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30 Years On

A Reflection on Southeast Asia’s Fight Against Communism During the Cold War Years

ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
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Natchiq Grows Up

The Story of an Alaska Ringed Seal Pup and Her Changing Home

University of Alaska Press

This is the story of Natchiq, the ringed seal pup, growing up in her snow cave on the sea ice in northern Alaska with her mom Siku.

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From Union Halls to the Suburbs

Americans for Democratic Action and the Transformation of Postwar Liberalism

University of Massachusetts Press
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Tattered Kimonos in Japan

Remaking Lives from Memories of World War II

University of Alabama Press

Examines Japan’s war generation—Japanese men and women who survived World War Two and rebuilt their lives, into the 21st century, from memories of that conflict

 

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The Friar and the Maya

Diego de Landa and the Account of the Things of Yucatan

University Press of Colorado

The Friar and the Maya offers a full study and new translation of the Relación de las Cosas de Yucatán (Account of the Things of Yucatan) by a unique set of eminent scholars, created by them over more than a decade from the original manuscript held by the Real Academia de la Historia in Madrid.

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Democratic Spaces

Land Preservation in New England, 1850–2010

University of Massachusetts Press
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Blood and Ink

The Barbary Archive in Early American Literary History

University of Massachusetts Press
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Notes for Neuro Navigators

The Allies' Quick-Start Guide to Championing Neurodivergent Brains

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

What do autistics want you to know, and how can you support them best? This frank and easy-to-read guide sets out the basics in a no-nonsense way. If you want to make the lives of your autistic friends and family happier and easier, this is the book you need.

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Making Sense of Your Senses

Sensory Solutions Workbook

By Monique Thoonsen; Illustrated by Ruud Bijman
Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Taste, touch, sight, smell, and sound are the five senses we all know about. But did you know there are three more? And they’re very important. This activity filled workbook for 7-12-year-olds teaches kids all about sensory processing, the effects it has on how they feel and how to identify the right kind of sensory input to feel better.

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Uncanny Fidelity

Recognizing Shakespeare in Twenty-First-Century Film and Television

University of Alabama Press

How the study of Shakespeare’s legacy, specifically in film and television, can radically challenge what we consider to be authentically Shakespearean


 

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The Archaeology of Modern Worlds in the Indian Ocean

University Press of Florida

Bringing together specialists working in multiple areas of the Indian Ocean world, this volume uses a historical archaeological approach to explore the importance of the region to the emergence of modernity and globalization.

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Some Magnetic Force

Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald Writings

Concordia University Press
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Women and Music in the Age of Austen

Bucknell University Press

Women and Music in the Age of Austen highlights women’s central role in musical performance, composition, reception, and representation, and analyzes their formative and lasting effect upon Georgian culture. This interdisciplinary collection of essays reveals how music allowed for women’s self-expression, artistic influence, and access to communities that transcended the boundaries of gender, class, and nationality.

 

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Two-Year College Writing Studies

Rationale and Praxis for Just Teaching

Utah State University Press

Two-Year College Writing Studies is a comprehensive overview of the two-year college writing teaching experience within our current political and historical contexts, with examples for teachers to better enact just teaching practices in their colleges.

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Transpacific Cartographies

Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States

Rutgers University Press

Transpacific Cartographies examines how contemporary Chinese diasporic narratives address the existential loss of home for immigrant communities at a time of global precarity and amid rising Sino-US tensions. Melody Li argues that the characters in these stories create multilayered maps that transcend the territorial boundaries that make finding a home in foreign land a seemingly impossible task.

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Time in the Barrel

A Marine's Account of the Battle for Con Thien

University of Alabama Press

A Marine’s highly personal memoir reliving the hellish days of a pivotal conflict of the Vietnam War

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There She Goes Again

Gender, Power, and Knowledge in Contemporary Film and Television Franchises

Rutgers University Press

There She Goes Again interrogates the representation of ostensibly powerful women in transmedia franchises, examining how presumed feminine traits—love, empathy, altruism, diplomacy—are alternately lauded and repudiated as possibilities for effecting long-lasting social change. By asking under what terms women protagonists are imagined, envisioned, embodied, and replicated in media, this book challenges how we should define—and whether we need—feminine forms of knowledge and power.

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The Theatre Couple in Early Modern Italy

Self-Fashioning and Mutual Marketing

University of Delaware Press

The Theatre Couple in Early Modern Italy examines the mechanisms involved in forging a successful joint theatre career, with a focus on the artistic path of two professional performers: Giovan Battista Andreini (1576-1654) and Virginia Ramponi (1583-ca.1631). It links their self-fashioning and marketing strategies to the context of post-Tridentine Italy but outlines the couple paradigm beyond that historical context.

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The Latino Big Bang in California

The Diary of Justo Veytia, a Mexican Forty-Niner

University of New Mexico Press
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The Farm & Wilderness Summer Camps

Progressive Ideals in the Twentieth Century

Rutgers University Press

The Farm & Wilderness Summer Camps explores how ideals considered progressive in the 1940s and 1950s had to be reconfigured to respond to shifts in culture and society as well as to new understanding of race and ethnicity, social class, gender, and sexual identity through a study of the popular Farm & Wilderness camps. To illustrate this change, Emily Abel and Margaret K. Nelson draw on over forty interviews with former campers, archival materials, and their own memories. This book tells a story of progressive ideals, crisis of leadership, childhood challenges, and social adaptation in the quintessential American summer camp.
 

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Teaching the Eighteenth Century Now

Pedagogy as Ethical Engagement

Bucknell University Press

Teacher-scholars of “the long eighteenth century” consider teaching in this historical moment. Essays link eighteenth-century content with pedagogical approaches that engage contemporary students as developing scholars. Authors reflect on what it is that we do when we teach—how our pedagogies can be more meaningful, more impactful, and more relevant.

Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

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Teaching the Eighteenth Century Now

Pedagogy as Ethical Engagement

Bucknell University Press

Teacher-scholars of “the long eighteenth century” consider teaching in this historical moment. Essays link eighteenth-century content with pedagogical approaches that engage contemporary students as developing scholars. Authors reflect on what it is that we do when we teach—how our pedagogies can be more meaningful, more impactful, and more relevant.

Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

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Stories of Our Living Ephemera

Storytelling Methodologies in the Archives of the Cherokee National Seminaries, 1846-1907

Utah State University Press

Stories of Our Living Ephemera recovers the history of the Cherokee National Seminaries from scattered archives and colonized research practices by critically weaving together pedagogy and archival artifacts with Cherokee traditional stories and Indigenous worldviews.

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Not Alone

LGB Teachers Organizations from 1970 to 1985

Rutgers University Press

Between 1970 and 1985, lesbian, gay, and bisexual educators (LGB) formed communities and began advocating for a place of openness and safety for LGB people in America's schools. They fought for protection and representation in the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers in New York, Los Angeles and Northern California.

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Fictions of Pleasure

The Putain Memoirs of Prerevolutionary France

University of Delaware Press

This book identifies the prostitute memoir as a subgenre of the eighteenth-century French libertine novel and explores how the fictional utopia the narrators of these salacious pseudo-memoirs undermine the patriarchal hierarchies of the Ancien Régime and propose a social model in which women form networks of mutual support to achieve wealth and personal satisfaction.

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China and the Internet

Using New Media for Development and Social Change

Rutgers University Press

China and the Internet analyzes how Chinese activists, NGOs, and government offices have used the Internet to fight rural malnutrition, the digital divide, the COVID-19 pandemic, and other urgent problems affecting millions of people. It presents five theoretically-informed case studies of how new media have been used in interventions for development and social change, including how activists battled against COVID-19.

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Birds and Beasts of Ancient Mesoamerica

Animal Symbolism in the Postclassic Period

University Press of Colorado

Birds and Beasts of Ancient Mesoamerica links Precolumbian animal imagery with scientific data related to animal morphology and behavior, providing in-depth studies of the symbolic importance of animals and birds in Postclassic period Mesoamerica.
 

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Between Care and Criminality

Marriage, Citizenship, and Family in Australian Social Welfare

Rutgers University Press

Between Care and Criminality examines Australian social welfare’s encounter with migration and marriage in an era of intensified border control. It offers an in-depth ethnographic account of how social welfare practitioners carry out a migrant-targeted social policy designed to prevent forced marriage in the aftermath of a 2013 law which criminalized the practice.

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When Language Broke Open

An Anthology of Queer and Trans Black Writers of Latin American Descent

The University of Arizona Press

This collection of creative offerings by forty-three queer and trans Black writers of Latin American descent helps illustrate Blackness as a geopolitical experience that is always changing. In centering the multifaceted realities of the LGBTQ community, the anthology's contributors challenge everything we think we know about gender, sexuality, race, and what it means to experience a livable life.

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Revisiting McKeithen Weeden Island

Complexity, Ritual, and Pottery

University of Alabama Press

Reassesses the ancient Indigenous McKeithen site in northern Florida in light of new data, analyses, and theories
 

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Llamas beyond the Andes

Untold Histories of Camelids in the Modern World

University of Texas Press

An exploration of the unexpected role that llamas and other Andean camelids played in transoceanic relationships and knowledge exchange.

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Light As Light

Poems

The University of Arizona Press

Light As Light is acclaimed poet Simon J. Ortiz’s first collection in twenty years. The poems in this volume are a powerful journey through the poet’s life—both a love letter to the future, and a sentimental, authentic celebration of the past.

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Breaking the Gender Code

Women and Urban Public Space in the Twentieth-Century United States

University of Texas Press

A history of the activism that made public spaces in American cities more accessible to women.

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Aggression and Sufferings

Settler Violence, Native Resistance, and the Coalescence of the Old South

University of Alabama Press

A bold reconceptualization of how settler expansion and narratives of victimhood, honor, and revenge drove the conquest and erasure of the Native South and fed the emergence of a distinct white southern identity

 

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Underwater and Coastal Archaeology in Latin America

University Press of Florida

This volume features a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to underwater and coastal archaeology in Latin America, showcasing the efforts of 82 researchers working across the region.

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The Case for Single Motherhood

Contemporary Maternal Identities and Family Formations

University of Alabama Press

Delves into the rhetorical work of elective single mothers (ESMs) in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries as they sought—and continue to seek—to legitimize their maternal identities and family formations
 

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Pink Gold

Women, Shrimp, and Work in Mexico

University of Texas Press

A rich, long-term ethnography of women seafood traders in Mexico.

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Justice Pursued

The Exoneration of Nathan Myers and Clifford Williams

University Press of Florida

An in-depth look at a wrongful conviction and its landmark reversal, this book is the story of Nathan Myers and Clifford Williams, who were released in 2019 after almost 43 years in prison in the first exoneration brought about through a Conviction Integrity Unit in Florida.

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Black Feminist Constellations

Dialogue and Translation across the Americas

University of Texas Press

A collection of essays, interviews, and conversations by and between scholars, activists, and artists from Latin America and the Caribbean that paints a portrait of Black women's experiences across the region.

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High Plains Horticulture

A History

University Press of Colorado

High Plains Horticulture explores the significant, civilizing role that horticulture has played in the development of farmsteads and rural and urban communities on the High Plains portions of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming, drawing on both the science and the application of science practiced since 1840.

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Writing on the Social Network

Digital Literacy Practices in Social Media's First Decade

Utah State University Press

Writing on the Social Network builds upon traditions in longitudinal writing research to present a longer view of the impact of social media technologies on individuals’ literacy practices. 
 

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Voices of Indigenuity

University Press of Colorado

Voices of Indigenuity collects the voices of the Indigenous Speaker Series and multigenerational Indigenous peoples to introduce best practices for traditional ecological knowledge (TEK).

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Refugees Are (Not) Welcome Here

The Paradox of Protection in Canada

UBC Press

Refugees Are (Not) Welcome Here details the paradox of the simultaneous expansion and restriction of access to refugee rights in Canada.

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North American Regionalism

Stagnation, Decline, or Renewal?

Edited by Eric Hershberg and Tom Long
University of New Mexico Press
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Mountain Amnesia

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
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Passing, Posing, Persuasion

Cultural Production and Coloniality in Japan’s East Asian Empire

University of Hawaii Press
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