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Glitter Up the Dark

How Pop Music Broke the Binary

University of Texas Press

From the Beatles to Prince to Perfume Genius, Glitter Up the Dark takes a historical look at the voices that transcended gender and the ways music has subverted the gender binary.

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Collecting Black Studies

The Art of Material Culture at the University of Texas at Austin

Art Galleries at Black Studies UT-Austin

This beautifully illustrated volume presents and analyzes for the first time the many hidden treasures from Black Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Black Panther in Exile

The Pete O'Neal Story

University Press of Florida

This book tells the story of Pete O’Neal, one of the most influential members of the Black Panther Party, who now lives in exile in Tanzania—unable to return to the United States but refusing to renounce his past.

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Bartolomé de las Casas and the Defense of Amerindian Rights

A Brief History with Documents

University of Alabama Press

An accessible reader of both popular and largely unavailable writings of Bartolomé de las Casas

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A Final Reckoning

A Hannover Family's Life and Death in the Shoah

University of Alabama Press

A work of both childhood memory and adult reflection undergirded with scholarly research
 

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The Little Orange Book II

Student Voices on Excellent Teaching

UT System Acad of Distinguished Teachers

Students from the University of Texas System and its members of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers offer thoughtful reflections on classroom learning.

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The Shoe Boy

A Trapline Memoir

By Duncan McCue; Performed by Duncan McCue
UBC Press, Purich Books

The Shoe Boy is an evocative exploration of Indigenous identity and connection to the land, expressed in guise of a unique coming-of-age memoir set on a trapline in northern Quebec.

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Fabricate 2020

Making Resilient Architecture

Riverside Architectural Press
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Wrenched from the Land

Activists Inspired by Edward Abbey

By ML Lincoln; Edited by Diane Sward Rapaport; Foreword by Bill McKibben
University of New Mexico Press

The activists featured in this book are inspired by the late Edward Abbey, one of America's uncompromising and irascible defenders of wilderness.

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The Swimming Holes of Texas

University of Texas Press

Full of practical information to help plan your visits and enticing color photos of one hundred freshwater swimming holes, here is the first-ever guide to the best places to swim in Texas.

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Reshaping the World

Debates on Mesoamerican Cosmologies

Edited by Ana Díaz
University Press of Colorado

A nuanced exploration of the plurality, complexity, and adaptability of Precolumbian and colonial-era Mesoamerican cosmological models and the ways in which anthropologists and historians have used colonial and indigenous texts to understand these models in the past.

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Coding Streams of Language

Techniques for the Systematic Coding of Text, Talk, and Other Verbal Data

The WAC Clearinghouse

A systematic and practical research guide to coding verbal data in all its forms.

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A Troubled Marriage

Indigenous Elites of the Colonial Americas

University of New Mexico Press

A Troubled Marriage describes the lives of native leaders whose resilience and creativity allowed them to survive and prosper in the traumatic era of European conquest and colonial rule.

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The Sovereign Street

Making Revolution in Urban Bolivia

The University of Arizona Press

The Sovereign Street offers a rare look at political revolution as it happens, showing how mass street protest can change national political life.  It documents a critical period in twenty-first century Bolivia, when small-town protests made headlines worldwide, where a generation of pro-globalization policies were called into question, and where the indigenous majority stepped into government power for the first time in five centuries.

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The Soul of Taiji

Zhang Sanfeng-Wu Baolin Taijiquan

By Wu Baolin and Michael McBride; Illustrated by Oliver Benson
Three Pines Press
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The Hand that Rocks the Cradle

Nurturing Exclusivist Interpretations of Islam in the Malaysian Home

ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
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The Art of Communication in a Polarized World

Athabasca University Press

In North America and elsewhere, communities are fractured along ideological lines as social media and algorithms encourage individuals to seek out others who think like they do and to condemn those that don’t. An essential guide for surviving in our polarized society, this book offers concrete strategies for refining how values and ideas are communicated.

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teamLab

Continuity

Asian Art Museum
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Non-Traditional Security Issues in ASEAN

Agendas for Action

ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
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Moments of Silence

The Unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, Massacre in Bangkok

University of Hawaii Press
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God Is Samoan

Dialogues between Culture and Theology in the Pacific

University of Hawaii Press
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Feeding Cahokia

Early Agriculture in the North American Heartland

University of Alabama Press

An authoritative and thoroughly accessible overview of farming and food practices at Cahokia

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Buddhist Tourism in Asia

Edited by Courtney Bruntz and Brooke Schedneck; Series edited by Mark Michael Rowe
University of Hawaii Press
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Behold the Buddha

Religious Meanings of Japanese Buddhist Icons

University of Hawaii Press
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Balancing the Tides

Marine Practices in American Sāmoa

University of Hawaii Press
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André Michaux in North America

Journals and Letters, 1785–1797

University of Alabama Press

Journals and letters, translated from the original French, bring Michaux’s work to modern readers and scientists

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Ancient West Mexicos

Time, Space, and Diversity

University Press of Florida

This volume highlights the diversity and complexity of western Mexico’s pre-Hispanic cultures and argues that the region was more similar than many researchers have believed to the rest of the Mesoamerican world.

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All I Ever Wanted

A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir

University of Texas Press

Go-Go’s bassist Kathy Valentine’s story is a roller coaster of sex, drugs, and of course, music; it’s also a story of what it takes to find success and find yourself, even when it all comes crashing down.

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The Memory Eaters

University of Massachusetts Press
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Senseless Women

University of Massachusetts Press
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A Wolf by the Ears

University of Massachusetts Press
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Willy Ley

Prophet of the Space Age

University Press of Florida

Science writer Willy Ley inspired Americans of all ages to imagine a future of interplanetary travel long before space shuttles existed. This is the first biography of an important public figure who predicted and boosted the rise of the Space Age, yet has been overlooked in the history of science.

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The Columbia Restaurant Spanish Cookbook

University Press of Florida

In this narrated cookbook, Adela Hernandez Gonzmart and Ferdie Pacheco memorialize their passion for the Columbia, the nation’s largest Spanish restaurant and Florida’s oldest restaurant. This special 115th anniversary edition of the The Columbia Restaurant Spanish Cookbook features a touching foreword by Andrea Gonzmart Williams, granddaughter of Adela.

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Fictions of Certitude

Science, Faith, and the Search for Meaning, 1840–1920

University of Alabama Press

The search for belief and meaning among nineteenth-century intellectuals

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Dogs

Archaeology beyond Domestication

University Press of Florida

While previous studies of dogs in human history have focused on how people have changed the species through domestication, this volume offers a rich archaeological portrait of the human-canine bond. Contributors investigate the ways people have viewed and valued dogs in different cultures around the world and across the ages.

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Your Interests, My Interests

A Visual Guide to Playing and Hanging Out for Children on the Autism Spectrum

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Children on the autism spectrum can find playing with other children difficult. This colourful and fun visual guide, full of examples and activities, shows how they can find common interests with their friends, peers and family, so that they can have more fun playing and hanging out together.

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