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Rutgers also distributes books published by Bucknell University Press.

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At the Glacier’s Edge

A Natural History of Long Island from the Narrows to Montauk Point

By Betsy McCully

Rutgers University Press

Combining science writing, environmental history, and first-hand accounts from a longtime resident, At the Glacier’s Edge offers a unique narrative natural history of Long Island. It tells the story of how its habitats evolved, how humans radically degraded its landscape, and how community activists are restoring the land and preserving the species who depend on it.

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Notes from Home

Edited by Jonna McKone

Rutgers University Press

This beautifully illustrated volume weaves together personal stories, photographs, drawings, poems of students who have experienced insecurity during childhood into a tapestry of memories about the meaning of home.

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To Keep the Republic

Thinking, Talking, and Acting Like a Democratic Citizen

By Elizabeth C. Matto; Foreword by Governor Christine Todd Whitman

Rutgers University Press

American democracy has reached an inflection point. This book is a wake-up call about the heavy responsibilities that come with being a citizen in a participatory democracy. It describes the many ways that individuals can make a difference on both local and national levels—and explains why they matter.

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The Cinema of Yakov Protazanov

By F. Booth Wilson

Rutgers University Press

Yakov Protazanov was the most prolific Russian director of the silent era whose works enjoyed consistent popularity with audiences as he adapted to the Russian Revolution and, later, the transition to sound. This first career-length study in English argues that he pursued a unique artistic vision that reflected his ambivalent position within Soviet culture of the revolutionary era.

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The Caravaggio Syndrome

A Novel

By Alessandro Giardino; Translated by Joyce Myerson and Alessandro Giardino; Foreword by Ara Merjian

Rutgers University Press

Headstrong art historian Leyla is expecting a baby with feckless computer technician Pablo. There’s only one problem: she can’t stand him. And one more problem: her student Michael wants Pablo for himself. But when the writings by utopian philosopher Tommaso Campanella unlocks the secret of a painting and a mystical gateway to 17th-century Naples, Leyla and Michael embark on a voyage of self-discovery in search of a new life.

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Life, Brazen and Garish

A Tale of Three Women

By Dacia Maraini; Translated by Elvira G. Di Fabio; Foreword by Sara Teardo

Rutgers University Press

This fresh take on the epistolary novel tells the story of a family through the disparate perspectives of a teenage daughter writing in her diary, a mother composing letters, and a grandmother speaking into a recorder. In turns heartbreaking and laugh-out-loud funny, it is a triumph of voice and style from one of Italy’s most renowned writers.

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Creating the Hudson River Park

Environmental and Community Activism, Politics, and Greed

By Tom Fox

Rutgers University Press

Former Hudson River Park Conservancy president Tom Fox offers an insider’s look at the park’s expansion and the conflicts it has spawned among community activists, local politicians, and private developers. Explaining how the park’s current problems might be surmounted, he provides a model for future urban planners.

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China's Left-Behind Children

Caretaking, Parenting, and Struggles

By Xiaojin Chen

Rutgers University Press

Paying special attention to the seventy million children left behind by internal migrants in rural China, this book investigates the role of parental migration and the left-behind status of their children in shaping family dynamics and the children’s general wellbeing, including school performance, delinquency, resilience, feelings of ambiguous loss, and other psychological problems.

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Born of War in Colombia

Reproductive Violence and Memories of Absence

By Tatiana Sanchez Parra

Rutgers University Press

Born of War in Colombia examines how a past-oriented and harm-centered model of transitional justice has converged with a restricted notion of gendered victimhood and the patriarchal politics of reproduction to render the bodies of people born of conflict-related sexual violence unintelligible to those seeking to understand and address the consequences of war in Colombia.

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A Nation of Family and Friends?

Sport and the Leisure Cultures of British Asian Girls and Women

By Aarti Ratna

Rutgers University Press

In A Nation of Family and Friends sociologist Aarti Ratna interrogates sport and leisure cultures as a site of common culture. Ratna portrays and analyses the vagaries of British Asian-ness and examines the intersections of class, caste, age, generation, gender, and sexuality, providing a rich and critical exploration of British Asian women's sport and leisure choices, pleasures, and lived realities.

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