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Kinesiology for Manual Therapies, 2nd Edition

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Handspring Publishing

This updated resource offers a deep dive into kinesiology and functional anatomy. Useful as a reference text for professionals or a complete teaching guide for students, this comprehensive book is suitable for various manual therapies including massage therapists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, athletic trainers, and yoga teachers.

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Growing the Taraco Peninsula

Indigenous Agricultural Landscapes

University Press of Colorado

Growing the Taraco Peninsula is an examination of long-term human-environmental interactions through agriculture among Indigenous communities of the Taraco Peninsula, Bolivia, located on the shores of Lake Titicaca in the Andes. 

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A Grand Love

Stories for Grandparents of Transgender Grandchildren

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

A guide for grandparents of trans children, written by Janna Barkin - mother to a trans son, and advocate for gender diverse people and their families - with interviews and stories from grandparents and children, a glossary of terms related to gender identity and further resources and reading.

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Now Is the Time to Collect

Daniel Giraud Elliot, Carl Akeley, and the Field Museum African Expedition of 1896

University of Alabama Press

The rediscovery of a curator’s lost journal illuminates the astonishing African journey that formed the basis of the Chicago Field Museum’s famed collections
 

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Now Is the Time to Collect

Daniel Giraud Elliot, Carl Akeley, and the Field Museum Africa Expedition of 1896

University of Alabama Press

The rediscovery of a curator’s lost journal illuminates the astonishing African journey that formed the basis of the Chicago Field Museum’s famed collections
 

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James Hudson

Forgotten Forerunner in the Crusade for Civil Rights

University Press of Florida

This book tells the story of James Hudson, a Black philosopher, Florida A&M University professor, activist, and religious leader whose philosophical contributions laid a key piece of the groundwork for the emergence of the Civil Rights Movement.

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A Fortified Sea

The Defense of the Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century

University of Alabama Press

A multidisciplinary examination of the role of military forts in the Caribbean during the age of European colonial expansion
 

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A Fortified Sea

The Defense of the Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century

University of Alabama Press

A multidisciplinary examination of the role of military forts in the Caribbean during the age of European colonial expansion
 

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The Essential Poetry of Bohdan Ihor Antonych

Ecstasies and Elegies

Bucknell University Press

This essential collection introduces the poetry of Lemko-Ukrainian poet Bohdan Ihor Antonych (1909-37) to new audiences, and includes many first-time English translations, a biographical sketch by Michael M. Naydan, and a comprehensive introduction by Lidia Stefanowska, one of the world's leading experts on the work of this remarkable Ukrainian poet.

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The Egg Bowl

Mississippi State vs. Ole Miss, Third Edition

University Press of Mississippi

The newest chapter in Mississippi’s monster football rivalry

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My Race Is My Gender

Portraits of Nonbinary People of Color

Rutgers University Press

My Race is My Gender is the first anthology by nonbinary writers of color to include photography and visual portraits, centering their everyday experiences of negotiating intersectional identities. Bringing together Black, Indigenous, Latine, and Asian perspectives, its six contributors share their personal stories of working for racial justice and the recognition of queer gender identities. 

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Locker Room Talk

A Woman’s Struggle to Get Inside

Rutgers University Press

Melissa Ludtke offers a compelling account of her courtroom quest to do what her male sportswriter colleagues took for granted: to talk with players in Major League Baseball’s locker rooms. She reveals how, as a 26-year-old woman, she took MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn to federal court—and won. 

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Alien Soil

Oral Histories of Great Migration Newark

Rutgers University Press

Alien Soil: Oral Histories of Great Migration Newark looks at Newark, New Jersey’s once proposed Krueger-Scott African-American Cultural Center and the oral history collection generated to be a part of the Center. The narrators in this oral history collection recount their lives in Newark, painting pictures of everyday urbanity while also providing insight into 20th century Black urban life more generally.

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1650-1850

Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 29)

Bucknell University Press

Exploratory and energetically analytical, 16501850 ranges over the expanse of long eighteenth-century culture. Welcoming research on all nations and language traditions, this annual escorts its readers into a truly global Enlightenment. Volume 29 includes essays on familiar topics such as Samuel Johnson and women’s education while it also showcases Sir Joseph Banks’s globetrotting and provides a vivaciously interdisciplinary special feature on the cultural implications of water. Capping it all off is a diverse bevy of robust, full-length book reviews.

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Unruly Tree

Poems

University of New Mexico Press
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The Case for Critical Literacy

A History of Reading in Writing Studies

Utah State University Press

The Case for Critical Literacy explores the history of reading within writing studies and lays the foundation for understanding the impact of this critical, yet often untaught, skill. 

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Panther Creek

A Pawnee Country Mystery

University of New Mexico Press
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Escaping Hitler

A Jewish Haven in Chile

University of Alabama Press

 

Escaping Hitler is the personal story of Eva Wyman and her family’s escape from Nazi Germany to Chile in the sociohistorical context of 1930s and 1940s, a time when the Chilean Nazi party had an active presence in the country’s major institutions.

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Doing Difference Differently

Chinese International Students’ Literacy Practices and Affordances

Utah State University Press

Doing Difference Differently ethnographically recounts the stories of four Chinese international students navigating the complex socio-academic environment of a North American institution for higher education. 

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Doing Difference Differently

Chinese International Students' Literacy Practices and Affordances

Utah State University Press

Doing Difference Differently ethnographically recounts the stories of four Chinese international students navigating the complex socio-academic environment of a North American institution for higher education. 

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