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The Blues Muse

Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry

University of Alabama Press

A critical analysis of the poetic representations and legacies of five landmark blues artists

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Peter Fidler

From York Factory to the Rocky Mountains

Edited by Barbara Belyea
University Press of Colorado

This book presents Hudson’s Bay Company surveyor Peter Fidler’s journals, edited and extensively annotated by historian Barbara Belyea.

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Improbable Metropolis

Houston's Architectural and Urban History

University of Texas Press

Beautifully illustrated, Improbable Metropolis is one of the few books to use architecture and urban planning to explain the growth of a major world city, and the only one of its kind on Houston or any other city in Texas.

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DIY City

The Collective Power of Small Actions

Island Press

Hank Dittmar, urban planner, friend of artists and creatives, sometime rancher, “high priest of town planning” to the Prince of Wales, believed in letting small things happen. Looking at the global cities of the world, he saw a crisis of success, with gentrification and global capital driving up home prices in some cities, while others decayed for lack of investment.
 
In DIY City, Dittmar explains why individual initiative, small-scale business, and small development matter, with lively stories from his own experience and examples from recent history.
 
Dittmar’s timely response to the challenges many cities face today is to make Do-It-Yourself the norm rather than the exception by removing the barriers to small-scale building and local business. The message of DIY City can offer hope to anyone who cares about cities.

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American Poetry as Transactional Art

University of Alabama Press

Explores the ways American poetry engages with visual art, music, fiction, spirituality, and performance art

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The Tenth Justice

Judicial Appointments, Marc Nadon, and the Supreme Court Act Reference

UBC Press

The Tenth Justice tells the complete story of one of the strangest sagas in Canadian legal history: the ill-fated appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada of Justice Marc Nadon.

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The King of Taos

A Novel

University of New Mexico Press

Max Evans, the beloved New Mexican writer of such enduring classics of Western fiction as The Rounders and The Hi-Lo Country, returns to form with The King of Taos.

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The Aging–Disability Nexus

UBC Press

The Aging–Disability Nexus explores the complex and competing narratives we create about aging and disability, providing fresh perspectives on how these markers interact with each other and with other indicators of power and difference.

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Redeeming a People

The Critical Role of Historical Examination in Moving Cultural and Moral Trajectories

Utah State University Press, Utah State Special Collection

In volume 24 of the Arrington Lecture Series, Darius Gray, who joined the LDS Church in 1964, marks the history of the years that preceded the leadership of the LDS Church’s revelation allowing all worthy male members, regardless of race, to receive the priesthood.

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Metabolizing Capital

Writing, Information, and the Biophysical Environment

Utah State University Press

Metabolizing Capital outlines a critical ecological framework to guide the theorization of writing and rhetoric in the dynamic contexts of Web 3.0 and environmental crisis.

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Law and Neurodiversity

Youth with Autism and the Juvenile Justice Systems in Canada and the United States

UBC Press

Through a comparison of juvenile justice systems in Canada and the United States, Law and Neurodiversity examines gaps of accommodation and consideration for youth with autism.

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He Thinks He's Down

White Appropriations of Black Masculinities in the Civil Rights Era

UBC Press

Offering fresh insights and raising important questions, this historical exploration of appropriation traces the ways in which gender and race were negotiated through the popular culture of the Civil Rights Era.

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Charlie Siringo's West

An Interpretive Biography

University of New Mexico Press

The colorful life of Charlie Siringo and the image of the American West he helped to create.

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Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein's L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E

The Complete Facsimile

University of New Mexico Press

Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein's L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E: The Complete Facsimile makes available in print all twelve of the newsletter's original issues along with three supplementary issues.

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America's Switzerland

Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park, the Growth Years

University Press of Colorado

America's Switzerland, a companion volume to This Blue Hollow, is the first comprehensive history of Rocky Mountain National Park and its neighboring town, Estes Park, during the decades when travel became a middle-class rite of summer.

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A Black Physician's Struggle for Civil Rights

Edward C. Mazique, M.D.

University of New Mexico Press

Biography of Edward Mazique, respected physician, contemporary of Martin Luther King, Jr., and influential Civil Rights activist in Washington, D.C.

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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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