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One Second at a Time
My Story of Pain and Reclamation
By Diane Morrisseau, with Elisabeth Brannigan
UBC Press, Purich Books
A deeply personal history of colonialism’s corrosive effects on an Ojibway-Anishinabe woman who survives a traumatic childhood, becomes a teen mother, and eventually escapes unrelenting domestic violence to find hope and healing, dedicating herself to helping women and children like her former self.
Bicycle City
Riding the Bike Boom to a Brighter Future
Island Press
In Bicycle City: Riding the Bike Boom to a Brighter Future cycling expert Daniel Piatkowski argues that the bicycle is the best tool that we have to improve our cities. The car-free urban future—where cities are vibrant, with access to everything we need close by—may be less bike-centric than we think. But bikes are a crucial first step to getting Americans out of cars.
Piatkowski offers pragmatic lessons drawn from the latest research along with interviews, anecdotes, and case studies from around the world. Electric bikes are demonstrating the ability of bikes to replace cars in more places and for more people. Cargo bikes are replacing SUVs for families and delivery trucks for freight. At the same time, mobility startups are providing new ownership models to make these new bikes easier to use and own, ushering in a new era of pedal-powered cities.
Bicycle City is about making cities better with bikes rather than for bikes.
Piatkowski offers pragmatic lessons drawn from the latest research along with interviews, anecdotes, and case studies from around the world. Electric bikes are demonstrating the ability of bikes to replace cars in more places and for more people. Cargo bikes are replacing SUVs for families and delivery trucks for freight. At the same time, mobility startups are providing new ownership models to make these new bikes easier to use and own, ushering in a new era of pedal-powered cities.
Bicycle City is about making cities better with bikes rather than for bikes.
Unruly Domestication
Poverty, Family, and Statecraft in Urban Peru
University of Texas Press
How the international war on poverty shapes identities, relationships, politics, and urban space in Peru.
Physicians of the Future
Doctor-Influencers, Patient-Consumers, and the Business of Functional Medicine
University of Texas Press
The first scholarly exploration of the forums, practice, and economics of functional medicine.
Kneeling Before Corn
Recuperating More-than-Human Intimacies on the Salvadoran Milpa
The University of Arizona Press
Focusing on the intimate relations that develop between plants and humans in the northern rural region of El Salvador, this book explores the ways in which more-than-human intimacies travel away from and return to the milpa through human networks. The chapters present innovative methodological and conceptual contributions to the study of relationships that form between plants and people.
It Ain't Over Til the Bisexual Speaks
An Anthology of Bisexual Voices
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
An essay collection exploring the diversity of bisexual identity - as it relates to class, religion, ethnicity, religion, sex and politics - and how it can disrupt and challenge binary and exclusionary ways of thinking. Erudite, provocative, and wide-ranging, this is both a call to action and a middle finger to bi-erasure.
Indigenous Science and Technology
Nahuas and the World Around Them
The University of Arizona Press
Indigenous Science and Technology focuses on how Nahuas have explored, understood, and explained the world around them in pre-invasion, colonial, and contemporary time periods.
How to Raise Happy Neurofabulous Children
A Parents' Guide
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Parenting any child is filled with its own wonders and challenges. This is an invaluable resource to gain insight and advice into raising autistic children, from a fellow parent. Easy to follow, supportive and refreshingly direct, this guide empowers you to explore what works best for you and your child.
Forging Queer Leaders
How the LGBTQIA+ Community Creates Impact from Adversity
By Bree Fram and Elizabeth Cavallaro
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
An inspirational guide to LGBTQ+ leadership, with a history of queer leadership, an exploration of how adversity can develop management superpowers and inspirational stories from queer leaders in diverse careers.
Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art
The Body, the Inhuman, and Ecological Thinking
University of Florida Press
Examining how Cuban writers and artists have depicted racial, gender, and species differences throughout the past century, this book discusses how their works have emphasized the shared materiality of bodies across diverse media, time periods, and ideologies.
Armchair Conversations on Love and Autism
Secrets of Happy Neurodiverse Couples
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ACS counselling expert Eva Mendes takes us on a journey through 20 neurodiverse relationships and the unique strengths that drive them. Offering best practice advice and strategies on how to thrive in your relationship, Eva works to identify common themes amongst autistic relationships and irons out the widespread myths surrounding them.
Wake
Why the Battle over Diverse Public Schools Still Matters
Rutgers University Press
Wake: Why the Battle Over Diverse Public Schools Still Matters tells the story of the aftermath of the 2009 Wake County school board election in favor of "neighborhood schools," including the fierce public debate that ensued during school board meetings and in the pages of the local newspaper, and the groundswell of community support that voted in a pro-diversity school board in 2011. What was at stake in those years was the fundamental direction of the largest school district in North Carolina and the 14th largest in the U.S. Would it maintain a commitment to diverse schools, and if so, how would it balance that commitment with various competing interests and demands? Through hundreds of published opinion articles and several in depth interviews with community leaders, Wake examines the substance of that debate and explores the community’s vision for public education.
The United States and the Armenian Genocide
History, Memory, Politics
Rutgers University Press
This is the first book to examine how and why the United States refused to officially acknowledge the 1915-17 Armenian Genocide until the early 2020s. Drawing from congressional records, rare newspapers, and interviews with lobbyists and decision-makers, historian Julien Zarifian reveals how genocide recognition became such a complex, politically sensitive issue.
The Sheep Industry of Territorial New Mexico
Livestock, Land, and Dollars
University Press of Colorado
The Sheep Industry of Territorial New Mexico offers a detailed account of the New Mexico sheep industry during the territorial period (1846–1912) when it flourished.
The Other Jersey Shore
Life on the Delaware River
By Michael Aaron Rockland; Foreword by Maya K. van Rossum
Rutgers University Press
The Other Jersey Shore takes readers on a personal tour of the New Jersey portion of the Delaware River and its surroundings, from the archeological remnants of the former King of Spain’s mansion to waterfalls where bears and foxes frolic. Combining history and nature writing, it shares engrossing stories and surprising facts about a river that is both the backbone and lifeblood of the Garden State.
Surviving Alex
A Mother’s Story of Love, Loss, and Addiction
Rutgers University Press
Patricia Roos was a professor of sociology at Rutgers University when she lost her 25-year-old son Alex to a heroin overdose. Turning her grief into action, she began to research the social factors and institutional failures that contributed to his death. Surviving Alex tells her moving story while describing a more compassionate approach that would provide proper care to substance users and reduce addiction.
Redreaming the Renaissance
Essays on History and Literature in Honor of Guido Ruggiero
Edited by Mary Lindemann and Deanna Shemek
University of Delaware Press
Redreaming the Renaissance offers twelve essays that build on the pathbreaking work of Guido Ruggiero in blending history and literature. Within this volume, contributors take interdisciplinary approaches to examining not only belles lettres but also other forms of artful expression, bringing their fields into conversation and reflecting on the methodology needed to sustain and enrich this conversation.
Meltdown Expected
Crisis, Disorder, and Upheaval at the end of the 1970s
Rutgers University Press
Meltdown Expected tells the story of how, both domestically and internationally, 1978 and 1979 saw a series of catastrophes that shook America’s confidence and hurtled the nation into the final phase of the Cold War. Covering everything from the Three Mile Island disaster to the Iran hostage crisis, it is a vivid portrait of a tumultuous time.
Jewish Education
By Ari Y Kelman
Rutgers University Press
Jewish education has been dominated by two concerns: What ought to be taught? And what is the best way to teach it? This book upends the conventional approaches by asking a different question: How do people learn to engage in Jewish life?
Governing Maya Communities and Lands in Belize
Indigenous Rights, Markets, and Sovereignties
Rutgers University Press
In Belize, conservation NGOs push for wildlife sanctuaries to protect endangered ecosystems. State actors authorize timber extraction to generate revenue for debt repayment. Maya communities, dispossessed by state and NGO strategies, pursue claims for Indigenous rights to lands. This book explores the conflicting forms of governance that emerge as these trajectories intersect.
Global Film Color
The Monopack Revolution at Midcentury
Edited by Sarah Street and Joshua Yumibe
Rutgers University Press
Global Film Color: The Monopack Revolution at Midcentury explores color filmmaking around the world during the mid-century era when color came to dominate global film production. As Eastmancolor, Agfacolor, Fujicolor and other film stocks became broadly available and affordable, national film industries increasingly converted to color, transforming the look and feel of global cinema.
Global Film Color
The Monopack Revolution at Midcentury
Edited by Sarah Street and Joshua Yumibe
Rutgers University Press
Global Film Color: The Monopack Revolution at Midcentury explores color filmmaking around the world during the mid-century era when color came to dominate global film production. As Eastmancolor, Agfacolor, Fujicolor and other film stocks became broadly available and affordable, national film industries increasingly converted to color, transforming the look and feel of global cinema.
Contemporary Francophone African Plays
An Anthology
Translated by Judith G. Miller, Subha Xavier, Ninon Vessier, and Amelia Parenteau; Edited by Judith G. Miller, with Sylvie Chalaye
Bucknell University Press
Contemporary Francophone African Plays: An Anthology presents performable English translations of eleven West African plays, dating from 1970 to 2021. Works by Dadié, Labou Tansi, Zinsou, Liking, Pliya, Alem, Kwahulé, Éfoui, Akakpo, Mukagasana, and Diouf skewer colonization, grapple with identity, and retell history and myth from African perspectives.
Contemporary Francophone African Plays
An Anthology
Translated by Judith G. Miller, Subha Xavier, Ninon Vessier, and Amelia Parenteau; Edited by Judith G. Miller, with Sylvie Chalaye
Bucknell University Press
Contemporary Francophone African Plays: An Anthology presents performable English translations of eleven West African plays, dating from 1970 to 2021. Works by Dadié, Labou Tansi, Zinsou, Liking, Pliya, Alem, Kwahulé, Éfoui, Akakpo, Mukagasana, and Diouf skewer colonization, grapple with identity, and retell history and myth from African perspectives.
Beaches, Bays, and Barrens
A Natural History of the Jersey Shore
Rutgers University Press
Biologist Eric G. Bolen introduces readers to the natural wonders of the Jersey Shore, taking them on a guided tour of its unique ecology and fascinating history. You’ll learn about everything from sand dunes to salt marshes, from blueberry patches to cranberry bogs, and from ship wrecks to shark attacks.
At the Glacier’s Edge
A Natural History of Long Island from the Narrows to Montauk Point
Rutgers University Press
Combining science writing, environmental history, and first-hand accounts from a longtime resident, At the Glacier’s Edge offers a unique narrative natural history of Long Island. It tells the story of how its habitats evolved, how humans radically degraded its landscape, and how community activists are restoring the land and preserving the species who depend on it.
Public Performances
Studies in the Carnivalesque and Ritualesque
Edited by Jack Santino
Utah State University Press
Public Performances offers a deep and wide-ranging exploration of relationships among genres of public performance and of the underlying political motivations they share. Illustrating the connections among three themes—the political, the carnivalesque, and the ritualesque—this volume provides rich and comprehensive insight into public performance as an assertion of political power.
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