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Rural Renaissance

Revitalizing America’s Hometowns through Clean Power

Island Press

For decades, we’ve heard that local, renewable power is on the horizon, and that cheaper technologies will revolutionize our energy system. Michelle Moore has spent her career proving that this opportunity is already here—and that any community, no matter how small, can build their own clean energy future. In Rural Renaissance, Moore describes five pathways to clean power in rural America and strategies for building it, including energy efficiency, renewable power, resilience (including microgrids and battery storage), the electrification of transportation, and finally, broadband internet. This accessible guide offers a vision of thriving rural communities where clean power is the spark that leads to greater investment, vitality, and equity.

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Healthcare in Latin America

History, Society, Culture

University of Florida Press
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Benefit Street

A Novel

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

Winner of FC2’s Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize
 
A universal story of exile, of the refugee and emigrant, and of all those displaced who can reconstruct a sense of home only by weaving a new fabric of the imagination
 

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A Century of Brazilian Documentary Film

From Nationalism to Protest

University of Texas Press

The first comprehensive study of Brazilian documentary filmmaking, offering a sweeping look at more than a century of cinematic journalism, propaganda, and artistry.

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Toward an Anti-Capitalist Composition

Utah State University Press

In Toward an Anti-Capitalist Composition, James Rushing Daniel argues that capitalism is eminently responsible for the entangled catastrophes of the twenty-first century—precarity, economic and racial inequality, the decline of democratic culture, and climate change—and that it must accordingly become a central focus in the teaching of writing.

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The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds

Poems

University of New Mexico Press

The poems in The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds expand the sacred within a baroque, magical-realist poetics that immerses itself in the flora and fauna of the Caribbean and the region's complex interplay of African, Judeo-Christian, and Taíno (Arawak) cultures.

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The Birds of Vancouver Island’s West Coast

UBC Press, On Point Press

A detailed account of the 360 species of birds recorded on the wild west coast of Vancouver Island and its offshore waters.

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Reflections through the Convex Mirror of Time / Reflexiones tras el Espejo Convexo del Tiempo

Poems in Remembrance of the Spanish Civil War / Poemas en Recuerdo de la Guerra Civil Española

By E.A. Mares; Prologue by Enrique R. Lamadrid; Introduction by Fernando Martín Pescador; Epilogue by Susana Rivera
University of New Mexico Press

In this poignant bilingual collection, preeminent New Mexican poet E. A. "Tony" Mares posthumously shares his passionate journey into the broken heart and glimmering shadows of the Spanish Civil War, whose shock waves still resonate with the political upheavals of our own times.

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After Dark

The Nocturnal Urban Landscape and Lightscape of Ancient Cities

University Press of Colorado

After Darkexplores the experience of nighttime within ancient urban settings.

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A Cooperative Disagreement

Canada-United States Relations and Revolutionary Cuba, 1959–93

UBC Press

Agree to disagree? A Cooperative Disagreement demonstrates how Canada and the United States – neighbours by geography and close allies by design – successfully kept their differences over revolutionary Cuba from permanently damaging their relationship.

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"A Marvelous Work"

Reading Mormonism in West Africa

Utah State University Press, Utah State Special Collection
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Wrecked

Deinstitutionalization and Partial Defenses in State Higher Education Policy

Rutgers University Press

The changing politics of the Right place it on a collision course with higher education. These political forces support a policy agenda of deinstitutionalization, in which Republican officials both slash funding for and undermine trust in public higher education. Campus leaders respond with partial defenses that provide short-term relief without addressing underlying mistrust. Wrecked traces the disastrous collision between the Right and higher education resulting from these politics, policies and practices.
 

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Taking Sides in Revolutionary New Jersey

Caught in the Crossfire

Rutgers University Press

The American Revolution in New Jersey lasted eight long years, during which many were caught in the middle of a vicious civil war. Taking Sides uses numerous brief biographies to illustrate the American Revolution’s complexity; it quotes from documents, pamphlets, diaries, letters, and poetry, a variety of sources to provide insight into the thoughts and reactions of those living through it all.

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Shattered Justice

Crime Victims' Experiences with Wrongful Convictions and Exonerations

Rutgers University Press

Shattered Justice presents original crime victims’ experiences with violent crime, investigations and trials, and later exonerations in their cases. Cook reveals how homicide victims’ family members and rape survivors describe the painful impact of the primary trauma, the secondary trauma of the investigations and trials, and then the tertiary trauma associated with wrongful convictions and exonerations. 

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Money and Materiality in the Golden Age of Graphic Satire

University of Delaware Press

This book examines the entwined and simultaneous rise of graphic satire and cultures of paper money in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain, capturing the difficult and uncertain cultural process of attaching value to printed paper as a medium.

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Mad River, Marjorie Rowland, and the Quest for LGBTQ Teachers’ Rights

Rutgers University Press

In the first in-depth treatment of the foundational legal case Marjorie Rowland v. Mad River School District, authors Margaret A. Nash and Karen L. Graves tell the story of that case and of Marjorie Rowland, the pioneer who fought for employment rights for LGBTQ educators and who paid a heavy price for that fight. It brings the story of LGBTQ educators’ rights to the present, including commentary on Bostock v Clayton County, the 2020 Supreme Court case that struck down employment discrimination against LGBT workers.

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German Ways of War

The Affective Geographies and Generic Transformations of German War Films

Rutgers University Press

German Ways of War explores the production of novel spaces and evocation of new affects in the war-film genre between the 1910s and 2000s. Beyond the conventional pairing of visuality and violence, war films combine mobility, landscape, territory, scales, and topological networks into “affective geographies” that interweave narratively-generated affect, space, and political processes.
 

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Day of the Dead in the USA, Second Edition

The Migration and Transformation of a Cultural Phenomenon

Rutgers University Press

Examining the influence of media, commercialization and globalization on the growth and transformation of Day of the Dead celebrations in the US, Regina Marchi combines ethnography, oral history and critical cultural analysis to provide insights into the power of cultural hybridity and invented traditions to communicate about identity, history and politics.
 

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Dante in Deutschland

An Itinerary of Romantic Myth

Bucknell University Press

Around 1800, German Romantics fixated on Dante’s Divine Comedy as a model for the creation of a new mythology of reason. This book traces that fixation across Romantic and Neo-Romantic texts, showing how the Romantic Dante cult in fact generated ominous amalgams of art, myth, and fascism in the twentieth century.

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Authentically Jewish

Identity, Culture, and the Struggle for Recognition

Rutgers University Press

How do you know when someone or something is really, authentically Jewish?  This book argues that what is authentically Jewish is continually changing in response to historical and cultural developments, the shifting attributions of meaning that individuals make, and the negotiations that occur as different groups struggle for recognition.
 

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The Preventorium

A Memoir

University Press of Mississippi

A fascinating and personal history of children’s public health in the US

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The Continuing Storm

Learning from Katrina

University of Texas Press

This final volume in the award-winning Katrina Bookshelf series reflects upon the lessons of Hurricane Katrina and what they reveal about our society and current cultural climate.

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Native and Ornamental Conifers in the Pacific Northwest

Identification, Botany and Natural History

Oregon State University Press

Most conifer guides available for the Pacific Northwest focus on native species observed in the wild. Native and Ornamental Conifers in the Pacific Northwest presents an integrated perspective for understanding and identifying conifers in any landscape where native and ornamental species grow alongside each other. It is suitable for landscape designers, horticulturalists, arborists, gardeners, environmental scientists, and botanists.

Based on her experiences teaching workshops on conifer identification and cultivation, Elizabeth Price has developed Jargon-free photographic charts, which allow for side-by-side comparison of conifer features and guide the reader to species identification. The charts are detailed enough for specialists yet accessible to amateurs.

The book includes extensive material on the characteristics, botany, and natural history of conifer plant families, genera, and species, all illustrated with original photographs. Research across many disciplines is blended with direct observation and personal experience, creating a book that goes beyond identification and is both rigorous and engaging.

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Unveiling Pachacamac

New Hypotheses for an Old Andean Sanctuary

University Press of Florida
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Maurice Samuel

Life and Letters of a Secular Jewish Contrarian

University of Alabama Press

An intellectual biography that reassesses one of the premier Jewish humanists of the mid-twentieth century
 

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Manatee Insanity

Inside the War over Florida's Most Famous Endangered Species

University Press of Florida
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Ascension

A Novel

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

A visually stunning narrative of three eras in humankind’s vexed relationship with nature
 

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An Archaeologist's Guide to Organic Residues in Pottery

University of Alabama Press

A guide for mastering the technical specialty of organic residue analysis of pottery
 

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