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Surinamese Music in the Netherlands and Suriname

By Marcel Weltak; Translated by Scott Rollins
University Press of Mississippi

Available in English for the first time, the integral and only book on all the music of a most diverse nation

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Robert Kirkman

Conversations

University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews with the comics fan-turned-creator best known for The Walking Dead andInvincible

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Rebirth of the English Comic Strip

A Kaleidoscope, 1847-1870

University Press of Mississippi

A master scholar’s thorough study of the neglected but vital age in which the term “cartoon” was coined

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One Grand Noise

Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World

University Press of Mississippi

The first comprehensive study of how Boxing Day is celebrated across the Caribbean

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New York City Blues

Postwar Portraits from Harlem to the Village and Beyond

By Larry Simon; Edited by John Broven; Photographs by Robert Schaffer
University Press of Mississippi

A lively and detailed exploration of the history of the blues from the 1940s to the 1990s in the City That Never Sleeps

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In Search of Ancient Kings

Egúngún in Brazil

University Press of Mississippi

A firsthand account of the secretive Egúngún society from a scholar who would become a priest in the religion

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Conversations with Angela Davis

University Press of Mississippi

Collected interviews with an influential educator, scholar, and activist, who is one of the most recognizable and iconic figures of the twentieth century

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Alain Resnais

Interviews

Edited by Lynn A. Higgins
University Press of Mississippi

A collection of twenty-one interviews with the French filmmaker of award-winning documentaries like Van Gogh and Night and Fog and groundbreaking dramas like Hiroshima mon amour, Last Year at Marienbad, and Muriel

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Monsters and Monarchs

Serial Killers in Classical Myth and History

University of Texas Press

This captivating study uses stories from classical antiquity to show that serial killers were almost as prevalent in ancient society as they are today, challenging the belief that such killers are an artifact of modern society.

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Egypt’s Football Revolution

Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics

University of Texas Press

A detailed account of the entanglement of Egyptian football with surging nationalist politics as the sport’s appeal waxed and waned before and after the 2011 Revolution.

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Celebrity Across the Channel, 1750–1850

University of Delaware Press

Scholars often focus on the period from 1750 to 1850 as the birth of “celebrity”, but this volume is the first to offer a sustained comparative study of celebrity in Britain and France during this period. Through a series of national and international case studies bringing together the fields of history, politics, literature, theater studies, and musicology, it unearths how celebrity was developed, theorized, and consumed on either side of the Channel.

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Celebrity Across the Channel, 1750–1850

University of Delaware Press

Scholars often focus on the period from 1750 to 1850 as the birth of “celebrity”, but this volume is the first to offer a sustained comparative study of celebrity in Britain and France during this period. Through a series of national and international case studies bringing together the fields of history, politics, literature, theater studies, and musicology, it unearths how celebrity was developed, theorized, and consumed on either side of the Channel.

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The Teacher's Introduction to Pathological Demand Avoidance

Essential Strategies for the Classroom

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

This useful guide provides practical strategies to support teachers and learning support assistants working with children with pathological demand avoidance syndrome. It outlines ways to adopt a child-led approach to learning and assessment to engage and collaborate with pupils.

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The Amazing Autistic Brain Cards

150 Cards with Strengths and Challenges for Positive Autism Discussions

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

A set of cards to help children and teens recently diagnosed with autism to characterise and understand their diagnosis in a positive light. Comprising strengths and differences, with blank cards to be tailored to each individual, these cards can be used by practitioners to facilitate discussions with patients and families.

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He's My Mom!

A Story for Children Who Have a Transgender Parent or Relative

By Sarah Savage; Illustrated by Joules Garcia
Jessica Kingsley Publishers

An empowering picture book for 3 to 7 year olds about transgender parents and family diversity

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ABC of Gender Identity

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

An A-Z of gender identities for kids age 5+ to help educate young readers on gender diversity.

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The Politics of Patronage

Lawyers, Philanthropy, and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund

University of Texas Press

The first book about the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the influential work it has done for the Latina/o community, and the issues stemming from its dependence on large philanthropic organizations.

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Surviving Mexico

Resistance and Resilience among Journalists in the Twenty-first Century

University of Texas Press

A rigorously researched study shows how Mexican organized crime enjoys the protection of government officials, and some media companies, while individual journalists and their allies try to safeguard themselves and those willing to expose corruption and c

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People Power

History, Organizing, and Larry Goodwyn's Democratic Vision in the Twenty-First Century

University Press of Florida

Featuring contributions from leading scholar-activists, this book demonstrates how the lessons of history can inform the building of new social justice movements today.

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Hollywood Shutdown

Production, Distribution, and Exhibition in the Time of COVID

University of Texas Press

A concise and timely analysis of the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on film and television production, distribution, and exhibition in the first nine months of 2020.

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U.S. Power in International Higher Education

Edited by Jenny J. Lee
Rutgers University Press

U.S. Power in International Higher Education demonstrates the advantage that the United States has in international higher education by presenting broad trends as well as in-depth accounts about how power is evident across a range of international activities.

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U.S. Power in International Higher Education

Edited by Jenny J. Lee
Rutgers University Press

U.S. Power in International Higher Education demonstrates the advantage that the United States has in international higher education by presenting broad trends as well as in-depth accounts about how power is evident across a range of international activities.

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The Red Thread

The Passaic Textile Strike

Rutgers University Press

This book tells the story of how the Passaic textile strike, the first time that the Communist Party led a mass workers’ struggle in the United States, captured the nation’s imagination, and came to symbolize the struggle of workers throughout the country when the labor movement as a whole was in decline during the conservative, pro-business 1920s. Although the strike was defeated, many of the methods and tactics of the Passaic strike presaged the struggles for industrial unions a decade later during the Great Depression.

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The Philadelphia Irish

Nation, Culture, and the Rise of a Gaelic Public Sphere

Rutgers University Press

This monograph describes the flowering of the Irish American community and the 1890s growth of a Gaelic public sphere in Philadelphia, a movement inspired by the cultural awakening in native Ireland, transplanted in Philadelphia’s robust Irish community. The Philadelphia Irish embraced this export of cultural nationalism, reveled in Gaelic symbols, and endorsed the Gaelic language, political nationalism, Celtic paramilitarism, Gaelic sport and a broad ethnic culture.

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The Cinema of Rithy Panh

Everything Has a Soul

Rutgers University Press

The essays in this groundbreaking collection examine how celebrated Cambodian director Rithy Panh counters the abstraction of mass violence with a  cinema anchored in the body, the physical trace, the direct testimony, and the living landscape. They explore his unique aesthetic sensibility, examining the dynamic and sensuous images through which he suggests that “everything has a soul.”

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The Cinema of Rithy Panh

Everything Has a Soul

Rutgers University Press

The essays in this groundbreaking collection examine how celebrated Cambodian director Rithy Panh counters the abstraction of mass violence with a  cinema anchored in the body, the physical trace, the direct testimony, and the living landscape. They explore his unique aesthetic sensibility, examining the dynamic and sensuous images through which he suggests that “everything has a soul.”

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Shades of Springsteen

Politics, Love, Sports, and Masculinity

Rutgers University Press

In this unique blend of memoir and musical analysis, John Massaro focuses on five of Springsteen’s main themes: love, masculinity, sports, politics, and the power of music. He draws exciting connections between the Jersey rocker’s lyrics, his own life stories, and historical, literary, and musical figures ranging from James Joyce to Lin-Manuel Miranda.

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Intimate Inequalities

Millennials' Romantic Relationships in Contemporary Times

Rutgers University Press

Though stereotypes abound, we know surprisingly little about how U.S. American millennials deal with social inequalities and differences in their private lives. Intimate Inequalities uses stories from millennials themselves to explore how they navigate gender, race, social class, sexuality, and age identities and expectations in their relationships.

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Electric Mountains

Climate, Power, and Justice in an Energy Transition

Rutgers University Press

Electric Mountains examines opposition to wind energy in an environmentally progressive region. It contextualizes opposition within regional culture and political economy and uses environmental sociology to illuminate wind energy’s contested role in transitioning North America’s electricity grid away from fossil fuels.

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Cyberwars in the Middle East

Rutgers University Press

Cyberwars in the Middle East argues that offline political tensions in the Middle East that are sometimes sectarian and regional in nature play a vital role in enhancing the cyber operations and hacking attempts that frequently occur. These cyber operations are often used for espionage and/or undermining the authority and credibility of governments, changing their policies, or causing economic damage. Author Ahmed Al-Rawi explores different types of cyber operations and many hacktivists and hacking groups that are active in the region. He looks at how they are connected to globalization and how some are linked to or clash with global hacktivist groups.

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Becoming Gods

Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals

Rutgers University Press

Becoming Gods is a vivid ethnography of how a cohort of doctors-in-training in the Mexican city of Puebla learn to become doctors. It illustrates the messy, complex, and nuanced nature of medical training, where trainees not only have to acquire a monumental number of skills but do so against a backdrop of strict hospital hierarchy and a crumbling national medical system that deeply shape who they are.

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At Ansha's

Life in the Spirit Mosque of a Healer in Mozambique

Rutgers University Press

At Ansha's takes the reader inside the spirit mosque of a female healer in Nampula, northern Mozambique. It is here that Ansha, a Makonde spirit healer, cures the resisting ailments of her patients, discloses pieces of her story of affliction and healing, and engages the borders of her world.
 

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Apocalypse Cinema

Rutgers University Press

Covering such films as MetropolisDr. StrangeloveContagion, and Avengers: Endgame, this book provides a lively overview of apocalypse cinema, including alien invasion movies, nuclear annihilation stories, and films where nature itself threatens humanity through climate change or deadly diseases.

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Writing the Hamat'sa

Ethnography, Colonialism, and the Cannibal Dance

UBC Press

Writing the Hamat̓sa critically surveys more than two centuries worth of published, archival, and oral sources to trace the attempted prohibition, intercultural mediation, and ultimate survival of one of Canada’s most iconic Indigenous ceremonies.

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Navajo Women of Monument Valley

Preservers of the Past

University Press of Colorado
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Peoples of the Middle Gila

A Documentary History of the Pimas and Maricopas 1500s–1945

Gila River Indian Community

This second edition in the Gila River Indian Community Anthropological Research Papers series by John P. Wilson provides a narrative history of the Akimel O'Odham and Pee Posh peoples who lived along the middle Gila River in south central Arizona. This updated edition includes expanded and updated tabular data that we wanted to make available to our readers.

The manuscript covers the period between AD 1694 and 1945 for which written documentation exists, and is largely based on descriptions that were recorded by explorers, missionaries, soldiers, settlers, and others who traveled through the area. The document is an essential reference for the historic period in southern Arizona, and considerable information is compiled in this book that has previously been unavailable elsewhere.
 

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The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights

University of Texas Press

A thought-provoking study traces the origins of human rights beyond the Enlightenment to the evolution of humane discourse and empathetic thought in Ancient Greece.

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Razabilly

Transforming Sights, Sounds, and History in the Los Angeles Latina/o Rockabilly Scene

University of Texas Press

An engrossing deep dive into the sights, sounds, and sensibilities of the Latina/o Rockabilly scene in Los Angeles, its ties to working-class communities, and its dissemination through the post-NAFTA global landscape.

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Earth Politics and Intangible Heritage

Three Case Studies in the Americas

University Press of Florida

Focusing on three communities in the Americas, this book layers archaeological research with oral narratives and social memories, demonstrating a way of reconciling the tension between Western scientific and local Indigenous approaches to history.

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