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Lost in the Dark

A World History of Horror Film

University Press of Mississippi

A comprehensive and fun overview of moviegoers’ favorite genre

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Black to Nature

Pastoral Return and African American Culture

University Press of Mississippi

Close readings of Black women reclaiming space within the power of nature

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Women’s Ways of Making

Utah State University Press

Women’s Ways of Making draws attention to material practices—those that the hands perform—as three epistemologies—an episteme, a techne, and a phronesis—that together give pointed consideration to making as a rhetorical embodied endeavor.

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Touch is Really Strange

By Steve Haines; Illustrated by Sophie Standing
Jessica Kingsley Publishers

A science-based graphic medicine comic exploring touch as a fundamental human experience, and why it is essential for health

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Top To Bottom

A Memoir and Personal Guide Through Phalloplasty

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

A witty, practical and insightful memoir and guide to the emotional and physical journey of having phalloplasty.

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Queerly Autistic

The Ultimate Guide For LGBTQIA+ Teens On The Spectrum

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

An inspiring survival guide for autistic LGBTQIA+ teens, sharing experience and advice oncoming out, consent, staying safe in relationships, communicating with family members, finding a community and practicing self-care.

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Why Solange Matters

University of Texas Press

A Black feminist punk performer and important new voice recounts the dramatic story of an incandescent musician and artist whose unconventional journey to international success on her own terms was far more important than her family name.

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The Pinochet Generation

The Chilean Military in the Twentieth Century

By John R. Bawden; Introduction by John R. Bawden
University of Alabama Press

Weaves together the dramatic history of Chile’s complex and fraught relationship to its armed services by thorough analysis of the experiences of General Augusto Pinochet’s generation of soldiers and the beliefs and traditions that motivated their actions

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The Hatak Witches

The University of Arizona Press

A baffling museum murder that appears to be the work of twisted human killers results in an unexpected and violent confrontation with powerful shape-shifters for Choctaw detective Monique Blue Hawk. Blending tribal beliefs and myths into a modern context, The Hatak Witches continues the storyline of Choctaw cosmology and cultural survival that are prominent in Devon A. Mihesuah’s award-winning novel, The Roads of My Relations.

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The Diné Reader

An Anthology of Navajo Literature

The University of Arizona Press

The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature is a comprehensive collection of creative works by Diné poets and writers. This anthology is the first of its kind.

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Slave Traffic in the Age of Abolition

Puerto Rico, West Africa, and the Non-Hispanic Caribbean, 1815-1859

University Press of Florida
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Roots of Resistance

A Story of Gender, Race, and Labor on the North Coast of Honduras

University of Texas Press

A first-of-its-kind study of the working-class culture of resistance on the Honduran North Coast and the radical organizing that challenged US capital and foreign intervention at the onset of the Cold War, examining gender, race, and place.

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Reconsidering Mississippian Communities and Households

University of Alabama Press

Explores the archaeology of Mississippian communities and households using new data and advances in method and theory

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Real, Recent, or Replica

Precolumbian Caribbean Heritage as Art, Commodity, and Inspiration

University of Alabama Press

Examines the largely unexplored topics in Caribbean archaeology of looting of heritage sites, fraudulent artifacts, and illicit trade of archaeological materials
 

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Land without Masters

Agrarian Reform and Political Change under Peru's Military Government

University of Texas Press

A fresh perspective on the way the Peruvian government's major 1969 agrarian reforms transformed the social, cultural, and political landscape of the country.

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From a Taller Tower

The Rise of the American Mass Shooter

University of Texas Press

There is no silence on earth deeper than the silence between gunshots; From a Taller Tower faces the depths of that silence, which follows in the wake of the mass shootings that have plagued the United States.

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Bearing Witness

The Human Rights Case Against Fracking and Climate Change

Oregon State University Press

Fracking, the practice of shattering underground rock to release oil and natural gas, is a major driver of climate change. The 300,000 fracking facilities in the US also directly harm the health and livelihoods of people in front-line communities, who are disproportionately poor and people of color. Impacted citizens have for years protested that their rights have been ignored.

On May 14, 2018, a respected international human-rights court, the Rome-based Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal, began a week-long hearing on the impacts of fracking and climate change on human and Earth rights. In its advisory opinion, the Tribunal ruled that fracking systematically violates substantive and procedural human rights; that governments are complicit in the rights violations; and that to protect human rights and the climate, the practice of fracking should be banned.

The case makes history. It revokes the social license of extreme-extraction industries by connecting environmental destruction to human-rights violations. It affirms that climate change, and the extraction techniques that fuel it, directly violate deeply and broadly accepted moral norms encoded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Bearing Witness maps a promising new direction in the ongoing struggle to protect the planet from climate chaos. It tells the story of this landmark case through carefully curated court materials, including searing eye-witness testimony, groundbreaking legal testimony, and the Tribunal’s advisory opinion. Essays by leading climate writers such as Winona LaDuke, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Sandra Steingraber and legal experts such as John Knox, Mary Wood, and Anna Grear give context to the controversy. Framing essays by the editors, experts on climate ethics and human rights, demonstrate that a human-rights focus is a powerful, transformative new tool to address the climate crisis.

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Arrian the Historian

Writing the Greek Past in the Roman Empire

University of Texas Press

The most comprehensive study to date of Arrian of Nicomedia as a historical thinker, this book enriches broader understandings of the way history is written and sheds new light on intellectual culture in the Roman Empire.

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Alabama Politics in the Twenty-First Century

University of Alabama Press

An expansive and accessible primer on Alabama state politics, past and present, which provides an in-depth appreciation and understanding of the twenty-second state’s distinctive political machinery

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A Presidential Civil Service

FDR's Liaison Office for Personnel Management

University of Alabama Press

A masterful account of the founding of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Liaison Office for Personnel Management (LOPM), and his use of LOPM to demonstrate the efficacy of a management-oriented federal civil service over a purely merit-based Civil Service Commission

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The Guise of Exceptionalism

Unmasking the National Narratives of Haiti and the United States

Rutgers University Press

The Guise of Exceptionalism compares the historical origins of Haitian and American exceptionalisms. It also traces how exceptionalism as a narrative of uniqueness has shaped relations between the two countries, from their early days of independence through the contemporary period. As a social invention, it changes over time, but always within the parameters of its original principles.
 

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Robinson Crusoe after 300 Years

Bucknell University Press

This wide-ranging collection brings together eleven scholars who suggest new and unfamiliar ways of thinking about the 1719 publications The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, and who ask us to consider the enduring appeal of “Crusoe,” more recognizable today than ever before.

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Not Your Mother's Mammy

The Black Domestic Worker in Transatlantic Women’s Media

Rutgers University Press

Not Your Mother’s Mammy examines how black artists, mostly women of the diaspora, many of them former domestics, reconstruct the black female subjectivities of domestics in black media. In doing so, they undermine and defamiliarize the reductive, one-dimensional images of black domestics as perpetual victims lacking voice and agency. In line with international movements like #MeToo and #timesup, the women in these stories demand to be heard.

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Not Your Mother's Mammy

The Black Domestic Worker in Transatlantic Women's Media

Rutgers University Press

Not Your Mother’s Mammy examines how black artists, mostly women of the diaspora, many of them former domestics, reconstruct the black female subjectivities of domestics in black media. In doing so, they undermine and defamiliarize the reductive, one-dimensional images of black domestics as perpetual victims lacking voice and agency. In line with international movements like #MeToo and #timesup, the women in these stories demand to be heard.

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Mixed-Race Superheroes

Rutgers University Press

Looking at such iconic heroes as Superman, Spider-Man, and The Hulk, alongside such lesser-studied characters as Valkyrie, Dr. Fate, and Steven Universe, the essays in this collection contend with the multitude of ways that mixed-race identity has been represented in superhero comics, films, television, and literature.

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Mixed-Race Superheroes

Rutgers University Press

Looking at such iconic heroes as Superman, Spider-Man, and The Hulk, alongside such lesser-studied characters as Valkyrie, Dr. Fate, and Steven Universe, the essays in this collection contend with the multitude of ways that mixed-race identity has been represented in superhero comics, films, television, and literature.

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Latin American Literature at the Millennium

Local Lives, Global Spaces

Bucknell University Press

Latin American Literature at the Millennium studies canonical and peripheral literary texts that complicate links between locality and geographical place, revealing new configurations of the local. It explores the region’s transition into the twenty-first century and evaluates Latin American authors’ reconciliation of conflicting forces in their construction of everyday places and modes of belonging.

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From Residency to Retirement

Physicians' Careers over a Professional Lifetime

Rutgers University Press

 From Residency to Retirement tells the stories of twenty American doctors over the last half century, which saw a period of continuous, turbulent, and transformative changes to the U.S. health care system. The cohort’s experiences are reflective of the generation of physicians who came of age as Presidents Carter and Reagan began to focus on costs and benefits of health services.

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From Memory to History

Television Versions of the Twentieth Century

Rutgers University Press

Covering a range of beloved television series from M*A*S*H to Mad Men, this book explores how historical sitcoms and dramas have depicted earlier parts of the twentieth century, while still reflecting the concerns of their own era—including the Vietnam War, civil rights movements, changing gender roles, and technological advancements.

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Freedom’s Ring

Literatures of Liberation from Civil Rights to the Second Wave

Rutgers University Press

Freedom’s Ring examines the debate between “freedom” and “equality” in popular texts from the Black Power, anti-war/ counterculture, and women’s liberation movements of 1960s and 1970s. Its central finding is that although many struggled and died for it in the civil rights era, freedom (e.g., the vote, integrated bus rides, sex without consequences via the Pill) is ultimately free–costing officialdom little if anything to fully implement–while equality (with respect to jobs, salaries, education, housing, and health care) will forever be the much more expensive nut to crack.
 

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Disputing Discipline

Child Protection, Punishment, and Piety in Zanzibar Schools

Rutgers University Press

A visual and poetic exploration into the lives of Zanzibari children who negotiate the intersections of universalized and local children’s rights aspirations, Disputing Discipline shows how anti-corporal punishment programs in schools unintentionally compromise children’s well-being and asserts that children’s views and experiences can and should transform our understanding of child protection policy.

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Chasing the American Dream in China

Chinese Americans in the Ancestral Homeland

Rutgers University Press

Chasing the American Dream in China centers the stories of second-generation Chinese American professionals who “return” to their ancestral homeland to build careers. This book highlights complex issues of ethnic identity and belonging faced by Chinese Americans in both the United States and China as they position themselves as indispensable economic bridges between the world’s two greatest superpowers.

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Calila

The Later Novels of Carmen Martín Gaite

Bucknell University Press

This is the first comprehensive study of the later novels of Spain’s most honored contemporary woman writer. Brown shares unpublished letters and conversations with Carmen Martín Gaite—a dear friend whom she called Calila—to elucidate her last six novels, all of which explore themes that are highly relevant today.

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The Social Life of Standards

Ethnographic Methods for Local Engagement

UBC Press

The Social Life of Standards reveals how political and technical tools for organizing society are developed, applied, subverted, contested, and reassembled as local communities interact with standards created by external forces.

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The Hi Lo Country, 60th Anniversary Edition

By Max Evans; Foreword by Johnny D. Boggs
University of New Mexico Press

At its heart, The Hi Lo Country is the story of the friendship between two men, their mutual love of a woman, and their allegiance to the harsh, dry, achingly beautiful New Mexico high-desert grassland.

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The Government of Natural Resources

Science, Territory, and State Power in Quebec, 1867–1939

By Stéphane Castonguay; Foreword by Graeme Wynn; Translated by Käthe Roth
UBC Press

The Government of Natural Resources is a revealing look at how science can extend state power through territorial and environmental transformations.

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The Feldenkrais Method

Learning Through Movement

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Handspring Publishing
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Regime of Obstruction

How Corporate Power Blocks Energy Democracy

Athabasca University Press

Rapidly rising carbon emissions from the intense development of Western Canada's fossil fuels continue to aggravate the global climate emergency and destabilize democratic structures. This book provides essential context to the climate crisis and will transform discussions of energy democracy.

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New Mexico Food Trails

A Road Tripper's Guide to Hot Chile, Cold Brews, and Classic Dishes from the Land of Enchantment

University of New Mexico Press

New Mexico Food Trails takes readers and road trippers on a tour of the state with their taste buds, through towns large and small, where cooks and chefs are putting their own spin on New Mexico's most famous ingredients and dishes.

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Flames of Extinction

The Race to Save Australia's Threatened Wildlife

Island Press

In the early months of 2020, the world’s attention was riveted on Australia, where the nation’s iconic wildlife fought for survival in the face of unprecedented wildfires. Images of koalas drinking from firefighters’ water bottles went viral and became the global face of a catastrophe that would kill as many as three billion animals. Known as the Black Summer, the fire season was responsible for more wildlife deaths and near-extinctions than any other single event in Australian history. Flames of Extinction, written by a journalist at the heart of this news coverage, is the first book to tell the stories of Australia’s record-setting fires, focusing on the wild animals and plants that will be forever changed. Through evocative and urgent storytelling, Flames of Extinction puts readers on the ground to witness the aftermath of one of Australia’s greatest tragedies and inside the inspiring effort to save lives.

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Cold Latitudes

University of Alaska Press
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The Thing about Florida

Exploring a Misunderstood State

University Press of Florida

Tyler Gillespie takes readers on an exuberant search for the state behind the caricatures, finding Florida’s humanity: a beautiful mix of hopes, dreams, and second chances.

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The Glory Road

A Gospel Gypsy Life

University of Alabama Press

Stories and songs from a childhood spent in a vanished world of revivals and road shows

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The First New Chronicle and Good Government

On the History of the World and the Incas up to 1615

University of Texas Press

An authoritative, annotated English translation from the original manuscript of one of the best sources for understanding the culture of the Incas and the first century of colonial Peru.

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Narratives of Persistence

Indigenous Negotiations of Colonialism in Alta and Baja California

The University of Arizona Press

Narratives of Persistence charts the remarkable persistence of California’s Ohlone and Paipai people over the past five centuries. Lee M. Panich draws connections between the events and processes of the deeper past and the way the Ohlone and Paipai today understand their own histories and identities.

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Life Out of Balance

Homeostasis and Adaptation in a Darwinian World

University of Alabama Press

Traces historical developments in scientific conceptions of physiology, ecology, behavior, and evolutionary biology during the mid-twentieth century
 

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Danzirly

The University of Arizona Press

Danzirly is a stunning bilingual poetry collection that considers multigenerational Latinx identities in the rapidly changing United States. Winner of the Academy of American Poets’ Ambroggio Prize, Gloria Muñoz’s collection is an unforgettable reckoning of the grief and beauty that pulses through twenty-first-century America.

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Rewilding Agricultural Landscapes

A California Study in Rebalancing the Needs of People and Nature

Island Press

As the world population grows, so does the demand for food, putting unprecedented pressure on agricultural lands. In many desert dryland regions, however, intensive cultivation is causing their productivity to decline precipitously. “Rewilding” the least productive of these landscapes offers a sensible way to reverse the damage, recover natural diversity, and ensure long-term sustainability of remaining farms and the communities they support.
 
This accessibly written, groundbreaking contributed volume is the first to examine in detail what it would take to retire eligible farmland and restore functioning natural ecosystems. The lessons in Rewilding Agricultural Landscapes will be useful to conservation leaders, policymakers, groundwater agencies, and water managers looking for inspiration and practical advice for solving the complicated issues of agricultural sustainability and water management.

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Chuj (Mayan) Narratives

Folklore, History, and Ethnography from Northwestern Guatemala

University Press of Colorado

In Chuj (Mayan) Narratives, Nicholas Hopkins analyzes six narratives that illustrate the breadth of the Chuj storytelling tradition, from ancient mythology to current events and from intimate tales of local affairs to borrowed stories, such as an adaptation of Oedipus Rex.

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