New Materials

Publication Date: 2024

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In his first international release since the award-winning, best-selling The Boat, Nam Le delivers a shot across the bow with a book-length poem that honors every convention of diasporic literature--in a virtuosic array of forms and registers--before shattering the form itself. In line with the works of Claudia Rankine, Cathy Park Hong, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, this book is an urgent, unsettling reckoning with identity--and the violence of identity. For Le, a Vietnamese refugee in the West, this means the assumed violence of racism, oppression, and historical trauma.

Publication Date: 2023

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A Firehose of Falsehood: The Story of Disinformation breaks down disinformation tactics and offers tools for defending and restoring truth. Using examples from Darius I of ancient Persia (522-486 BCE), to blood libel of the Middle Ages, to Soviet disinformation tactics and modern election deniers, Teri Kanefield and Pat Dorian show how tyrants and would-be tyrants deploy disinformation to gain power. Democracy, which draws its authority from laws instead of the whim of a tyrant, requires truth. For a democracy to survive, its citizens must preserve and defend truth.

Publication Date: 2024

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A History of Maternity Wear: Designs, Patterns, and Construction explores pregnancy clothing worn throughout the decades, providing historical information, images, and patterns. Filled with photos showing extant attire, with intricate details and sample patterns that can be recreated to scale, this book examines how maternity clothes were constructed, provides historical context, and aids readers in designing their own maternity garments.

Publication Date: 2023

Publication Date: 2024

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Experience the powerful legacy of Philip Berrigan's nonviolent resistance to war and empire. From the battlefields of World War II to the front lines of peace activism, Philip Berrigan evolved from soldier to scholar, priest to political prisoner. Confronting the fundamental nature of America's military-focused culture, Berrigan took an unyielding stance against societal evils--war, systemic racism, unchecked materialism, and the baleful presence of nuclear weapons.

Publication Date: 2023

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This updated second edition of 'A Practical Guide to Teaching Music in the Secondary School' provides valuable support, guidance and creative new ideas for student and practising teachers who want to develop their music teaching practice. Written to accompany the successful textbook 'Learning to Teach Music in the Secondary School', it explores a range of current issues, developments and opportunities within music education.

Publication Date: 2023

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The history of Rome has long been narrow and one-sided, essentially a history of 'the Doing of Important Things,' and as far as Roman historians have been concerned, women don't make that history. From Romulus through the political stab-fest of the late Republic, and then on to all the emperors, Roman historians may deign to give you a wife or a mother to show how bad things become when women get out of control, but history is more than that. Emma Southon's A Rome of One's Own is the best kind of correction.

Publication Date: 2023

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While Black women's intellectual history continues to grow as an important subfield in historical studies, there remains a gap in scholarship devoted to the topic. To date, major volumes on American intellectual history tend to exclude the words, ideas, and contributions of these influential individuals. A Seat at the Table: Black Women Public Intellectuals in US History and Culture seeks to fill this void, presenting essays on African American women within the larger context of American intellectual history.

Publication Date: 19651964

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Verses from the Canterbury Tales in the original and translated form provides an introduction to Chaucer and Middle English literature.

Publication Date: 2024

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Accidental Sisters follows the lives of five refugee women in Houston, Texas, an epicenter of refugee resettlement, as they make their way through a yearlong program for struggling single mother refugees overseen by Alia Altikrity, herself a former refugee from Iraq.

Publication Date: 2015

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From the acclaimed author of The King's Mother and Bosworth 1485 -- a fascinating look at ten days that changed the course of history ... With the world at war, ten days can feel like a lifetime ... On April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide in a bunker in Berlin. But victory over the Nazi regime was not celebrated in western Europe until May 8, and in Russia a day later, on the ninth. Why did a peace agreement take so much time? How did this brutal, protracted conflict coalesce into its unlikely endgame?

Publication Date: 2024

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This brief and accessible book draws lessons from the history and governance of three recent transformative technologies - the space race, in-vitro fertilization (IVF), and the internet - to argue that society can and should take an active role in shaping the future of artificial intelligence (AI). It is a manifesto aimed at empowering the reader to participate in the conversations and political and democratic processes that will determine the intentions of AI, what values and regulations should guide its development, and its future.

Publication Date: 1982

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Twenty-two short poems, including The Cow, by Robert Louis Stevenson, and Snail, by Langston Hughes.

Publication Date: 2023

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A master historian's retrieval of the spiritual visions and vitalisms that animate American life and the possibilities they offer today--

Publication Date: 2024

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What do animals-other than human animals-have to do with religion? How do our religious ideas about animals affect the lives of real animals in the world? How can we deepen our understanding of both animals and religion by considering them together? Animals and Religion explores how animals have crucially shaped how we understand ourselves, the other living beings around us, and our relationships with them.

Publication Date: 2024

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Artificial Women confronts age-old perceptions of women as empathetic caretakers, compliant sex workers, nurturing mothers, and dutiful daughters as well as preconceptions of artifice and authenticity in a new age of robotics technology. Envision the ability of a simulated woman to be her own Pygmalion through technology. She can reinvent and enliven herself with ease. She can provide physical and emotional companionship and fulfill the role of caretaker without similar needs of her own.

Publication Date: 2023

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This book explores the effects of racial microaggressions on Asian American (AA) faculty members currently at higher education institutions utilizing the frameworks of the Model Minority Myth and Perpetual Foreigner Stereotype. The book delves into how AAPI faculty members were able to individually navigate and transcend at college and universities. Chapters offer original insights into faculty members experiences through their own personal testimonies. The author also introduces the new concept of Model Minority Tokenism.

Publication Date: 2024

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A comprehensive update of the author's book about teaching poetry writing to students in K through grade 8--

Publication Date: 2009

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This new manual is designed for routine, day-to-day use at the bench. By integrating both established in vitro and in vivo molecular techniques with more modern in silico methods, this manual takes the user from the initial steps of obtaining cellular and subcellular extracts, through the purification and isolation steps appropriate for the protein of interest, and, finally, to the steps involved in characterizing and identifying proteins, protein complexes, and protein-protein interactions.

Publication Date: 2024

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To inhabitants of the Gulf Coast region of Louisiana, food is much more than nourishment. The acts of gathering, preparing, and sharing food are ways to raise children, bond with friends, and build community. In Bayou Harvest: Subsistence Practice in Coastal Louisiana, Helen A. Regis and Shana Walton examine how coastal residents deploy self-reliance and care for each other through harvesting and sharing food. Pulling from four years of fieldwork and study, Walton and Regis explore harvesting, hunting, and foraging by Native Americans, Cajuns, and other Bayou residents.

Publication Date: 2023

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Beauty in African Thought: A Critique of the Western Idea of Development investigates how the concept of beauty in African philosophy and related qualitative social sciences may contribute to a richer intercultural exchange on the idea of development. While working within frameworks created in post-colonial and arguably neo-colonial times, African thinkers have reacted against the mainstream view that restricts the meaning and scope of good development to economic growth and western-style education.

Publication Date: 2023

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This study examines the Camp Livingston site of Japanese alien internment in Louisiana during World War II. The authors analyze the experiences of one extended family and the trauma, uncertainty, and injustice they experienced--

Publication Date: 2023

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A new portrait of Betty Friedan, the author and activist acclaimed as the mother of second-wave feminism. The feminist writer and activist Betty Friedan (1921-2006), pathbreaking author of The Feminine Mystique, was powerful and polarizing. In this biography, the first in more than twenty years, Rachel Shteir draws on Friedan's papers and on interviews with family, colleagues, and friends to create a nuanced portrait.

Publication Date: 2023

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The former head of the UK's Diplomatic Service considers what the future of Britain's foreign policy should look like. What should the future of Britain foreign policy look like? For too long successive governments have shied away from acknowledging uncomfortable truths about the decline of Britain's military capabilities.