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Language and Meaning

Buddhist Interpretations of the “Buddha’s Word” in Indian and East Asian Perspectives

Institute of Buddhist Studies
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From Grassroots Activism to Disinformation

Social Media in Southeast Asia

ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
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Children of the Postcolony

Filipino Intellectuals and Decolonization, 1946–1972

Ateneo De Manila, Ateneo De Manila Univ Press
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Biyaheng Pinoy

A Mindanao Travelogue

Ateneo De Manila, Ateneo De Manila Univ Press
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Asia's Transformation

From Economic Globalization to Regionalization

ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
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A Monastery on the Move

Art and Politics in Later Buddhist Mongolia

University of Hawaii Press
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Hands in Health Care

Massage Therapy for the Adult Hospital Patient

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Handspring Publishing
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The Sacred Language of the Abakuá

University Press of Mississippi

The first English-language translation and extensive notation of a seminal work from the African diaspora

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Racial Terrorism

A Rhetorical Investigation of Lynching

University Press of Mississippi

How the Equal Justice Initiative, the Legacy Museum, and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice confront racial violence in America

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Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture

University Press of Mississippi

A new perspective on an explosively popular subgenre of young adult media

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New York and the International Sound of Latin Music, 1940-1990

University Press of Mississippi

An assessment, celebration, and careful notation of the extraordinary melting pot of Latin music

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Kasi Lemmons

Interviews

University Press of Mississippi

Fifteen interviews that illuminate Lemmons’s distinctive ability to challenge social expectations through film and actualize stories that broaden expectations of cinematic Black femaleness and maleness

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Conversations with Lorraine Hansberry

Edited by Mollie Godfrey
University Press of Mississippi

The first volume to collect all of Hansberry’s substantive interviews in one place, including many radio and television interviews that have never before appeared in print

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Conversations with Dana Gioia

Edited by John Zheng
University Press of Mississippi

The first collection of interviews with the internationally known poet and public intellectual

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Breaking the Blockade

The Bahamas during the Civil War

University Press of Mississippi

A book-length study of the often unexplored great carnival of the Civil War

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The Nightcrawler King

Memoirs of an Art Museum Curator

University Press of Mississippi

A moving and fun account of the man who influenced fifty years of growth at the New Orleans Museum of Art

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Building a Trauma-Informed Restorative School

Skills and Approaches for Improving Culture and Behavior

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Everything educators need to know about developing trauma-informed restorative practices in their education settings. Includes the theory and philosophy of restorative approaches and being trauma-informed, the five restorative skills, and how these can be put into practice. All strategies are appropriate for those who have experienced trauma.

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The Genealogical Sublime

University of Massachusetts Press
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Sylvia and Marsha Start a Revolution!

The Story of the Trans Women of Color Who Made LGBTQ+ History

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

A picture book about the trans women of colour who started an LGBTQ+ revolution.

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Thoreau beyond Borders

New International Essays on America's Most Famous Nature Writer

University of Massachusetts Press
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The Complexity of Evil

Perpetration and Genocide

Rutgers University Press

Why do people participate in genocide? Timothy Williams presents an interdisciplinary model that shows how complex and diverse, but also how ordinary and mundane most motivations for participating in genocide are. The book draws on empirical examples from the Holocaust and Rwanda, and introduces new data from interviews with perpetrators of genocide in Cambodia.

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Streetwalking

LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic

Rutgers University Press

In Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic, Lara draws on ethnographic encounters, interviews, films, and videos to discuss the specific strategies employed by LGBTQ community leaders in the Dominican Republic in the exercise of streetwalker subjectivities as those who actively transform silence - verbal, bodily, spiritual - into power.

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Out of Print

Mediating Information in the Novel and the Book

University of Massachusetts Press
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Oriental Networks

Culture, Commerce, and Communication in the Long Eighteenth Century

Bucknell University Press

Oriental Networks explores forms of interconnectedness between Western and Eastern hemispheres during the long eighteenth century. Contributors discuss relationships between individuals and institutions as precursors to modern networks as they facilitated the exchange of cultural commodities (plants, animals, and artifacts), practices, and ideas. Highlighting ambiguities and unexpected outcomes of networking, the volume adds historical perspective to our understanding of globalization.

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Oriental Networks

Culture, Commerce, and Communication in the Long Eighteenth Century

Bucknell University Press

Oriental Networks explores forms of interconnectedness between Western and Eastern hemispheres during the long eighteenth century. Contributors discuss relationships between individuals and institutions as precursors to modern networks as they facilitated the exchange of cultural commodities (plants, animals, and artifacts), practices, and ideas. Highlighting ambiguities and unexpected outcomes of networking, the volume adds historical perspective to our understanding of globalization.

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Hemispheres and Stratospheres

The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment

Edited by Kevin L. Cope
Bucknell University Press

Hemispheres and Stratospheres offers eight essays that address the art, literature, science, and politics of distance during the long eighteenth century. This volume celebrates the intercontinental expansiveness of Enlightenment distance culture—a culture that continues to encourage modern pursuits such as space travel, tourism, telecommunication, multiculturalism, and international research collaboration.

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Hemispheres and Stratospheres

The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment

Edited by Kevin L. Cope
Bucknell University Press

Hemispheres and Stratospheres offers eight essays that address the art, literature, science, and politics of distance during the long eighteenth century. This volume celebrates the intercontinental expansiveness of Enlightenment distance culture—a culture that continues to encourage modern pursuits such as space travel, tourism, telecommunication, multiculturalism, and international research collaboration.

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Forever Struggle

Activism, Identity, and Survival in Boston's Chinatown, 1880–2018

University of Massachusetts Press
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Fictional Blues

Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White

University of Massachusetts Press
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Drag Queens and Beauty Queens

Contesting Femininity in the World's Playground

Rutgers University Press

Drag Queens and Beauty Queens compares two events that take place every year in Atlantic City: the Miss America pageant and the Miss’d America drag pageant. Examining how femininity is performed at each, it also describes Miss’d America’s ongoing importance to the local gay community from the AIDS crisis to the Rupaul’s Drag Race era.

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Caribbean Migrations

The Legacies of Colonialism

Rutgers University Press

The Caribbean has long been a key area for empires warring over influence spheres, and where migration waves from Africa, Europe, and Asia accompanied every political transformation. In this volume, an interdisciplinary group of scholars studies the Caribbean’s “unincorporated subjects”, and explores how against all odds, Caribbean artists, filmmakers, and writers have been resourceful at showcasing migration as the hallmark of our modern age.
 

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Bio-Imperialism

Disease, Terror, and the Construction of National Fragility

Rutgers University Press

Bio-Imperialism critiques an understudied dimension of the war on terror—US focus on bioterror and germ threats. The book examines the post-9/11 mobilization of bioscience and public health fields to this effort, alongside narratives of Arab/Muslim terror, US vulnerability, white femininity, techno-scientific progress, and pandemic preparedness. The book argues that the US significantly advanced its global control over biological, medical, and health resources during the war on terror.

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Association and Enlightenment

Scottish Clubs and Societies, 1700-1830

Bucknell University Press

Association and Enlightenment focuses on the distinctive and complex history of clubs and societies in Scotland from 1700 to 1830. This edited volume offers a new approach to their history, bringing together the polite culture of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment with the broader context of associational patterns common to Britain, Ireland, and beyond.

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Alternative Realities

Rutgers University Press

Alternative Realities explores how the distinctions between cinematic fantasy and filmic realism are more porous than we might think by examining the emotional realism of superhero movies like Wonder Woman, the trickery of virtual reality movies like The Matrix, and the ironic gestures of mockumentaries like This is Spinal Tap.

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Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland

Memory, Kinship, and Personhood

Rutgers University Press

In Poland, active aging programs both take on meanings associated with the country’s transition from socialism to capitalism and exceed such narratives of progress by resonating with older forms of activity in late life. Through intimate portrayals of a wide range of experiences of aging, Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland shows how everyday practices and shared ideas about the Polish nation offer possibilities for living a valued, meaningful life in old age.
 

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Acts of Repair

Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina

Rutgers University Press

Acts of Repair explores how ordinary people grapple with decades of political violence and genocide in Argentina--a history that includes the Holocaust, the political repression of the 1976-1983 dictatorship, and the 1994 AMIA bombing.

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Sorcery in Mesoamerica

University Press of Colorado

Approaching sorcery as highly rational and rooted in significant social and cultural values, Sorcery in Mesoamerica examines and reconstructs the original indigenous logic behind it, analyzing manifestations from the Classic Maya to the ethnographic present.

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Theatre History Studies 2020, Vol. 39

University of Alabama Press

Theatre History Studies (THS) is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America Theatre Conference

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The Wake of the Unseen Object

Travels through Alaska's Native Landscapes

University of Alaska Press
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The Clan of the Flapdragon and Other Adventures in Etymology by B. M. W. Schrapnel, Ph.D.

University of Alabama Press

This potpourri of satire on language use in Western culture will trigger chuckles and guffaws from an eclectic readership
 

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Struggle for Justice

Four Decades of Civil Rights Photography

University of Texas Press

Struggle for Justice celebrates the legacy of the photographers who helped galvanize public support for the civil rights movement, often at great personal risk.

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Stanley Kubrick Produces

Rutgers University Press

Stanley Kubrick Produces examines Kubrick’s role as a producer. With the use of neglected archival sources, the book makes the case for how Kubrick’s centralizing of power in his role as a producer became a self-defeating strategy by the 1980s and 1990s, one that led him to struggle to move projects out of development and into active production.
 

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Southern Churches in Crisis Revisited

University of Alabama Press

Hill’s landmark work in southern religious history returns to print updated and expanded – and compellingly relevant

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Kalima wa Nagham

A Textbook for Teaching Arabic, Volume 1

University of Texas Press

This introductory level textbook presents an innovative Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL) curriculum that uses dialogues and songs to enhance language learning and build cultural awareness.

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Gangs of the El Paso–Juárez Borderland

A History

University of New Mexico Press

This thought-provoking book examines gang history in the region encompassing West Texas, Southern New Mexico, and Northern Chihuahua, Mexico.

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Dixie's Great War

World War I and the American South

Edited by John Giggie and Andrew Huebner; Afterword by Jay M. Winter
University of Alabama Press

Examining the First World War through the lens of the American South

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Colonial Kinship

Guaraní, Spaniards, and Africans in Paraguay

University of New Mexico Press

In Colonial Kinship: Guaraní, Spaniards, and Africans in Paraguay, historian Shawn Michael Austin traces the history of conquest and colonization in Paraguay during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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