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Publication Date: 2025
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Beliefism (noun): Discrimination against people who disagree with us. Do you avoid people who are strongly against immigration? Or strongly for trans rights? Against abortion? For drug legalisation?
Publication Date: 2025
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This Element seeks to characterize key aspects of the cult and culture of the Judean populace at large, in Judea and the diaspora, during the Early Hellenistic period (332-175 BCE).
Publication Date: 2026
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Beyond the Battlefield offers a critical reappraisal of Angola's nationalist history by centering the experiences and political agency of women during the country's transition from Portuguese colonial rule to independence.
Publication Date: 2026
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As the United States marks its semiquincentennial in 2026, renowned historian Marc Stein looks back at the politics of another landmark celebration during a time of striking similarities and surprising differences: the US bicentennial in 1976.
Publication Date: 2026
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Black and Blue TV explores the ways television productions have responded to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Publication Date: 2017
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When it comes to Teju Cole, the unexpected is not unfamiliar: He's an acclaimed novelist, an influential essayist, and an internationally exhibited photographer.
Publication Date: 2025
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Unleash the dark and delirious with this electrifying anthology of folk horror from some of Britain's most iconic working-class voices: A.K. Blakemore, Daniel Draper, Emma Glass, Mark Colbourne, Mark Stafford, Hollie Starling, Jenn Ashworth, Natasha Carthew, Salena Godden and Tom Benn.
Publication Date: 2026
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A groundbreaking look at the science of attraction and compatibility, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about how human mating evolved-to demonstrate the real keys to romantic attachment-- Provided by publisher.
Publication Date: 2025
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Books of Mana celebrates the rich tradition of Māori authorship in Aotearoa New Zealand. It reveals the central place of over 200 years of print literacy within te ao Māori and vividly conveys how books are understood as taonga tuku iho - treasured items handed down through generations.
Publication Date: 2021
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Borders and Belonging explores the role of libraries as both places of belonging as well as instruments of exclusion, xenophobia and assimilation for library users who are immigrants--
Publication Date: 2020
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Breaking out of Tradition traces the pioneering developments in lacquer art at the beginning of the 20th century in Japan.
Publication Date: 2024
Publication Date: 2025
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It is impossible to deny the impact of lies and white supremacy on the institutional conditions in US prisons.
Publication Date: 2022
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From the first film shot in Korea in 1901 through early internet screen cultures in late 1990s South Korea, Cine-Mobility explores the association between cinematic media and transportation mobility-not only in diverse and discrete forms such as railroads, motorways, automobiles, automation, and
Publication Date: 2017
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Latino millennials constitute the second largest segment of the millennial population. By sheer numbers they will inevitably have a significant social, economic, and political impact on U.S. society.
Publication Date: 2025
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Three African American boys, including one visiting from New York, form a meaningful connection during a summer trip to rural Mississippi.
Claiming land, claiming water : borders and the people who crossed them in the early modern Atlantic
Publication Date: 2026
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Claiming Land, Claiming Water shares what historians and geographers wish readers knew about maps and borders before, during, and after the founding of the United States.
Publication Date: 2024
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How Latina/o/x gang literature and film represent women and gay gang members' challenges to gendered, sexual, racial, and class oppression--
Publication Date: 2025
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Gloria Forman and Xia Harper go to the same high school in a small South Carolina town, but they couldn't be more different.
Publication Date: 2025
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The twentieth century is understood as an era of growing, inexorable secularism, yet in Britain between the 1890s and the 1960s there was a marked turn to Rome.
Publication Date: 2025
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Crawford Craw Cope has anger issues. Or so they say. When Craw is sentenced to community service for hitting his father in the head with a baseball bat, he accepts his punishment without objection, knowing he's actually lucky.
Publication Date: 2024
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Cornerstone of the Nation is the first historical account of the complex alliance of military and civilian forces that catapulted South Korea's conjoined militarization and industrialization under Park Chung Hee (1961-1979).
Publication Date: 2025
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During the Civil War, the US government abolished slavery without reimbursing enslavers, diminishing the white South's wealth by nearly 50 percent.
