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Noah Theriault
A Forest of Dreams

"After the fall of the Marcos regime in 1986, the Philippines became the first country in Asia to codify Indigenous rights. This hard-fought reform aimed to protect the ancestral lands of the archipe…

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Gaoheng Zhang
Italian Dumplings and Chinese Pizzas

Designs a novel analytical framework to approach transcultural food mobilities, a culinary phenomenon which has been with us for decades as a result of colonialism and globalizationWhy is it surprising fo…

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A Cultural History of Plants in the Nineteenth Century

Looks at the revolution of botanical study and the evolution of the new science of biology in the period from 1800 to 1920, a time of astonishing growth in industrialization, urbanization, migration, popu…

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A Cultural History of Plants in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Looks at the history and meanings of plants in the period from 1650-1800, a time of global exploration and the discovery of new species of plants and their potential uses.

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A Cultural History of Plants in the Modern Era

Examines how our relationship with plants has evolved since 1920, through advances in agriculture, industry, science, and technology,, the impact of urbanization, and our increased understanding of the si…

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A Cultural History of Plants in Antiquity

Examines the uses and meanings of plants from 10,000 BCE to 500 CE, from the transition from hunter-gatherer subsistence to the practice of agriculture in Mesopotamia and elsewhere.

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Michael Grunwald
We Are Eating the Earth

A groundbreaking piece of reportage concerning our vulnerable food system---and how we will eat in the near future.

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Matthew Greenslade
Beyond the World Bank

In this open access book, Matthew Greenslade sheds some much-needed light on the damage being done by the World Bank's insistence on pursuing a poverty-targeted approach to social protection in lower inco…

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A Cultural History of Plants in the Early Modern Era

Covering the period from 1400 to 1650, this volume looks at how Renaissance learning and exploration irrevocably changed both our botanical knowledge and human impact on plants.

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Alexis Lerner
Post-Soviet Graffiti

Post-Soviet Graffiti is an empirically grounded ethnographic study of how graffiti and street art can be used as a political tool to circumvent censorship, express grievances, and control public discourse…

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Matthew Greenslade
Beyond the World Bank

In this open access book, Matthew Greenslade sheds some much-needed light on the damage being done by the World Bank's insistence on pursuing a poverty-targeted approach to social protection in lower inco…

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National Public Housing Museum
We Are All Family Here

A beautiful, full-color tribute to the story of public housing in America, told through reminiscences about emblematic objects by former and current public housing residentsOver the past century, more tha…

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Peter Schwartzstein
The Heat and the Fury

"A landmark work on perhaps the essential question of our time."---David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable EarthAs a journalist on the climate security beat, Peter Schwartzstein has bee…

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Making Levantine Cuisine

From family staples to national dishes, Making Levantine Cuisine addresses the transnational histories and cultural nuances of the ingredients, recipes, and foodways that place the Levant onto an ever-shi…

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Knowledge, Power, and Migration

Knowledge, Power, and Migration asks how research practices can change the conversation on immigration, encouraging curiosity about how scholarship in this field can shape global, social, and epistemic ju…

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Jeffrey H Cohen
Eating Grasshoppers

An approachable ethnography of how grasshoppers are harvested, sold, and consumed in Oaxaca.

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Patricia a McCoy
Sharing Risk

Examining why society should pool and spread the financial risk that individual families now bear.Over the past sixty years, businesses and government have increasingly off-loaded financial risk onto US h…

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Matt Buttrick
Moreish

A celebratory feast of all things food, Moreish chews the fat with a range of foodie insiders to unpick the codes of consumption.

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Alice Driver
Life and Death of the American Worker

Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, and a New Yorker best book of 2024, a "startling glimpse into the meatpacking industry's abuse of undocumented and incarcerated workers" (T…

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When Roe Fell

In the aftermath of the fall of Roe , this volume offers readers the opportunity to reorient scholarship and understanding about abortion, recognizing what was already true before Roe was overturned and h…

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