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Deuda Natal

The University of Arizona Press

Deuda Natal finds the beauty within vulnerability and the dignity amidst precariousness. As one of the most prominent voices in Puerto Rican poetry, Mara Pastor uses the poems in this new bilingual collection to highlight the way that fundamental forms of caring for life—and for language—can create a space of poetic decolonization.

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A Good Long Drive

Fifty Years of Texas Country Reporter

University of Texas Press

The true story of how a Dallas TV reporter accidentally spent his life sharing the stories of people no one has ever heard of on Texas Country Reporter, told by the show’s creator and host, Bob Phillips.

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Unburied Lives

The Historical Archaeology of Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Davis, Texas, 1869–1875

University of New Mexico Press

In Unburied Lives Wilkie demonstrates how we can "listen" to stories found in things neglected, ignored, or disparaged--documents not consulted, architecture not studied, material traces preserved in the dirt.

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Translingual Pedagogical Perspectives

Engaging Domestic and International Students in the Composition Classroom

Utah State University Press

Translingual Pedagogical Perspectives addresses the movement toward translingualism in the writing classroom and demonstrates the practical pedagogical strategies faculty can take to represent both domestic and international monolingual and multilingual students’ perspectives in writing programs.

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South Mountain Park and Preserve

A Guide to the Trails, Plants, and Animals in Phoenix's Most Popular City Park

University of New Mexico Press

A true southwestern treasure, this all-inclusive guide to South Mountain Park and Preserve encourages readers to discover the nature and adventure available in this massive outdoor playground.

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Rock Climbing in Kentucky's Red River Gorge

An Oral History of Community, Resources, and Tourism

West Virginia University Press

Tells the fascinating story of the Red’s climbing community through interviews with the people who lived that history and considers how sustainable ecotourism might contribute to the region economically.
 

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Past Titan Rock

Journeys into an Appalachian Valley

West Virginia University Press

A classic book about Appalachian life and music, now updated with new material.
 

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New Mexico Family Outdoor Adventure

An All-Ages Guide to Hiking, Camping, and Getting Outside

University of New Mexico Press

An experienced outdoors writer, naturalist, and family camper, Christina M. Selby offers families an in-depth guide to experiencing the natural splendors of New Mexico in New Mexico Family Outdoor Adventure.

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My Book of the Dead

New Poems

University of New Mexico Press, High Road Books
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From Military to Academy

The Writing and Learning Transitions of Student-Veterans

Utah State University Press

Providing meaningful research into the ways adult learners bring their knowledge to the classroom, From Military to Academy offers new ways of thinking about pedagogy beyond the “traditional” college experience.

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Creative Clinical Teaching in the Health Professions

Athabasca University Press, Athabasca Unversity Press

Interspersed with creative strategies and notes from the field by clinical teachers who offer practical suggestions, this volume equips healthcare educators with sound pedagogical theory.

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Assisted Suicide in Canada

Moral, Legal, and Policy Considerations

UBC Press

Assisted Suicide in Canada provides an accessible, up-to-date introduction to this vitally important topic of ongoing public debate.

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Above the Well

An Antiracist Literacy Argument from a Boy of Color

The WAC Clearinghouse

Above the Well explores race, language and literacy education through a combination of scholarship, personal history, and even a bit of fiction.

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What Kapitan Tiago Served and Padre Damaso Ate

Studies on Jose Rizal, His World, and His Works

Ateneo De Manila, Ateneo De Manila Univ Press
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Tiger Beetles of the Southeastern United States

A Field Guide

University of Alabama Press

Combines current data and taxonomic classifications for tiger beetles in the Southeast with stunning close-up photographs, flight season charts, and distribution maps
 

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Thinking about Traffic in West Maui

North Beach West Maui Benefit, North Beach West Maui Benefit Fund
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The Encyclopedia of Daily Life

A Woman's Guide to Living in Late-Chosŏn Korea

Translated by Michael J. Pettid and Kil Cha; Series edited by Robert E. Buswell, Jr.
University of Hawaii Press
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Sweat and Salt Water

Selected Works

University of Hawaii Press
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Picturing the Floating World

Ukiyo-e in Context

University of Hawaii Press
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Middlemen of Modernity

Local Elites and Agricultural Development in Modern Japan

University of Hawaii Press
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Count

The University of Arizona Press

Count is a powerful book-length poem that reckons with the heartbreaking reality of climate change. With sections that vary between poetry, science, Indigenous storytelling, numerical measurement, and narration, Valerie Martínez’s new work results in an epic panorama infused with the timely urgency of facing an apocalyptic future.

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Conflict in a Buddhist Society

Tibet under the Dalai Lamas

University of Hawaii Press
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Community Music in Oceania

Many Voices, One Horizon

University of Hawaii Press
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Butcherbird

HUIA, HUIA Publishers
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Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia

Comparative Perspectives

University of Hawaii Press
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Writing the Caribbean in Magazine Time

Rutgers University Press

This book demonstrates the material, political, and aesthetic dimensions of Pan-Caribbean literary discourse in magazine texts by Suzanne and Aimé Césaire, Nicolás Guillén, José Lezama Lima, Alejo Carpentier, George Lamming, Derek Walcott and their contemporaries. Thus far, the canonical centrality of literary magazines to Caribbean literature, politics, and social theory has been obscured. Up against the global book industry, Caribbean literary magazines have waged a guerrilla pursuit for the terms of Caribbean representation.

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We Begin Bombing in Five Minutes

Late Cold War Culture in the Age of Reagan

University of Massachusetts Press
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Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies, revised edition

The Politics of Gender and Cultural Change in Absolutist France

University of Delaware Press

This new edition of Anne Duggan’s Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies emphasizes the field-changing impacts of the original, which focused on two of the most prolific seventeenth-century women writers, Madeleine de Scudéry and Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy, to demonstrate how women helped create the fairy tale genre, staking their claim as major authors of their day. Using novels, chronicles, and fairy tales, Scudéry and d’Aulnoy responded to and participated in significant social changes in early modern France.

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Oceans at Home

Maritime and Domestic Fictions in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing

University of Massachusetts Press
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Law and the Visible

University of Massachusetts Press
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Law and the Visible

University of Massachusetts Press
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Elusive Archives

Material Culture in Formation

University of Delaware Press

Elusive Archives asks how historians, librarians, and museum professionals can bring together scattered, lost, or otherwise forgotten objects into a provisional collection, an elusive archive.  Addressing a wide range of objects, the authors’ diverse approaches, varying formats, and wide scope of inquiries describe a new conceptual territory at the intersection of archival studies and material culture studies.

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Mississippi Barking

Hurricane Katrina and a Life That Went to the Dogs

University Press of Mississippi

An emotional recounting of animal rescue during the aftermath of one of the nation’s worst storms

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Trains, Buses, People, Second Edition

An Opinionated Atlas of US and Canadian Transit

Island Press

Transit expert Christof Spieler has fully updated and expanded his popular book Trains, Buses, People to include eight Canadian cities and two new US cities (Indianapolis and San Juan, Puerto Rico).
 
In Trains, Buses, People, Second Edition: An Opinionated Atlas of US and Canadian Transit, Spieler profiles the 49 metropolitan areas in the US and eight metropolitan areas in Canada that have rail transit or BRT, using data, photos, and maps for easy comparison. The best and worst systems are ranked and Spieler offers analysis of how geography, politics, and history complicate transit planning.

Trains, Buses, People, Second Edition will help any citizen, professional, or policymaker with a vested interest evaluate a transit proposal and understand what makes transit effective and how to make it inclusive.
 

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Museum Matters

Making and Unmaking Mexico’s National Collections

The University of Arizona Press

Museum Matters tells the story of Mexico’s national collections through the trajectories of its objects. The essays in this book show the many ways in which things matter and affect how Mexico imagines its past, present, and future.

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Messiahs

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

A fiercely ecstatic tale of betrayal and self-sacrifice
 

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Meaningful Work

Stories

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

Winner of FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize
 
A stunning look at the labor of obsession and the industry of self-destruction

 

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Intersections

Art and Islamic Cosmopolitanism

University of Florida Press

This richly illustrated volume highlights the history of Islamic cosmopolitanism as documented through works of art from the eighth century to the present, examining artistic exchange between Muslim and non-Muslim societies.

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By the Time You Read This

Stories

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

A gathering of luminescent stories that illustrates how fraught and contingent the simplest of lives can be, and the often unexpected means available to each of us for our own salvation
 

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Whiskey, Women, and War

How the Great War Shaped Jim Crow New Orleans

University Press of Mississippi

An exciting and surprising history of the New Orleans home front during World War I

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What the Children Said

Child Lore of South Louisiana

University Press of Mississippi

A deep exploration of children’s play and its impact on learning race, history, and sexuality

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Rulers of the SEC

Ole Miss and Mississippi State, 1959-1966

University Press of Mississippi

How two Mississippi universities won twelve of twenty-four championships to dominate sports and reign supreme in the SEC

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Remembering Lucile

A Virginia Family's Rise from Slavery and a Legacy Forged a Mile High

University Press of Colorado

Author Polly McLean depicts the rise of the African American middle class through the story of Lucile Berkeley Buchanan Jones—CU's true first black graduate—and her family, from slavery in northern Virginia to middle-class life in the American West.

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Marginalized

Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region, and Gender

University Press of Mississippi

A close analysis of southern women playwrights

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Instruments of Empire

Filipino Musicians, Black Soldiers, and Military Band Music during US Colonization of the Philippines

University Press of Mississippi

How a Philippine military band and their Black conductor dazzled America while soothing its racial anxieties

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Friendship and Devotion, or Three Months in Louisiana

By Camille Lebrun; Translated with commentary by E. Joe Johnson and Robin Anita White
University Press of Mississippi

Never before in English, a travel-adventure novel of two young women navigating antebellum Louisiana

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Transitioning Later in Life

A Personal Guide

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

The first in-depth guide for people who are transitioning later in life

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Ollie the Octopus Grief and Loss Activity Book

A Therapeutic Story with Activities for Children Aged 5-10

Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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