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Below the Stars

How the Labor of Working Actors and Extras Shapes Media Production

University of Texas Press

An examination of the critical influence of working actors and actors’ labor unions on industrial structures and practices in Hollywood, including film, television, and streaming.

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The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom

Essential Lessons for Collective Action

Island Press

Fifty years ago, conventional thinking among economists and environmentalists was that depletion of natural resources could only be prevented through the free market or government regulation. This notion was upended by Elinor Ostrom, whose work to show that regular people could sustainably manage their community resources won her the Nobel Prize in Economics. Ostrom’s revolutionary proposition fundamentally changed how we think about environmental governance. 
 
In The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom, author Erik Nordman brings to life Ostrom’s brilliant mind. Ostrom’s research proved that people can and do act in collective interest, and her ideas about common resources have played out around the world, from Maine lobster fisheries to taxicab use in Nairobi. Ostrom broke barriers at a time when women were regularly excluded from academia. Her message of shared collective action is more relevant than ever for solving today’s most pressing environmental problems.
 

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Why Marianne Faithfull Matters

University of Texas Press

A remarkable feminist history and biography that features fragments from the five-decade career of an iconic artist, who, despite a private life that overshadowed much of her early work, sculpted her own musical rebirth.

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The Rowell-Sirois Commission and the Remaking of Canadian Federalism

UBC Press

The Rowell-Sirois Commission and the Remaking of Canadian Federalism reveals the commission’s impact on the high politics of federal-provincial relations and its legacy for Canadian federalism today.

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Standing at the Threshold

Working through Liminality in the Composition and Rhetoric TAship

Utah State University Press
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Redefining Roles

The Professional, Faculty, and Graduate Consultant’s Guide to Writing Centers

Utah State University Press

Redefining Roles is the first book to recognize and provide sustained focus on the presence of professional, faculty, and graduate student consultants in writing centers.

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Mountain Witches

Yamauba

Utah State University Press

Mountain Witches is a comprehensive guide to the complex figure of yamauba—female yōkai often translated as mountain witches, who are commonly described as tall, enigmatic women with long hair, piercing eyes, and large mouths that open from ear to ear and who live in the mountains—and the evolution of their roles and significance in Japanese culture and society from the premodern era to the present.

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First Nations Wildfire Evacuations

A Guide for Communities and External Agencies

UBC Press, Purich Books

Based on the experiences of evacuees from seven First Nations communities, this book offers guidance to Indigenous communities and external agencies on how to successfully plan for and carry out wildfire evacuations.

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Engaged Archaeology in the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico

University Press of Colorado

This volume of proceedings from the fifteenth biennial Southwest Symposium makes the case for engaged archaeology, an approach that considers scientific data and traditional Indigenous knowledge alongside archaeological theories and methodologies.

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American Vaudeville

West Virginia University Press

A dreamlike, evocative reckoning with a lost epoch in popular culture—and with old, weird America.

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A Forest of History

The Maya after the Emergence of Divine Kingship

University Press of Colorado

Travis Stanton and Kathryn Brown’s A Forest of History: The Maya after the Emergence of Divine Kingship presents acollection of essays that critically engage with and build upon the lasting contributions A Forest of Kings made to Maya epigraphy, iconography, material culture, and history.

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Widodo’s Employment Creation Law, 2020

What Its Journey Tells Us about Indonesian Politics

ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
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Water and Power in West Maui

North Beach West Maui Benefit, North Beach West Maui Benefit Fund
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Trauma Healing in the Yoga Zone

A Guide for Mental Health Professionals, Yoga Therapists and Teachers

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Handspring Publishing
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Tales of Idolized Boys

Male-Male Love in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives

University of Hawaii Press
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Southeast Asian Affairs 2021

ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
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Plastic Legacies

Pollution, Persistence, and Politics

Athabasca University Press

Plastic Legacies brings together scholars from the fields of marine biology, psychology, anthropology, environmental studies, Indigenous studies, and media studies to investigate and address the urgent socio-ecological challenges brought about by plastics.

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Morning Star Rising

The Politics of Decolonization in West Papua

University of Hawaii Press
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Knotting the Banner

Ritual and Relationship in Daoist Practice

University of Hawaii Press
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Head and Heart

Yoga therapy and art therapy interventions for mental health

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Handspring Publishing
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From Pakatan Harapan to Perikatan Nasional

A Missed Opportunity for Reforms for East Malaysia?

ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
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Endangered Splendor

Manila’s Architectural Heritage, 1571–1960

Ateneo De Manila, Ateneo De Manila Univ Press
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Countering COVID-19

Cases in Crisis Response

Ateneo De Manila, Ateneo De Manila Univ Press
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Centre-Periphery Relations in Myanmar

Leverage and Solidarity after the 1 February Coup

ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
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Breathing, Mudras and Meridians

Direct Experience of Embodiment

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Handspring Publishing
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Rock Art in an Indigenous Landscape

From Atlantic Canada to Chesapeake Bay

University of Alabama Press

Examines a host of rock art sites from Nova Scotia to Maryland

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Curbing Traffic

The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives

Island Press

In Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives, mobility experts Melissa and Chris Bruntlett chronicle their experience living in the Netherlands and the benefits that result from treating cars as visitors rather than owners of the road. They weave their personal story with research and interviews with experts and Delft locals to help readers share the experience of living in a city designed for people.
 
Their insights will help decision makers and advocates to better understand and communicate the human impacts of low-car cities: lower anxiety and stress, increased independence, social autonomy, inclusion, and improved mental and physical wellbeing.
 
Curbing Traffic provides relatable, emotional, and personal reasons why it matters and inspiration for exporting the low-car city.
 

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Building Back Better in India

Development, NGOs, and Artisanal Fishers after the 2004 Tsunami

University of Alabama Press

Critically examines the role of humanitarian aid and disaster reconstruction

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"Still They Remember Me"

Penobscot Transformer Tales, Volume 1

University of Massachusetts Press
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Votes for Delaware Women

University of Delaware Press

This book traces the growth of an organized suffrage movement in Delaware from the 1890s to the 1920s. It covers the activities of the major suffrage organizations after 1914, when African American women organized their own suffrage club and the State's National Women's Party affiliate contested with the Delaware Equal Suffrage Association for Leadership of the cause, and explains the Legislature's refusal to make Delaware the final state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment.

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Toni Morrison and the Natural World

An Ecology of Color

University Press of Mississippi

The first ecocritical treatment of the entire range of the Nobel Laureate’s mighty works

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Race and Racism in Nineteenth-Century Art

The Ascendency of Robert Duncanson, Edward Bannister, and Edmonia Lewis

University Press of Mississippi

The extraordinary struggle, achievement, loss and reclamation of three brilliant African American artists of the 1800s

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Positioning Pooh

Edward Bear after One Hundred Years

University Press of Mississippi

A delightful journey into the heart of the many meanings behind that silly old bear

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Politics in the Gutters

American Politicians and Elections in Comic Book Media

University Press of Mississippi

A thorough exploration of the political critiques found in a multigenre, historical cross-section of comic books and their transmedia adaptations

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My Melancholy Baby

The First Ballads of the Great American Songbook, 1902-1913

University Press of Mississippi

A thorough exploration of early pop ballads in the American Songbook and how they still resonate

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Conversations with Steve Erickson

University Press of Mississippi

A collection of twenty-four interviews with a singular writer whose work is a dream-fueled blend of European modernism, American pulp, and paranoid late-century postmodernism

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At Arm’s Length

A Rhetoric of Character in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

University Press of Mississippi

A theory of how authors position readers in relation to literary character through empathy, awe, and indifference

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Minds and Hearts

The Story of James Otis Jr. and Mercy Otis Warren

Bright Leaf
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Making the Forever War

Marilyn B. Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism

University of Massachusetts Press
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Recast Your City

How to Save Your Downtown with Small-Scale Manufacturing

Island Press

In Recast Your City: How to Save Your Downtown with Small-Scale Manufacturing, community development expert Ilana Preuss explains how local leaders can revitalize their downtowns or neighborhood main streets by bringing in and supporting small-scale manufacturing. Small-scale manufacturing businesses help create thriving places, with local business ownership opportunities and well-paying jobs that other business types can’t fulfill.

Preuss draws from her experience working with local governments, large and small, from Knoxville, Tennessee, to Columbia, Missouri, to Fremont, California.  She provides tools, such as her five-step method for recasting your city, that local leaders in government, business, and real estate as well as entrepreneurs and advocates in every community can use.
 
 

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Facing Florida

Essays on Culture and Religion in Early Modern Southeastern America

Academy of American Franciscan History
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Yoga Therapy Foundations, Tools, and Practice

A Comprehensive Textbook

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Singing Dragon

The first comprehensive textbook of yoga therapy that aligns with the competencies of the International Association of Yoga Therapists, this is an essential resource for schools and universities that offer yoga therapy training programs, as well as for yoga therapists in training. With a large international list of contributors, this book enables the development of a robust curricula to prepare yoga therapists to integrate into healthcare settings safely and effectively.

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Writings of Warner Mifflin

Forgotten Quaker Abolitionist of the Revolutionary Era

University of Delaware Press

This volume represents the written record of the America's most under-appreciated abolitionist, a man who became the conscience of the new nation in the aftermath of the American Revolution. In about 150 documents, readers will find the literary record of a man who devoted his life to that newly born nation, which he hoped to rescue from its continued embrace of slavery.

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Transitions

Our Stories of Being Trans

Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit

Everything You Need to Worry Less, Relax More, and Boost Your Self-Esteem

Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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The Trans Survival Workbook

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Companion workbook and journal to the popular Trans Teen Survival Guide to help teens document their transition.

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