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The Science of Movement, Exercise, and Mental Health

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Handspring Publishing

This book provides both the scientific underpinnings of the link between movement and mental health, and practical advice to help individuals achieve their goals. Inspired by the author’s 17 years’ experience in movement therapy, it is professionally focussed and broadly applicable across a range of different disciplines.

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The New Work of Writing Across the Curriculum

Diversity and Inclusion, Collaborative Partnerships, and Faculty Development

Utah State University Press

The New Work of Writing Across the Curriculum is a descriptive analysis of how institutions can work to foster stronger intellectual activities around writing as connected to campus-wide diversity and inclusion initiatives.

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Gender Confirmation Surgery

Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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Cranial Osteopathy: Principles and Practice - Volume 2

Special Sense Organs, Orofacial Pain, Headache, and Cranial Nerves

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Handspring Publishing

This richly illustrated guide to the foundational techniques of cranial osteopathy focuses on Special Sense Organs, Orofacial Pain, Headaches and the Cranial Nerves

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Cranial Osteopathy: Principles and Practice - Volume 1

TMJ and Mouth Disorders, and Cranial Techniques

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Handspring Publishing

A richly illustrated guide to the foundational techniques of cranial osteopathy, with a specific focus on TMJ and mouth disorders.

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An Inner Approach to Cranial Osteopathy

By Timothy Marris; Foreword by Hollis King
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Handspring Publishing

A holistic guide to Cranial Osteopathy, helping the practitioner to understand and develop their own specific treatment approach. With a focus on strengthening both your mental and physical osteopathic skill set, this guide will help you “centre' yourself in your practice, and apply this approach to the different areas of the body.

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This Light of Ours

Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement

Edited by Leslie G. Kelen; Foreword by Julian Bond; Afterword by Clayborne Carson
University Press of Mississippi

An astonishing visual record taken by photographers directly engaged in the struggle

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The Poacher's Nightmare

Stories of an Undercover Game Warden

University Press of Mississippi

The thrilling memoir of a covert wildlife agent

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The Ballad of Karla Faye Tucker

University Press of Mississippi

A riveting true story of a Texas murder that captivated a nation and the evangelical voices who fought for Karla Faye Tucker’s clemency

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Terror and Truth

Civil Rights Tourism and the Mississippi Movement

University Press of Mississippi

The first critical examination of Mississippi’s civil rights tourism industry

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Exploring the Land of Ooo

An Unofficial Overview and Production History of Cartoon Network's Adventure Time

University Press of Mississippi

An extremely addictive, high-intensity, MATHEMATICAL! look at the world of a beloved animated television series

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Djeha, the North African Trickster

University Press of Mississippi

The first annotated English translation of sixty ancient folktales featuring an icon of the Maghreb

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Cloverfield

Creatures and Catastrophes in Post-9/11 Cinema

University Press of Mississippi

The first comprehensive study of a franchise that revived giant creature attacks and plumbed the traumatized human psyche

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Activism in the Name of God

Religion and Black Feminist Public Intellectuals from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

University Press of Mississippi

An extensive collection that highlights the contributions of often-forgotten Black women in the public sphere

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The Deliberate Doctorate

A Values-Focused Journey to your PhD

UBC Press, On Campus

The Deliberate Doctorate shows postgraduate students how their PhD journey can be driven by purpose when it is grounded in their core values and aligned with their future plans.

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Shifting Sands

Landscape, Memory, and Commodities in China's Contemporary Borderlands

University of Texas Press

How China’s borderlands transformed politically and culturally throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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Messy Ethics in Human Rights Work

UBC Press

Messy Ethics in Human Rights Work invites readers to engage reflexively in critical human rights practice by admitting discomfort and dilemma into conversations about ethics.

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Flight from Chile

An Oral History of Exile

University of New Mexico Press
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Drink in the Summer

A Memoir of Croatia

Athabasca University Press
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Circulating Culture

Transnational Cuban Networks of Exchange

University Press of Florida
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A Dream of Justice

The Story of Keyes v. Denver Public Schools

University Press of Colorado

A Dream of Justice is Colorado state senator and former teacher Pat Pascoe’s firsthand account of the decades-long fight to desegregate Denver’s public schools.

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A Culture of Justification

Vavilov and the Future of Administrative Law

UBC Press

A Culture of Justification examines how a groundbreaking case involving undercover spies and a man’s fight for citizenship helped the Supreme Court of Canada forge a consensus on the future of one of the most important areas in Canadian law.

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The Legacies of The Basin of Mexico

University Press of Colorado

This volume celebrates the continuing impact of the most notable contributions from The Basin of Mexico: The Ecological Processes in the Evolution of a Civilization by William T. Sanders, Jeffrey R. Parsons, and Robert S. Santley.

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Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 1

1932-1955

University Press of Mississippi

A fascinating investigation into the life and art of one of America’s greatest poets

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The Prism of Human Rights

Seeking Justice amid Gender Violence in Rural Ecuador

Rutgers University Press

The Prism of Human Rights illustrates how women’s human rights campaigns have taken off in rural Ecuador. Drawing on two decades of research and activism, Friederic shows how the initial promises of legal empowerment often give way to self-blame, social isolation, and more extreme structural violence, and she demonstrates how one rural community is renegotiating beliefs about gender, the family, the meaning of violence, and even community development.

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The Outcast

A Novel

By Luigi Pirandello; Translated by Bradford A. Masoni; Foreword by Daniela Bini
Rutgers University Press

A tale of false accusations, social stigma, and adultery, The Outcast is an early masterwork from Nobel Prize–winning Italian author Luigi Pirandello. Combining elements of Zolaesque naturalism with emerging modernist aesthetics, the novel is notable for its deft use of irony and its resourceful and resilient heroine. 

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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.

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Oh, Serafina!

A Fable of Ecology, Lunacy, and Love

By Giuseppe Berto; Translated by Gregory Conti; Foreword by Matteo Gilebbi
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.
 

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Maid for Television

Race, Class, Gender, and a Representational Economy

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.

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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. 

 

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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.  
 

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Calling Family

Digital Technologies and the Making of Transnational Care Collectives

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.

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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.

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Asian American History

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.
 

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Path to Grace

Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement

University Press of Mississippi

Remarkable narratives from the heretofore unsung champions of the civil rights movement

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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.

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The Making of Florida’s Universities

Public Higher Education at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

University Press of Florida
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Saeculum

Defining Historical Eras in Ancient Roman Thought

University of Texas Press

How the notion of unique eras influenced the Roman view of time and the narration of history from various perspectives.

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Cosmonaut

A Cultural History

University of Florida Press
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