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The Red Baron of IBEW Local 213
Les McDonald, Union Politics, and the 1966 Wildcat Strike at Lenkurt Electric
By Ian McDonald
Athabasca University Press
Pilates Applications for Health Conditions
Programs and Perspectives
By Madeline Black and Elizabeth Larkam
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Handspring Publishing
Edited by two international experts in movement education, this comprehensive reference examines 24 health conditions that improve gait, balance, and quality of life. Designed for Pilates teachers, movement educators, continuing education providers, and trainee teachers, it demonstrates applications for clinical practice, home studios and online.
Walled
Barriers, Migration, and Resistance in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Edited by Andréanne Bissonnette and Élisabeth Vallet
The University of Arizona Press
Thirty years after the first mile of border walls was constructed in the San Diego–Tijuana region, this volume invites readers to reflect on how the border has evolved and what durable impacts came from these initial fourteen miles of border walls—and the 1,940 miles constructed since.
The Rise of Necro/Narco Citizenship
Belonging and Dying in the Southwest North American Region
The University of Arizona Press
The Rise of Necro/Narco Citizenship offers a comprehensive exploration of the sociopolitical, economic, and cultural forces shaping the Southwest North American Region. Written by Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez, this work introduces the innovative concept of necro/narco citizenship, shedding light on how violence, militarization, and socioeconomic disruptions create unique forms of existence and identity on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Of Slash Pines and Manatees
A Highly Selective Field Guide to My Suburban Wilderness
University Press of Florida
Through stories of nature near at hand, Andrew Furman explores touchpoints between his everyday suburban life and the environment in South Florida, contemplating his place in a subtropical landscape stretching from the Everglades to the Atlantic coast.
Landscaping Indigenous Mexico
The Liberal State and Capitalism in the Purépecha Highlands
University of Texas Press
Iranians in Texas
Migration, Politics, and Ethnic Identity
By Mohsen Mostafavi Mobasher; Introduction by Nestor Rodriguez
University of Texas Press
Indigenous Critical Reflections on Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Edited by Lara A. Jacobs
Oregon State University Press
An Honourable and Impartial Tribunal
The Court Martial of Major General Henry Procter, Minutes of the Proceedings
By Guy St-Denis
Athabasca University Press
William Faulkner in Holly Springs
By Sally Wolff
University Press of Mississippi
An intriguing argument and exploration that expands the postage stamp of the Nobel Laureate’s fiction
Russ Meyer
Interviews
Edited by Ed Symkus
University Press of Mississippi
Thirty years of interviews with the provocative and often controversial creator of films including Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!; Beyond the Valley of the Dolls;and Vixen!
Refusing to Be Made Whole
Disability in Black Women's Writing
University Press of Mississippi
A cross-disciplinary analysis on how Black women writers theorize disability and Black womanhood
Neoliberalism and Young Adult Fiction
Exceptionalism, Exploitation, and Erasure
University Press of Mississippi
One of the first critical volumes to examine how young adult literature reproduces but also resists neoliberalism
George Valentine Dureau
Life and Art in New Orleans
By Howard Philips Smith; Foreword by Daniel Hammer
University Press of Mississippi
An expansive and beautiful survey of one of New Orleans’s most accomplished and provocative artists
Evanira Mendes
A Voice from the Brazilian Folklore Movement
By Eric A. Galm
University Press of Mississippi
The long-overdue recognition of a scholar and the vibrant Brazilian folklore she documented
Crossing the Pass of Clouds
An Army Photographer's Vietnam Journal
By Lon Holmberg
University Press of Mississippi
An extraordinarily up-close and personal photography collection and journal of the last years of the Vietnam War
A Tone Parallel to Duke Ellington
The Man in the Music
University Press of Mississippi
Ellington’s music with fresh thematic explorations to delight music lovers
So Great Was the Slaughter
Market Hunters, Sportsmen, and Wildlife Conservation in Arkansas
University of Alabama Press
Marion Greenwood
Portrait and Self-Portrait—A Biography
University of Alabama Press
This biography carves out a central place for Marion Greenwood in the pantheon of remarkable women artists.
Driving Lessons
A Road Trip through American Travel Literature
University of Alabama Press
Welcome to Florida
True Tales from America's Most Interesting State
University Press of Florida
In these stories, Craig Pittman introduces readers to the people, creatures, places, and issues that make up the Florida of today, capturing the heart of the nation’s fastest growing state.
The Twilight of Rome's Papal Nobility
The Life of Agnese Borghese Boncompagni Ludovisi
By Ugo Boncompagni Ludovisi (1856–1935); Translated by Carol Cofone; Foreword by T. Corey Brennan and Rita Boncompagni Ludovisi
Rutgers University Press
The Twilight of Rome's Papal Nobility details the life of Agnese Borghese Boncompagni Ludovisi (1836–1920), one of the last matriarchs of the Borghese Boncompagni Ludovisi clan, a family which, through marriage, combined two of the most powerful papal households in Italian history. The book, written by her eldest son Ugo and originally published in 1921, details Agnese's personal and public life, as well as the many historical events that shaped the future of her family and her country during the Italian risorgimento period.
The High School
Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903-2024
Rutgers University Press
Wrapped around a rich array of 270 photos from over a century of a high school’s yearbooks, The High School tells a vivid story of the unevenness of social change, including booms and busts in girls’ sports, the long-contested meanings of football, the gender dynamics of coaching, and dramatic ebbs and flows in the meanings of cheerleading.
Specters of War
The Battle of Mourning in Postconflict Central America
The University of Arizona Press
Specters of War explores mourning practices in postwar Central America, particularly in El Salvador and Guatemala. Sarmiento delves into the intricate dynamics of grieving through an interdisciplinary lens, analyzing expressions of mourning in literature, theater, and sites of memory. At the heart of this analysis is the contention over who has the right to mourn, how mourning is performed, and who is included in this process. Mourning is a battleground where different societal factions vie for the possibility of grieving the dead.
Say Her Name
Centering Black Feminism and Black Women in Sport
Rutgers University Press
Say Her Name: Centering Black Feminism and Black Women in Sports offers an in-depth look into the lived experiences of Blackgirlwomen as athletes, activists, and everyday people through a Black feminist lens. With so much research on race centered on Black men and gender research focusing on white women, Say Her Name offers a necessary conversation that places Blackgirlwomen at the center of discussion.
Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours
The University of Arizona Press
In Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours, Octavio Quintanilla takes us on a profound journey through borders and disquiet, love and longing, the unsaid and the unsayable. The perpetual search for wholeness is confounded and shadowed by all the brutal things intent on breaking us: distance, time, language. In these poems, the lyrical and concrete intertwine—complicating our notions of immigration, imagination, and identity. Culminating in a long poem that closes the collection, Las Horas Imposibles is an inevitable revelation of vulnerability amid quiet violence.
Islamists in a Zionist Coalition
The Political and Religious Origins
By Uriya Shavit
Rutgers University Press
Islamists in a Zionist Coalition explores a political drama that shocked Israel and the world in 2021: the decision of an Islamist party to join a Zionist coalition, and its elevation to the position of "king-maker" in Israeli politics. Based on analyses of hundreds of texts and exclusive interviews, it uncovers the religious and political origins of a development that will greatly impact Israeli society in years to come.
Films That Spill
Beyond the Cinema of Transgression
Rutgers University Press
Films That Spill takes up a previously understudied moment in 1980s underground culture in New York City called Cinema of Transgression, offering both a microhistory of the intermingling art, music, performance, and film scenes of the time and a glimpse into their afterlives.
Fantasies of Hong Kong Disneyland
Attempted Indigenizations of Space, Labor, and Consumption
By Jenny Banh
Rutgers University Press
Jenny Banh examines the attempt to transplant Disney's "happiest place on earth" to Hong Kong, delving into the three-way dynamics of American culture-corporation intentions; Hong Kong, China government investment; and Hong Kong and Chinese audiences. The situation poses special challenges for Disney's efforts to manage space, labor, and consumption to achieve local adaptation and business success.
Climate Bridge
An International Perspective on How to Enact Climate Action at the Government Public Interface
Rutgers University Press
Climate Bridge compares New Jersey and the German Ruhr Region to build an international perspective on how to enact climate action at the government-public interface. The book grew from fifteen years of collaboration between scholars in New Jersey and Germany through summer programs, a landscape architecture design studio, internships for Rutgers students, and joint publications. Notably, settlement patterns and brownfield issues reveal similarities between the underserved in both regions.
At Home with the Holocaust
Postmemory, Domestic Space, and Second-Generation Holocaust Narratives
Rutgers University Press
Based on analyses of literature and oral histories of children of survivors, At Home with the Holocaust reveals how the material conditions of survivor-family homes, along with household practices and belongings, rendered these homes as archives of trauma that in turn traumatized the children of Holocaust survivors.
Apocalyptic Crimes
Why Nuclear Weapons Are Illegal and Must Be Abolished
Rutgers University Press
Conversations with Extinct Animals
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
The Hohokam and Their World
An Exploration of Art and Iconography
The University of Arizona Press
The Hohokam and Their World explores how the Hohokam used art forms such as pottery, shell ornaments, carved stone, and rock imagery to convey their views of the world and their ideas about water, the Sonoran Desert, the ocean, travel, ancestors, and the cosmos.
Star Gazers
Finding Joy in the Night Sky
The University of Arizona Press
A flash, a single streak of light, is what sparked David Levy’s passion for astronomy more than sixty years ago. In this delightful collection of essays, Levy shares not only his love for the sky and stars, but also his love for language and literature. With the voice of a poet and the eye of a skilled, albeit amateur, astronomer, Levy takes us on a glorious adventure as large as the universe.
Moving through Life
Essential Lessons of Dance
By Naomi Goldberg Haas, with Mikhaela Mahony
University Press of Florida
Culinary Palettes
The Visuality of Food in Postrevolutionary Mexican Art
University of Texas Press
The Beef Taboo in China
Agriculture, Ethics, Sacrifice
By Vincent Goossaert; Translated by Barbara R. Ambros
University of Hawaii Press
No Man Is An Island
Community and Commemoration on Norway's Utøya
By Jørgen Watne Frydnes; Translated by Wendy H. Gabrielsen
University of Massachusetts Press
Mothers Against War
Gender, Motherhood, and Peace Activism in Cold War Japan
University of Hawaii Press
Formulating a Minimalist Morality for a New Planetary Order
Alternative Cultural Perspectives
University of Hawaii Press
Fenua and Fare, Marae and Mana
The Archaeology of Ancient Tahiti and the Society Islands
University of Hawaii Press
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