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Nile nightshade
Winner of the 2026 James Beard Award for Reference, History, and ScholarshipBest Culinary History Book in the World, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2025"Leaves few cultural-societal stones unturned in chronicling how the tomato gradually came to be a constant presence in Egyptian life."—The Wall ...
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God rock, inc.
Popular music in the twenty-first century is increasingly divided into niche markets. How do fans, musicians, and music industry executives define their markets’ boundaries? What happens when musicians cross those boundaries? What can Christian music teach us about commercial popular music? In Go...
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The trouble with passion
Probing the ominous side of career advice to "follow your passion," this data-driven study explains how the passion principle fails us and perpetuates inequality by class, gender, and race; and it suggests how we can reconfigure our relationships to paid work. "Follow your passion" is a popular...
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Amphibians and reptiles of baja california, including its pacific islands and the islands in the sea of cortes
The Baja California peninsula is home to many forms of life found nowhere else on earth. This, combined with the peninsula's rugged and inaccessible terrain, has made the area one of the last true biological frontiers of North America. L. Lee Grismer is not only the foremost authority on the amph...
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Neo-confucian thought in action
This title was originally published in 1976. This title was originally published in 1976.
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The concept of representation
Being concerned with representation, this book is about an idea, a concept, a word. It is primarily a conceptual analysis, not a historical study of the way in which representative government has evolved, nor yet an empirical investigation of the behavior of contemporary representatives or the ex...
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Near birth
This insightful study of contemporary birthing uses the work of doulas to explore the questions raised near birth: What do we value, and how do we navigate those values when they are tangled in conflict? Pregnancy, birthing, and infant care offer a microcosm of cultural debates. In this ethnogr...
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A people's guide to the san francisco bay area
An alternative history and geography of the Bay Area that highlights sites of oppression, resistance, and transformation. “Lavishly produced, with beautiful images and crystal clear prose, A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area is for readers and activists who have taken part in protests ...
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Public health law and ethics
Public Health Law and Ethics: A Reader, 3rd Edition probes the legal and ethical issues at the heart of public health through an incisive selection of judicial opinions, scholarly articles, and government reports. Crafted to be accessible to students while thorough enough for use by practitioners...
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Protecting life on earth
Written to be accessible to any college-level reader, Protecting Life on Earth offers a non-technical, yet comprehensive introduction to the growing field of conservation science. This multifaceted exploration of our current biodiversity crisis delivers vivid examples throughout, including featur...
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A memory of violence
Through the fifth and sixth centuries, major divisions rocked Christianity as different factions vied to make their teachings the doctrine of the Roman Empire’s imperial church. In the aftermath of the Council of Chalcedon in 451, miaphysite Christians, often targeted as heretics by the imperial ...
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Art subjects
Nearly every artist under the age of fifty in the United States today has a Master of Fine Arts degree. Howard Singerman's thoughtful study is the first to place that degree in its proper historical framework and ideological context. Arguing that where artists are trained makes a difference in th...
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The sea in the middle
The Sea in the Middle presents an original and revisionist narrative of the development of the medieval west from late antiquity to the dawn of modernity. This textbook is uniquely centered on the Mediterranean and emphasizes the role played by peoples and cultures of Africa, Asia, and Europe in ...
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In a cold crater
Although the three conspicuous cultures of Berlin in the twentieth century—Weimar, Nazi, and Cold War—are well documented, little is known about the years between the fall of the Third Reich and the beginning of the Cold War. In a Cold Crater is the history of this volatile postwar moment, when t...
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Inland fishes of california
When the first edition of Inland Fishes of California was published in 1976, it was a benchmark reference. Since that time, our knowledge of California's freshwater fishes has dramatically increased. This completely revised edition incorporates a vast amount of new information and creates a fresh...
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The age of huts (compleat)
Between the Age of Innocence and the Age of Experience comes The Age of Huts. This book brings together for the first time all of the poems in Ron Silliman's Age of Huts cycle, including Ketjak, Sunset Debris, The Chinese Notebook, and 2197, as well as two key satellite texts, Sitting Up, Standi...
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Sixguns and society
From the Preface: The purpose of this book is to explain the Western's popularity. While the Western itself may seem simple (it isn't quite), an explanation of its popularity cannot be; for the Western, like any myth, stands between individual human consciousness and society. If a myth is popular...
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Families in america
In this accessible, engaging, and up-to-date course book, Susan L. Brown employs ethnographic vignettes and demographic data to introduce students to twenty-first century perspectives on contemporary families. Appropriate as a primary or secondary text in classes on family and marriage, this book...
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Red scare
How the rhetoric of terrorism has been used against high-profile movements to justify the oppression and suppression of Indigenous activists. New Indigenous movements are gaining traction in North America: the Missing and Murdered Women and Idle No More movements in Canada, and the Native Lives...
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Racial fault lines
This book unravels the ethnic history of California since the late nineteenth-century Anglo-American conquest and the institutionalization of "white supremacy" in the state. Drawing from an array of primary and secondary sources, Tomás Almaguer weaves a detailed, disturbing portrait of ethnic, ra...
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The chosen race
From the Realist canvases of the Pre-Raphaelites to the Aesthetic experiments of James McNeill Whistler, The Chosen Race confronts the complex negotiations of whiteness that played out across British art of the nineteenth century. Examining the representation of racial supremacy, difference, and ...
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Tracks and shadows
Intellectually rich, intensely personal, and beautifully written, Tracks and Shadows is both an absorbing autobiography of a celebrated field biologist and a celebration of beauty in nature. Harry W. Greene, award-winning author of Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Nature, delves into the poetr...
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Exit wounds
"Traces the deadly pipeline of assault weapons into the hands of organized crime."―Rolling Stone MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Ieva Jusionyte turns the familiar border narrative upside down, following American guns as they move south into Mexico—and revealing how their violence ricochets back across ...
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Transnational cinema solidarity
After the 1973 coup that put an end to the socialist government of Salvador Allende, most Chilean filmmakers went into exile. Dispersed all over the world, they made more than two hundred fiction films, documentaries, animations, videos, and works for television. José Miguel Palacios builds upon ...
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The comparative method
Charles C. Ragin’s The Comparative Method proposes a synthetic strategy, based on an application of Boolean algebra, that combines the strengths of both qualitative and quantitative sociology. Elegantly accessible and germane to the work of all the social sciences, and now updated with a new intr...
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The poetics of rock
After a hundred years of recording, the process of making records is still mysterious to most people who listen to them. Records hold a fundamental place in the dynamics of modern musical life, but what do they represent? Are they documents? Snapshots? Artworks? Fetishes? Commodities? Convenience...
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Mean girl
"Astute."—New York Times Ayn Rand’s complicated notoriety as popular writer, leader of a political and philosophical cult, reviled intellectual, and ostentatious public figure endured beyond her death in 1982. In the twenty-first century, she has been resurrected as a serious reference point fo...
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Overcoming bias habits
An action-oriented, scientifically tested guide to confronting and overcoming bias. Most anti-bias trainings offer empty words rather than effective, practical solutions. In this hopeful and accessible guide, scientist-practitioner William T. L. Cox breaks down the science behind stereotypes, b...
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Pathologies of power
Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of illness, of life—and death—in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience studying diseases in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that promoting the soc...
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The quinoa bust
Quinoa rose to global stardom pitched as an unparalleled sustainable development opportunity that heralded a bright future for rural communities devastated by decades of rural-urban migration, civil war, and state neglect. The Quinoa Bust is based in a longitudinal ethnography centered around Pun...
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The advent project
In his final accomplishment of an extraordinarily distinguished career, James W. McKinnon considers the musical practices of the early Church in this incisive examination of the history of Christian chant from the years a.d. 200 to 800. The result is an important book that is certain to have a lo...
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Birthing the nation
In this rich, evocative study, Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh examines the changing notions of sexuality, family, and reproduction among Palestinians living in Israel. Distinguishing itself amid the media maelstrom that has homogenized Palestinians as "terrorists," this important new work offers a complex, n...
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The scarcity slot
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.The Scarcity Slot is the first book to critically examine food security in Africa’s deep past. Amanda L. Logan argues that African foodways have been viewed through the lens of ‘the scarcity slot,’ a kind of O...
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A landscape of war
What worlds take root in war? In this book, anthropologist Munira Khayyat describes life along the southern border of Lebanon, where resistant ecologies thrive amid a terrain of perennial war. A Landscape of War takes us to frontline villages where armed invasions, indiscriminate bombings, and sc...
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Dirt
Dirt, soil, call it what you want—it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting our feet, our farms, our cities. This fascinating yet disquieting book finds, however, that we are running out of dirt, and it's no laughing matter. An engaging natural and cultural history of soi...
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Sartor resartus
Sartor Resartus is Thomas Carlyle's most enduring and influential work. First published in serial form in Fraser's Magazine in 1833-1834, it was discovered by the American Transcendentalists. Sponsored by Ralph Waldo Emerson, it was first printed as a book in Boston in 1836 and immediately became...
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An independent man
The first biography of one of the founders of the disability rights movement, An Independent Man chronicles the life of an activist who reimagined the meaning of equality and inspired generations of reformers. Before Jonas Salk's vaccine, polio was a social death sentence. The disabled were expec...
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Deceit and denial
Deceit and Denial details the attempts by the chemical and lead industries to deceive Americans about the dangers that their deadly products present to workers, the public, and consumers. Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner pursued evidence steadily and relentlessly, interviewed the important playe...
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The politics of the chinese cultural revolution
Hong Yung Lee's account of the Cultural Revolution illuminates its complexities and subtleties to an unprecedented degree. His primary concern is with the behavior of the masses once they were freed from party control, and his analysis of voluminous Red Guard publications highlights the different...
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Abortion and reproductive justice
"Required reading for anyone dedicated to bodily autonomy and sovereignty now and into the future."—Ms. MagazineA bold call to action and guide for building an inclusive and intersectional reproductive justice movement. Overturning Roe unleashed a wave of urgent threats to abortion and bodily a...
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Logistics and power
From supply chains to surveillance, how logistics drives modern power—and its consequences. Movement is the lifeblood of capital, even more so than growth. If goods, people, and information don't flow, then profits don't either. Ensuring that laborers, shipping containers, media, commercially v...
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Evolution of a movement
Despite living and working in California, one of the county's most environmentally progressive states, environmental justice activists have spent decades fighting for clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and safe, healthy communities. Evolution of a Movement tells their story—from the ofte...
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Gaza
"In its comprehensive sweep, deep probing and acute critical analysis, Finkelstein's study stands alone."—Noam Chomsky"No one who ventures an opinion on Gaza . . . is entitled to do so without taking into account the evidence in this book."—The InterceptThe Gaza Strip is among the most densely po...
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Emerging el dorado
The scramble for distant riches has featured centrally in the history of the Global South—from the first forays of European imperialists to the recent fascination with emerging markets. In the mid-nineteenth century, fortune hunters turned their attention to Argentina, transforming it into a fron...
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In rome's long shadow
Julius Caesar, Lucretia, Cincinnatus, Augustus, the Gracchi brothers: Roman figures have had an extraordinary influence on modern republics from the United States to France. Historian Jamie Gianoutsos traces the Roman republic and its afterlives through the revolutionary birth of these modern rep...
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Signs and meanings
Signs and Meanings explores the range of divinatory techniques that appear in Jewish texts of the Greco-Roman era, from lot oracles and death oracles to human physiognomy and use of the Scriptures. Pushing back against the view of divination as irrational and superstitious, Hanna Tervanotko looks...
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Self-realization nation
The story of an unexpected group of performing artists who led one of the most influential artistic movements in contemporary American history. After World War II, personal fulfillment emerged as a defining American cultural ideal. Self-realization—the quest to become our authentic selves—remai...
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Behind ancient bars
In Behind Ancient Bars, law professor and rabbinical student Hadar Aviram challenges the conventional assumption that incarceration is an artifact of modernity by looking back to depictions of detention and confinement in the Hebrew Bible. Aviram takes readers on a journey through the Hebrew Bibl...
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Trans cinema
An exciting introduction to cinema by the trans creators who are innovating filmmaking to imagine a more inclusive world. Since the 1990s, a largely underground upwelling of trans creativity has helped new trans identities, communities, and political movements come together. In Trans Cinema, La...
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Anti-eviction
A galvanizing story of how everyday people built a powerful anti-eviction movement in gentrified San Francisco. In the early 2010s, San Francisco experienced a tech boom that created both great wealth and great inequality. The city became known for runaway gentrification, a major housing crisis, ...
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Respectability on the line
Respectability on the Line offers a social and cultural history of railway labor in Britain and colonial India from the 1840s through World War I. The book treats the railway industry as a microcosm through which to study the history of capitalism in the liberal imperial era. Using company record...
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Asianism and the fall of empire
Offering a new global perspective on modern Indian history, Asianism and the Fall of Empire identifies the rise of Asianism in the early twentieth century as the origin and primary driving force of resistance movements that brought down the British Empire. Mithi Mukherjee ties together into a sin...
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Borderless painting as borderless art
The artwork of Antonio Dias (1944–2018) uniquely captures the interwoven histories of Brazilian postwar realism and of European conceptualism in the 1960s and 1970s. By tracking Dias’s ever-shifting works and circulation as he moved from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, and then to Milan, Borderless Pain...
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Imperial animations in transpacific contemporary art
Imperial Animations in Transpacific Contemporary Art situates the Japanese Empire as a world-historical event that persists today through pervasive and deep impacts on regional and global politics. Considering contemporary artwork from across the transpacific region, Namiko Kunimoto documents eff...
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The house that family money built
At both ends of the wealth spectrum, the laws governing credit and debt hardwire patterns of both privilege and poverty. They drive financial extraction by creating a flow of assets from the pockets of low-income families into the bank accounts of high-wealth ones. In short, some families are leg...
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The world atlas of fermented foods and drinks
A global tour of the fascinating world of fermentation.The World Atlas of Fermented Foods and Drinks explores the many ways that people across the world use fermentation to transform their cuisines. Elegantly illustrated with beautiful photos and maps, this book provides a complete guide to 140 f...
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Collecting choreography
Collecting Choreography is the first major study on the history of dance and performance acquisitions in art museums. Turning to the Museum of Modern Art’s 2015 acquisition of Simone Forti’s Dance Constructions (1960–61), a groundbreaking achievement for both the choreographer and the museum, Meg...
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Deep time in the mono lake basin
Ten millennia in the Mono Lake Basin, showing how this complex ecosystem came to be what it is today. Nestled at the base of the Sierra Nevada in eastern California sits a stunning landscape overlooking a saline lake with picturesque tufa towers and flocks of phalarope birds. This is the Mono La...
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Antiracist gateways to the legal profession
Developed in collaboration with the Antiracist Development Institute at Penn State Dickinson Law, Antiracist Gateways to the Legal Profession is a hands-on guide to designing and scaling up pathway programs that bring diverse students to law schools and the legal profession.This edited volume cri...
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In the shadows of los angeles
In the Shadows of Los Angeles traces the multiple struggles of African Americans, Chicanas/os, and white allies for fair housing and ethnic studies and against police brutality in the East San Gabriel Valley from the late 1950s through the 1970s. They fought for racial integration, equal access t...
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An academic life worth living
Your guide to a successful academic career that centers joy and avoids burnout.Academic life is often imagined as a straight path—publish, earn tenure, keep producing—but the reality is far messier. In An Academic Life Worth Living, Tanya Maria Golash-Boza draws on decades of experience as a scho...
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Hot locations
This book examines how vast, arid environments have become a coveted natural resource for American and European film and media producers. Seeking to sustain the colonial imaginary of the uninhabited frontier, the screen industries increasingly depend on states in the former colonies, transforming...
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Imagined environments
Casting light across the US-Mexico borderlands, Carlos Alonso Nugent reveals the region’s "imagined environments"—the frameworks through which its human groups have represented, related to, and resided in their more-than-human worlds. While these imagined environments can feel immersive and even ...
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Afterplace
In this exquisitely crafted ethnography, Charline Kopf examines how and why railway workers in Senegal and Mali care for a suspended railway. Trains rarely run, yet men continue to attend to the everyday practices that keep the railway alive as a social and political space: they sweep floors, rep...
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A history of timelessness
Every twenty years for over a millennium, the Ise shrines have been rebuilt from the ground up, and hundreds of shrine treasures replaced. At Ise, the aspiration to timelessness that is the essence of all monuments has been pursued through endless repetition rather than construction in durable ma...
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Beginning again
Thomas Trezise, a professor of French, was working on a book one morning in southern France when his wife, on a walk in the surrounding countryside, was sexually assaulted and nearly murdered. Here Trezise revisits the challenges of supporting a survivor when his own life was forever changed by t...
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A womb of one's own
A bold new history of women's health, brought to life through ancient women's stories of pregnancy and birth.In the well-trod history of the Roman Empire, a pivotal moment has long gone unnoticed: It was in ancient Rome that medical men first set their sights on childbirth, the traditional domain...
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André bazin on documentary
Documentary is at the core of André Bazin’s powerful views of cinema. This collection, curated by renowned film scholar Dudley Andrew, brings to English-language readers sixty-two articles in which Bazin interrogated films about geography, history, animals, painting, and, especially, distant land...
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Open secrecy
Examines how the global digital underground is liberated by "open secrecy"—a novel and ominous mix of tools for mass communication and anonymity Shadowy groups are increasingly capable of collective action. Using military-grade encryption, rerouting software, and cryptocurrencies, anonymous and p...
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More than play
Tens of millions of children in the United States participate in youth sport, a pastime widely believed to be part of a good childhood. Yet most children who enter youth sport are driven to quit by the time they enter adolescence, and many more are sidelined by its high financial burdens. Until n...
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Environmental sociology now
It is a critical time for environmental sociology. Against a backdrop of increasingly dynamic environmental and social change, contemporary scholarship must reorient itself to cut through the noise and directly confront the urgent socio-environmental questions of today. In Environmental Sociology...
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Eyes in the shadows
Even as scandals over the US military’s domestic surveillance of civilians continue to surface today, Eyes in the Shadows reveals how this monitoring of citizens began more than a century ago. In this new origin story of the US surveillance state, Alexandre Rios-Bordes returns to the First World ...
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Adolescent arrivals
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Unfamiliar with both the English language and the cultural norms of their new host country, immigrant teenagers in the United Sta...
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Platform extractivism
Concealed behind digital platforms, a vast, dispersed, and largely invisible workforce quietly generates and annotates the data that powers today’s AI boom. In Platform Extractivism, information scientist Julián Posada argues that these platforms are engines of extraction rooted in the enduring s...
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Holding on to home
Over twenty million Americans live in cities that have passed sanctuary policies to protect the rights of immigrants and their families. However, contentious public conversations surrounding sanctuary obscure what these policies actually mean to the immigrants they purport to serve, making it har...
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On the front lines of climate and biodiversity science
Relaying the results of cutting-edge biological research on ecosystem responses to global change, On the Front Lines of Climate and Biodiversity Science offers a crucial, multi-angled view of the value and power of long-term studies at field stations. Focusing on research conducted across Califor...
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Ecological demolition
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.This book reveals how China’s celebrated green transition is built on the displacement and demolition of rural communities, lands...
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In search of wellness
A fascinating examination of how wellness influencers have shaped a booming global industry—and why we should take their cultural power seriously.Wellness influencers are powerful players in the health space, guiding what we eat, how we exercise, and even how we define well-being. Wellness inside...
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Broken tropics
Broken Tropics examines contemporary art installations, performances, photography, and street art from three primary sites of compounding vulnerability: Cuba, Haiti, and Puerto Rico. Guillermina De Ferrari poses two central questions: How does contingency affect our humanness, and what does art m...
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Ill erotics
The convergence of the fourth decade of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the COVID-19 outbreak, and landmark struggles for reproductive justice has illuminated interconnected health inequities faced by Black women globally. The first book-length ethnographic study to focus on Black girls and women living w...
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Collateral damage
A riveting account of how the US criminal legal system punishes millions without conviction—asking us to rethink the freedoms we give up for the illusion of safety.Every encounter with the criminal legal system, from a traffic stop to a day in jail, carries a human cost. This cost rests on a frag...
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Policed
How policing has fundamentally shaped the Latinx experience.The history of Latinx groups in the United States has been marked, from the beginning, by experiences of criminalization and violence at the hands of law enforcement. Marisol LeBrón argues that policing has left an indelible mark on Lati...
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Course projections
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.What does a liberatory film pedagogy look like? In situated speculations from around the world, this volume explores the teaching...
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Sanctuary making
Immigration policy and enforcement practices in the United States now extend beyond the border to the country's interior, impacting the private lives of millions of undocumented and mixed-status families in new ways. Sanctuary Making traces this shift, showing how as enforcement has expanded and ...
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Affect's engine
Affect’s Engine is an immersive ethnography of queer people of color on the social media platform Tumblr during its "peak" years, 2010–2015. Alexander Cho tells the story of Tumblr users and the hurricane of content that they circulated—and that circulated around them. Chronicling a formative tim...
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Latter-day pamphlets, part ii
The final volume of the Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets, situates the Victorian philosopher, social critic, and essayist’s most contentious works within the social context of mid-nineteenth-century crises, including the revolutions of 1...
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Latter-day pamphlets, part i
The final volume of the Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets, situates the Victorian philosopher, social critic, and essayist’s most contentious works within the social context of mid-nineteenth-century crises, including the revolutions of 1...
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Revolution in the sheets
Issues of sexuality were in an uneasy relationship with the working-class politics of the Mexican Communist Party and other left-wing organizations throughout much of the twentieth century. Rather than attributing this tension solely to ideological conservatism, Revolution in the Sheets reinterpr...
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Burnt out and left behind
Why working-class youth don’t finish college—and what can make the difference. Headlines proclaim that girls are displacing boys in college. But that’s not the whole story. Drawing on a landmark decade-long study of more than three thousand young Americans and the personal stories behind the numb...
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Constantine, the once and future king
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Though the rule of Constantine I from 306 to 337 CE represented a sea change in the ancient world, the emperor's path to consolid...
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A volcano of our own making
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.In A Volcano of Our Own Making, Avi-ram Tzoreff explores the biography, writings, and activism of Yehoshua Radler-Feldman (1880–1...
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Living genealogies
In this dynamic new analysis of colonialism and empire, Susan Y. Najita centers indigenous knowledge and embodied practice. This brings into clear focus the disruptions to creational and life-giving relationships between people, the more-than-human, and the environment. Living Genealogies focuses...
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Dressed for dissent
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.In the wake of the Second Intifada and energized by the Arab Spring, young Palestinian designers have used fashion to voice their...
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Bananapocalypse
Existential crises hang over the producers of the world's food. In Bananapocalypse, Alyssa Paredes reveals how many dilemmas facing Big Ag come from self-inflicted wounds. Philippine banana plantations exporting to Japan—a network dubbed "Asia’s banana republic"—unleash chemical drift, food waste...
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Ghost animation
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.This is the first book in any language to examine the animated works of the Manchukuo Film Association, known as Manying in Chine...
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The making of the houston martyrs
Retelling the story of the largest group murder trial in American history—that of the 110 Black soldiers convicted by court-martial in the aftermath of the so-called Houston Riot of 1917—The Making of the Houston Martyrs uncovers the meaning of justice in a time of war. In centering the ambiguiti...
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Traces of intimacy
Traces of Intimacy charts the shifting racial ideas about Native Americans and Mexican Americans from the Gold Rush to the age of mass incarceration. Developing a reading practice that illuminates how both groups navigated their proximity to each other amid settler colonialism and legal and cultu...
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American bread
A fascinating window into America's past via one of our favorite foods.There is no humbler food than bread, none easier to take for granted. So ancient that it shows up in prehistoric sites, bread is still full of surprises. Heirloom grains and artisan loaves fetch top dollar, while home bakers p...
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Ghosts of bandung
Ghosts of Bandung makes the major new argument that the fates of the Black and Palestinian revolutions were bound together through the rise and fall of a larger Third World political project. Drawing on English and Arabic archives, Derek A. Ide shows how Afro-Arab solidarities shaped and were sha...
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