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An Unfamiliar Place

Poetry, Power, and the Travel Diary in Medieval Japan

University of Hawaii Press
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A Born Writer

Juanita Harrison and Her Beautiful World

University of Massachusetts Press
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The Wikimedia Movement in Canada

Communities, Institutions, and Free Culture

Athabasca University Press
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Inequalities of Platform Publishing

The Promise and Peril of Self-Publishing in the Digital Book Era

University of Massachusetts Press
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The Head and Neck

Theory and Practice

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Handspring Publishing

This is a must-have multi-disciplinary and deeply comprehensive resource on the treatment and management of musculoskeletal dysfunction in the neck and head. Written for manual therapy clinicians, researchers, and educators, it covers an extensive range of conditions.

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George H.W. Bush

A Biography for Beginning Historians

LBJ Foundation & Briscoe Ctr UT-Austin
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We Paved the Way

Black Women and the Charleston Hospital Workers' Campaign

University Press of Mississippi

A compelling and thorough history of agitators and heroines who fought for equality in the Charleston Hospital Workers’ Strike of 1969

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The Pornographic Delicatessen

Mid-century Montreal's Erotic Art, Media, and Spaces

Concordia University Press
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Ray Milland

Identity, Stardom, and the Long Climb to The Lost Weekend

University Press of Mississippi

A comprehensive study of one Welsh actor’s image and performance in Hollywood’s Golden Age

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Pinchback

America’s First Black Governor

University Press of Mississippi

A political biography of the leader who shaped one of the most democratic regions in nineteenth-century America

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Monumental Designs

Infrastructure and the Culture of the Tennessee Valley Authority

University Press of Mississippi

How the Tennessee Valley Authority was represented in photography, films, novels, and other artistic mediums

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Let Me Be Frank

The Extraordinary Life and Music of Frank Sinatra, Jr.

University Press of Mississippi

How the son of one of the most famous performers in history fought for his own star as a musician

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Julie Dash

Interviews

University Press of Mississippi

An in-depth exploration of the life, career, and creative processes of one of the most groundbreaking filmmakers in American cinema

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Insurgent Beauty

Indigenous Art in Urban Panama

University Press of Mississippi

How Indigenous artists in Panama utilized urban art forms to assert their cultural presence and political agency

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Foreign Affairs in the Canadian Constitution

UBC Press

Foreign Affairs in the Canadian Constitution is a meticulously argued case for having the Canadian foreign affairs power rest firmly within the federal sphere.

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Fatal Confession

A Girl’s Murder, a Man’s Execution, and the Fitton Case

UBC Press

Fatal Confession is a gripping account of a 1950s sex murder and execution set against a backdrop of public concern about sex crimes and the justifiability of the death penalty.

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Claiming the Right to the City

Rethinking Urban Transformations in Brazil

UBC Press

Claiming the Right to the City explores Brazilian efforts to apply the right to the city in local planning practice, offering lessons for other jurisdictions and underscoring the importance of bottom-up citizen engagement.

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Chris Claremont

University Press of Mississippi

A concise overview of the longest-running author in Marvel comics history

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Challenging Exile

Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution

UBC Press

Challenging Exile delves into the origins, experience, and aftermath of a shameful moment in Canada’s past: the government’s attempt to exile thousands of Japanese Canadians after the Second World War.

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Belvoir

An Archaeology of Maryland Slavery

University of Alabama Press
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Afro-Peruvian Mestizos

The Invisibility of Blackness in Post-Abolition Peru

University of Alabama Press
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Yun Dong-ju

A Critical Biography

By WooHye Song; Translated by Flora M. Kim; Foreword by David Krolikoski
Rutgers University Press

Chronicling the life of Korea’s “National Poet,” Yun Dong-ju (1917-1945), Song WooHye explores the historical and political backgrounds that influenced Yun’s development as a poet and a patriot. Universally acclaimed as the most comprehensive and definitive biography of the poet in South Korea, and now translated into English by Flora M. Kim, it is an indispensable guide to understanding Yun Dong-ju and Korea’s colonial period.
 

This book is published with the support of the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea)

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Technique and Control

Jacques Ellul's Sociology

Athabasca University Press
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Summers Off?

A History of U.S. Teachers' Other Three Months

Rutgers University Press
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No Hand Held Mine

Stories — "Granny Wild Goose" and "The Root's Tale"

By Soom Kim; Foreword by Alexis Dudden; Translated by Joon-Li Kim and Doo-Sun Ryu
Rutgers University Press

In these two stories, "Granny Wild Goose" and "The Root's Tale," award-winning South Korean writer Kim Soom presents portraits of complex women who have emerged wiser from life’s brutality. One is a former comfort woman, one is a modern woman in a failing relationship, yet neither flinches away from their lives. The sensitive translation maintains Kim’s beautiful imagery and musical prose.
 

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Flatfish

Poems

Rutgers University Press

In his poetry collection, Flatfish, Moon Tae-jun offers an aesthetic that emphasizes the author’s exploration of the inner self. At times sparse and allusive, his poems use blank space and other stylistic considerations to convey a voice and thought that ranges from the contemplative to the surreal and absurd. Moon’s poems suggest Buddhist ideologies, natural images, and Korean temples.

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Economies of Gender

Masculinity, "Mail Order Brides," and Women’s Labor

Rutgers University Press

Economies of Gender: Masculinity, "Mail Order Brides," and Women’s Labor explores the global dating industry, challenging stereotypes by examining how men seek "feminine capital" in international partners. Through twelve years of research, the book reveals how gender, labor, and cultural dynamics shape relationships across different regions.

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Economies of Gender

Masculinity, "Mail Order Brides," and Women's Labor

Rutgers University Press

Economies of Gender: Masculinity, "Mail Order Brides," and Women’s Labor explores the global dating industry, challenging stereotypes by examining how men seek "feminine capital" in international partners. Through twelve years of research, the book reveals how gender, labor, and cultural dynamics shape relationships across different regions.

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Lyndon B. Johnson

A Biography for Beginning Historians

LBJ Foundation & Briscoe Ctr UT-Austin
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