The new Roman Empire invades the American Southwest towards the middle of the 21st century, and faces a new kind of U.S. Special Forces lead by a former outlaw and a member of the U.S. Senate. They form an alliance with the last surviving member of the British Royal Family, twenty-two year old Owen Badon. In London Caesar's sixteen-year-old daughter is torn to between her loyalty to her father and her new role in the United Kingdom. All of this and more are in New Rome Rises: Dux Imperatorius.

THE BEST OF THE INDEPENDENT RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION JOURNALS 2012 represents the result of a nationwide conversation-beginning with journal editors, but expanding to teachers, scholars and workers across the discipline of Rhetoric and Composition-to select essays that showcase the innovative and transformative work now being published in the field's independent journals. Representing both print and digital journals in the field, the essays featured here explore issues ranging from classroom practice to writing in global and digital contexts, from writing workshops to community activism. Together, the essays provide readers with a rich understanding of the present and future direction of the field. In addition to the introduction by Steve Parks, Beverly Moss, Julia Voss, Brian Bailie, Heather Christiansen, and Stephanie Ceraso, the anthology features work by the following authors and representing these journals: Jamie White-Farnham (COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL), Noah R. Roderick (COMPOSITION FORUM), Kate Pantelides and Mariaelena Bartesaghi (COMPOSITION STUDIES), Heidi A. McKee (COMPUTERS AND COMPOSITION), Rex Veeder (ENCULTURATION), Matthew Pavesich (JOURNAL OF BASIC WRITING), Kelly S. Bradbury (THE JOURNAL OF TEACHING WRITING), Derek N. Mueller (KAIROS), Richard H. Thames (KB JOURNAL), Jeanne Marie Rose (PEDAGOGY), and Melvette Melvin Davis (REFLECTIONS).

THE BEST OF THE INDEPENDENT RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION JOURNALS 2011 represents the result of a nationwide conversation-beginning with journal editors, but expanding to teachers, scholars and workers across the discipline of Rhetoric and Composition-to select essays that showcase the innovative and transformative work now being published in the field's independent journals. Representing both print and digital journals in Rhetoric and Composition, the essays featured here explore issues ranging from classroom practice to writing in global and digital contexts, from writing workshops to community activism. Together, the essays provide readers with a rich understanding of the present and future direction of the field. - In addition to the introduction by Steve Parks, Brenda Glascott, Brian Bailie, Heather Christiansen, and Stacey Waite, the anthology features work by the following authors and representing these journals: David Bartholomae and Beth Matway (ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES), Beverly J. Moss (COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL), Michael J. Faris and Stuart Selber (COMPOSITION FORUM), Jessica Enoch (COMPOSITION STUDIES), Alex Reid (ENCULTURATION), Guillaume Gentil (JOURNAL OF SECOND LANGUAGE WRITING), Deborah Rossen Knill (THE JOURNAL OF TEACHING WRITING), Melissa M. Patchan, Christian D. Schunn, and Russell J. Clark (JOURNAL OF WRITING RESEARCH), Marc C. Santos (KAIROS), Ellen Cushman (PEDAGOGY), Zandra L. Jordan (REFLECTIONS), and Kimberly K. Gunter (WRITING ON THE EDGE).

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The problem with discovering your roots: the more digging you do, the dirtier you can get. Adopted into middle-class urban respectability, but with origins deep in the heart of a dramatic rural landscape, BRONCLE is a personal journey of discovery intrinsically linked to the bloody past of Ireland; a true story of smuggling, heartbreak, betrayal, adultery, and lifetime of deception and secrecy.

THE BEST OF THE INDEPENDENT RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION JOURNALS 2010 represents the result of a nationwide conversation-beginning with journal editors, but expanding to teachers, scholars and workers across the discipline of Rhetoric and Composition-to select essays that showcase the innovative and transformative work now being published in the field's independent journals. Representing both print and digital journals in the field, the essays featured here explore issues ranging from classroom practice to writing in global and digital contexts, from writing workshops to community activism. Together, the essays provide readers with a rich understanding of the present and future direction of the field. In addition to the introduction by STEVE PARKS, LINDA ADLER-KASSNER, BRIAN BAILIE, and COLLETTE CATON, the anthology features work by the following authors and representing these journals: JOHN HARBORD (Across the Disciplines), JILL MCCRACKEN (Community Literacy Journal), AMY M. PATRICK (Composition Forum), LAURIE E. GRIES and COLLIN GIFFORD BROOKE (Composition Studies), JAMES E. PORTER (Computers and Composition), AMY ROBILLARD (JAC), JANET BEAN and PETER ELBOW (Journal of Teaching Writing), VIRGINIA KUHN (Kairos), CHRISTINE TULLEY and KRISTINE BLAIR (Pedagogy), CHRISTOPHER WILKEY and BONNIE NEUMEIER (Reflections), and DAVID BARTHOLOMAE (Writing on the Edge).

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