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Voices of Play

Miskitu Children's Speech and Song on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua

The University of Arizona Press

Voices of Play is an ethnography of multilingual play and performance among indigenous Miskitu children growing up in a diverse region of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua. Minks reveals the intertwining of speech and song and the emergence of self and other in a mobile, mixed indigenous community.

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Univision, Telemundo, and the Rise of Spanish-Language Television in the United States

University of Florida Press

In the first history of Spanish-language television in the United States, Craig Allen traces the development of two prominent yet little-studied powerhouses, Univision and Telemundo. Allen tells the inside story of how these networks fought enormous odds to rise as giants of mass communication, questioning monolingual and Anglo-centered versions of U.S. television history.

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Ungrading

Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead)

Edited by Susan D. Blum; Foreword by Alfie Kohn
West Virginia University Press
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The Poetics of Processing

Memory Formation, Identity, and the Handling of the Dead

University Press of Colorado

The Poetics of Processing combines social theory and bioarchaeology to examine how the living manipulate the bodies of the dead for social purposes.

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The Opioid Epidemic and US Culture

Expression, Art, and Politics in an Age of Addiction

West Virginia University Press
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The House of the Cylinder Jars

Room 28 in Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon

University of New Mexico Press

The House of the Cylinder Jars documents the re-excavation of Room 28, and places it within the context of other rooms at Pueblo Bonito, and describes the ritual termination by fire of the materials stored in the room.

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Sixteen Teachers Teaching

Two-Year College Perspectives

Utah State University Press

Sixteen Teachers Teaching is a warmly personal, full-access tour into the classrooms and teaching practices of sixteen distinguished two-year college English professors.

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Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American Great Plains

University Press of Colorado

In Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American Great Plains Kathleen Bolling Lowrey provides an innovative and expansive study of indigenous shamanism and the ways in which it has been misinterpreted and dismissed by white settlers, NGO workers, policymakers, government administrators, and historians and anthropologists.

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Richard S. Buswell

Fifty Years of Photography

University of New Mexico Press

The photographs in Richard S. Buswell: Fifty Years of Photography illustrate the range and variety of his work from his earliest days to his most recent projects.

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Postmodernism of Resistance in Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction and Poetry

University of New Mexico Press

Postmodernism of Resistance in Roberto Bolaño's Fiction and Poetry examines the ways in which Bolaño employs a type of literary aesthetics that subverts traits traditionally associated with postmodernism.

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Once Upon a Time in the Twenty-First Century

Unexpected Exercises in Creative Writing

Edited by Robin Behn; Introduction by Robin Behn
University of Alabama Press

Fun and innovative exercises and prompts for creative writing students

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Mapping Identity

The Creation of the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation, 1805-1902

University Press of Colorado

Mapping Identity traces the formation of the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation in northern Idaho from the introduction of the Jesuit notion of "reduction" in the 1840s to the finalization of reservation boundaries in the 1890s. Using Indian Agency records, congressional documents, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) records, Jesuit missionary reports, and tribal accounts, historian Laura Woodworth-Ney argues that the reservation-making process for the Coeur d'Alenes reflected more than just BIA policy objectives.

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Joaquín Ortega

Forging Pan-Americanism at the University of New Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

In this important work Russ Davidson presents the first biography of Joaquín Ortega, introducing readers to Ortega's life and work at the University of New Mexico as well as his close relationship with then UNM president James Zimmerman and other major figures.

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Haunting Without Ghosts

Spectral Realism in Colombian Literature, Film, and Art

University of Texas Press

An ambitious critical account of "spectral realism," a new, politically charged strain of literature, film, and art that responds to Colombia's drug wars, paramilitary violence, and resulting demands for justice.

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Decolonizing Indigenous Histories

Exploring Prehistoric/Colonial Transitions in Archaeology

The University of Arizona Press

This leading-edge volume explores how the inclusion of indigenous histories in analyses of colonialism, collaboration with contemporary communities and scholars across the subfields of anthropology, and the engagement with these histories and with indigenous peoples contributes constructively to the decolonization of archaeology as well as to broader projects of social justice.

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Black or Right

Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics

Utah State University Press

Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics explores notions of Blackness in white institutional—particularly educational—spaces.

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Big Data Surveillance and Security Intelligence

The Canadian Case

UBC Press

In a critical analysis of the profound shift to big data practices among intelligence agencies, Big Data Surveillance and Security Intelligence highlights the challenges for civil liberties, human rights, and privacy protection.

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The Buddhist Self

On Tathāgatagarbha and Ātman

University of Hawaii Press
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Spreading Protestant Modernity

Global Perspectives on the Social Work of the YMCA and YWCA, 1889–1970

University of Hawaii Press
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Moral Foods

The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia

University of Hawaii Press
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Integrated Korean Workbook

Accelerated 2

University of Hawaii Press
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Integrated Korean

Accelerated 2

University of Hawaii Press
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European Dream and Reluctant Integration in the 21st Century

Lessons for Ongoing Asian Regionalism

National Taiwan University Press
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Declarations of the Perfected

Part Two: Instructions on Shaping Destiny

Three Pines Press
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Buddhism after Mao

Negotiations, Continuities, and Reinventions

University of Hawaii Press
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Work Better, Live Better

Motivation, Labor, and Management Ideology

University of Massachusetts Press
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The Mass Production of Memory

Travel and Personal Archiving in the Age of the Kodak

University of Massachusetts Press
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Engaging Diverse Communities

A Guide to Museum Public Relations

University of Massachusetts Press
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Delaware Naturalist Handbook

University of Delaware Press

The Delaware Naturalist Handbook is the primary public face of a major university-led public educational outreach and community engagement initiative. This statewide master naturalist certification program is designed to train hundreds of citizen scientists, K–12 environmental educators, ecological restoration volunteers, and habitat managers each year.

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A Prison in the Woods

Environment and Incarceration in New York's North Country

University of Massachusetts Press
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Rediasporization

African-Guyanese Kweh-Kweh

University Press of Mississippi

The astonishing transformation of an African tradition that distinguishes a second American Guyanese diasporization

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Reconsidering Flannery O'Connor

Edited by Alison Arant and Jordan Cofer; Afterword by Marshall Bruce Gentry
University Press of Mississippi

Fresh approaches to the study of the works of the influential southern writer

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Mexico’s Community Forest Enterprises

Success on the Commons and the Seeds of a Good Anthropocene

The University of Arizona Press

David Barton Bray has spent more than thirty years researching and studying Mexican community forest enterprises (CFEs). In this book he shares the scientific evidence for Mexico’s social and environmental achievements and how, in its most successful manifestations, it became a global model for common-property forest management, sustainable social-ecological systems, and climate change mitigation in developing countries.

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French on Shifting Ground

Cultural and Coastal Erosion in South Louisiana

University Press of Mississippi

An intensive study of the disappearance of land and language in Louisiana

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Damaged

Musicality and Race in Early American Punk

University Press of Mississippi

The first book-length account of American punk as a musical style

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Cold War II

Hollywood's Renewed Obsession with Russia

University Press of Mississippi

Essays that critique America’s superiority complex and movies and TV shows that reignite the Cold War

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The Trans Self-Care Workbook

A Coloring Book and Journal for Trans and Non-Binary People

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

A colouring book and journal for the trans and non-binary community, with practical advice and creative exercises to promote wellbeing.

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Riley the Brave - The Little Cub with Big Feelings!

Help for Cubs Who Have Had A Tough Start in Life

By Jessica Sinarski; Illustrated by Zachary Kline
Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Picture book for children who have experienced trauma, to help them understand and cope with their feelings.

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In Their Shoes

Navigating Non-Binary Life

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

A fun and feisty guide to living your best non-binary life, written by a rising star in the trans community.

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All Cats Are on the Autism Spectrum

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Fresh, fun update to this classic bestseller, which playfully explains autism through pictures of cats.

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The Conquest of the Desert

Argentina’s Indigenous Peoples and the Battle for History

University of New Mexico Press

This collection explores issues of settler colonialism, Indigenous-state relations, genocide, borderlands, and Indigenous cultures and land rights through essays that reexamine one of Argentina's most important historical periods.

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Yoga Deconstructed®

Movement Science Principles for Teaching

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Handspring Publishing
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The Prehispanic Ethnobotany of Paquimé and Its Neighbors

The University of Arizona Press

This volume is a major ethnobotanical study for the ancient U.S. Southwest and northwestern Mexico. The results reorient our perspective in the rise of one of the most impressive communities in the international region.

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