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Just Freedom

Inside Florida’s Decades-Long Voting Rights Battle

University Press of Florida

This book tells the story of the fight to restore voting rights to people with past felony convictions in Florida. Daniel Rivero details the advocacy and action that helped 1.4 million people gain the right to vote—and the obstacles still preventing them from doing so.

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Some Nightmares Are True

Ghosts of America's Deadliest Disasters

By Kelly Kazek; Illustrated by Sarah Cotton
University of Alabama Press
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The Keep

Living with the Tame and the Wild on a Mountain Farm

West Virginia University Press

The Keep—the term for “the strongest or central tower of a castle, acting as a final refuge”—is a love letter to an unexpected place and adopted lifestyle in Appalachia by a husband and wife.

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The Enduring Riddle of Mackenzie King

Edited by Patrice Dutil
UBC Press

The Enduring Riddle of Mackenzie King assembles a who’s who of political historians to untangle the legacy of Canada’s longest-serving, most controversial, and possibly greatest prime minister.

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Lessons from "Take Me Home, Country Roads"

Identity, (Be)Longing, and Imagined Landscapes

West Virginia University Press

Morris explores the song “Take Me Home, Country Roads” in various contexts such as it pertains to West Virginia geography and heritage and the diversity of these beliefs, external perceptions of the state, and the song as a phenomenon across different media platforms.

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Deciding on Death

Rodriguez, Carter, and Medically Assisted Dying in Canada

UBC Press

Deciding on Death is a comprehensive analysis of the ethical debate, political controversy, and judicial and legislative developments culminating in the legalization of medically assisted dying in Canada.

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Autism and the Culture of Therapy

The Politics and Practice of Applied Behaviour Analysis

UBC Press

Autism and the Culture of Therapy investigates the larger systems that regulate applied behaviour therapies, their negotiation and application by practitioners and parents, and how they have redefined what autism means.

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Artifact

Encounters with the Campus Shooting Archives

West Virginia University Press

Each college campus shooting leaves an archival record. Julija Šukys examines the documentation—court transcripts, police reports, institutional reports, and monuments to the dead—and confronts what it means to live in a place where students and their teachers are gunned down on a regular basis.

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Vestiges of the Three Kingdoms of Ancient Korea

A Translation of the Samguk yusa

University of Hawaii Press
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Scarred Landscapes

Place, Trauma, and Memory in Caribbean Latinx Art

The University of Arizona Press

Scarred Landscapes is a groundbreaking exploration of the rich and complex works of Caribbean Latinx artists. This book documents the work of ten influential artists of Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican descent, based in New York City from the 1970s to the present. Through their diverse practices, including painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, installation, video, and performance art, these artists confront the legacies of colonial trauma and their own experiences of diasporic unbelonging and artworld marginality.

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New York's Secret Subway

The Underground Genius of Alfred Beach and the Origins of Mass Transit

Island Press

In the nineteenth century, Manhattan’s streets were so choked with pedestrians, horses, vehicles, and vendors that a trip from City Hall to Central Park could take hours. Alfred Beach had the perfect solution: build a giant pneumatic tube underneath Broadway from the Battery to Harlem.

New York’s Secret Subway: The Underground Genius of Alfred Beach and the Origins of Mass Transit tells a classic story of good versus evil, pitting the mild-mannered Beach, a visionary inventor and entrepreneur, against the oafish tyrant Boss Tweed, the exemplar of corruption in the Gilded Age. It also tells the story of one of the most astonishing feats of engineering in American history, the surreptitious creation of the nation’s first operational subway.

Richly illustrated and populated with larger-than-life characters, New York’s Secret Subway will captivate readers and provide historical context for today’s clashes between public interests and powerful business and political groups. Algeo tells this amazing true story in full for the first time, and although it took place more than a century ago, it will at times sound surprisingly familiar.
 

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Mothership Connected

The Women of Parliament-Funkadelic

University of Texas Press

An oral history with the women of Parliament-Funkadelic, from forming the band to landing the mothership.

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Kani ka ʻŌpala

How Can Garbage Sing?

University of Hawaii Press
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Gathered into a Church

Indigenous-English Congregationalism in Woodland New England

University of Massachusetts Press
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Enemies to Their Country

The Marblehead Addressers and Consensus in the American Revolution

University of Massachusetts Press
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Beyond the Sewol

Activist Theatre and Performance in South Korea and the Diaspora

University of Hawaii Press
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A Forest of Dreams

Capitalism, Conservation, and Indigenous Rights in the Philippines

University of Hawaii Press
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The Light Between Apple Trees

Rediscovering the Wild Through a Beloved American Fruit

Island Press

As a child in the foothills of the Himalayas, Priyanka Kumar was entranced by forest-like orchards of diverse and luscious fruit—especially apples. These biodiverse orchards seemed worlds away from the cardboard apples that lined supermarket shelves in the United States. Yet on a small patch of woods near her home in Santa Fe, Kumar discovered a wild apple tree—and the seeds of an odyssey were planted. Could the taste of a feral apple offer a doorway to the wild? In The Light Between Apple Trees, Kumar takes us on a dazzling and transformative journey to rediscover apples, brilliantly weaving together science and childhood memories with the apple’s storied history.

The Light Between Apple Trees is a lyric odyssey that will forever change how you look at an “apple a day.” Kumar shows how—if we follow untamed paths—the tang and texture of an apple can lead us back to the wild.

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The Tarahumara Rebellion of 1690

Embattled Settlers and Missionaries in Northern New Spain

The University of Arizona Press

The Tarahumara Rebellion of 1690 examines a seventeenth-century Indigenous uprising in northern Mexico aimed at driving out Spanish miners, missionaries, and settlers from Tarahumara (Rarámuri) and Tepehuanes homelands. Historian Joseph P. Sánchez shows how the Indigenous rebellions in the northern Mexican borderlands during the colonial period were part of the overall Indigenous struggle for defense of homeland throughout the Americas.

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Richard Neuberger

Oregon Politics and the Making of a US Senator

Oregon State University Press

In this definitive biography—more than forty years in the making—Stephen Forrester documents Neuberger’s extraordinary life and career, highlighting a legacy that includes shaping Oregon’s renowned conservation policies and developing the state’s modern Democratic party.

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Puffballs, Earthstars, Stinkhorns, and Other Gasteroid Fungi of Eastern North America

University of Texas Press

The first fully illustrated reference guide to gasteroid mushrooms in North America.

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meXicana Roots and Routes

Listening to People, Places, and Pasts

The University of Arizona Press

This collection highlights how meXicana scholars center their community-engaged research to reflect on important regional themes in the U.S. Southwest and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Divided into five sections, authors explore what it means to cultivate spaces of belonging, navigate language policies, and excavate silences in various spaces, among other important themes, with a particular emphasis on Arizona in each section.

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Mac Schweitzer

A Southwest Maverick and Her Art

The University of Arizona Press, Sentinel Peak Books

This richly illustrated book traces the life and career of Mac Schweitzer (1921–1962), once renowned as a mid-twentieth-century painter of southwestern scenes—wildlife, Native American families and craftspeople, landscapes, and semi-abstractions. Six decades after the artist’s death, author Ann Lane Hedlund has rediscovered an artistic legacy full of intriguing stories, successful shows and awards, and a fascinating, diverse body of artwork never before seen in public.

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Laura Bush

A Biography for Beginning Historians

LBJ Foundation & Briscoe Ctr UT-Austin
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Inside Abstraction

Interpreting Inka Visual Culture

University of Texas Press

Illuminating the abstract art of the Inka, what it conveys about Inka values, and its relationship to those who view it.

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An Introduction to Middle English Lyrics

University Press of Florida

This book provides an overview of the literary genre of Middle English lyrics, anonymous short poems that were composed between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, identifying common features and trends over time and including modern translations of select examples.  

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Amy Mallard and Racial Justice

Lynching, Law, and Resistance in Post–World War II America

University Press of Florida

This book is the first to document the story of Amy Mallard, who sought justice through the legal system for the 1948 lynching of her husband in Georgia and later became an advocate for civil rights at the national level.

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Welcome to AuDHD

The Ultimate Guide to Thriving as an Autistic ADHD Adult

Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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The Parents’ and Professionals’ Simple Guide to PDA

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

A short, informative guide for adults who are supporting children with a PDA profile, including parents, extended family members and professionals. The emphasis is on accessibility and demystification. There are engaging illustrations provided throughout.

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The Kids’ Simple Guide to PDA

By Laura Kerbey; Illustrated by Eliza Fricker
Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Introductory guide to PDA for children, to help them understand PDA friends or family members. Readers are shown how it can feel to have PDA, and are given the opportunity to explore their own experiences too. Contains gentle age-appropriate advice and engaging illustrations.

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Step Bi Step

The Ultimate Guide for Bisexual, Pansexual and Queer Young People

By Laura Clarke; Illustrated by Laura Tubb
Jessica Kingsley Publishers

How do I survive and thrive as a bi+ young person? LGBTQIA+ sex educator Laura Clarke has the answers on everything from coming out, dating and sex to myths, misconceptions and biphobia. With advice from bi+ activists and influencers including Pearl Mackie, Megan Jayne Crabbe, and Sofie Hagen - and many more.

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Queer Latine Heroes

25 Changemakers from Latin America and the U.S. from History and Today

By Sofía Aguilar; Illustrated by Dali Valentino
Jessica Kingsley Publishers

An illustrated guide to notable queer Latine figures from history, for children 5+. With beautiful illustrations, short biographies, fun facts and glossary of key terms - this is the perfect resource for children and educators alike.

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Porn is Not Sex Ed!

A Young Person's Illustrated Guide to Debunking Sexuality Myths

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

This positive illustrated guide explores the impact of pornography and helps you form a deeper understanding of sex and sexuality. Exploring topics including consent, body image and safe sex as well as offering engaging activities, you will be well equipped to have healthy conversations around sex and navigate porn safely.

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Love Beyond Monogamy

How Polyamory Can Enrich Your Spirituality, Faith, and Relationships

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Using polyamory to cast a new light on faith and sexuality, this book reveals the richness that can come from reevaluating our relationships to ourselves, each other and our entrenched ideas about spirituality and queerness. By tracing key concepts across relationship-building and faith, the enriching potential of polyamory is revealed.

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The Texas Civil Rights Project

How We Built a Social Justice Movement

University of Texas Press

Texas civil rights icon Jim Harrington recounts his lifelong fight for equality, winning major reforms for farmworkers and disabled Texans and helping build a movement for social justice.

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The Devil Is in It

A History of the American Acoustic Guitar

University of Texas Press

The rich history of the acoustic guitar and its impact on the music world.

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State of War

A History of World War II in Florida

University Press of Florida

This book explores how World War II transformed Florida into a major hub of military industry and an important training base for ground, naval, and air forces, detailing the war’s lasting impacts on the state.

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Queer Genealogies in Dominican Literature and Culture

University of Florida Press

This book examines the evolution of queer Dominican literary and cultural production from the 1950s to the present, tracing how same-sex desire and gender nonconformity have been negotiated both tacitly and overtly across this time period.

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Abode

Athabasca University Press
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Too Fast, Too Short

The Life of Diana Barrymore

University Press of Mississippi

A stunning sketch of the life and career of the little-known American actress and socialite

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