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An Athletic Director’s Story and the Future of College Sports in America

Rutgers University Press

An Athletic Director’s Story is the story of Robert Mulcahy’s transforming decade as Rutgers University athletic director.  His first-hand account describes the challenges awaiting him in 1998: To elevate the athletics program’s assets – coaches and staffs, student athletes, facilities, and school pride – from hardly known to national prominence and achievement in NCAA Division I sports.

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After Authority

Global Art Cinema and Political Transition

Rutgers University Press

After Authority contends that art cinema’s constitutive ambiguity is a product of its having been forged in and around moments of transition from authoritarianism or totalitarianism to democracy. Kalling Heck compares films from Italy, Hungary, South Korea, and the United States in order to explore the political potentials of ambiguity in art cinema.

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25 Years of Ed Tech

Athabasca University Press

In this lively and approachable volume based on his popular blog series, Martin Weller demonstrates a rich history of innovation and effective implementation of ed tech across higher education.

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1650-1850

Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 25)

Edited by Kevin L. Cope
Bucknell University Press

1650-1850 publishes essays and reviews from and about a wide range of academic disciplines literature, philosophy, art history, history, religion, and science. Interdisciplinary in scope and approach, 1650-1850 emphasizes aesthetic manifestations and applications of ideas, and encourages studies that move between the arts and the sciences.

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Prophets, Publicists, and Parasites

Antebellum Print Culture and the Rise of the Critic

University of Massachusetts Press
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Uprooted

Race, Public Housing, and the Archaeology of Four Lost New Orleans Neighborhoods

University of Alabama Press

The archaeology of four New Orleans neighborhoods that were replaced by public housing projects

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Theatre History Studies 2019, Vol. 38

Edited by Sara Freeman; Introduction by Sara Freeman
University of Alabama Press

Peer-reviewed journal of theater history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference (MATC)

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Rethinking Colonialism

Comparative Archaeological Approaches

University Press of Florida

Inciting a critical examination of the lasting consequences of ancient and modern colonialism on descendant communities, this wide-ranging volume includes essays on Roman Britain, slavery in Brazil, and contemporary Native Americans.

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Border Citizens

The Making of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona

University of Texas Press

A detailed and insightful look at one hundred years of politics, culture, and racial identity among diverse ethnic groups in south-central Arizona.

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Bears

Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Perspectives in Native Eastern North America

University of Florida Press

Although scholars have long recognized the mythic status of bears in indigenous North American societies of the past, this is the first volume to synthesize the vast amount of archaeological and historical research on the topic. Bears charts the special relationship between the American black bear and humans in eastern Native American cultures across thousands of years.

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Medal Winners

How the Vietnam War Launched Nobel Careers

University of Texas Press, University of Texas Health Press

Examining an uplifting and unexpected outcome of a dark period in American history, this book shows how the Vietnam War made the National Institutes of Health an unparalleled training ground for trailblazing scientists.

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Strategic Corporate Conservation Planning

A Guide to Meaningful Engagement

Island Press

Industries that drive economic growth and support our comfortable modern lifestyles have exploited natural resources to do so. But now there’s growing understanding that business can benefit from a better relationship with the environment. Leading corporations have begun to leverage nature-based remediation, restoration, and enhanced lands management to meet a variety of business needs, such as increasing employee engagement and establishing key performance indicators for reporting and disclosures. Strategic Corporate Conservation Planning offers fresh insights for corporations and environmental groups looking to create mutually beneficial partnerships that use conservation action to address business challenges and realize meaningful environmental outcomes. Myriad case studies featuring programs from habitat restoration to environmental educational initiatives at companies like Bridgestone USA, General Motors, and CRH Americas are included to help spark new ideas.
 

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Dancing Man

A Broadway Choreographer's Journey

University Press of Mississippi

The ultimate insider’s scoop on the most popular shows in Broadway history

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Cuba hasta siempre

By Magdalena Solé; Foreword by Pico Iyer
University Press of Mississippi

An award-winning photographer’s vivid images of the island country

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Trees of Alabama

By Lisa J. Samuelson; By (photographer) Michael E. Hogan
University of Alabama Press

An easy-to-use guide to the most common trees in the state
 

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Negotiating Respect

Pentecostalism, Masculinity, and the Politics of Spiritual Authority in the Dominican Republic

University Press of Florida
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Mighty by Sacrifice

The Destruction of an American Bomber Squadron, August 29, 1944

University of Alabama Press
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Kalima wa Nagham

A Textbook for Teaching Arabic, Volume 3

University of Texas Press

This textbook presents an innovative Teaching Arabic as Foreign Language (TAFL) curriculum that enhances language learning and builds cultural awareness.

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Update Culture and the Afterlife of Digital Writing

Utah State University Press

Eexplores “neglected circulatory writing processes” to better understand why and how digital writers compose, revise, and deliver arguments that undergo sometimes constant revision.

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Grant Wood’s Secrets

University of Delaware Press

Incorporating copious archival research and original close readings of American artist Grant Wood’s iconic as well as lesser-known works, Grant Wood’s Secrets reveals how his sometimes anguished psychology was shaped by his close relationship with his mother and how he channeled his lifelong oedipal guilt into his art. Presenting Wood’s abortive autobiography “Return from Bohemia” for the first time ever, Sue Taylor integrates the artist’s own recollections into interpretations of his art.

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Life in Motion

Unlocking the Secret to Healthy Aging

University of Florida Press, Gatorbytes
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The Motivation to Vote

Explaining Electoral Participation

UBC Press

An original, parsimonious, and elegant explanation of why we vote or abstain in elections.

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Re-creating the Circle

The Renewal of American Indian Self-Determination

University of New Mexico Press

A collaboration between Native activists, professionals, and scholars, Re-Creating the Circle brings a new perspective to the American Indian struggle for self-determination.

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Indigenous Empowerment through Co-management

Land Claims Boards, Wildlife Management, and Environmental Regulation

UBC Press

This book is a clear, compelling, and evidence-based assessment of the effectiveness of co-management boards in providing Indigenous peoples with genuine influence over land and wildlife decisions affecting their traditional territories.

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Canada's Mechanized Infantry

The Evolution of a Combat Arm, 1920–2012

UBC Press

Canada’s Mechanized Infantry examines the challenges facing the Canadian Army as it transformed its infantry from First World War foot soldiers to a twenty-first–century combat force integrating soldiers, vehicles, weapons, and electronics.

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Beyond Populism

Angry Politics and the Twilight of Neoliberalism

West Virginia University Press
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Region, Nation and Homeland

Valorization and Adaptation in the Moro and Cordillera Resistance Discourses

ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
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Everything is Relevant

Writings on Art and Life, 1991-2018

Concordia University Press

A compelling and illuminating collection of Canadian artist Ken Lum’s diverse writings from the early 1990s to the present.

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Displaced Lives

Fiction, Poetry, Memoirs, and Plays from Four Continents

Edited by Frank Stewart
University of Hawaii Press
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Chang Dai-chien

Painting from Heart to Hand

Asian Art Museum
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Appropriating Kartini

Colonial, National and Transnational Memories of an Indonesian Icon

ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
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Collecting the Globe

The Salem East India Marine Society Museum

University of Massachusetts Press
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Women Making Modernism

University Press of Florida

Challenging the tendency of scholars to view women writers of the modernist era as isolated artists who competed with one another for critical and cultural acceptance, Women Making Modernism reveals the robust networks women created and maintained that served as platforms and support for women’s literary careers. This volume shows how women’s writing communities interconnected to generate a current of energy, innovation, and ambition that was central to the modernist movement.

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Mind, Matter and Motion

Tradition and Innovation in Osteopathy

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Handspring Publishing
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Bioarchaeology of the Florida Gulf Coast

Adaptation, Conflict, and Change

University Press of Florida
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The Possible South

Documentary Film and the Limitations of Biraciality

University Press of Mississippi

How documentary film explodes common discourses of a South divided only by black and white

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The Last Seat in the House

The Story of Hanley Sound

By John Kane; Foreword by Ken Lopez
University Press of Mississippi

A history of the first sound engineer to jam sprawling festivals and rock whole stadiums

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Subversive Spirits

The Female Ghost in British and American Popular Culture

University Press of Mississippi

How some women find their greatest powers narrating after death

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Southern Literature, Cold War Culture, and the Making of Modern America

University Press of Mississippi

A thorough exploration of the South’s lasting impact on American life

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