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Katherine A Foss
Capturing Covid

"When health authorities quarantined guests aboard the Diamond Princess on February 5, 2020, the cruise ship abruptly shifted from a dream vacation vessel to a public health nightmare. Over the next …

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Techno-Orientalism 2.0

Techno-Orientalism 2.0 addresses the impact of a volatile post-COVID present on speculative futures by and about Asians. The volume engages with techno-Orientalist inflections in recent high-profile and l…

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Seth Michelson
Hope on the Border

From an award-winning poet comes a humanizing story of immigration shown through the lens of undocumented, unaccompanied children and the poems they write."Heartfelt . . . a surprisingly uplifting ca…

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Partha Dasgupta
On Natural Capital

From the man that the New York Timescalls "the most important person you've never heard of," renowned Cambridge University economist Sir Partha Dasgupta, comes a paradigm shifting treatise, aski…

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Meitamei Dapash, Mary Poole
Decolonizing Maasai History

"Maasai leader and activist Meitamei Dapash teams with historian Mary Poole to offer a new version of Maasai history based on Maasai memory and concerns. For its groundbreaking new insights into Maas…

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Chelsea Mary Elise Johnson
Natural

"Sociologist Chelsea Mary Elise Johnson uses interviews, media analysis, and participant observation in beauty shops, online blogs, and natural hair meet-ups around the world to trace how Black women…

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Amrita Chakrabarti Myers
The Vice President's Black Wife

Award-winning historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796-1833), the enslaved mixed-race wife of Richard Mentor Johnson, ow…

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Nora Gross
Brothers in Grief

"Our teenage years are a uniquely vulnerable and formative time as we lay the foundations for the people we will become. Our relationships with our peers, our families, and our mentors all shape thes…

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Jordan A Parsons
'Opt Out' Organ Donation

"Opt Out" Organ Donation offers the first comprehensive analysis of all four UK opt out systems. Rather than assessing the success of these systems in increasing transplantation activity - which…

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Shoshana Walter
Rehab

Pulitzer finalist Shoshana Walter exposes the country's failed response to the opioid crisis, and the malfeasance, corruption, and snake oil which blight the drug rehabilitation industry.Our country's lea…

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Terra Invicta

This volume presents intellectual and creative responses to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, with an eye toward the future of Ukrainians' relationship to the land they are defending.

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Sarah L Morris
Lessons from Take Me Home, Country Roads

You may have heard it at a football game, in an advertisement, or on the radio on a road trip far from home. It may have moved you to dance at a wedding or cry at a funeral. Regardless of where it plays, …

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Amanda E Lewis, John B Diamond
Despite the Best Intentions

In this updated second edition, Amanda E. Lewis and John B. Diamond build on their powerful and illuminating study of Riverview to show how the racial achievement gap continues to afflict American schools…

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Midori Ogasawara
Colonial Surveillance

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is among the six largest national space agencies in the world, along with China's CNSA, US's NASA, and Russia's Roscosmos. JAXA's budget is more than $1 billi…

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The Health Humanities in German Studies

The first full-length study to bring together the fields of Health Humanities and German studies, this book features contributions from a range of key scholars and provides an overview of the latest work …

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Amber Massie-Blomfield
Acts of Resistance

What is the purpose of art in a world on fire? In this exhilarating and deeply inspiring work, Amber Massie-Blomfield considers the work of artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers-such as Gran Fury, B…

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Lisa B Y Calvente
Moving Blackness

Moving Blackness explores the centrality of circulation within the framework of western modernity and the racially structured regulations of mobility. Storytelling emerges as the primary mode through whic…

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Lisa B Y Calvente
Moving Blackness

Moving Blackness explores the centrality of circulation within the framework of western modernity and the racially structured regulations of mobility. Storytelling emerges as the primary mode through whic…

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James R Jones
The Last Plantation

A revealing look at the covert and institutionalized racism lurking in the congressional workplaceRacism continues to infuse Congress's daily practice of lawmaking and shape who obtains congressional empl…

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Sharon Schwartz, Seth J Prins
Causal Inference and the People's Health

In Causality and the People's Health, Sharon Schwartz and Seth J. Prins offer both a synthesis of the dominant school of thought around social causality and propose a new approach that keeps causal concep…

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