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Humanity's Moment

A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope

Island Press

When climate scientist Joëlle Gergis set to work on the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report, the research she encountered kept her up at night. Through countless hours spent with the world’s top scientists, she realized that the impacts were occurring faster than anyone had predicted.

In Humanity’s Moment, Joëlle takes us through the science in the IPCC report with unflinching honesty, explaining what it means for our future, while sharing her personal reflections on bearing witness to the climate emergency unfolding in real time. But this is not a lament for a lost world. It is an inspiring reminder that human history is an endless tug-of-war for social justice in which each of us play a part. Humanity’s Moment is a climate scientist’s guide to rekindling hope, and a call to action to restore our relationship with ourselves, each other, and our planet.

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A Slow, Calculated Lynching

The Story of Clyde Kennard

University Press of Mississippi

The harrowing, yet pivotal, story of a brilliant integration advocate

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What a Bee Knows

Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees

Island Press

The next time you hear the low buzzing sound of an approaching bee, look closer: the bee has navigated to this particular spot for a reason using a fascinating set of tools. She might be responding to scents on the breeze as her olfactory organs provide a 3D map of an object’s location. She might be tracing the route based on her memories of a particular flower or the electrostatic traces left by other bees. What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees invites us to follow bees’ mysterious pathways and experience their complex and alien world. 
Although their brains are incredibly small—just one million neurons compared to humans’ 100 billion—bees have remarkable abilities to navigate, learn, communicate, and remember. In What a Bee Knows, entomologist Stephen Buchmann explores a bee’s way of seeing the world and introduces the scientists who make the journey possible. What a Bee Knows will challenge your idea of a bee’s place in the world—and perhaps our own.  

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The Carbon Calculation

Global Climate Policy, Forests, and Transnational Governance in Brazil and Mozambique

The University of Arizona Press

The Carbon Calculation critically highlights the ways in which politics has reinforced a scientific focus on one possible solution to the problem of climate change—namely those that largely absolve the industrialized world from undertaking politically painful transformations in its own economic model.

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Picturing Black New Orleans

A Creole Photographer's View of the Early Twentieth Century

University Press of Florida
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Occupying Our Space

The Mestiza Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists and Activists, 1875–1942

The University of Arizona Press

Occupying our Space examines the contributions of Mexican women journalists and writers during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, marked as the zenith of Mexican journalism. Through her analysis of the women’s writings, Cristina D. Ramírez coins the phrase rhetorical puestos, or rhetorical public spaces, meant to create an authentic speaking arena for the women. Allowing the women to speak first, Ramírez deftly reframes the conversation about the rhetorical and intellectual role women played in the shifting political and identity culture in Mexico.

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Good Day Sunshine State

How the Beatles Rocked Florida

University Press of Florida

This book explores the musical and cultural impact of the Beatles in Florida, an important part of the revolution that helped make the Fab Four a worldwide phenomenon.

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Digging Miami

University Press of Florida
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Clotilda

The History and Archaeology of the Last Slave Ship

University of Alabama Press

Documents the maritime historical research and archaeological fieldwork used to identify the wreck of the notorious schooner Clotilda
 

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A Pure Solar World

Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism

University of Texas Press

Surveying the range of Sun Ra’s extraordinary creativity, this book explores how the father of Afrofuturism brought “space music” to a planet in need of transformation, supporting the aspirations of black people in an inhospitable white world.

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Visions of Invasion

Alien Affects, Cinema, and Citizenship in Settler Colonies

University Press of Mississippi

An exploration of the ways migrants are coded as alien in popular film and public discourse

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The Struggle of Struggles

University Press of Mississippi

A new edition of an autobiography that chronicles the everyday conflicts, losses, and triumphs of the civil rights struggle

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The Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner

The Press, the Platform, and the Pulpit

University Press of Mississippi

An essential reader of the powerful orations of an African American religious leader

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Howard Cruse

University Press of Mississippi

A career-spanning biography of a central and significant figure in queer comics

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Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos

New Perspectives on Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts

University Press of Mississippi

A critical reexamination of the Peanuts gang we all know and love

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Artful Breakdowns

The Comics of Art Spiegelman

University Press of Mississippi

The definitive critical appraisal of the great comics artist’s six-decade career as a pioneer, curator, and theorist

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In Other Lifetimes All I've Lost Comes Back to Me

Stories

West Virginia University Press

For readers of Elena Ferrante, Nicole Krauss, and Carmen Maria Machado, In Other Lifetimes All I’ve Lost Comes Back to Me is a braided story collection that invokes the real, surreal, and mythic to explore the longings and loneliness of contemporary love.
 

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Follow the Leader, Lose the Region

Charting a Canadian Strategy for the Asia-Pacific

UBC Press

Follow the Leader, Lose the Region conclusively demonstrates that an understanding of how Asia sees itself should inform Canadian foreign policy in the region.

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Ecologies of a Storied Planet in the Anthropocene

West Virginia University Press

A more-than-human approach to planetary survival, from a leading environmental humanist.

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Blood on the Moon

University of New Mexico Press
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Wider Bagan

Ancient and Living Buddhist Traditions

Edited by Elizabeth Moore
ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
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The Indonesia National Survey Project 2022

Engaging with Developments in the Political, Economic and Social Spheres

ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
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The EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)

Implications for ASEAN-EU Relations

ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
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The Archaeology of the Homed and the Unhomed

University Press of Florida

The first comprehensive discussion of the historical archaeology of homelessness, this book highlights the social complexities, ambiguities, and significance of the home and the unhomed in the archaeological record.

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Texas Lithographs

A Century of History in Images

University of Texas Press

A stunning and comprehensive collection of lithographs from 1818 to 1900 Texas.

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Lotería

Nocturnal Sweepstakes

The University of Arizona Press

Lotería is a collection of deeply evocative coming-of-age poems that take the reader on a voyage through the intimate experiences of displacement. In this bilingual collection, Colombian American poet Elizabeth Torres threads together the stories of family dynamics and the realities of migration with the archetypes of tarot and the traditional Lotería game, used for centuries as an object of divination and entertainment. Through these themes and images, the poems in Lotería narrate intimate moments in the lives and journeys of migrants, refugees, and all who have been forced into metamorphosis in order to reach the other side of the river.

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In the Silence

International Fiction, Poetry, Essays, and Performance

Series edited by Frank Stewart
University of Hawaii Press
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From Japanese Empire to American Hegemony

Koreans and Okinawans in the Resettlement of Northeast Asia

University of Hawaii Press
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Cuba and Puerto Rico

Transdisciplinary Approaches to History, Literature, and Culture

University of Florida Press
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A Mark of Red Honor

By Jang Young-jin; Translated by John H. Cha
Seoul Selection, Seoul Selection USA, Inc.
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A Korean Confucian’s Advice on How to Be Moral

Tasan Chŏng Yagyong’s Reading of the Zhongyong

By Don Baker; Series edited by Robert E. Buswell, Jr.
University of Hawaii Press
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The Transatlantic Materials of American Literature

Publishing US Writing in Britain, 1830–1860

University of Massachusetts Press
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Staged News

The Federal Theatre Project’s Living Newspapers in New York

University of Massachusetts Press
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Dyslexia Advocate!

Second Edition

Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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Old Southwest to Old South

Mississippi, 1798-1840

University Press of Mississippi

The first chronicle of Mississippi’s tumultuous coming-of-age

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Becoming Ezra Jack Keats

University Press of Mississippi

The first in-depth biography of one of the most influential authors of children’s literature

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Sounds Fake But Okay

An Asexual and Aromantic Perspective on Love, Relationships, Sex, and Pretty Much Anything Else

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Drawing on personal anecdotes and interviews with the ace community, Sarah and Kayla are here to help you unlearn the norms of an allo world, navigate and nurture your relationships, and become more confident in your aspec identity.

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Pulpits of the Lost Cause

The Faith and Politics of Former Confederate Chaplains during Reconstruction

University of Alabama Press

Compares the faith and politics of former Confederate chaplains during the Reconstruction period, and argues for some counterintuitive understandings of their beliefs and practices in the post-war period

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Perfectly Queer

An Illustrated Introduction

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

For allies and queer folks alike, delve a little further into all things LGBTQIA+ with this illustrated introduction. Full of clear information, activity pages, definitions and more, it covers topics including gender identity, assigned sex, sexual and romantic orientations, and common queer-ies.

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Pelvic Rehabilitation

The Manual Therapy and Exercise Guide across the Lifespan

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Handspring Publishing

This book presents paradigms and programs for pelvic health conditions over the lifespan from childhood to senior years, with medical pearls and storytelling. It includes new concepts and practices with the integration of Medical Therapeutic Yoga and Pilates into rehabilitation prescriptions, sexual medicine, and strategies for healing pain.

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My Heart Is Bound Up with Them

How Carlos Montezuma Became the Voice of a Generation

The University of Arizona Press

Centering historically neglected Indigenous voices as its primary source material, author David Martínez shows how Carlos Montezuma’s correspondence and interactions with his family and their community influenced his advocacy—and how his important work in Arizona specifically motivated his work on a national level.

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Juan Domínguez de Mendoza

Soldier and Frontiersman of the Spanish Southwest, 1627–1693

University of New Mexico Press

This book, the final volume in the Coronado Historical Series, recognizes the career of Juan Domínguez de Mendoza, a soldier-colonist who was as instrumental as any governor or friar in shaping Hispano-Indian society in New Mexico.

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Dancing with Life

Recontextualizing Mexican Masks

Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture

This visually stunning book reframes how Mexican folk masks and dances are depicted, by centering the voices of local and Indigenous artists, dancers, and scholars.

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COVID and Gender in the Middle East

Edited by Rita Stephan
University of Texas Press

A comprehensive study of the gendered economic and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Middle East and North Africa.

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Can't Not Won't

A Story About A Child Who Couldn't Go To School

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Eliza Fricker gets it. Deceptively simple, endearing, humorous and emotional illustrations following a family managing the early stages of school avoidance are designed to help parents feel seen, and empathetic writing and guidance gives essential advice and tips on navigating school avoidance for parents and professionals alike.

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