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Katherine A Foss
Capturing Covid

"When health authorities quarantined guests aboard the Diamond Princess on February 5, 2020, the cruise ship abruptly shifted from a dream vacation vessel to a public health nightmare. Over the next …

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Jamison E Colburn
The Mind of Janus

A novel assessment of the interplay between law and ecology in forest managementTrees are the embodiment of existence: abundant, regenerative, irrepressible. Yet as more of the planet undergoes profound a…

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Rebecca Solnit
The Beginning Comes After the End

Rebecca Solnit offers a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and scale of social, political, scientific, and cultural change over the past three quarters of a century. In this sequel to her enduring be…

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Planetary Portals Collective
Planetary Portals

A speculative theory for mapping the colonial afterlives of extractive industries across southern Africa.Planetary Portals focuses on the colonial afterlives of extraction in southern Africa and its colon…

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The Health Humanities in German Studies

The first full-length study to bring together the fields of Health Humanities and German studies, this book features contributions from a range of key scholars and provides an overview of the latest work …

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Partha Dasgupta
On Natural Capital

From the man that the New York Timescalls "the most important person you've never heard of," renowned Cambridge University economist Sir Partha Dasgupta, comes a paradigm shifting treatise, aski…

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Say Burgin
Organizing Your Own

The fascinating history of white solidarity with the Black Power movementIn the mid-1960s, as the politics of Black self-determination gained steam, Black activists had a new message for white activists: …

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Shoshana Walter
Rehab

Pulitzer finalist Shoshana Walter exposes the country's failed response to the opioid crisis, and the malfeasance, corruption, and snake oil which blight the drug rehabilitation industry.Our country's lea…

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Amrita Chakrabarti Myers
The Vice President's Black Wife

Award-winning historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796-1833), the enslaved mixed-race wife of Richard Mentor Johnson, ow…

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Yijun Wang
The Tin Centuries

How a mundane metal bound miners and officials to global capitalism and an emerging technocratic state Tin was everywhere in early modern China--lining tea chests, shaping religious vessels, alloyed into …

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Shoshana Walter
Rehab

Pulitzer finalist Shoshana Walter exposes the country's failed response to the opioid crisis, and the malfeasance, corruption, and snake oil which blight the drug rehabilitation industry.Our country's lea…

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Terra Invicta

The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 produced not only military and humanitarian responses but also scholarly and artistic ones from Ukrainians looking to the future of their country.Terra Inv…

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Jordan A Parsons
'Opt Out' Organ Donation

"Opt Out" Organ Donation offers the first comprehensive analysis of all four UK opt out systems. Rather than assessing the success of these systems in increasing transplantation activity - which…

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Michelle A Williams
The Cure for Everything

The inspiring story of how we overcame a history of infectious disease, poisonous environments, and early death and unlocked an explosion in human potential---and a vision for the work ahead to optimize h…

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Jamison E Colburn
The Mind of Janus

A novel assessment of the interplay between law and ecology in forest managementTrees are the embodiment of existence: abundant, regenerative, irrepressible. Yet as more of the planet undergoes profound a…

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Amanda E Lewis, John B Diamond
Despite the Best Intentions

In this updated second edition, Amanda E. Lewis and John B. Diamond build on their powerful and illuminating study of Riverview to show how the racial achievement gap continues to afflict American schools…

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Midori Ogasawara
Colonial Surveillance

In order to compete with Western powers, Japan began to rapidly modernize its governing institutions, in the process creating a national population registration and identification bureaucracy, the Koseki …

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Keri Ladner
American Dominion

Evangelical influence has been prominent in American politics since at least 1976, with the rise of Jimmy Carter in the year Time magazine proclaimed the "Year of the Evangelical." For decades, …

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We Are Each Other's Liberation

Haymarket Books

A major anthology that illuminates historical and contemporary solidarities between Black and Asian feminists.A collaborative project between Black Women Radicals and the Asian American Feminist Collectiv…

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Sean Field
Carbon Capital

"This book is about how and why people who finance the US oil and gas industry ethically and financially evaluate energy and the factors that come to bear on these evaluations"--

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