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Publication Date: 2024
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This book offers an analysis of how Gen Z in the global South engages with the digital, both globally, and locally. The authors demonstrate how youth in the global South build digital worlds for themselves and others through active and producer-level participation--
Publication Date: 2022
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Ghetto Gastro, a Bronx-based creative and culinary collective, delivers a highly visual manifesto for living and eating to stimulate the mind, body, and heart, in a book that promotes Black excellence through recipes, art, and thought-provoking text. Predominantly plant-based recipes.
Publication Date: 1989
Publication Date: 2024
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How do we try to make the world a better place, when the challenges of poverty, disease, war, conflict, and climate change continue to impact millions of lives? Global Development: The Basics is a lively and engaging introduction to the shifting landscape of global development, right from its origins, to present-day problems, and on to what the future for global development might look like.
Publication Date: 2000
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Yoko Ono's whimsical, delightful, subversive, startling book of instructions for art and for life.
Publication Date: 2024
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Emotions have increasingly attracted the attention of the sciences and academia. The topic is all the more timely since we have witnessed a global trend towards highly emotionalized discourses across societies and religions. Discourses are less guided by rational arguments and facts. Instead, narratives, sometimes manipulative, influence the thoughts and activi-ties of our societies. In this context, the authoritative texts of the monotheistic religions are experiencing a renaissance.
Publication Date: 2010
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Beloved author Maya Angelou returns to the kitchen--both hers and ours--with her second cookbook, filled with time-tested recipes and the intimate, autobiographical sketches of how they came to be. Inspired by Angelou's own dramatic weight loss, the focus here is on good food, well-made and eaten in moderation. All the delicious dishes here can be eaten in small portions, and many times a day. More important, they can be converted into other mouth-watering incarnations.
Publication Date: 2024
Publication Date: 2024
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The new edition of this landmark text expands our current understanding of teacher education broadly by providing an in-depth look at the most up-to-date research on special education teacher preparation. Offering a comprehensive review of research on attracting, preparing, and sustaining personnel to effectively serve students with disabilities, it is fully updated to align with current knowledge and future perspectives on special educator development, synthesizing what we can do to continue advancing as a field.
Publication Date: 2023
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The first comprehensive guide to humour in the age of the internet and social media, this book makes the reader laugh (for the examples) while also engrossing them for its rigorous scholarship. The book shows how humour has changed since the advent of the internet: new genres, new contexts, and new audiences. The book provides a guide to such phenomena as memes, video parodies, photobombing, and cringe humour. Included are also in-depth discussions of the humour in phenomena such as dogecoin, the joke currency, and the use of humour by the alt-right.
Publication Date: 2024
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Traces the history of the concept of democracy in the United States--
Publication Date: 2024
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This revised and updated fifth edition of Immigrant America: A Portrait provides a comprehensive and current overview of immigration to the United States, including its history, the principal theories seeking to account for its diverse origins, the main types of immigrants and the various forms of their incorporation within American society.
Publication Date: 2019
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Lewis was a pioneer in the celebration of seasonal food as a distinctly American cuisine. In this update of the 1988 edition, Lewis shares the recipes of her childhood, spent in a Virginia farming community founded by her grandfather and his friends after emancipation, as well as those that made her one of the most revered American chefs of all time. Interspersed throughout are personal anecdotes, cooking insights, notes on important Southern ingredients, and personally developed techniques for maximizing flavor. -- adapted from inside front cover
Publication Date: 2005
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John Marzluff and Tony Angell examine the often surprising ways that crows and humans interact. The authors contend that those interactions reflect a process of cultural coevolution. They offer a challenging new view of the human-crow dynamic - a view that may change our thinking not only about crows but also about ourselves. Featuring more than 100 original drawings, this book takes a close look at the influences people have had on the lives of crows throughout history and at the significant ways crows have altered human lives.
Publication Date: 2024
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A probing work of narrative history that reveals the hidden story of immigrant detention in the United States, deepening urgent national conversations around migration. In 2017, many Americans watched in horror as children were torn from their parents at the US-Mexico border under Trump's family separation policy. But as historian Ana Raquel Minian reveals in In the Shadow of Liberty, this was only the latest chapter in a saga tracing back to the 1800s-one in which immigrants to the United States have been held without recourse to their constitutional rights.
Publication Date: 2023
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Exploring a number of feminist and cultural touchstones-the feminist sex wars, the HIV/AIDS crisis, the women in print movement, and countercultural grassroots periodical networks-In Visible Archives examines how visual culture provided a vital space for women artists to theorize and visualize their own bodies and sexualities--
Publication Date: 2023
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The introduction of writing enables new forms of literature, but these can be invisible in works that survive as manuscripts. Through looking at inscriptions of poetry on garbage and as graffiti, we can glimpse how literature spread along with writing. This study uses these lesser-studied sources, including inscriptions on pottery, architecture, and especially wooden tablets known as mokkan, to uncover how poetry, and literature more broadly, was used, shared and thrown away in early Japan.
Publication Date: 2023
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In 1922, an unlikely team of researchers in Toronto made one of the most important medical breakthroughs of the century: insulin. Their discovery seemed miraculous. When it was given to diabetic patients on the brink of death, their condition rapidly improved. Those present could barely believe their eyes: they had witnessed resurrection. However, this was no simple cure. Injections must be taken for life. Without them, symptoms quickly return, often with fatal results. But while a lifetime on insulin poses great challenges, it also offers opportunities.
Publication Date: 2024
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How should we describe the devastation brought about on the lives of the enslaved? How should we describe plantation slavery as an institutionalized and transgenerational structure of dominance? Irreparable Evil, by David Scott, is an intellectual engagement with the insufficiently acknowledged legacy of plantation slavery in the New World. He argues that while slavery involved unimaginable practices of violence, its destructive powers include that of an inherited form of life. The perniciousness of slavery was its legacy as an inheritance of future generations.
Publication Date: 2022
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This volume offers a panoramic view of Black feminist politics through the stories of Black women who attended the 1977 National Women's Conference, placing the diversity of Black women's experiences and their leadership at the center of the history of the women's movement--
Publication Date: 2022
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This collection arose out of a 2019 conference to commemorate the completion of the fourteen-volume Correspondence of James K. Polk. Its scholarship--which pays tribute to the Polk Project itself, as well as to the controversial nature of the Polk legacy--will result in a significant reinterpretation of the eleventh US president. Contributors include John F. Polk, who examines the ways history has mischaracterized almost the entire Polk family tree, and Kelly Houston Jones, who investigates the family's investments in slave-based agriculture.
Publication Date: 2023
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American evangelicalism is at a crisis point. The naked grasping at political power at the expense of moral credibility has revealed a movement in disarray. Evangelicals are now faced with a quandary: will they double-down and continue along this perilous path, or will they stop, reflect, and change course? And while support of Donald Trump has produced the tipping point of the evangelical crisis, it is not by any means its only problem. Evangelicals claim the Bible as the supreme authority in matters of faith.
Publication Date: 2024
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Illustrates the diversity of Jewish lesbian experience through a range of topics, voices, and genres, encouraging readers to rethink narrow conceptions of Jewishness--
Publication Date: 2024
