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Situated Practices in Architecture and Politics
By Kai Mah and Patrick Lynn Rivers
Dalhousie Architectural Press
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.
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
Counting Matters
Policy, Practice, and the Limits of Gender Equality Measurement in Canada
Edited by Christina Gabriel and L. Pauline Rankin
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.
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.
Aligning the Glacier's Ghost
Essays on Solitude and Landscape
University of New Mexico Press
To Keep the Republic
Thinking, Talking, and Acting Like a Democratic Citizen
By Elizabeth C. Matto; Foreword by Governor Christine Todd Whitman
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.
The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art
Edited by Matthew Pethers and Daniel Diez Couch
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.
The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art
Edited by Matthew Pethers and Daniel Diez Couch
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.
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.
The Caravaggio Syndrome
A Novel
By Alessandro Giardino; Translated by Joyce Myerson and Alessandro Giardino; Foreword by Ara Merjian
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.
Life, Brazen and Garish
A Tale of Three Women
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.
Creating the Hudson River Park
Environmental and Community Activism, Politics, and Greed
By Tom Fox
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.
China's Left-Behind Children
Caretaking, Parenting, and Struggles
By Xiaojin Chen
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.
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.
A Nation of Family and Friends?
Sport and the Leisure Cultures of British Asian Girls and Women
By Aarti Ratna
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.
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.
Reading across Borders
Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism
By Aria Fani
University of Texas Press
The dynamic and interconnected ways Afghans and Iranians invented their modern selves through literature.
Indigenizing Archaeology
Putting Theory into Practice
Edited by Emily C. Van Alst and Carlton Shield Chief Gover
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.
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.
Ancient Communities in the Mimbres Valley
Continuity and Change from AD 750 to 1350
By Roger Anyon and Steven A. LeBlanc
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.
American Coal
Russell Lee Portraits
By Mary Jane Appel and Douglas Brinkley
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.
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.
Conditionally Accepted
Navigating Higher Education from the Margins
Edited by Eric Joy Denise and Bertin M. Louis
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.
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.
Utter, Earth
Advice on Living in a More-than-Human World
By Isaac Yuen
West Virginia University Press
The Creation of Modern Buenos Aires
Football, Civic Associations, Barrios, and Politics, 1912–1943
University of New Mexico Press
Sea Change
Charting a Sustainable Future for Oceans in Canada
UBC Press
Sea Change takes stock of what we know about Canada’s changing oceans, offering a wealth of practical information to support the task of building resilient, sustainable oceans and ocean communities.
Popular Politics and Protest Event Analysis in Latin America
Edited by Moisés Arce and Takeshi Wada
University of New Mexico Press
Indigenous Culture and Change in Guerrero, Mexico, 7000 BCE to 1600 CE
By Ian Jacobs
University of New Mexico Press
Citizen Carl
The Editor Who Cracked Teapot Dome, Shot a Judge, and Invented the Parking Meter
By Jack McElroy
University of New Mexico Press
Alliances and Treaties with Indigenous Peoples of Quebec
The History of the Wolastoqiyik Wahsipekuk First Nation
Les Presses de l'Université Laval, Laval University Press
Visiting Grandma
By Jane Va'afusuaga; Illustrated by Azra Pinder-Pancho
Little Island Press
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