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No Island Is an Island

Perspectives on Immigration to Japan

Edited by Michael Strausz
University of Hawaii Press
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Monastic Daoism Transformed

The Fate of the Thunder Drum Lineage

Three Pines Press
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Literature for Little Bodhisattvas

Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan

By Natasha Heller; Series edited by Mark Michael Rowe
University of Hawaii Press
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Always Again

New Work from the Philippines and Philippine Diasporas

University of Hawaii Press
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A Political Economy of Canadian Broadcasting

Public Good versus Private Profit

UBC Press

Timely and comprehensive, A Political Economy of Canadian Broadcasting sets the arc of the country’s broadcasting history – particularly that of anglophone Canada – inside its wider economic history, spanning over a hundred years of Canadian content, regulation, and change.

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The Interior

Recentering Brazilian History

University of Texas Press

A new history of Brazil told through the lens of the often-overlooked interior regions.

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Proper Imposters

Four Novellas

Panhandler Books

Four contemporary authors explore the vices and virtues of deception and how it manifests in ways personal, psychological, propulsive, and profound.

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Capturing COVID

Media and the Pandemic in the Digital Era

University of Massachusetts Press
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Blue Corn Tongue

Poems in the Mouth of the Desert

The University of Arizona Press

Blue Corn Tongue is a like mixtape from a thirty-something Diné punk girl. It offers poetry about love, friendship, environmental destruction, and language loss.

 
 

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The Neighbors of Casas Grandes

Medio Period Communities of Northwestern Chihuahua

The University of Arizona Press
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Modern Chinese Medicine Food Cures

A Personalized Approach to Nutrition

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Singing Dragon

This book is a modern Western approach to Traditional Chinese Medicine food therapy and is the first book of its kind. Melissa Carr’s accessible guide aims to help the reader with the key elements of Traditional Chinese Medicine through a Western lens.

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Voices and Visions

Essays on New Orleans's Literary History

University Press of Mississippi

An insightful survey tracing the influence of New Orleans writers, past and present, on the literary canon

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Unpalatable

Stories of Pain and Pleasure in Southern Cookbooks

University Press of Mississippi

How narratives of suffering balance the conventions of joy and success in the southern cookbook tradition

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Reading LGBTQ+ Children's Picture Books

University Press of Mississippi

An engaging collection of original scholarship on LGBTQ+ children’s picture books

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On the Very Edge

Bidentities in Michelle Cliff’s Fiction

University Press of Mississippi

The first book-length study of Michelle Cliff’s entire literary corpus

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Intersecting Worlds

Colonial Liminality in US Southern and Icelandic Literatures

University Press of Mississippi

An innovative global resituating of two literatures that intersect in revealing ways

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Commerce et protection du milieu marin / Trade and Marine Environment Protection

Situation et perspective du droit international, régional et national / Status and Perspective of International, Regional and National Laws

Les Presses de l'Université Laval, Laval University Press
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Comics Art in Korea

University Press of Mississippi

The definitive volume on the rich and dynamic field of Korean comics

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Moebius

University Press of Mississippi

The first English-language volume to explore the career of the comics artist who inspired Blade Runner, Akira,and Studio Ghibli

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Unmothering Autism

Ethical Disruptions and Affirming Care

UBC Press

Unmothering Autism rethinks autism and mothering to reveal what it means for us to live well together in, and through, difference.

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The Pillow Museum

Stories

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
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Radical Advocate

Ida B. Wells and the Road to Race and Gender Justice

University of Alabama Press

Pinpoints the persuasive strategies that typified Wells’s efforts to shape broader cultural conversations concerning the causes of racial, social, and gender inequity

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Better Practices

Exploring the Teaching of Writing in Online and Hybrid Spaces

Edited by Amy Cicchino and Troy Hicks
The WAC Clearinghouse

Featuring a range of better practices related to online writing instruction (OWI) and assessment, this edited collection offers instructors and writing program administrators theoretically grounded approaches from teacher-scholars of online writing.

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A Solar Flare

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

A hybrid of short works exploring the 1859 Carrington solar flare

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Urban Bikeway Design Guide, Third Edition

By National Association of City Transportation Officials
Island Press

“The guide will serve as an essential blueprint for safe, active, multi-modal streets.”
—Gabe Klein, former Chicago Transportation Commissioner
 
The completely revised and updated third edition of the NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide sets a new standard for street design in North America. Developed for cities, by cities, the new guide is more than a permission slip for better street design—it's a prescription for safe, connected, equitable bike networks. It captures lessons learned and emerging practices to set a new bar for the design of city streets. Every transportation professional, from design to maintenance and from field staff to executives, needs a copy for their daily work.
 

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The Dressing Room

Backstage Lives and American Film

Rutgers University Press

A recurrent and popular setting in American cinema, the dressing room has captured the imagination of audiences for over a century. In the only book-length study of the space, Desirée J. Garcia explores how dressing rooms are dynamic realms in which a diverse cast of performers are made and exposed.

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The Archaeology of Early Colonial Manila

A Hybrid City in Global History

University Press of Florida

This book uses archaeological, historical, and ethnographic resources to document the ways Manila was transformed by the arrival of Spanish colonists in 1571 and how the city in turn shaped the modern world.

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Texian Exodus

The Runaway Scrape and Its Enduring Legacy

University of Texas Press

A narrative account of the evacuation of the Texians in 1836, which was redeemed by the defeat of the Mexican army and the creation of the Republic of Texas.

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