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Silm Da’axk / To Revive and Heal Again

Historical Ecology and Ethnobotany in Laxyuubm Gitselasu

Athabasca University Press
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Imagining the Tropics

Women, Romance, and the Making of Modern Tourism

Rutgers University Press

Imagining the Tropics is a history of the development of tourism in the Caribbean across the twentieth century that focuses on the ways women’s labors of hospitality, writing, and advocacy built the industry and its ubiquitous imagery of tropical island relaxation, escape, and romance.

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Courting History

A Supreme Court Historian Reflects on His Life and Career

Briscoe Ctr for Amer History UT-Austin
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Citizen Bird

Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners, A Critical Edition

Rutgers University Press

Likely the first birding guide for children, Citizen Bird (1897) was a tremendously influential text in Progressive-era America. With a contextualizing introduction, explanatory footnotes, and supplementary historical material, this teaching edition of Citizen Bird aims to celebrate its place in the history of birding and in nineteenth-century American culture and literature.
 

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Betrayal U

The Politics of Belonging in Higher Education

The University of Arizona Press

Betrayal U: The Politics of Belonging in Higher Education is a timely and incisive anthology edited by Rebecca G. Martínez and Monica J. Casper. This groundbreaking volume dives into the heart of institutional betrayal within academia, offering a diverse range of narratives, art, and poetry that address why belonging matters in higher education.
 

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Back to Black

Jules Feiffer’s Noir Trilogy

Rutgers University Press

This book examines Jules Feiffer’s Kill My Mother trilogy of graphic novels as a body of work that pays homage to the iconography and themes of film noir. It reflects on Feiffer’s singular depiction of the central political issues of America from the Great Depression to the 1950s and on his unique storytelling voice, between drama and satire.
 

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Always an Academic Immigrant

A Collective Memoir

Rutgers University Press

Always an Academic Immigrant: A Collective Memoir shares the voices of academic immigrants who moved from their home country to a host country for a position in a higher education institution. Dafna Lemish elevates the voices of academic immigrants through analyses of 81 in-depth interviews with academic immigrants from 37 countries around the world, who moved to 11 countries, highlighting the unique benefits they bring to the academic world in their scholarship, teaching, and leadership roles.

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The Architecture of the Playing Field

Shaping Space in Sport

University of Texas Press
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New Directions in Israeli Media

Film, Television, and Digital Content

Edited by Yaron Peleg
University of Texas Press
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First Fruits

The Lewellings and the Birth of the Pacific Coast Fruit Industry

Oregon State University Press
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Ideals Then Ideas

Alison Brooks Architects

Dalhousie Architectural Press
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High Desert, Higher Costs

Bend and the Housing Crisis in the American West

Oregon State University Press
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A Reverence for Rivers

Imagining an Ethic for Running Waters

Oregon State University Press
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Republican Vietnam, 1963–1975

War, Society, Diaspora

Edited by Trinh M. Luu and Tuong Vu
University of Hawaii Press
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Integrated Korean

High Advanced 1, Second Edition

University of Hawaii Press
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Integrated Korean

High Advanced 2, Second Edition

University of Hawaii Press
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Halo-Halo Ecologies

The Emergent Environments behind Filipino Food

University of Hawaii Press
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Halo-Halo Ecologies

The Emergent Environments behind Filipino Food

University of Hawaii Press
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Dodging and Confronting Stigma

Outcast and Marginal People in Medieval Japan

University of Hawaii Press
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On a Rising Swell

Surf Stories from Florida's Space Coast

University Press of Florida
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The Divided North

Black and White Families in the Age of Slavery

University of Massachusetts Press
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Visions of Transformation

Hegemony, Plurinationality, and Revolution in Bolivia

The University of Arizona Press

Visions of Transformation provides an analytical framework through which to interpret and understand the process of social change in Bolivia during the era of Evo Morales.

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Rainforest Radio

Language Reclamation and Community Media in the Ecuadorian Amazon

The University of Arizona Press

Rainforest Radio follows Napo Kichwa media producers, performers, and consumers across a disrupted Amazon rainforest to understand the effects of different methods and media in language reclamation projects.

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We Can Do Better

Feminist Manifestos for Media and Communication

Rutgers University Press

This book brings together evidence-based, feminist manifestos for media and communication. It offers real, actionable, practical solutions to media problems and deficiencies, and shows how feminist thinking can be usefully and effectively applied to a wide range of journalism, media, and communication practices. The book offers specific, feasible blueprints for restructuring media in ways that make them more equitable and more democratic.
 
 

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We Can Do Better

Feminist Manifestos for Media and Communication

Rutgers University Press

This book brings together evidence-based, feminist manifestos for media and communication. It offers real, actionable, practical solutions to media problems and deficiencies, and shows how feminist thinking can be usefully and effectively applied to a wide range of journalism, media, and communication practices. The book offers specific, feasible blueprints for restructuring media in ways that make them more equitable and more democratic.
 
 

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Under the Sun

A Black Journalist's Journey

University of Alabama Press
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Troubles Online

Ableism and Access in Higher Education

Athabasca University Press
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The Superhero Blockbuster

Adaptation, Style, and Meaning

University Press of Mississippi

A detailed exploration of the adaptive practices, meanings, and industrial significance of popular superhero blockbusters

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The P-38 Lightning and the Men Who Flew It

University Press of Mississippi

Stories of the engineers who designed and the brave pilots who flew the fastest, deadliest fighter of World War II

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The Musicals of Cole Porter

Broadway, Hollywood, Television

University Press of Mississippi

A pivotal examination of one of America’s greatest songwriters, his lyrics, and his lifelong attempt to define the nature of love

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The Battle for the University of Alabama

The Perilous Path of Higher Education in the Reconstruction South

University of Alabama Press
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She's the Boss

The Rise of Women’s Entrepreneurship since World War II

Rutgers University Press
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Secrets I Won't Take with Me

Home, War, and the Struggle for Peace in Israel

University of Alabama Press
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Sax Expat

Don Byas

University Press of Mississippi

The riveting biography of one of the world’s greatest yet lesser-known jazz musicians

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Regenerating the Feminine

Psyche, Culture, and Nature

University Press of Mississippi

An exciting study that aims to trace the resurgence of the feminine archetype in literature and film

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Reframing Paquimé

Community Formation in Northwest Chihuahua

The University of Arizona Press

Based on twenty-five years of survey and excavation work in the Casas Grandes region, this book presents an interpretation of Paquimé that differs greatly from the traditional ideas that have dominated the literature for the last half-century. This massive reinterpretation of the inner workings of the Casas Grandes region tackles the essential question of how Paquimé affected its near neighbors and also addresses the enigmatic end to the great city. An essential archaeological text, Reframing Paquimé will generate debate for a generation of future scholars of Northwest Mexico and the adjacent U.S. Southwest.

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Public Loves, Private Troubles

Migration, Technology, and Intimacy in Rural Indigenous Guatemala

University of Alabama Press
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Producing Children

Critical Studies in Childhood Creativity

Rutgers University Press

Children’s culture is not only culture for children; it’s culture by children — yet scholars of children’s culture overwhelmingly center work by adults for children. Producing Children acknowledges and theorizes children as cultural producers, underscoring how such creativity empowers children as active participants in their own culture, and helps us to reconceive our understandings of children themselves.

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