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Thinking Differently about HIV/AIDS

Contributions from Critical Social Science

UBC Press

Almost four decades after the discovery of HIV/AIDS, Thinking Differently about HIV/AIDS: Contributions from Critical Social Science demonstrates the essential role of critical social science in helping us understand the complexity of the epidemic and develop appropriate solutions.

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The Language Letters

Selected 1970s Correspondence of Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, and Ron Silliman

University of New Mexico Press

Written between 1970 and 1978, these letters detail the development of the concepts and styles that came to define one of the most influential movements in post-1960s writing.

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Moved by the State

Forced Relocation and Making a Good Life in Postwar Canada

UBC Press

Through five diverse episodes of forced relocation across Canada, Moved by the State offers a new look at the power of the welfare state and the political culture of postwar Canada.

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Flawed Precedent

The St. Catherine’s Case and Aboriginal Title

UBC Press

This illuminating account of the St. Catherine’s case of the 1880s reveals the erroneous assumptions and racism inherent in judgments that would define the nature and character of Aboriginal title in Canadian law and policy for almost a century.

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At the Bridge

James Teit and an Anthropology of Belonging

UBC Press

At the Bridge lifts from obscurity the story of James Teit (1864–1922), an outstanding Canadian ethnographer and Indian rights activist whose thoughtful scholarship and tireless organizing have been largely ignored.

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Wind, Wings, and Waves

A Hawai‘i Nature Guide

University of Hawaii Press, Latitude 20
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The Beautiful Mysterious

The Extraordinary Gaze of William Eggleston

Edited by Ann J. Abadie; By University of Mississippi Museum and Historic Houses
University Press of Mississippi

A unique look at the acclaimed photographer known for trailblazing artistic color photographs

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That Distant Country Next Door

Popular Japanese Perceptions of Mao’s China

University of Hawaii Press
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Ryōgen and Mount Hiei

Japanese Tendai in the Tenth Century

University of Hawaii Press
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Kingdom of the Sick

A History of Leprosy and Japan

University of Hawaii Press
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Heiau, ‘Āina, Lani

The Hawaiian Temple System in Ancient Kahikinui and Kaupō, Maui

University of Hawaii Press
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Hawai‘i Regional Cuisine

The Food Movement That Changed the Way Hawai‘i Eats

University of Hawaii Press
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Going Forth

Visions of Buddhist Vinaya

University of Hawaii Press
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Fukushima Fiction

The Literary Landscape of Japan’s Triple Disaster

University of Hawaii Press
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Emma’s Adventure

Mommy’s Work Trip

By Alyssa Kapaona; Illustrated by Bryce Watanabe
CRDG, Curriculum Research & Dev Group
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Daoist Internal Mastery

By Liping Wang; Translated by Mark Bartosh; Edited by Livia Kohn
Three Pines Press
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Azalea 12

Journal of Korean Literature and Culture

Edited by Young-Jun Lee
Pres & Fellows of Harvard College, Korea Institute, Harvard University
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Approaching the Land of Bliss

Religious Praxis in the Cult of Amitābha

University of Hawaii Press
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Guadalupe Mountains National Park

An Environmental History of the Southwest Borderlands

University of Massachusetts Press
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Folklore in Baltic History

Resistance and Resurgence

University Press of Mississippi

A lively history of folklore practice in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania

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Worlds in the Sky

Planetary Discovery from Earliest Times Through Voyager and Magellan

The University of Arizona Press

William Sheehan gives us a history our fascination with planets, weaving together scientific history, anecdotes surrounding planetary discoveries, and the personal reflections of an incurable amateur astronomer. He describes how we arrived at our current understanding of the Moon and the planets and shows how certain individuals in history shaped the world’s knowledge about the Solar System.

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The Navajo Hunter Tradition

The University of Arizona Press

A new approach to the study of myths relating to the origin of the Navajos. Based on extensive fieldwork and research, including Navajo hunter informants and unpublished manuscripts of Father Berard Haile.

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Sonora Yaqui Language Structures

The University of Arizona Press

Sonora Yaqui Language Structures is a valuable source not only for research on this language family but also for anthropological studies of the Arizona-Sonora cultural region. In addition, it documents an indigenous language for future generations of Yaqui speakers.

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Sand, Wind, and War

Memoirs of a Desert Explorer

The University of Arizona Press

Records the work, travels, and adventures of one of the last of the great British explorers, a man who served in both world wars and carved out a special niche in science through his studies of desert sands.

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Presumptions and Burdens of Proof

An Anthology of Argumentation and the Law

University of Alabama Press

An anthology of the most important historical sources, classical and modern, on the subjects of presumptions and burdens of proof

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Maya Salt Works

University Press of Florida

In Maya Salt Works, Heather McKillop details her archaeological team’s groundbreaking discovery of a unique and massive salt production complex submerged in a lagoon in southern Belize. Exploring the organization of production and trade at the Paynes Creek Salt Works, McKillop offers a fascinating new look at the role of salt in the ancient Maya economy.

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Dude Lit

Mexican Men Writing and Performing Competence, 1955–2012

The University of Arizona Press
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Columnar Cacti and Their Mutualists

Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation

The University of Arizona Press
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Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica

University Press of Colorado

Explores the role of interregional interaction in the dynamic sociocultural processes that shaped the pre-Columbian societies of Mesoamerica.

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Edge of Awe

Experiences of the Malheur-Steens Country

Edited by Alan L. Contreras; Illustrated by Ursula K. Le Guin; Introduction by William Kittredge
Oregon State University Press

With a foreword by William Kittredge and line drawings by Ursula K. Le Guin, this literary anthology gathers together personal impressions of the Malheur-Steens region of Oregon, known for its birding opportunities, its natural beauty and remoteness, and, more recently, for the 2016 armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Contributors include biologists, students, tourists, birders, local residents, and native Paiute, thus reflecting the perspectives of visitors, original inhabitants, and current residents. Anyone who has visited the area or plans to do so, and anyone with an interest in the region, will find inspiration in this literary companion.
 

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The Global Wordsworth

Romanticism Out of Place

Bucknell University Press

The Global Wordsworth examines Anglophone writers who repurposed William Wordsworth’s poetry. By reading Wordsworth in dialog with J. M. Coetzee, Lydia Maria Child, and Jamaica Kincaid, Katherine Bergren revitalizes our understanding of Wordsworth’s career and its place in the canon.
 

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The Aquatic Frontier

Oysters and Aquaculture in the Progressive Era

University of Massachusetts Press
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Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat

The Making of Roger Rabbit

University Press of Mississippi

An exciting look at the film that launched the Disney Renaissance

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Oz behind the Iron Curtain

Aleksandr Volkov and His Magic Land Series

University Press of Mississippi

The first English-language study of Aleksandr Volkov and his Magic Land series

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Larry Hama

Conversations

University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews with the Asian American writer and cartoonist who helped develop G.I. Joe

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Jafar Panahi

Interviews

Edited by Drew Todd
University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews and writings of the Iranian filmmaker known for his remarkable films and courageous defiance of state censorship

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Direct Democracy

Collective Power, the Swarm, and the Literatures of the Americas

University Press of Mississippi

A provocative account of what motivates prolific mass movements teeming for revolutionary change

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Reframing the Northern Rio Grande Pueblo Economy

Edited by Scott Ortman
The University of Arizona Press

The archaeological record of the Northern Rio Grande exhibits the hallmarks of economic development, but Pueblo economies were organized in radically different ways than modern industrialized and capitalist economies. Contributors to Reframing the Northern Rio Grande Pueblo Economy explore the patterns and determinants of economic development in pre-Hispanic Rio Grande Pueblo society, building a platform for more broadly informed research on this critical process.

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Life Isn't Binary

On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Challenging society’s rigid and binary ways of thinking, this original work shows the limitations that binary thinking has regarding our relationships, wellbeing, sense of identity and more. Explaining how we can think and act in a less rigid manner, this fascinating book shows how life isn’t binary.

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What She Go Do

Women in Afro-Trinidadian Music

University Press of Mississippi

How women have expanded the creative reach of calypso, soca, and steelband music

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Inspired by Cuba

A Survey of Cuba-themed Ceramics

University of Florida Press, Library Press at UF
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Governing the Wind Energy Commons

Renewable Energy and Community Development

West Virginia University Press
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Intelligent Souls?

Feminist Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century English Literature

Bucknell University Press

Intelligent Souls? offers a new understanding of Islam in eighteenth-century British culture. Samara Anne Cahill’s ambitious study explores two separate but overlapping strands of thinking about women and Islam in the eighteenth century which produce the phenomenon of “feminist orientalism.” One strand describes seventeenth-century ideas about the nature of the soul used to denigrate religio-political opponents, and the other tracks the transference of these ideas to Islam during the Glorious Revolution and the Trinitarian controversy of the 1690s.
 

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Infected Kin

Orphan Care and AIDS in Lesotho

Rutgers University Press

AIDS has devastated communities across southern Africa. In Lesotho, a quarter of adults are infected. In Infected Kin, Block and McGrath argue that AIDS is fundamentally a kinship disease, examining the ways it transcends infected individuals and seeps into kin relations and networks of care.

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Forgotten Futures, Colonized Pasts

Transnational Collaboration in Nineteenth-Century Greater Mexico

Bucknell University Press

Forgotten Futures, Colonized Pasts traces the existence of forgotten histories of inter-American alliance-making, transnational community formation, and intercultural collaboration between Mexican and Anglo American elites. Using close readings of literary texts, including novels, diaries, letters, newspapers, political essays, and travel narratives produced by nineteenth-century writers throughout Greater Mexico, Kinnally brings to light how elite Mexicans and Mexican Americans defined themselves and their relationship with Spain, Mexico, the United States, and Anglo America in the nineteenth century.
 

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Cultivating Peace

The Virgilian Georgic in English, 1650-1750

Bucknell University Press

Like Virgil, who depicted a farmer’s scythe suddenly recast as a sword, the poets discussed here imagine states of peace and war to be fundamentally and materially linked. In distinct ways, they dismantle the dream of the golden age renewed, proposing instead that peace must be sustained by constant labor.

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Vancouverism

UBC Press, On Point Press

This is the remarkable story, told by a key insider, about Vancouver’s dramatic transformation from a typical mid-sized North American city into an inspiring world-class metropolis celebrated for its liveability, sustainability, and vibrancy.

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The Writing Studio Sampler

Stories about Change

The WAC Clearinghouse

Presents interrelated, cross-referenced essays illustrating writing studio methodologies.

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