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Encountering Pennywise

Critical Perspectives on Stephen King’s IT

Edited by Whitney S. May
University Press of Mississippi

A scholarly study focused on one of Stephen King’s most beloved and frightening novels

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Blues and Trouble

Twelve Stories

University Press of Mississippi

Now back in print, the debut story collection from a celebrated American writer

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Men without Work

Post-Pandemic Edition (2022)

Templeton Press

Nicholas Eberstadt’s landmark 2016 study, Men without Work, cast a spotlight on the collapse of work for men in modern America. Rosy reports of low unemployment rates and “full or near full employment” conditions, he contends, were overlooking a quiet, continuing crisis: Depression-era work rates for American men of “prime working age” (twenty-five to fifty-four).

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The Politics of Genocide

From the Genocide Convention to the Responsibility to Protect

Rutgers University Press

Since the adoption of the Genocide Convention in 1948 and through the present day, the United Nations' P-5 have ensured that holding any of them accountable for genocide would be practically impossible. The Politics of Genocide is the first book to explicitly demonstrate how the permanent member nations have exploited the Genocide Convention to isolate themselves from the reach of the law, marking them as "outlaw states."

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The Perils of Populism

Rutgers University Press

Featuring interdisciplinary essays about politics in the United States, the Middle East, Europe, and India from a variety of acclaimed theorists and activists, The Perils of Populism shows how a feminist lens can help diagnose the factors behind the global rise of right-wing populism and teach us how to resist the threat it presents to democracy.

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Social Exchange

Barter as Economic and Cultural Activism in Medellín, Colombia

Rutgers University Press

Social Exchange examines alternative economies activism in Medellín, Colombia, using twenty-five years of grassroots experimentation with barter markets and community currencies to develop new insights about capitalist culture, social movement strategy, community-building, and the transformation of subjectivities. Hopeful yet critical, this book serves as a useful think-piece for activists and scholars alike.

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Preventing Child Maltreatment in the U.S.: The Latinx Community Perspective

Rutgers University Press

This book examines core concepts relevant to Latinx families as they relate to child maltreatment. Utilizing cases of three families, child maltreatment in Latinx families is contextualized within the pervasive structural racism and inequality in the United States while the resilience and strengths of Latinx families are highlighted.

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Preventing Child Maltreatment in the U.S.: The Black Community Perspective

Rutgers University Press

Child maltreatment occurs in the Black community at higher rates than any other racial group. Through a feminist and womanist lens, the authors unpack the factors impacting the Black community that lead to maltreatment of Black children. This book offers resources and guidance for preventing maltreatment, promoting health and wellness, and to empower Black children.
 

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Preventing Child Maltreatment in the U.S.: Multicultural Considerations

Rutgers University Press

This book examines core multicultural concepts (e.g., intersectionality, acculturation, spirituality, oppression) as they relate to child maltreatment in the United States. Specifically, this book examines child maltreatment through the interaction of feminist, multicultural and prevention/wellness promotion lenses. Five case studies, which are introduced early on are revisited to help the readers make important and meaningful connections between theory and practice.

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Preventing Child Maltreatment in the U.S.: American Indian and Alaska Native Perspectives

Rutgers University Press

This book embraces a decolonizing praxis that emphasizes a broader understanding of Native American/Alaska Native child maltreatment and utilizes an Indigenous-feminist lens to conceptualize, treat, intervene, and promote wellness. Specifically, this book examines child maltreatment through the intersection of feminist, multicultural, and prevention/wellness promotion lenses. This state of the art text interconnects Native elders/scholars' stories (brief case studies) with historical context, theory, and culturally-informed as well as trauma-informed approaches of treating Native Americans/Alaska Native populations.

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Islamic Divorce in the Twenty-First Century

A Global Perspective

Rutgers University Press

Islamic Divorce in the 21st Century takes a close look at the ways that Muslims from West Africa to Southeast Asia engage with and navigate Islamic law and other relevant norms during times of marital breakdown in light of twenty-first century challenges and development.
 

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Islamic Divorce in the Twenty-First Century

A Global Perspective

Rutgers University Press

Islamic Divorce in the 21st Century takes a close look at the ways that Muslims from West Africa to Southeast Asia engage with and navigate Islamic law and other relevant norms during times of marital breakdown in light of twenty-first century challenges and development.
 

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In the Crossfire of History

Women's War Resistance Discourse in the Global South

Rutgers University Press

This book incorporates literary works, testimonies, autobiographies, women’s resistance movements, and films that add to the conversation on the resilience of women in the global south. The essays question historical accuracy and politics of representation that usually undermine women’s role during conflict, and they reevaluate how women participated, challenged, sacrificed, and vehemently opposed war discourses that work on obliterating women’s role in shaping resistance movements.
 

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In the Crossfire of History

Women's War Resistance Discourse in the Global South

Rutgers University Press

This book incorporates literary works, testimonies, autobiographies, women’s resistance movements, and films that add to the conversation on the resilience of women in the global south. The essays question historical accuracy and politics of representation that usually undermine women’s role during conflict, and they reevaluate how women participated, challenged, sacrificed, and vehemently opposed war discourses that work on obliterating women’s role in shaping resistance movements.
 

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From Honolulu to Brooklyn

Running the American Empire’s Base Paths with Buck Lai and the Travelers from Hawai’i

Rutgers University Press

Arguably the most famous baseball team outside of the major leagues in the early twentieth century, the Travelers from Hawaiʻi barnstormed the American mainland from 1912 to 1916. During their journeys and after, team leader and star Buck Lai and his teammates encountered racism and colonialism while asserting their humanity in a variety of ways.

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Chinese Americans in the Heartland

Migration, Work, and Community

Rutgers University Press

Focused on the Heartland cities of Chicago, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri, this book draws rich evidences from various government records, personal stories and interviews, and media reports, and sheds light on the commonalities and uniqueness of the region, as compared to the Asian American communities on the East and West Coast and Hawaii. Some of the poignant stories such as “the Three Moy Brothers,” “Alla Lee,” and “Save Sam Wah Laundry” told in the book are powerful reflections of Asian American history.

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Racing Translingualism in Composition

Toward a Race-Conscious Translingualism

Edited by Tom Do and Karen Rowan
Utah State University Press

Racing Translingualism provides both theoretical and pedagogical reconsiderations of the translingual approach to language diversity by addressing the intersections of race and translingualism.



 

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Our Body of Work

Embodied Administration and Teaching

Utah State University Press

Our Body of Workinvites administrators and teachers to consider how physical bodies inform everyday work and labor as well as research and administrative practices in writing programs.

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Lessons in Legitimacy

Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Rise of State Schooling in British Columbia

UBC Press

Lessons in Legitimacy examines the relationship between settler capitalism, state schooling, and the making of British Columbia.

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Confronting the "Good Death"

Nazi Euthanasia on Trial, 1945-1953

University Press of Colorado

Years before Hitler unleashed the “Final Solution” to annihilate European Jews, he began a lesser-known campaign to eradicate the mentally ill, which facilitated the gassing and lethal injection of as many as 270,000 people and set a precedent for the mass murder of civilians. In Confronting the “Good Death” Michael Bryant analyzes the U.S. government and West German judiciary’s attempt to punish the euthanasia killers after the war.

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Chino and the Dance of the Butterfly

A Memoir

University of New Mexico Press

Renowned Korean American modern-dance choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess shares his deeply personal hyphenated world and how his multifaceted background drives his prolific art-making in Chino and the Dance of the Butterfly.

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Planning the Portland Urban Growth Boundary

The Struggle to Transform Trend City

Oregon State University Press

In this companion volume to his 2012 book Oregon Plans: The Making of an Unquiet Land-Use Revolution, Sy Adler offers readers a deep analysis of planning Portland’s Urban Growth Boundary. Required by one of Oregon’s nineteen statewide planning goals, a boundary in the Portland metropolitan area was intended to separate urban land and land that would be urbanized from commercially productive farmland. After adopting the goals, approving the Portland growth boundary in 1979 was the most significant decision the Oregon Land Conservation and Development Commission has ever made, and, more broadly, is a significant milestone in American land-use planning.
 
Planning the Portland Urban Growth Boundary primarily covers the 1970s. Innovative regional planning institutions were established in response to concerns about sprawl, but planners working for those institutions had to confront the reality that various plans being developed and implemented by city and county governments in metro Portland would instead allow sprawl to continue. Regional planners labeled these as “Trend City” plans, and sought to transform them during the 1970s and thereafter.
 
Adler discusses the dynamics of these partially successful efforts and the conflicts that characterized the development of the Portland UGB during the 1970s—between different levels of government, and between public, private, and civic sector advocates. When the regional UGB is periodically reviewed, these conflicts continue, as debates about values and technical issues related to forecasting future amounts of population, economic activity, and the availability of land for urban development over a twenty-year period roil the boundary planning process.
 
Planning the Portland Urban Growth Boundary is an authoritative history and an indispensable resource for anyone actively involved in urban and regional planning—from neighborhood associations and elected officials to organizations working on land use and development issues throughout the state.
 

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Writing into the Future

New American Poetries from "The Dial" to the Digital

University of Alabama Press

A career-spanning collection of essays from a leading scholar of avant-garde poetry
 

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The Surprising Lives of Bark Beetles

Mighty Foresters of the Insect World

University of Florida Press

Entomologist Jiri Hulcr and science journalist Marc Abrahams offer a funny and informative introduction to the bark beetle, one of the world’s most maligned, misunderstood, and fascinating insects.

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T Bone Burnett

A Life in Pursuit

University of Texas Press

This first critical appreciation of T Bone Burnett reveals how the proponent of Americana music and producer of artists ranging from Robert Plant and Alison Krauss to B. B. King and Elvis Costello has profoundly influenced American music and culture.

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Sounds of Tohi

Cherokee Health and Well-Being in Southern Appalachia

University of Alabama Press

Dialogue between a medical anthropologist and a Cherokee linguist about health, well-being, and environmental issues
 

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Designing Pan-America

U.S. Architectural Visions for the Western Hemisphere

University of Texas Press

Coinciding with the centennial of the Pan American Union (now the Organization of American States), González explores how nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. architects and their clients built a visionary Pan-America to promote commerce and cultural exchange between United States and Latin America.

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Dear Denise

Letters to the Sister I Never Knew

University of Alabama Press

Poignant, honest, and heartfelt letters to a sister who perished in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing
 

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Children Crossing Borders

Latin American Migrant Childhoods

The University of Arizona Press

This volume draws attention to the plight of migrant children and their families, illuminating the human and emotional toll that children experience as they crisscross the Americas. Exploring the connections between education, policy, cultural studies, and anthropology, the essays in this volume navigate a space of transnational children’s rights central to Latin American life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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Shame

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

A kaleidoscopic sequence of autofictional narratives about identity, grief, and narrative itself
 

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To Do Justice

The Civil Rights Ministry of Reverend Robert E. Hughes

University of Alabama Press

Biography of a civil rights activist who worked tirelessly at the heart of two social and political revolutions
 

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Texas Takes Wing

A Century of Flight in the Lone Star State

University of Texas Press

This book celebrates the aviators, astronauts, airline executives, and other innovators who have made Texas an influential world leader in the aerospace industry over the past century.

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Subject to Change

Writings and Interviews

Concordia University Press
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Plagues and Pencils

A Year of Pandemic Sketches

By Edward Carey; Foreword by Max Porter
University of Texas Press

A remarkable collection of words and illustrations documenting the first year of the pandemic.

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Jack London and the Sea

University of Alabama Press

The first book-length study of London as a maritime writer

 

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Dance of the Returned

The University of Arizona Press

The disappearance of a young Choctaw leads Detective Monique Blue Hawk to investigate a little-known ceremonial dance. As she traces the steps of the missing man, she discovers that the seemingly innocuous Renewal Dance is not what it appears to be. After Monique embarks on a journey that she never thought possible, she learns that the past and future can converge to offer endless possibilities for the present. She must also accept her own destiny of violence and peacekeeping.

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B is for Baldwin

An Alphabet Tour of the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature

Edited by Suzan Alteri
University of Florida Press, Library Press at UF
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Apostles of Change

Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio

University of Texas Press

Unraveling the intertwined histories of Latino radicalism and religion in urban America, this book examines how Latino activists transformed churches into staging grounds for protest against urban renewal and displacement.

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The Cuban Sandwich

A History in Layers

University Press of Florida
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The Empty Bowl

Poems of the Holocaust and After

By Judith H. Sherman; Foreword by Arthur Kleinman; Afterword by Ilana Gelb
University of New Mexico Press

In The Empty Bowl: Poems of the Holocaust and After, Holocaust survivor Judith H. Sherman strives to record trauma through art.


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