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  • - Short Stories
    av Sara Batkie
    201

    The stories in Better Times focus on what's happening in places people don't think to look. Women, sometimes displaced, often lonely, are at the heart of these stories. Divided into three sections covering the recent past, our current era, and the world to come, the stories gathered here interrogate the idea that so-called better times ever existed, particularly for women.

  • - A Memoir
    av Micah McCrary
    201

    What forges the unique human personality? In Island in the City Micah McCrary, taking his genetic inheritance as immutable, considers the role geography has played in shaping who he is. McCrary considers three places he has called home (Normal, Illinois; Chicago; and Prague) and reflects on how these surroundings have shaped him.

  • - The Chegomista Rebellion and the Limits of Revolutionary Democracy in Juchitan, Oaxaca
    av Colby Ristow
    337

    In October 1911 the governor of Oaxaca, Mexico, ordered a detachment of soldiers to take control of the town of Juchitan from a movement defending the principle of popular sovereignty. Colby Ristow provides the first book-length study of what has come to be known as the Chegomista Rebellion, shedding new light on a conflict previously lost in the shadows of the concurrent Zapatista uprising.

  • av Luisa Muradyan
    201

    Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, American Radiance, at turns funny, tragic, and haunting, reflects on the author's experience emigrating as a child to the United States from Ukraine in 1991.

  • - Indigenous Histories, Memories, and Reclamations
     
    441

    The Carlisle Indian School (1879–1918) was an audacious educational experiment. Capt. Richard Henry Pratt, the school’s founder and first superintendent, persuaded the federal government that training Native children to accept the white man’s ways and values would be more efficient than fighting deadly battles. The result was that the last Indian war would be waged against Native children in the classroom.More than 10,500 children from virtually every Native nation in the United States were taken from their homes and transported to Pennsylvania. Carlisle provided a blueprint for the federal Indian school system that was established across the United States and served as a model for many residential schools in Canada. The Carlisle experiment initiated patterns of dislocation and rupture far deeper and more profound and enduring than its initiators ever grasped.Carlisle Indian Industrial School offers varied perspectives on the school by interweaving the voices of students’ descendants, poets, and activists with cutting-edge research by Native and non-Native scholars. These contributions reveal the continuing impact and vitality of historical and collective memory, as well as the complex and enduring legacies of a school that still touches the lives of many Native Americans.Jacqueline Fear-Segal is a professor of American history and culture at the University of East Anglia, UK. She is the author of White Man’s Club: Schools, Race, and the Struggle of Indian Acculturation (Nebraska, 2007) and editor of Indigenous Bodies: Reviewing, Relocating, Reclaiming. Susan D. Rose is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology at Dickinson College. She is the author of Keeping Them Out of the Hands of Satan: Evangelical Schooling in America and Challenging Global Gender Violence.

  • - Emotion, Embodiment, Environment
     
    457

    Scholars of ecocriticism have long tried to articulate emotional relationships to environments. Only recently, however, have they begun to draw on the complex interdisciplinary body of research known as affect theory. Affective Ecocriticism takes as its premise that ecocritical scholarship has much to gain from the rich work on affect and emotion happening within social and cultural theory, geography, psychology, philosophy, queer theory, feminist theory, narratology, and neuroscience, among others. This vibrant and important volume imagines a more affective--and consequently more effective--ecocriticism, as well as a more environmentally attuned affect studies.These interdisciplinary essays model a range of approaches to emotion and affect in considering a variety of primary texts, including short story collections, films, poetry, curricular programs, and contentious geopolitical locales such as Canada's Tar Sands. Several chapters deal skeptically with familiar environmentalist affects like love, hope, resilience, and optimism; others consider what are often understood as negative emotions, such as anxiety, disappointment, and homesickness--all with an eye toward reinvigorating or reconsidering their utility for the environmental humanities and environmentalism. Affective Ecocriticism offers an accessible approach to this theoretical intersection that will speak to readers across multiple disciplinary and geographic locations.

  • - Redefining French Feminism and the Women's Liberation Movement
    av Lisa Greenwald
    797

    Tells the story of French feminism between 1944 and 1981, when feminism played a central political role in the history of France. The key women during this epoch were often leftists committed to a materialist critique of society and were part of a postwar tradition that produced widespread social change, revamping the workplace and laws governing everything from abortion to marriage.

  • - A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption
    av Susan Devan Harness
    311 - 451

  • - A Memoir
    av Sandra Gail Lambert
    261

     After contracting polio as a child, Sandra Gail Lambert progressed from braces and crutches to a manual wheelchair to a power wheelchair—but loneliness has remained a constant, from the wild claustrophobia of a child in body casts to just yesterday, trapped at home, gasping from pain. A Certain Loneliness is a meditative and engaging memoir-in-essays that explores the intersection of disability, queerness, and female desire with frankness and humor.Lambert presents the adventures of flourishing within a world of uncertain tomorrows: kayaking alone through swamps with alligators; negotiating planes, trains, and ski lifts; scoring free drugs from dangerous men; getting trapped in a too-deep snow drift without crutches. A Certain Loneliness is literature of the body, palpable and present, in which Lambert’s lifelong struggle with isolation and independence—complete with tiresome frustrations, slapstick moments, and grand triumphs—are wound up in the long history of humanity’s relationship to the natural world.Sandra Gail Lambert is a writer of both fiction and memoir. She is the author of The River’s Memory. She was awarded an NEA fellowship based on an excerpt from A Certain Loneliness.

  • - Women, Gender, and the State in Modern France
     
    421

    Through an analysis of how citizenship was lived, practiced, and deployed by women in France in the modern period, Practiced Citizenship demonstrates how gender normativity and the resulting constraints placed on women nevertheless created opportunities for a renegotiation of the social and sexual contract.

  • - Emotion, Embodiment, Environment
     
    757

    Scholars of ecocriticism have long tried to articulate emotional relationships to environments. Only recently, however, have they begun to draw on the complex interdisciplinary body of research known as affect theory. Affective Ecocriticism takes as its premise that ecocritical scholarship has much to gain from the rich work on affect and emotion happening within social and cultural theory, geography, psychology, philosophy, queer theory, feminist theory, narratology, and neuroscience, among others. This vibrant and important volume imagines a more affective--and consequently more effective--ecocriticism, as well as a more environmentally attuned affect studies.These interdisciplinary essays model a range of approaches to emotion and affect in considering a variety of primary texts, including short story collections, films, poetry, curricular programs, and contentious geopolitical locales such as Canada's Tar Sands. Several chapters deal skeptically with familiar environmentalist affects like love, hope, resilience, and optimism; others consider what are often understood as negative emotions, such as anxiety, disappointment, and homesickness--all with an eye toward reinvigorating or reconsidering their utility for the environmental humanities and environmentalism. Affective Ecocriticism offers an accessible approach to this theoretical intersection that will speak to readers across multiple disciplinary and geographic locations.

  • - Determining the Greatest Players in Golf Using Sabermetrics
    av Bill Felber
    387

    Provides a relativistic approach for evaluating and comparing the performance of golfers while acknowledging the game's changing nature. The Hole Truth analyses the performances of players relative to their peers, creating an index of exceptionality that automatically factors the changing nature of the game through time.

  • - The Bizarre and Infamous Rebranding of the New York Islanders
    av Nicholas Hirshon
    307 - 397

    The colorful story of the rebranding of the mid-nineties New York Islanders.

  • - A Farm Girl's Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture
    av Stephanie Anderson
    277

    Argues that in order to provide nutrient-rich food and fight climate change, we need to move beyond sustainable to regenerative agriculture, a practice that is highly tailored to local environments and renews resources. This book will resonate with anyone concerned about the future of food, providing guidance for creating a better, regenerative agricultural future.

  • - Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in Canada and the United States
    av Andrew Woolford
    441

    Analyses the formulation of the "Indian problem" as a policy concern in the United States and Canada, and examines how the "solution" of Indigenous boarding schools was implemented in Manitoba and New Mexico through complex chains that included multiple government offices with a variety of staffs, Indigenous peoples, and even nonhuman actors such as poverty, disease, and space.

  • - A Memoir
    av Kim Adrian
    261

    Clear-sighted, darkly comic, and tender, The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet is about a daughter's struggle to face the Medusa of generational trauma without turning to stone. Kim Adrian tries to make peace with a troubled past by cataloguing memories, anecdotes, and bits of family lore in the form of a glossary.

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    507

    Explores how black women in France itself, the French Caribbean, Goree, Dakar, Rufisque, and Saint-Louis experienced and reacted to French colonialism and how gendered readings of colonization, decolonization, and social movements cast new light on the history of French colonization and of black France.

  • - A Novel
    av Justine Mintsa
    201

    Supplemented with a foreword and critical introduction highlighting Justine Mintsa's importance in African literature, Awu's Story is an essential work of African women's writing and the only published work to meditate this deeply on some of the Fang's most cherished legends and oral history.

  • av Joseph White Bull
    261

    With his own words and images, Joseph White Bull tells of his memorable life and exploits as a Lakota warrior in the late nineteenth century. The son of a Miniconjou chief and nephew of Sitting Bull of the Hunkpapas, White Bull was an accomplished warrior. He participated in the Fetterman and Wagon-Box fights, and fought at the Little Big Horn.

  • - An American's Thirty-Year Pursuit of the International Game
    av Michael J. Agovino
    261

    Although soccer had long been the world's game when the author first encountered it in 1982, here it was just a poor cousin to American football, to be found on obscure UHF channels and in foreign magazines. Offering the perspective of fan, player, and journalist, this book chronicles his obsession with the sport and its phenomenal evolution.

  • - Mobility and the Making of the Eastern U.S.-Mexico Border
    av James David Nichols
    681

    Chronicles the formation of the US-Mexico border from the perspective of the ""mobile peoples"" who assisted in determining the international boundary from both sides in the mid-nineteenth century. In this historic and timely study, James David Nichols argues against the many top-down connotations that borders carry, noting that the state cannot entirely dominate the process of boundary marking.

  • - Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture, Revised Edition
    av Smadar Lavie
    337

    Analyses the racial and gender justice protest movements in the State of Israel from the 2003 Single Mothers' March to the 2014 New Black Panthers and explores the relationships between these movements, violence in Gaza, and the possibility of an Israeli attack on Iran.

  • - We Talk to You because We Love You, New Edition
    av Ann Fienup-Riordan
    337,99

    The Yup'ik people of southwest Alaska were among the last Arctic peoples to come into contact with non-Natives, and as a result, Yup'ik language and many traditions remain vital into the twenty-first century. Wise Words of the Yup'ik People documents their qanruyutait (adages, words of wisdom, and oral instructions) regarding the proper living of life.

  • - Toward an Eco-Crip Theory
     
    441

    Designed as a reader for undergraduate and graduate courses, Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities employs interdisciplinary perspectives to examine such issues as slow violence, imperialism, race, toxicity, eco-sickness, the body in environmental justice, ableism, and other topics.

  • av Sean O'Neill & Louis V. Headman
    741

    Presents approximately five thousand words and definitions used by Ponca speakers from the late nineteenth century to the present. The words in this volume encompass the main artery of the language heard and spoken by the parents and grandparents of the Ponca Council of Elders. Additional words are included, such as those related to modern devices and technology.

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    617

    Chronicles the seminal contributions, tumultuous history, and recent renaissance of the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology (RSPM). Essays explore the early history and notable contributions of the museum's directors and curators, including a tour de force chapter that interweaves the history of research at the museum with the intriguing story of the peopling of the Americas.

  • av Gary E. Moulton
    921

    In May 1804, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and their Corps of Discovery set out on a journey of a lifetime to explore and interpret the American West. The Lewis and Clark Expedition Day by Day follows this exploration with a daily narrative of their journey, from its starting point in Illinois in 1804 to its successful return to St. Louis in September 1806.

  • - Native Americans, Eugenics, and the Myth of Nam Hollow
    av Robert Jarvenpa
    681

    The anthropological history of an outcaste community and a critical reevaluation of The Nam Family, written in 1912 by Arthur Estabrook and Charles Davenport, leaders of the early twentieth-century eugenics movement. Declared Defective exposes the pseudoscientific zealotry and fear mongering of Progressive Era eugenics while exploring the contradictions of race and class in America.

  • - A Memoir
    av Ben-Zion Gold
    251

    Ben-Zion Gold's memoir brings to life the world of a million Jews in pre-World War II Poland who were later destroyed by the Nazis. Warmly recalling the relationships, rituals, observances, and celebrations, Gold evokes the sense of family and faith that helped him through the catastrophe that followed.

  • - The Global Phenomenon of Women's Soccer
    av Timothy F. Grainey
    261

    Though it burst into public consciousness only with the 1999 World Cup, women's soccer has been around almost as long as its male counterpart. Beyond ""Bend It Like Beckham"" presents the first in-depth global analysis of the women's game - both where it has come from and where it is headed.

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