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Opulent Nosh
A Cookbook for Audacious Appetites
By Ken Albala
University of Alabama Press
Foodie-scholar extraordinaire Ken Albala offers adventurous cooks a treasury of innovative recipes to transform noshing
Into the Unknown
High Adventure and Hard Lessons Exploring the World’s Great, Lost Wilderness Rivers
University of New Mexico Press
A Guide to the Bars and Restaurants of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul
University of New Mexico Press
The Joyce of Everyday Life
Bucknell University Press
Through a close examination of Joyce’s joyous, musical prose, Vicki Mahaffey shows how language provides us with a means of revitalizing daily experience and social interactions across a huge, diverse, everchanging world. A book for everyone who loves words, The Joyce of Everyday Life is a lyrical romp through quotidian existence.
The Bravest Pets of Gotham
Tales of Four-Legged Firefighters of Old New York
By Peggy Gavan
Rutgers University Press
The Bravest Pets of Gotham takes readers on a fun historical tour of Old New York, sharing more than 100 touching, thrilling and amusing stories about the bond between FDNY firefighters and their four-legged friends. You’ll meet countless brave and intelligent firehouse pets, from horses, dogs, and cats to monkeys and goats.
Singular Sensations
A Cultural History of One-Panel Comics in the United States
Rutgers University Press
Michelle Ann Abate examines what The Family Circus, Ziggy, and The Far Side all have in common—they’re single-panel comics, a seemingly simple form that presents cartoonists with a wide range of possibilities. Covering everything from nineteenth-century political cartoons to twenty-first-century web comics, she reveals their complexity, artistry, and influence.
Reel Kabbalah
Jewish Mysticism and Neo-Hasidism in Contemporary Cinema
By Brian Ogren
Rutgers University Press
Reel Kabbalah studies representations of esoteric Jewish conceptual traditions known as Kabbalah and Hasidism in five important fictional films from the first decade of the twenty-first century. The book considers how film both stands in continuity with those traditions and modifies them in the New Age, often mystical vein of what is known as neo-Kabbalah and neo-Hasidism.
Performing the News
Identity, Authority, and the Myth of Neutrality
By Elia Powers
Rutgers University Press
Performing The News: Identity, Authority, & the Myth of Neutrality explores how journalists from historically marginalized groups have felt pressure to conform when performing for audiences and are increasingly challenging restrictive, supposedly neutral forms of self-presentation. Through in-depth interviews, this book suggests ways to make journalism more inclusive and representative of diverse audiences
Moonlight Elk
One Woman's Hunt for Food and Freedom
University of New Mexico Press, High Road Books
Looking for America on the New Jersey Turnpike, Second Edition
Rutgers University Press
This classic work reveals the fascinating history, iconography, and people behind the twelve-lane behemoth we call the New Jersey Turnpike. Now a special updated and expanded edition examines how the road has changed in the past thirty-five years yet still epitomizes America at its very best and very worst.
Laboring in the Shadow of Empire
Race, Gender, and Care Work in Portugal
Rutgers University Press
Laboring in the Shadow of Empire: Race, Gender and Care Work in Portugal examines the everyday lives of an African descendant care service workforce that labors in an ostensibly “anti-racial” Europe and against the backdrop of the Portuguese colonial empire. While much of the literature on global care work has focused on Asian and Latine migrant care workers, there is comparatively less research that explicitly examines African care workers and their migration histories to Europe. Sociologist Celeste V. Curington focuses on Portugal—a European setting with comparatively liberal policies around family settlement and naturalization for migrants. In this setting, rapid urbanization in the late twentieth century, along with a national push to reconcile work and family, have shaped the growth of paid home care and cleaning service industries.
Isle of Rum
Havana Club, Cultural Mediation, and the Fight for Cuban Authenticity
Rutgers University Press
Focusing on Havana Club rum as a case study, Isle of Rum examines the ways in which western cultural producers, working in collaboration with the Cuban state, have assumed responsibility for representing Cuba to the outside world. Christopher Chávez focuses specifically on the role of advertising practitioners, musicians, filmmakers, and visual artists, who stand to benefit economically by selling an image of Cuba to consumers who desperately crave authentic experiences that exist outside of the purview of the marketplace.
Gender Play
Boys and Girls in School
Rutgers University Press
A detailed and perceptive ethnography told with compassion and humor, Gender Play immerses readers in children’s everyday lives to examine the social interactions that shape their gender identities. This new edition contains an introduction by Michael A. Messner and Raewyn Connell that highlights the book’s innovative approach, and an afterword by C.J. Pascoe on its lasting legacy.
Decentering Epistemologies and Challenging Privilege
Critical Care Ethics Perspectives
Rutgers University Press
This book discusses the ways care ethics contributes to the decentering of dominant epistemologies and to the challenging of privilege, and considers how to decenter care ethics itself via an encounter with non-Western philosophical traditions and alternative epistemologies. Written by scholars from different countries, disciplines and intellectual traditions, the volume offers original care ethics contributions on epistemic injustice, privileged irresponsibility, ecofeminism, settler colonialism, social movements such as BLM, and on various racialized and gendered inequities tied to care work.
Decentering Epistemologies and Challenging Privilege
Critical Care Ethics Perspectives
Rutgers University Press
This book discusses the ways care ethics contributes to the decentering of dominant epistemologies and to the challenging of privilege, and considers how to decenter care ethics itself via an encounter with non-Western philosophical traditions and alternative epistemologies. Written by scholars from different countries, disciplines and intellectual traditions, the volume offers original care ethics contributions on epistemic injustice, privileged irresponsibility, ecofeminism, settler colonialism, social movements such as BLM, and on various racialized and gendered inequities tied to care work.
Blessings beyond the Binary
Transparent and the Queer Jewish Family
Edited by Nora Rubel and Brett Krutzsch
Rutgers University Press
Blessings Beyond the Binary: Transparent and the Queer Jewish Family brings together leading scholars to analyze and offer commentary on the groundbreaking streaming series Transparent. The book explores the show’s depiction of Jewish life, religion, and history, as well as Transparent’s scandals, criticisms, and how it fits and diverges from today’s transgender and queer politics.
Working en comunidad
Service-Learning and Community Engagement with U.S. Latinas/os/es
The University of Arizona Press
This edited volume showcases examples of service-learning practices and pedagogies for working alongside Latina/o/e communities. The contributors tackle three major themes: ethical approaches to working with Latina/o/e communities within language courses and beyond; preparing Latina/o/e students for working with their own communities in different environments; and ensuring equitable practices and building relationships that are mutually beneficial for students and community. Written by scholars, practitioners, and researchers, the collection’s six chapters offer case studies of how to carry out service-learning work that is culturally informed and provides a guide to help others do the same.
Thunderbird
Book Three
By Sonia Nimr; Translated by M. Lynx Qualey
Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies UT-Austin
The third book in a fast-paced time-traveling fantasy adventure trilogy centered on a young orphaned Palestinian girl who starts in the present and must go back in time to save the world.
Through Her Lens
The Photojournalism of Diana Walker
Briscoe Ctr for Amer History UT-Austin
An exhibition catalog celebrating a storied photographer’s career.
The Storm
An Antebellum Tale of Key West
By Ellen Brown Anderson; Edited by Keith L. Huneycutt
University Press of Florida
This book publishes for the first time a newly discovered nineteenth-century manuscript titled The Storm, making widely available what may be the first novella written by a woman in Florida.
Sunset Colonies
A Visual Elegy to South Florida's Mobile Home Communities
University Press of Florida
In a collection of photographs accompanied by essays, this book portrays the vulnerabilities experienced by residents of South Florida’s mobile home communities amid rapid urban transformation and the threat of economic displacement.
City of Hope, City of Rage
Miami, 1968–1994
University of Alabama Press
Examines Miami’s turbulent transformation from a segregated vacation destination to a global, multicultural metropolis
Band People
Life and Work in Popular Music
University of Texas Press
A close look at the lives of working musicians who aren’t the center of their stage.
Atlas of a Threatened Planet
150 Infographics to Help Anyone Save the World
Island Press
How does our climate actually work? Should we worry about the global supply of drinking water? And can technology help reverse the damage we’ve done to the Earth? In Atlas of a Threatened Planet, award-winning book and graphic designer Esther Gonstalla digs into these questions and many more through her attractive and easy-to-understand infographics. Gonstalla turns her designer’s eye to the most critical threats to our environment, from shrinking glaciers and declining biodiversity to shifting ocean currents. These accessible and fun illustrations will show readers that, although the threats are grave, not all is lost. Changes in technology, infrastructure, and our outlook can still help us protect the places we love.
Atlas of a Threatened Planet will spark your curiosity and invite you to see the Earth in a new way. It is written for all who want to understand the interlocking pieces of our home—and fight for the best ideas and strategies to save it.
Atlas of a Threatened Planet will spark your curiosity and invite you to see the Earth in a new way. It is written for all who want to understand the interlocking pieces of our home—and fight for the best ideas and strategies to save it.
The Story Quilts of Yvonne Wells
University of Alabama Press
A comprehensive and richly illustrated survey of one of the most significant and intriguing quilters of the 21st century, featuring 109 color plates of Wells's narrative quilts with intimate commentaries by Wells herself
Triumph and Solidarity
BC Communists in the Early Years of the Great Depression
By Jon Bartlett
Athabasca University Press
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