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Unraveling Time

Thirty Years of Ethnography in Cuenca, Ecuador

University of Texas Press

A compelling chronicle of economic, political, and social development in Cuenca.

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As the Condor Soars

Conserving and Restoring Oregon's Birds

Oregon State University Press

As the Condor Soars focuses on the increasing role that ornithologists played in public agencies, changing ideas about ecosystems, and conservation debates in Oregon. These themes are most clearly seen in the battles over the northern spotted owl and the development of the Northwest Forest Plan. Contributors to this volume also discuss new developments in the study of birds, such as sound studies, and connections between ornithologists and artists. The volume includes illustrations by Ram Papish. 

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Hispano Bastion

New Mexican Power in the Age of Manifest Destiny, 1837-1860

University of New Mexico Press

In this groundbreaking study, historian Michael J. Alarid examines New Mexico's transition from Spanish to Mexican to US control during the nineteenth century and illuminates how emerging class differences played a crucial role in the regime change.

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Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization

Rutgers University Press

Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization analyzes creative works set in Boston, London, New York, Toronto, as well as Global South cities such as Accra, Kingston, and Lagos to theorize the city as a generative, “semicircular” social space, where the changes of globalization are most profoundly experienced.

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Palliative Touch: Massage for People at the End of Life

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Handspring Publishing

Massage can offer moments of comfort, wellbeing and beauty at a challenging time for patients and their loved ones. Palliative Touch is intended for anyone who might wish to support a dying client or loved one to feel better so that life can be lived to the fullest, right up until the end.

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Bob Dylan in the Attic

The Artist as Historian

University of Massachusetts Press
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"Fame Is Not Just for the Fellas"

Female Renown and the Childhood of Famous Americans Series

University of Massachusetts Press
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Beyond the Betrayal

The Memoir of a World War II Japanese American Draft Resister of Conscience

University Press of Colorado

Beyond the Betrayal is a lyrically written memoir by Yoshito Kuromiya, a Nisei member of the Fair Play Committee (FPC) that was organized at the Heart Mountain War Relocation Authority camp.

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Before Writing, Vol. I

From Counting to Cuneiform

University of Texas Press

A fascinating book on the origins of writing.

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All This Thinking

The Correspondence of Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge

University of New Mexico Press

All This Thinking explores the deep friendship and the critical and creative thinking between Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge, focusing on an intense three-year period in their three decades of correspondence.

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Smothered and Covered

Waffle House and the Southern Imaginary

University of Alabama Press

A critical meditation of the iconic 24-7 roadside chain and its place in the southern imaginary
 

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Great Waves and Mountains

Perspectives and Discoveries in Collecting the Arts of Japan

University of Florida Press

This richly illustrated volume addresses the history of collecting Japanese art and the factors that contributed to the growth of collections in North America following the Meiji Restoration in 1868.

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Geoengineering, Persuasion, and the Climate Crisis

A Geologic Rhetoric

University of Alabama Press

A rhetorical exploration of an underexamined side of climate change—the ongoing research into and development of geoengineering strategies
 

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Cinema's Original Sin

D.W. Griffith, American Racism, and the Rise of Film Culture

University of Texas Press

How century-long arguments about The Birth of a Nation have profoundly shaped ideas about film, race, and art.

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Yoga Therapy across the Cancer Care Continuum

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Handspring Publishing

Yoga Therapy Across the Cancer Care Continuum is essential reading for all those who are touched by cancer, exploring a model of evidence-informed yoga therapy integrated into health care and offering practical and professional considerations for yoga therapists who are working with cancer patients at any stage of their illness.

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Victorine du Pont

The Force behind the Family

University of Delaware Press

Victorine du Pont is the previously untold biography of a woman who left a profound influence upon multiple generations of the du Pont family, and whose story provides the most intimate view of that family to date. Intellectually capable and actively compassionate, Victorine du Pont overcame personal tragedy and institutional barriers against women to provide pioneering educational opportunities, as well as spiritual leadership, to an entire millworkers’ community. 

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Velocipedomania

A Cultural History of the Velocipede in France

Bucknell University Press

The immediate forerunner of the bicycle, the velocipede inspired a cultural craze in late 1860s France that reflected changing cultural attitudes and challenged gender norms. Velocipedomania is the first in-depth study of this fad and the popular culture it inspired, including translations and illustrations from rare texts. 

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Transnational Cultural Flow from Home

Korean Community in Greater New York

Rutgers University Press

Transnational Cultural Flow from Home examines New York Korean immigrants’ collective efforts to preserve their cultural traditions and cultural practices and their efforts to transmit and promote them to New Yorkers by focusing on the Korean cultural elements such as language, foods, cultural festivals, and traditional and contemporary performing arts. This publication was supported by the 2022 Korean Studies Grant Program of the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS-2022-P-009).

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Radical Hospitality

American Policy, Media, and Immigration

Rutgers University Press

Radical Hospitality centers hospitality as a primary metaphor and ethical framework governing the relationship of the migrant to both the “native” population and the host nation. The book examines the history of US immigration policy and media coverage to evaluate hospitality or hostility towards immigrants, and the impact this may have for immigrants’ sense of home and belonging within the nation.

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Planet Work

Rethinking Labor and Leisure in the Anthropocene

Edited by Ryan Hediger
Bucknell University Press

Labor and labor norms orient much of contemporary life, organizing our days and years. Yet, surprisingly, work norms have not been sufficiently interrogated for their profound roles in climate change and other crises gathered under the term “Anthropocene.” Essays in this book expose deep flaws in ideas of work and investigate leisure practices for (sometimes radically) alternative ways of life.

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Just Like Us

Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame

Rutgers University Press

In Just Like Us: Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame, Caitlin E. Lawson examines the rise of celebrity feminism, its intersections with digital culture, and its complicated relationships with race, sexuality, capitalism, and misogyny. Through in-depth analyses of online debates, Lawson demonstrates how networked negotiations of celebrity culture and feminism are transforming popular engagements with the movement.

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Global Visions of Violence

Agency and Persecution in World Christianity

Rutgers University Press

Global Visions of Violence argues that violence creates a lens, bridge, and method to examine Christianity worldwide. These chapters illuminate often hidden landscapes that have been shaped by global visions of violence, showing how Christians in Africa, Asia, and Latin America respond to violence as they express their Christian faith. 
 

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From Protest to President

A Social Justice Journey through the Emergence of Adult Education and the Birth of Distance Learning

Rutgers University Press

In this remarkable memoir, former Thomas Edison State University president George A. Pruitt describes how his experiences growing up in Mississippi and the South Side of Chicago during the civil rights movement led him to become a trailblazer for access to higher education for adult learners.


 

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From Popular to Insurgent Intellectuals

Peasant Catechists in the Salvadoran Revolution

Rutgers University Press

From Popular to Insurgent Intellectuals explains how a group of Catholic lay catechists educated in liberation theology became early regional protagonists in El Salvador’s revolutionary war (1980-92). The book chronicles the steps by which state violence led peacful men of God to join a revolutionary organization in which they came to play important roles for the duration of the twelve-year military conflict.

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Digital Me

Trans Students Exploring Future Possible Selves Online

Rutgers University Press

The Internet is a potent site from which to theorize, but also imagine, invest in, and explore the prismatic possibilities for life. Digital Me explores how transgender people use the internet in myriad ways. The book explores online life--from cultivating identity to creating community and everything in between.

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Black Powder, White Lace

The du Pont Irish and Cultural Identity in Nineteenth-Century America

University of Delaware Press

This anniversary edition of Black Powder, White Lace, Margaret Mulrooney's history of the community of Irish immigrant workers at the du Pont powder yards, is being published to remind readers of the rich materials on the du Pont workers now publicly available through the Hagley Library and Museum, and of Mulrooney's powerful conclusions about immigrant communities in America.

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What Your Fossils Can Tell You

Vertebrate Morphology, Pathology, and Cultural Modification

University Press of Florida
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Sonoran Desert Journeys

Ecology and Evolution of Its Iconic Species

The University of Arizona Press

This book explores the evolution and natural history of iconic animals and plants of the northern Sonoran Desert through the eyes of a curious naturalist.

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Roadways for People

Rethinking Transportation Planning and Engineering

Island Press

The car-only approach in transportation planning and engineering has led to the construction of roadways that have torn apart and devalued communities, especially Black and Brown communities. Forging a new path and working to repair this damage requires a community solutions-based approach to planning, designing, and building our roadways. In Roadways for People, Lynn Peterson draws from her personal experience and conversations with leaders in the field to showcase new possibilities within transportation engineering and planning. The community solutions-based approach moves away from the narrow standards of traditional transportation projects and focuses instead on a process that involves consistent feedback, learning loops, and meaningful and regular community engagement.

Roadways for People is written to empower professionals and policymakers to create transportation solutions that serve people rather than cars.
 

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Fatherhood in the Borderlands

A Daughter's Slow Approach

University of Texas Press

A contemplative exploration of cultural representations of Mexican American fathers in contemporary media.

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An Irish-Jewish Politician, Joyce’s Dublin, and Ulysses

The Life and Times of Albert L. Altman

University Press of Florida

In this book, Neil Davison argues that Albert Altman, a Dublin-based businessman and Irish nationalist, influenced James Joyce’s creation of the character of Leopold Bloom as well as Ulysses’ broader themes surrounding race, nationalism, and empire.

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American Examples

New Conversations about Religion, Volume Two

University of Alabama Press

Fresh new perspectives on the study of religion, ranging from SoulCycle to Mark Twain
 

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Under the Cap of Invisibility

The Pantex Nuclear Weapons Plant and the Texas Panhandle

By Lucie Genay; Foreword by Alex Hunt
University of New Mexico Press
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The Progress Illusion

Reclaiming Our Future from the Fairytale of Economics

Island Press

We live under the illusion of progress: as long as GDP is going up and prices stay low, we accept poverty and pollution as unfortunate but inevitable byproducts of a successful economy. How did we all get duped into believing the fairytale of economics?

In The Progress Illusion, Jon Erickson charts the rise of the economic worldview and its infiltration into our daily lives as a theory of everything. Drawing on his experience as a young economist inoculated in the go-go 1980’s era of "greed is good," Erickson shows how flawed economic thinking shaped our politics and determined the course of American public policy.

While the history of economics is dismal indeed, Erickson is part of a vigorous reform effort grounded in the realities of life on a finite planet. Crafting a new economic story, he shows, is the first step toward turning away from endless growth and towards enduring prosperity. 
 

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Semantics of the World

Selected Poems

University of New Mexico Press

This selection of extraordinary poems, edited and translated by Nohora A. Arrieta Fernández and Mark A. Sanders, presents Bustos Aguirre's works in Spanish alongside their English translations and features the critical apparatus necessary for making Bustos Aguirre's poetry more accessible to students, scholars, and the general reading public.

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Seeds of Occupation, Seeds of Possibility

The Agrochemical-GMO Industry in Hawai‘i

West Virginia University Press

How Hawaiʻi became the epicenter of the biotech seed industry, and how a resistance movement arose to confront the industry’s power.

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Human Is to Wander

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
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Forging Diasporic Citizenship

Narratives from German-Born Turkish Ausländer

UBC Press

Forging Diasporic Citizenship is a work of narrative research that explores the nature and implications of “diasporic citizenship” as it is evolving among German-born, Turkish-origin Berliners.

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Dancing on the Sun Stone

Mexican Women and the Gendered Politics of Octavio Paz

University of New Mexico Press

Dancing on the Sun Stone is a uniquely transdisciplinary work that fuses modern Latin American history and literature to explore women's lives and gendered politics in Mexico.

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Constitutional Crossroads

Reflections on Charter Rights, Reconciliation, and Change

UBC Press

Four decades after the adoption of the Constitution Act, 1982, Constitutional Crossroads assesses its legacy, focusing on the themes of rights, reconciliation, and constitutional change.

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The Revolution of Buddhist Modernism

Jōdo Shin Thought and Politics, 1890–1962

By Jeff Schroeder; Series edited by Richard K. Payne
University of Hawaii Press
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The Master from Mountains and Fields

Prose Writings of Hwadam, Sŏ Kyŏngdŏk

Translated by Isabelle Sancho; Series edited by Robert E. Buswell, Jr.
University of Hawaii Press
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Muru

He Whakaaro Aroha

Edited by Moana Nepia
Oratia Books
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Mimetic Desires

Impersonation and Guising across South Asia

University of Hawaii Press
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Belitung

The Afterlives of a Shipwreck

University of Hawaii Press
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Reproducing Domination

On the Caribbean Postcolonial State

University Press of Mississippi

A comprehensive collection of essays from a renowned postcolonial scholar

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Rags and Bones

An Exploration of The Band

University Press of Mississippi

The first scholarly study of one of the most renowned groups in the history of rock ’n’ roll

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