Mountain Scholar

Mountain Scholar is an open access repository service that collects, preserves, and provides access to digitized library collections and other scholarly and creative works from Colorado State University and the University Press of Colorado. It also serves as a dark archive for the Open Textbook Library.

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Colorado State University, Fort Collins 28636
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Open Textbook Library Archive 1790
A limited number of titles are available here. To see all OTL titles, please visit the Open Textbook Library at https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks. Only Open Textbook Library staff have access to all OTL Archive titles held in Mountain Scholar.
University Press of Colorado 1106
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Cutting life short: a second look at life sentences
(2026) Fetsco, Daniel, author; University of Wyoming Press, publisher
Cutting Life Short examines the expansion of life sentencing in America through individual case studies of Wyoming inmates exploring themes of punishment, redemption, and justice reform while examining prosecutorial misconduct, 3-strike penalties, and restorative justice programs.--Provided by publisher.
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Naming how we feel: specific affect and emotional labor in the writing center
(2026) Lawson, Daniel, author; Utah State University Press, publisher
This book grapples with how writing center administrators account for, train for, and theorize emotion and affect in the writing center to facilitate better and more ethical practices and how might they ameliorate the costs of such emotional labor on faculty, tutors, and students.--Provided by publisher.
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The benevolent gaslight: a technology of race-making
(2026) Maraj, Louis Maurice, author; Prasad, Pritha, author; Utah State University Press, publisher
This book proposes a theory of whiteness known as the benevolent gaslight where acts of white dominance are repurposed for pedagogical means, exploring its application across academic disciplines, educational history, and university race management as well as nonacademic settings.--Provided by publisher.
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Writing emergencies: composing (ourselves) in times of crisis
(2026) Hassel, Holly, editor; Pantelides, Kate, editor; Utah State University Press, publisher
In this book, a diverse group of contributors offer scholarly yet narrative-based discussions of individual writing emergencies, descriptions of strategies, and a reflective conclusion contextualizing of the situation and its implications for writing studies praxis and theory.--Provided by publisher.
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Empathy and the other: difference, connection, and the teaching of writing
(2026) Blankenship, Lisa, editor; Leake, Eric, editor; Utah State University Press, publisher
sing reflective approaches to empathy, this collection teaches students and teachers how to be with others in ways that provide hope for our collective futures by using empathy as a way to mitigate despair at the state of the world and as a way of being and relating to others.--Provided by publisher.