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A Cultural History of Chemistry in Antiquity

Explores the chemical arts in the long period from 3000 BCE to 600 CE, when chemical artisans, recipes and ideas were exchanged between Mesopotamia, Egypt, Phoenicia, Greece, Rome and Byzantium. Also avai…

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David Omotoso Stovall
Engineered Conflict

A hard-hitting exploration of how state policy displaces and isolates Black communities and how collective resistance creates spaces for working-class people of color to identify the true cause of conflic…

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Rahman
Honor and Political Imagination

In Honor and Political Imagination, Smita A. Rahman reckons with the enduring power of honor in contemporary political and popular culture and the desire for heroism that accompanies it, while attending t…

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Joseph Odùmósù,
Book of Healing

The first book-length study of YorÙbÁ therapeutics, encompassing thousands of remedies for more than 160 different ailments,ÌwÉ ÌwÒsÀn (Book of Healing ) was originally published in 1910 by Ìjẹ̀bÚ healer,…

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Marco Bernini, Ben Alderson-Day
Dreams, Narrative, and Liminal Cognition

Dreams have been fascinating multiple disciplines for centuries, from philosophy and literature to contemporary cognitive science. Why we dream remains an enduring mystery, but cognitive research on dream…

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Archaeology, Heritage, and Reactionary Populism

This volume explores how populist movements and politics present new challenges to public archaeologists, using global examples to propose practical forms of community engagement amid increasing polarizat…

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Kate Smith
Keeping Hold

What did it mean to possess something - or someone - in eighteenth-century Britain? What was the relationship between owning things and a person's character and reputation, and even their sense of self? A…

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Kate Smith
Keeping Hold

What did it mean to possess something - or someone - in eighteenth-century Britain? What was the relationship between owning things and a person's character and reputation, and even their sense of self? A…

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Casey High
Translating Worlds, Defending Land

"In 2019, after decades of ecological damage from oil, Waorani people took to the streets of Amazonian Ecuador to protest drilling on their ancestral lands. Working with international activists, lawy…

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Design and the Vernacular

Addresses the relevance and role of vernacular architecture to contemporary urban planning and architectural practice using case studies across Australasia and Oceania.

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Casey High
Translating Worlds, Defending Land

"In 2019, after decades of ecological damage from oil, Waorani people took to the streets of Amazonian Ecuador to protest drilling on their ancestral lands. Working with international activists, lawy…

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John B King
Teacher by Teacher

"Teacher By Teacher traces the remarkable journey of the tenth U.S. Secretary of Education and is a deeply personal love letter to all the teachers in our lives. The story of John B. King Jr.'s inspi…

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Nadine Shaanta Murshid
Intimacies of Violence

In Intimacies of Violence, Nadine Shaanta Murshid demonstrates how transnational middle-class Bangladeshi women personally embody structural violence to shed light on the ways in which violence is produce…

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Frank Bruni
The Age of Grievance

From Frank Bruni, longtime columnist for the New York Times and four-time bestselling author, The Age of Grievanceis an examination of the way that grievance has come to define our popular culture and our…

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The Oxford Guide to the Bantu Languages

This volume brings together leading scholars from Africa, Europe, the Americas and beyond to provide a detailed account of the languages of the Bantu family, which cover an area from Cameroon and Kenya in…

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Parul Baxi
Aadhaar Beyond the Numbers

What can the world's most acclaimed yet controversial state-led universal biometric identification program, Aadhaar, reveal about contemporary Indian society and citizenship? This book studies Aadhaar's j…

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Parul Baxi
Aadhaar Beyond the Numbers

What can the world's most acclaimed yet controversial state-led universal biometric identification program, Aadhaar, reveal about contemporary Indian society and citizenship? This book studies Aadhaar's j…

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Nandini Hebbar N
Gender, Caste, and Class in South India's Technical Institutions

Gender, Caste, and Class in South India's Technical Institutions closely examines India's private education sector--especially its technical institutes and colleges--to juxtapose the stark realities and l…

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David Omotoso Stovall
Engineered Conflict

A hard-hitting exploration of how state policy displaces and isolates Black communities and how collective resistance creates spaces for working-class people of color to identify the true cause of conflic…

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The Oxford Guide to the Atlantic Languages of West Africa

This volume is the first book-length overview of the Atlantic languages, a small family of languages spoken mainly on the Atlantic coast of West Africa. It is an essential tool for linguists interested in…

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