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Publication Date: 2024
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This volume draws together interdisciplinary studies that highlight key insights important to support heterogeneity, biodiversity, and resilience in fluvial ecosystems. The syntheses point to greater emphasis on integrated approaches to advance strategies for ecosystem management toward conservation, restoration, and sustainable practices, in particular to accommodate multiple possible postfire disturbance and recovery trajectories--
Publication Date: 2023
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In America, women are more likely to die during childbirth than in any other developed country - and these odds only continue to grow. A third of American women describe their births as traumatic. Even Serena Williams, among the most successful and economically powerful Black women of our time, nearly died when her doctors ignored her medical concerns post-partum. What accounts for the dismal state of reproductive care in this country, and why aren't we talking about it?
Publication Date: 2021
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In this stunning and deeply heartfelt tribute to Black culinary ingenuity, Bryant Terry captures the broad and divergent voices of the African Diaspora through the prism of food. With contributions from more than 100 Black cultural luminaries from around the globe, the book moves through chapters exploring parts of the Black experience, from Homeland to Migration, Spirituality to Black Future, offering delicious recipes, moving essays, and arresting artwork.
Publication Date: 2018
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Growing up sensitive and slightly awkward in a race-conscious space, Guy decided early on that good food is the most powerful way to connect, understand, and heal. She leads readers on a sensual baking journey, using the fives senses, as she retells food memories with ingredients that involve whole flours, less refined sugar, and vegan alternatives.
Publication Date: 2020
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Tens of thousands of Filipino soldiers and sailors fought and died under the American flag in the Pacific during the Second World War. Yet Americans know little about these casualties, because they know little about America's long history in the Philippines -- or about Filipinos' long history in the US armed forces. Since US Marines first occupied the islands in 1898, war and military service have created an enduring, often-fraught bond between Americans and Filipinos: the axis on which America's first Pacific Century turned.
Publication Date: 2023
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Examines the life of Alan Turing, a mathematician who cracked the German's Enigma code during World War II and laid ground work for modern computers.
Publication Date: 2021
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Bress 'n nyam: Bless and eat. Descendants of enslaved Africans came together from the Carolinas to Georgia and Florida, speaking the African Creole language called Gullah-Geechee-- and making extraordinary food. In 2010 Raiford's Nana handed over the deed to the family farm to him and his sister, and Raiford rose to the occasion, nurturing the farm that his great-great-great grandfather, a freed slave, purchased in 1874. Here he pays homage to this cuisine that nurtured his family for seven generations, tracing a history of community and family brought together by food.
Publication Date: 2024
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Burnt by Democracy: Youth, Inequality, and the Erosion of Civic Life is based on a research endeavour that encompasses the thoughts and experiences of young activists and homeless youth (ages 16 to 29) living in five liberal democracies: Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
Publication Date: 2022
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Capturing Nature is the ultimate guide to nature printing, a beautiful and invaluable reference work for scholars, artists, designers, botanists, and anyone interested in nature, botanical illustration, and printing. Hailed as the earliest precursor to photography, nature printing is the practice of using impressions from the surface of natural objects such as leaves, flowering plants, ferns, seaweed, snakeskin, and more to produce an image.
Publication Date: 2022
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In Cataloging beyond the Notes: Annotating Bibliographic Records for Music Effectively in RDA, authors Ralph Hartsock and Peter Lisius present examples illustrating the effective use of notes in the description of music, and this is especially important with RDA. Since RDA has increased granularity in the description of music, whether in score, recording, video, or data formats, the expert direction offered in Cataloging beyond the Notes makes it a key reference for music cataloging. Bibliographic records are presented using MARC21.
Publication Date: 2023
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Challenging Confinement is an examination of how the feminist movements in the late twentieth century ignited prison protests, activism, and reform in women's prisons during the era of mass incarceration--
Publication Date: 2021
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'My great-grandmother was both enslaved and a pastry cook who was famous for her biscuits and cakes. There is power in that.' --Cheryl Day, in the New York Times. And from this position of strength comes Day's next cookbook: a complete book of Southern baking recipes written by this great-grandchild of a former slave who is also one of our country's most acclaimed bakers.
Publication Date: 2022
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The term Heartland in American cultural context conventionally tends to provoke imageries of corn-fields, flat landscape, hog farms, and rural communities, along with ideas of conservatism, homogeneity, and isolation. But as the Midwestern and Southern states experienced more rapid population growth than that in California, Hawaii, and New York in the recent decades, the Heartland region has emerged as a growing interest of Asian American studies. Focused on the Heartland cities of Chicago, Illinois and St.
Publication Date: 2023
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When Stephanie Land set out to write her memoir Maid, she never could have imagined what was to come. Handpicked by President Barack Obama as one of the best books of 2019, it was called an eye-opening journey into the lives of the working poor (People). Later it was adapted into the hit Netflix series Maid, which was viewed by 67 million households and was Netflix's fourth most-watched show in 2021, garnering three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Stephanie's escape out of poverty and abuse in search of a better life inspired millions.
Publication Date: 2021
Publication Date: 2023
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The second edition of Conspiracy Theories: A Primer, updated throughout and now including COVID-19 and the 2020 presidential election and aftermath, introduces students to the research into conspiracy theories and the people who propagate and believe them. In doing so, it addresses the psychological, sociological, and political sources of conspiracy theorizing--
Publication Date: 2023
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Debris-flow alluvial fans are iconic features of dynamic landscapes and are hypothesized to record tectonic and climatic change. Here, we highlight their complex formation and evolution through an exemplary suite of Quaternary debris-flow alluvial fans emanating from the western range front of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in south-central Colorado, USA.
Publication Date: 2024
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Traditional theories of knowledge explain knowledge in terms of things like justification and belief. Knowledge-first theories of justification and belief explain justification and belief in terms of knowledge. When epistemologists ask whether knowledge comes first, they are asking whether traditional theories of knowledge take the right approach, or whether knowledge-first theories of things like justification and belief take the right approach.
Publication Date: 2023
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Toya Boudy's father grew up in the Magnolia projects of New Orleans; her mother shared a tight space with five siblings uptown. They worked hard, rotated shifts, and found time to make meals from scratch for the family. In Cooking for the Culture, Boudy shares these recipes, many of which are deeply rooted in the proud Black traditions that shaped her hometown. Driving the cookbook are her personal stories: from struggling in school to having a baby at sixteen, from her growing confidence in the kitchen to her appearances on Food Network.
Publication Date: 2024
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A thorough investigation of the current combination of austerity and extravagance that characterizes government spending and central bank monetary policy. At the close of the 1970s, government treasuries and central banks took a vow of perpetual self-restraint. While, to this day, welfare states do penance for fiscal sins, a closer look at the period of neoliberal ascendancy reveals a deep paradox.
Publication Date: 2023
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Critical Dimensions of African Studies emphasizes a critique of power structures, the promotion of human liberation, a commitment to social justice and transformation, and critical reflection on the politics of the production and circulation of knowledge of Africa--
Publication Date: 2022
Publication Date: 2023
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The new edition of Cultural Anthropology unmasks cultural power structures and demonstrates how the research strategies and analytical perspectives of anthropology help us understand and navigate big issues such as racism, sexism, the unequal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and climate change. -- Back cover
