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The British Superhero
By Chris Murray
University Press of Mississippi
Tracking the surprising rise of the British superhero
Heroes, Rascals, and the Law
Constitutional Encounters in Mississippi History
University Press of Mississippi
Tales of a people’s great, disgraceful, and mundane constitutional encounters
The Writer's Style
A Rhetorical Field Guide
By Paul Butler
Utah State University Press
Designed to help all writers learn to use style as a rhetorical tool, taking into account audience, purpose, context, and occasion.
The Politics of Fame
By Eric Burns
Rutgers University Press
The Politics of Fame is a provocative and entertaining look at the lives and afterlives of America’s most beloved celebrities, from Benjamin Franklin to Elvis Presley to Oprah Winfrey. It raises important questions about what celebrity worship reveals about the worshippers—and about the state of the nation itself.
Infortunios de Alonso Ramirez / The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramirez (1690)
Annotated Bilingual Edition
Edited by José F. Buscaglia-Salgado; By Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora; Translated by José F. Buscaglia-Salgado
Rutgers University Press
Buscaglia is the first scholar to furnish direct and irrefutable proof that the story contained in the Infortunios/Misfortunes was based on the life and times of a man certifiably named Alonso Ramírez. This Rutgers edition is the most complete and authoritative bilingual edition of a work that grants us privileged access to the intricacies of early American subjectivity.
Infortunios de Alonso Ramirez / The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramirez (1690)
Annotated Bilingual Edition
Edited by José F. Buscaglia-Salgado; By Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora; Translated by José F. Buscaglia-Salgado
Rutgers University Press
Buscaglia is the first scholar to furnish direct and irrefutable proof that the story contained in the Infortunios/Misfortunes was based on the life and times of a man certifiably named Alonso Ramírez. This Rutgers edition is the most complete and authoritative bilingual edition of a work that grants us privileged access to the intricacies of early American subjectivity.
Conversations with Maurice Sendak
Edited by Peter C. Kunze
University Press of Mississippi
Over forty years of interviews with one of the most respected, influential authors of the twentieth century, an American original who redefined the picture book and changed children’s literature—and its readers—forever
Beyond The Good Earth
Transnational Perspectives on Pearl S. Buck
Edited by Jay Cole and John R. Haddad
West Virginia University Press
Theatre History Studies 2018, Vol. 37
Edited by Sara Freeman; Introduction by Sara Freeman
University of Alabama Press
Theatre History Studies (THS) is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America Theatre Conference
The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell
A Place inside Yourself
Edited by Tahneer Oksman and Seamus O'Malley
University Press of Mississippi
The first edited volume to juxtapose these female alternative comics artists
Speaking of Alabama
The History, Diversity, Function, and Change of Language
University of Alabama Press
Informative and entertaining essays on the accents, dialects, and speech patterns particular to Alabama
Southern Religion, Southern Culture
Essays Honoring Charles Reagan Wilson
University Press of Mississippi
From the steeple to the stable to the goal posts and dinner table, a homily on southern religiosity
Lalo Alcaraz
Political Cartooning in the Latino Community
University Press of Mississippi
A perceptive study of a bold, prescient voice in Latino comics
Embody the Skeleton
A Guide for Conscious Movement
By Mark Taylor
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Handspring Publishing
Doc
The Story of a Birmingham Jazz Man
By Frank Adams and Burgin Mathews
University of Alabama Press
Autobiography of jazz elder statesman Frank “Doc” Adams, highlighting his role in Birmingham, Alabama’s, historic jazz scene and tracing his personal adventure that parallels, in many ways, the story and spirit of jazz itself.
Between Distant Modernities
Performing Exceptionality in Francoist Spain and the Jim Crow South
University Press of Mississippi
A literary exploration of the surprising similarities between the US South and Franco’s Spain
Guys Like Me
Five Wars, Five Veterans for Peace
Rutgers University Press
Guys Like Me introduces us to five ordinary veterans from different generations who have done extraordinary work as peace activists. Michael A. Messner reveals how the horror and trauma of the battlefront motivated onetime warriors to reconcile with former enemies, crusade for justice, and heal themselves and others.
Why Should I Write a Poem Now
The Letters of Srinivas Rayaprol and William Carlos Williams, 1949-1958
University of New Mexico Press
Their intense epistolary relationship between Srinivas Rayaprol and William Carlos Williams, lasting almost a decade and little known up to now, is chronicled in this edition of their letters.
Made Modern
Science and Technology in Canadian History
Edited by Edward Jones-Imhotep and Tina Adcock
UBC Press
The first major collection of its kind in thirty years, Made Modern explores the role of science and technology in shaping Canadians’ experience of themselves and their place in the modern world.
Journalism, Satire, and Censorship in Mexico
University of New Mexico Press
In this collection historians, media experts, political scientists, cartoonists, and journalists reconsider censorship, state-press relations, news coverage, and readership to retell the history of Mexico's press.
Charlie Burk
Journey in Abstraction
SF Design, llc / FrescoBooks
Nature provides the subject for the beautifully intricate patterns and graceful lines of the art of Charlie Burk.
The Dark Eclipse
Reflections on Suicide and Absence
By A.W. Barnes
Bucknell University Press
The Dark Eclipse is a book of personal essays in which author A.W. Barnes seeks to come to terms with the suicide of his older brother, Mike, in 1993. While the rest of the family seems to have forgotten about Mike, Barnes has not been able to let him go.
Social Writing/Social Media
Publics, Presentations, and Pedagogies
Edited by Douglas M. Walls and Stephanie Vie
The WAC Clearinghouse
Examines the impact of social media on three writing-related themes: publics and audiences, presentation of self and groups, and pedagogy at various levels of higher education.
Modern Spanish Women as Agents of Change
Essays in Honor of Maryellen Bieder
Edited by Jennifer Smith
Bucknell University Press
This volume brings together cutting-edge research on modern Spanish women as writers, activists, and embodiments of cultural change, and honors Maryellen Bieder’s invaluable scholarly contributions. The critical analyses are situated within their specific socio-historical context, and shed new light on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spanish literature, history, and culture.
Modern Spanish Women as Agents of Change
Essays in Honor of Maryellen Bieder
Edited by Jennifer Smith
Bucknell University Press
This volume brings together cutting-edge research on modern Spanish women as writers, activists, and embodiments of cultural change, and honors Maryellen Bieder’s invaluable scholarly contributions. The critical analyses are situated within their specific socio-historical context, and shed new light on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spanish literature, history, and culture.
Military Education and the British Empire, 1815–1949
UBC Press
Bringing together the world’s leading scholars on the subject, Military Education and the British Empire explores distinct national narratives within a comparative context to expose the role of military education in maintaining empire.
Liberating Hollywood
Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema
Rutgers University Press
Liberating Hollywood examines the professional experiences and creative output of women filmmakers during a unique moment in history when the social justice movements that defined the 1960s and 1970s challenged the enduring culture of sexism and racism in the U.S. film industry.
Liberating Hollywood
Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema
Rutgers University Press
Liberating Hollywood examines the professional experiences and creative output of women filmmakers during a unique moment in history when the social justice movements that defined the 1960s and 1970s challenged the enduring culture of sexism and racism in the U.S. film industry.
Antigone's Ghosts
The Long Legacy of War and Genocide in Five Countries
Bucknell University Press
Sophocles' play Antigone is a starting point for understanding the problems of human societies, families, and individuals caught up in the aftermath of mass violence. Through comparison of Germany, Japan, Spain, Yugoslavia and Turkey, we begin to appreciate the different pathways that societies have taken when confronting their violent histories.
The Codex Mexicanus
A Guide to Life in Late Sixteenth-Century New Spain
University of Texas Press
This groundbreaking book offers the first scholarly analysis of the entire Codex Mexicanus, an enigmatic sixteenth-century pictorial manuscript, and shows how it helped the Aztec adapt to life in colonial Mexico
Potential on the Periphery
College Access from the Ground Up
By Omari Scott Simmons; Foreword by Damon T. Hewitt
Rutgers University Press
This book profiles the Simmons Memorial Foundation (SMF), a grassroots non-profit organization co-founded by Omari Scott Simmons, that promotes college access for vulnerable students. Simmons discusses how the organization has helped students secure admission and succeed in college, using this example to contextualize the broader realm of existing education practice, academic theory, and public policy.
Portraying the Aztec Past
The Codices Boturini, Azcatitlan, and Aubin
University of Texas Press
Offering the first extended comparison of three closely related painted manuscripts from colonial Mexico, this book reveals how differences in their materials and composition show the evolution of the native pictorial tradition.
Books for Idle Hours
Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading
University of Massachusetts Press
The Foreign and Domestic Dimensions of Modern Warfare
Vietnam, Central America, and Nuclear Strategy
Edited by Howard Mumford Jones
University of Alabama Press
An exploration of the nuclear arms race and the dangers arising with the advent of “limited warfare
Massacres
Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology Approaches
Edited by Cheryl P. Anderson and Debra L. Martin
University of Florida Press
This volume integrates data from researchers in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology to explain when and why group-targeted violence occurs. Massacres have plagued both ancient and modern societies, and by analyzing skeletal remains from these events within their broader cultural and historical contexts this volume opens up important new understandings of the underlying social processes that continue to lead to these tragedies.
Leaving the South
Border Crossing Narratives and the Remaking of Southern Identity
University Press of Mississippi
How narratives about mass migration from the South reconstructed southern identity
Friendship Fictions
The Rhetoric of Citizenship in the Liberal Imaginary
University of Alabama Press
Friendship serves as a metaphor for citizenship and mirrors the individual’s participation in civic life. Friendship Fictions unravels key implications of this metaphor and demonstrates how it can transform liberal culture into a more just and democratic way of life.
Conversations with Madeleine L'Engle
Edited by Jackie C. Horne
University Press of Mississippi
Collected interviews with the beloved author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, but who is best known for her Newbery Award–winning novel, A Wrinkle in Time
Between Home and Homeland
Youth Aliyah from Nazi Germany
University of Alabama Press
The emigration of Jewish teenagers to Palestine to escape Hitler’s Germany
Annotated Bibliography of Southern American English
University of Alabama Press
A collection of the total range of scholarly and popular writing on English as spoken from Maryland to Texas and from Kentucky to Florida
The Trials of Richard Goldstone
Rutgers University Press
Richard Goldstone emerged as a leading champion of human rights, first as a judge taking on the apartheid system in his native South Africa, then investigating war crimes in Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, and Gaza. This new biography tells the story of a remarkable individual and the price he paid for his convictions.
Sugar and Tension
Diabetes and Gender in Modern India
Rutgers University Press
In Sugar and Tension, Lesley Jo Weaver uses women’s experiences with diabetes in New Delhi as a lens to explore how gendered roles and expectations are taking shape in contemporary India. Weaver describes how women negotiate the many responsibilities in their lives when chronic disease is at stake.
Postfeminist War
Women in the Media-Military-Industrial Complex
Rutgers University Press
By examining news and documentary media produced since September 11, 2001, Vavrus demonstrates that news narratives that include women use feminism selectively in gender equality narratives. She ultimately asserts that such reporting advances post-feminism, which, in tandem with banal militarism, subtly pushes military solutions for an array of problems women and girls face.
Funny Girls
Guffaws, Guts, and Gender in Classic American Comics
University Press of Mississippi
The first comprehensive examination of young female protagonists in early American comics
A Clinician's Guide to Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
Rutgers University Press
A Clinician’s Guide to Progressive Supranuclear Palsy emphasizes early diagnostic signs, medication options, non-pharmacologic management and palliative care. It offers a quick overview of the complications of PSP most likely to prompt an ER visit; a widening spectrum of PSP variants; and clear description of the components of the disease.
Unmarked Graves
Death and Survival in the Anti-Communist Violence in East Java, Indonesia
University of Hawaii Press
A Hundred Acres of America
The Geography of Jewish American Literary History
Rutgers University Press
Michael Hoberman combines literary history and geography to restore Jewish American writers to their roles as critical members of the American literary landscape from the 1850s to the present, and to argue that Jewish history, American literary history, and the inhabitation of American geography are, and always have been, contiguous entities.
Moving In and Out of Islam
Edited by Karin van Nieuwkerk
University of Texas Press
With empirical case studies from Western and Central Europe, the United States, Canada, and the Middle East, this anthology opens a new field of study by exploring people’s rationales for leaving, as well as converting to, Islam.
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