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Comic Art in Museums

Edited by Kim A. Munson
University Press of Mississippi

A comprehensive history of how comics and comic art gained recognition as art

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Clothing and Fashion in Southern History

Edited by Ted Ownby and Becca Walton; Afterword by Jonathan Prude
University Press of Mississippi

The first volume to closely study the history of clothing and its relationship to work, power, and identity in the South

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Yoga Therapy as a Whole-Person Approach to Health

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Singing Dragon

Lee Majewski and Ananda Bhavanani present yoga and yoga therapy as a multifaceted approach to wellness, which includes the energetic, the emotional and the spiritual. The authors carefully clarify yogic concepts and explore how deep yogic work can be practically applied to a range of chronic conditions.

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Take It as a Compliment

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

After interviewing and receiving anonymous messages from women and men across the globe who have experienced sexual abuse and harassment, Maria Stoian has illustrated their experiences in this powerful collective graphic memoir to express the complex emotions felt by victims of sexual abuse and explore what needs to change.

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Superparenting!

Boost Your Therapeutic Parenting Through Ten Transformative Steps

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Transform your parenting and support your child's behaviour using Dr. Elliott's 10 superparenting steps

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Parks and Recreation System Planning

A New Approach for Creating Sustainable, Resilient Communities

Island Press

Parks and recreation systems have evolved in remarkable ways over the past two decades. No longer just playgrounds and ballfields, parks and open spaces have become recognized as essential green infrastructure with the potential to contribute to community resiliency and sustainability. To capitalize on this potential, the parks and recreation system planning process must evolve as well. In Parks and Recreation System Planning, David Barth draws on real-world examples to provide a step-by-step approach to creating parks systems that generate greater economic, social, and environmental benefits. Chapters outline each step—evaluating existing systems, implementing a carefully crafted plan, and more—necessary for creating a successful, adaptable system.

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An Old French Trilogy

Texts from the William of Orange Cycle

University Press of Florida

This volume offers a broad and rich view of the tradition of Old French epic poetry, or chansons de geste, by providing an updated English translation of three central poems from the twelfth-century Guillaume d’Orange cycle.

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An Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders

University Press of Florida

Combining an accessible approach with innovative scholarship, Carl Phelpstead draws on historical context, contemporary theory, and close reading to deepen our understanding of Icelandic saga narratives about the island’s early history.

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Out of the Shadow

Revisiting the Revolution from Post-Peace Guatemala

University of Texas Press

More than a dozen scholars, representing fields ranging from sociocultural anthropology to Latin American history, present a new understanding of Guatemala in the era from 1944 to 1954, when social reform flourished.

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The Ice Cream Sundae Guide to Autism

An Interactive Kid’s Book for Understanding Autism

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

This is a book for children aged 7-11 that explains the different ways autistic brains work. The book uses ice cream flavours to represent various aspects of autism such as difficulties with language, social interaction and rigidity of thinking. It includes illustrations and workbook activities to help children cement their understanding of autism.

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The Every Body Book

The LGBTQ+ Inclusive Guide for Kids about Sex, Gender, Bodies, and Families

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

An illustrated LGBTQ+ inclusive kid's guide to sex, gender and relationships education that includes children and families of all genders and sexual orientations, covering puberty, hormones, consent, sex, pregnancy and safety.

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The Persistence of Violence

Colombian Popular Culture

Rutgers University Press

 Why is Colombia so violent? Beyond even the horrors of the conflict between the guerrilla, the paramilitary, and the government, the history of the nation is scarred by acts of violence. It has also been marked by resistance to that history—by moments of hope.The Persistence of Violence transcends the obvious places as sources and indices of this story, delving into the complex and conflicted world of popular culture, from football to television to tourism to the environment.

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The Love Surgeon

A Story of Trust, Harm, and the Limits of Medical Regulation

Rutgers University Press

From the 1950s to 1980s, Ohio obstetrician gynecologist James Burt performed a bizarre procedure that he termed “love surgery” on hundreds of new mothers, not bothering to get their informed consent. The Love Surgeon asks tough questions about Burt’s heinous acts and what they reveal about the failures of the medical establishment.

 

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The Films of Denys Arcand

Rutgers University Press

Denys Arcand has been making films in Quebec for nearly sixty years. The Films of Denys Arcand illuminates his films in the context of the massive changes in Quebec society during that period. It explores the work of a major director who has achieved international success and some key issues in film studies and Canadian studies.
 

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Taste of Control

Food and the Filipino Colonial Mentality under American Rule

Rutgers University Press

Taste of Control tells what happened when American colonizers began to influence what Filipinos ate, how they cooked, and how they perceived their national cuisine. Drawing from a rich variety of sources including letters, advertisements, textbooks, menus, and cookbooks, it reveals how food culture served as a battleground over Filipino identity.

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Narrative Mourning

Death and Its Relics in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel

Bucknell University Press

Narrative Mourning argues that the cultural disappearance of the dead/dying body in eighteenth-century Britain found expression in fictional representations of the relic (object) or relict (person) within certain British novels. These relics/relicts exist as material signs of loss and as compensation for loss; they exist as surrogates for the absent (living, dead, or dying) and as reliquaries for their “psychic” essences.

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Making a Mass Institution

Indianapolis and the American High School

Rutgers University Press

Indianapolis began its secondary system with a singular, decidedly academic high school, but ended the 1960s with multiple high schools with numerous paths to graduation. Making a Mass Institution describes how this process created both a distinct youth culture and a divided and unjust system, one that effectively sorted students geographically, economically, and racially.

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Hebrew Infusion

Language and Community at American Jewish Summer Camps

Rutgers University Press

“Let’s hear some ruach (spirit) in this chadar ochel (dining hall)!” Sentences like this abound at Jewish summer camps around North America, alongside Hebrew songs, games, and signs. Through insightful analysis and engaging writing, Hebrew Infusion explains the origins of this phenomenon and what it says about Jewishness in America.
 

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Easy Living

The Rise of the Home Office

Rutgers University Press

Easy Living traces changing concepts about what it meant to work in the home through the analysis of national magazines and newspapers, television and film, and marketing and advertising materials from the housing, telecommunications, and office technology industries. These ideas reflected larger social, political-economic, and technological trends of the times.

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Deportes

The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora

Rutgers University Press

Deportes uncovers the hidden experiences of Mexican male and female athletes, teams and leagues and their supporters who fought for a more level playing field on both sides of the border. They proved that they could compete in a wide variety of sports at amateur, semiprofessional, Olympic and professional levels.

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Between Market and Myth

The Spanish Artist Novel in the Post-Transition, 1992-2014

Bucknell University Press

Between Market and Myth is a study of novels about artists and the art world written in Spain in the years following the Transition to democracy after Francisco Franco’s death. The novels studied portray a clash between the myth of artistic freedom and artists’ willing recruitment or cooptation by market forces or political influence.

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Abusing Religion

Literary Persecution, Sex Scandals, and American Minority Religions

Rutgers University Press

Why do Americans presume to know “what’s really going on” in marginal religions? Sex abuse happens in all communities, but American religious outsiders often face disproportionate allegations of sexual abuse. Abusing Religion argues that sex abuse in minority religious communities is an American problem, not (merely) a religious one.
 

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Futbolera

A History of Women and Sports in Latin America

University of Texas Press

Capturing more than a century of struggles, this stirring cultural history traces the evolution of women’s participation in sports in Latin America, from physical education to amateur clubs to the creation of national teams.

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Cataloguing Culture

Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation

UBC Press

In examining how the technologies of museum bureaucracy – the ledger book, the card catalogue, the database – operate through a colonial lens, Cataloguing Culture shines a light on access to and the return of Indigenous cultural heritage.

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Texas Snakes

A Field Guide

University of Texas Press

Featuring updates to the distribution maps, taxonomy, and checklist of Texas snakes, this fully illustrated field guide will help both novices and experts identify and appreciate the wide variety of snakes found in Texas.

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Missing Middle Housing

Thinking Big and Building Small to Respond to Today’s Housing Crisis

Island Press

Daniel Parolek, an architect and urban designer, illustrates the power of Missing Middle housing types—such as duplexes, fourplexes, and bungalow courts— to meet today’s diverse housing needs. With the benefit of beautiful full-color graphics, Parolek goes into depth about the benefits and qualities of Missing Middle Housing, explains why more developers should be building them, and defines the barriers cities need to remove to enable them to be built.

Parolek proves that density is too blunt of an instrument to effectively regulate for twenty-first-century housing needs. Whether you are a planner, architect, builder, or city leader, Missing Middle Housing will help you think differently about how to address housing needs for today’s communities.
 

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Robert J. Walker

The History and Archaeology of a U.S. Coast Survey Steamship

University Press of Florida
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Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing, Revised Edition

Island Press

Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing is the most comprehensive resource on how green building principles can be incorporated into affordable housing design, construction, and operation. In this fully revised edition, Walker Wells and Kimberly Vermeer capture the rapid evolution of green building practices and make a compelling case for integrating green building in affordable housing. The Blueprint offers guidance on innovative practices, green building certifications for affordable housing, and the latest financing strategies. The completely new case studies share detailed insights on how the many elements of a green building are incorporated into different housing types and locations.
 
Every affordable housing project can achieve the fundamentals of good green building design. The Blueprint gives project teams what they need to push for excellence.
 

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Zionism and the Melting Pot

Preachers, Pioneers, and Modern Jewish Politics

University of Alabama Press

Traces the roots of ideologies and outlooks that shape Jewish life in Israel and the United States today

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Surveillance, Transparency, and Democracy

Public Administration in the Information Age

University of Alabama Press

Investigates public administration’s increasing dependence on technology and how its pervasive use in complex and interrelated socioeconomic and political affairs has outstripped the ability of many public administrators and the public to grasp the consequences of their choices
 

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Planetary Astrobiology

The University of Arizona Press

Planetary Astrobiology represents the combined efforts of more than seventy-five international experts consolidated into twenty chapters and provides an accessible, interdisciplinary gateway for new students and seasoned researchers who wish to learn more about this expanding field. Readers are brought to the frontiers of knowledge in astrobiology via results from the exploration of our own solar system and exoplanetary systems.

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Archaeological Interpretations

Symbolic Meaning within Andes Prehistory

Edited by Peter Eeckhout
University Press of Florida
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Learning from the Lived Experiences of Graduate Student Writers

Utah State University Press

A timely resource for understanding and resolving some of the issues graduate students face, particularly as higher education begins to pay more critical attention to graduate student success.

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After Plato

Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Teaching of Writing

Edited by John Duffy and Lois Agnew
Utah State University Press

Explores the diversity of ethical perspectives animating contemporary writing studies and examines the place of ethics in writing classrooms, writing centers, writing across the curriculum programs, prison education classes, and other settings.

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A Sojourn in Paradise

Jack Robinson in 1950s New Orleans

University Press of Mississippi

A celebration of the New Orleans life and early career of famed fashion photographer Jack Robinson.

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Writing across the Color Line

U.S. Print Culture and the Rise of Ethnic Literature, 1877-1920

University of Massachusetts Press
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Placing Papers

The American Literary Archives Market

University of Massachusetts Press
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Party Mergers in Myanmar

A New Development

ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
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Monastic Education in Korea

Teaching Monks about Buddhism in the Modern Age

By Uri Kaplan; Series edited by Mark Michael Rowe
University of Hawaii Press
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Mirroring the Past

The Writing and Use of History in Imperial China

University of Hawaii Press
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Malu ‘Ulu o Lele

Maui Komohana in Ka Nupepa Kuokoa

North Beach West Maui Benefit, North Beach West Maui Benefit Fund
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Land of Plants in Motion

Japanese Botany and the World

University of Hawaii Press
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Integrated Korean Workbook

Intermediate 1, Third Edition

University of Hawaii Press
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Integrated Korean

Intermediate 1, Third Edition

University of Hawaii Press
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Green Mountain

Poems by Yang Jian

Translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain; Introduction by Christopher Merrill; By Yang Jian
MerwinAsia
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From Temporary Migrants to Permanent Attractions

Tourism, Cultural Heritage, and Afro-Antillean Identities in Panama

University of Alabama Press

A new reading of Panama’s nation-building process, interpreted through a lens of transnational tourism

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From Tao Guang Yang Hui to Xin Xing

China's Complex Foreign Policy Transformation and Southeast Asia

ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
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Chinese Buddhism

A Thematic History

University of Hawaii Press
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