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Dream and Legacy, Volume II

Revisiting King in the Post-Civil Rights Era

University Press of Mississippi

An examination of race and politics since 2020 through the lens of Martin Luther King’s vision

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Local Governance in Transition

Toward Sustainable Canadian Communities

UBC Press

Local Governance in Transition presents a framework for conversations around technological, ecological, and economic challenges – and encourages innovative thinking for those interested in exploring sustainable solutions.

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Black Fire—This Time, Volume 1

Edited by Kim McMillon; Associate editor Kofi Antwi; Foreword by Ishmael Reed; Introduction by Margo Natalie Crawford
University Press of Mississippi, University Press of Mississippi/Aquarius Press/Willow Books

An anthology that explores all facets of the Black Arts Movement

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Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan

Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls‘ Comics Artists and Fans

University of Hawaii Press
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Rewriting Work

Edited by Lora Anderson
The WAC Clearinghouse

Because of its centrality to the professional identity of any communications-focused discipline, the workplace has for decades been a focus of practice and scholarship in technical and professional communication. The contributors to Rewriting Workexamine workplace writing through the lenses of identity and changing communication practices, arguing that place can be viewed as a productive frame for understanding how technical and professional communication has changed over the last two decades.

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Kūkai

Japan’s First Vajrayana Visionary

Institute of Buddhist Studies
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In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark

Early Commemorations and the Origins of the National Historic Trail

University Press of Colorado

Although it was 1806 when Lewis and Clark returned to St. Louis after their journey across the country, it was not until 1905 that they were celebrated as national heroes. In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark examines how public attitudes toward their explorations and the means of commemorating them have changed, from the production of the Lewis and Clark Exposition in 1905 to the establishment of the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail in 1978 and the celebrations of the expedition's bicentennial from 2003 through 2007.

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Early Ryukyuan History

A New Model

University of Hawaii Press
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Confronting Christianity

The Protestant Mission and the Buddhist Reform Movement in Nineteenth-Century Thailand

University of Hawaii Press
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Chinese Colonial Entanglements

Commodities and Traders in the Southern Asia Pacific, 1880–1950

University of Hawaii Press
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Azalea 17

Journal of Korean Literature and Culture

Pres & Fellows of Harvard College, Korea Institute, Harvard University
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Motion Picture Paradise

A History of Florida's Film and Television Industry

University Press of Florida

This book is a sweeping story of filmmaking in Florida, chronicling the state’s importance to producers throughout 125 years by looking at the many iconic films and television shows made across the peninsula.

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Accompaniment with Im/migrant Communities

Engaged Ethnography

The University of Arizona Press

This edited volume is a collective conversation between anthropologists, activists, students, im/migrants, and community members about accompaniment—a feminist care-based, decolonial mode of ethnographic engagement. Across the chapters, contributors engage with accompaniment with im/migrant communities in a variety of ways that challenge traditional boundaries between researcher-participant, scholar-activist, and academic-community member to explicitly address issues of power, inequality, and well-being for the communities they work with and alongside.

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Black Fire—This Time, Volume 2

Edited by Derrick Harriell; Associate editor Kofi Antwi; Introduction by Mona Lisa Saloy
University Press of Mississippi, University Press of Mississippi/Aquarius Press/Willow Books

The follow-up collection to the groundbreaking first anthology

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"From Boys to Men"

The Boy Problem and the Childhood of Famous Americans Series

University of Massachusetts Press
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The Secret Life of Rose

Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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Seasons at Lakeside Dairy

Family Stories from a Black-Owned Dairy, Louisiana to California and Beyond

University Press of Mississippi

A brilliant storytelling showcase of the enduring legacy of a Black-owned dairy and its impact across generations

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Mesoamerican Osteobiographies

Revealing the Lives and Deaths of Ancient Individuals

University of Florida Press

Drawing from a variety of sites throughout Mesoamerica, this volume presents a collection of osteobiographies, which analyze skeletons and their surroundings alongside historical, archaeological, ethnographic, and other contextual data to better understand the life experiences of individuals.

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Clicas

Gender, Sexuality, and Struggle in Latina/o/x Gang Literature and Film

University of Texas Press

How Latina/o/x gang literature and film represent women and gay gang members’ challenges to gendered, sexual, racial, and class oppression.

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Young, Autistic and ADHD

Moving into adulthood when you’re multiply-neurodivergent

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Autistic ADHDer Sarah Boon opens the door on what it’s like as a young autistic ADHDer. Sharing invaluable tips and tricks that she has picked up along the way, this book is a companion guide to thriving when multiply neurodivergent.

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This is Who I Am

The Autistic Woman’s Creative Guide to Belonging

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

An explorative guide for women to help them work through the challenges arising from late autism discovery including understanding past behaviours, accessing support and developing a positive identity. Interweaving stories of lived experience with practical activities, this is the ideal dip-in/dip-out guide to achieving autistic self-acceptance.

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Experiential Anatomy

Therapeutic Applications of Embodied Movement and Awareness

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Handspring Publishing

An illustrated guide to mindful practices using experiential anatomy and yoga therapy to promote self-regulation and positive neuroplastic changes. This book teaches movement professionals and students how to deepen functional interoceptive awareness to compassionately explore and repattern habits of breath, alignment and movement.

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Being Autistic (And What That Actually Means)

By Niamh Garvey; Illustrated by Rebecca Burgess
Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Written by autistic author, Niamh Garvey, with lively illustrations throughout, this is the ultimate guide for 8-12-year-olds to learn all about what being autistic actually means.

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The Essential Lectures of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1890–1894

University of Alabama Press

The first collection of lectures and sermons that Charlotte Perkins Gilman delivered in the first four years of her career

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Modernism’s Magic Hat

Architecture and the Illusion of Development without Capital

University of Texas Press

Examines the role of architecture in the history of global development and decolonization.

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Gold Dust on the Air

Television Anthology Drama and Midcentury American Culture

University of Texas Press

How mid-century television anthologies reflected and shaped US values and identities.

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Pivotal Strategies

Claiming Writing Studies as Discipline

Edited by Lynn C. Lewis
Utah State University Press

Pivotal Strategies examines the rhetorical contexts and motivations that determine how and why people choose writing studies as a discipline, especially as the field begins to take more seriously an antiracist imperative that requires more conscious listening and promotion of work from scholars representing traditionally underrepresented voices.
 

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Möbius Media

Popular Culture, Folklore, and the Folkloresque

Utah State University Press
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Mobility and Migration in Ancient Mesoamerican Cities

University Press of Colorado

Mobility and Migration in Ancient Mesoamerican Cities is the first focused book-length discussion of migration in central Mexico, west Mexico and the Maya region, presenting case studies on population movement in and among Classic, Epiclassic, and Postclassic Mesoamerican societies and polities within the framework of urbanization and de-urbanization.

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A Dictionary of Modern Consternation

University of Alaska Press

This cheeky dictionary-shaped exploration is a genre-bending nonfiction lyric following one family through the years from the financial crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Georgia of the North

Black Women and the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey

Rutgers University Press

The Georgia of the North is a compelling narrative about the little-known struggles that African American women, and their community, faced when they arrived in the Garden State by way of the Great Migration to 1954 as they laid the foundations of the American civil rights movement in the North in the process.

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Soviet-Born

The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction

Rutgers University Press

How does being Soviet-born inflect one’s grasp of Jewishness in North America? Reading across the many English-language works by Soviet-born writers, Soviet-Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction demonstrates how these diasporic authors recast such pivotal literary themes as Eastern Europe, the Holocaust, communism, gender and intimacy, and migrant solidarities.

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Latin* Students in Engineering

An Intentional Focus on a Growing Population

Rutgers University Press

Latin* Students in Engineering examines the state of Latin* engineering education at present as well as considerations for policy and practice regarding engineering education aimed at enhancing opportunity and better serving Latin* students. The essays in this volume first consider, theoretically and empirically, the experiences of Latin* students in engineering education and then expand beyond the student level to focus on institutional and social structures that challenge Latin* students' success and retention.
 

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Film Noir and the Arts of Lighting

Rutgers University Press

More than any other films from the classical era, the Hollywood film noir is known for its lighting. Film Noir and the Arts of Lighting offers a new account of this craft, grounded in a larger theory of cinematography as emotionally engaging storytelling. Featuring analyses of The Asphalt Jungle, Touch of Evil, and more.

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An Ordinary Landscape of Violence

Women Loving Women in Guyana

Rutgers University Press

An Ordinary Landscape of Violence focuses on the intertwining layers of violence experienced by women loving women in Guyana. This book offers readers insights into the complicated ways that violence as an affect is enacted, experienced, and used by several constituencies in the country, including women loving women in the forms of self-harm and intimate partner violence against their partners. It illustrates how women respond to violence in the Guyana and calls for a politics of collective healing.

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Ghostwriter

Shakespeare, Literary Landmines, and an Eccentric Patron's Royal Obsession

University Press of Mississippi

Two people, principal and ghostwriter, collaborate on the controversial story of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, and his alleged affair with Queen Elizabeth I.

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Everyday Reading

Middlebrow Magazines and Book Publishing in Post-Independence India

University of Massachusetts Press
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Chronicling Amazon Town

Eight Decades of Research and Engagement in Gurupá, Brazil

University of Florida Press

This book brings together the work of researchers from a variety of fields to provide a comprehensive synthesis of local and regional studies in the town of Gurupá in Brazil, ranging from archaeological findings to ethnohistory and sociocultural anthropology.

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