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Collision Course

Economic Change, Criminal Justice Reform, and Work in America

Rutgers University Press

This book is about the convergence of trends in two American institutions – the economy and the criminal justice system.  The American economy has radically transformed in the past half-century, led by advances in automation technology that have permanently altered labor market dynamics.  Over the same period, the US criminal justice system experienced an unprecedented expansion, at great cost.  These costs include not only the $80 billion annually in direct expenditures on criminal justice, but also the devastating impacts experienced by justice-involved individuals, families, and communities. This book examines these potential consequences, the meaning of work in American society, and suggests alternative redistributive and policy solutions to avert the collision course of these economic and criminal justice policy trends.

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Carrying On

Another School of Thought on Pregnancy and Health

Rutgers University Press

Unlike traditional pregnancy guidebooks that offer recommendations, Carrying On investigates prenatal health norms by exploring the origin stories for issues at the center of pregnancy, ranging from morning sickness and weight gain to ultrasounds and induction. In a world of information overload, Carrying On helps expecting parents make sense of the overwhelming amount of counsel by shedding light on where it all came from: how and why did such confusing and contradictory guidance on pregnancy come to exist?

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Carrying All before Her

Celebrity Pregnancy and the London Stage, 1689-1800

University of Delaware Press

Carrying All Before Her recovers the stories of six eighteenth-century celebrity actresses who performed during pregnancy, melding public and private, persona and person, domestic and professional labor and helping to shape wider social, medical, and political conversations about gender, sexuality, pregnancy, and motherhood. Their stories deepen our understanding of celebrity, repertory, and theatre’s connection to a wider social world, and challenge notions of women’s agency and power in and beyond the professional theatre.

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Black Space

Negotiating Race, Diversity, and Belonging in the Ivory Tower

Rutgers University Press

Protests against systemic racism have swept across elite colleges and universities, raising questions about what it means for Black students to belong on these campuses. Sherry L. Deckman takes us into the lives of students in the Kuumba Singers, a Black student organization with racially diverse members and a self-proclaimed safe space for anyone but particularly Black students, as a case study in exploring race, diversity, and safe space.

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American Urbanist

How William H. Whyte's Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life

Island Press

American Urbanist shares the remarkable life and wisdom of William H. Whyte, whose advocacy reshaped many of the places we know and love today—from New York’s bustling Bryant Park to preserved forests and farmlands around the country. Over his five decades of research and writing, his wide-ranging work changed how people thought about careers and companies, cities and suburbs, urban planning, open space preservation, and more. In a time when most Americans were eager to fit in, he advocated for oddball ideas and unconformity. His ideas influenced everything from corporate hiring practices to designs of city plazas. “We need the kind of curiosity that blows the lid off everything,” he once said. This fascinating biography offers a rare glimpse into the mind of an iconoclast whose healthy skepticism of the status quo can help guide our efforts to create the kinds of places we want to live in today.

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Theatre History Studies 2021, Vol 40

University of Alabama Press

A peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America Theatre Conference
 

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Soldiers, Saints, and Shamans

Indigenous Communities and the Revolutionary State in Mexico's Gran Nayar, 1910–1940

The University of Arizona Press

Soldiers, Saints, and Shamans documents how and why the Indigenous Náayari, Wixárika, O’dam, and Mexicanero peoples took part in the Mexican Revolution as they struggled to preserve their cultures, lands, and political autonomy in the face of civil war, bandit raids, and radical political reform. In unpacking the ambiguities that characterize their participation in this tumultuous period, it sheds light on the inner contradictions of the revolution itself.
 
 

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From the Ground Up

Local Efforts to Create Resilient Cities

Island Press

In From the Ground Up: Local Efforts to Create Resilient Cities, design expert Alison Sant focuses on the unique ways in which US cities are working to mitigate and adapt to climate change while creating equitable and livable communities.

Sant presents 12 case studies, drawn from research and over 90 interviews with people who are working in these communities to make a difference. These efforts show how US cities are reclaiming their streets from cars, restoring watersheds, growing forests, and adapting shorelines to improve people’s lives while addressing our changing climate.

From the Ground Up is a call to action. When we make the places we live more climate resilient, we need to acknowledge and address the history of social and racial injustice. Advocates, non-profit organizations, community-based groups, and government officials will find examples of how to build alliances to support and embolden this vision together.
 

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The Drum Is a Wild Woman

Jazz and Gender in African Diaspora Literature

University Press of Mississippi

A repositioning, reinvention, and reclamation of jazz writing by powerful women writers

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The Circus Is in Town

Sport, Celebrity, and Spectacle

Edited by Lisa Doris Alexander and Joel Nathan Rosen; Foreword by David C. Ogden; Afterword by Jack Lule
University Press of Mississippi

A tracking of the most explosive collisions between athletic reputation and public scandal

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Primitivism and Identity in Latin America

Essays on Art, Literature, and Culture

The University of Arizona Press
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Performing Racial Uplift

E. Azalia Hackley and African American Activism in the Postbellum to Pre-Harlem Era

University Press of Mississippi

A groundbreaking rediscovery of a classically trained innovator and powerful teacher who set milestones for African American singers and musicians

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Making Levantine Cuisine

Modern Foodways of the Eastern Mediterranean

University of Texas Press

From family staples to national dishes, Making Levantine Cuisine addresses the transnational histories and cultural nuances of the ingredients, recipes, and foodways that place the Levant onto an ever-shifting global culinary map.

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Land Uprising

Native Story Power and the Insurgent Horizons of Latinx Indigeneity

The University of Arizona Press

Land Uprising reframes Indigenous land reclamation as a horizon to decolonize the settler colonial conditions of literary, intellectual, and activist labor. Simón Ventura Trujillo argues that land provides grounding for rethinking the connection between Native storytelling practices and Latinx racialization across overlapping colonial and nation-state forms.

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Drawing the Past, Volume 2

Comics and the Historical Imagination in the World

University Press of Mississippi

The conclusion of a worldwide study that investigates the role comics play in historical memory

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Drawing the Past, Volume 1

Comics and the Historical Imagination in the United States

University Press of Mississippi

The first installment of a tremendous exploration between comics and history

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Conversations with Dave Eggers

Edited by Scott F. Parker
University Press of Mississippi

A collection of thirty-four interviews with a publisher, editor, and bestselling writer who is known for his range of works and breadth of philanthropic pursuits

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Black Man in the Netherlands

An Afro-Antillean Anthropology

University Press of Mississippi

A memoir and anthropological annunciation of how anti-racism is transforming the Caribbean and the Old World

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Barbara Jordan

Speaking the Truth with Eloquent Thunder

Edited by Max Sherman
University of Texas Press

A collection of stirring speeches by former U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Jordan that speaks to issues—ethics in government, civil liberties, and democratic values—still under intense debate in the twenty-first century.

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Stories of Becoming

Demystifying the Professoriate for Graduate Students in Composition and Rhetoric

Utah State University Press

Based on findings from a multiyear, nationwide study of new faculty in the field of rhetoric and composition, Stories of Becoming provides graduate students—and those who train them—with specific strategies for preparing for a career in the professoriate.

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Myofascial Induction™ Volume 1: The Upper Body

An Anatomical Approach to the Treatment of Fascial Dysfunction

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Handspring Publishing
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Adapting to the Land

A History of Agriculture in Colorado

University Press of Colorado
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Slow Fuse of the Possible

A Memoir of Poetry and Psychoanalysis

West Virginia University Press

An engrossing and beautifully crafted memoir of imagination, obsession, and disaster from the couch of old-fashioned four-times-a-week psychoanalysis.
 

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The Japanese Buddhist World Map

Religious Vision and the Cartographic Imagination

University of Hawaii Press
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Residues

Thinking Through Chemical Environments

Rutgers University Press

Residues offers readers a new approach for conceptualizing the environmental impacts of chemicals production, consumption, disposal, and regulation. With detailed stories that span the globe, we introduce “residual materialism” as a way to track the, often invisible, impacts of chemicals through time and space and for explaining their world-making powers.

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Record of the Seasonal Customs of Korea

Tongguk sesigi by Toae Hong Sŏk-mo

Translated by Werner Sasse; Series edited by Robert E. Buswell, Jr.
University of Hawaii Press
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Rage and Ravage

Gods of Medieval Japan, Volume 3

University of Hawaii Press
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Leaving Paradise

Indigenous Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest, 1787–1898

University of Hawaii Press
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Faith in Mount Fuji

The Rise of Independent Religion in Early Modern Japan

University of Hawaii Press
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