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The Cyborg Caribbean
Techno-Dominance in Twenty-First-Century Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican Science Fiction
Rutgers University Press
The Cyborg Caribbean examines twenty-first-century Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican science fiction, showing how it negotiates legacies of techno-colonialism and techno-authoritarianism. It traces histories of four different technologies—electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), nuclear weapons, space exploration, and digital avatars—that have transformed corporality and humanity in the Caribbean.
Oh, Serafina!
A Fable of Ecology, Lunacy, and Love
Rutgers University Press
Newly translated into English, Giuseppe Berto’s 1973 novel Oh, Serafina! is a whimsical fable of ecology, lunacy, and love. One of the first environmentally-conscious works of Italian literature, it questions the destructive effects of industrial capitalism, the many forms spirituality might take, and the ways our society defines madness.
Maid for Television
Race, Class, Gender, and a Representational Economy
By L. S. Kim
Rutgers University Press
Maid for Television examines the racialized female domestic by tracing the maid’s representational and narrative function in American television. As domestic service has been a long-standing occupation for women of color, the figure of the maid in the employer’s home is a recurrent and patterned image, simultaneously enacting and revealing the nexus of race, class, and gender hierarchies in American culture.
Islam and Me
Narrating a Diaspora
Rutgers University Press
In Islam and Me, Shirin Ramzanali Fazel tells her story of being a Somali immigrant in Italy and shares the experiences of other Muslim women in southern Europe. She reveals the common prejudices they encounter and explores how Italy might reimagine its national culture and identity to become more diverse, inclusive, and anti-racist.
City of Men
Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport
Rutgers University Press
How do men experience gender in the city? Through descriptions of autorickshaw and taxi operators and their interactions with traffic police and commuters in Kolkata, India, this book highlights the gendered logics of cooperation and everyday morality through which masculinities take up space in cities.
Calling Family
Digital Technologies and the Making of Transnational Care Collectives
By Tanja Ahlin
Rutgers University Press
How do digital technologies shape how people care for each other and, through that, who they are? Calling Family explores how digital devices shape elder care at a distance and how it should be done in order to be considered good. Through Tanja Ahlin's ethnographic fieldwork among families of migrating nurses from Kerala, India, this book aspires to uncover the subtle workings of digital technologies beyond seeing them as tools of communication.
Black Women in Latin America and the Caribbean
Critical Research and Perspectives
Rutgers University Press
This volume collects intellectual work by and about Black women while shedding light on the socio-political conditions that shape their participation and leadership in political struggles for citizenship rights and resources. Additionally, this volume explores the role of the social sciences in documenting anti-Black violence and forging hemispheric struggles against that violence.
Asian American History
By Huping Ling
Rutgers University Press
A comprehensive survey, Asian American History places Asian immigration to America in international and domestic contexts, and explores the significant elements that define Asian America: imperialism and global capitalist expansion, labor and capital, race and ethnicity, immigration and exclusion, family and work, community and gender roles, assimilation and multiculturalism, panethnicity and identity, transnationalism and globalization, and new challenges and opportunities. It is an up-to-date and easily accessible resource for high school and college students, as well as anyone who is interested in Asian American history.
Path to Grace
Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement
University Press of Mississippi
Remarkable narratives from the heretofore unsung champions of the civil rights movement
The Value Gap
Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere
University of Texas Press
How female directors, producers, and writers navigate the challenges and barriers facing female-driven projects at each stage of filmmaking in contemporary Hollywood.
The Making of Florida’s Universities
Public Higher Education at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
University Press of Florida
Starmaker
David O. Selznick and the Production of Stars in the Hollywood Studio System
By Milan Hain
University Press of Mississippi
A thorough study of the legendary producer and his creative business savvy
Reconstructing Response to Student Writing
A National Study from across the Curriculum
By Dan Melzer
Utah State University Press
In Reconstructing Response to Student Writing Dan Melzer makes the argument that writing instructors should shift the construct so that peer response and student self-assessment are more central than teacher response.
Maya-British Conflict at the Edge of the Yucatecan Caste War
University Press of Colorado
Maya-British Conflict at the Edge of the Yucatecan Caste War interrogates the 1862 alliance forged between the San Pedro Maya and the British during the Caste War of Yucatán (1847–1901).
Corps in/visibles - In/visible Bodies
Genre, religion et politique - Gender, Religion and Politics
Edited by Catherine Larouche and Florence Pasche Guignard
Les Presses de l'Université Laval, Laval University Press
Ways to Disappear
Stories
By Victoria Lancelotta; Foreword by Cristina Rivera Garza
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Winner of FC2’s Catherine Doctorow Prize in Innovative Fiction
Super Bodies
Comic Book Illustration, Artistic Styles, and Narrative Impact
University of Texas Press
An examination of the art in superhero comics and how style influences comic narratives.
Shattered
Fragments of a Black Life
West Virginia University Press
A heartrending and engrossing memoir that challenges narratives of racial progress and postracial America.
“Every so often, a book comes along that changes the way we see, speak, and think about the world. Shattered is one of those books.” —Frank B. Wilderson III, author of Afropessimism and Incognegro
Clear Creek
Toward a Natural Philosophy
By Erik Reece
West Virginia University Press
Acclaimed author Erik Reece spends a year beside a rural Kentucky stream, in close observation of the natural world’s cycles, revelations, and redemptions.
The People’s West Lake
Propaganda, Nature, and Agency in Mao’s China, 1949–1976
By Qiliang He
University of Hawaii Press
Reorienting the Pure Land
Nisei Buddhism in the Transwar Years, 1943–1965
University of Hawaii Press
Pieces of Freedom
The Emancipation Sculptures of Edmonia Lewis and Meta Warrick Fuller
By Lee Ann Timreck; Afterword by Alex Bostic
University Press of Mississippi
A visual narrative of the Black emancipation experience, voiced through the sculptures of two nineteenth-century African American female artists
Mad Rulers and Worthy Sons
A Translation and Analysis of the Newly Excavated Zhouxun
By Andrej Fech and Emanuel Seitz
Three Pines Press
Living with Taiji
Resilience through Inner Power
By Frieder Anders and Emanuel Seitz
Three Pines Press
Haunted Modernities
Gender, Memory, and Placemaking in Postindustrial Taiwan
By Anru Lee
University of Hawaii Press
Conversations with Jimmy Carter
Edited by Tom Head
University Press of Mississippi
Interviews that capture the complexities and contradictions that have defined Carter’s life as a national public figure for the last fifty years—and that have helped to both reflect and shape the highest aspirations of the American experiment
Alice in Japanese Wonderlands
Translation, Adaptation, Mediation
By Amanda Kennell; Series edited by Allison Alexy
University of Hawaii Press
How the News Feels
The Empathic Power of Literary Journalists
University of Massachusetts Press
Dropping In
What Skateboarders Can Teach Us about Learning, Schooling, and Youth Development
University of Massachusetts Press
"This World Is Not My Home"
A Critical Biography of African American Writer Charles Wright
University of Massachusetts Press
Bennu 3-D
Anatomy of an Asteroid
By Dante S. Lauretta, Brian May, Carina A. Bennett, Kenneth S. Coles, Claudia Manzoni, and Catherine W. V. Wolner
The University of Arizona Press
This book, the world’s first complete (and stereoscopic) atlas of an asteroid, is the result of a unique collaboration between OSIRIS-REx mission leader Dante Lauretta and Brian May’s London Stereoscopic Company. Lauretta’s colleagues include Carina Bennett, Kenneth Coles, and Cat Wolner, as well as Brian May and Claudia Manzoni, who became part of the ultimately successful effort to find a safe landing site for sampling. The text details the data collected by the mission so far, and the stereo images have been meticulously created by Manzoni and May from original images collected by the OSIRIS-REx cameras.
Birds of the Sun
Macaws and People in the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest
The University of Arizona Press
The multiple vivid colors of scarlet macaws and their ability to mimic human speech are key reasons they were and are significant to the Native peoples of the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest. Although the birds’ natural habitat is the tropical forests of Mexico and Central and South America, they were present at multiple archaeological sites in the region yet absent at the vast majority. Leading experts in southwestern archaeology explore the reasons why.
Beyond Greenways
The Next Step for City Trails and Walking Routes
Island Press
Would you experience your city differently if your doorstep were a trailhead? Many people don’t have close-by, safe places to walk, despite walking’s known benefits. In Beyond Greenways: The Next Step for City Trails and Walking Routes, greenways expert Robert Searns introduces a new generation of more accessible pathways that stitch together urban and suburban areas.
Searns introduces two models—grand loop trails and town walks. Grand loop trails are 20 to 350-mile systems that encircle metro areas. Town walks are shorter—2 to 6-mile routes in cities. He then lays out how to plan, design, and build support for them, drawing inspiration from trails in the US and abroad.
Planners, trail advocates, and community leaders will find the tools here to develop successful and affordable trails. Now is the time to pursue accessible pedestrian routes for this, and future, generations.
Searns introduces two models—grand loop trails and town walks. Grand loop trails are 20 to 350-mile systems that encircle metro areas. Town walks are shorter—2 to 6-mile routes in cities. He then lays out how to plan, design, and build support for them, drawing inspiration from trails in the US and abroad.
Planners, trail advocates, and community leaders will find the tools here to develop successful and affordable trails. Now is the time to pursue accessible pedestrian routes for this, and future, generations.
Telling Stories
Perspectives on Longitudinal Writing Research
Edited by Jenn Fishman and Amy C. Kimme Hea
Utah State University Press
In Telling Stories, more than a dozen longitudinal writing researchers look beyond conventional project findings to story their work and, in doing so, offer otherwise unavailable glimpses into the logics and logistics of long-range studies of writing.
Building an Archaeology of Maya Urbanism
Planning and Flexibility in the American Tropics
Edited by Damien B. Marken and M. Charlotte Arnauld
University Press of Colorado
The Neuroscience of Yoga and Meditation
By Brittany Fair; Illustrated by Bruce Hogarth
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Handspring Publishing
An accessible introduction to how yoga and meditation affect the brain. Each chapter will guide the reader through the latest yoga and meditation research and break down complex topics into easily digestible points. The book also explores the current limitations in studying these practices and offers tools for interpreting scientific literature.
Hopeless Aromantic
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
First guide on aromanticism, the lesser-known cousin of asexuality.
Acupuncture and Cancer Survivorship
Recovery, Renewal, and Transformation
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Singing Dragon
A guide for acupuncturists to help them understand the issues faced by people living with and beyond cancer and equip them to support patients in their process of recovery, renewal and transformation to the “new normal' of life after cancer treatment.
Hazardous Seas
A Sociotechnical Framework for Early Tsunami Detection and Warning
Edited by Louise K. Comfort and Harkunti P. Rahayu; Foreword by Dwikorita Karnawati and Ir. Hammam Riza
Island Press
Tsunamis are infrequent but terrifying hazards for coastal communities. Difficult to predict, they materialize with little warning, claiming thousands of lives and causing billions of dollars in damage. Now a groundbreaking new approach to tsunami detection and warning developed by an international team of researchers that relies on low-cost underwater sensors and networks of smartphone communication gives at-risk coastal communities an economically viable, scientifically sound means to protect themselves.
Hazardous Seas, edited by disaster preparedness experts Louise K. Comfort and Harkunti P. Rahayu, is an invaluable guide for policy makers and international NGOs looking to save lives from tsunamis and mitigate crippling damage to communities. It also provides a comprehensive overview of tsunami detection and warning for students of engineering, computer science, planning, policy, and economic and environmental analysis.
Hazardous Seas, edited by disaster preparedness experts Louise K. Comfort and Harkunti P. Rahayu, is an invaluable guide for policy makers and international NGOs looking to save lives from tsunamis and mitigate crippling damage to communities. It also provides a comprehensive overview of tsunami detection and warning for students of engineering, computer science, planning, policy, and economic and environmental analysis.
Sustaining Air
The Life of Larry Eigner
University of Alabama Press
The biography of a poet seminal to postwar American poetry
Soloveitchik's Children
Irving Greenberg, David Hartman, Jonathan Sacks, and the Future of Jewish Theology in America
University of Alabama Press
A close study of three of Soloveitchik’s most influential disciples in Jewish thought and philosophy
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