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*Archivum *is a book – wise, funny and inventive by turn – that explores what it means to look at artefacts in an archive, and how these objects resonate with events in our lives. Imagined as a walk across Edinburgh, landmarks such as the Balmoral clock, National Library of Scotland, Meadows, Canongate Kirkyard and Water of Leith provide a meditative backdrop to the poems.The archives - in particular the archive of the writer Muriel Spark – are used to create a space to come to terms with the complexities of a life and how we in turn tell stori... + Read More
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Series: The Lives of ZPaperback
Olivia McCannon9781836243045
$33.95POETRY
Apr 28, 2025
Olivia McCannon’s latest collection is shot through with questions. How ecological is English? How do you read an unreadable world, or a transforming planet?The Lives of Z is an inventory of poem-artefacts gleaned from the spoilheaps of a speculative future. Each ‘find’ emerges with the randomness of any archaeological discovery, in that moment when its significance hangs in the air. Except that here, life is growing out of the data.In this space of provocation and encounter, the reader is invited to “play Z’s game” and crash-test different way... + Read More
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Series: The Ishtar GatePaperback
Sarah Corbett9781836244578
$33.95POETRY
Apr 28, 2025
Self and history collide, selves fracture, the flag is divided, monuments collapse. In her sixth collection, Sarah Corbett considers the fragments we might hold against dissolution, whether personal, national, or global. Midnight in Leningrad, 1940, Anna Akhmatova waits for a poem to arrive, in her hand an egg; on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a writer recalls her breakdown as a student in 1989. In the pandemic year an isolated artist communes with a tree; visitors to an art gallery are led on a journey of rebirth; missiv... + Read More
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Series: MindYourSelfFamily TherapyConversations for changePaperback
Marie Murray9781782054856
$26.95PSYCHOLOGY
Nov 28, 2024
Family Therapy: Conversations for change invites readers directly into the therapy room with systemic family psychotherapists, all of whom are registered members of the Family Therapy Association of Ireland Here, therapists describe carefully anonymised consultations with individuals, couples, parents, children, adolescents and adults facing many of the challenges that confront people in their lives today. Family Therapy: Conversations for change shows systemic family psychotherapists in action with issues of addiction autism adolescent anx... + Read More
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Series: Atlas SeriesAtlas of the Irish Civil WarNew PerspectivesHardcover
Hélène O’Keeffe9781782055921
$101.95HISTORY
Sep 12, 2024
This new volume in the award-winning Atlas Series presents fresh perspectives on, and a nuanced understanding of, the history of the Irish Civil War (1922?3). The centenary of the Civil War has prompted wide-ranging research into that tumultuous and complex period in Irish history. Featuring contributions from over ninety leading scholars from a range of disciplines, this book provides new insights into the conflict?s regional, national and international dimensions. It includes the first-ever listing of Civil War fatalities and original expl... + Read More
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Series: Flann O'Brien and the NonhumanEnvironments, animals, machinesHardcover
Katherine Ebury9781782050018
$74.95DRAMA
Oct 04, 2024
Flann O?Brien and the Nonhuman is the first book to explore in detail the author?s interest in the agency, materiality, and potential sentience of environments, animals and machines. At every turn, O?Brien?s writing challenges anthropocentric values and troubles conventional notions of the human. We think of the cast of At Swim-Two-Birds (which features the bird-man Sweeney, a Pooka, and a cow who is called as a star witness in the author?s trial) and The Third Policeman?s uncanny topographies and atomic hybridisation of people and bicycles, as... + Read More
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Series: Irish Immigrants to PeruThe invisible experienceHardcover
Gabriela McEvoy9781782050117
$74.95HISTORY
Oct 31, 2024
In recent decades, there has been increased interest in the study of Irish immigration into Latin America. This book is the first detailed study of Irish immigration to Peru predominantly throughout the 19th century. Using primary sources such as personal letters, wills, birth, marriage, and death certificates, it creates a bridge between the past and the present that reintroduces Irish immigrants to Peru?s national collective memory. Focusing on representative examples of the different sectors of Irish immigration, it examines the lives of ord... + Read More
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Series: Textiles of IrelandArchaeology, craft, artHardcover
Elizabeth Wincott Heckett9781782055716
$87.95CRAFTS & HOBBIES
Nov 28, 2024
Spanning the life?s work of archaeologist Elizabeth Wincott Heckett, Textiles of Ireland: Archaeology, craft, art is the first wide-ranging book on the archaeological textiles of Ireland published since 1989. The volume includes studies of cloth found in bogs, burials, hoards, sacked castles, docklands and fallen city walls. These include a mysterious weaving of horsehair, dating from before 800 BC; imprints of cloth wrappings on the weapons of a buried Viking warrior, and the exquisite liturgical textiles, inspired by the Book of Kells, embro... + Read More
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Series: Heading to the FleadhFestival, cultural revival and Irish traditional music 1951-1969Hardcover
Méabh Ní Fhuartháin9781782050131
$74.95HISTORY
Nov 28, 2024
This book is the first comprehensive examination of the history and evolution of Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann (All-Ireland Fleadh Cheoil). As a transformative cultural phenomenon, the Fleadh was central to the revival for Irish traditional music during from 1951 to 1969. Reflecting broader patterns of Irish life and society, this book charts the genesis and development phases of the Fleadh in the 1950s and the challenges of identity which the Fleadh experienced in the 1960s.
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Series: Mícheál Ó SúilleabháinA life in musicHardcover
Helen Phelan9781782050162
$87.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 18, 2024
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin: A life in music, is a collection of essays and reflections around the musical life of Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin. With contributions from musicians, artists, dancers, academics, students, poets, politicians and media personalities, the book explores the multifaceted life of one of Ireland?s best-known musicians. Ranging in style from the scholarly to the personal, the anecdotal and the poetic, each piece offers a unique perspective on his life and work. This richly illustrated volume brings together the voices of those who ... + Read More
Humans are fallible and heroes are not perfect. Certain situations, however, can give rise to behaviour that is beyond expectation and makes a difference to the well-being of other people. In the context of Ireland?s Great Hunger, even small acts of selflessness or generosity could make the difference between suffering or survival, life or death. The men and women examined in this volume are part of a wider story that follows on from the heroes explored in volumes one and two of this series. The extraordinary circumstances in Ireland after 1845... + Read More
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Series: Designed for LifeArchitecture and design in Cork city, 1900-90Hardcover
Tom Spalding9781782050193
$74.95ARCHITECTURE
Feb 20, 2025
Designed for Life: Architecture and design in Cork city, 1900–90 is the first detailed study of twentieth century design dedicated to an Irish provincial city and sets the standard for examining this fascinating period. Whilst the political and military history of Cork have been exhaustively studied, the physical changes to the city have largely been ignored, and little published on the houses, pubs, factories and other quotidian buildings where its people spent their lives. Whilst focusing on buildings, the book also includes examples of inter... + Read More
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Series: Beating TimeThe Story of the Irish bodhránHardcover
Fintan Vallely9781782050469
$87.95MUSIC
Mar 06, 2025
The bodhrán is a phenomenally popular instrument in Irish Traditional music, within which it and its playing techniques developed hugely in the latter half of the twentieth century. Now with many virtuosic players, and a fundamental role in bands, it is almost as representative of Ireland as the official national emblem, the harp—though it first became visible only in 1960. Yet it is typically assumed that it is the ancient, Irish percussion, despite the fact that there is no evidence of an historic drum on the island at all: the music is in fa... + Read More
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Series: Ireland and Britain in the Age of BedeThe Jennifer O'Reilly memorial lectures 2017-2024Hardcover
Máirín MacCarron9781782050476
$74.95HISTORY
Apr 03, 2025
This volume comprises the first eight lectures (2017?2024) presented in memory of Jennifer O?Reilly, a renowned expert in early medieval Insular culture. The Memorial Lecture Series was established in 2017 by the School of History, University College Cork, where Dr O?Reilly spent most of her career. Each year a distinguished scholar is invited to speak on either the writings of Bede (c. 673?735) or medieval iconography, two subjects that Dr O?Reilly explored in her research and teaching. The studies in this volume, which are varied in subject... + Read More
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Series: The Birds of County DonegalResidents, Regulars and RaritiesHardcover
Ralph Sheppard9781782050230
$87.95NATURE
Apr 17, 2025
The Birds of County Donegal is the first complete record of the history and status of all 376 birds known to have occurred in County Donegal. In this comprehensive account every species and race is given its current vernacular name as used in Ireland, the agreed name used internationally, the scientific name, and the Irish name, with acknowledged verifications from bodies such as the Irish Rare Birds Committee. The book draws on previously published works, information from national monitoring programmes, special species surveys and habitat stud... + Read More
From hip-hop moguls and political candidates to talk radio and critically acclaimed films, society communicates that Black girls don?t matter and their girlhood is not safe. Alarming statistics on physical and sexual abuse, for instance, reveal the harm Black girls face, yet Black girls? representation in media still heavily relies on our seeing their abuse as an important factor in others? development. In this provocative new book, Aria S. Halliday asserts that the growth of diverse representation in media since 2008 has coincided with an incr... + Read More
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Series: Shattering the GlassThe Remarkable History of Women's Basketball2nd editionPaperback
Pamela Grundy9781469674780
$33.95SPORTS & RECREATION
Feb 18, 2025
American women?s basketball has reached new peaks of interest and popularity, thanks to spellbinding athletes, exhilarating games, and a vibrant, empowered vision of womanhood. Shattering the Glass stands as the definitive history of the sport. Combining extensive historical research with dozens of oral history interviews, Pamela Grundy and Susan Shackelford bring life and depth to stories of the many generations of female athletes who have fought for liberation on and off the court.In this new and substantially expanded edition, Grundy and Sha... + Read More
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Series: Fighting for FreedomBlack Craftspeople and the Pursuit of IndependenceHardcover
Torren L. Gatson9781469686257
$47.95ART
Apr 01, 2025
As the companion to the exhibition, Fighting for Freedom places Black craftspeople at the forefront of American history, from before the Revolutionary War through the Civil War and beyond Reconstruction. Delving into diverse narratives of creativity, resilience, and triumph in the quest for freedom, this book underscores the evolution of freedom through the lens of material culture?by exploring how the very concept of freedom was shaped and redefined by enslaved and free craftspeople who relentlessly fought for their rights and the recognition ... + Read More
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Series: Exhibit Companion SeriesThe Two GeorgesParallel Lives in an Age of RevolutionPaperback
Carla D. Hayden9780844495903
$33.95HISTORY
Apr 01, 2025
The Two Georges: Parallel Lives in an Age of Revolution is the first book to simultaneously explore in depth the lives and contributions of two globally significant figures of the late eighteenth century: George III (1738?1820), king of Great Britain, and George Washington (1732?1799), first president of the United States. Serving as the official companion publication to the Library of Congress exhibit, the book reexamines the life of George Washington and paints a fuller picture of King George III.In considering these men, The Two Georges cont... + Read More
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Series: Playing through PainThe Violent Consequences of Capitalist SportPaperback
Daniel Sailofsky9781469685878
$33.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
May 06, 2025
For many fans and casual observers, professional sports and violence are deeply connected. Violence on the field has real consequences for players, notably in the form of life-altering injuries from concussions. Off the field, in the last several decades, scores of athletes have committed violent acts, from domestic abuse and sexual assault to animal abuse and murder. Beyond athletes, sport also serves as a site of political and structural violence, from the displacement and hyperpolicing of everyday people for mega-events to the ?sportswashing... + Read More
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Series: The Memoirs of Robert and Mabel WilliamsAfrican American Freedom, Armed Resistance, and International SolidarityPaperback
Robert F. Williams9781469680132
$47.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Jun 17, 2025
Born in Jim Crow?era Monroe, North Carolina, Robert F. Williams and Mabel Williams were the state?s most legendary African American freedom fighters. Robert organized an armed paramilitary group to protect his community from the violent attacks of the Ku Klux Klan. The Williamses? leadership in Monroe was just the beginning of their lifelong pursuit of freedom and justice for Black people in the United States and for oppressed populations throughout the world. Their activism foreshadowed major developments in the civil rights and Black Power ... + Read More
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Series: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina PressA Common GraveBeing Catholic in English AmericaHardcover
Susan Juster9781469686226
$60.95RELIGION
Jun 03, 2025
From Nevis to Newfoundland, Catholics were everywhere in English America. But often feared and distrusted, they hid in plain sight, deftly obscuring themselves from the Protestant authorities. Their strategies of concealment, deception, and misdirection frustrated colonial census takers, and their presence has likewise eluded historians of religion, who have portrayed Catholics as isolated dots in an otherwise vast Protestant expanse.Pushing against this long-standing narrative, Susan Juster provides the first comprehensive look at the lived ex... + Read More
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Series: Historians on HousewivesFashion, Performance, and Power on Bravo Reality TVPaperback
Kacey Calahane9781469686288
$37.95HISTORY
Mar 18, 2025
According to popular stereotype, Bravo reality television portrays vapid, one-dimensional characters tearing each other down for viewers? enjoyment. Whether The Real Housewives taps into our voyeuristic urges, our fascination with wealth and class, or the allure of the sheer spectacle of grown women yelling at one another, the show is truly a cultural phenomenon?and a global one, with more than twenty international spin-offs. Historians on Housewives looks past the show?s reputation as lowbrow, unscripted reality television and unveils deeper ... + Read More
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Series: Searching for MemoryAluízio Palmar and the Shadow of Dictatorship in BrazilPaperback
Jacob Blanc9781469681030
$47.95HISTORY
Apr 29, 2025
This biography of Brazilian journalist and activist Aluízio Palmar (b. 1943) tells the remarkable story of a revolutionary who, after surviving torture as a political prisoner during his country?s military dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s, would go on to devote his life to recovering the memory and documenting the evidence of human rights abuses in Brazil. Palmar?s recounting of his life, in personal interviews with Jacob Blanc as well as from a wide array of source materials, offers a valuable window into how former activists view their pla... + Read More
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Series: Where Religion LivesSecular SensibilitiesRomance, Marriage, and Contemporary Algerian Immigration to France and QuébecPaperback
Jennifer A. Selby9781469685823
$47.95RELIGION
May 20, 2025
How do secular politics work to manage the emotional, affective, and embodied nature of religion in the public sphere? Drawing on an expansive transnational ethnography in France and Canada and assessing contemporary French and Québécois governmental legislation on secularism and immigration, Jennifer Selby considers expectations for secular bodies and sensibilities among men and women of Algerian origin. In her subjects' evocative narratives of longing and belonging, Selby charts how secular sensibilities emerge in marriage partner preferences... + Read More
Recovering Ancestors in Anthropological Traditions, Volume 15 of the Histories of Anthropology Annual, focuses on themes of individual scholars and national developments, with each specific case building toward an understanding of an international discipline. Similar to the cultures that anthropologists study, anthropology’s four-field discipline contains myriad practices, theories, and methodologies that are often divergent, contradictory, and associated with nationally based schools of thought, contributing to a vital and diverse global disci... + Read More
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Series: Critical Studies in the History of AnthropologyInvisible ContrarianEssays in Honor of Stephen O. MurrayHardcover
Regna Darnell9781496243003
$94.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Jun 01, 2025
In Invisible Contrarian Regna Darnell and Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz have assembled scholars to memorialize and celebrate the prescient vision and interdisciplinary contributions of the late Stephen O. Murray (1950–2019), who did pioneering research in ethnolinguistics and anthropology of gender and homosexuality. His socially relevant work continues to provide a cogent example of an emergent, forward-looking anthropology for the twenty-first century. Murray’s wide-ranging work included linguistics, regional ethnography in Latin America and Asia, acti... + Read More
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Series: Remediating Cartographies of ErasureAnthropology, Indigenous Epistemologies, and the Global ImaginaryHardcover
Bernard C. Perley9781496243409
$87.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Aug 01, 2025
Remediating Cartographies of Erasure brings together leading sociocultural and linguistic anthropologists to explore the moral imperatives of anthropology as a discipline to contribute to the self-determination and equality of Indigenous peoples around the globe. This engaged collaboration highlights the partnerships between Indigenous communities and anthropology as a mutually respectful and emancipatory practice of Indigenous and anthropological epistemologies. Indigenous scholars from New Zealand, the United States, and Canada and non-Indige... + Read More
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Series: Ketubah RenaissanceThe Artful Modern Revival of the Jewish Marriage ContractHardcover
Michael Shapiro9780827615625
$53.95RELIGION
Aug 01, 2025
Illuminating the contemporary revival of the Jewish marriage contract, Ketubah Renaissance relays the storied history of this beloved document (known in Hebrew as a ketubah) through the present day and showcases sixty of the most innovative and beautiful ketubot of the last half century. Originally created 2,500 years ago as a unilateral marriage contract stating what a groom would provide for his bride, the ketubah evolved from the tenth century onward into a richly decorated expression of love and commitment. Starting in the late 1960s a mode... + Read More
In Ojibwe Ethnogenesis, 1640–1740 Theresa M. Schenck (Ojibwe, Huron, and Blackfeet) presents the first scholarly work to untangle the origin, rise, and spread of Ojibwe identity and culture from the mid-seventeenth to mid-eighteenth centuries, as well as the emergence of Ojibwe identity in the early years of French imperial incursions into the Upper Midwest. Schenck traces the names ascribed to the Ojibwe by French officials, traders, missionaries, and settlers in the earliest European records to their presences in French America. Schenck then ... + Read More
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Series: Critical Studies in the History of AnthropologyTurning the PowerIndian Boarding Schools, Native American Anthropologists, and the Race to Preserve Indigenous CulturesHardcover
Dr. Nathan Sowry9781496241924
$87.95HISTORY
Apr 01, 2025
In Turning the Power Nathan Sowry examines how some Native American students from the boarding school system, with its forced assimilationist education, became key cultural informants for anthropologists conducting fieldwork during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Salvage anthropologists of this era relied on Native informants to accomplish their mission of “saving” Native American cultures and ultimately turned many informants into anthropologists after years of fieldwork experience. Sowry investigates ten relatively unknown ... + Read More
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Series: American Indian LivesAutobiography of a Kiowa IndianHardcover
Charles E. Apekaum9781496243188
$87.95HISTORY
Jul 01, 2025
Born during the final years of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation, Charles E. Apekaum, grandson of Kiowa chief Stumbling Bear, served as the principal interpreter for the Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology field expedition in 1935. Educated, bilingual, and world traveled, Apekaum’s services as a translator were sought by anyone who dealt with the Kiowa Indian Agency personnel, politicians, and scholars. The following year, Apekaum traveled throughout Oklahoma with anthropologist Weston La Barre and ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes... + Read More
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Series: Rezballers and Skate EldersJoyful Futures in Indian CountryHardcover
David Kamper9781496213167
$81.95HISTORY
Jun 01, 2025
Ethnographer and American Indian studies scholar David Kamper examines how Indigenous youth and adults are making basketball and skateboarding meaningful to their communities by sustaining the transmission of intergenerational knowledge and combatting intergenerational trauma. Kamper looks at how the events and tournaments built around rezball are similar to powwows in how they bring people together across localized communities and generations and he coins the phrase “skate elders” for those who use the social nature of skateboarding to build c... + Read More
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Series: StarlingsThe Curious Odyssey of a Most Hated BirdPaperback
Mike Stark9781496242020
$33.95SCIENCE
Mar 01, 2025
Has there ever been a more hated bird than the European starling? Let loose in New York City’s Central Park by a misguided aristocrat, the starlings were supposed to help curb insect outbreaks and add to the tuneful choir of other songbirds. Rather than staying put, the dark and speckled starlings marched across the continent like a conquering army. In less than sixty years, they were in every state in the contiguous United States and their numbers topped two hundred million. Cities came under siege; crops buckled beneath their weight. Public s... + Read More
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Series: Rooted at the EdgeRanching Where the Old West and New West CollidePaperback
Donna L. Erickson9781496240439
$33.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Apr 01, 2025
Rooted at the Edge paints a portrait of a ranching community in a threatened landscape steeped in history, conflict, and beauty. In this narrative nonfiction work, Donna L. Erickson explores the hilly skirt of ground at the northern boundary of Missoula, Montana, separating the town from the wilderness beyond. The North Hills region represents the critical—and often highly personal—issues at play at the edge of many western towns. The urban-rural fringe is both valuable and vulnerable. Across the West rural lifestyles are increasingly compromis... + Read More
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Series: Frontier ComradesFrom the Fur Trade to the Ford CarPaperback
Jim Wilke9781496242228
$37.95HISTORY
Aug 01, 2025
Frontier Comrades examines six accounts of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender lives on the frontier of the American West. Each account interprets this history through experiences that take place in different parts of the West, moving chronologically from the fur trade era to the dawn of the automobile age. Jim Wilke provides the first comprehensive accounts of figures such as transgender stage driver Charley Parkhurst; transgender Seventh Cavalry laundress Mrs. Noonan (also known as Mrs. Nash); and the extraordinary Clara Dietrich and Ora ... + Read More
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Series: African Poetry BookWhen We Only Have the EarthPaperback
Abdourahman A. Waberi9781496241351
$24.95POETRY
Mar 01, 2025
In this ode to the earth and all its living creatures, French Djiboutian poet, novelist, and essayist Abdourahman A. Waberi sounds the alarm about our imperiled planet, where “the Sahel rises in you, in me / the Red Sea boils in you, in me / Nunvut is melting in you, in me.” This translation by Nancy Naomi Carlson preserves the rich musicality of the original French, as well as its frequent use of wordplay and often unusual word choice. Waberi, a nomad at heart, takes us on a whirlwind tour across North America, Africa, and Europe, daring us to... + Read More
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Series: Memories from the JunglePaperback
Tristan Garcia9781496238535
$33.95FICTION
May 01, 2025
Memories from the Jungle is set in an unspecified future in which Earth has been rendered uninhabitable by pollution and war. Most humans live in orbital stations surrounding the globe, while only animals still survive on the African continent, along with a few scientists who study them in a kind of zoo and experimental laboratory. Doogie, a chimpanzee, has been raised as a human by a zoological researcher, Gardner Evans, and his daughter Janet. Doogie is no ordinary chimpanzee: gifted with an exceptional intelligence (perhaps the result of a s... + Read More
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Series: History of the American WestContinental ReckoningThe American West in the Age of ExpansionPaperback
Elliott West9781496243010
$40.95HISTORY
Jul 01, 2025
Finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in HistoryWinner of the 2024 Bancroft Prize in American HistoryWinner of the 2024 Caughey Western History PrizeWinner of the 2024 Spur AwardNamed a Best Civil War Book of 2023 by Civil War Monitor In Continental Reckoning renowned historian Elliott West presents a sweeping narrative of the American West and its vital role in the transformation of the nation. In the 1840s, by which time the United States had expanded to the Pacific, what would become the West was home to numerous vibrant Native cultures and v... + Read More
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Series: American Indian LivesOut of the CrazywoodsPaperback
Cheryl Savageau9781496243393
$33.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jun 01, 2025
Out of the Crazywoods is the riveting and insightful story of Abenaki poet Cheryl Savageau’s late-life diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Without sensationalizing, she takes the reader inside the experience of a rapid-cycling variant of the disorder, providing a lens through which to understand it and a road map for navigating the illness. The structure of her story—impressionistic, fragmented—is an embodiment of the bipolar experience and a way of perceiving the world.Out of the Crazywoods takes the reader into the euphoria of mania as well as its... + Read More
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Series: Teaching, Engaging, and Thriving in Higher EdThe Opposite of CheatingTeaching for Integrity in the Age of AIPaperback
Tricia Bertram Gallant9780806194967
$33.95EDUCATION
Mar 11, 2025
In these days of an ever-expanding internet, generative AI, and term paper mills, students may find it too easy and tempting to cheat, and teachers may think they can’t keep up. What’s needed, and what Tricia Bertram Gallant and David A. Rettinger offer in this timely book, is a new approach—one that works with the realities of the twenty-first century, not just to protect academic integrity but also to maximize opportunities for students to learn.The Opposite of Cheating presents a positive, forward-looking, research-backed vision for what cla... + Read More
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Series: Teaching, Engaging, and Thriving in Higher EdMaking Writing MeaningfulA Guide for Higher EducationPaperback
Michele Eodice9780806195346
$26.95EDUCATION
Apr 22, 2025
It seems obvious: students will have more meaningful writing experiences if we offer more opportunities for their writing to be meaningful for them. But what does that mean? What makes writing meaningful for students? What, really, makes students want to write? The authors of this practical little book asked precisely that, and the answers they gathered from students across disciplines, majors, and institutions over several years inform their advice in Making Writing Meaningful: A Guide for Higher Education. The critical lessons that Michele Eo... + Read More
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Series: Tulsa, 2021A Massacre's Centennial and a Nation's ReckoningHardcover
Randy Krehbiel9780806195322
$40.95HISTORY
Apr 15, 2025
2021: As the centennial of one of the nation’s worst race massacres approached, citizens of Tulsa faced the prospect with hope and dread. Hope that the anniversary would show Tulsa had changed since that day in 1921, when a white mob left the city’s thriving African American Greenwood neighborhood a smoldering ruin. Dread that Tulsa’s faults would be exposed as never before, its racism reinforced rather than mitigated. The anniversary—in the wake of COVID-19, a combustible presidential visit, and a nationwide explosion of racial tension—was eve... + Read More
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Series: Low April SunA NovelHardcover
Constance E. Squires9780806194745
$36.95FICTION
Feb 11, 2025
On the morning of April 19, 1995, Delaney Travis steps into the Social Security office in Oklahoma City to obtain an ID for her new job. Moments later, an explosion shatters the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building into rubble. Her boyfriend Keith and half-sister Edie are left to assume the worst—that Delaney perished in the bombing, despite lack of definitive proof. Twenty years later, now married and bonded by the tragedy, Edie and Keith’s lives are upended when they begin to receive mysterious Facebook messages from someone claiming to be Delan... + Read More
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Series: The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn SeriesWe Have Ceased to See the PurposeEssential Speeches of Aleksandr SolzhenitsynHardcover
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn9780268208585
$37.95LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Apr 01, 2025
This collection brings together ten of Nobel Prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s most memorable and consequential speeches, delivered in the West and in Russia between 1972 and 1997. Following his exile from the USSR in 1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn lived and traveled in the West for twenty years before the fall of Communism allowed him to return home to Russia. The majority of the speeches collected in this volume straddle this period of exile, contemplating the materialism prevalent worldwide—forcibly imposed in the socialist East, freely ch... + Read More
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Series: The Glacier PriestFather Bernard Hubbard and America's Last FrontierHardcover
Josh McMullen9780268209469
$51.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 01, 2025
Discover the true story of the Jesuit priest, explorer, geologist, and photographer who brought the wilds of Alaska—and his Catholic faith—to the American public. In The Glacier Priest, Josh McMullen reveals the captivating life and legacy of Father Bernard R. Hubbard, a devout priest and a national celebrity, a rugged outdoorsman and a passionate promoter. From the late 1920s through the 1950s, the famous Glacier Priest and his dogs connected millions of Americans with the pioneering spirit of Alaska and his vision of the wilderness as the sal... + Read More
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Series: Faith of the FathersThe Comprehensive History of Catholic Chaplains in the Civil WarHardcover
Robert J. Miller9780268209346
$60.95HISTORY
Apr 01, 2025
Faith of the Fathers provides a captivating collective biography of the Catholic priests who served in America’s most deadly war. Faith of the Fathers brings to light the forgotten stories of courageous chaplains whose commitments to faith and to men at war during America’s most divisive conflict have long been overlooked. The Reverend Robert J. Miller provides a comprehensive and compelling portrait of the 126 priest-chaplains who served during the Civil War and reflects on the importance of religion and faith in nineteenth-century America. As... + Read More
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Series: Touch the WoundsOn Suffering, Trust, and TransformationPaperback
Tomáš Halík9780268204907
$29.95RELIGION
Mar 01, 2025
In this masterfully written book, Tomáš Halík calls upon Christians to touch the wounds of the world and to rediscover their own faith by loving and healing their neighbors.One of the most important voices in contemporary Catholicism, Tomáš Halík argues that Christians can discover the clearest vision of God not by turning away from suffering but by confronting it. Halík calls upon us to follow the apostle Thomas’s example: to see the pain, suffering, and poverty of our world and to touch those wounds with faith and action. It is those expressi... + Read More
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Series: Global Black Writers in TranslationCamille's LakouA NovelPaperback
Marie Léticée9780826507679
$30.95FICTION
Jul 15, 2025
Camille has worked her way up from the Guadeluopean lakou where she was born and raised to the heights of Miami, where she is a successful motivational speaker. Her assistant, Evelyn, is struggling as a single mother raising her five-year-old son, especially since she has been keeping the existence of her son a secret from her family. As Camille relates the story of her life to Evelyn, she urges Evelyn to see her difficult life as one of great fortune—“My girl, a woman falls, but she never despairs”—and to fully share her joys and successes wit... + Read More
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Series: Everyday ApocalypseArt, Empire, and the End of the WorldPaperback
David Dark9780826507952
$33.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
May 15, 2025
Everyday Apocalypse recovers the root meaning of the term apocalypse (revelation) to use the concept as a lens through which art and other acts of creative nonviolence that often go unseen may be brought into focus. Interweaving an examination of popular culture with ancient insight and contemporary political awareness, Dark uses the concept of the apocalyptic to celebrate epiphanies about the world we live in and the meaning of human experience within it. Since its original publication in 2002, the book has become a deeply influential text amo... + Read More
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Series: Vanderbilt University Literary PrizeI Would Define the SunPoemsPaperback
Stephanie Niu9780826507716
$29.95POETRY
Feb 15, 2025
Stephanie Niu’s I Would Define the Sun, awarded the 2024 Vanderbilt University Literary Prize, is a collection of poems that declare the impossibility of defining something as immense as the sun while striving toward that impossible act. In an era of planetary collapse, filled with bushfires, bleached coral, and burnout, Niu explores what love can do even through estrangement, even through being together at the end of the world. Recycling and folding language through duplexes, sestinas, and echoing couplets, this collection moves across great d... + Read More
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Series: Vintage VanderbiltNashville MetroThe Politics of City-County ConsolidationPaperback
Brett W. Hawkins9780826507426
$33.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Feb 17, 2025
As Nashville's governance is under increasing scrutiny by the Tennessee General Assembly, many Nashvillians are struggling to understand what our metropolitan form of government is and why we chose to reorganize our city this way in 1963. Nashville Metro was first published in the aftermath of that decision, and it provides a comprehensive record of what the city understood itself to be doing at the time. How did it happen? When so many less thoroughgoing reforms had failed elsewhere, how could Nashville accomplish a complete city‑county consol... + Read More
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Series: Global Black Writers in TranslationWorkshop of SilencePoemsPaperback
Jean D’Amérique9780826507792
$37.95POETRY
Jul 15, 2025
Workshop of Silence, a book of poems by the Haitian writer Jean D’Amérique, was published in France by Cheyne éditeur in 2020. Across all of D’Amérique’s work, and especially in this third collection, he bridges the political and the personal, the aggrieved and the hopeful, the local and the global. The first three poems of Workshop offer a helpful overture. The first describes where the speaker’s poems come from (“gnaw[ed] nights sprung from guts”); the second imagines a world where tenderness alone can pay for groceries; and the third laments... + Read More
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Series: Yardstick NationThe Metric System in AmericaPaperback
Hector Vera9780826507839
$37.95SCIENCE
May 15, 2025
Why is there no metric system in the United States? Why is it that a country known for its openness to the future, its scientific innovations, and its preference for practicality has not adopted the most practical, scientific, and innovative system of measurement? Yardstick Nation answers these questions by analyzing the political, economic, and international factors that determined the trajectory of the United States as a nation self-excluded from one of the most successful global technical languages. Using a historical-comparative approach an... + Read More
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Series: Edgar Allan PoeA LifeHardcover
Richard Kopley9780813952239
$67.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 18, 2025
A groundbreaking exploration of one of America’s most iconic and misunderstood authorsEdgar Allan Poe: A Life is the most comprehensive critical biography of Poe yet produced, exploring his fascinating life, his extraordinary work, and the vital relationship between the two. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre found in such works as “The Raven,” “Annabel Lee,” and “The Tell-Tale Heart,” this legendary American author continues to intrigue and enthrall his devoted readers. Written by one of the world’s leading Poe experts, this b... + Read More
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Series: Those Who StayedA Vietnam DiaryHardcover
Claudia Krich9780813952352
$47.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Apr 01, 2025
An American Eyewitness in Vietnam at the End of War and Beginning of Peace By the end of the Vietnam War in April 1975, almost all Americans and thousands of terrified Vietnamese had left Saigon, fearing the bloodbath predicted by many if the Communists took over. But Claudia Krich and a few other humanitarian aid volunteers chose not to leave. They had no weapons, no cement barriers, no bomb shelter, and no safety, but they were determined to remain in Vietnam to see what happened next.Those Who Stayed is Claudia Krich’s personal firsthand acc... + Read More
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Series: The Black Soldier in War and Society: New Narratives and Critical PerspectivesA Soldier's LifeA Black Woman's Rise from Army Brat to Six Triple Eight ChampionHardcover
Edna W. Cummings9780813953144
$40.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 08, 2025
One woman's extraordinary personal journey in the US military and her triumphant effort to honor her predecessors with the Congressional Gold Medal Looking back on her remarkable career, Retired Army Colonel Edna W. Cummings can justly say that “the odds ain’t good, but good stuff happens.” Her story is as inspiring as it is improbable, but her memoir is about much more than herself. Chronicling Cummings’s unlikely but successful path to leadership roles in the army and afterward, it also tells the story of the 6888th Central Postal Directory B... + Read More
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Series: History MattersReassembling the Fragments of a Contested PastPaperback
Heather Cateau9789766409869
$45.00 USDHISTORY
May 30, 2025
History Matters: Reassembling the Fragments of a Contested Past is a heartfelt tribute to the remarkable legacy of Bridget Brereton, a distinguished historian and educator whose profound influence has shaped Caribbean scholarship. This volume gathers reflections and insights from colleagues and former students, celebrating Brereton’s pivotal role in documenting the history of Trinidad and Tobago during a transformative era.Organized in conjunction with the “Reassembling the Fragments” conference held by The University of the West Indi... + Read More
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Series: Could it be the Congos?British Military Doctors and the Diagnosis and Treatment of Yellow Fever in the 18th and 19th Century CaribbeanPaperback
Pedro Welch9789766409845
$35.00 USDHISTORY
Jun 30, 2025
This ground-breaking work offers a detailed exploration of the diagnosis and treatment of yellow fever by British military doctors in the Caribbean during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Focusing primarily on Barbados, the book presents a collection of transcripts from medical reports, accompanied by extensive annotations and a comprehensive historiographical essay that contextualizes the research within its historical framework.Through the voices of the practitioners themselves, the study sheds light on the medical practices of the ti... + Read More
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Series: The Catastrophe of Disaster AidPost-Earthquake Haiti, NGOs, and Vulnerability to Natural DisastersPaperback
Jean Max Charles9789766409883
$40.00 USDSCIENCE
May 30, 2025
The Catastrophe of Disaster Aid investigates both the effectiveness and the limitations of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) aid as it relates to efforts to provide sustainable development outcomes in the wake of natural disasters. Focusing on the case of Haiti, and the billions of dollars of disaster aid that the country received through NGOs for relief and reconstruction of the country in the wake of the 2010 magnitude 7.0 earthquake, the book explores ways in which the delivery and management of disaster aid can be organized to produce l... + Read More