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Discovering Pluto
Exploration at the Edge of the Solar System
In Discovering Pluto, Dale P. Cruikshank and William Sheehan recount the grand story of our unfolding knowledge and exploration of Pluto, its moons, and the outer Solar System. They explain the efforts of scientists, mathematicians, and researchers over the centuries to understand the outer Solar System, leading to the discovery and detailed exploration of Pluto as the premier body in the Kuiper Belt, the so-called third zone of our Solar System.
Connected Communities
Networks, Identity, and Social Change in the Ancient Cibola World
All They Will Call You
Finding Meaning
Kaona and Contemporary Hawaiian Literature
The first extensive study of contemporary Hawaiian literature, Finding Meaning examines kaona, the practice of hiding and finding meaning, for its profound connectivity. Through kaona, author Brandy Nalani McDougall affirms the tremendous power of Indigenous stories and genealogies to give lasting meaning to decolonization movements.
Vernacular Sovereignties
Indigenous Women Challenging World Politics
Mimbres Life and Society
The Mattocks Site of Southwestern New Mexico
Before Kukulkán
Bioarchaeology of Maya Life, Death, and Identity at Classic Period Yaxuná
Our Lady of Guadalupe
The Origins and Sources of a Mexican National Symbol, 1531–1797
Sovereign Acts
Contesting Colonialism Across Indigenous Nations and Latinx America
Claiming Home, Shaping Community
Testimonios de los valles
Sustaining Wildlands
Integrating Science and Community in Prince William Sound
Native Apparitions
Critical Perspectives on Hollywood’s Indians
Janaab' Pakal of Palenque
Reconstructing the Life and Death of a Maya Ruler
Modern Mexican Culture
Critical Foundations
Bodies at War
Genealogies of Militarism in Chicana Literature and Culture
Landscapes of Social Transformation in the Salinas Province and the Eastern Pueblo World
American Indian Medicine Ways
Spiritual Power, Prophets, and Healing
Becoming Brothertown
Native American Ethnogenesis and Endurance in the Modern World
Gender and Sustainability
Lessons from Asia and Latin America
Cuba, Hot and Cold
Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics
The Panama Hat Trail
Of Cartography
Poems
Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut
The King of Lighting Fixtures
Stories
The Nature of Spectacle
On Images, Money, and Conserving Capitalism
A Quiet Victory for Latino Rights
FDR and the Controversy Over "Whiteness"
In 1935 a federal court judge handed down a ruling that could have been disastrous for Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and all Latinos in the United States. However, in an unprecedented move, the Roosevelt administration wielded the power of “administrative law” to neutralize the decision and thereby dealt a severe blow to the nativist movement. A Quiet Victory for Latino Rights recounts this important but little-known story.