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Listening to Survivors

Four Decades of Holocaust Memorial Week at Oregon State University

Oregon State University Press

Listening to Survivors presents the voices of nineteen Holocaust survivors and two witnesses who shared their personal experiences with audiences at Oregon State University over the past four decades as part of the university’s Holocaust Memorial Week observance.

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Heritage in the Body

Sensory Ecologies of Health Practice in Times of Change

The University of Arizona Press

Through storytelling, ethnography, and interviews, this volume examines how Indigenous Maya and Garifuna Belizeans—both in Belize and in the United States—navigate macro-level processes such as economic development, climate change, political shifts, and global health crises in the context of changes in their own lives. Employing an embodied ecological heritage (EEH) framework, this work explores the links between health and heritage. It offers insights into how heritage practices become embodied as ways to maintain and support happy, healthy lives.

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Embodying Biodiversity

Sensory Conservation as Refuge and Sovereignty

Edited by Terese Gagnon
The University of Arizona Press

This interdisciplinary volume argues for the importance of everyday sensuous conservation and its ability to grow diverse, livable worlds where human embodiment is understood as part of—not separate from—plant life. Contributors argue that the majority of biodiversity conservation worldwide is carried out not by large-scale conservation projects but by ordinary people engaging in sensory-motivated, caretaking relationships with specific plants.

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City of Wood

San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry

University of Texas Press

How San Franciscans exploited natural resources such as redwood lumber to produce the first major metropolis of the American West.

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Bound Labor in the Turpentine Belt

Kinderlou Camp and Misdemeanor Convict Leasing in Georgia

University Press of Florida

In this book, Thomas Aiello takes a close look at the Deep South’s dependence on systems of bound labor during the post-Reconstruction era through the story of a labor camp in Georgia, drawing attention to the injustices and abuses of misdemeanor convict leasing.

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Birds, Bats, and Blooms

The Coevolution of Vertebrate Pollinators and Their Plants

The University of Arizona Press

Birds, Bats, and Blooms provides an in-depth look at the ecology and evolution of two groups of vertebrate pollinators: New World hummingbirds and nectar-feeding bats and their Old World counterparts. Alongside engaging prose, this work includes fourteen color photographs of birds and flowers taken by the author.

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Transformed States

Medicine, Biotechnology, and American Culture, 1990-2020

Rutgers University Press

Transformed States offers a timely history of the politics, ethics, medical applications and cultural representations of the biotechnological revolution, from the Human Genome Project to the Covid-19 pandemic. In exploring the entanglements of mental and physical health in an age of biotechnology, it views the post-Cold War 1990s as the horizon for understanding the intersection of technoscience and culture in the early twenty-first century.

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The Purple One

Prince, Race, Gender, and Everything in Between

University Press of Mississippi

An electric collection of essays and reflections on an enigmatic musical legend

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The Nine O'Clock Whistle

Stories of the Freedom Struggle for Civil Rights in Enfield, North Carolina

University Press of Mississippi

The untold history of a small town where a stand for civil rights had lasting, wide impacts

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The Making of Sylvia Plath

University Press of Mississippi

A unique analysis of the media, literature, and pop culture that shaped Sylvia Plath’s literary achievement

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The Independence of the Prosecutor

Controversy in the Creation of the International Criminal Court

UBC Press

This compelling investigation shows how an independent prosecutor, who can initiate investigations without states’ assent, became a key part of the International Criminal Court.

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Soul of the Court

The Trailblazing Life of Judge William Benson Bryant Sr.

University Press of Mississippi

The first full-length biography of a trailblazing DC attorney and judge

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Sickly Vapors

Disease and Doctoring in the Old South

University Press of Mississippi

An examination of southern healthcare history from colonial days through the Civil War and Reconstruction

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Rutgers Then and Now

Two Centuries of Campus Development, A Historical and Photographic Odyssey

Rutgers University Press

Rutgers University has come a long way since it was granted a royal charter in 1766. It migrated from a parsonage in Somerville, to New Brunswick-sited The Sign of the Red Lion tavern, to stately Old Queens, expanding northward along College Avenue, and beyond. Replete with more than 500 campus images, Rutgers, Then and Now offers stunning pictorial and historical evidence of what it was then, side by side, with what it is today, a vital hub for research and beloved home for students.
 

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Reading the Room

Lessons on Pedagogy and Curriculum from the Gender and Sexuality Studies Classroom

Concordia University Press
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Prolific Ground

Landscape and British Women's Writing, 1690-1790

Bucknell University Press

Prolific Ground investigates landownership as a crucial factor in the emergence of British women’s independence during the long eighteenth century. Staking a claim to the nation’s investment in land, women writers acquired a socio-political authority that otherwise eluded them. The landscapes that emerge in their writing testify to the socio-political power of land in this era.
 

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Post-Crisis Leadership

Resilience, Renewal, and Reinvention in the Aftermath of Disruption

Rutgers University Press

Crisis leadership—which takes account of leading before, during, and after crisis—is an imperative for leaders at all levels. Often relegated as an afterthought in crisis scholarship and practice, the ability to navigate the post-crisis period can distinguish highly effective leaders and organizations. This book introduces a research-informed framework for this critical, and often neglected, phase of crisis leadership.

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Portuguese Jews and New Christians in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822

A New Geography of the Atlantic World

University of New Mexico Press
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Persisting Pandemics

Syphilis, AIDS, and COVID

Rutgers University Press

Syphilis, AIDS, and COVID disprove any belief that scientific discoveries have ended the period of acute epidemic diseases that once defined 19th century life and replaced them with chronic cardiovascular diseases and cancers. Today, we cope with a greater array of epidemics than those who lived during the 19th century, even though we have the biomedical means to control them. Our cumulative experience with epidemic diseases, together with our attempts to eliminate them, remains a continued component of our existence.

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Pentecostal Preacher Woman

The Faith and Feminism of Bernice Gerard

UBC Press

Evangelical pastor, talk-show host, politician, musician. Pentecostal Preacher Woman explores the complex life of Bernice Gerard, one of the most influential spiritual figures of twentieth-century British Columbia.

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