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Series: The Cookbook that Stacks the Odds Against Cancer Hardcover Aoife Ryan 9781782054252 $33.95 COOKING Oct 01, 2020

Cancer causes one in six deaths worldwide and has overtaken cardiovascular disease as the leading cause of death in many parts of the world. One in three of the world?s most common cancers could be preventable through maintaining a healthy body weight, eating a healthy diet, reducing alcohol and keeping active. There are thousands of websites, books and blogs written about how to prevent cancer. Many of these are not evidence-based. This book is written by two academic registered dietitians who have taken the most recent evidence-based recommen... + Read More
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Series: Irish Country Furniture and Furnishings 1700-2000 Hardcover Claudia Kinmonth 9781782054054 $60.95 ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES Oct 21, 2020

This major illustrated study investigates farmhouse and cabin furniture from all over the island of Ireland. It discusses the origins and evolution of useful objects, what materials were used and why, and how furniture made for small spaces, often with renewable elements, was innate and expected. Encompassing three centuries, it illuminates a way of life that has almost vanished. It contributes as much to our knowledge of Ireland?s cultural history as to its history of furniture. Lavishly illustrated with a mass of the author?s own photographs,... + Read More
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Series: Rewriting Our Stories Education, empowerment, and well-being Paperback Derek Gladwin 9781782054177 $20.95 PERFORMING ARTS Oct 22, 2020

Rewriting Our Stories: Education, Empowerment, and Well-being harnesses the therapeutic power of storytelling to convert feelings of fear and powerlessness into affirmative life narratives. Rather than seeing fear as an outcome, we can view it as a feeling in the moment largely governed by narratives. Many of our fears are stories we tell ourselves, even if they are largely fictional and rooted in sociocultural belief systems. The result is that we often feel helpless in the face of those fears. This transformational book considers a potent ant... + Read More
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Series: Irish Famines before and after the Great Hunger Paperback Christine Kinealy 9780578484983 $33.95 HISTORY Aug 01, 2020

The Great Hunger of 1845 to 1852 cast a long shadow over the subsequent history of Ireland and its diaspora. Since 1995, there has been a renewed interest in studying this event, not only by history scholars and students, but by archeologists, artists, musicians, scientists, folklorists, etc., all of which has added greatly to our understanding of this tragic event.The focus on the Great Hunger, however, has overshadowed other periods of famine and food shortages in Ireland and their impact on a society in which poverty, hunger, emigration and ... + Read More
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Series: Hamilton and the Law Reading Today's Most Contentious Legal Issues through the Hit Musical Paperback Lisa A. Tucker 9781501753381 $29.95 LAW Grade (US) from 17 Oct 15, 2020

Since its Broadway debut, Hamilton: An American Musical has infused itself into the American experience: who shapes it, who owns it, who can rap it best. Lawyers and legal scholars, recognizing the way the musical speaks to some of our most complicated constitutional issues, have embraced Alexander Hamilton as the trendiest historical face in American civics. Hamilton and the Law offers a revealing look into the legal community's response to the musical, which continues to resonate in a country still deeply divided about the reach of the law. A... + Read More
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Series: Hamilton and the Law Reading Today's Most Contentious Legal Issues through the Hit Musical Hardcover Lisa A. Tucker 9781501752216 $59.95 LAW Age (years) from 18 Oct 15, 2020

Since its Broadway debut, Hamilton: An American Musical has infused itself into the American experience: who shapes it, who owns it, who can rap it best. Lawyers and legal scholars, recognizing the way the musical speaks to some of our most complicated constitutional issues, have embraced Alexander Hamilton as the trendiest historical face in American civics. Hamilton and the Law offers a revealing look into the legal community's response to the musical, which continues to resonate in a country still deeply divided about the reach of the law. A... + Read More
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Series: Sex, Love, and Letters Writing Simone de Beauvoir Hardcover Judith G. Coffin 9781501750540 $49.50 SOCIAL SCIENCE Age (years) from 18 Sep 15, 2020

When Judith G. Coffin discovered a virtually unexplored treasure trove of letters to Simone de Beauvoir from her international readers, it inspired her to explore the intimate bond between the famed author and her reading public. This correspondence, at the heart of Sex, Love, and Letters, immerses us in the tumultuous decades from the late 1940s to the 1970s? from the painful aftermath of World War Two to the horror and shame of French colonial brutality in Algeria through the dilemmas and exhilarations of the early gay liberation and feminist... + Read More
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Series: Religion and American Public Life American Catholic The Politics of Faith During the Cold War Hardcover D. G. Hart 9781501700576 $44.95 RELIGION Age (years) from 18 Oct 15, 2020

American Catholic places the rise of the Unites States' political conservatism in the context of ferment within the Roman Catholic Church. How did Roman Catholics go from being perceived as un-American to becoming the most vocal defenders of the United States as the standard bearer in world history for political liberty and economic prosperity? D. G. Hart charts the development of the complex relationship between Roman Catholicism and American conservatism, and shows how these two seemingly antagonistic ideological groups became so intertwined ... + Read More
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Series: Bernard of Clairvaux An Inner Life Hardcover Brian Patrick McGuire 9781501751042 $52.50 HISTORY Age (years) from 18 Oct 15, 2020

In this intimate portrait of one of the most consequential men of the Middle Ages, Brian Patrick McGuire delves into the life of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux to offer a refreshing interpretation that finds within this grand historical figure a deeply spiritual human being who longed for the reflective quietude of the monastery even as he helped shape the destiny of a church and a continent. Heresy and crusade, politics and papacies, theology and disputation shaped this astonishing man's life, and McGuire presents it all in a deeply informed and c... + Read More
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Series: Cry of Murder on Broadway A Woman's Ruin and Revenge in Old New York Hardcover Julie Miller 9781501751486 $43.50 TRUE CRIME Age (years) from 18 Oct 15, 2020

In Cry of Murder on Broadway, Julie Miller shows how a woman's desperate attempt at murder came to momentarily embody the anger and anxiety felt by many people at a time of economic and social upheaval and expanding expectations for equal rights.On the evening of November 1, 1843, a young household servant named Amelia Norman attacked Henry Ballard, a prosperous merchant, on the steps of the new and luxurious Astor House hotel. Agitated and distraught, Norman followed Ballard down Broadway before confronting him at the door to the Astor House. ... + Read More
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Series: Teen Spirit How Adolescence Transformed the Adult World Hardcover Paul Howe 9781501749827 $44.95 PSYCHOLOGY Age (years) from 18 Sep 15, 2020

Teen Spirit offers a novel and provocative perspective on how we came to be living in an age of political immaturity and social turmoil. Award-winning author, Paul Howe, argues it's because a teenage mentality has slowly gripped the adult world.Howe contends that many features of how we live today?some regrettable, others beneficial?can be traced to the emergence of a more defined adolescent stage of life in the early twentieth century, when young people started spending their formative, developmental years with peers, particularly in formal sc... + Read More
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Series: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work We Walk Life with Severe Autism Hardcover Amy S. F. Lutz 9781501751394 $37.50 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Age (years) from 18 Oct 15, 2020

In this collection of beautiful and raw essays, Amy S. F. Lutz writes openly about her experience?the positive and the negative?as the mother of a son with severe autism. Lutz's human emotion drives through each page and challenges commonly held ideas that define autism either as a disease or as neurodiversity. We Walk is inspired by questions raised by Lutz as a parent of a severely autistic, now twenty-one-year-old son: What is the place of the intellectually and developmentally disabled in society? What responsibilities do we, as citizens an... + Read More
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Series: The Haunt of Home A Journey through America's Heartland Paperback Zachary Michael Jack 9781501751790 $28.50 LITERARY CRITICISM Age (years) from 18 Oct 15, 2020

What does it mean to deeply love a home place that haunts us still? From Mark Twain to Grant Wood to Garrison Keillor, regionalists from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age have explored the American Gothic and the homegrown fatalism that flourishes in many of the nation's most far-flung and forgotten places. The Haunt of Home introduces us to a cast of real-life midwestern characters grappling with the Gothic in their own lives, from promising young professionals debating the perennial "should I stay or should I go now" dilemma, to recent emigre... + Read More
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Series: Wildflowers of New York City Hardcover Andrew Garn 9781501751622 $49.50 GARDENING Age (years) from 18 Oct 15, 2020

New York City is defined by a certain kind of grit and perseverance, its history sprinkled with stories of unlikely successes found where no one else would go, or thought to have gone. The flora and fauna of the five boroughs are no exception, and Wildflowers of New York City introduces us to some of the over 2,000 wildflowers that eke out an existence within its borders.Andrew Garn's stunning photography invites us to look, and then look again?to appreciate the marvels that we might have otherwise passed by. Through his lens, the humble burdoc... + Read More
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Series: When Birds Are Near Dispatches from Contemporary Writers Paperback Susan Fox Rogers 9781501750915 $34.50 SCIENCE Age (years) from 18 Oct 15, 2020

In this dazzling literary collection, writers explore and celebrate their lives with and love for birds?detailing experiences from Alaska to Bermuda, South Dakota to Panama. In When Birds are Near, fresh new voices as well as seasoned authors offer tales of perseverance, adventure, and fun; whether taking us on a journey down Highway 1 to see a rare Condor, fighting the destruction of our grasslands, or simply watching the feeder from a kitchen window.But these essays are more than just field notes. They expand as the authors reflect on love, l... + Read More
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Series: Birds of Cuba A Photographic Guide Paperback Arturo Kirkconnell 9781501751561 $49.50 SCIENCE Age (years) from 18 Sep 15, 2020

Science The first photographic field guide for the birds of Cuba Includes all 378 recorded species Updated status and distribution taxonomyCuba is home to a diverse avifauna, rich with endemic species. The island is also home to a range of regional scarcities and acts as an important stopping point for migrants as they cross the Caribbean.This comprehensive photographic guide provides full coverage of every species on the Cuban list. The images have been carefully selected to show key features, while the concise text is designed to aid field id... + Read More
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Series: Zona Tropical Publications / Costa Rica Regional Guides Central Valley Paperback Diego Arguedas Ortiz 9781501752834 $26.95 TRAVEL Age (years) from 18 Oct 15, 2020

Costa Rica is much more than a verdant paradise that has no army. Its many microclimates, along with the vagaries of history, have created diverse landscapes and cultures. This collection of photography books aims to reveal unknown facets of Costa Rica, offering travelers insights into what makes this country so unique and special.This sixth book in the series wends its way through the cities and towns, coffee plantations, and majestic volcanoes of the Central Valley. From the gilt elegance of the National Theater to the remarkable birding to b... + Read More
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Series: Zona Tropical Publications / Costa Rica Regional Guides Manuel Antonio, Ballena, and Carara Paperback Diego Arguedas Ortiz 9781501752841 $26.95 TRAVEL Age (years) from 18 Oct 15, 2020

Costa Rica is much more than a verdant paradise that has no army. Its many microclimates, along with the vagaries of history, have created diverse landscapes and cultures. This collection of photography books aims to reveal unknown facets of Costa Rica, offering travelers insights into what makes this country so unique and special.This fourth volume in the series takes a fresh look at three distinct regions along the Pacific Coast. From Carara?a birdwatcher's paradise, to the extraordinary ecological gems of Manuel Antonio, to whale-watching in... + Read More
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Series: Zona Tropical Publications / Costa Rica Regional Guides Osa and South Pacific Paperback Diego Arguedas Ortiz 9781501752858 $26.95 TRAVEL Age (years) from 18 Oct 15, 2020

Costa Rica is much more than a verdant paradise that has no army. Its many microclimates, along with the vagaries of history, have created diverse landscapes and cultures. This collection of photography books aims to reveal unknown facets of Costa Rica, offering travelers insights into what makes this country so unique and special.This fifth book in the series showcases the prized jewel in Costa Rica's ecological crown?the Osa Peninsula and South Pacific. Readers plunge into the jungles of Corcovado National Park, waters that conceal extraordin... + Read More
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Series: Laura Nader Letters to and from an Anthropologist Hardcover Laura Nader 9781501752247 $59.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Age (years) from 18 Nov 15, 2020

Laura Nader documents decades of letters written, received, and archived by esteemed author and anthropologist Laura Nader. She revisits her correspondence with academic colleagues, lawyers, politicians, military officers, and many others, all with unique and insightful perspectives on a variety of social and political issues. She uses personal and professional correspondence as a way of examining complex issues and dialogues that might not be available by other means. By compiling these letters, Nader allows us to take an intimate look at how ... + Read More
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Series: Engaging the Evil Empire Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War Hardcover Simon Miles 9781501751691 $52.50 HISTORY Age (years) from 18 Oct 15, 2020

In a narrative-redefining approach, Engaging the Evil Empire dramatically alters how we look at the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Tracking key events in US-Soviet relations across the years between 1980 and 1985, Simon Miles shows that covert engagement gave way to overt conversation as both superpowers determined that open diplomacy was the best means of furthering their own, still primarily competitive, goals. Miles narrates the history of these dramatic years, as President Ronald Reagan consistently applied a disciplined carrot-and-s... + Read More
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Series: Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History Comrades Betrayed Jewish World War I Veterans under Hitler Hardcover Michael Geheran 9781501751011 $52.50 HISTORY Age (years) from 18 Oct 15, 2020

At the end of 1941, six weeks after the mass deportations of Jews from Nazi Germany had begun, Gestapo offices across the Reich received an urgent telex from Adolf Eichmann, decreeing that all war-wounded and decorated Jewish veterans of World War I be exempted from upcoming "evacuations". Why this was so, and how Jewish veterans were able to avoid the fate of ordinary Jews under the Nazis ? at least, initially ? is the subject of Comrades Betrayed.Michael Geheran deftly illuminates how the same values that compelled Jewish soldiers to demonstr... + Read More
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Series: Religion and Conflict Anti-Christian Violence in India Hardcover Chad M. Bauman 9781501750687 $52.50 HISTORY Age (years) from 18 Sep 15, 2020

Does religion cause violent conflict, asks Chad M. Bauman, and if so, does it cause conflict any more than other social identities? Through an extended history of Christian-Hindu relations, and with particular attention to the 2007?08 riots in Kandhamal, Odisha, Anti-Christian Violence in India examines religious violence and how it pertains to broader aspects of humanity. Is "religious" conflict sui generis, or is it merely one species of inter-group conflict? Why and how might violence become an attractive option for religious actors? What ex... + Read More
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Series: War and Genocide in South Sudan Paperback Clémence Pinaud 9781501753008 $29.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Age (years) from 18 Feb 15, 2021

Using more than a decade's worth of fieldwork in South Sudan, Clémence Pinaud here explores the relationship between predatory wealth accumulation, state formation, and a form of racism?extreme ethnic group entitlement?that has the potential to result in genocide. War and Genocide in South Sudan traces the rise of a predatory state during civil war in southern Sudan and its transformation into a violent Dinka ethnocracy after the region's formal independence. That new state, Pinaud argues, waged genocide against non-Dinka civilians in 2013-2017... + Read More
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Series: Shredding Paper The Rise and Fall of Maine's Mighty Paper Industry Hardcover Michael G. Hillard 9781501753152 $49.50 POLITICAL SCIENCE Age (years) from 18 Jan 15, 2021

From the early twentieth century until the 1960s, Maine led the nation in paper production. The state could have earned a reputation as the Detroit of paper production, however, the industry eventually slid towards failure. What happened? Shredding Paper unwraps the changing US political economy since 1960, uncovers how the paper industry defined and interacted with labor relations, and peels away the layers of history that encompassed the rise and downfall of Maine's mighty paper industry. Michael G. Hillard deconstructs the paper industry's u... + Read More
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Series: Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book Ser. A Beachcomber's Guide to Fossils Paperback Bob Gale 9780820357324 $40.95 NATURE Nov 01, 2020

Compiled from decades of visiting beaches along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts collecting fossils and conducting extensive research, A Beachcomber’s Guide to Fossils is the definitive guide for amateur collectors and professionals interested in learning more about the deep history they tread on during their vacations. Authored by Bob, Pam, and Ashby Gale, this guide offers over twelve hundred high-quality color photographs and detailed descriptions of more than three hundred fossil specimens found on beaches from Texas, east to Florida, and north... + Read More
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Series: Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Ser. A Perfect Souvenir Stories about Travel from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Paperback Ethan Laughman 9780820358420 $33.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2020
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Series: Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Ser. A Day's Pay Stories about Work from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Paperback Ethan Laughman 9780820358390 $33.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2020

Work, and the coffee-fueled day-to-day grind, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction series.More than seventy volumes, which include approximately eight hundred stories, have won the Flannery O'Connor Award. This stunning trove of always engaging, often groundbreaking short fiction is the common source for this anthology on work—and for planned anthologies on such topics as family, gender and sexuality, animals, and mo... + Read More
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Series: Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Ser. If We Were Electric Stories Paperback Patrick Earl Ryan 9780820358079 $26.95 FICTION Sep 15, 2020

If We Were Electric’s twelve stories celebrate New Orleans in all of its beautiful peculiarities: macabre and magical, muddy and exquisite, sensual and spiritual. The stunning debut collection finds its characters in moments of desire and despair, often stuck on the verge of a great metamorphosis, but burdened by some unreasonable love. These are stories about missed opportunities, about people on the outside who don’t fit in, about the consequences of not mustering enough courage to overcome the binds. In ?Feux Follet,? an old man’s grief attr... + Read More
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Series: Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction Ser. Mobile Home A Memoir in Essays Paperback Megan Harlan 9780820357928 $30.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 15, 2020

Uprooting ourselves and putting down roots elsewhere has become second nature. Americans are among the most mobile people on the planet, moving house an average of nine times in adulthood. Mobile Home explores one family’s extreme and often international version of this common experience. Inspired by Megan Harlan’s globe-wandering childhood—during which she lived in seventeen homes across four continents, ranging in location from the Alaskan tundra to a Colombian jungle, a posh flat in London to a doublewide trailer near the Arabian Gulf—Mobile... + Read More
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Series: A Queer History of Adolescence Developmental Pasts, Relational Futures Paperback Gabrielle Owen 9780820357461 $39.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Dec 15, 2020

A Queer History of Adolescence reveals categories of age—and adolescence, specifically—as an undeniable and essential mechanism in the production of difference itself. Drawing from a dynamic and varied archive, including British and American newspapers, medical papers and pamphlets, and adolescent and children’s literature circulating on both sides of the Atlantic, Gabrielle Owen argues that adolescence has a logic, a way of thinking, that emerges over the course of the nineteenth century and that survives in various forms to this day. This log... + Read More
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Series: Selling Hate Marketing the Ku Klux Klan Paperback Dale W. Laackman 9780820358093 $36.95 HISTORY Sep 01, 2020
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Series: Georgia Review Books Ser. Stargazing in the Atomic Age Essays Paperback Anne Goldman 9780820358444 $30.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 15, 2021

During World War II, with apocalypse imminent, a group of well-known Jewish artists and scientists sidestepped despair by challenging themselves to solve some of the most difficult questions posed by our age. Many of these people had just fled Europe. Others were born in the United States to immigrants who had escaped Russia’s pogroms. Alternately celebrated as mavericks and dismissed as eccentrics, they trespassed the boundaries of their own disciplines as the entrance to nations slammed shut behind them. In Stargazing in the Atomic Age, Anne ... + Read More
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Series: Animal Voices / Animal Worlds Ser. Underdogs Pets, People, and Poverty Paperback Arnold Arluke 9780820358222 $44.95 NATURE Dec 01, 2020
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Series: Bad Tourist Misadventures in Love and Travel Paperback Suzanne Roberts 9781496222848 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2020

Both a memoir in travel essays and an anti-guidebook, Bad Tourist takes us across four continents to fifteen countries, showing us what not to do when traveling. A woman learning to claim her own desires and adventures, Suzanne Roberts encounters lightning and landslides, sharks and piranha-infested waters, a nightclub drugging, burning bodies, and brief affairs as she searches for the love of her life and finally herself. Throughout her travels Roberts tries hard not to be a bad tourist, but owing to her cultural blind spots, th... + Read More
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Series: The Last Sovereigns Sitting Bull and the Resistance of the Free Lakotas Hardcover Robert M. Utley 9781496220226 $37.50 HISTORY Oct 01, 2020

The Last Sovereigns is the story of how Sioux chief Sitting Bull resisted the white man’s ways as a last best hope for the survival of an indigenous way of life on the Great Plains—a nomadic life based on buffalo and indigenous plants scattered across the Sioux’s historical territories—that was sacred to him and his people. Robert M. Utley explores the final four years of Sitting Bull’s life of freedom, from 1877 to 1881. To escape American vengeance for his assumed role in the annihilation of Gen. George Armstrong Custer’s command at the Littl... + Read More
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Series: SABR 50 at 50 The Society for American Baseball Research's Fifty Most Essential Contributions to the Game Hardcover Bill Nowlin 9781496222688 $74.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Sep 01, 2020

SABR 50 at 50 celebrates and highlights the Society for American Baseball Research’s wide-ranging contributions to baseball history. Established in 1971 in Cooperstown, New York, SABR has sought to foster and disseminate the research of baseball—with groundbreaking work from statisticians, historians, and independent researchers—and has published dozens of articles with far-reaching and long-lasting impact on the game. Among its current membership are many Major and Minor League Baseball officials, broadcasters, and writers as well as numerous ... + Read More
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Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry Some Are Always Hungry Paperback Jihyun Yun 9781496222183 $26.95 POETRY Sep 01, 2020

Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Some Are Always Hungry chronicles a family’s wartime survival, immigration, and heirloom trauma through the lens of food, or the lack thereof. Through the vehicle of recipe, butchery, and dinner table poems, the collection negotiates the myriad ways diasporic communities comfort and name themselves in other nations, as well as the ways cuisine is inextricably linked to occupation, transmission, and survival. Dwelling on the personal as much as the historical, Some Are Always Hungry traces the... + Read More
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Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction If the Body Allows It Stories Paperback Megan Cummins 9781496222831 $32.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2020

Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, If the Body Allows It is divided into six parts and framed by the story of Marie, a woman in her thirties living in Newark, New Jersey. Suffering from a chronic autoimmune illness, she also struggles with guilt over the overdose and death of her father, whom she feels she betrayed at the end of his life. The stories within the frame—about failed marriages, places of isolation and protection, teenage mistakes, and forging a life in the aftermath—are the stories the narrator writes after she m... + Read More
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Series: The Speed Game My Fast Times in Basketball Hardcover Paul Westhead 9781496222602 $44.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Nov 01, 2020

Paul Westhead was teaching high school in his native Philadelphia when he was named La Salle University’s men’s basketball coach in 1970. By 1980 he was a Los Angeles Lakers assistant, soon to be hired as head coach, winning an NBA title with Hall of Fame center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and rookie guard Magic Johnson. After compiling a 112-50 record, he was fired in November 1981. After a short stay as coach of the Chicago Bulls, Westhead reemerged in the mideighties as a coach at Loyola Marymount in California, where he designed his highly unusual ... + Read More
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Series: Havin' a Ball My Improbable Basketball Journey Hardcover Richie Adubato 9781496212825 $40.50 SPORTS & RECREATION Oct 01, 2020

In Havin’ a Ball one of basketball’s most colorful characters and storytellers chronicles his life in the game, from high school coach in New Jersey to head coach in both the NBA and the WNBA. Richie Adubato isn’t a Hall of Fame name, but he’s one of basketball’s most beloved coaches, with a lifetime of stories that are humorous and heartfelt, poignant and personal. Adubato’s career has crossed paths with many of basketball’s most memorable people and events. Starting in the 1960s, he was part of the Jersey Guys, a group of young junior high an... + Read More
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Series: The James Naismith Reader Basketball in His Own Words Paperback James Naismith 9781496219015 $34.50 SPORTS & RECREATION Feb 01, 2021

James Naismith invented the game of basketball as a physical education instructor at the International YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts. That December of 1891, his task was to create a game to occupy a rowdy class during the winter months. Almost instantly popular, the game spread across the country and was played in fifteen countries by the end of the century. And yet basketball never had an overriding presence in Naismith’s life, as he was also a minister, doctor, educator, and coach. So what did Naismith think about the gam... + Read More
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Series: Shake and Bake The Life and Times of NBA Great Archie Clark Hardcover Bob Kuska 9780803226548 $44.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Feb 01, 2021

Shake and Bake is the story of Archie Clark, one of the top playmaking guards in the 1970s pre-merger NBA. While not one of the game’s most recognized superstars, Clark was a seminal player in NBA history who staggered defenders with the game’s greatest crossover dribble (“shake and bake”) and is credited by his peers as the originator of today’s popular step-back move. Signed as the Lakers third-round draft pick in 1966, Clark worked his way into the starting lineup in his rookie year. But Clark was more than a guaranteed double-double wheneve... + Read More
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Series: Rez Metal Inside the Navajo Nation Heavy Metal Scene Paperback Ashkan Soltani Stone 9781496205094 $25.50 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 01, 2020

Rez Metal captures the creative energy of indigenous youth culture in the twenty-first century. Bridging communities from disparate corners of Indian Country and across generations, heavy metal has touched a collective nerve on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona in particular. Many cultural leaders—including former Navajo president Russell Begaye—have begun to recognize heavy metal’s ability to inspire Navajo communities facing chronic challenges such as poverty, depression, and addiction. Heavy metal music speaks to the frustrations, fears, tri... + Read More
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Series: The Backwaters Prize in Poetry Foxlogic, Fireweed Paperback Jennifer K. Sweeney 9781496222695 $23.95 POETRY Sep 01, 2020

Winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry, Jennifer K. Sweeney’s Foxlogic, Fireweed follows a lyrical sequence of five physical and emotional terrains—floodplain, coast, desert, suburbia, and mesa—braiding themes of nature, domesticity, isolation, and human relationships. These are poems of the earth’s wild heart, its searing mysteries, its hollows, and its species, poems of the complex domestic space, of before and after motherhood, gun terror, the election, of dislocation and home, and of how we circle toward and away from our centers. Sweeney... + Read More
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Series: Celeste Holm Syndrome On Character Actors from Hollywood's Golden Age Paperback David Lazar 9781496200457 $29.95 PERFORMING ARTS Oct 01, 2020

In this essay collection David Lazar looks to our intimate relationships with characters, both well-known and lesser known, from Hollywood’s Golden Age. Veering through considerations of melancholy and wit, sexuality and gender, and the surrealism of comedies of the self in an uncanny world, mixed with his own autobiographical reflections of cinephilia, Lazar creates an alluring hybrid of essay forms as he moves through the movies in his mind. Character actors from the classical era of the 1930s through the 1950s including Thelma Ritter, Oscar ... + Read More
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Series: Mahagony A Novel Paperback Édouard Glissant 9781496201782 $29.95 FICTION Jan 01, 2021

Édouard Glissant’s novels, closely tied to the theories he developed in Poétique de la Relation (Poetics of relation), are rich explorations of a deported and colonized people’s loss of their own history and the ever-evolving social and political effects this sense of groundlessness has caused in Martinique. In Mahagony Glissant identifies both the malaise of and the potential within Martinican society through a powerful collective narrative of geographic identity explored through multiple narrators. These characters’ lives are viewed back and ... + Read More
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Series: Who Invented Oscar Wilde? The Photograph at the Center of Modern American Copyright Hardcover David Newhoff 9781640121584 $49.50 PHOTOGRAPHY Nov 01, 2020

In early 1882, before young Oscar Wilde embarked on his lecture tour across America, he posed for publicity photos taken by a famously eccentric New York photographer named Napoleon Sarony. Few would guess that one of those photographs would become the subject of the Supreme Court case that challenged copyright protection for all photography—a constitutional question that asked how a machine-made image could possibly be a work of human creativity.Who Invented Oscar Wilde? is a story about the nature of authorship and the “convenient fiction” we... + Read More
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Series: At Table Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens Indigenous Recipes and Guide to Diet and Fitness Paperback Devon A. Mihesuah 9780803245259 $41.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 01, 2020

Winner of the Gourmand International World Cookbook Award, Recovering Our Ancestors’ Gardens is back! Featuring an expanded array of tempting recipes of indigenous ingredients and practical advice about health, fitness, and becoming involved in the burgeoning indigenous food sovereignty movement, the acclaimed Choctaw author and scholar Devon A. Mihesuah draws on the rich indigenous heritages of this continent to offer a helpful guide to a healthier life.Recovering Our Ancestors’ Gardens features pointed discussions about the causes of the gene... + Read More
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Series: Knowing Native Arts Hardcover Nancy Marie Mithlo 9781496202123 $52.50 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 01, 2020

Knowing Native Arts brings Nancy Marie Mithlo’s Native insider perspective to understanding the significance of Indigenous arts in national and global milieus. These musings, written from the perspective of a senior academic and curator traversing a dynamic and at turns fraught era of Native self-determination, are a critical appraisal of a system that is often broken for Native peoples seeking equity in the arts. Mithlo addresses crucial issues, such as the professionalization of Native arts scholarship, disparities in philanthropy and trainin... + Read More
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Series: The Star and the Scepter A Diplomatic History of Israel Hardcover Emmanuel Navon 9780827615069 $55.50 HISTORY Nov 01, 2020

The first all-encompassing book on Israel’s foreign policy and the diplomatic history of the Jewish people, The Star and the Scepter retraces and explains the interactions of Jews with other nations from the ancient kingdoms of Israel to modernity. Starting with the Hebrew Bible, Emmanuel Navon argues that one cannot grasp Israel’s interactions with the world without understanding how Judaism’s founding document has shaped the Jewish psyche. He sheds light on the people of Israel’s foreign policy through the ages: the ancient kingdoms of Israel... + Read More
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Series: Strategy Strikes Back How Star Wars Explains Modern Military Conflict Paperback Max Brooks 9781640123601 $29.95 HISTORY Oct 01, 2020

The most successful film franchise of all time, Star Wars thrillingly depicts an epic multigenerational conflict fought a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. But the Star Wars saga has as much to say about successful strategies and real-life warfare waged in our own time and place. Strategy Strikes Back brings together more than thirty of today’s top military and strategic experts, including generals, policy advisors, seasoned diplomats, counterinsurgency strategists, science fiction writers, war journalists, and ground-level military offi... + Read More
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Series: The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture Unceasing Militant The Life of Mary Church Terrell Hardcover Alison M. Parker 9781469659381 $47.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 11, 2021

Born into slavery during the Civil War, Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954) would become one of the most prominent activists of her time, with a career bridging the late nineteenth century to the civil rights movement of the 1950s. The first president of the National Association of Colored Women and a founding member of the NAACP, Terrell collaborated closely with the likes of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and W. E. B. Du Bois. Unceasing Militant is the first full-length biography of Terrell, bringing her vibrant voice and personality to life. ... + Read More
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Series: Recasting the Vote How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement Hardcover Cathleen D. Cahill 9781469659329 $43.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 16, 2020

We think we know the story of women's suffrage in the United States: women met at Seneca Falls, marched in Washington, D.C., and demanded the vote until they won it with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. But the fight for women's voting rights extended far beyond these familiar scenes. From social clubs in New York's Chinatown to conferences for Native American rights, and in African American newspapers and pamphlets demanding equality for Spanish-speaking New Mexicans, a diverse cadre of extraordinary women struggled to build a mov... + Read More
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Series: Whose Blues? Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music Paperback Adam Gussow 9781469660363 $37.95 MUSIC Oct 19, 2020

Mamie Smith's pathbreaking 1920 recording of "Crazy Blues" set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for "race records." Not long after, such records also brought black blues performance to an expanding international audience. A century later, the mainstream blues world has transformed into a multicultural and transnational melting pot, taking the music far beyond the black southern world of its origins. But not everybody is happy about that. If there's "No black. No white. Just the blues," as one familiar meme... + Read More
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Series: Justice, Power, and Politics To Make the Wounded Whole The African American Struggle against HIV/AIDS Paperback Dan Royles 9781469661339 $40.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 14, 2020

In the decades since it was identified in 1981, HIV/AIDS has devastated African American communities. Members of those communities mobilized to fight the epidemic and its consequences from the beginning of the AIDS activist movement. They struggled not only to overcome the stigma and denial surrounding a "white gay disease" in Black America, but also to bring resources to struggling communities that were often dismissed as too "hard to reach." To Make the Wounded Whole offers the first history of African American AIDS activism in all of its dep... + Read More
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Series: The Punitive Turn in American Life How the United States Learned to Fight Crime Like a War Hardcover Michael S. Sherry 9781469660707 $44.95 HISTORY Dec 14, 2020

In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson insisted that "the policeman is the frontline soldier in our war against crime," and police forces, arms makers, policy makers, and crime experts heeded this call to arms, bringing weapons and practices from the arena of war back home. The Punitive Turn in American Life offers a political and cultural history of the ways in which punishment and surveillance have moved to the center of American life and become imbued with militarized language and policies. Michael S. Sherry argues that, by the 1990s, the "war on... + Read More
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Series: Entertaining Entrepreneurs Reality TV's Shark Tank and the American Dream in Uncertain Times Hardcover Daniel Horowitz 9781469659435 $128.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 19, 2020

The Great Recession threatened the well-being of tens of millions of Americans, dramatically weakened the working class, hollowed out the middle class, and strengthened the position of the very wealthy. Against this backdrop, the hit reality show Shark Tank premiered in 2009. Featuring ambitious entrepreneurs chasing support from celebrity investors, the show offered a version of the American Dream that still seemed possible to many, where a bright idea and a well-honed pitch could lift a bootstrap business to new heights of success. More than ... + Read More
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Series: Where Religion Lives Painted Pomegranates and Needlepoint Rabbis How Jews Craft Resilience and Create Community Paperback Jodi Eichler-Levine 9781469660639 $40.95 RELIGION Oct 19, 2020

Exploring a contemporary Judaism rich with the textures of family, memory, and fellowship, Jodi Eichler-Levine takes readers inside a flourishing American Jewish crafting movement. As she traveled across the country to homes, craft conventions, synagogue knitting circles, and craftivist actions, she joined in the making, asked questions, and contemplated her own family stories. Jewish Americans, many of them women, are creating ritual challah covers and prayer shawls, ink, clay, or wood pieces, and other articles for family, friends, or Jewish ... + Read More
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Series: Jumping the Broom The Surprising Multicultural Origins of a Black Wedding Ritual Paperback Tyler D. Parry 9781469660868 $37.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 09, 2020

In this definitive history of a unique tradition, Tyler D. Parry untangles the convoluted history of the "broomstick wedding." Popularly associated with African American culture, Parry traces the ritual's origins to marginalized groups in the British Isles and explores how it influenced the marriage traditions of different communities on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. His surprising findings shed new light on the complexities of cultural exchange between peoples of African and European descent from the 1700s up to the twenty-first century. ... + Read More