinton, and the ... Read more

    $20.54 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Damage

    Notes on a Queer Aesthetic

    by Jonathan Alexander ...
    A personal, critical guide to seeing queer art’s wounds and possibilitiesDamage asks how to look at images marked by queer pain without turning that pain into shock or pretending it isn’t there. Writer and critic Jonathan Alexander answers by pairing close looking with lived experience. The result is intimate and analytic at once, a book that stays with hard feelings while still making room for ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Liminal Spaces in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

    Stories from the In Between

    by Jonathan Alexander, Michele D. Castleman, Paula T. Connolly, Paige D'Encarnacao, Scott Eberle, Laura Hakala, Katharine Kittredge, Terry Lindvall, Claudia Mills, Alessia Silvestrin, Anne K. Phillips, Trina Marie Rumfelt, Jan Susina, Eric L. Tribunella, Dr. Kathy Merlock Jackson ...
    Scholars in the field of children's literature studies began taking an interest in the concept of “liminal spaces” around the turn of the 21st century. For the first time, Liminal Spaces in Children's and Young Adult Literature: Stories from the In Between brings together in one volume a collection of original essays on this topic by leading children's literature scholars. The contributors in this ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Dear Queer Self

    An Experiment in Memoir

    by Jonathan Alexander ...
    An unvarnished accounting of one man’s struggle toward sexual and emotional maturity.In this unconventional memoir, Jonathan Alexander addresses wry and affecting missives to a conflicted younger self. Focusing on three years—1989, 1993, and 1996—Dear Queer Self follows the author through the homophobic heights of the AIDS epidemic, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the election of Bill Clinton, and ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Rhetoric and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

    Pluralism in a Postsecular Age

    by Jonathan Alexander, Patricia Bizzell, Beth Daniell, Rasha Diab, Janice W. Fernheimer, Cinthia Gannett, Andre E. Johnson, Lisa King, Beverly J. Moss, Laurent Pernot, Patricia Roberts-Miller, Kurt Spellmeyer, Elizabeth Vander Lei, Robert P. Yagelski, Lisa Zimmerelli, TJ Geiger II, John Brereton, Ph.D ...
    Expanding the scope of religious rhetoricOver the past twenty-five years, the intersection of rhetoric and religion has become one of the most dynamic areas of inquiry in rhetoric and writing studies. One of few volumes to include multiple traditions in one conversation, Rhetoric and Religion in the Twenty-First Century engages with religious discourses and issues that continue to shape public ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Writing and Desire

    Queer Ways of Composing

    by Jonathan Alexander ...
    Series series Composition, Literacy, and Culture
    Writing and Desire is a sustained, multimovement exploration of how writers, particularly queer writers, think and feel through desire as central to their writing practice. In a time of political, social, global, and ecological unrest, how might we understand desire—the desire for things to be different, the desire for a better world—as a crucial dimension of contemporary human experience? What ... Read more

    $67.19 CAD

  • Stroke Book

    The Diary of a Blindspot

    by Jonathan Alexander ...
    An archive of personal trauma that addresses how a culture still toxic to queer people can reshape a bodyIn the summer of 2019, Jonathan Alexander had a minor stroke, what his doctors called an “eye stroke.” A small bit of cholesterol came loose from a vein in his neck and instead of shooting into his brain and causing damage, it lodged itself in a branch artery of his retina, resulting in a ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • This Will Not Pass

    Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future

    by Jonathan Martin, Alexander Burns ...
    The “blockbuster” (The Guardian) New York Times bestseller, a shocking, definitive account of the 2020 election and the first year of the Biden presidency by two New York Times reporters, exposes the deep fissures within both parties as the country approaches a political breaking point.This is the authoritative, “deeply reported” (The Wall Street Journal) account of an eighteen-month crisis in ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Codermetrics

    Analytics for Improving Software Teams

    by Jonathan Alexander ...
    How can you help your software team improve? This concise book introduces codermetrics, a clear and objective way to identify, analyze, and discuss the successes and failures of software engineers—not as part of a performance review, but as a way to make the team a more cohesive and productive unit.Experienced team builder Jonathan Alexander explains how codermetrics helps teams understand exactly ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

  • Writing Youth

    Young Adult Fiction as Literacy Sponsorship

    by Jonathan Alexander, William P. Banks, Rebecca Black ...
    Writing Youth: Young Adult Fiction as Literacy Sponsorship shows how many young adult novels model for young people ways to manage the various media tools that surround them. Jonathan Alexander examines not only young adult texts and their media ecologies but also young people’s multiliterate media making in response to their favorite texts and stories. As such, this book will be of interest to ... Read more

    $115.89 CAD

  • On Multimodality

    New Media in Composition Studies

    by Jonathan Alexander, Jacqueline Rhodes ...
    Series series Studies in Writing and Rhetoric
    Winner of the 2015 CCCC Outstanding Book AwardAs our field of composition studies invites students to compose with new media and multimedia, we need to ask about other possibilities for communication, representation, and making knowledge—including possibilities that may exceed those of the letter, the text based, the composed.In this provocative look at how composition incorporates new forms of ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bisexuality and Transgenderism

    InterSEXions of the Others

    by Fritz Klein, Karen Yescavage, Jonathan Alexander ...
    Explore the common groundand the important differencesbetween bisexuality and transgenderism!This book, guaranteed to provoke debate and discussion of sexuality and gender, is the first devoted exclusively to the relationship between transgenderism and bisexuality. Combining the work of scholars and activists, professional writers and lay people, Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the ... Read more

    $130.53 CAD