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Harvesting Haiti

Reflections on Unnatural Disasters

University of Texas Press

This collection ponders the personal and political implications for Haitians at home and abroad resulting from the devastating 2010 earthquake.

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Constructing a Democracy

The History, Law, and Politics of Redistricting in Oregon

Oregon State University Press

Every ten years, states go through the process of redistricting: choosing how to divide up and apportion their state and federal legislative districts. How the districts are drawn can determine which party wins the district and therefore controls the legislature or Congress. Although the process may be different in every state, the questions are the same: Who draws the maps? Who can prevent gerrymandering? What power do legislatures, governors, courts, and political parties have to influence the process and the outcomes?

In Constructing a Democracy, legal scholar Norman Williams presents a comprehensive history of legislative and congressional redistricting in Oregon. Because redistricting impacts the representativeness of the ensuing legislative body, Oregon’s constitutional framers, legislators, and courts alike have understandably focused on developing legal rules to constrain the redistricting process. Williams is primarily interested in identifying and understanding the scope of those rules: What legal constraints have existed over time? How aggressively have the courts enforced those restraints? How have political actors undertaken the redistricting task in light of the various rules and the judicial pronouncements regarding those constraints?

The redistricting process in Oregon has not drawn national attention the way it has in states like North Carolina and Pennsylvania. But the process in Oregon is notable in several ways, including an early attention to malapportionment, the use of the initiative to reform the process, and the impact of women leaders on the redistricting process. The Oregon process, however, has also notably lagged behind other states, particularly in considering issues of race and minority representation and preventing gerrymandering.



 

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Chicana Portraits

Critical Biographies of Twelve Chicana Writers

The University of Arizona Press

This innovative collection details critical biographies of twelve key Chicana writers, offering an engaging look at their work, contributions to the field, and major achievements. Portraits of the authors are each examined by a noted scholar, who delves deep into the authors’ lives for details that inform their literary, artistic, feminist, and political trajectories and sensibilities. What results is a brilliant intersection of visual and literary arts that explores themes of sexism and misogyny, the fragility of life, Chicana agency, and more.

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Claiming Space

Performing the Personal through Decorated Mortarboards

Utah State University Press

Claiming Space examines the growing tradition of decorating mortarboards at college graduations, offering a performance-centered approach to these material sites of display. 

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The Sports Revolution

How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics

University of Texas Press

The story of Texas’s impact on American sports culture during the civil rights and second-wave feminist movements, this book offers a new understanding of sports and society in the state and the nation as a whole.

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Latinos and Nationhood

Two Centuries of Intellectual Thought

The University of Arizona Press

Spanning from the early nineteenth century to today, this intellectual history examines the work of Latino writers who explored the major philosophic and political themes of their day, including the meaning and implementation of democracy, their democratic and cultural rights under U.S. dominion, their growing sense of nationhood, and the challenges of slavery and disenfranchisement of women in a democratic republic that had yet to realize its ideals.

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A Single Star and Bloody Knuckles

A History of Politics and Race in Texas

University of Texas Press

A new look at the last 150 years of Texas’s contentious political history, told decade by decade through the prism of the state’s famous, infamous, and unsung figures.

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Mama Said

Stories

West Virginia University Press

Original stories of Black family life in Louisville, Kentucky, for readers of Dantiel Moniz (Milk Blood Heat) and Kai Harris (What the Fireflies Knew).
“Surprising and revelatory. . . . I love this book.” —Stephanie Powell Watts, author of No One Is Coming to Save Us

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Fighting Feelings

Lessons in Gendered Racism and Queer Life

UBC Press

Fighting Feelings investigates the lived experiences of women of colour to reveal the complex ways that white supremacy is felt, endured, and navigated.

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A Healthy Future

Lessons from the Frontlines of a Crisis

UBC Press, Purich Books

This riveting insider’s account of how the COVID-19 pandemic unfurled in one of Canada’s hardest-hit provinces draws on the lessons learned to provide a hopeful vision for building a healthier future.

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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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Migrant Ecologies

Environmental Histories of the Pacific World

University of Hawaii Press
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Indonesia’s COVID-19 Infodemic

A Battle for Truth or Trust?

ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
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Embodying Xuanzang

The Postmortem Travels of a Buddhist Pilgrim

University of Hawaii Press
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CoronAsur

Asian Religions in the Covidian Age

University of Hawaii Press
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Alternate Currents

Reiki’s Circulation in the Twentieth-Century North Pacific

University of Hawaii Press
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Ritual and Economy in a Pre-Columbian Chiefdom

The El Cajón Region of Honduras

University Press of Colorado

This volume examines the organization and ritual economy of a pre-Columbian chiefdom that developed in central Honduras over a 1,400-year period from 400 BC–AD 1000. 

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In Pursuit of Justice

The Life of John Albion Andrew

University of Massachusetts Press
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An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans

Revised and Updated Edition

University of Massachusetts Press
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At the Table

The Chef's Guide to Advocacy

Island Press

When Katherine Miller was first asked to train chefs to be advocates, she thought the idea was ludicrous. This was a group known for short tempers and tattoos, not for saving the world. But she quickly learned that chefs and other leaders in the restaurant industry are some of the most powerful forces for change in our troubled food system. Chefs are leading hunger relief efforts, supporting local farmers, fighting food waste, confronting racism and sexism in the industry, and much more.

In At the Table, Miller presents the essential techniques she developed for the James Beard Foundation’s Chefs Boot Camp for Policy and Change. Readers will learn how to focus their philanthropic efforts; pinpoint their audience and develop their argument; recruit allies and support action; and maybe most importantly, grab people’s attention in a crowded media landscape.  You don’t have to be a celebrity chef to change the food system; you just need the will and the tools in this unique guide.  
 
 

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Written in the Sky

Lessons of a Southern Daughter

University of Alabama Press

Deeply personal essays probing the lingering legacies of the southern social divide
 

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The Entablo Manuscript

Water Rituals and Khipu Boards of San Pedro de Casta, Peru

University of Texas Press

A unique study of an Andean community’s water rituals and the extraordinary document describing how they should be performed.

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Race, Place, and Reform in Mexican Los Angeles

A Transnational Perspective, 1890-1940

The University of Arizona Press
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Mexico’s Valleys of Cuicatlán and Tehuacán

From Deserts to Clouds

The University of Arizona Press

Mexico’s Valleys of Cuicatlán and Tehuacán provides an accessible overview of an extraordinary region of Central Mexico. Through firsthand experience and engaging prose, the authors provide a synthesis of the environment, plants, and peoples of the valleys, showing their importance and influence as Mesoamerican arteries for environmental and cultural interchange through Mexico.

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La Plonqui

The Literary Life and Work of Margarita Cota-Cárdenas

The University of Arizona Press

Celebrating more than forty years of creative writing by Chicana author Margarita Cota-Cárdenas, this volume includes critical essays, reflections, interviews, and previously unpublished writing by the author herself to document the lifelong craft and legacy of a pioneering writer in the field.

This volume’s essays analyze her work’s themes of Chicana identity, the Chicanx movement, and the sociopolitical climate of Arizona and the larger U.S.-Mexico border region, as well as issues of gender, sexuality, and identity related to the Chicanx experience over time.
 

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PMP Certification

A Beginner's Guide, Fourth Edition

University Press of Colorado

Project management is in everything we do, from our personal lives to our professional careers. It is the fastest growing profession in the world and the skills learned in this book can be used for any sort of project, large or small: setting up a small business; planning a wedding, family vacation, company picnic, and major events; and organizing construction or aerospace projects.
 

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Dixie Heretic

The Civil Rights Odyssey of Renwick C. Kennedy

University of Alabama Press

A life-and-times biography of the minister and social reformer Renwick C. Kennedy
 

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Bowed Some, Chanted a Little

Philip Whalen's Zen Journals and the San Francisco Renaissance

University of Alabama Press

The literary journals of a key figure in both the Beat and San Francisco Renaissance movements of the New American Poetry, and an ordained Zen Buddhist priest

 

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Your Gender Book

Helping You To Be You!

Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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Where Do I Start?

How to navigate the emotional journey of autism parenting

Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors

Brain-Body-Sensory Strategies That Really Work

Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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Raising an ADHD Child

A Handbook for Parents of Distractible, Dreamy and Defiant Children

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

A practical guide to parenting children with ADHD, written by two experienced former teachers in the field of ADHD and Neurodiversity, Zoe Beezer and FIn O’Regan. Chapters include guidance on: medication, diagnosis, hyperfocus, working with schools, creating structure and routines, planning for the future and navigating the teenage years.

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Myofascial Induction™ Volume 2: The Lower Body

An Anatomical Approach to the Treatment of Fascial Dysfunction

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Handspring Publishing

Volume 2 of this two-book set summarizes and expands on the theoretical aspects covered in Volume 1, and explains the therapeutic procedures of MIT for the thoracic and lumbar spine, the pelvis, and the lower body with full colour photographs of non-embalmed cadavers.

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Myofascial Induction™ 2-volume set

An Anatomical Approach to Fascial Dysfunction

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Handspring Publishing
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Dreamer Nation

Immigration, Activism, and Neoliberalism

University of Alabama Press

Illustrates how the Dreamer community was created rhetorically—in the discourse, messages, actions, and visual representations of undocumented youth
 

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Black Again

Losing and Reclaiming My Racial Identity

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

A memoir exploring the psychological impact of cultural assimilation and internalized racism.

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Urban Indigeneities

Being Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century

The University of Arizona Press

Increasing numbers of Indigenous peoples are living in cities, yet the vast majority of studies focus solely on rural Indigenous populations. This is the first book to look at urban Indigenous peoples globally and present the urban Indigenous experience—not as the exception but as the norm. Dismissing the false idea that indigeneity is only “authentic” when it is practiced in remote rural areas, these wide-ranging essays show that a vigorous, vibrant, and meaningful indigeneity can be created in urban spaces too and offers perspectives and tools to understand a contemporary Indigenous urban reality.

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The Ecolaboratory

Environmental Governance and Economic Development in Costa Rica

The University of Arizona Press

Despite its tiny size and seeming marginality to world affairs, the Central American republic of Costa Rica has long been considered an important site for experimentation in cutting-edge environmental policy. This book frames Costa Rica as an “ecolaboratory” and asks what lessons we can learn for the future of environmental governance and sustainable development both within the country and elsewhere.

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