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Hanna and Barbera: Conversations

University Press of Mississippi

The first collection of its kind about Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera, likely the most prolific animation producers of the twentieth century

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Greater Atlanta

Black Satire after Obama

University Press of Mississippi

An engaging study of contemporary Black satire through the lens of a critically acclaimed television series

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Field Guide to Oregon Rivers

Oregon State University Press

A  practical, informative, and inspiring guide to the rivers of Oregon, ideal for residents of the state and visitors alike.

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Decoding the Codex Borgia

Visual Symbols of Time and Space in Ancient Mexico

University Press of Florida

This book explores the rich symbolism of the Codex Borgia, a masterpiece of Precolumbian art dating to the fifteenth century, showing how the manuscript’s intricate and colorful imagery conveys complex ideas related to Mesoamerican myths and religion.

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Creating the Viewer

Market Research and the Evolving Media Ecosystem

University of Texas Press

A study of the largely hidden world of primary media market research and the different methods used to understand how the viewer is pictured in the industry.

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Cooperatives across Clusters

Lessons from the Cranberry Industry

Oregon State University Press

Most agricultural production is of commodity or undifferentiated products. Producers suffer from a roller-coaster ride of price swings, over- or under-production, weather and pest threats, and the inability of family famers to capture anything beyond a small percentage of the final price.

Cooperatives Across Clusters provides lessons from the cranberry industry, a commodity product organized mostly into family farms in seven different clusters around North America. The industry is remarkable in that it's substantially organized around one large cooperative, Ocean Spray. The authors examine how the cooperative came to be, the challenges of coordination and industry leadership across the diverging clusters, and the lessons for cooperation for other agricultural industries.

The book provides a multi-layered contribution to agricultural economics. First, it examines location decisions and what factors supersede growing conditions to allow industries to arise around production. Second, it explores pathways available for farmers to try to overcome, through cooperative organization, the natural boom-bust cycles of commodity price swings. Third, it looks at how cooperative decisions are made, and the challenges of providing industry leadership, including research and development and collective marketing, through a cooperative that faces continual defections and new problems. Finally, through in-depth historical, statistical, and field research, it provides a comprehensive study of the cranberry industry and suggests ways farmers can grow the industry. Agricultural policymakers, farmers, industry specialists, and researchers of agriculture and clusters more generally will find this to be an important and informative new resource.

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Testing Education

A Teacher's Memoir

University of Massachusetts Press
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Revising Moves

Writing Stories of (Re)Making

Utah State University Press
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Mentorship/Methodology

Reflections, Praxis, and Futures

Utah State University Press

Mentorship/Methodology brings together emerging and established scholars to consider the relationship between mentoring practices and research methodologies in writing studies and related fields. 

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Engaging Ambience

Visual and Multisensory Methodologies and Rhetorical Theory

Utah State University Press

Engaging Ambience is the first book to develop comprehensive empirical approaches to ambient rhetoric, detailing and demonstrating visual and multisensory methodologies and methods for exploring the wondrous complexity of everyday communication.

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Yoga – Anticolonial Philosophy

An Action-Focused Guide to Practice

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Singing Dragon

A decolonial guide to yoga from an expert in Indian moral philosophy and Yoga, with exploration and advice on unlearning colonialism, learning the activism of Yoga from various sources such as the Yoga Sūtra and Bhagavad gītā, and how to bring authenticity into your daily practice.

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Caring for Prostate Cancer Survivors

A Biopsychosocial Approach in Physiotherapy and Oncology Practice

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

This book provides a holistic and comprehensive approach to prostate cancer recovery by exploring the biological, surgical, psychological and social wellbeing of prostate cancer survivors. It is full of actionable advice, practical strategies and handouts, and includes a comprehensive and accessible Q&A by two esteemed urologists.

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Bird Brother

A Falconer's Journey and the Healing Power of Wildlife

Island Press

In Bird Brother, Rodney Stotts shares his unlikely journey to becoming a conservationist and one of America’s few Black master falconers. Rodney grew up in Washington, D.C. during the crack epidemic, with guns, drugs, and the threat of incarceration affecting the lives of everyone he knew. He was no exception, but he was also employed by the newly founded Earth Conservation Corps, helping to restore and conserve the polluted Anacostia River. This work eventually sent his life in a different direction, as he began to train to become a master falconer and to develop his own raptor education program and sanctuary. Eye-opening, witty, and moving, Bird Brother is a testament to the healing power of nature, and a reminder that no matter how much heartbreak we’ve endured, we still have the capacity to give back to our communities and follow our dreams.
 

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Sustainability in Ancient Island Societies

An Archaeology of Human Resilience

University Press of Florida

This volume explores the impacts humans have made on island and coastal ecosystems and the ways these environments have adapted to anthropogenic changes over the course of millennia.

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Playing the Percentages

How Film Distribution Made the Hollywood Studio System

University of Texas Press

A history of film distribution in the United States from the 1910s to the 1930s, concentrating on booking, circuiting, and packaging marketing practices.

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On a Trail of Southwest Discovery

The Expedition Diaries of Frederick W. Hodge and Margaret W. Magill, 1886–1888

The University of Arizona Press

This volume examines the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition, directed by Frank Hamilton Cushing, through the diaries of two participants who fell in love on the expedition: the field secretary, Fred Hodge—who became a major figure in early twentieth-century anthropology—and the expedition artist, Margaret Magill. Divided into three parts, the book’s first two sections chronicle the field operations of the expedition, while the third part describes the anthropological career of Hodge after the end of the expedition.

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Loose of Earth

A Memoir

University of Texas Press

An arresting memoir of love and unbending religion, toxicity and disease, and one family’s desperate wait for a miracle that never came.

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From Saloons to Steak Houses

A History of Tampa

University Press of Florida

This book takes readers on a journey into Tampa’s historic bars, theaters, gambling halls, soup kitchens, clubs, and restaurants, telling the story of the city’s past through these fascinating social spaces—many of which can’t be found in official histories.

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Westwater Lost and Found

Expanded Edition

Utah State University Press

Westwater Lost and Found: Expanded Edition is the continuing story of Westwater—a relatively short, deep canyon near the Utah-Colorado state line that has become one of the most popular river-running destinations in America—and its lasting significance to the study of the Upper Colorado River. 

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Unloose My Heart

A Personal Reckoning with the Twisted Roots of My Southern Family Tree

University of Alabama Press

A deeply personal memoir that unearths a family history of racism, slaveholding, and trauma as well as love and sparks of delight
 

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The Nahua

Language and Culture from the 16th Century to the Present

University Press of Colorado

Revealing the resiliency of Nahua culture and language while highlighting the adaptations and changes they have undergone over the centuries, The Nahua demonstrates that Nahuatl remained a vibrant and central language well after European contact and into the twenty-first century, and its characteristic features can provide insight into nuanced aspects of Nahua culture and history.
 
 

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The Colorado Trail in Crisis

A Naturalist’s Field Report on Climate Change in Mountain Ecosystems

University Press of Colorado

The Colorado Trail in Crisis addresses the sweeping transformation of western forests and wilderness ecosystems affected by climate change. 

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The Colorado Trail in Crisis

A Naturalist's Field Report on Climate Change in Mountain Ecosystems

University Press of Colorado

The Colorado Trail in Crisis addresses the sweeping transformation of western forests and wilderness ecosystems affected by climate change. 

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Nopalito, Texas

Stories

University of New Mexico Press
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Mega-Dams in World Literature

Literary Responses to Twentieth-Century Dam Building

University of Wyoming Press

Mega-Dams in World Literature reveals the varied effects of large dams on people and their environments as expressed in literary works, focusing on the shifting attitudes toward large dams that emerged over the course of the twentieth century.

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I Am of the Tribe of Judah

Poems from Jewish Latin America

Edited by Stephen A. Sadow; Introduction by Ilan Stavans
University of New Mexico Press
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Counting Matters

Policy, Practice, and the Limits of Gender Equality Measurement in Canada

UBC Press

Counting Matters emphasizes the importance of gender measurement as a distinct policy and social phenomena while exposing the flaws of the technocratic assumption that all aspects of gender equality can be strictly quantified.

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Big Box USA

The Environmental Impact of America's Biggest Retail Stores

University of Wyoming Press

Big Box USA presents a new look at how the big box retail store has dramatically reshaped the US economy and its ecosystems in the last half century.

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Aligning the Glacier's Ghost

Essays on Solitude and Landscape

University of New Mexico Press
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To Keep the Republic

Thinking, Talking, and Acting Like a Democratic Citizen

Rutgers University Press

American democracy has reached an inflection point. This book is a wake-up call about the heavy responsibilities that come with being a citizen in a participatory democracy. It describes the many ways that individuals can make a difference on both local and national levels—and explains why they matter.

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The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art

Bucknell University Press

This collection maps the significance of fragmentary forms in early American literature and culture from the mid-seventeenth to mid-nineteenth century. The Part and the Whole recovers the distinct aesthetics of the incomplete, retelling the story of American culture by reorienting our collective understanding toward texts and objects that have often been critically ignored.

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The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art

Bucknell University Press

This collection maps the significance of fragmentary forms in early American literature and culture from the mid-seventeenth to mid-nineteenth century. The Part and the Whole recovers the distinct aesthetics of the incomplete, retelling the story of American culture by reorienting our collective understanding toward texts and objects that have often been critically ignored.

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The Cinema of Yakov Protazanov

Rutgers University Press

Yakov Protazanov was the most prolific Russian director of the silent era whose works enjoyed consistent popularity with audiences as he adapted to the Russian Revolution and, later, the transition to sound. This first career-length study in English argues that he pursued a unique artistic vision that reflected his ambivalent position within Soviet culture of the revolutionary era.

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The Caravaggio Syndrome

A Novel

Rutgers University Press

Headstrong art historian Leyla is expecting a baby with feckless computer technician Pablo. There’s only one problem: she can’t stand him. And one more problem: her student Michael wants Pablo for himself. But when the writings by utopian philosopher Tommaso Campanella unlocks the secret of a painting and a mystical gateway to 17th-century Naples, Leyla and Michael embark on a voyage of self-discovery in search of a new life.

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Life, Brazen and Garish

A Tale of Three Women

By Dacia Maraini; Translated by Elvira G. Di Fabio; Foreword by Sara Teardo
Rutgers University Press

This fresh take on the epistolary novel tells the story of a family through the disparate perspectives of a teenage daughter writing in her diary, a mother composing letters, and a grandmother speaking into a recorder. In turns heartbreaking and laugh-out-loud funny, it is a triumph of voice and style from one of Italy’s most renowned writers.

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Creating the Hudson River Park

Environmental and Community Activism, Politics, and Greed

Rutgers University Press

Former Hudson River Park Conservancy president Tom Fox offers an insider’s look at the park’s expansion and the conflicts it has spawned among community activists, local politicians, and private developers. Explaining how the park’s current problems might be surmounted, he provides a model for future urban planners. 
 

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China's Left-Behind Children

Caretaking, Parenting, and Struggles

Rutgers University Press

Paying special attention to the seventy million children left behind by internal migrants in rural China, this book investigates the role of parental migration and the left-behind status of their children in shaping family dynamics and the children’s general wellbeing, including school performance, delinquency, resilience, feelings of ambiguous loss, and other psychological problems.

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Born of War in Colombia

Reproductive Violence and Memories of Absence

Rutgers University Press

Born of War in Colombia examines how a past-oriented and harm-centered model of transitional justice has converged with a restricted notion of gendered victimhood and the patriarchal politics of reproduction to render the bodies of people born of conflict-related sexual violence unintelligible to those seeking to understand and address the consequences of war in Colombia.
 

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A Nation of Family and Friends?

Sport and the Leisure Cultures of British Asian Girls and Women

Rutgers University Press

In A Nation of Family and Friends sociologist Aarti Ratna interrogates sport and leisure cultures as a site of common culture. Ratna portrays and analyses the vagaries of British Asian-ness and examines the intersections of class, caste, age, generation, gender, and sexuality, providing a rich and critical exploration of British Asian women's sport and leisure choices, pleasures, and lived realities.

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The Jaguar Within

Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art

University of Texas Press

An important new way of viewing the prehistoric art of the Americas, The Jaguar Within demonstrates that understanding a work of art’s connection with shamanic trance can lead to an appreciation of it as an extremely creative solution to the inherent challenge of giving material form to nonmaterial realities and states of being.

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Tampa Bay

The Story of an Estuary and Its People

University Press of Florida

This book explores the environmental history of the largest open water estuary in Florida, revealing how people have interacted with nature throughout the long history of Tampa Bay.

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Reading across Borders

Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism

University of Texas Press

The dynamic and interconnected ways Afghans and Iranians invented their modern selves through literature.

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Indigenizing Archaeology

Putting Theory into Practice

University Press of Florida

This book highlights early-career Indigenous scholars conducting research in North America who are advancing the growing paradigm of archaeological study done with, by, and for members of Native-descendant communities.

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El Perú-Waka’

New Archaeological Perspectives on the Kingdom of the Centipede

University Press of Florida

Presenting the most current research on the Maya rainforest city El Perú-Waka’, this volume discusses occupation at the site spanning from 300 BC to 1000 CE and offers researchers an unmatched view of ancient life in a tropical urban environment.

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Ancient Communities in the Mimbres Valley

Continuity and Change from AD 750 to 1350

The University of Arizona Press

Spanning from the end of the Late Pithouse period through the Black Mountain phase, this volume contains the final report on the excavations of the Mimbres Foundation. The authors consider the nature of the relationship between the Classic Mimbres period population of the valley and the people of the succeeding Black Mountain phase, as well as relationships among the Black Mountain phase people and those of neighboring parts of the region.

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American Coal

Russell Lee Portraits

University of Texas Press

More than 100 powerful images by noted photographer Russell Lee that document the working conditions and lives of coal mining communities in the postwar United States; publication coincides with an exhibition at the National Archives in Washington, DC.

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Pilobolus

A Story of Dance and Life

University Press of Florida

This is the first history of the innovative, beloved, and critically acclaimed dance theater company Pilobolus, with revelatory behind-the-scenes details of its creators and significant works.

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In a Wounded Land

Conservation, Extraction, and Human Well-Being in Coastal Tanzania

The University of Arizona Press

Focusing on the human element of marine conservation and the extractive industry in Tanzania, this volume illuminates what happens when impoverished people living in underdeveloped regions of Africa are suddenly subjected to state-directed conservation and natural resource extraction projects. Drawing on ethnographically rich case studies and vignettes, the book documents the impacts of these projects on local populations and their responses to these projects over a ten-year period.

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Conditionally Accepted

Navigating Higher Education from the Margins

University of Texas Press

A collection of essays that provides advice and strategies for BIPOC scholars on how to survive, thrive, and resist in academic institutions.

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A War of Colors

Graffiti and Street Art in Postwar Beirut

University of Texas Press

Demonstrates the role of Beirut’s postwar graffiti and street art in transforming the cityscape and animating resistance.

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