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Book SynopsisFeatures 53 of the city's seminal structures, with specially commissioned illustrations accompanied by text. Once the card around the buildings is removed, you are left with your own version of Paris to treasure and display.Table of Contents0

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Book SynopsisThis is the dream journal for every feminist babe and created by Sunday Times number one bestselling author of WHAT A TIME TO BE ALONE Chidera Eggerue.One of VOGUE''s 6 Female Writers to Read in 2018''Categorically one of the coolest women in Britain'' Cosmopolitan''The Millennial Mastermind'' ELLEThis book is dedicated to the woman who wants a better world. The woman who''s a lover, a learner but most importantly, a leader.------Scribble yourself feminist with this inspiring journal, designed to empower, inspire and entertain. From Chidera Eggerue, the woman behind The Slumflower and #saggyboobsmatter, and illustrated by Manjit Thapp, it''s BEAUTIFUL, FUNNY, and FEMINIST. What''s included??ALL THIS:*Colouring pages featuring Manjit''s beautiful illustrations of inspirational quotes and feminist heroines from around the world.<Trade ReviewAs a black woman, finding young authors who tell stories that you can connect with can be difficult . . . that changed when I found Eggerue. Eggerue's message transcends race and gender and is received by thousands of her fans who visit her page daily to get their dose of inspiration. -- Amarachi Nwosui * Okay Africa Magazine *

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Book SynopsisFind out what your birthday says about you and what your friends'' birthdays say about them in this utterly compelling gift book.What makes me me? Who am I most compatible with? How will my future turn out? Shelley von Strunckel is expert at answering all these questions and more for her celebrity clients and in her newspaper columns. Use your birthday to identify key personality traits and entertain friends and family by revealing theirs. Harnessing the power of astrology in an entertaining and informative way, you''ll learn about the dates, numbers, colours, and even foods with which each person is most compatible. With descriptions of every birth day of the year, The Birthday Book is written in an easy-to-understand style, beautifully illustrated, and packed with information. It is an at-a-glance reference guide to astrology, numerology and tarot that will entertain you, your friends and family for years to come.

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Book SynopsisBased on the Webby award-winning Instagram account Drawings for My Grandchildren, this beautifully-illustrated book celebrates the special love shared between grandparents and their grandchildren.Like many grandparents wishing to stay close to their grandchildren in a world in which so many families are spread across the globe, Korean grandparents Grandpa Chan and Grandma Marina, decided to learn how to use Instagram as a way to stay connected. What started as an intimate family project, their Instagram page @drawings_for_my_grandchildren has attracted a large following and their story has been featured in major press around the world. This book inspired by their Instagram page features Chan''s watercolors accompanied by Marina''s texts. Whether it''s to celebrate Astro becoming a big brother to Lua or to share the story of how the grandparents met for the first time and fell in love during their college years, Looking Back Life was Beautiful echoes with the kiTrade ReviewHeart-warming...imaginative creations * BBC *Beautiful illustrations... each one comes with a story written by Chan Jae's wife Marina * Lonely Planet *Pictures capture moments from his day-to-day life, his memories, stories from the news, and more than a few fictional characters * Telegraph *

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Book SynopsisCelebrate the weird, wacky, and wonderful world of plants with a book that revels in the diversity of the botanical world.Plants are truly awe-inspiring. They can be vast, minute, smelly, or spectacularly ugly. Some plants live on their own, or by growing off others; some live by air and water; others are carnivorous, eating the creatures around them; some plants look remarkably like animals; while others have unusual symbolism; and some have special cultural significance. This book explores them all, bringing together the most peculiar and most fascinating plants on the planet - celebrating them in all their diverse splendour.Split into five chapters, covering everything from poisonous plants to painkilling ones, Michael Perry explains exactly what makes each plant special. With exquisitely detailed illustrations of all the different species, this is an informative, humorous, and beautiful gift for all those who love plants - whether they want to grow them orTrade ReviewIt is just absolutely fabulous, and I'm sure it'll be on many people's Christmas lists. * BBC Radio Suffolk *

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Book SynopsisKnow someone having a bad day? With the gift of this book, they won''t be anymore!This is the book for the mother of bad days. Those days when the world is against you and all good advice, meditation and matcha smoothies can go to hell. Forget toxic positivity, this book is here to help you sink into the depths of your bad mood and let it all out with suggestions like:- Punch this page- Cry onto this dot- Why not tear out this page and scrunch it up into a little ball?- Screw it, throw the whole bloody book across the roomThese cathartic pages are perfect for people who can''t stand positive affirmations or cheesy self-care advice. Whether you''re in a moment of crisis or know someone who could really do with letting it all out, THE BAD DAY BOOK is here to offer therapy like you''ve never experienced it before.

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Book SynopsisA book in the field of political science.Trade Review"A truly social-psychological study of politics, done in an unconventional, imaginative, and appealing style." -- Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be Californian? To find out, Mina Yang delves into multicultural nature of musics in the state that has launched musical and cultural trends for decades. In the early twentieth century, an orientalist fascination with Asian music and culture dominated the popular imagination of white Californians and influenced their interactions with the Asian Other. Several decades later, tensions between the Los Angeles Police Department and the African American community made the thriving jazz and blues nightclub scene of 1940s Central Avenue a target for the LAPD''s anti-vice crusade. The musical scores for Hollywood''s noir films confirmed reactionary notions of the threat to white female sexuality in the face of black culture and urban corruption while Mexican Americans faced a conflicted assimilation into the white American mainstream. Finally, Korean Americans in the twenty-first century turned to hip-hop to express their cultural and national identities.A compelTrade Review“A fascinating and groundbreaking glimpse into a complicated musical geography.”--Journal of American History"[A] compelling new study . . . Yang successfully demonstrates that many elements can and must be taken into account when addressing the formation of any modern musical identify."--American Music Review"Mina Yang offers a musical message of social hope without stepping back from fierce historical inequities. She shows how the meeting grounds and collisions marking California's racial landscape add up to far more than accidents. California Polyphony will sit on my bookshelf between Mike Davis's City of Quartz and George Lipsitz's Dangerous Crossroads."--Deborah Wong, author of Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music"A landscape of California's musical history that draws upon sociocultural and political forces that led to the creation, innovation, and appropriation of musical styles, genres, and forms. This welcome addition to music and cultural studies combines the musical contributions of African Americans, East Asian Americans, and Mexican Americans in a unique and refreshing way."--Cheryl L. Keyes, author of Rap Music and Street Consciousness

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Book SynopsisA fresh assessment of Chinese immigrant participation in small-town AmericaTrade ReviewRecognized as an honor book in the competition for the Denver Public Library's Western History/Genealogy Department Caroline Bancroft History Prize, 2012. "Sue Fawn Chung is a talented miner of Chinese American History."--The Historian"An excellent explanation of the familial and cultural links between the Chinese of the Guangdong region and how that influenced their relationships in the United States."--Nevada in the West"In this groundbreaking study, Sue Fawn Chung illumines a world of Chinese miners and merchants that has long been ignored or forgotten. Acknowledging the challenges of discrimination and hostility, Chung demonstrates a wide range of contributions by Chinese Americans and identifies areas of positive interaction with the dominant Euro-American society."--James J. Rawls, coeditor of A Golden State: Mining and Economic Development in Gold Rush California "A rich and multifaceted social history of Chinese mining communities in Oregon and Nevada. Scholars of Chinese America will find the book to be a valuable addition to their libraries."--American Historical Review"With its interesting portraits of little-known towns and the Chinese Americans who inhabited them, In Pursuit of Gold is full of surprises and discoveries. It is a worthy contribution to the study of Chinese in the U.S.A."--Historical Studies in Ethnicity"Sue Fawn Chung has meticulously reconstructed the story of these Chinese mining enclaves as well as their interactions with the larger communities. Interesting details about many individuals effectively enhance both the book's readability and the author's analysis."--Pacific Historical ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Note on Names and Romanization; Abbreviations; List of Illustrations and Tables Introduction; 1: The Coming and Early Challenges; 2: Onward to Eastern Oregon; 3: Eastward to Northeastern Nevada: Tuscarora; 4: Further East: Island Mountain and Gold Creek; Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisExpands and enrichs African diaspora history in the AmericasTrade Review"A pioneering effort to write the history of Africans in colonial Spanish America using the African diaspora paradigm. The authors fully demonstrate the considerable potential of this approach."--Kris Lane, author of The Colour of Paradise: The Emerald in the Age of Gunpowder Empires"A page-turning secret society history based on solid research and accuracy."--Southern Historian“Africans to Spanish America is both useful and provocative, with chapters drawing on a range of methodological approaches to explore the complexities and nuances of racial identity in diverse Spanish American societies.”-- Journal of Latin American Studies"Aside from "expanding" diasporic history geographically, Africans to Spanish America also reminds us that between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries the experiences of people of African descent in Spanish America were more varied than the paradigmatic plantation-centered historiography of the Caribbean and Brazil has implied."--New West Indiana Guide"Expands the spatial and chronological contours of the African diaspora. A rich anthology comprised of short, clearly argued, and jargon-free essays."--Hispanic American Historical Review"Deeply researched work. The essays pay due attention to the religious and political institutions that enabled Spanish colonial rule but show how African-descended subjects--in a departure from third-wave scholarship--identified with those institutions more often than they resisted them."--American Historical Review"The authors add valuable knowledge to the literature on slavery and colonialism in the Americas as they shift attention to the earliest phases of European imperialism in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and to locations throughout the hemisphere. . . . An empirically rich work that contributes valuable knowledge to a fast-growing field of research."--International Migration Review"A truly significant contribution to the field of the African Diaspora in colonial Spanish America in the era of slavery and slave society. The volume's most striking feature is the depth of inquiry into various features of Spanish American slave society and their impact on the lives of people of African descent and on the character of the colonial societies and imperial policy."--David Barry Gaspar, coeditor of Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the AmericasTable of ContentsIntroduction 1Sherwin K. Bryant, Ben Vinson III, and Rachel Sarah O'ToolePart 1. Complicating Identity in the African Diaspora to Spanish America 1. The Shape of a Diaspora: The Movement of Afro-Iberians to Colonial Spanish America 27Leo J. Garofalo 2. African Diasporic Ethnicity in Mexico City to 1650 50Frank "Trey" Proctor III 3. To Be Free and Lucumi: Ana de la Calle and Making African Diaspora Identities in Colonial Peru 73Rachel Sarah O'ToolePart 2. Royal Subjects, Loyal Christians, and Saints in the Alley 4. Between the Cross and the Sword: Religious Conquest and Maroon Legitimacy in Colonial Esmeraldas 95Charles Beatty-Medina 5. Afro-Mexican Saintly Devotion in a Mexico City Alley 114Joan C. Bristol 6. "The Lord walks among the pots and pans": Religious Servants of Colonial Lima 136Nancy E. van DeusenPart 3. Comparisons and Whitening Revisited: Race and Gender in Colonial Cuba 7. Whitening Revisited: Nineteenth-Century Cuban Counterpoints 163Karen Y. Morrison 8. Tensions of Race, Gender, and Midwifery in Colonial Cuba 186Michele Reid-Vazquez 9. The African American Experience in Comparative Perspective: The Current Question of the Debate 206Herbert S. Klein Glossary 223 Bibliography 229 List of Contributors 263 Acknowledgments 268 Index 269

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Book SynopsisAnalyzes and challenges the crucial boundary that separates an artistic concept from its actual implementation in life.Trade ReviewCertificate of Merit for Best Historical Research on General Recording Topics, Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), 2014. "This wonderfully provocative book places the tradition of 'background music' or 'environmental music' such as Muzak into a distinctly modern perspective. A sharp interdisciplinary study that makes connections between the popular and the avant-garde."--Tim J. Anderson, author of Making Easy Listening: Material Culture and Postwar American Recording"If you have any interest in the relation between what is and what is not, (what is/is not music, creativity, but much more than that), if the boundaries between theory and public practice are too rigid for you (or too fuzzy to see) or if you don't know much about music but know what you like, then you will greatly profit from reading this book, as your surprised and delighted reviewer did."--Leonardo Reviews

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A valuable and welcome addition to the literature in Latina/o studies. I commend Aparicio on this important work. It will be a significant contribution to thinking about multicultural identities in immigrant-descendant generations, and about the traditional paradigm of American assimilation."--Rina Benmayor, coeditor of Memory, Subjectivities, and Representation: Approaches to Oral History in Latin America, Portugal, and Spain"Aptly interweaving humanities and social science approaches to identity, Aparicio sets up some of the building blocks for what Latino Studies will become in the twenty-first century. Her compelling engagement with storytelling by Latinos articulating intraLatina/o identities in Chicago is a groundbreaking intervention in the study of U.S. Latinidad that transcends while honoring cultural nationalist models that may not always serve to capture our realities. Her use of the concepts 'horizontal hierarchies' and 'affective essentializing' to analyze co-existence, competition, love, conflict, and solidarity leaves us rethinking our lives in inter-Latino communities and how we describe them. While reading about linguistic battles between parents, grandmas seeking to win over their intraLatina/o children through food, and college students trying to find a sense of belonging to inter-Latino families, communities, and college settings, the reader witnesses intimate spaces of kinship building by intraLatina/os and is deeply engaged by the courageous truths of our communities."--Alaí Reyes-Santos, author of Our Caribbean Kin: Race and Nation in the Neoliberal Antilles

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Book SynopsisThe all-embracing, whaddya got? nature of rebellion in Fifties America included pop music's unlikely challenge to entrenched notions of masculinity. Within that upheaval, four prominent artists dared to behave in ways that let the public assumebut not seetheir queerness. That these artists cultivated ambiguous sexual personas often reflected an understandable fear, but also a struggle to fulfill personal and professional expectations. Vincent L. Stephens confronts notions of the closetboth coming out and staying inby analyzing the careers of Liberace, Johnny Mathis, Johnnie Ray, and Little Richard. Appealing to audiences hungry for novelty and exoticism, the four pop icons used performance and queering techniques that ran the gamut. Liberace's flamboyance shared a spectrum with Mathis's intimate sensitivity while Ray's overwrought displays as Mr. Emotion seemed worlds apart from Little Richard's raise-the-roof joyousness. As Stephens shows, the quartet not only thrived in an era of graTrade Review"Scholars interested in queer history, music history, race, and American popular culture generally will therefore learn much from this excellent book." --Journal of the History of SexualityAn Advocate Best Queer Non-Fiction Book of 2019 "Stephen's Rocking the Closet investigates how contemporary queer stars such as Little Richard navigated the mid-twentieth-century popular music landscape and, as important, how observers reacted to their unconventional gender presentation. . . . Stephens should be commended for the diverse range of primary sources marshalled in his study. . . . Rocking the Closet presents students and practitioners of queer cultural history, as well as those studying post-war cultural history, with fresher methods of examining popular culture and its legacies." --Cultural History"Distinguished by excellent writing Rocking the Closet achieves the admirable goal of being both a sound scholarly work and accessible to readers from all walks of life. It raises provocative ideas and arguments, challenging entrenched ways of thinking about the history of queerness in postwar America." --Notes "Well-argued and thoughtful." --Arts Fuse "Rocking the Closet is a worthy contribution to better understanding the queering of postwar masculine identities and popular music. . . . As the barriers between folk and popular cultures continue to be dismantled, scholarship such as Rocking the Closet follows an interdisciplinary trajectory that will satisfy scholars across disciplines." --Western Folklore "The spirit of Rocking the Closet is enjoyed in how deftly Stephens illuminates those nuances. He is as lucid about the music as about the cultural moment, the entertainment business, and the lives of the musicians." --On the Seawall "The contemporary mainstream LGBT narrative claims that artists should out themselves for the greater good. But Rocking the Closet makes a persuasive case that 'open secrecy' helped make stars of Little Richard, Liberace, Johnny Mathis, and Johnny Ray in the decades prior to and after Stonewall. These (until now) academically under-examined, yet enormously successful and influential musicians used the surprising leeway of the glass closet to develop artistic personae that were both appealing and ambiguous, leading to commercial success that rivals that of our current musicians. Stephens' insightful intersectional book will liven the debate in identity and popular culture scholarship!"--Shana Goldin-Perschbacher, Temple University

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Book SynopsisAn ethnographic study of the kathak dance form in the San Francisco Bay Area community formed by Pandit Chitresh Das.Trade Review"Novel, original, and impressive. A story of the dance and one of its most important personalities, and an important book for all interested in the diaspora of Indian and Eastern arts."--George E. Ruckert, author of Music in North India: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture

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Book SynopsisConsidering the development and ongoing influence of Black thought From 1900 to the present, people of African descent living in the United States have drawn on homegrown and diasporic minds to create a Black intellectual tradition engaged with ideas on race, racial oppression, and the world. This volume presents essays on the diverse thought behind the fight for racial justice as developed by African American artists and intellectuals; performers and protest activists; institutions and organizations; and educators and religious leaders. By including both women’s and men’s perspectives from the U.S. and the Diaspora, the essays explore the full landscape of the Black intellectual tradition. Throughout, contributors engage with important ideas ranging from the consideration of gender within the tradition, to intellectual products generated outside the intelligentsia, to the ongoing relationship between thought and concrete effort in the quest for liberatioTrade Review"Argues for a more expansive field of Black intellectual history that includes, not just other genres of writing, but also art and cultural practices of specific communities. . . and race-conscious social organizations and institutions, such as the early Black masonic lodges and later HBCUs and the 'Divine Nine' fraternities and sororities that sent forth generations of Black activists, scholars, and artists." --Society for U.S. Intellectual History "Thoughtful, thought-provoking, and well-documented. . . The Black Intellectual Tradition provides information and insights of great value to educators and scholars of all disciplines, genders, and racial/ethnic identities." --Journal of American History

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Book SynopsisSoul food has played a critical role in preserving Black history, community, and culinary genius. It is also a response to--and marker of--centuries of food injustice. Given the harm that our food production system inflicts upon Black people, what should soul food look like today?Christopher Carter's answer to that question merges a history of Black American foodways with a Christian ethical response to food injustice. Carter reveals how racism and colonialism have long steered the development of US food policy. The very food we grow, distribute, and eat disproportionately harms Black people specifically and people of color among the global poor in general. Carter reflects on how people of color can eat in a way that reflects their cultural identities while remaining true to the principles of compassion, love, justice, and solidarity with the marginalized. Both a timely mediation and a call to action, The Spirit of Soul Food places today's Black foodways at the crossroads of food jusTrade Review"The Spirit of Soul Food is a must-read for anyone interested in challenging the industrial food system in practical terms." --Reading Religion"Christopher Carter's The Spirit of Soul Food is a deeply enlightening discussion of food, foodways, and how the lived experiences of people can shape and be shaped by what they grow, acquire, and eat." --Journal of Folklore Research Reviews“I've never read a book like this before! Part history book, part cookbook, part call-to-action and resource for spiritual formation. The Spirit of Soul Food is suited for a variety of audiences ready for the timely challenge of inviting a deeper integration of our ethics, actions, and daily bread.”--Rev. Dr. Heber Brown III, Pleasant Hope Baptist Church"Carter’s excellent book breaks important new ground at the crucial nexus of race, religion, food, animals, and the environment. It is essential reading for anyone seeking to address this cutting-edge territory, which is crucial for the futures of human and more-than-human life."--David L. Clough, University of ChesterTable of ContentsPreface ix Introduction: Knowing, Eating, and Believing 11 Transatlantic Soul 222 Food Pyramid Scheme 573 Being Human as Praxis 874 Tasting Freedom 122Conclusion: Food Deserts and Desserts 157Notes 165Index 179

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Book SynopsisIn 1960, University of Illinois professor Leo Koch wrote a public letter condoning premarital sex. He was fired. Four years later, a professor named Revilo Oliver made white supremacist remarks and claimed there was a massive communist conspiracy. He kept his job. Matthew Ehrlich revisits the Koch and Oliver cases to look at free speech, the legacy of the 1960s, and debates over sex and politics on campus. The different treatment of the two men marked a fundamental shift in the understanding of academic freedom. Their cases also embodied the stark divide over beliefs and values--a divide that remains today. Ehrlich delves into the issues behind these academic controversies and places the events in the context of a time rarely associated with dissent, but in fact a harbinger of the social and political upheavals to come. An enlightening and entertaining history, Dangerous Ideas on Campus illuminates how the university became a battleground for debating America's hot-button issues.Trade Review"A rich account of the dynamics of academic freedom at [the University of Illinois] in the 1960s. . . . A timely book." --Choice"Ehrlich has thoroughly researched and carefully presented two obscure but influential U of I episodes that had widespread effects in their own time and concern issues of free speech and its restriction still relevant to ours. It is a book well worth reading for fans of the U of I, for those who personally remember the 60s, and for anyone concerned about academic freedom." --Illinois Times"Matthew Ehrlich takes what might have been local events and uses serious research to illuminate and elevate them to national and historical significance. His thoughtful weaving of threads such as academic freedom, university governance, student life, and sexual mores becomes a lively story and analysis of higher education that builds suspense, then provides answers. One of the best accounts of campus life and problems in the early 1960s I have read."--John R. Thelin, author of Going to College in the Sixties"A captivating and thoroughly researched story of a single American university at a propitious juncture. Ehrlich's engaging writing propels the arguments, the contemporary relevance of which is both obvious from the narrative and well summarized in a final chapter. I am already chomping at the bit for the opportunity to share this exciting work with others."--Henry Reichman, author of The Future of Academic Freedom"Matthew C. Ehrlich's Dangerous Ideas on Campus uses the substantial controversies surrounding these two events to chronicle the evolution of the U of I in the early sixties and, to a lesser extent, explore the evolution of academic freedom in higher education during the postwar period." --Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society

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Book SynopsisChartered in 1921, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is a worldwide organization that represents more than two million workers in occupations from healthcare and government service to custodians and taxi drivers. Women form more than half the membership while people in minority groups make up approximately forty percent. Luís LM Aguiar and Joseph A. McCartin edit essays on one of contemporary labor’s bedrock organizations. The contributors explore key episodes, themes, and features in the union’s recent history and evaluate SEIU as a union with global aspirations and impact. The first section traces the SEIU’s growth in the last and current centuries. The second section offers in-depth studies of key campaigns in the United States, including the Justice for Janitors and Fight for $15 movements. The third section focuses on the SEIU’s work representing low-wage workers in Canada, Australia, Europe, and Brazil. An interview with Justice foTrade Review"Louis Aguiar and Joseph McCartin have assembled a collection of laudatory essays, by labor-oriented academics, on SEIU’s history as a healthcare, public employee, and service sector union, how it developed signature campaigns among janitors and fast food workers, and then promoted its ‘organizing model’ among labor federations abroad." --BeyondChron“A very stimulating read. The book’s multidisciplinary approach brings together a wide range of perspectives that increase the level of insight into the SEIU and the broader issue of labor organizing for precarious workers. It also highlights the complexity of the SEIU and challenges commentators who unquestionably praise the union’s role in the U.S. labor movement, or dismiss it.”--Greg Patmore, author of Innovative Consumer Co-operatives: The Rise and Fall of BerkeleyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Seeing Purple: An Introduction to the History and Global Significance of SEIU Joseph A. McCartin and Luís LM AguiarPart I. Dynamics of Growth and Transformation2 From Flats to the White House: A Brief History of SEIU, 1910-2010 Benjamin L. Peterson 3 Reconciling Progressive Idealism with Centralized Control: An Institutional Analysis of SEIU’s GrowthKyoung-Hee Yu 4 Becoming Purple: Organizational Change at SEIU During the Andy Stern YearsAdrienne E. Eaton, Janice Fine, and Allison Porter Part II. Developing the Organizing Model 5 Persistence, Militancy, and Power: The Evolution of Justice for Janitors from Atlanta to Washington, D.C., 1987-1998 Alyssa May Kuchinski and Joseph A. McCartin 6 Rank-and-File Leadership Development and Its Implications for Education Justice Veronica Terriquez 7 Organizing Fast Food: Opportunities, Challenges, and SEIU Maite Tapia and Tashlin LakhaniPart III. Global Influence and Its Challenges8 Renewing Union Practices and Strategies: A Case Study of SEIU’s Sweet $16 Campaign in Ontario, Canada Laurence Hamel-Roy and Yanick Noiseux 9 The Global Career of Justice for Janitors and the Limits of Institutional Permeability Luís LM Aguiar 10 Organizing Strategies without Borders: The Case of Brazil Euan Gibb and Luís LM Aguiar Part IV. Assessing the Legacy and Employing the Lessons of SEIU11 The Legacy of Justice for Janitors and SEIU for the Labor Movement: An Interview with Stephen Lerner Stephen Lerner and Joseph A. McCartinConclusion: The Future of SEIU and (Post-Neoliberal?) Labor Luís LM Aguiar and Joseph A. McCartinContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisFor more than twenty years, John Milton Bernhisel negotiated with the federal government on behalf of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Bruce W. Worthen illuminates the life and work of the man whose diplomacy steered the Church's relationship with Washington, D.C. from its early period of dangerous conflict to a peaceful and pragmatic coexistence. Having risen from a Pennsylvania backcountry upbringing to become a respected member of the upper class, Bernhisel possessed a personal history that allowed him to reach common ground with politicians and other outsiders. He negotiated for Joseph Smith's life and, after the Church's relocation to the Utah Territory, took on the task of rehabilitating the public image of the Latter-day Saints. Brigham Young's defiance of the government undermined Bernhisel's work, but their close if sometimes turbulent relationship ultimately allowed Bernhisel to make peace with Washington, secure a presidential pardon for Young, and put Utah aTrade Review"What Worthen has given readers is a candidate for 'bookshelf essential,' especially for those looking for fresh perspectives on the often-told and widely-documented early events of Restoration history. Academically impeccable, Mormon Envoy is a good yarn, and Bernhisel's unique perspective makes for a narratively fascinating vantage amidst these dueling saints and senators." --John Whitmer Historical Association Journal"Worthen does an excellent job of emphasizing Bernhisel's accomplishments in Mormon Envoy." --Journal of Mormon History"Worthen's biography of Bernhisel is also an elegantly written history lesson." --Library JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Diplomacy of John Milton Bernhisel “My Journey to the Westward” “Stand Still and See the Salvation of God” Four Miles from Carthage The Angry Apostle An Adopted Son and a Travelling Bishop Far from the Land of Our Enemies Correcting Public Opinion Old Rough and Ready Great Basin Confrontation “We Have Only Asked for Simple Justice” “Throwing Down the Glove” Dueling Discourses “A Most Turbulent, Disloyal, and Rebellious People” Wild Fire “When a Thousand Years Have Slept Away” “Let Uncle Sam Choose” Wrongs Real and Imaginary The Train of Hell The Great Wheel of Time Conclusion: Out of the WestAppendix: Bernhisel’s MarriagesNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Eleff's well-researched examination of the changes that Horween and Bingham brought to Harvard in the 1920s is an uplifting story that is needed as Americans grapple with the latest wave of anti-Semitism." --Sport in American History“It sounds like fiction, but it’s true: A century ago, a Jewish running back and a track star with a working-class background altered the very nature of sports at Harvard. Kudos to Zev Eleff for putting Arnold Horween and Bill Bingham at the center of a poignant story about acceptance.”--John Eisenberg, author of The League: How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports EmpireTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter I: The (Cinder) Path to a Better LifeChapter II: Winning isn’t Everything, but it is SomethingChapter III: Americanization, the Jewish Take on SuccessChapter IV: Winning for Winning’s SakeChapter V: Football, the Ultimate Wargame of LifeChapter VI: Horween versus McMahon and Rise of the National Football LeagueChapter VII: A Member of the Hebrew Race to Become Head Coach of Harvard?Chapter VIII: An Honorable Failure and Satisfactory Game in Every WayChapter IX: The Crusade to Keep Football a GameConclusionAcknowledgments

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Malcomson provides a superb ethnographic study of ambivalence in lived experience: danzón is disciplinary and jealously competitive, yet it gives aficionados room to be creative and convivial, and to weave identities around narratives of blackness and race mixture, local histories, and personal trajectories. A brilliant exploration of how people navigate the contradictions of everyday life.”--Peter Wade, coeditor of Against Racism: Organizing for Social Change in Latin AmericaTable of ContentsVignette 1. Gerardo, Elena, and Miguel [Fiction] Introduction. Danzón, Veracruz, and Ambivalence Vignette 2. Teresita [Fiction] Chapter 1. Racial Ambivalence: Veracruz, Blackness, and Danzón Vignette 3. Pancho [Fiction] Chapter 2. Ambivalent Nostalgia: Histories and Memories of the Port and Its Danzón Vignette 4. Renata [Fiction] Chapter 3. Elegant Moves: Modernist Aesthetics and Danzón in Veracruz Vignette 5. Lulú and Antonio [Fiction] Chapter 4. Moves to Rescue: Reviving the Dance, State Sponsorship, and Power Vignette 6. Hettie and Uriel Chapter 5. United in a Viper’s Nest: Group Dynamics, Conviviality, and Rivalry Vignette 7. Carmen and Ernesto [Fiction] Chapter 6. Loving Ambivalence: Dance Groups, Amorous Encounters, and Ageing Bodies Vignette 8. Diana [Fiction] Acknowledgments Notes Glossary Select Discography Select Filmography Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Highly entertaining with useful appendices." --Spitball Magazine"Provides a wealth of detail about the origins of the Illinois game and the teams who played it from Chicago down south to Cairo and nearly every town in between." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch"A delightful collection of history and baseball anecdotes for both casual and serious baseball fans." --Illinois Times"Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins makes clear that there was a simplicity, innocence, and freshness to baseball in Illinois in these years, even as Sampson details the movement—probably inevitable—toward a more competitive and more professional level of play." --Third Coast Review"Effectively blends history and nostalgia, sparking an appreciation of the National pastime. . . . This 250-page gem by Robert D. Sampson is an exhaustive focus on baseball's early style and sweep when gentlemanly players, civic leaders, and hosts of spectators stressed the bliss more than the score." --Community Word“Detailed studies of baseball during these crucial years are rare, with ones that focus on a single state even more so. Bob Sampson’s Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins is thus both timely and valuable, confirming some long-accepted assumptions and forcing reexamination of others. Highly recommended!”--Peter Morris, author of Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in MichiganTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue A Dying Ember First Inning Baseball Fever and Pioneers Second Inning Organizing Clubs, Funding, Travel, and the Game’s Rituals Third Inning Playing Fields, Gambling, and Injuries Fourth Inning The Game and Its Players Fifth Inning Sharing the Fun Sixth Inning Barriers of Race and Gender Seventh Inning Trouble in Baseball’s Eden Eighth Inning Representative Teams Ninth Inning The Thrill Departs Epilogue Ghosts Appendix A Illinois Baseball Teams, 1865-70 Appendix B Bloomington’s Fifth Ward School-Grounds Neighborhood Appendix C Illinois Baseball Players, 1865-70 Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shadow of the New Deal is an ideal introduction for scholars new to the study of radio. . . . The book has an obvious appeal to media historians; indeed, it will no doubt become the standard reference work on this phase in radio history, though it offers fruitful information for scholars of other areas as well." --H-Net Reviews“Equipped with a wealth of archival research and a fresh perspective, Shepperd reshapes the history of public broadcasting convincingly and with great respect for the practitioners, researchers, and reformers responsible for its development and influence.”--Deborah L. Jaramillo, author of The Television Code: Regulating the Screen to Safeguard the Industry"Well researched and documented." --ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Advocacy: Media Reform, from Activism to Advocacy: Before and After the Communications Act of 1934 Chapter 2. Funding: The Philanthropic Mandate for Collaboration between Educational and Commercial Broadcasters Chapter 3. Distribution and Facilities: America’s Public Media Industry: From the Rocky Mountain Radio Council to the National Bicycle Network Chapter 4. Research and Development: The Emergence of Communication: Reception Research as a Strategic Tool of Media Reform Chapter 5: Policy: Public Media Policy, 1934-1967--Lessons from Reform History Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Riddell shows US sailors struggling for their own emancipation. Especially after 1898, he shows them also as fashioning themselves as white agents of empire. The potential for drama and tragedy is great, and fully realized, in this riveting book.”--David Roediger, author of The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History of Debt, Misery, and the Drift to the RightTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Seams of Empire A Leak in the Ship of State”: Maritime Labor Reform and U.S. Imperial Expansion, 1872-1900 Does Exclusion Follow the Flag? Imperial Labor Mobilization, Domestic Organized Labor, and the Emergence of a U.S. Metropole, 1902-1908 Riding the Waves of Empire: Craft Unionism, the La Follette Seamen’s Act of 1915, and the Economic Dimensions of U.S. Imperial Power, 1908 -1915 Agents of Empire: Merchant Sailors, the Great War, and the New American Merchant Marine, 1898-1919 They Always Choose Exclusion: Internal Dissent, Postwar U.S. Maritime Policy, and the Fall of the Sailors Unions, 1915-1924 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA history of the Circe myth.Trade Review"A fascinating, beautifully written study." -- Barbara F. McManus, coauthor of Half Humankind: Contexts and Texts of the Controversy about Women in England, 1540-1640.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOutstanding Book given by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States. Winner of the Creative Achievement Award given by the American Collegiate Schools of Architecture.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSpecial Citation from the de la Torre Bueno Prize of the Dance Perspectives Foundation, 1997. A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 1998.

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Book SynopsisRenders the furious ebb and flow of the two-day battle, capturing both the evolving strategies of each side and the horrendous experience of the fight. This book draws from hundreds of diaries, letters, memoirs, interviews, official reports, and regimental histories.Trade ReviewA Selection of the History Book Club.— A Selection of the History Book ClubTable of ContentsCoverTitle PageCopyright PageTable of ContentsList of MapsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsOne / My Dear General, You are Thoroughly OutdoneTwo / Golden Moments are PassingThree / I Have Never Felt so Glad to be a SoldierFour / A Glimmer in the TwilightFive / We are in a Ticklish Place HereSix / Sounds of Ill OmenSeven / Withdraw if not Already Too LateEight / They are Coming like a Pack of WolvesNine / We Shall Soon be in itTen / Give Help where it is NeededEleven / A Bellyful of FightingTwelve / They Skedaddled in Fine StyleThirteen / We Bury Our DeadFourteen / The Night Seemed to Quake and TrembleFifteen / If I Could Only Drown this Terrible SoundSixteen / God Grant that it May be SoSeventeen / If they Begin it, We will End itEighteen / The Left must be HeldNineteen / To Fire at Those Breastworks Seemed FoolishTwenty / Gentlemen, I Hold the Fatal Order of the DayTwenty-One / All was a Sickening ConfusionTwenty-Two / No More Show than a Broken-Backed CatTwenty-Three / The Signs Grew Rapidly WorseTwenty-Four / They can Kill us, But Whip us NeverTwenty-Five / Give us a Position to HoldTwenty-Six / Thomas is having a Hell of a FightTwenty-Seven / A Few are Holding out up YonderTwenty-Eight / I Never Saw Better FightingTwenty-Nine / Don't waste any Cartridges Now, BoysThirty / The Storm Broke LooseThirty-One / God Help Me to Bear it ArightThirty-Two / Denunciations Fierce and StrongAppendix / The Opposing Forces in the Chickamauga CampaignNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisExplores a lost world of women's dominance.Trade Review"Gamber's analysis is careful and nuanced, showing at every point the mixed impact of the processes of change in the lives of tradewomen and their customers. . . . A valuable contribution to women's labor, business, and social history as well as to the emerging history of consumption."--Susan Porter Benson, author of Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores

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Book SynopsisFew work settings compete with the waterfront for a long, rich history of multi-ethnic and multiracial interaction. Irish dockers from Chelsea to Ashtabula to Tacoma labored side-by-side with African Americans, Poles, Germans, Scandinavians, and Italians. Eastern Europeans worked with the Irish and black workers in Philadelphia. Farther south, African Americans were the majority on the Baltimore waterfront in the 1930s. On the Pacific Coast, where laws excluded Chinese workers and African Americans remained relatively few in number until World War II, white dockers and longshoremen dominated. InWaterfront Workers, five scholars explore the complex relationships involved in this intersection of race, class, and ethnicity. Contributors: Eric Arneson, Colin Davis, Howard Kimeldorf, Bruce Nelson, and Calvin Winslow.Trade Review"Opens up some of the most significant questions in American labor and social history, including the struggle for control at the workplace and, even more important, the relationship between black and white workers and among various ethnic groups on the docks."--David Brundage, author of The Making of Western Labor Radicalism: Denver's Organized Workers, 1878-1905

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Book SynopsisLooks at works of modern literature, visual art, music, film, theater, and architecture to arrive at an assessment of what parody is and what it does. This title identifies parody as one of the major forms of modern self-reflexivity, one that marks the intersection of invention. It discusses the remarkable range of intent in modern parody.Trade Review"Linda Hutcheon's thoughtful engagement with the theory of parody picks its way meticulously through this conceptual minefield, to emerge with a convincing map of the terrain... [A] scrupulously reasoned case made more persuasive by the tenacity with which its details have been pursued." -- Terence Hawkes, Times Literary Supplement

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Book SynopsisNearly a century before the advent of 'multiculturalism,' Jane Addams put forward her conception of the moral significance of diversity. Each member of a democracy, Addams believed, is under a moral obligation to seek out diverse experiences, making a daily effort to confront others'' perspectives. Morality must be seen as a social rather than an individual endeavor, and democracy as a way of life rather than merely a basis for laws. Failing this, both democracy and ethics remain sterile, empty concepts. In this, Addams''s earliest book on ethics--presented here with a substantial introduction by Charlene Haddock Seigfried--she reflects on the factors that hinder the ability of all members of society to determine their own well-being. Observing relationships between charitable workers and their clients, between factory owners and their employers, and between household employers and their servants, she identifies sources of friction and shows how conceiving of democracy as a

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Book SynopsisDescribes Cambodian history, migration, and resettlement in the US.Trade Review"Not Just Victims allows for a new, 'whole' perspective about the Cambodian community to unfold."--International Examiner"A nuanced and moving portrait of a people actively struggling to overcome one of the twentieth century's most horrific wars."--Asian Affairs"Not Just Victims is inspirational in the way it affirms the resilience of Cambodian culture. [Contains] a wealth of information for the resourceful ehtnographer who seeks to understand Khmer culture in transformation in the United States."--Journal of American Ethnic History“Not Just Victims is of very high quality as a piece of scholarship. The review of the literature on Cambodia and Cambodian refugees is extraordinary. The book contains easily the single best synthesis of Cambodian history, migration, and resettlement I have ever read.”--Jeremy Hein, author of From Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia: A Refugee Experience in the United StatesTable of ContentsLong Beach California - the capital of Cambodian America; on Buddhism and psychotherapy; law enforcement issues; how Massachusetts became a refugee-friendly state; Lowell Massachusetts - the "Long Beach of the east coast"; getting established in Fall River Massachusetts; Cambodians in Philadelphia; the Cambodian network council; Cambodians in Portland Oregon; Cambodians in Tacoma Washington; a holistic approach to mental health; The Khmer Krom.

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Book SynopsisConcentrating on the Caribbean Basin and the coastal area of northeast South America, this title considers three African-derived religious systems that rely heavily on dance behavior - Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahamian Candomble. It examines these oppressed performative dances in terms of physiology, psychology, philosophy, and aesthetics.Trade ReviewWinner of the de la Torre Bueno Prize (2006). "[Daniel] advances dance anthropology through ambitious meticulous scholarship, acute comparative analyses, riveting ethnographic description and a sensual sense of the dancing body that makes one feel the movement of the muscles and spirit."--Dance Research Journal Table of ContentsDancing religions of the Afro-Americas; Body knowledge at the crossroads; Days of remembrance; Dances of memory; Praise dance and liturgical orders; Informal learning with Haitian Laws; Informal learning with Bahian Orichas; Formal learning with Cuban Orichas; The dancing body and its social medicine

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Book SynopsisExploring Wong Kar-wai's groundbreaking use of sound and visual technique to create a new form of cinemaTrade Review“An insightful and encompassing look at an important director.”--Film International"Brunette traces the love, longing, and regret on view in all of Wong's films, and he rightly emphasizes their 'graphic expressivity'—that is, the distinctive, visually kinetic approach that continues to be the director's hallmark as he matures."--Booklist"Highly recommended."--Choice"Film scholars and movie buffs alike will surely welcome [Brunette's] stimulating discussion."--Ruby Cheung

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Book SynopsisExplores how American Indian autobiographers' approaches to writing about their own lives have been impacted by American legal systems from the Revolutionary War until the 1920s. This book traces the way that their sustained engagement with colonial legal institutions gradually enabled them to produce a new rhetoric of Indianness.Trade Review"The book is most engaging. . . . One of the strengths of Sovereign Selves is its commitment to a complex reading of the history of engagement between colonial power and Native Americans. . . . Because Carlson shows a clear trend toward the kind of rights talk being used by American Indians today, his book has the potential to help Native Americanist scholars rethink the ways in which literary and legal histories intersect."--Western Historical Quarterly "In this superbly clear-minded and judicious study, Carlson lays out the various networks of historical and legal processes that shape and articulate Indian identities and that resonate today in ongoing struggles for Native sovereignty."--Great Plains Quarterly "David Carlson's examination of 'sovereign selves' moves examination of the Native-white encounter from the ethnohistoric to the literary, from cultural entity to individual agency. . . . Necessary to understand what has brought us to the contemporary realities of Indian land claims and other persistent conflicts."--Journal of the Early RepublicTable of ContentsCoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Discourse of Indian Law2. Seneca Politics and the Rhetoric of Engagement3. William Apess and the Constraints of Conversion4. William Apess and Indian Liberalism5. Charles Eastman and the Discourse of Allotment6. Charles Eastman and the Rights of CharacterConclusion: Toward Self-SovereigntyNotesWorks CitedIndexBack cover

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding worldwide gangs through the lens of globalization Trade Review"This strong mix of fresh ideas offered by top authors in well-written and well-researched commentaries makes this book an important publication."--Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare

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