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Watching the Bear

Canadian Intelligence Assessments of the Soviet Threat to North America, 1946–1964

UBC Press

Watching the Bear draws on recently declassified documents to offer a wholly new perspective on Canada’s policies for the defence of North America in the decades following the Second World War.

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Unceded

Understanding British Columbia’s Colonial Past and Why It Matters Now

UBC Press, Purich Books

Unceded reveals the BC government’s history of injustice toward First Nations, providing the context for understanding modern treaty negotiations.

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The New Politics of Western Canada

Contested Histories, Uncertain Futures

UBC Press

The New Politics of Western Canada examines the identity of “the West,” its contested political ideologies, and current economic and policy concerns to anticipate the challenges that lie ahead.

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The Accidental Network

How a Small Company Sparked a Global Broadband Transformation

West Virginia University Press

An engrossing account of technological innovation and business conducted at high speed, showing how the invention of the cable modem engendered the modern revolution in broadband Internet access over a ubiquitous, existing cable television infrastructure.

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Renegotiating the Bargain

The Formation of Power-Sharing Arrangements within Canadian Political Parties

UBC Press

Renegotiating the Bargain explores and explains a major shift in how power is shared within Canadian political parties to reveal the inner workings of party organization.

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Objects as Evidence/Agents

Curated Encounters with Domestic Objects

Dalhousie Architectural Press
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Epic and Lovely

A Novel

West Virginia University Press

A disabled woman’s deathbed letter to the adoptive mother of her unexpected child recounting the precarious events of the last year of her life.

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Almost Heaven

How Bobby Bowden's Ten Years at West Virginia University Helped Him Become One of the Winningest Coaches in College Football History

West Virginia University Press

How a rocky start with the WVU Mountaineers shaped Bobby Bowden into one of the greatest football coaches in NCAA history.

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A Drunken Bee

Sunthorn Phu and the Buddhist Landscapes of Early Bangkok

University of Hawaii Press
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Fathers, Masculinity, and Authoritarianism in Latin American Cinema

University of Florida Press

Through an analysis of twenty-first-century films created in Latin America, this book makes the case that contemporary filmmakers are using the figure of the father as a metaphor for political leadership and that their work reflects a growing rejection of predatory and coercive authority in the region.

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Barbara Bush

A Biography for Beginning Historians

LBJ Foundation & Briscoe Ctr UT-Austin
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Supporting Someone Polyamorous

FAQs About Non-Monogamy and Allyship for Family, Friends and Loved Ones

By Lola Phoenix; Foreword by Rachel Wright
Jessica Kingsley Publishers

A guide for family and friends of polyamorous people so that they can better understand and support their loved one. Advice includes: how to listen non-judgementally, how to show appropriate interest, and how to navigate meeting multiple partners.

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No Heels, No Problem

A Neurodivergent Survival Guide to Adult Life when you are Dyspraxic or ADHD

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

If you want to understand what dyspraxia or ADHD means to you as an adult, and a woman, this book is for you. It will support you in every part of your neurodiversity journey and help you understand what dyspraxia and ADHD mean to you as a woman, in your relationship with others, yourself and even your body.

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Lost and Now Found

A guide to understanding and accepting yourself for late-discovered autistic adults

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Deeply personal stories from the authors and other autistic people in their thirties, forties, fifties and beyond to help readers explore late-discovered autistic identities.

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A Movement Educator's Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth 

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Handspring Publishing

Written for movement professionals, this book is packed full of research and practices that take a whole body approach to working with pregnant clients.

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The Type V City

Codifying Material Inequity in Urban America

University of Texas Press

How building codes shaped material, social, and environmental landscapes in American cities.

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Mimbres Far from the Heartland

Identity at the Powers Ranch Site of East-Central Arizona

The University of Arizona Press

This volume explores the formation of social identity and cultural affiliation at the Powers Ranch site, a small settlement at the western edge of the Mimbres region. The authors conclude that the people at Powers Ranch were quintessentially Mimbres and were more closely affiliated with Mimbres settlements on the Gila River drainage in southeast Arizona and New Mexico than with those living in the Mimbres Valley core area.

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Landmarks: 2008–2025

The Public Art Program of the University of Texas at Austin

Edited by Andrée Bober
Landmarks UT-Austin

A comprehensive guide to the many extraordinary works of public art available on the UT-Austin campus.

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Worth a Thousand Words

Cultural, Literary, and Political Proverb Studies

University Press of Mississippi

An important and extensive addition to contemporary proverb studies

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The Peace Script

Framing Violence in US Anti-War Dissent

University of Alabama Press
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The American Open Road

Narrative and Popular Imagination

University of Alabama Press
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The American Open Road

Narrative and Popular Imagination

University of Alabama Press
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Song of the Land

Celebrating the Works of Mildred D. Taylor

University Press of Mississippi

A thorough and much-needed volume of scholarship devoted to a trailblazing author of African American children’s literature

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Risqué Business

Breastaurants in American Culture

University of Alabama Press
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Regenerating the Feminine

Psyche, Culture, and Nature

University Press of Mississippi

An exciting study that aims to trace the resurgence of the feminine archetype in literature and film

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Reconstruction in Mississippi, 1862-1877

University Press of Mississippi

A comprehensive history of Mississippians struggling to define freedom after the Civil War

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Posterity Is Now

Practicing Museum Anthropology, Collections Care, and Collaborative Research with Indigenous Peoples

University of Wyoming Press

Posterity Is Now is about doing—about how to do—museum anthropology, collections stewardship, and collaborative research based on working in collaboration with Indigenous communities. 

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My Chair, My Rules

Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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Mississippi, Conflict and Change

A New Edition

University Press of Mississippi

A new edition of a classic book telling the history of all of Mississippi’s peoples

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Greyscale Legality

The Diverse Landscape of Intellectual Property Law Enforcement in China

UBC Press

Greyscale Legality provides a sharp and systematic analysis of how legal texts and industry contexts interact to shape the enforcement of intellectual property law across Chinese industries.

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Critical Data Storytelling in the Composition Classroom

Utah State University Press

Critical Data Storytelling in the Composition Classroom provides a timely and essential framework for integrating data literacy into multimodal composition pedagogy.

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Child as Citizen

Agency and Activism in Children's Literature and Culture

Edited by Giuliana Fenech
University Press of Mississippi

How youth negotiate agency, activism, identity, and geopolitics to claim citizenship

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Bloom Again

A Novel

University of Alaska Press

Elyse is an empty-nest mother and artist in Alaska, and Astrid is a paleobotany professor in North Carolina. When the seemingly fulfilling lives of these distanced childhood friends are shaken, everything they’ve carefully established—from friends to careers to marriages—shifts, slips, unravels. 

 

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Angalkut/Shamans in Yup'ik Oral Tradition

Edited by Ann Fienup-Riordan; Translated by Alice Rearden and Marie Meade
University of Alaska Press

Angalkut/Shamans in Yup’ik Oral Tradition collects over thirty years’ worth of shaman stories, told as part of gatherings organized by the Calista Elders Council to document Yup’ik traditional knowledge. These conversations highlight the critical role angalkutplayed in Yup’ik life—healing the sick, interpreting dreams and unusual experiences, requesting future abundance through masked dances and other ceremonies, protecting the lives of young children, and dealing with the dead.
 

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Absence of National Feeling

Education Debates in the Reconstruction Congress

University Press of Mississippi

An astute study of how educational arguments evolved over twelve tumultuous years in American history

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Undocumented in the U.S. South

How Youth Navigate Racialization in Policy and School Contexts

Rutgers University Press

Undocumented in the U. S. South is a rare look into the everyday realities of undocumented youth in K-12 public schools. In an anti-immigrant policy context, youth and their families navigate historical and current legacies and realities of segregation, racial discrimination and inequality. With a deep three-year ethnographic study, hundreds of hours of observational research, interviews, and policy analysis, Rodriguez traces the lives of undocumented youth across multiple public school settings, calling for policies that are humanizing and rooted in youth experience.

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