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The Archaeology of Tibes

Life, Death, and Memory at an Early Ceremonial Center in the Caribbean

University of Alabama Press

A collection of new essays that brings archaeological insights and discoveries at the Tibes Ceremonial Center up to date

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The Archaeology of Tibes

Life, Death, and Memory at an Early Ceremonial Center in the Caribbean

University of Alabama Press
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Steinbeck’s Uneasy America

Rereading “Travels with Charley”

University of Alabama Press

The first scholarly assessment of Steinbeck’s bestselling travelogue Travels with Charley, published in 1962, a narrative that blurs the lines between nonfiction and fiction

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Steinbeck’s Uneasy America

Rereading “Travels with Charley”

University of Alabama Press
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Social Inequality and Difference in the Ancient Greek World

Bioarchaeological Perspectives

University of Florida Press

In this volume, bioarchaeologists, osteologists, archaeologists, and paleopathologists examine the ways social inequalities and differences affected health and wellbeing in ancient Greece.

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Overturned

The Rhetoric of Overruling in the United States Supreme Court

University of Alabama Press

A timely and lively summary and analysis of the Supreme Court’s justifications for overruling nearly 300 prior rulings in its history

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Maya Blue

Unlocking the Mysteries of an Ancient Pigment

University Press of Colorado

One of the great technological achievements of the ancient Maya, Maya Blue is one the world’s most unusual ancient pigments. In Maya Blue, Dean E. Arnold offers a comprehensive history of its study for almost a century, filled with personal anecdotes drawn from his decades of work uncovering the Maya knowledge of its constituents, its ancient sources, and how it was made—including previously unknown methods. 

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Living Design

The Writings of Clara Porset

Concordia University Press
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Considering Students, Teachers, and Writing Assessment, Vol. 1

Technical and Political Contexts

The WAC Clearinghouse

The editors and authors in this edited collection, available in two volumes, consider the increasing importance of students’ and teachers’ lived experiences within the development and use of writing assessments.

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Considering Students, Teachers, and Writing Assessment, Vol 2

Emerging Theoretical and Pedagogical Practice

The WAC Clearinghouse

The editors and authors in this edited collection, available in two volumes, consider the increasing importance of students’ and teachers’ lived experiences within the development and use of writing assessments.

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Connections after Colonialism

Europe and Latin America in the 1820s

University of Alabama Press

Contributing to the historiography of transnational and global transmission of ideas, Connections after Colonialism examines relations between Europe and Latin America during the tumultuous 1820s.

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Women in Independent Publishing

A History of Unsung Innovators, 1953-1989

University of New Mexico Press
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Thinking with the Poem

Essays on the Poetry and Poetics of Rachel Blau DuPlessis

University of New Mexico Press
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Rethinking the North American Long Poem

Form, Matter, Experiment

University of New Mexico Press
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Transmedia Geographies

Decoloniality, Democratization, Cultural Citizenship, and Media Convergence

Rutgers University Press

Looking at the US, New Zealand, and Central America, this book considers how cultural politics has been deeply reworked in our contemporary media environment. The authors analyze how rampant technological convergence has allowed stories to spill across media platforms as well as geographical borders, and how those stories re-emerge as transmediated events.                            

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The Last Judgment of Kings / Le Jugement dernier des rois

A Bilingual Edition

Bucknell University Press

In this provocative, action-packed comedy that premiered the day after Marie-Antoinette’s beheading, the kings and queens of Europe are marooned on a secluded island, paraded like animals, tried for their crimes, and obliterated by a volcano. This volume offers the first standalone critical edition and English translation of the most infamous play of the French Revolution.

Dans cette comédie riche en événements et scandales qui débuta le lendemain de l’exécution de Marie-Antoinette, les rois et reines d’Europe sont abandonnés sur une île déserte, exhibés et enchaînés tels des animaux, jugés pour leurs crimes, et anéantis par un volcan. Nous proposons ici la première édition critique et la première traduction anglaise de la pièce la plus célèbre de la Révolution française.
 

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The Last Judgment of Kings / Le Jugement dernier des rois

A Bilingual Edition

Bucknell University Press

In this provocative, action-packed comedy that premiered the day after Marie-Antoinette’s beheading, the kings and queens of Europe are marooned on a secluded island, paraded like animals, tried for their crimes, and obliterated by a volcano. This volume offers the first standalone critical edition and English translation of the most infamous play of the French Revolution.

Dans cette comédie riche en événements et scandales qui débuta le lendemain de l’exécution de Marie-Antoinette, les rois et reines d’Europe sont abandonnés sur une île déserte, exhibés et enchaînés tels des animaux, jugés pour leurs crimes, et anéantis par un volcan. Nous proposons ici la première édition critique et la première traduction anglaise de la pièce la plus célèbre de la Révolution française.
 

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The Future of Youth Violence Prevention

A Mixtape for Practice, Policy, and Research

Rutgers University Press

The Future of Youth Violence Prevention: A Mixtape for Practice, Policy, and Research focuses on innovative approaches to youth violence prevention that utilize consistent principles found within existing best practices but are dynamic and adaptable across settings – and the socio-historical and cultural realities of those settings. 

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Reclaiming Haiti's Futures

Returned Intellectuals, Placemaking, and Radical Imagination

Rutgers University Press

Reclaiming Haiti's Futures traces the experiences of two generations of Haitian returned scholars who envisioned and sought to enact new worlds after crisis. An ethnography of the future, the book pursues concerns of home, belonging, and emplacement beyond coloniality’s fractures and displacements. These concerns ever more pressing amid overlapping crises that are displacing and enclosing the prospects of many, especially those living in post-colonial (outer) peripheries like Haiti.

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Metagraffiti

Graffiti Art and the Urban Image in Latin America

Rutgers University Press

This innovative visual ethnography examines diverse forms of self-reference and metareference that appear in Latin American graffiti art. Focusing on graffiti scenes from São Paulo, Brazil and Santiago in Chile, Chandra Morrison Ariyo shows how practitioners use metagraffiti features to influence public perceptions about this artform and its effect on the urban environment.

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