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Tomas Cole,
Possessed Landscapes

When spirits guard forests, conservation becomes revolution - and liberation grows from the soil In 2011 Myanmar emerged from what was by some counts the longest ongoing war in the world. Amid the flurry …

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Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Adrienne A Winans
Moving Mountains

Illuminates a transformational event in the development of Asian American and Pacific Islander feminisms In November 1977, over twenty thousand participants, mostly women, gathered in Houston for the firs…

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Andrew C Willford
Modernity and Malevolence in the Psychiatric Clinic

Modernity and Malevolence in the Psychiatric Clinic is a richly detailed ethnographic study of clinical care at NIMHANS, India's leading mental health institution, offering rich observations of patient-ph…

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Adebayo Oluwayomi
Foundations of Black Epistemology

Foundations of Black Epistemology is Adebayo Oluwayomi's bold endeavor to delineate Black epistemology as a new sub-disciplinary focus in contemporary Africana or Black philosophy. He engages in a rigorou…

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Greg Tate
Flyboy in the Buttermilk

A reissue of Greg Tate's classic, out-of-print collection of essays, with a new introduction by Hanif Abdurraqib and a new foreword by Questlove. From one of the most original, creative, and provocative c…

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India's Mithila Painting

A woman's art form transforms from home to high art Since at least the fifteenth century, Hindu women in the Mithila region of northern India have been painting images of deities, flora and fauna symboliz…

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Adebayo Oluwayomi
Foundations of Black Epistemology

Foundations of Black Epistemology is Adebayo Oluwayomi's bold endeavor to delineate Black epistemology as a new sub-disciplinary focus in contemporary Africana or Black philosophy. He engages in a rigorou…

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Lina-Maria Murillo
Fighting for Control

The first birth control clinic in El Paso, Texas, opened in 1937. Since then, Mexican-origin women living in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez have confronted various interest groups determin…

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Brian Elliott
A Child's Place in Nature

Outlining a transformational pedagogical philosophy that seeks to foster strong and meaningful bonds to the natural environment forged in childhood, this book targets some of the central social challenges…

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Sybil Derrible
The Infrastructure Book

"[A] penetrating analysis of urban infrastructure..." --- NatureClean water, paved roads, public transit, electricity and gas, sewers, waste processing, telecommunication, even the Internet -- a…

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Christina Sharpe
Ordinary Notes

A finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction Named a Best Book of 2023 by The New York Times , NPR, New York magazine, Kirkus , …

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Social Capital and Health

Social Capital and Health builds on the existing literature in establishing the effect of social capital on health. With contributions from scholars in the field, this book covers different aspects of soc…

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Heather Ann Thompson
Fear and Fury

In this masterful, groundbreaking work, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Heather Ann Thompson shines surprising new light on an infamous 1984 New York subway shooting that would unveil simmering racial resen…

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Techno-Orientalism 2.0

Techno-Orientalism 2.0 addresses the impact of a volatile post-COVID present on speculative futures by and about Asians. The volume engages with techno-Orientalist inflections in recent high-profile and l…

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Christopher L Carter
The Long Shadow of Extraction

How resistance to extraction shaped Indigenous demands for autonomy, integration, or assimilationFrom the onset of colonialism, Indigenous communities have faced seizure of their land, labor, and resource…

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Isabelle Boni-Claverie,
Too Black to Be French

Unraveling the Complexities of Identity in a World of Racial PrejudicesWinner, Grand Prize, French Voices Award"This book is one of the greatest pleas against exclusions that have so far prevented Fr…

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Lori Latrice Martin,
White Sports/Black Sports

"This new edition features a new chapter examining the history of Black athletes in college sports and the historic and contemporary role of the NCAA in exploiting their labor. Lori Latrice Martin's …

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Henry Smith Williams
Drug Addicts Are Human Beings

The War on Drugs is now a century old. The question isn't why aren't we winning, it's why are we fighting? Dr. Henry Smith Williams asked that question in his 1938 cult-classic book, Drug Addicts Are Huma…

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Techno-Orientalism 2.0

Techno-Orientalism 2.0 addresses the impact of a volatile post-COVID present on speculative futures by and about Asians. The volume engages with techno-Orientalist inflections in recent high-profile and l…

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Mikaela Loach
Climate Is Just the Start

"Climate is Just the Start is a hopeful and empowering guide for kids on how to STOP climate change and START building a better world--from rising-star activist Mikaela Loach. It's easy to see news a…

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