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Hollywood Unions

Rutgers University Press

Who makes films and television shows? How do those people make a living in Hollywood? Hollywood Unions tells the stories of the unions and guilds that have organized and negotiate on behalf of motion picture and television labor: the DGA, IATSE, SAG-AFTRA, and WGA.

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Hollywood Unions

Rutgers University Press

Who makes films and television shows? How do those people make a living in Hollywood? Hollywood Unions tells the stories of the unions and guilds that have organized and negotiate on behalf of motion picture and television labor: the DGA, IATSE, SAG-AFTRA, and WGA.

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Grieving Pregnancy

Memorializing Loss in Japanese Buddhism and American Catholicism

Rutgers University Press

Grieving Pregnancy compares contemporary American Catholic and Japanese Buddhist memorial practices focused on miscarriage, stillbirth, and abortion. Maureen L. Walsh demonstrates that while the memorial practices confront the same basic problem—that is, pregnancy loss—they conceive of the problem in different terms, and as a result, propose distinct responses to it.

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God's Waiting Room

Racial Reckoning at Life's End

Rutgers University Press

A ghost story rich in mystery and life lessons, God's Waiting Room takes readers on a day-long tour of a tropical nursing home to hear stories of older white people and the younger Black nurses who care for them, showing how people formerly primed to be enemies find grace despite the odds.

 

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British Romanticism and Prison Reform

Bucknell University Press

British Romanticism and Prison Reform is the first full-length study to explore and define the close relationship between British Romantic literary texts, on the one hand, and the birth of the modern prison, on the other, giving long overdue attention to the revolution in punishment coterminous with the age we call Romantic.

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Becoming an Expert Caregiver

How Structural Flaws Shape Autism Carework and Community

Rutgers University Press

This book features the voices of 50 primary caregivers of autistic and neurodivergent children who illuminate the process through which lay women become expert caregivers to provide the best care for their children. Expert caregiving captures an intensification of traditional family carework – meeting dependents’ financial, emotional, and physical needs – that transcends the walls of one’s private home and family and challenges the strict boundaries between many worlds: lay and professional, family and work, private and public, medical and social, and individual and society. 

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Building for People

Designing Livable, Affordable, Low-Carbon Communities

Island Press

In Building for People, architect and ecodistrict planner Michael Eliason makes the case for low-carbon ecodistricts and presents practical tools for developing these residential and mixed-use communities. As cities turn brownfields into green fields and look to maximize public investment in transit and infrastructure, ecodistricts are the answer. Eliason shows that this type of affordable, climate-adaptive living option is possible anywhere.

Full-color photos and illustrations show what is possible in ecodistricts through examples around the world. Looking at small districts like Steingau in Kirchheim unter Teck, to massive urban redevelopment like Vienna’s Sonnwendviertel and Seestadt-Aspern as models, Eliason argues that building regulations and planning processes in the US must change to make these livable neighborhoods possible.

Building for People shows professionals involved in regulating, planning, or designing our communities that high-quality, low-carbon living is within reach.
 

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The Historical Archaeology of the Pacific Northwest

University Press of Florida

In this book, Douglas Wilson uses historical documents, Indigenous oral traditions, and the material record to provide a comprehensive overview of the historical archaeology of the Pacific Northwest region from the seventeenth through the twenty-first centuries.

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Prohibition in Turkey

Alcohol and the Politics of Identity

University of Texas Press

A social history of alcohol, identity, secularism, and modernization from the late Ottoman and early Turkish republican eras to the present day.

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Nature and Antiquities

The Making of Archaeology in the Americas

The University of Arizona Press

Nature and Antiquities analyzes how the study of indigenous peoples was linked to the study of nature and natural sciences. Leading scholars break new ground and entreat archaeologists to acknowledge the importance of ways of knowing in the study of nature in the history of archaeology.

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Brazil's Long Revolution

Radical Achievements of the Landless Workers Movement

The University of Arizona Press

Economic crises in the Global North and South are forcing activists to think about alternatives. Author Anthony Pahnke argues that activists should look to the Global South and Brazil—in particular the Landless Workers Movement (MST)—for inspiration. Brazil’s Long Revolution shows how the MST positioned itself to take advantage of challenging economic times to improve its members’ lives.

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A Carpetbagger in Reverse

Arthur W. Mitchell, America's First Black Democratic Congressman

University of Alabama Press

A long overdue account of the pioneering life and work of controversial African American Congressman Arthur Wergs Mitchell of Chicago

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Reading the Room

Lessons on Pedagogy and Curriculum from the Gender and Sexuality Studies Classroom

Concordia University Press
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Of Salt and Spirit

Black Quilters in the American South

University Press of Mississippi, University Press of Mississippi/Mississippi Museum of Art

A beautifully illustrated exhibition catalog that highlights the rich and diverse quiltmaking traditions of Black women in the South

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Spies and Shuttles

NASA's Secret Relationships with the DoD and CIA

University Press of Florida

In this real life spy saga, James E. David reveals the extensive and largely hidden interactions between NASA and U.S. defense and intelligence departments.

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Soldiers and Silver

Mobilizing Resources in the Age of Roman Conquest

University of Texas Press

A detailed comparative study of resources and military mobilizations in the ancient Mediterranean, this book examines how Rome achieved hegemony over the region and offers a new understanding of the economy of that time.

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Seviyye Talip

Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies UT-Austin

A new translation of a best-selling novel about love, liberty, and exile in the final years of the Ottoman Empire.

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Science with Impact

How to Engage People, Change Practice, and Influence Policy

Island Press

Will you please just listen to me? If you are a scientist, or a fan of science, have you ever wondered why your fact-based explanation of ground-breaking scientific research falls flat with family, friends, and the general public? Social science communicator Anne Helen Toomey argues that science today faces a public-relations crisis, and she calls for a whole-scale change in how scientists engage with the world.

This practical, how-to guide will help scientists address public distrust, communicate about uncertainty, and engage with policymakers so that science can make a difference. Science with Impact argues that science can—and should—make a meaningful difference in society, and offers hope and guidance to those of us who wish to take the steps to make it so.  
 

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Revolting Indolence

The Politics of Slacking, Lounging, and Daydreaming in Queer and Trans Latinx Culture

University of Texas Press

How indolent practices in Latinx LGBTQ culture challenge capitalist imperatives to be productive.

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More Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers

Continuing the Struggle

University Press of Florida

In this book, twenty-three lawyers discuss their experiences in the struggle to advance and maintain civil rights in the United States South, from the 1960s to the 1980s and from Texas to Virginia to Florida.

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It's All in the Delivery

Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy

University of Texas Press

How changing depictions of pregnancy in comedy from the start of the twentieth century to the present show an evolution in attitudes toward women’s reproductive roles and rights.

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Gerard P. Kuiper and the Rise of Modern Planetary Science

The University of Arizona Press

Gerard P. Kuiper and the Rise of Modern Planetary Science describes the life of a man who lived through some of the most dramatic events of the twentieth century and ended up creating a new field of scientific research, planetary science. As NASA and other space agencies explore the solar system, they take with them many of the ideas and concepts first described by Gerard P. Kuiper.

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Digital Satire in Latin America

Online Video Humor as Hybrid Alternative Media

University of Florida Press

This book analyzes how digital-native audiovisual satire has become increasingly influential in national public debates within Latin America. Paul Alonso examines the role of online video creators in critiquing politics and society and amplifying public discourse, filling gaps left by traditional media and journalism.

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Bordering on War

A Social and Political History of Khuzestan

University of Texas Press

A study of transnational identity, migration, and state loyalties told through the social and political history of Iran’s Khuzestan province.

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Archaeology in a Living Landscape

Envisioning Nonhuman Persons in the Indigenous Americas

University Press of Florida

This volume focuses on how Indigenous communities of the Americas have long recognized degrees of personhood within their landscapes, and its case studies show how researchers can incorporate this worldview in archaeological investigations, community relations, and interpretations.

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This Book is Free and Yours to Keep

Notes from the Appalachian Prison Book Project

West Virginia University Press

2024 Weatherford Award Winner, Nonfiction

Through the essays, letters, and artwork created by people in prison, this collection provides insight into the Appalachian Prison Book Project—a nonprofit that provides books to incarcerated people in West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, and Maryland.

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Substance of the Ancient Maya

Kingdoms and Communities, Objects and Beings

University of New Mexico Press
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Softie

Stories

West Virginia University Press

2025 PEN America Finalist, Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection

2025 National Book Award Honoree, "5 Under 35" 

In beautifully melancholy stories of magical realism, the women and girls in Softie transform their bodies and test their sanity, trying to find meaning in the loneliest of places. 

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Malcolm Before X

University of Massachusetts Press
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