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Banning Transgender Conversion Practices

A Legal and Policy Analysis

UBC Press

Banning Transgender Conversion Practices is the first book to offer a comprehensive analysis of how conversion practices targeting transgender people are regulated around the world.

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Astonishing Light

Conversations I Never Had with Patrociño Barela

University of New Mexico Press

E. A. Mares never crossed paths with the great New Mexico sculptor, but the conversations he imagines with the gifted Taos artist attempt to capture the genius, the isolation, and the tragedy of Patrociño Barela while revealing the ability of the human spirit to triumph over adversity.

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Unthinking Collaboration

American Nisei in Transwar Japan

University of Hawaii Press
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Reawakened

Traditional Navigators of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa

University of Hawaii Press
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Making Our Own Destiny

Single Women, Opportunity, and Family in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo

University of Hawaii Press
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Here to Stay

Uncovering South Asian American History

Rutgers University Press

In Here to Stay, Geetika Rudra takes readers on a journey across the United States to unearth the little-known histories of South Asian Americans in the first half of the twentieth century. She shows how South Asians made a home for themselves in America, despite racist laws that only granted citizenship to European immigrants.

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Border Land, Border Water

A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide

University of Texas Press

A 150-year history of the border region between the United States and Mexico, told through the fences and barriers, the river engineering projects, and the surveillance infrastructure that have reshaped the natural landscape.

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Between the Streets and the Assembly

Social Movements, Political Parties, and Democracy in Korea

University of Hawaii Press
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Art Across Borders

Japanese Artists in the United States before World War II

MerwinAsia
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The Golden Age Musicals of Darryl F. Zanuck

The Gentleman Preferred Blondes

University Press of Mississippi

The first book to explore the impact the innovative studio executive had on American movie musicals

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Asian-Cajun Fusion

Shrimp from the Bay to the Bayou

University Press of Mississippi

A lushly illustrated and complete history of Louisiana’s shrimping industry

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Wreading

A Poetics of Awareness, or How Do We Know What We Know?

University of Alabama Press

A diverse collection of essays and interviews on reading, teaching, and writing poetry from a preeminent critic and scholar
 

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Transforming Diné Education

Innovations in Pedagogy and Practice

The University of Arizona Press

Transforming Diné Education honors the perspectives and voices of Diné educators in culturally relevant education, special education, Diné language revitalization, well-being, tribal sovereignty, self-determination in Diné education, and university-tribal-community partnerships. The contributors offer stories about Diné resilience, resistance, and survival by articulating a Diné-centered pedagogy and politics for future generations.

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The Archaeology of Race and Class at Timbuctoo

A Black Community in New Jersey

University Press of Florida
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Of Mules and Mud

The Story of Alabama Folk Potter Jerry Brown

By Jerry Brown; Introduction by Joey Brackner; Edited by Joey Brackner; Preface by Joey Brackner
University of Alabama Press

The life and times of Alabama folk potter Jerry Brown, as told in his own words
 

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Chicanx Utopias

Pop Culture and the Politics of the Possible

University of Texas Press

Exploring race, politics, Chicanx history, and social movements, this book offers a broad and encompassing examination of Chicanx popular culture since World War II and the utopian visions it articulated.

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American Indian Studies

Native PhD Graduates Gift Their Stories

The University of Arizona Press

Native American doctoral graduates of American Indian Studies (AIS) at the University of Arizona, the first AIS program in the United States to offer a PhD, gift their stories. The Native PhD recipients share their journeys of pursuing and earning the doctorate, and its impact on their lives and communities.

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From Extraterrestrials to Animal Minds

Six Myths of Evolution

Templeton Press

In this learned romp of science writing, Cambridge professor Simon Conway Morris cheerfully challenges six assumptions—what he calls ‘myths’—that too often pass as unquestioned truths amongst the evolutionary orthodox. 

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Unfollowers

University of Massachusetts Press
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The Green Mister Rogers

Environmentalism in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

By Sara Lindey and Jason King; Foreword by Junlei Li
University Press of Mississippi

An in-depth exploration of the environmentalism in the beloved children’s television program

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The Geographies of African American Short Fiction

University Press of Mississippi

A long-overdue history of short stories, place, and the significance of setting on racial representation

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The Films of Delmer Daves

Visions of Progress in Mid-Twentieth-Century America

University Press of Mississippi

A scholarly exploration of a forgotten director’s body of work

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The Edward Tales

By Elizabeth Spencer; Compiled by Sally Greene; Introduction by Sally Greene
University Press of Mississippi

A focused character study of a recurring figure in the fiction of one of Mississippi’s greatest writers

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The Edward Tales

By Elizabeth Spencer; Compiled by Sally Greene; Introduction by Sally Greene
University Press of Mississippi

A focused character study of a recurring figure in the fiction of one of Mississippi’s greatest writers

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Fear, Hate, and Victimhood

How George Wallace Wrote the Donald Trump Playbook

University Press of Mississippi

A blistering critique of the rhetoric of two candidates and how President Trump succeeded

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Exposing Mississippi

Eudora Welty's Photographic Reflections

University Press of Mississippi

The first book-length work to look critically at Eudora Welty’s work as a photographer

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Daughters of Harriet

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
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Whenever Two or More Are Gathered

Relationship as the Heart of Ethical Discourse

University of Alabama Press

Makes the case for human relationship as the proper foundation of administrative ethics
 

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Barger Gulch

A Folsom Campsite in the Rocky Mountains

The University of Arizona Press

This monograph summarizes findings from nine seasons of excavation at Barger Gulch Locality B, a Folsom campsite in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Archaeologist Todd A. Surovell explains the spatial organization of the camp and the social organization of the people who lived there.

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Queer Body Power

Finding Your Body Positivity

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Fierce and unapologetically written, this is an inspiring call to arms for queer body positivity. Featuring honest advice, personal insights and powerful stories from a diverse range of queer voices, this essential book will help you love your queer body.

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Functional Exercise Prescription

Supporting Rehabilitation in Movement and Sport

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Handspring Publishing
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War without Bodies

Framing Death from the Crimean to the Iraq War

Rutgers University Press

Thanks to the invention of photography and the telegraph descriptions and images of war have proliferated from the nineteenth century onward, yet wars continue to be fought. The way descriptions of war are framed blunts the impact of images of death and makes war an acceptable option by representing it as “war without bodies” therefore without casualties. Beginning with Crimean War, War Without Bodies traces the ways that death was framed in poetry, photography, video and video games up to and including the Iraq War.

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The Work of Hospitals

Global Medicine in Local Cultures

Rutgers University Press

The Work of Hospitals, a volume on hospitals as clinical and social institutions, foregrounds the tensions inherent in efforts to sustain functional health services in resource-poor states. Global ethnographic research shows how clinicians and patients struggle, without adequate supplies and personnel, in times of financial austerity.  The chapters document a vast gulf worldwide between the idealized mission of the hospital and the implementation of this mission in everyday practice.

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The Paris Commune

A Brief History

Rutgers University Press

The Paris Commune, France’s revolutionary civil war, rocked the nineteenth century and shaped the twentieth. A pivotal moment in history, it is the linchpin between revolutionary pasts and futures and as the crucible allowing alternate possibilities. Upending hierarchies, the Commune became a touchstone for subsequent revolutionary and radical social movements.
 

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Risky Cities

The Physical and Fiscal Nature of Disaster Capitalism

Rutgers University Press

Over half the world’s population lives in urban regions, and increasingly disasters are of great concern to city dwellers, policymakers, and builders. Risky Cities is a critical examination of global urban development, capitalism, and its relationship with environmental hazards. 

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OutWrite

The Speeches That Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture

Rutgers University Press

This collection gives readers a front-row seat to a pivotal moment in LGBTQ literary history with twenty-seven of the most memorable speeches from the 1990-1999 OutWrite conferences, including talks from such luminaries as Allen Ginsberg, Essex Hemphill, Patrick Califia, Dorothy Allison, and Edmund White that cover everything from racial representation to sexual politics.

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Literature and Revolution

British Responses to the Paris Commune of 1871

Rutgers University Press

The Parisian Communards fought for a vision of internationalism, radical democracy and economic justice for the working masses that cut across national borders. Its eventual defeat resonated far beyond Paris. Literature and Revolution examines how authors in Britain projected their hopes and fears in literary representations of the Commune. 
 

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