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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?
Black Fire—This Time, Volume 2
University Press of Mississippi, University Press of Mississippi/Aquarius Press/Willow Books
The follow-up collection to the groundbreaking first anthology
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
Alabama Railroads
By Wayne Cline
University of Alabama Press
The first comprehensive, illustrated history of Alabama's railroad system
William Hanson and the Texas-Mexico Border
Violence, Corruption, and the Making of the Gatekeeper State
By John Weber
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.
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.
Political Activist Ethnography
Studies in the Social Relations of Struggle
Athabasca University Press
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gaslight
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Fight for America's Energy Future
Island Press
Gaslight is the story of an epic, six-year battle between one of the country’s most powerful energy companies and the everyday people who stood in the path of its massive fossil gas pipeline. On one side, an archetypal Goliath: a corporation that commands billions of dollars and unparalleled influence over state politicians and federal government agencies alike. On the other, a diverse band of Davids: lawyers and farmers, conservationists and conservatives, innkeepers and lobbyists, scientists, and nurses.
Their struggle took them all the way to the Supreme Court, but their larger fight was in the court of public opinion. Would the nation swallow the industry’s narrative that gas was “a bridge fuel” to a clean, green future? Or would the public recognize it as a methane bomb, capable of not only wrecking local communities but imperiling the planet? Vivid and suspenseful, Gaslight is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the urgent stakes of the energy choices we face today.
Their struggle took them all the way to the Supreme Court, but their larger fight was in the court of public opinion. Would the nation swallow the industry’s narrative that gas was “a bridge fuel” to a clean, green future? Or would the public recognize it as a methane bomb, capable of not only wrecking local communities but imperiling the planet? Vivid and suspenseful, Gaslight is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the urgent stakes of the energy choices we face today.
Visible Ruins
The Politics of Perception and the Legacies of Mexico's Revolution
University of Texas Press
An examination of the failures of the Mexican Revolution through the visual and material records.
Rick Perry
A Political Life
University of Texas Press
How Rick Perry navigated and shaped Texas politics as the state’s longest serving governor.
Oil Cities
The Making of North Louisiana’s Boomtowns, 1901-1930
University of Texas Press
How international oil companies navigated the local, segregated landscape of north Louisiana in the first decades of the twentieth century.
Home, Heat, Money, God
Texas and Modern Architecture
By Kathryn E. O'Rourke and Ben Koush
University of Texas Press
Thematically focused analaysis of modern architecture throughout Texas with gorgeous photographs illustrating works by famous and lesser-known architects.
Ancient Mesoamerican Population History
Urbanism, Social Complexity, and Change
The University of Arizona Press
Including research from both highland central Mexico and the tropical lowlands of the Maya and Olmec areas, this book reexamines demography in ancient Mesoamerica. Through new technology such as LiDAR (light detecting and ranging), the book provides new understandings of ancient Mesoamerican societies and how they changed over time.
Movement
How to Take Back Our Streets and Transform Our Lives
Island Press
In Movement: How to Take Back Our Streets and Transform Our Lives, journalist Thalia Verkade and mobility expert (“the cycling professor”) Marco te Brömmelstroet take a three-year shared journey of discovery into the possibilities of our streets. They investigate and question the choices and mechanisms underpinning how these public spaces are designed and look at how they could be different. Verkade and te Brömmelstroet draw inspiration from the Netherlands and look at what other countries are doing, and could do, to diversify how they use their streets and make them safer.
Making our communities safer, cleaner, and greener starts with asking these fundamental questions: who do our streets belong to, how do we want to use them, and who gets to decide? To truly transform mobility, we need to look far beyond the technical aspects and put people at the center of urban design. Movement will change the way that you view our streets.
Making our communities safer, cleaner, and greener starts with asking these fundamental questions: who do our streets belong to, how do we want to use them, and who gets to decide? To truly transform mobility, we need to look far beyond the technical aspects and put people at the center of urban design. Movement will change the way that you view our streets.
Women's Suffrage in the Americas
Edited by Stephanie Mitchell
University of New Mexico Press
Pentecostalism in Urban Oaxaca
Healing Patriarchy, Marriage, and Mexico
University of Alabama Press
An ethnography focusing on a Pentecostal church community and their pursuit of healing marriages and prosperity
Ideals Then Ideas
Alison Brooks Architects
By Alison Brooks Architects
Dalhousie Architectural Press
Glass Ceilings and Ivory Towers
Gender Inequality in the Canadian Academy
Edited by Rachael Johnstone and Bessma Momani
UBC Press
Glass Ceilings and Ivory Towers amasses vital, data-driven research that both corroborates enduring accounts of inequality for women academics and offers pathways toward substantive policy change.
Constraining the Court
Judicial Power and Policy Implementation in the Charter Era
UBC Press
Constraining the Court considers what happens when a statute involving a significant public policy issue is declared unconstitutional – and government disagrees.
Canada’s Surprising Constitution
Unexpected Interpretations of the Constitution Act, 1982
UBC Press
Canada’s Surprising Constitution asks why the Constitution Act, 1982, keeps generating unexpected interpretations and outcomes.
Canada and the Korean War
Histories and Legacies of a Cold War Conflict
Edited by Andrew Burtch and Tim Cook
UBC Press
Canada and the Korean War synthesizes Canadian and global perspectives on a watershed conflict to explore its profound influence on international, diplomatic, and military history, public memory, and contemporary affairs.
Apalachicola Valley Archaeology, Volume 2
The Late Woodland Period through Recent History
University of Alabama Press
Synthesizes the archaeology of the Apalachicola–lower Chattahoochee Valley region of northwest Florida, southeast Alabama, and southwest Georgia, from 1,300 years ago to recent times
Too Far on a Whim
The Limits of High-Steam Propulsion in the US Navy
University of Alabama Press
Argues that the US Navy’s commitment to high-steam propulsion for its World War II fleet was a tactical, technological, and bureaucratic failure
The Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration
New Deal Public Works, Modernization, and Colonial Reform
University of Florida Press
This book explores the history and impact of an important New Deal program that improved living conditions across Puerto Rico in the wake of destructive hurricanes and the Great Depression, while at the same time resulting in a strengthened colonial relationship between the island and the United States.
Space Policy for the Twenty-First Century
University of Florida Press
A foundational resource for both students and professionals, this book provides a comprehensive, accessible overview of major space policies in the United States and a framework through which to analyze them.
Materializing Colonial Identities in Clay
Colonoware in the African and Indigenous Diasporas of the Southeast
Edited by Jon Bernard Marcoux and Corey A. H. Sattes
University of Alabama Press
Offers case studies of colonoware in Indigenous, enslaved, and European contexts in the Southeast
Materializing Colonial Identities in Clay
Colonoware in the African and Indigenous Diasporas of the Southeast
Edited by Jon Bernard Marcoux and Corey A. H. Sattes
University of Alabama Press
Offers case studies of colonoware in Indigenous, enslaved, and European contexts in the Southeast
Making Climate Tech Work
Policies that Drive Innovation
By Alon Tal
Island Press
Climate tech is critical for averting planetary chaos. Half the greenhouse gas reductions required to reach “net-zero” climate targets in 2050 will need to come from technologies that have not yet been invented. Making Climate Tech Work is an insightful analysis of how smart government policies can make those technologies a reality. Which approaches can lead us to a sustainable economy, and which are likely to fall short? Learn how Denmark became a wind energy superpower, Germany incentivized renewables, Australia phased out incandescent bulbs, and why carbon taxes have failed around the world – but could be designed for success. Alon Tal expertly distills each policy’s benefits and drawbacks, along with related ethical questions and public perceptions. The result is an essential primer for anyone interested in accelerating climate tech solutions.
Five Suns
A Fire History of Mexico
The University of Arizona Press
Narrating Mexico’s evolution of fire through five eras—pre-human, pre-Hispanic, colonial, industrializing (1880–1980), and contemporary (1980–2015)—this volume relies on the myth of the “five suns” that the Aztecs used to characterize their history. It completes a North American trilogy of fire histories that also includes the United States and Canada.
Entitled Opinions
Doxa after Digitality
University of Alabama Press
A landmark rhetorical theory of the formation and functioning of opinions in social media contexts
Classical Rhetoric and Contemporary Law
A Critical Reader
University of Alabama Press
Pairs passages from works of classical rhetoric with contemporary legal rulings to highlight and analyze their deep and abiding connections in matters of persuasion
The Composition Commons
Writing a New Idea of the University
By Jessica Yood
Utah State University Press
The Composition Commons traces the century-long origins of a writing-centered idea of the American university and tracks the resurgence of this idea today.
We Stay the Same
Subsistence, Logging, and Enduring Hopes for Development in Papua New Guinea
The University of Arizona Press
Written in a clear and relatable style for students, We Stay the Same combines ethnographic and ecological research to show how the people of New Hanover, Papua New Guinea, continue to survive and make meaningful lives in a situation where their own hopes for economic development via logging and commercial agriculture have often been used against them as a mechanism of a more distantly profitable dispossession.
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