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Food Margins

Lessons from an Unlikely Grocer

University of Massachusetts Press
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Bicycle City

Riding the Bike Boom to a Brighter Future

Island Press

In Bicycle City: Riding the Bike Boom to a Brighter Future cycling expert Daniel Piatkowski argues that the bicycle is the best tool that we have to improve our cities. The car-free urban future—where cities are vibrant, with access to everything we need close by—may be less bike-centric than we think. But bikes are a crucial first step to getting Americans out of cars.

Piatkowski offers pragmatic lessons drawn from the latest research along with interviews, anecdotes, and case studies from around the world. Electric bikes are demonstrating the ability of bikes to replace cars in more places and for more people. Cargo bikes are replacing SUVs for families and delivery trucks for freight. At the same time, mobility startups are providing new ownership models to make these new bikes easier to use and own, ushering in a new era of pedal-powered cities.

Bicycle City is about making cities better with bikes rather than for bikes.

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Unruly Domestication

Poverty, Family, and Statecraft in Urban Peru

University of Texas Press

How the international war on poverty shapes identities, relationships, politics, and urban space in Peru.

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Physicians of the Future

Doctor-Influencers, Patient-Consumers, and the Business of Functional Medicine

University of Texas Press

The first scholarly exploration of the forums, practice, and economics of functional medicine.

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No Labels Here

Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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Kneeling Before Corn

Recuperating More-than-Human Intimacies on the Salvadoran Milpa

The University of Arizona Press

Focusing on the intimate relations that develop between plants and humans in the northern rural region of El Salvador, this book explores the ways in which more-than-human intimacies travel away from and return to the milpa through human networks. The chapters present innovative methodological and conceptual contributions to the study of relationships that form between plants and people.

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It Ain't Over Til the Bisexual Speaks

An Anthology of Bisexual Voices

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

An essay collection exploring the diversity of bisexual identity - as it relates to class, religion, ethnicity, religion, sex and politics - and how it can disrupt and challenge binary and exclusionary ways of thinking. Erudite, provocative, and wide-ranging, this is both a call to action and a middle finger to bi-erasure.

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Indigenous Science and Technology

Nahuas and the World Around Them

The University of Arizona Press

Indigenous Science and Technology focuses on how Nahuas have explored, understood, and explained the world around them in pre-invasion, colonial, and contemporary time periods.

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How to Raise Happy Neurofabulous Children

A Parents' Guide

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Parenting any child is filled with its own wonders and challenges. This is an invaluable resource to gain insight and advice into raising autistic children, from a fellow parent. Easy to follow, supportive and refreshingly direct, this guide empowers you to explore what works best for you and your child.

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Forging Queer Leaders

How the LGBTQIA+ Community Creates Impact from Adversity

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

An inspirational guide to LGBTQ+ leadership, with a history of queer leadership, an exploration of how adversity can develop management superpowers and inspirational stories from queer leaders in diverse careers.

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Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art

The Body, the Inhuman, and Ecological Thinking

University of Florida Press

Examining how Cuban writers and artists have depicted racial, gender, and species differences throughout the past century, this book discusses how their works have emphasized the shared materiality of bodies across diverse media, time periods, and ideologies.

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Armchair Conversations on Love and Autism

Secrets of Happy Neurodiverse Couples

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

ACS counselling expert Eva Mendes takes us on a journey through 20 neurodiverse relationships and the unique strengths that drive them. Offering best practice advice and strategies on how to thrive in your relationship, Eva works to identify common themes amongst autistic relationships and irons out the widespread myths surrounding them.

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Wake

Why the Battle over Diverse Public Schools Still Matters

Rutgers University Press

Wake: Why the Battle Over Diverse Public Schools Still Matters tells the story of the aftermath of the 2009 Wake County school board election in favor of "neighborhood schools," including the fierce public debate that ensued during school board meetings and in the pages of the local newspaper, and the groundswell of community support that voted in a pro-diversity school board in 2011. What was at stake in those years was the fundamental direction of the largest school district in North Carolina and the 14th largest in the U.S. Would it maintain a commitment to diverse schools, and if so, how would it balance that commitment with various competing interests and demands? Through hundreds of published opinion articles and several in depth interviews with community leaders, Wake examines the substance of that debate and explores the community’s vision for public education.

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The United States and the Armenian Genocide

History, Memory, Politics

Rutgers University Press

This is the first book to examine how and why the United States refused to officially acknowledge the 1915-17 Armenian Genocide until the early 2020s. Drawing from congressional records, rare newspapers, and interviews with lobbyists and decision-makers, historian Julien Zarifian reveals how genocide recognition became such a complex, politically sensitive issue.

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The Sheep Industry of Territorial New Mexico

Livestock, Land, and Dollars

University Press of Colorado

The Sheep Industry of Territorial New Mexico offers a detailed account of the New Mexico sheep industry during the territorial period (1846–1912) when it flourished. 

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The Other Jersey Shore

Life on the Delaware River

Rutgers University Press

The Other Jersey Shore takes readers on a personal tour of the New Jersey portion of the Delaware River and its surroundings, from the archeological remnants of the former King of Spain’s mansion to waterfalls where bears and foxes frolic. Combining history and nature writing, it shares engrossing stories and surprising facts about a river that is both the backbone and lifeblood of the Garden State. 

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Surviving Alex

A Mother’s Story of Love, Loss, and Addiction

Rutgers University Press

Patricia Roos was a professor of sociology at Rutgers University when she lost her 25-year-old son Alex to a heroin overdose. Turning her grief into action, she began to research the social factors and institutional failures that contributed to his death. Surviving Alex tells her moving story while describing a more compassionate approach that would provide proper care to substance users and reduce addiction.

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Redreaming the Renaissance

Essays on History and Literature in Honor of Guido Ruggiero

University of Delaware Press

Redreaming the Renaissance offers twelve essays that build on the pathbreaking work of Guido Ruggiero in blending history and literature. Within this volume, contributors take interdisciplinary approaches to examining not only belles lettres but also other forms of artful expression, bringing their fields into conversation and reflecting on the methodology needed to sustain and enrich this conversation. 
 

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Meltdown Expected

Crisis, Disorder, and Upheaval at the end of the 1970s

Rutgers University Press

Meltdown Expected tells the story of how, both domestically and internationally, 1978 and 1979 saw a series of catastrophes that shook America’s confidence and hurtled the nation into the final phase of the Cold War. Covering everything from the Three Mile Island disaster to the Iran hostage crisis, it is a vivid portrait of a tumultuous time. 

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Jewish Education

Rutgers University Press

Jewish education has been dominated by two concerns: What ought to be taught? And what is the best way to teach it?  This book upends the conventional approaches by asking a different question: How do people learn to engage in Jewish life?
 

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Governing Maya Communities and Lands in Belize

Indigenous Rights, Markets, and Sovereignties

Rutgers University Press

In Belize, conservation NGOs push for wildlife sanctuaries to protect endangered ecosystems. State actors authorize timber extraction to generate revenue for debt repayment. Maya communities, dispossessed by state and NGO strategies, pursue claims for Indigenous rights to lands. This book explores the conflicting forms of governance that emerge as these trajectories intersect.

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Global Film Color

The Monopack Revolution at Midcentury

Rutgers University Press

Global Film Color: The Monopack Revolution at Midcentury explores color filmmaking around the world during the mid-century era when color came to dominate global film production. As Eastmancolor, Agfacolor, Fujicolor and other film stocks became broadly available and affordable, national film industries increasingly converted to color, transforming the look and feel of global cinema.

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Global Film Color

The Monopack Revolution at Midcentury

Rutgers University Press

Global Film Color: The Monopack Revolution at Midcentury explores color filmmaking around the world during the mid-century era when color came to dominate global film production. As Eastmancolor, Agfacolor, Fujicolor and other film stocks became broadly available and affordable, national film industries increasingly converted to color, transforming the look and feel of global cinema.

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Contemporary Francophone African Plays

An Anthology

Bucknell University Press

Contemporary Francophone African Plays: An Anthology presents performable English translations of eleven West African plays, dating from 1970 to 2021. Works by Dadié, Labou Tansi, Zinsou, Liking, Pliya, Alem, Kwahulé, Éfoui, Akakpo, Mukagasana, and Diouf skewer colonization, grapple with identity, and retell history and myth from African perspectives.

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Contemporary Francophone African Plays

An Anthology

Bucknell University Press

Contemporary Francophone African Plays: An Anthology presents performable English translations of eleven West African plays, dating from 1970 to 2021. Works by Dadié, Labou Tansi, Zinsou, Liking, Pliya, Alem, Kwahulé, Éfoui, Akakpo, Mukagasana, and Diouf skewer colonization, grapple with identity, and retell history and myth from African perspectives.

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Beaches, Bays, and Barrens

A Natural History of the Jersey Shore

Rutgers University Press

Biologist Eric G. Bolen introduces readers to the natural wonders of the Jersey Shore, taking them on a guided tour of its unique ecology and fascinating history. You’ll learn about everything from sand dunes to salt marshes, from blueberry patches to cranberry bogs, and from ship wrecks to shark attacks. 

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At the Glacier’s Edge

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

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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Tracings

Writing Art, 1975–2020

By Ian Carr-Harris; Introduction by Dan Adler
Concordia University Press
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Threshold

How Smart Homes Change Us Inside and Out

University of Alabama Press

An urgent and cautionary examination of the totalizing effect of smart home technology on the lives of those who live in them—and those who don’t
 

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Rewriting Work

Edited by Lora Anderson
The WAC Clearinghouse

Because of its centrality to the professional identity of any communications-focused discipline, the workplace has for decades been a focus of practice and scholarship in technical and professional communication. The contributors to Rewriting Workexamine workplace writing through the lenses of identity and changing communication practices, arguing that place can be viewed as a productive frame for understanding how technical and professional communication has changed over the last two decades.

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Opening Windows

Embracing New Perspectives and Practices in Natural Resource Social Sciences

Utah State University Press

The third decennial review from the International Association for Society and Natural Resources, Opening Windowssimultaneously examines the breadth and societal relevance of Society and Natural Resources (SNR) knowledge, explores emergent issues and new directions in SNR scholarship, and captures the increasing diversity of SNR research.

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Not All Fun and Games

Videogame Labour, Project-based Workplaces, and the New Citizenship at Work

Concordia University Press
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Land and the Liberal Project

Canada’s Violent Expansion

UBC Press

Land and the Liberal Project explores the “improving” ideas that informed the expansion of Canada from coast to coast, exposing the justifications for state violence and appropriation of Indigenous territory, thus challenging our assumptions about Canadian sovereignty.

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Just Wonder

Shifting Perspectives in Tradition

Utah State University Press

Inspired by folklore, television, fairy tales, social media, novels, and films, Just Wonder addresses crucial themes in social and ecological justice efforts. Moving into the mid-twenty-first century, wonder as a potentially critical sociocultural, ecological, and individual stance will play a critical role in reconceptualizing the present to imagine a different and better world.
 
 

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Iñupiat of the Sii

Historical Ethnography and Arctic Challenges

University of Alaska Press

Iñupiat of the Sii is a firsthand account of Wanni and Douglas Anderson’s lived experiences during eight field seasons of archaeological and ethnographic research in Selawik, Alaska, from 1968 to 1994. 

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From the Projects to the Presidencies

My Journey to Higher Education Leadership

University Press of Mississippi

The compelling story of a self-made, driven, and industrious higher education professional

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Feeding a Divided America

Reflections of a Western Rancher in the Era of Climate Change

University of New Mexico Press
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Canada and Colonialism

An Unfinished History

UBC Press, Purich Books

Canada and Colonialism presents the history Canadians must reckon with before decolonization is possible, from the nation’s establishment as a settler colony to the discriminatory legacies still at work in our institutions and culture.

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Broken City

Land Speculation, Inequality, and Urban Crisis

UBC Press

Broken City argues that skyrocketing urban land prices drive our global housing market failure – so, how did we get here, and what can be done about it?

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Black Fire—This Time, Volume 2

Edited by Derrick Harriell; Associate editor Kofi Antwi; Introduction by Mona Lisa Saloy
University Press of Mississippi, University Press of Mississippi/Aquarius Press/Willow Books

The follow-up collection to the groundbreaking first anthology

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Black Fire—This Time, Volume 1

Edited by Kim McMillon; Associate editor Kofi Antwi; Foreword by Ishmael Reed; Introduction by Margo Natalie Crawford
University Press of Mississippi, University Press of Mississippi/Aquarius Press/Willow Books

An anthology that explores all facets of the Black Arts Movement

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Alabama Railroads

University of Alabama Press

The first comprehensive, illustrated history of Alabama's railroad system

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William Hanson and the Texas-Mexico Border

Violence, Corruption, and the Making of the Gatekeeper State

University of Texas Press

An examination of the career of Texas Ranger and immigration official William Hanson illustrating the intersections of corruption, state-building, and racial violence in early twentieth century Texas.

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Sherds of History

Domestic Life in Colonial Guadeloupe

University Press of Florida

This book examines ceramic artifacts from the island of Guadeloupe to reveal information about daily life in the French colonial Caribbean.

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Political Activist Ethnography

Studies in the Social Relations of Struggle

Athabasca University Press
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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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Border Killers

Neoliberalism, Necropolitics, and Mexican Masculinity

The University of Arizona Press

Focusing on both Mexico’s northern and southern borders, Border Killers uses Achille Mbembe’s concept of necropolitics and various theories of masculinity to argue that contemporary Mexico is home to a form of necropolitical masculinity that has flourished in the neoliberal era and made the exercise of death both profitable and necessary for the functioning of Mexico’s state-cartel-corporate governance matrix.

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An Introduction to Jean Bodel

University Press of Florida

In this book, Lynn Ramey explores the life and works of Jean Bodel, a twelfth-century French poet, playwright, and epic writer, providing translations and summaries of works never published before in English while delving into Bodel’s historical and cultural context.

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When Driving Is Not an Option

Steering Away from Car Dependency

By Anna Zivarts; Foreword by Dani Simons
Island Press

One third of people living in the United States do not have a driver license. Because the majority of involuntary nondrivers are disabled, lower income, unhoused, formerly incarcerated, undocumented immigrants, kids, young people, and the elderly, they are largely invisible.

In When Driving is Not an Option disability advocate Anna Letitia Zivarts draws from interviews with involuntary nondrivers from around the US and from her own experience, to shine a light on the number of people in the US who cannot drive and outline actions to improve our mobility systems.

When the needs of involuntary nondrivers are viewed as essential to how we design our transportation systems and our communities, not only will we be able to more easily get where we need to go, but the changes will lead to healthier, climate-friendly communities for everyone.

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