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Earth Politics and Intangible Heritage

Three Case Studies in the Americas

University Press of Florida

Focusing on three communities in the Americas, this book layers archaeological research with oral narratives and social memories, demonstrating a way of reconciling the tension between Western scientific and local Indigenous approaches to history.

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Below the Stars

How the Labor of Working Actors and Extras Shapes Media Production

University of Texas Press

An examination of the critical influence of working actors and actors’ labor unions on industrial structures and practices in Hollywood, including film, television, and streaming.

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The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom

Essential Lessons for Collective Action

Island Press

Fifty years ago, conventional thinking among economists and environmentalists was that depletion of natural resources could only be prevented through the free market or government regulation. This notion was upended by Elinor Ostrom, whose work to show that regular people could sustainably manage their community resources won her the Nobel Prize in Economics. Ostrom’s revolutionary proposition fundamentally changed how we think about environmental governance. 
 
In The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom, author Erik Nordman brings to life Ostrom’s brilliant mind. Ostrom’s research proved that people can and do act in collective interest, and her ideas about common resources have played out around the world, from Maine lobster fisheries to taxicab use in Nairobi. Ostrom broke barriers at a time when women were regularly excluded from academia. Her message of shared collective action is more relevant than ever for solving today’s most pressing environmental problems.
 

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Why Marianne Faithfull Matters

University of Texas Press

A remarkable feminist history and biography that features fragments from the five-decade career of an iconic artist, who, despite a private life that overshadowed much of her early work, sculpted her own musical rebirth.

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The Rowell-Sirois Commission and the Remaking of Canadian Federalism

UBC Press

The Rowell-Sirois Commission and the Remaking of Canadian Federalism reveals the commission’s impact on the high politics of federal-provincial relations and its legacy for Canadian federalism today.

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Standing at the Threshold

Working through Liminality in the Composition and Rhetoric TAship

Utah State University Press
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Redefining Roles

The Professional, Faculty, and Graduate Consultant’s Guide to Writing Centers

Utah State University Press

Redefining Roles is the first book to recognize and provide sustained focus on the presence of professional, faculty, and graduate student consultants in writing centers.

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Mountain Witches

Yamauba

Utah State University Press

Mountain Witches is a comprehensive guide to the complex figure of yamauba—female yōkai often translated as mountain witches, who are commonly described as tall, enigmatic women with long hair, piercing eyes, and large mouths that open from ear to ear and who live in the mountains—and the evolution of their roles and significance in Japanese culture and society from the premodern era to the present.

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First Nations Wildfire Evacuations

A Guide for Communities and External Agencies

UBC Press, Purich Books

Based on the experiences of evacuees from seven First Nations communities, this book offers guidance to Indigenous communities and external agencies on how to successfully plan for and carry out wildfire evacuations.

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Engaged Archaeology in the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico

University Press of Colorado

This volume of proceedings from the fifteenth biennial Southwest Symposium makes the case for engaged archaeology, an approach that considers scientific data and traditional Indigenous knowledge alongside archaeological theories and methodologies.

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American Vaudeville

West Virginia University Press

A dreamlike, evocative reckoning with a lost epoch in popular culture—and with old, weird America.

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A Forest of History

The Maya after the Emergence of Divine Kingship

University Press of Colorado

Travis Stanton and Kathryn Brown’s A Forest of History: The Maya after the Emergence of Divine Kingship presents acollection of essays that critically engage with and build upon the lasting contributions A Forest of Kings made to Maya epigraphy, iconography, material culture, and history.

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Widodo’s Employment Creation Law, 2020

What Its Journey Tells Us about Indonesian Politics

ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
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Water and Power in West Maui

North Beach West Maui Benefit, North Beach West Maui Benefit Fund
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Trauma Healing in the Yoga Zone

A Guide for Mental Health Professionals, Yoga Therapists and Teachers

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Handspring Publishing
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Tales of Idolized Boys

Male-Male Love in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives

University of Hawaii Press
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Southeast Asian Affairs 2021

ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
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Plastic Legacies

Pollution, Persistence, and Politics

Athabasca University Press

Plastic Legacies brings together scholars from the fields of marine biology, psychology, anthropology, environmental studies, Indigenous studies, and media studies to investigate and address the urgent socio-ecological challenges brought about by plastics.

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Morning Star Rising

The Politics of Decolonization in West Papua

University of Hawaii Press
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Knotting the Banner

Ritual and Relationship in Daoist Practice

University of Hawaii Press
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Head and Heart

Yoga therapy and art therapy interventions for mental health

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Handspring Publishing
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From Pakatan Harapan to Perikatan Nasional

A Missed Opportunity for Reforms for East Malaysia?

ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
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Endangered Splendor

Manila’s Architectural Heritage, 1571–1960

Ateneo De Manila, Ateneo De Manila Univ Press
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Countering COVID-19

Cases in Crisis Response

Ateneo De Manila, Ateneo De Manila Univ Press
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Centre-Periphery Relations in Myanmar

Leverage and Solidarity after the 1 February Coup

ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
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Breathing, Mudras and Meridians

Direct Experience of Embodiment

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Handspring Publishing
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Rock Art in an Indigenous Landscape

From Atlantic Canada to Chesapeake Bay

University of Alabama Press

Examines a host of rock art sites from Nova Scotia to Maryland

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