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Series: Atlas Series The Coastal Atlas of Ireland Hardcover Robert Devoy 9781782054511 $93.95 SCIENCE Sep 29, 2021

The Coastal Atlas of Ireland is a celebration of Ireland?s coastal and marine spaces. Drawing on written contributions from over 100 authors from across the island of Ireland and beyond, the Atlas takes an explicitly all-island approach; though the work has a much wider relevance and potential reader interest. It is organised into six sections, comprising a total of 33 chapters, that take the reader from the distant geological past, by way of the prehistoric era and a focus on the island?s physical environments, through time and the human colon... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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Ireland [1913] Hardcover Richard Arnold Bermann 9781782054351 $47.95 HISTORY May 28, 2021

The volume contains the first, and only, English translation of Richard Bermann?s Ireland, produced by Dr Leesa Wheatley, a professional translator and author of a major study on German travel writing on Ireland since 1780, and Professor Florian Krobb, School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Maynooth University, who counts amongst his specialisms the writings of Richard Arnold Bermann (1883-1939), one of the most prominent and the most travelled of journalists of the first decades of the 20th century. This translation is complemen... + Read More
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Romantic-Era Irish Women Poets in English Hardcover Stephen Behrendt 9781782054474 $60.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Apr 23, 2021

This book offers a representative sampling of the still mostly unknown poetry by Romantic-era Irish women. It represents most of the period?s active poets by multiple (rather than only a few) works, demonstrating the diversity and the subject range of these four dozen or so poets over the 50-year period. Although several of these poets appear (briefly) in Andrew Carpenter?s Verse in English from Eighteenth-Century Ireland, no comparable or competing collection exists. Anthologies of ?British? poetry by Romantic-era women devote scant space to t... + Read More
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The Beekeeper's Handbook 5th edition Paperback Diana Sammataro 9781501752612 $40.95 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Age (years) from 18 Apr 15, 2021

Diana Sammataro and Alphonse Avitabile have created the best single-volume guide to the hobby and profession of beekeeping. The Beekeeper's Handbook provides step-by-step instructions for setting up an apiary, handling bees, and working throughout the season to maintain a healthy colony and a generous supply of honey. Various colony care options and techniques are explained so that beekeepers can make the best choices for their hives.The Beekeeper's Handbook is an invaluable resource for both beginner and veteran beekeepers. This fully updated ... + Read More
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Our Changing Menu Climate Change and the Foods We Love and Need Paperback Michael P. Hoffmann 9781501754623 $29.95 SCIENCE Age (years) from 18 Apr 15, 2021

Our Changing Menu unpacks the increasingly complex relationships between food and climate change. Whether you're a chef, baker, distiller, restaurateur, or someone who simply enjoys a good pizza or drink, it's time to come to terms with how climate change is affecting our diverse and interwoven food system. Michael P. Hoffmann, Carrie Koplinka-Loehr, and Danielle L. Eiseman offer an eye-opening journey through a complete menu of before-dinner drinks and salads; main courses and sides; and coffee and dessert. Along the way they examine the escal... + Read More
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Bird Talk An Exploration of Avian Communication Hardcover Barbara Ballentine 9781501753428 $40.95 SCIENCE Age (years) from 18 May 15, 2021

Bird Talk delves into new scientific developments to reveal the complexities of how birds make, learn, and use sound in a bewildering array of songs and calls. The beauty of birdsong is one of the joys of nature, and this book reveals how songs are learnt and performed, why the quality of a male's repertoire can affect his mating success, and how birds use song-matching and countersinging in territorial disputes. Bird Talk illustrates how birds communicate through visual signals too, from the dazzling feathers of a Peacock to the jumping displa... + Read More
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Series: Zona Tropical Publications / Antlion Media Dragonflies and Damselflies of Costa Rica A Field Guide Paperback Dennis R. Paulson 9781501713163 $47.95 SCIENCE Age (years) from 18 May 15, 2021

Among the largest of all insects, dragonflies and damselflies are conspicuous. Active during the day, often brightly colored, and extremely photogenic?something about their appearance and dashing flight suggests a primeval world of tree ferns and dinosaurs.The first guide of its kind, this book includes an in-depth introduction with an overview of Costa Rican biodiversity and illustrated morphological terms. The species accounts show males and females of most species, detailed illustrations and close-ups of key distinguishing features, and desc... + Read More
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Rockaway Blue A Novel Hardcover Larry Kirwan 9781501754227 $37.95 FICTION Age (years) from 18 Mar 15, 2021

When terrorists attacked on September 11, 2001, Lieutenant Brian Murphy rescued seven people from the World Trade Center. Even as steel girders buckled and groaned, Brian rushed back up the stairs of the North Tower in search of those in need. He died a hero, one of more than four hundred police officers, firefighters, and other first responders who perished that fateful day. Three years later, Vietnam veteran and retired NYPD detective-sergeant Jimmy Murphy is on a mission to find the truth behind his son's death. Why was Brian in the tower th... + Read More
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A Wild Idea How the Environmental Movement Tamed the Adirondacks Hardcover Brad Edmondson 9781501759017 $40.95 TRAVEL Age (years) from 18 May 15, 2021

A Wild Idea shares the complete story of the difficult birth of the Adirondack Park Agency (APA). The Adirondack region of New York's rural North Country forms the nation's largest State Park, with a territory as large as Vermont. Planning experts view the APA as a triumph of sustainability that balances human activity with the preservation of wild ecosystems. The truth isn't as pretty. The story of the APA, told here for the first time, is a complex, troubled tale of political dueling and communities pushed to the brink of violence. The North ... + Read More
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Rich Thanks to Racism How the Ultra-Wealthy Profit from Racial Injustice Hardcover Jim Freeman 9781501755132 $40.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Age (years) from 18 Apr 15, 2021

More than fifty years after the civil rights movement, there are still glaring racial inequities all across the United States. In Rich Thanks to Racism, Jim Freeman, one of the country's leading civil rights lawyers, explains why as he reveals the hidden strategy behind systemic racism. He details how the driving force behind the public policies that continue to devastate communities of color across the United States is a small group of ultra-wealthy individuals who profit mightily from racial inequality.In this groundbreaking examination of "s... + Read More
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Series: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work The Caring Class Home Health Aides in Crisis Hardcover Richard Schweid 9781501754104 $36.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Age (years) from 18 Mar 15, 2021

The number of elderly and disabled Americans in need of home health care is increasing annually, even as the pool of people?almost always women?willing to do this job gets smaller and smaller. The Caring Class takes readers inside the reality of home health care by following the lives of women training and working as home health aides in the South Bronx.Richard Schweid examines home health care in detail, focusing on the women who tend to our elderly and disabled loved ones and how we fail to value their work. They are paid minimum wage so that... + Read More
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All Societies Die How to Keep Hope Alive Hardcover Samuel Cohn 9781501755903 $36.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Age (years) from 18 Apr 15, 2021

In All Societies Die, Samuel Cohn asks us to prepare for the inevitable. Our society is going to die. What are you going to do about it? But he also wants us to know that there's still reason for hope. In an immersive and mesmerizing discussion Cohn considers what makes societies (throughout history) collapse. All Societies Die points us to the historical examples of the Byzantine empire, the collapse of Somalia, the rise of Middle Eastern terrorism, the rise of drug cartels in Latin America and the French Revolution to explain how societal dec... + Read More
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Series: Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History Dragonslayer The Legend of Erich Ludendorff in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich Hardcover Jay Lockenour 9781501754593 $44.95 HISTORY Age (years) from 18 Apr 15, 2021

In this fascinating biography of the infamous ideologue Erich Ludendorff, Jay Lockenour complicates the classic depiction of this German World War I hero. Erich Ludendorff created for himself a persona that secured his place as one of the most prominent (and despicable) Germans of the twentieth century. With boundless energy and an obsession with detail, Ludendorff ascended to power and solidified a stable, public position among Germany's most influential. Between 1914 and his death in 1937, he was a war hero, a dictator, a right-wing activist,... + Read More
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Series: Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History Drunk on Genocide Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany Hardcover Edward B. Westermann 9781501754197 $44.95 HISTORY Age (years) from 18 Mar 15, 2021

In Drunk on Genocide, Edward B. Westermann reveals how, over the course of the Third Reich, scenes involving alcohol consumption and revelry among the SS and police became a routine part of rituals of humiliation in the camps, ghettos, and killing fields of Eastern Europe. Westermann draws on a vast range of newly unearthed material to explore how alcohol consumption served as a literal and metaphorical lubricant for mass murder. It facilitated "performative masculinity," expressly linked to physical or sexual violence. Such inebriated exhibiti... + Read More
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Warsaw Ghetto Police The Jewish Order Service during the Nazi Occupation Hardcover Katarzyna Person 9781501754074 $44.95 HISTORY Age (years) from 18 Apr 15, 2021

In Warsaw Ghetto Police, Katarzyna Person shines a spotlight on the lawyers, engineers, young yeshiva graduates, and sons of connected businessmen who, in the autumn of 1940, joined the newly formed Jewish Order Service.Person tracks the everyday life of policemen as their involvement with the horrors of ghetto life gradually increased. Facing and engaging with brutality, corruption, and the degradation and humiliation of their own people, these policemen found it virtually impossible to exercise individual agency. While some saw the Jewish pol... + Read More
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Series: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work Kidney to Share Hardcover Martha Gershun 9781501755439 $36.95 MEDICAL Age (years) from 18 May 15, 2021

In Kidney to Share, Martha Gershun tells the story of her decision to donate a kidney to a stranger. She takes readers through the complex process by which such donors are vetted to ensure that they are physically and psychologically fit to take the risk of a major operation. John D. Lantos, a physician and bioethicist, places Gershun's story in the larger context of the history of kidney transplantation and the ethical controversies that surround living donors. Together, they help readers understand the discoveries that made transplantation re... + Read More
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Possessed A Cultural History of Hoarding Paperback Rebecca R. Falkoff 9781501752803 $26.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Age (years) from 18 May 15, 2021

In Possessed, Rebecca R. Falkoff asks how hoarding?once a paradigm of economic rationality?came to be defined as a mental illness. Hoarding is unique among the disorders included in the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-5, because its diagnosis requires the existence of a material entity: the hoard. Possessed therefore considers the hoard as an aesthetic object produced by clashing perspectives about the meaning or value of objects. The 2000s have seen a surge of cultural interest in hoarding and those whose possessions overwhelm their liv... + Read More
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Southbound Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change Paperback Anjali Enjeti 9780820360065 $33.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 15, 2021

A move at age ten from a Detroit suburb to Chattanooga in 1984 thrusts Anjali Enjeti into what feels like a new world replete with Confederate flags, Bible verses, and whiteness. It is here that she learns how to get her bearings as a mixed-race brown girl in the Deep South and begins to understand how identity can inspire, inform, and shape a commitment to activism. Her own evolution is a bumpy one, and along the way Enjeti, racially targeted as a child, must wrestle with her own complicity in white supremacy and bigotry as an adult. The twent... + Read More
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Hong Kong without Us A People's Poetry Paperback The Bauhinia Project 9780820360041 $30.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2021

Hong Kong without Us is a decentralized book of revolutionary poetry. Drawn directly from the voices of Hong Kong during its anti-extradition protests, the poems consist of submitted testimonies and found materials—and are all anonymous from end to end, from first speech to translated curation. This collected poetic documentation of protest is thus an authorless work that brings together many voices. The editors themselves are anonymous poets acting through the Bauhinia Project, an organization created to bring Hong Kong’s struggles to the stag... + Read More
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Mountain Madness Found and Lost in the Peaks of America and Japan Paperback Clinton Crockett Peters 9780820358536 $33.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Mar 01, 2021

With Mountain Madness, Clinton Crockett Peters chronicles his travels and personal transformation from a West Texas evangelical to a mountain guide-addict to humbled humanist after a near-fatal injury in Japan’s Chichibu Mountains. From 2007 to 2010, Peters lived in Kosuge Village (population nine hundred), nestled in central Japan’s peaks, where he was the only foreigner in the rugged town. Using these three years as a frame, this essay collection profiles who he was before Japan, why he became obsessed with mountains, and his fallout from mou... + Read More
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Divine Fire Poems Paperback David Woo 9780820358840 $26.95 POETRY Feb 24, 2021

How to find wisdom and spiritual sustenance in a time of crisis and uncertainty? In Divine Fire, David Woo answers with poems that move from private life into a wider world of catastrophe and renewal. The collection opens in the most personal space, a bedroom, where the chaotic intrusions of adulthood revive the bafflements of childhood. The perspective soon widens from the intimacies of love to issues of national and global import, such as race and class inequality, and then to an unspoken cataclysm that is, by turns, a spiritual apocalypse an... + Read More
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Building Beloved Communities The Life and Work of Rev. Dr. Paul Smith Hardcover Hildi Hendrickson 9780820359618 $44.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 15, 2021

Building Beloved Communities traces the life of Rev. Dr. Paul Smith (b. 1935), an iconoclastic Black minister who has channeled his civil rights work into establishing multiracial churches in four cities—Buffalo, New York; St. Louis, Missouri; Atlanta, Georgia; and Brooklyn, New York—over a six-decade career. Following the lead of his mentor, Dr. Howard Thurman (who was also a key influence on Martin Luther King Jr.), Smith has shown how to build thriving multicultural congregations and thereby create the sort of inclusive communities envi... + Read More
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Black Snake Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice Paperback Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys 9781496222664 $33.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 01, 2021

2022 High Plains Book Award Winner for First Book 2022 Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize Short List 2022 Eric Hoffer Award Honorable Mention in Culture 2022 IPPY Gold Medal in Environment/Ecology 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist in Regional Nonfiction 2022 Montaigne Medal Finalist 2021 Foreword Indies Honorable Mention for History The controversial Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) made headlines around the world in 2016. Supporters called the pipeline key to safely transporting American oil from the Bakken oil fields of the northern plai... + Read More
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1962 Baseball and America in the Time of JFK Hardcover David Krell 9780803290877 $47.95 SPORTS & RECREATION May 01, 2021

In the watershed year of 1962, events and people came together to reshape baseball like never before. The season saw five no-hitters, a rare National League playoff between the Giants and the Dodgers, and a thrilling seven-game World Series where the Yankees, led by Mickey Mantle, won their twentieth title, beating the San Francisco Giants, led by Willie Mays, in their first appearance since leaving New York. Baseball was expanding with the Houston Colt .45s and the New York Mets, who tried to fill the National League void in New York but finis... + Read More
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Cobra A Life of Baseball and Brotherhood Hardcover Dave Parker 9781496218735 $47.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 01, 2021

Finalist for the 2021 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year“For that period of time, he was the greatest player of my generation.”—Keith Hernandez Dave Parker was one of the biggest and most badass baseball players of the late twentieth century. He stood at six foot five and weighed 235 pounds. He was a seven-time All-Star, a two-time batting champion, a frequent Gold Glove winner, the 1978 National League MVP, and a World Series champion with both the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Oakland A’s. Here the great Dave Parker delivers his wil... + Read More
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Two Sides of Glory The 1986 Boston Red Sox in Their Own Words Hardcover Erik Sherman 9781496219329 $40.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Apr 01, 2021

Following an epic American League Championship Series win over the California Angels and just one out from winning their first World Series in sixty-eight years, the 1986 Boston Red Sox lost Game Six to the New York Mets in unforgettable and devastating fashion. Then they lost Game Seven and the Series itself. Two Sides of Glory portrays the losing side of the story about one of baseball’s most riveting World Series match-ups. With the benefit of years of reflection from the men who made up the ’86 Sox, this will be the definitive book on this ... + Read More
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Tony Lazzeri Yankees Legend and Baseball Pioneer Hardcover Lawrence Baldassaro 9781496216755 $47.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Apr 01, 2021

2022 SABR Baseball Research Award Before there was Joe DiMaggio, there was Tony Lazzeri. A decade before the “Yankee Clipper” began his legendary career in 1936, Lazzeri paved the way for the man who would become the patron saint of Italian American fans and players. He did so by forging his own Hall of Fame career as a key member of the Yankees’ legendary Murderers’ Row lineup between 1926 and 1937, in the process becoming the first major baseball star of Italian descent. An unwitting pioneer who played his entire career while afflicted with e... + Read More
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The Pride of Minnesota The Twins in the Turbulent 1960s Hardcover Thom Henninger 9781496225603 $44.95 SPORTS & RECREATION May 01, 2021

The 1960s were a heady time to come of age. The British Invasion transformed pop music and culture. The fledgling space program offered a thrilling display of modern technology. The civil rights movement and Vietnam War drew young people to American politics, spurring them to think more critically about the state of the nation. And the assassinations Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy in 1968 shook the United States to the core. During these turbulent times the Minnesota Twins were the pride of the North Star State—an elite team that ... + Read More
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Ours to Explore Privilege, Power, and the Paradox of Voluntourism Paperback Pippa Biddle 9781640124417 $33.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Jun 01, 2021

In a 2014 essay that went viral, Pippa Biddle revealed the inequities and absurdities baked into voluntourism—the pairing of short-term, unskilled volunteer work with tourism. In the years since, Biddle has devoted herself to understanding the origins, intentions, and outcomes of a multibillion-dollar industry built on the premise of doing good, and she tracks that investigation in Ours to Explore. The flaws of voluntourism have included xenophobia, racism, paternalism, and a “West knows best” mentality. From exploitative orphanages that keep c... + Read More
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Asphalt A History Hardcover Kenneth O'Reilly 9781496222077 $40.95 NATURE Jul 01, 2021

La Brea Tar Pits once trapped prehistoric mammals. Today that killer has a chemical cousin in the Athabasca oil sands of Alberta, Canada—immense deposits of natural asphalt destined for upgrading to synthetic crude oil. If the harvesting of this natural asphalt continues unabated, we might find ourselves stuck in a muck of a different kind. Humanity has used asphalt for thousands of years. This humble hydrocarbon may have glued the first arrowhead to the first shaft, but the changes wrought by this material are most dramatic since its emergence... + Read More
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Series: At Table Maestro André Tchelistcheff and the Rebirth of Napa Valley Hardcover James O. Gump 9781496226051 $40.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 01, 2021

Wine insiders called André Tchelistcheff the “winemaker’s winemaker,” the “wine doctor,” and simply “maestro.” After Prohibition brought Napa Valley and its wine industry to the brink of catastrophe, Tchelistcheff (1901–94) proved essential in its revitalization. Tchelistcheff’s unique background—a sickly child, a Russian émigré forced from his homeland during the Bolshevik Revolution, a White Army lieutenant who fought in the Crimea, a physical laborer in a Bulgarian coal mine, a Czechoslovakian-trained agronomist, and a French-schooled viticu... + Read More
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Series: African Poetry Book Your Crib, My Qibla Paperback Saddiq Dzukogi 9781496225771 $24.95 POETRY Mar 01, 2021

Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry Winner Julie Suk Award Winner Nigeria Prize for Literature shortlistYour Crib, My Qibla interrogates loss, the death of a child, and a father’s pursuit of language able to articulate grief. In these poems, the language of memory functions as a space of mourning, connecting the dead with the world of the living. Culminating in an imagined dialogue between the father and his deceased daughter in the intricate space of the family, Your Crib, My Qibla explores grief, the fleeting nature of healing, and the constant ob... + Read More
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Series: African Poetry Book The Rinehart Frames Paperback Cheswayo Mphanza 9781496225764 $26.95 POETRY Mar 01, 2021

2021 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 2021 Foreword Indies Finalist Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry The poems in The Rinehart Frames seek to exhaust the labyrinths of ekphrasis. By juxtaposing the character of Rinehart from Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man with the film 24 Frames by Abbas Kiarostami, the poems leap into secondary histories, spaces, and languages that encompass a collective yet varied consciousness of being. Cheswayo Mphanza’s collection questions the boundaries of diaspora and narrative thr... + Read More
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Letter from a Place I've Never Been New and Collected Poems, 1986-2020 Paperback Hilda Raz 9781496226822 $40.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2021

Hilda Raz has an ability “to tell something every day and make it tough,” says John Kinsella in his introduction. Letter from a Place I’ve Never Been shows readers the evolution of a powerful poet who is also one of the foremost literary editors in the country. Bringing together all seven of her poetry collections, a long out-of-print early chapbook, and her newest work, this collection delights readers with its empathetic and incisive look at the inner and outer lives we lead and the complexities that come with being human. Showcasing the work... + Read More
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Empire of Terror Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Hardcover Mark D. Silinsky 9781640123137 $47.95 HISTORY Jul 01, 2021

In Empire of Terror Mark D. Silinsky argues that Iran is one of the United States’ deadliest enemies. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, known as the Guards, bring Iran’s sway over much of the greater Middle East and pose a growing existential threat to Western security. Providing insights gained from his thirty-eight years as an analyst in the U.S. defense intelligence community, Silinsky argues that Iran’s political leaders and Guards are animated by aggressive, unforgiving, and totalitarian principles. He draws historical parallels to th... + Read More
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Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's Paperback Tiffany Midge 9781496224934 $26.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 01, 2021

Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s is a powerful and compelling collection of Tiffany Midge’s musings on life, politics, and identity as a Native woman in America. Artfully blending sly humor, social commentary, and meditations on love and loss, Midge weaves short, standalone musings into a memoir that stares down colonialism while chastising hipsters for abusing pumpkin spice. She explains why she doesn’t like pussy hats, mercilessly dismantles pretendians, and confesses her own struggles with white-bread privilege. Midge ponders Standing Rock... + Read More
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The Masters A Hole-by-Hole History of America's Golf Classic 3rd edition Paperback David Sowell 9781496224972 $29.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Mar 01, 2021

Revered as the most prestigious tournament in golf, the Masters commands international attention, even among nongolfers. The first and second editions of The Masters: A Hole-by-Hole History of America’s Golf Classic took the unique approach of tackling Augusta National hole by hole. Each hole had its own chapter, with colorful stories on the greatest shots, biggest disasters, and most amazing events that took place on each. David Sowell returns to Augusta with the third edition of The Masters, adding more history and updating each hole with add... + Read More
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Series: Justice, Power, and Politics Race for Profit How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership Paperback Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 9781469663883 $27.95 HISTORY Apr 01, 2021

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDFINALIST, 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYBy the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally worked to end the practice of redlining. Reasoning that the turbulence could be calmed by turning Black city-dwellers into homeowners, they passed the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, and set about establishing policies to induce mortgage lenders and the real estate industry to treat Black homebuyers equally. The disaster that ensued revealed that racist exclu... + Read More
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Black Marxism, Revised and Updated Third Edition The Making of the Black Radical Tradition 3rd edition Paperback Cedric J. Robinson 9781469663722 $40.95 HISTORY Feb 01, 2021

In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Marxist analyses tend to presuppose European models of history and experience that downplay the significance of Black people and Black communities as agents of change and resistance. Black radicalism, Robinson argues, must be linked to the traditions of Africa and the unique experiences of Blacks on Western continents, and any analy... + Read More
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Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book Black Smoke African Americans and the United States of Barbecue Hardcover Adrian Miller 9781469662800 $40.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 27, 2021

Across America, the pure love and popularity of barbecue cookery have gone through the roof. Prepared in one regional style or another, in the South and beyond, barbecue is one of the nation's most distinctive culinary arts. And people aren't just eating it; they're also reading books and articles and watching TV shows about it. But why is it, asks Adrian Miller—admitted 'cuehead and longtime certified barbecue judge—that in today's barbecue culture African Americans don't get much love? In Black Smoke, Miller chronicles how Black barbecuers, ... + Read More
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Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book White Evangelical Racism The Politics of Morality in America Hardcover Anthea Butler 9781469661179 $33.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 22, 2021

The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals play a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. These evangelicals raise a starkly consequential question for electoral politics: Why do they claim morality while supporting politicians who act immorally by most Christian measures? In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chronicle of American religion and politics, Anthea Butler answers that racism is at the core of conservative evangelical activism and power.Butler reveals how evangelical ... + Read More
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Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book No Common Ground Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice Hardcover Karen L. Cox 9781469662671 $32.95 HISTORY Apr 12, 2021

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century--but they've never been as intense as they are today. In this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments, Karen L. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and ... + Read More
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Good Walks Rediscovering the Soul of Golf at Eighteen of the Carolinas' Best Courses Hardcover Lee Pace 9781469662862 $54.95 SPORTS & RECREATION May 03, 2021

This book celebrates the beauty, tradition, and variety of golf across the Carolinas, featuring eighteen beloved courses as experienced by the walking golfer. One of golf's earliest appeals was its health-giving benefits, with players walking some four miles over varied terrain, making stamina and endurance an important part of the sport. Most recreational players today choose motorized carts. But Lee Pace believes that the slower pace and on-the-ground view associated with walking gives one an opportunity to savor the experience, understand th... + Read More
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Series: Savor the South Cookbooks Rice a Savor the South cookbook Hardcover Michael W. Twitty 9781469660240 $28.95 COOKING Mar 01, 2021

Among the staple foods most welcomed on southern tables—and on tables around the world—rice is without question the most versatile. As Michael W. Twitty observes, depending on regional tastes, rice may be enjoyed at breakfast, lunch, and dinner; as main dish, side dish, and snack; in dishes savory and sweet. Filling and delicious, rice comes in numerous botanical varieties and offers a vast range of scents, tastes, and textures depending on how it is cooked. In some dishes, it is crunchingly crispy; in others, soothingly smooth; in still others... + Read More
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Series: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Thirteen Clocks How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence Paperback Robert G. Parkinson 9781469662572 $27.95 HISTORY May 10, 2021

In his celebrated account of the origins of American unity, John Adams described July 1776 as the moment when thirteen clocks managed to strike at the same time. So how did these American colonies overcome long odds to create a durable union capable of declaring independence from Britain? In this powerful new history of the fifteen tense months that culminated in the Declaration of Independence, Robert G. Parkinson provides a troubling answer: racial fear. Tracing the circulation of information in the colonial news systems that linked patriot l... + Read More
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Series: Documentary Arts and Culture, Published in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University Run Home If You Don't Want to Be Killed The Detroit Uprising of 1943 Paperback Rachel Marie-Crane Williams 9781469663272 $30.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Mar 08, 2021

In the heat of June in 1943, a wave of destructive and deadly civil unrest took place in the streets of Detroit. The city was under the pressures of both wartime industrial production and the nascent civil rights movement, setting the stage for massive turmoil and racial violence. Thirty-four people were killed, most of whom were Black, and over half of these were killed by police. Two thousand people were arrested, and over seven hundred sustained injuries requiring treatment at local hospitals. Property damage was estimated to be nearly $2 mi... + Read More
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Series: Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução The Black Man in Brazilian Soccer Paperback Mario Filho 9781469637006 $33.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 12, 2021

At turns lyrical, ironic, and sympathetic, Mario Filho's chronicle of "the beautiful game" is a classic of Brazilian sports writing. Filho (1908–1966)—a famous Brazilian journalist after whom Rio's Maracana stadium is officially named—tells the Brazilian soccer story as a boundary-busting one of race relations, popular culture, and national identity. Now in English for the first time, the book highlights national debates about the inclusion of African-descended people in the body politic and situates early black footballers as key creators of B... + Read More
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Series: Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges Defending the Arctic Refuge A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice Hardcover Finis Dunaway 9781469661100 $44.95 SCIENCE May 17, 2021

Tucked away in the northeastern corner of Alaska is one of the most contested landscapes in all of North America: the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Considered sacred by Indigenous peoples in Alaska and Canada and treasured by environmentalists, the refuge provides life-sustaining habitat for caribou, polar bears, migratory birds, and other species. For decades, though, the fossil fuel industry and powerful politicians have sought to turn this unique ecosystem into an oil field. Defending the Arctic Refuge tells the improbable story of how th... + Read More
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Chronicling Stankonia The Rise of the Hip-Hop South Paperback Regina Bradley 9781469661964 $32.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 22, 2021

This vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern identities for a post–civil rights generation. For scholar and critic Regina N. Bradley, Outkast's work is the touchstone, a blend of funk, gospel, and hip-hop developed in conjunction with the work of other culture creators—including T.I., Kiese Laymon, and Jesmyn Ward. This work, Bradley argues, helps define new cultural possibilities for black southerners who came of age in the 1980s and 1990s and have used hip-... + Read More
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Tainted Tap Flint's Journey from Crisis to Recovery Paperback Katrinell M. Davis 9781469663326 $33.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 03, 2021

After a cascade of failures left residents of Flint, Michigan, without a reliable and affordable supply of safe drinking water, citizens spent years demanding action from their city and state officials. Complaints from the city's predominantly African American residents were ignored until independent researchers confirmed dangerously elevated blood lead levels among Flint children and in the city's tap water. Despite a 2017 federal court ruling in favor of Flint residents who had demanded mitigation, those efforts have been incomplete at best. ... + Read More
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Divided by Terror American Patriotism after 9/11 Hardcover John Bodnar 9781469662619 $47.95 HISTORY May 24, 2021

Americans responded to the deadly terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, with an outpouring of patriotism, though all were not united in their expression. A war-based patriotism inspired millions of Americans to wave the flag and support a brutal War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq, while many other Americans demanded an empathic patriotism that would bear witness to the death and suffering surrounding the attack. Twenty years later, the war still simmers, and both forms of patriotism continue to shape historical understandings of 9/11's le... + Read More
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Series: The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture The Colored Conventions Movement Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century Paperback P. Gabrielle Foreman 9781469654263 $40.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 22, 2021

This volume of essays is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement, the nineteenth century's longest campaign for Black civil rights. Well before the founding of the NAACP and other twentieth-century pillars of the civil rights movement, tens of thousands of Black leaders organized state and national conventions across North America. Over seven decades, they advocated for social justice and against slavery, protesting state-sanctioned and mob violence while demanding voting, legal, labor, and educational rights. While Black-led act... + Read More
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Porn Work Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism Paperback Heather Berg 9781469661926 $35.95 HISTORY Apr 12, 2021

Every porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor is only the beginning of the story. Porn Work takes readers behind the scenes to explore what porn performers think of their work and how they intervene to hack it. Blending extensive fieldwork with feminist and antiwork theorizing, Porn Work details entrepreneurial labor on the boundaries between pleasure and tedium. Rejecting any notion that sex work is an aberration from straight work, it reveals porn workers' creative strategies as prophetic of a working landscape in crisis... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Social Medicine Sick and Tired An Intimate History of Fatigue Paperback Emily K. Abel 9781469663340 $26.95 HISTORY Apr 12, 2021

Medicine finally has discovered fatigue. Recent articles about various diseases conclude that fatigue has been underrecognized, underdiagnosed, and undertreated. Scholars in the social sciences and humanities have also ignored the phenomenon. As a result, we know little about what it means to live with this condition, especially given its diverse symptoms and causes. Emily K. Abel offers the first history of fatigue, one that is scrupulously researched but also informed by her own experiences as a cancer survivor. Abel reveals how the limits of... + Read More
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William Still The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia 1st edition Hardcover William C. Kashatus 9780268200367 $47.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 01, 2021

The first full-length biography of William Still, one of the most important leaders of the Underground Railroad.William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia is the first major biography of the free black abolitionist William Still, who coordinated the Eastern Line of the Underground Railroad and was a pillar of the Railroad as a whole. Based in Philadelphia, Still built a reputation as a courageous leader, writer, philanthropist, and guide for fugitive slaves. This monumental work details Still?s life story beginning wi... + Read More
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Taking the Fight South Chronicle of a Jew's Battle for Civil Rights in Mississippi 1st edition Hardcover Howard Ball 9780268109165 $43.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 01, 2021

Taking the Fight South provides a timely and telling reminder of the vigilance democracy requires if racial justice is to be fully realized.Distinguished historian and civil rights activist Howard Ball has written dozens of books during his career, including the landmark biography of Thurgood Marshall, A Defiant Life, and the critically acclaimed Murder in Mississippi, chronicling the Mississippi Burning killings. In Taking the Fight South, arguably his most personal book, Ball focuses on six years, from 1976 to 1982, when, against the advice o... + Read More
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Stories from Palestine Narratives of Resilience 1st edition Hardcover Marda Dunsky 9780268200336 $47.95 HISTORY Mar 01, 2021

Stories from Palestine profiles Palestinians engaged in creative and productive pursuits in their everyday lives in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. Their narratives amplify perspectives and experiences of Palestinians exercising their own constructive agency.In Stories from Palestine: Narratives of Resilience, Marda Dunsky presents a vivid overview of contemporary Palestinian society in the venues envisioned for a future Palestinian state. Dunsky has interviewed women and men from cities, towns, villages, and refugee camps who are... + Read More
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Clothing the New World Church Liturgical Textiles of Spanish America, 1520-1820 1st edition Hardcover Maya Stanfield-Mazzi 9780268108052 $67.95 ART Feb 15, 2021

The book provides the first broad survey of church textiles of Spanish America and demonstrates that, while overlooked, textiles were a vital part of visual culture in the Catholic Church.When Catholic churches were built in the New World in the sixteenth century, they were furnished with rich textiles known in Spanish as “church clothing.” These textile ornaments covered churches’ altars, stairs, floors, and walls. Vestments clothed priests and church attendants, and garments clothed statues of saints. The value attached to these textiles, the... + Read More
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Capitalism and Democracy Prosperity, Justice, and the Good Society Paperback Thomas A. Spragens, 9780268200145 $37.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Mar 01, 2021

This book serves as an introduction to the ongoing political debate about the relationship of capitalism and democracy. In recent years, the ideological battles between advocates of free markets and minimal government, on the one hand, and adherents of greater democratic equality and some form of the welfare state, on the other hand, have returned in full force. Anyone who wants to make sense of contemporary American politics and policy battles needs to have some understanding of the divergent beliefs and goals that animate this debate. In Capi... + Read More