1.
Series:
The Anti-Cancer Cookbook
Recipes to reduce your cancer risk
Hardcover
Aoife Ryan
9781782054252
$39.95
COOKING
Nov 27, 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...
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2.
Series:
Irish Country Furniture and Furnishings 1700-2000
Hardcover
Claudia Kinmonth
9781782054054
$60.95
ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES
Nov 27, 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. This is a is a substantially different book from Irish Country F...
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Series: MindYourSelf
Rewriting Our Stories
Education, empowerment, and well-being
Paperback
Derek Gladwin
9781782054177
$24.95
PSYCHOLOGY
Jan 29, 2021
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...
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4.
Series:
Irish Famines before and after the Great Hunger
Paperback
Christine Kinealy
9780578484983
$39.95
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 ...
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5.
Series:
Hamilton and the Law
Reading Today's Most Contentious Legal Issues through the Hit Musical
Paperback
Lisa A. Tucker
9781501753381
$26.95
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...
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6.
Series:
Hamilton and the Law
Reading Today's Most Contentious Legal Issues through the Hit Musical
Hardcover
Lisa A. Tucker
9781501752216
$53.95
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...
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7.
Series:
Sex, Love, and Letters
Writing Simone de Beauvoir
Hardcover
Judith G. Coffin
9781501750540
$44.95
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 Beauvoir's international readers, it inspired Coffin 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 II to the horror and shame of French colonial brutality in Algeria and through the dilemmas and exhilarations of the early gay liberation ...
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8.
Series: Religion and American Public Life
American Catholic
The Politics of Faith During the Cold War
Hardcover
D. G. Hart
9781501700576
$40.95
RELIGION
Age (years) from 18
Oct 15, 2020
American Catholic places the rise of the United States' political conservatism in the context of ferment within the Roman Catholic Church. How did Roman Catholics shift from being perceived as un-American to emerging as 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 intertwin...
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9.
Series:
Bernard of Clairvaux
An Inner Life
Hardcover
Brian Patrick McGuire
9781501751042
$47.95
HISTORY
Age (years) from 18
Oct 15, 2020
In this intimate portrait of one of the Middle Ages' most consequential men, 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 clear-e...
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10.
Series:
Cry of Murder on Broadway
A Woman's Ruin and Revenge in Old New York
Hardcover
Julie Miller
9781501751486
$39.95
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 had followed Ballard down Broadway before confronting him at the door to the hotel. Ta...
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11.
Series:
Teen Spirit
How Adolescence Transformed the Adult World
Hardcover
Paul Howe
9781501749827
$40.95
PSYCHOLOGY
Age (years) from 18
Nov 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 scho...
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12.
Series: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
We Walk
Life with Severe Autism
Hardcover
Amy S. F. Lutz
9781501751394
$33.95
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 a mother of a now twenty-one-year-old 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 her own questions: What is the place of intellectually and developmentally disabled people in society? What responsibilities do we, as citizens and human beings, have to one another? Who shoul...
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13.
Series:
The Haunt of Home
A Journey through America's Heartland
Paperback
Zachary Michael Jack
9781501751790
$25.95
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 flourish 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" dilemma, to recent émigrés and ...
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14.
Series:
Wildflowers of New York City
Hardcover
Andrew Garn
9781501751622
$44.95
GARDENING
Age (years) from 18
Mar 15, 2021
New York City is defined by a certain kind of grit and perseverance, its history sprinkled with stories of unlikely successes found where most would not have thought to go. 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 there.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 burdock and chicory become work...
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15.
Series:
When Birds Are Near
Dispatches from Contemporary Writers
Paperback
Susan Fox Rogers
9781501750915
$30.95
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 adventure, perseverance, and fun, whether taking us on a journey down Highway 1 to see a rare California 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. The authors reflect on love, loss,...
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16.
Series:
Birds of Cuba
A Photographic Guide
Paperback
Arturo Kirkconnell
9781501751561
$44.95
SCIENCE
Age (years) from 18
Sep 15, 2020
? 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 ident...
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17.
Series: Zona Tropical Publications / Costa Rica Regional Guides
Central Valley
Paperback
Diego Arguedas Ortiz
9781501752834
$24.95
TRAVEL
Age (years) from 18
Oct 15, 2020
This guidebook 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 be found on highland slopes, readers will discover the heart of Costa Rica.Costa Rica is much more than a verdant paradise. It's a land of diverse landscapes and cultures. This collection of regional guides reveals unknown facets of Costa Rica and helps travelers understand what makes this country unique. Includes a foldout map of key tourist dest...
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18.
Series: Zona Tropical Publications / Costa Rica Regional Guides
Manuel Antonio, Ballena, and Carara
Paperback
Diego Arguedas Ortiz
9781501752841
$24.95
TRAVEL
Age (years) from 18
Oct 15, 2020
This guidebook takes a fresh look at three distinct regions along the Pacific Coast?from Carara, a birdwatcher's paradise, to Manuel Antonio with its extraordinary ecological gems, to Bahía Ballena and whale watching. With this book, readers will gain a deeper understanding of some of Costa Rica's most popular tourist destinations.Costa Rica is much more than a verdant paradise. It's a land of diverse landscapes and cultures. This collection of regional guides reveals unknown facets of Costa Rica and helps travelers understand what makes this c...
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19.
Series: Zona Tropical Publications / Costa Rica Regional Guides
Osa and South Pacific
Paperback
Diego Arguedas Ortiz
9781501752858
$24.95
TRAVEL
Age (years) from 18
Oct 15, 2020
This guidebook showcases the prized jewel in Costa Rica's ecological crown?the South Pacific region, including the Osa Peninsula. Readers plunge into the jungles of Corcovado National Park, waters that conceal extraordinary marine life, and the remarkable history of a region at the forefront of conservation efforts.Costa Rica is much more than a verdant paradise. It's a land of diverse landscapes and cultures. This collection of regional guides reveals unknown facets of Costa Rica and helps travelers understand what makes this country unique.In...
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20.
Series:
Laura Nader
Letters to and from an Anthropologist
Hardcover
Laura Nader
9781501752247
$53.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Age (years) from 18
Dec 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 ...
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21.
Series:
Engaging the Evil Empire
Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War
Hardcover
Simon Miles
9781501751691
$47.95
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, primarily competitive, goals. Miles narrates the history of these dramatic years, as President Ronald Reagan consistently applied a disciplined carrot-and-stick a...
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22.
Series: Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History
Comrades Betrayed
Jewish World War I Veterans under Hitler
Hardcover
Michael Geheran
9781501751011
$47.95
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 at least initially were able to avoid the fate of ordinary Jews under the Nazis, is the subject of Comrades Betrayed. Michael Geheran deftly illuminates how the same values that compelled Jewish soldiers to demonstrate...
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23.
Series: Religion and Conflict
Anti-Christian Violence in India
Hardcover
Chad M. Bauman
9781501750687
$47.95
HISTORY
Age (years) from 18
Sep 15, 2020
Does religion cause violent conflict, asks Chad M. Bauman, and if so, does it cause conflict more than other social identities? Through an extended history of Christian-Hindu relations, with particular attention to the 2007?2008 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 intergroup conflict? Why and how might violence become an attractive option for religious actors? What explains ...
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24.
Series:
War and Genocide in South Sudan
Paperback
Clémence Pinaud
9781501753008
$26.95
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...
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Series:
Shredding Paper
The Rise and Fall of Maine's Mighty Paper Industry
Hardcover
Michael G. Hillard
9781501753152
$44.95
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 toward 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 fall of Maine's mighty paper industry. Michael G. Hillard deconstructs the paper industry's unusua...
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26.
Series:
A Beachcomber's Guide to Fossils
Paperback
Bob Gale
9780820357324
$40.95
NATURE
Dec 10, 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...
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27.
Series:
A Perfect Souvenir
Stories about Travel from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
Paperback
Ethan Laughman
9780820358420
$33.95
FICTION
Aug 27, 2020
Travel, and the exhilarating experiences it offers us, 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 childhood—and for planned anthologies on such topics as family, gender and sexuality, a...
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28.
Series:
A Day's Pay
Stories about Work from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
Paperback
Ethan Laughman
9780820358390
$33.95
FICTION
Aug 27, 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...
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29.
Series:
If We Were Electric
Stories
Paperback
Patrick Earl Ryan
9780820358079
$26.95
FICTION
Sep 10, 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...
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30.
Series:
Mobile Home
A Memoir in Essays
Paperback
Megan Harlan
9780820357928
$30.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 10, 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...
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31.
Series:
A Queer History of Adolescence
Developmental Pasts, Relational Futures
Paperback
Gabrielle Owen
9780820357461
$39.95
LITERARY CRITICISM
Dec 10, 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...
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32.
Series:
Selling Hate
Marketing the Ku Klux Klan
Paperback
Dale W. Laackman
9780820358093
$36.95
HISTORY
Sep 01, 2020
Selling Hate is a fascinating and powerful story about the power of a southern PR firm to further the Ku Klux Klan’s agenda. Dale W. Laackman’s uncovered never-before-published archival material, census records, and obscure books and letters to tell the story of an emerging communications industry—an industry filled with potential and fraught with peril.The brilliant, amoral, and spectacularly bold Bessie Tyler and Edward Young Clarke—together, the Southern Publicity Association—met the fervent William Joseph Simmons (founder of the second KKK)...
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33.
Series:
Stargazing in the Atomic Age
Essays
Paperback
Anne Goldman
9780820358444
$30.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jan 10, 2021
A Kirkus Best Book of the YearDuring World War II, with apocalypse imminent, a group of well-known Jewish scientists and artists sidestepped despair by challenging themselves to solve some of the most difficult questions posed by our age. Many 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 Atom...
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34.
Series: Animal Voices / Animal Worlds Ser.
Underdogs
Pets, People, and Poverty
Paperback
Arnold Arluke
9780820358222
$44.95
NATURE
Dec 01, 2020
Underdogs looks into the rapidly growing initiative to provide veterinary care to underserved communities in North Carolina and Costa Rica and how those living in or near poverty respond to these forms of care. For many years, the primary focus of the humane community in the United States was to control animal overpopulation and alleviate the stray dog problem by euthanizing or sterilizing dogs and cats. These efforts succeeded by the turn of the century, and it appeared as though most pets were being sterilized and given at least basic veterin...
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35.
Series:
Bad Tourist
Misadventures in Love and Travel
Paperback
Suzanne Roberts
9781496222848
$26.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 01, 2020
2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Gold Medal Winner 2021 National Indie Excellent Awards Finalist 2020 Bronze Award for Travel Book or Guide from the North American Travel Journalists Association 2020 Bronze Winner for Travel in the Foreword INDIES 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-...
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36.
Series:
The Last Sovereigns
Sitting Bull and the Resistance of the Free Lakotas
Hardcover
Robert M. Utley
9781496220226
$33.95
HISTORY
Oct 01, 2020
2021 Spur Award Winner for Best Historical Nonfiction from the Western Writers of America True West Magazine's 2020 Best Author and Historical Nonfiction Book of the YearThe 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 were sacred to him and his people. Robert M. Utley explores the final four years of Sitt...
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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
$67.95
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 ...
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38.
Series: The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
Some Are Always Hungry
Paperback
Jihyun Yun
9781496222183
$24.95
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...
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39.
Series: The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction
If the Body Allows It
Stories
Paperback
Megan Cummins
9781496222831
$29.95
FICTION
Sep 01, 2020
Longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection 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...
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40.
Series:
The Speed Game
My Fast Times in Basketball
Hardcover
Paul Westhead
9781496222602
$40.95
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 ...
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41.
Series:
Havin' a Ball
My Improbable Basketball Journey
Hardcover
Richie Adubato
9781496212825
$36.95
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...
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42.
Series:
The James Naismith Reader
Basketball in His Own Words
Paperback
James Naismith
9781496219015
$30.95
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...
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43.
Series:
Shake and Bake
The Life and Times of NBA Great Archie Clark
Hardcover
Bob Kuska
9780803226548
$40.95
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...
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44.
Series:
Rez Metal
Inside the Navajo Nation Heavy Metal Scene
Paperback
Ashkan Soltani Stone
9781496205094
$22.95
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...
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45.
Series: The Backwaters Prize in Poetry
Foxlogic, Fireweed
Paperback
Jennifer K. Sweeney
9781496222695
$21.95
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...
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46.
Series:
Celeste Holm Syndrome
On Character Actors from Hollywood's Golden Age
Paperback
David Lazar
9781496200457
$26.95
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 ...
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47.
Series:
Mahagony
A Novel
Paperback
Édouard Glissant
9781496201782
$26.95
FICTION
Jan 01, 2021
A New York Times New and Noteworthy Book 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. The...
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48.
Series:
Who Invented Oscar Wilde?
The Photograph at the Center of Modern American Copyright
Hardcover
David Newhoff
9781640121584
$44.95
PHOTOGRAPHY
Nov 01, 2020
AAP PROSE Award, Finalist in Media and Culture Studies 2021 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 ab...
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49.
Series: At Table
Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens
Indigenous Recipes and Guide to Diet and Fitness
Paperback
Devon A. Mihesuah
9780803245259
$37.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Nov 01, 2020
2020 Gourmand World Cookbook Award 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 discu...
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50.
Series:
Knowing Native Arts
Hardcover
Nancy Marie Mithlo
9781496202123
$47.95
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...
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51.
Series:
The Star and the Scepter
A Diplomatic History of Israel
Hardcover
Emmanuel Navon
9780827615069
$49.95
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...
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52.
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...
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53.
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
$50.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Dec 14, 2020
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. ...
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54.
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...
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55.
Series:
Whose Blues?
Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music
Paperback
Adam Gussow
9781469660363
$53.95
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...
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56.
Series: Justice, Power, and Politics
To Make the Wounded Whole
The African American Struggle against HIV/AIDS
Paperback
Dan Royles
9781469661339
$43.95
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...
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57.
Series:
The Punitive Turn in American Life
How the United States Learned to Fight Crime Like a War
Hardcover
Michael S. Sherry
9781469660707
$47.95
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...
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58.
Series:
Entertaining Entrepreneurs
Reality TV's Shark Tank and the American Dream in Uncertain Times
Hardcover
Daniel Horowitz
9781469659435
$133.95
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 ...
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59.
Series: Where Religion Lives
Painted Pomegranates and Needlepoint Rabbis
How Jews Craft Resilience and Create Community
Paperback
Jodi Eichler-Levine
9781469660639
$43.95
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 ...
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60.
Series:
Jumping the Broom
The Surprising Multicultural Origins of a Black Wedding Ritual
Paperback
Tyler D. Parry
9781469660868
$40.95
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. ...
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