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Publication Date: 2025
Publication Date: 2025
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This microhistory of early modern transatlantic migration follows the journey of the Agata, a Dutch frigate hired by Spanish merchants in 1747 to travel between Cádiz and Veracruz. Manned by migrants from across Europe, the Agata was intercepted by British privateers on its return trip, an event that led to the preservation of most of the documents on board, including a collection of personal letters.
Publication Date: 2025
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A year after his divorce, Jayojit Chatterjee, an economics professor in the American Midwest, travels to his native Calcutta with his young son, Bonny, to spend the summer holidays with his parents. Jayojit is no more accustomed to spending time alone with Bonny-who lives with his mother in California-than he is with the Admiral and his wife, whose daily rhythms have become so synchronized as to become completely foreign to their son. Together, the unlikely foursome struggles to pass the protracted hours of summer, each in his or her own way mourning Jayojit's failed marriage.
Publication Date: 2025
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Dix ans après les attaques terroristes du 13 novembre 2015, les plaies ne se sont pas refermées. Il est d'autant plus nécessaire de prendre la mesure des traces et des impacts de cet événement monstre dans et pour la société française. Cet abécédaire, conçu par l'équipe Écrire le 13 novembre, écrire les terrorismes propose de le faire en interrogeant les témoignages ou chroniques, romans et récits, pièces de théâtre, poèmes, chansons, bandes dessinées, ouvrages de littérature de jeunesse et théâtre jeunes publics qui leur ont fait écho.
Publication Date: 2025
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This collection is a rallying cry from the trenches of maternal mental illness. Mixing academic research with personal experience, these poems lay bare the raw, neglected parts of motherhood: rage, sorrow, confusion, ambivalence, and tentative joy.
Publication Date: 2026
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This timely book explores the rocky trajectory of US environmental history and policy from pre-European settlement to the present. It includes underreported aspects of early history, and the first in-depth synthesis of the framing and outcomes of the groundbreaking environmental laws of the 1970s.While effective against pollution, the new regulatory system led to economic decline, antagonism in the business community and political division. The book traces and compares US policies with more successful policies adopted by the EU in the 1990s.
Publication Date: 2025
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This book explores how women writers, who have long been marginal to histories of literature and science, wielded poetics as a tool for scientific work. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, anatomists were actively exploring the best ways to represent bodies in texts-to translate the work of the dissection room into the pages of books. When we recognize Renaissance anatomy as fundamentally a book-making project, Sperrazza insists, we find an expansive history of anatomy in the pages of women's poetry.
Publication Date: 2024
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Riveting and uncompromising, Another Person explores the long-lasting consequences of the sexism and misogyny fostered in universities. Vacuum cleaner bitch. When Jina sees this anonymous comment on a forum it forces her out of her stupor. It is posted on a website dissecting her public allegations of workplace sexual assault, the backlash to which forced her to quit her job. She has spent months glued to her laptop screen, junk-food packaging piling up around her, tracking the hate campaign that's raging against her online.
Publication Date: 2026
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During the interwar years, Vietnamese society witnessed a rapid change in the way women looked. Rejecting the model of a sequestered maiden with blackened teeth and long hair, they embraced a vivid palette of colors-and a colorful lifestyle to match. Before the war, Vietnam would have seemed like an unlikely place for a beauty industry to thrive. Virtuous young women were expected to hide their natural beauty, not manipulate it with makeup or flaunt it at a beauty contest. Yet ordinary women began seeking out the latest fashions-to great public consternation. Christina E.
Publication Date: 2023
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Beyond Fitting In interrogates how the cultural capital and lived experiences of first-generation students frame literacy studies and the writing-centered classroom. The volume's topics include best practices, support websites, regionalism, rural Latinx students, retention, HBCUs, transfer students, first-year writing, class, transfer students, writing studies majors, race, and identity--
Publication Date: 2019
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Beyond Physicalism is the product of an unusual fellowship of scientists and humanities scholars who dispute the belief that reality is at bottom purely physical, and that human beings are nothing more than extremely complicated biological machines. In their previous publication. Irreducible Mind, they argued that physicalism cannot accommodate various well-evidenced empirical events such as paranormal phenomena, postmortem survival, and mystical experiences.
Publication Date: 2024
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When we call Earth 'the blue planet' we immediately envision the vast oceans that cover most of its surface. But seas aren't the only bodies of water that make Earth special. Millions of diverse inland waters rush, meander, and seep throughout the planet, teeming with life. These streams, lakes, wetlands, and groundwaters are home to thousands of species, many of which are extraordinary and some of which are critically endangered.
Publication Date: 2025
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Black!Feminist!Free! gathers her most influential essays, public speeches, and interviews into a single volume, offering readers access to the depth and range of her contributions. From early reflections on the intersections of race, gender, and class, to her contemporary analyses of sexuality, reproductive justice, and global Black feminist solidarity, the collection testifies to her enduring commitment to liberation for all oppressed peoples.
Publication Date: 2022
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In fourteen short stories by Morocco's foremost writer of life on the margins, this arabophone cult classic traces the impact of power, abuse, and illness on the body--
Publication Date: 2023
Publication Date: 2024
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A new way of seeing Black history -- through a sweeping look at how American cities developed from the vision, aspirations, and actions of the Black poor. Building the Black City shows how African Americans built and rebuilt thriving cities for themselves, even as their unpaid and underpaid labor enriched the nation's economic, political, and cultural elites. Covering an incredible range of cities across the U.S., Joe William Trotter, Jr., traces the growth of Black cities and political power from the preindustrial era to the present.
Publication Date: 2022
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This unique collection of testimonials, critical essays, and first-hand accounts demonstrates the significant contribution of campus service workers in supporting the retention and success of first-generation college students. Using a Freirean framework to ground individual stories, the text identifies ways in which campus workers connect with students, provide informal mentorship, and offer culturally relevant support during students' transition to college and beyond.
Publication Date: 2025
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In 1920, Henry Fairfield Osborn, director of New York's American Museum of Natural History, traveled to Hawaii on an anthropological research trip. While there, he took a surfing lesson. His teacher was Duke Kahanamoku, a famous surf-rider and budding movie star. For Osborn, a fervent eugenicist, Kahanamoku was a maddening paradox: physically perfect, yet belonging to an imperfect race. Osborn dispatched young scientist Louis Sullivan to Honolulu to measure, photograph, and cast in plaster Kahanamoku and other Hawaiian people.
Publication Date: 2020
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This book examines the changing digital geographies of the Anthropocene. It analyses how technologies are providing new opportunities for communication and connection, while simultaneously deepening existing problems associated with isolation, global inequity and environmental harm. By offering a reading of digital technologies as ‘more-than-real’, the author argues that the productive and destructive possibilities of digital geographies are changing important aspects of human and non-human worlds.
Publication Date: 2024
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Cicero's Brutus is a history of Roman oratory, in the form of a dialogue between Cicero, Atticus, and the eponymous Brutus. This new edition by Douglas R. Thomas presents the first comprehensive study of the transmission of the text, a critical edition of the Latin text, and a textual commentary.
Publication Date: 2025
Publication Date: 2019
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Composting at scales large enough to capture and recycle the organic wastes of a given community, whether a school, neighborhood, or even a small city, is coming of age, propelled by a growing awareness not only of our food waste crisis, but also the need to restore natural fertility in our soils.
Publication Date: 2021
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Building on the groundbreaking research of previous books, Edward Kelly and Paul Marshall gather a cohort of leading scholars to address the most recent advances in the psychology of consciousness--
