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Opulent Nosh

A Cookbook for Audacious Appetites

University of Alabama Press

Foodie-scholar extraordinaire Ken Albala offers adventurous cooks a treasury of innovative recipes to transform noshing

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Into the Unknown

High Adventure and Hard Lessons Exploring the World’s Great, Lost Wilderness Rivers

University of New Mexico Press
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The Joyce of Everyday Life

Bucknell University Press

Through a close examination of Joyce’s joyous, musical prose, Vicki Mahaffey shows how language provides us with a means of revitalizing daily experience and social interactions across a huge, diverse, everchanging world. A book for everyone who loves words, The Joyce of Everyday Life is a lyrical romp through quotidian existence.

 

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The De Soto Chronicles Vol 1

The Expedition of Hernando de Soto to North America in 1539-1543

University of Alabama Press

“For those interested in De Soto and his expedition, these volumes are an absolute necessity.” —The Hispanic American Historical Review

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The Bravest Pets of Gotham

Tales of Four-Legged Firefighters of Old New York

Rutgers University Press

The Bravest Pets of Gotham takes readers on a fun historical tour of Old New York, sharing more than 100 touching, thrilling and amusing stories about the bond between FDNY firefighters and their four-legged friends. You’ll meet countless brave and intelligent firehouse pets, from horses, dogs, and cats to monkeys and goats. 
 

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Singular Sensations

A Cultural History of One-Panel Comics in the United States

Rutgers University Press

Michelle Ann Abate examines what The Family CircusZiggy, and The Far Side all have in common—they’re single-panel comics, a seemingly simple form that presents cartoonists with a wide range of possibilities. Covering everything from nineteenth-century political cartoons to twenty-first-century web comics, she reveals their complexity, artistry, and influence.  

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Reel Kabbalah

Jewish Mysticism and Neo-Hasidism in Contemporary Cinema

Rutgers University Press

Reel Kabbalah studies representations of esoteric Jewish conceptual traditions known as Kabbalah and Hasidism in five important fictional films from the first decade of the twenty-first century.  The book considers how film both stands in continuity with those traditions and modifies them in the New Age, often mystical vein of what is known as neo-Kabbalah and neo-Hasidism.

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Performing the News

Identity, Authority, and the Myth of Neutrality

Rutgers University Press

Performing The News: Identity, Authority, & the Myth of Neutrality explores how journalists from historically marginalized groups have felt pressure to conform when performing for audiences and are increasingly challenging restrictive, supposedly neutral forms of self-presentation. Through in-depth interviews, this book suggests ways to make journalism more inclusive and representative of diverse audiences

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Moonlight Elk

One Woman's Hunt for Food and Freedom

University of New Mexico Press, High Road Books
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