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Two-World Literature

Kazuo Ishiguro’s Early Novels

University of Hawaii Press
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The Moʻolelo Hawaiʻi of Davida Malo Volume 2

Hawaiian Text and Translation

By Davida Malo; Edited by Charles Langlas and Jeffrey Lyon; Translated with commentary by Charles Langlas and Jeffrey Lyon
University of Hawaii Press
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The Moʻolelo Hawaiʻi of Davida Malo Volume 1

Ka ‘Ōlelo Kumu

University of Hawaii Press
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Pacific Futures

Past and Present

University of Hawaii Press
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Navigating Differences

Integration in Singapore

Edited by Terence Chong
ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
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Manu, the Boy Who Loved Birds

University of Hawaii Press, Latitude 20
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Inalienable Properties

The Political Economy of Indigenous Land Reform

UBC Press

Inalienable Properties explores the contrasting approaches taken by local leaders to property rights and development in four Indigenous communities.

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ʻO Manu, ke Keiki Aloha Manu

University of Hawaii Press, Latitude 20
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Hawaiian Language

Past, Present, Future

University of Hawaii Press
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Transcendental Heresies

Harvard and the Modern American Practice of Unbelief

University of Massachusetts Press
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Landscapes of Freedom

Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia

The University of Arizona Press

Landscapes of Freedom reconstructs the unusual postemancipation trajectory of African descendants on Colombia’s Pacific coast, who attained high levels of autonomy by controlling rainforests for subsistence and procuring natural resources for export.

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Every Home a Fortress

Cold War Fatherhood and the Family Fallout Shelter

University of Massachusetts Press
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Brick City Vanguard

Amiri Baraka, Black Music, Black Modernity

University of Massachusetts Press
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Precision Community Health

Four Innovations for Well-being

Island Press

When Bechara Choucair was a young doctor, he learned an important lesson: treating a patient for hypothermia does little good if she has to spend the next night out in the freezing cold. As health commissioner of Chicago, he was determined to address the societal causes of disease and focus the city's resources on its most vulnerable populations. That targeted approach has led to dramatic successes, such as lowering rates of smoking, teen pregnancy, breast cancer mortalities, and other serious ills.

In Precision Community Health, Choucair shows how those successes can be replicated and expanded around the country. The key is to use advanced technologies to identify which populations are most at risk for specific health threats and avert crises before they begin. Using this strategy can make a wholesale change in the way public health is practiced and in the well-being of all our communities.

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Reckoning with Rebellion

War and Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century

University Press of Florida

In this innovative global history of the American Civil War, Aaron Sheehan-Dean compares and contrasts the American experience with other civil and national conflicts that happened at nearly the same time—the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the Polish Insurrection of 1863, and China’s Taiping Rebellion.

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Pictured Politics

Visualizing Colonial History in South American Portrait Collections

University of Texas Press

Featuring almost eighty illustrations from between 1590 and 1830, Pictured Politics is the sole study in English or Spanish to examine the role of portraiture in constructing the history of South American colonialism.

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Pauulu’s Diaspora

Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice

University Press of Florida
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Architects of Memory

Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age

University of Alabama Press

Probes the development of information management after World War II and its consequences for public memory and human agency

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My Scrapbook of My Illness with Polio, 1946–1951

University of Florida Press, Library Press at UF
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Being Rapoport

Capitalist with a Conscience

Briscoe Ctr for Amer History UT-Austin

In his memoir, Bernard Rapoport recalls a life of hard work and a philosophy of giving that made him a successful entrepreneur and philanthropist. This updated edition includes new material compiled before Rapoport’s death in 2012.

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Valuing Nature

A Handbook for Impact Investing

Island Press

Valuing Nature presents a new set of nature-based investment areas to help conservationists and investors work together to tackle problems such as climate change. The book examines the scope of nature-based impact investing, offers tools for investors and organizations to consider as they develop their own projects, and shares tips on how nonprofits can successfully navigate this new space. Case studies from around the world demonstrate how we can utilize private capital to achieve more sustainable uses of our natural resources.

William Ginn provides a roadmap for conservation professionals, nonprofit managers, and impact investors to improve the management of natural systems.

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Unnatural Companions

Rethinking Our Love of Pets in an Age of Wildlife Extinction

Island Press

"Highly compelling...page-turning read" — TNC's Cool Green Science

We love our pets. But there is a dark side to our domestic connection with animal life. The pet industry is contributing to a global conservation crisis for wildlife—often without the knowledge of pet owners. In Unnatural Companions, journalist Peter Christie argues that to reverse the alarming trend of wildlife decline, pet owners must acknowledge the pets-versus-conservation dilemma. Our well-fed and sheltered cats too often prey on small backyard wildlife, seemingly harmless reptiles released into the wild might be the next destructive invasive species, and the popular trend of designer pet food may have deleterious effects on the environment.

Christie's book is a cautionary tale to responsible pet owners, but he concludes with the positive message that the small changes we make at home can foster better practices within the pet industry that will ultimately benefit our pets’ wild brethren.

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The Kids’ Guide to Getting Your Words on Paper

Simple Stuff to Help You Develop the Skills and Strength for Writing

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

This fun guide supports kids age 7-12 to take control of their own writing difficulties, through worksheets and activities for building strength, coordination and stamina. As their skills improve, so too will their confidence and attainment. Illustrated throughout and with a quiz and handy checklists to track progress.

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The Can-Do Kid's Journal

Discover Your Confidence Superpower!

By Sue Atkins; Illustrated by Amy Bradley
Jessica Kingsley Publishers

This journal will help kids feel more confident, relaxed and happy in all aspects of their life. Adorned with fun illustrations, it is designed to develop a can-do attitude that encourages 'having a go', accepting that mistakes might be made along the way. From this, kids can develop the mindset to take the small steps needed to make big dreams come true.

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The Awesome Autistic Go-To Guide

A Practical Handbook for Autistic Teens and Tweens

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

This is a workbook for young people aged 10-14 on the autism spectrum. It encourages teens and tweens to identify their strengths, suggests how they can develop their identity, and celebrates neurodiversity. It also has tips for managing tricky situations such as anxiety and meltdowns, as well as fun activities and interactive sections.

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Non-Binary Lives

An Anthology of Intersecting Identities

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

This wide-ranging and powerful collection of essays gathers together leading non-binary figures to explore how their gender identities intersect with multiple aspects of other identities including race, class, age, sexuality, faith, community, family, disability and health.

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The Governors of Florida

University Press of Florida

An unparalleled two-hundred-year history of Florida’s highest office, this volume provides the first in-depth examination of all of Florida’s chief executives from the acquisition of Spanish Florida by the United States and the appointment of Andrew Jackson as the territory’s first governor in 1821 to the end of Rick Scott’s tenure in 2019.

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Girl of New Zealand

Colonial Optics in Aotearoa

The University of Arizona Press

 Girl of New Zealand resurrects Māori women from objectification and locates them firmly within Māori whanau/families and communities.

 

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Diné Identity in a Twenty-First-Century World

The University of Arizona Press

Informed by personal experience and offering an inclusive view, Diné Identity in a Twenty-First-Century World showcases the complexity of understanding and the richness of current Diné identities.

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With This Root about My Person

Charles H. Long and New Directions in the Study of Religion

University of New Mexico Press

Charles H. Long's groundbreaking works on Africana religious studies serve as the backdrop to With This Root about My Person.

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Vintage Postcards from the African World

In the Dignity of Their Work and the Joy of Their Play

University Press of Mississippi

An extraordinary view of the bounty of Africa and its diaspora

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The Social Life of Biometrics

Rutgers University Press

Biometrics is a technology of identification that associates physical features with a legal identity, yet as a mode of determining one truth, it creates many more that mediate how individuals exist. The Social Life of Biometrics examines human experiences of biometrics and considers their histories, effects, and futures.

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Teaching Mindful Writers

Utah State University Press

Teaching Mindful Writers introduces new writing teachers to a learning cycle that will help students become self-directed writers through planning, practicing, revising, and reflecting.

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Talking Therapy

Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing

Rutgers University Press

Talking Therapy traces the rise of modern psychiatric nursing in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s. Through an analysis of the relationship between nurses and other mental health professions, with an emphasis on nursing scholarship, this book highlights the role of nurses in challenging, and complying with, modern approaches to psychiatry.
 

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Struggle on the North Santiam

Power and Community on the Margins of the American West

Oregon State University Press

A history or Oregon's North Santiam Canyon, from interaction between Native and non-Native peoples and railroad development and land fraud in the nineteenth century, to changing fortunes in the timber industry and questions about economic and environmental sustainability into the twenty-first century.

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Social Justice

Theories, Issues, and Movements (Revised and Expanded Edition)

Rutgers University Press

Drawing on contemporary issues ranging from globalization and neoliberalism to the environment, this essential textbook - ideal for course use - encourages readers to question the limits of the law in its present state in order to develop fairer systems at the local, national, and global levels.
 

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Shakespeare in Montana

Big Sky Country’s Love Affair with the World’s Most Famous Writer

University of New Mexico Press

Tracing more than two centuries of history, Shakespeare in Montana uncovers a vast array of different voices that capture the state's love affair with the world's most famous writer.

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Rewriting Partnerships

Community Perspectives on Community-Based Learning

Utah State University Press

Rewriting Partnerships offers concrete strategies for creating more community-responsive partnerships at the classroom level as well as at the level of program and research design.

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Projecting the Nation

History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen

Rutgers University Press

Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen is a wide-ranging history of over seven decades of Israeli cinema.  By analyzing Israeli films which address such issues as the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Ashkenazi-Mizrahi divide, the kibbutz, the rise of religion in Israel, the book explores the way cinema has represented and shaped our understanding of the Israeli history as it evolved from a collectivist society to a society where individualism and adherence to local identities is the dominant ideology.   

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Prehistoric Suns

Ancient Observations in the American Southwest

By Steve Mulligan; Foreword by Ken Zoll
SF Design, llc / FrescoBooks

Steve Mulligan has applied his large-format camera skills to his most recent fifteen-year-long project in locating and photographing these prehistoric observatories in the American Southwest.

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Post-Communist Malaise

Cinematic Responses to European Integration

Rutgers University Press

Post-Communist Malaise examines political modernism within the context of post-communist Eastern Europe and the Balkans. It focuses on how select cinemas from the regions critique European unification and how they represent related issues like the transition from communism to free-market capitalism, the Euro crisis and austerity, and the rise of nationalism and right-wing politics.
 

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Planet Auschwitz

Holocaust Representation in Science Fiction and Horror Film and Television

Rutgers University Press

Planet Auschwitz explores how the Holocaust has influenced science fiction and horror film and television. These genres explore important Holocaust themes - trauma, guilt, grief, ideological fervor and perversion, industrialized killing, and the dangerous afterlife of Nazism after World War II.
 

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Mediating the Uprising

Narratives of Gender and Marriage in Syrian Television Drama

Rutgers University Press

Based on intensive fieldwork in Damascus and Beirut, Mediating the Uprising shows how gender and marriage metaphors inform Syrian television drama with various forms of cultural and political critique. The emergence of these suppressed narratives attests to the survival of the genre despite instability, war, and bloodshed.
 

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Losing Culture

Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times

Rutgers University Press

Around the world, you will hear complaints that people are losing their culture and their heritage. This study explores what is triggering this sense of cultural loss, to what ends this rhetoric gets deployed, and how anthropologists deal with their own feelings of nostalgia.

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In the Bear's House

University of New Mexico Press

In these engaging writings Momaday shares his personal quest to understand the spirit of wilderness embodied in the image of Bear.

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Frontier Cavalry Trooper

The Letters of Private Eddie Matthews, 1869–1874

University of New Mexico Press

Private William Edward Matthews letters, published here for the first time, provide an unparalleled chronicle of one soldier's experiences in the garrison and in the field in the post-Civil War Southwest.

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Diversity Regimes

Why Talk Is Not Enough to Fix Racial Inequality at Universities

Rutgers University Press

In Diversity Regimes, James M. Thomas uncovers a complex combination of meanings, practices, and actions that work to institutionalize universities’ commitments to diversity, but in doing so obscure, entrench, and even magnify existing racial inequalities. Drawing on two years of ethnographic field work at so-called “Diversity University,” Thomas provides new insights into the social organization of multicultural principles and practices.

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