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Planet Work

Rethinking Labor and Leisure in the Anthropocene

Edited by Ryan Hediger
Bucknell University Press

Labor and labor norms orient much of contemporary life, organizing our days and years. Yet, surprisingly, work norms have not been sufficiently interrogated for their profound roles in climate change and other crises gathered under the term “Anthropocene.” Essays in this book expose deep flaws in ideas of work and investigate leisure practices for (sometimes radically) alternative ways of life.

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Just Like Us

Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame

Rutgers University Press

In Just Like Us: Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame, Caitlin E. Lawson examines the rise of celebrity feminism, its intersections with digital culture, and its complicated relationships with race, sexuality, capitalism, and misogyny. Through in-depth analyses of online debates, Lawson demonstrates how networked negotiations of celebrity culture and feminism are transforming popular engagements with the movement.

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Global Visions of Violence

Agency and Persecution in World Christianity

Rutgers University Press

Global Visions of Violence argues that violence creates a lens, bridge, and method to examine Christianity worldwide. These chapters illuminate often hidden landscapes that have been shaped by global visions of violence, showing how Christians in Africa, Asia, and Latin America respond to violence as they express their Christian faith. 
 

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From Protest to President

A Social Justice Journey through the Emergence of Adult Education and the Birth of Distance Learning

Rutgers University Press

In this remarkable memoir, former Thomas Edison State University president George A. Pruitt describes how his experiences growing up in Mississippi and the South Side of Chicago during the civil rights movement led him to become a trailblazer for access to higher education for adult learners.


 

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From Popular to Insurgent Intellectuals

Peasant Catechists in the Salvadoran Revolution

Rutgers University Press

From Popular to Insurgent Intellectuals explains how a group of Catholic lay catechists educated in liberation theology became early regional protagonists in El Salvador’s revolutionary war (1980-92). The book chronicles the steps by which state violence led peacful men of God to join a revolutionary organization in which they came to play important roles for the duration of the twelve-year military conflict.

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Digital Me

Trans Students Exploring Future Possible Selves Online

Rutgers University Press

The Internet is a potent site from which to theorize, but also imagine, invest in, and explore the prismatic possibilities for life. Digital Me explores how transgender people use the internet in myriad ways. The book explores online life--from cultivating identity to creating community and everything in between.

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Black Powder, White Lace

The du Pont Irish and Cultural Identity in Nineteenth-Century America

University of Delaware Press

This anniversary edition of Black Powder, White Lace, Margaret Mulrooney's history of the community of Irish immigrant workers at the du Pont powder yards, is being published to remind readers of the rich materials on the du Pont workers now publicly available through the Hagley Library and Museum, and of Mulrooney's powerful conclusions about immigrant communities in America.

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What Your Fossils Can Tell You

Vertebrate Morphology, Pathology, and Cultural Modification

University Press of Florida
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Sonoran Desert Journeys

Ecology and Evolution of Its Iconic Species

The University of Arizona Press

This book explores the evolution and natural history of iconic animals and plants of the northern Sonoran Desert through the eyes of a curious naturalist.

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Roadways for People

Rethinking Transportation Planning and Engineering

Island Press

The car-only approach in transportation planning and engineering has led to the construction of roadways that have torn apart and devalued communities, especially Black and Brown communities. Forging a new path and working to repair this damage requires a community solutions-based approach to planning, designing, and building our roadways. In Roadways for People, Lynn Peterson draws from her personal experience and conversations with leaders in the field to showcase new possibilities within transportation engineering and planning. The community solutions-based approach moves away from the narrow standards of traditional transportation projects and focuses instead on a process that involves consistent feedback, learning loops, and meaningful and regular community engagement.

Roadways for People is written to empower professionals and policymakers to create transportation solutions that serve people rather than cars.
 

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Fatherhood in the Borderlands

A Daughter's Slow Approach

University of Texas Press

A contemplative exploration of cultural representations of Mexican American fathers in contemporary media.

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An Irish-Jewish Politician, Joyce’s Dublin, and Ulysses

The Life and Times of Albert L. Altman

University Press of Florida

In this book, Neil Davison argues that Albert Altman, a Dublin-based businessman and Irish nationalist, influenced James Joyce’s creation of the character of Leopold Bloom as well as Ulysses’ broader themes surrounding race, nationalism, and empire.

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American Examples

New Conversations about Religion, Volume Two

University of Alabama Press

Fresh new perspectives on the study of religion, ranging from SoulCycle to Mark Twain
 

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Under the Cap of Invisibility

The Pantex Nuclear Weapons Plant and the Texas Panhandle

By Lucie Genay; Foreword by Alex Hunt
University of New Mexico Press
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The Progress Illusion

Reclaiming Our Future from the Fairytale of Economics

Island Press

We live under the illusion of progress: as long as GDP is going up and prices stay low, we accept poverty and pollution as unfortunate but inevitable byproducts of a successful economy. How did we all get duped into believing the fairytale of economics?

In The Progress Illusion, Jon Erickson charts the rise of the economic worldview and its infiltration into our daily lives as a theory of everything. Drawing on his experience as a young economist inoculated in the go-go 1980’s era of "greed is good," Erickson shows how flawed economic thinking shaped our politics and determined the course of American public policy.

While the history of economics is dismal indeed, Erickson is part of a vigorous reform effort grounded in the realities of life on a finite planet. Crafting a new economic story, he shows, is the first step toward turning away from endless growth and towards enduring prosperity. 
 

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Semantics of the World

Selected Poems

University of New Mexico Press

This selection of extraordinary poems, edited and translated by Nohora A. Arrieta Fernández and Mark A. Sanders, presents Bustos Aguirre's works in Spanish alongside their English translations and features the critical apparatus necessary for making Bustos Aguirre's poetry more accessible to students, scholars, and the general reading public.

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Seeds of Occupation, Seeds of Possibility

The Agrochemical-GMO Industry in Hawai‘i

West Virginia University Press

How Hawaiʻi became the epicenter of the biotech seed industry, and how a resistance movement arose to confront the industry’s power.

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Human Is to Wander

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
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Forging Diasporic Citizenship

Narratives from German-Born Turkish Ausländer

UBC Press

Forging Diasporic Citizenship is a work of narrative research that explores the nature and implications of “diasporic citizenship” as it is evolving among German-born, Turkish-origin Berliners.

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Dancing on the Sun Stone

Mexican Women and the Gendered Politics of Octavio Paz

University of New Mexico Press

Dancing on the Sun Stone is a uniquely transdisciplinary work that fuses modern Latin American history and literature to explore women's lives and gendered politics in Mexico.

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Constitutional Crossroads

Reflections on Charter Rights, Reconciliation, and Change

UBC Press

Four decades after the adoption of the Constitution Act, 1982, Constitutional Crossroads assesses its legacy, focusing on the themes of rights, reconciliation, and constitutional change.

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The Revolution of Buddhist Modernism

Jōdo Shin Thought and Politics, 1890–1962

By Jeff Schroeder; Series edited by Richard K. Payne
University of Hawaii Press
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The Master from Mountains and Fields

Prose Writings of Hwadam, Sŏ Kyŏngdŏk

Translated by Isabelle Sancho; Series edited by Robert E. Buswell, Jr.
University of Hawaii Press
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Muru

He Whakaaro Aroha

Edited by Moana Nepia
Oratia Books
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Mimetic Desires

Impersonation and Guising across South Asia

University of Hawaii Press
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Belitung

The Afterlives of a Shipwreck

University of Hawaii Press
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Reproducing Domination

On the Caribbean Postcolonial State

University Press of Mississippi

A comprehensive collection of essays from a renowned postcolonial scholar

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Rags and Bones

An Exploration of The Band

University Press of Mississippi

The first scholarly study of one of the most renowned groups in the history of rock ’n’ roll

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Our Portion of Hell

Fayette County, Tennessee: An Oral History of the Struggle for Civil Rights

University Press of Mississippi

A powerful documentary account of the struggle for voting rights in a southern community

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