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America's Early Whalemen
Indian Shore Whalers on Long Island, 1650–1750
The University of Arizona Press
The Native Americans of Long Island were integral to the origin and development of the first American whaling enterprise in the years 1650 to 1750. John A. Strong has produced the authoritative source on Indians and shore whaling.
The Cougar Conundrum
Sharing the World with a Successful Predator
By Mark Elbroch
Island Press
Mountain lions, once on the edge of extinction, have made a remarkable comeback. But this has led to an unexpected modern conundrum: Do more mountain lions mean they’re a threat to humans and domestic animals? Or do they need our help to survive? Mountain lion biologist and expert Mark Elbroch dismisses old myths, arguing that ecosystems depend on keystone predators to keep them in healthy balance. Humans and mountain lions can coexist, he explains, if we arm ourselves with knowledge and common sense. Elbroch explores the realities of human and livestock safety in the presence of mountain lions, as well as human impacts on lions and the need for sensible management strategies.
The Cougar Conundrum delivers a clear-eyed assessment of a modern wildlife challenge, offering practical advice for wildlife managers, conservationists, hunters, and those who share their habitat with large predators.
The Cougar Conundrum delivers a clear-eyed assessment of a modern wildlife challenge, offering practical advice for wildlife managers, conservationists, hunters, and those who share their habitat with large predators.
Planetary Health
Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves
By Samuel Myers and Howard Frumkin
Island Press
Human health depends on the health of the planet. Earth’s natural systems—the air, the water, the biodiversity, the climate—are our life support systems. Yet climate change, biodiversity loss, scarcity of land and freshwater, pollution and other threats are degrading these systems. The emerging field of planetary health aims to understand how these changes threaten our health and how to protect ourselves and the rest of the biosphere.
Interdisciplinary in nature, Planetary Health explores how accelerating environmental change affects each dimension of human health. It then turns to the rich terrain of solutions, reimagining our cities, our food systems, our energy sector, the chemicals we use, even our economics and our ethics. The result is a comprehensive and optimistic introduction to a field that is being adopted by researchers and universities around the world.
Interdisciplinary in nature, Planetary Health explores how accelerating environmental change affects each dimension of human health. It then turns to the rich terrain of solutions, reimagining our cities, our food systems, our energy sector, the chemicals we use, even our economics and our ethics. The result is a comprehensive and optimistic introduction to a field that is being adopted by researchers and universities around the world.
Pain Science - Yoga - Life
Bridging neuroscience and yoga for pain care
By Marnie Hartman and Niamh Moloney
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Handspring Publishing
Texas Place Names
By Edward Callary and Jean K. Callary
University of Texas Press
From Alice to Zephyr, this colorful compendium tells the story behind more than three thousand intriguing place names in Texas, revealing the turning points that put Dime Box, Shiner, and other distinctive appellations on the map.
Landed Internationals
Planning Cultures, the Academy, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
By Burak Erdim
University of Texas Press
Landed Internationals explores how postwar encounters in housing and planning helped transform the dynamics of international development and challenged American modernity.
Kitchen Economics
Women’s Regionalist Fiction and Political Economy
University of Alabama Press
An analysis of how nineteenth-century women regional writers represent political economic thought
A Thirsty Land
The Fight for Water in Texas
University of Texas Press
A Thirsty Land chronicles Texans’ epic struggles over water, from San Antonio’s mission-era acequias to today’s debates in the face of climate change and population growth, with an eye toward innovative technologies and strategies for increasing the suppl
In Faulkner's Shadow
A Memoir
University Press of Mississippi
An amusing, honest, and sympathetic account of literary rivalries and family feuds in Faulkner’s hometown
Flash of Light, Wall of Fire
Japanese Photographs Documenting the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
University of Texas Press
Featuring over one hundred photographs taken after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this book forces us to confront the human and environmental costs of nuclear war.
Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country
The Benton County Civil Rights Movement
University Press of Mississippi
An in-depth oral and hyperlocal history of a rural county and its fight for civil rights
Making Houston Modern
The Life and Architecture of Howard Barnstone
University of Texas Press
This collection of essays examines the life and legacy of Houston architect Howard Barnstone, whose modernist designs and pioneering writings reshaped perceptions of the architecture of Texas.
Las Varas
Ritual and Ethnicity in the Ancient Andes
By Howard Tsai
University of Alabama Press
Archaeological data from Las Varas, Peru, that establish the importance of ritual in constructing ethnic boundaries
Disposing of Modernity
The Archaeology of Garbage and Consumerism during Chicago's 1893 World's Fair
University Press of Florida
Through archaeological and archival research from sites associated with the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, this book explores the changing world of urban America at the turn of the twentieth century.
Coastal Lives
Nature, Capital, and the Struggle for Artisanal Fisheries in Peru
The University of Arizona Press
Coastal Lives reveals the ways in which ocean life is organized to produce value and thus provides a critical examination of the politics of contemporary environmental change in Peru and around the world. The authors underscore the importance of making the co-production of nature, capital, and politics visible as a critical means for addressing ecological crises and the multispecies dispossessions that accompany them.
Civil Becomings
Performative Politics in the Amazon and the Mediterranean
By Raúl Acosta
University of Alabama Press
An anthropological approach to an emerging form of transnational political engagement by independent civil society organizations
The Rain Gods' Rebellion
The Cultural Basis of a Nahua Insurgency
University Press of Colorado
Providing a rare longitudinal look at the cultural basis of this grassroots insurgency, The Rain Gods’ Rebellion offers rare insight into the significance of oral history in forming Nahua collective memory and, by extension, culture.
Spirit Lands of the Eagle and Bear
Numic Archaeology and Ethnohistory in the Rocky Mountains and Borderlands
Edited by Robert H. Brunswig
University Press of Colorado
Spirit Lands of the Eagle and Bear explores advances in the prehistory and early history of Numic hunter-gatherers in the Rocky Mountain West through the presentation and analysis of archaeological and historic research on the period from the earliest established presence in the Rockies and its borderlands more than a thousand years ago to the forced removal of Ute, Shoshone, and other tribes to reservations in the mid-nineteenth century.
Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
Edited by Sarah Kurnick and Joanne Baron
University Press of Colorado
Interpreting the Legacy
John Neihardt and Black Elk Speaks
University Press of Colorado
Ambitious and provocative, Interpreting the Legacy: John Neihardt and Black Elk Speaks is a new study of the classic spiritual text that is sure to spark debate. Neihardt's work has recently been critiqued by scholars who maintain that the author filtered and corrupted Black Elk's teachings through a European spiritual and political lens. In this book, Brian Holloway offers a rather different view, making a convincing case that Neihardt quite consciously attempted to use his literary craftsmanship to provide the reader with direct and immediate access to the teachings of the Oglala elder.
Building a Resilient Twenty-First-Century Economy for Rural America
Utah State University Press
In Building a Resilient Twenty-First-Century Economy for Rural America, Don E. Albrecht visits rural communities that have traditionally been dependent on a variety of goods-producing industries, explores what has happened as employment in these industries has declined, and provides a path by which they can build a vibrant twenty-first-century economy.
Ancient Southwestern Mortuary Practices
Edited by James T. Watson and Gordon F. M. Rakita
University Press of Colorado
Chronicles the modal patterns, diversity, and change of ancient mortuary practices from across the US Southwest and northwest Mexico over four thousand years of Prehispanic occupation.
An Inconstant Landscape
The Maya Kingdom of El Zotz, Guatemala
Edited by Thomas G. Garrison and Stephen Houston
University Press of Colorado
An Inconstant Landscape paints a complex picture of a dynamic landscape over the course of almost 2,000 years of occupation.
Poetry and the Science of Compassion
SF Design, llc / FrescoBooks
Professor Pietroni outlines how science, especially neuroscience, has allowed us to begin to understand the biological, chemical, and physical nature of compassion.
Poetry and Global Compassion
SF Design, llc / FrescoBooks
In the third volume of his series of poems on compassion, Professor Pietroni focuses specifically on the concept of global compassion.
Fanning the Sacred Flame
Mesoamerican Studies in Honor of H. B. Nicholson
Edited by Matthew A. Boxt and Brian D. Dillon
University Press of Colorado
Fanning the Sacred Flame: Mesoamerican Studies in Honor of H. B. Nicholson contains twenty-two original papers in tribute to H. B. "Nick" Nicholson, a pioneer of Mesoamerican research. His intellectual legacy is recognized by Mesoamerican archaeologists, art historians, ethnohistorians, and ethnographers--students, colleagues, and friends who derived inspiration and encouragement from him throughout their own careers.
A Coast to Explore
Coastal Geology and Ecology of Central California
University of Alaska Press, Pandion Books
The New Port Moresby
Gender, Space, and Belonging in Urban Papua New Guinea
University of Hawaii Press
The Madhyama Agama
(Middle-Length Discourses), Volume 2
Translated by Bhikkhu Anālayo and Roderick S. Bucknell
BDK America
School is Life
Progressive Education in the Philippines
Edited by Ani Rosa Almario and Tina Zamora
Ateneo De Manila, Ateneo De Manila Univ Press
Renewable Energy
Malaysia’s Climate Change Solution or Placebo?
ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
Innovation of Higher Education
Change-Makers at Incheon National University I
Seoul Selection, Seoul Selection USA, Inc.
From the Mountains to the Sea
Protecting Nature in Postwar New Hampshire
University of Massachusetts Press
First Fieldwork
Pacific Anthropology, 1960–1985
Edited by Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi
University of Hawaii Press
Diseased States
Epidemic Control in Britain and the United States
University of Massachusetts Press
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