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Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity, 4th edition
An Unseen Unheard Minority
Asian American Students at the University of Illinois
American Cinema of the 2010s
Themes and Variations
Americans and the Holocaust
A Reader
Fourth of July, Asbury Park
A History of the Promised Land
Love, Sex, Gender, and Superheroes
Artificial Generation
Photogenic French Literature and the Prehistory of Cinematic Modernity
Whither College Sports
Amateurism, Athlete Safety, and Academic Integrity
Village Ties
Women, NGOs, and Informal Institutions in Rural Bangladesh
Soccer in Mind
A Thinking Fan's Guide to the Global Game
Near Human
Border Zones of Species, Life, and Belonging
Comics and the Origins of Manga
A Revisionist History
Comics and the Origins of Manga challenges the conventional wisdom that manga evolved from traditional Japanese art, and reveals how Japanese cartoonists in the 1920s and 1930s instead developed modern manga out of translations of foreign comic strips like Bringing Up Father, Happy Hooligan, and Felix the Cat.