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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewComplex TVis one of the most exciting books I have ever read.Each chapter contains useful and well-defined terms to put to work in formal analysis, and every argument is backed up with lively, detailed, and entertaining readings of familiar TV texts.The result is a rich and thorough piece of scholarship that will do for television studies what David Bordwells historical poetics has famously done for film. -- Robyn Warhol,co-editor of Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist InterventionsA lucid and provocative exploration of modern television, from the inside out. -- Emily Nussbaum,television critic at the New YorkerMittell cleverly explores Complex TV on its own terms, favouring a formal analysis investigating the poetics of television series over discussing their cultural impact or interpretation of content. Looking at how television tells stories Mittell shows the contribution of technology, reception, and industry in changing television into a & lived cultural experience where different forms of & cultural engagement, are key to understanding the textuality of Complex TV. * European Journal of Media Studies *[]Mittels compelling arguments about topics such as anti-heroes and melodrama help us see the bigger picture when it comes to the small screen. * Seven Days *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Complexity in Context 17 2. Beginnings 55 3. Authorship 86 4. Characters 118 5. Comprehension 164 6. Evaluation 206 7. Serial Melodrama 233 8. Orienting Paratexts 261 9. Transmedia Storytelling 292 10. Ends 319 Notes 355 Index 381 About the Author 391

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIslamic Homosexualities clearly suceeds...a valuable addition to any library or interested reader's bookshelf. * Journal of Homosexuality *A fascinating and eye-opening book about a topic much hinted at but little considered systematically. The authors not only have the benefit of knowing homosexuality in many other societies but are well grounded in matters Islamic. * Middle East Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisExplores accountability as a framework for building movements to transform systemic oppression and violence What does it take to build communities to stand up to injustice and create social change? How do we work together to transform, without reproducing, systems of violence and oppression?In an age when feminism has become increasingly mainstream, noted feminist scholar and activist Ann Russo asks feminists to consider the ways that our own behavior might contribute to the interlocking systems of oppression that we aim to dismantle. Feminist Accountability offers an intersectional analysis of three main areas of feminism in practice: anti-racist work, community accountability and transformative justice, and US-based work in and about violence in the global south. Russo explores accountability as a set of frameworks and practices for community- and movement-building against oppression and violence. Rather than evading the ways that we are implicated, complicit, or actively engaged in Trade ReviewRusso shares the collective wisdom garnered from years of rich experiences in imagining, designing and implementing practices of feminist accountability. This deeply self-reflexive book chronicles the authors many years of activist engagement in antiracist, feminist, and social justice activism. As she powerfully demonstrates, this is fundamentally a collective accomplishment. She foregrounds the passionate and transformative work of diverse activists, scholars, and social justice organizations that have developed unique and effective resistance and transformative strategies for social change. Of course, most of these justice warriors are women, queer, trans and gender nonconforming people of color. Anyone seeking to counter systems of privilege and oppression in everyday life and in social structures that perpetrate violence and injustice should read this book. -- Nancy Naples,Co-editor of Border Politics: Social Movements, Collective Identities, and GlobalizationReplacing hyper-individualism and division with interconnectivity and community, Russo develops useful strategies for post-oppositional transformation. Her emphasis on accountability, responsibility, and relationship-building within contexts of uneven power offers a healing approach to social justice work. -- AnaLouise Keating,Author of Transformation Now!: Toward a Post-Oppositional Politics of ChangeThe essays in this book inspire a renewed commitment to a principled struggle for justice. Russo invites anti-violence scholars and activists to re-dedicate ourselves to the goals of freedom and liberation both in how we live and how we do our work; making the case that feminist accountability is both a political aspiration and an everyday practice. Courageous, compassionate, and demanding, this book is like a breath of fresh air, just when our liberation movements need it! -- Beth Richie,Author of Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence and America’s Prison NationGrounded in over thirty years of Russos anti-racist, feminist, and queer anti-violence activism, there are few books that explore the possibilities of building a more just and liberatory feminism with such astute political vision, compassion, and concrete detail. Feminist Accountability has the potential to generate an important shift in feminist politics towards an ethics of community accountability and transformative justice. I am tremendously moved and inspired by this book. -- Christine Keating,Co-editor of LGBTQ Politics: A Critical ReaderAs a feminist organizer, Ive been waiting for this collection of essays for years. How do we address and transform violence in non-punitive ways? Ann Russo offers a compelling analysis of how a praxis of accountability can guide us toward some answers to this question. As a scholar-activist, Russos insights are drawn from both theory and practice. She has tried on and tried out the ideas she espouses in community with others. The essays are beautifully written and accessible to all. Feminist Accountability is a must read for anyone interested in community accountability practices, anti-violence organizing and transformative justice. -- Mariame Kaba,Founder of Project NIA

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Book SynopsisCaptures the multitude of ways that diverse societies have shaped female same-sex sexuality across time and placeTrade ReviewSapphistries is amazing.. -- John D'Emilio,author of Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in AmericaSapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women achieves what it set out to do by providing an overview of lesbian love from a historical and cultural perspective. * Popmatters.com *Every decade or so, a brave thinker makes an attempt to chart the historical maps of women loving women. Rupps contribution is perhaps one of the most elegant and interestingmaking up for the lapses of the past, Sapphistries sails an international course, giving us a rich mix of historical sources and an even richer gift of asking questions at just the right places. -- Joan Nestle,co-editor of GenderQueerRupps sweeping and highly readable synthesis of womens same-sex love and sexuality is also a finely crafted work of historical analysis. Her deep knowledge of the sources, from ancient to modern times, is truly impressive, while her use of literary imaginings make this a unique contribution to sexuality studies. -- Estelle Freedman,author of No Turning BackRupp has given us an invaluable history that promises to inform and inspire. * San Francisco Chronicle *Judicious, copious, scholarly and heartfelt, it will appeal equally to general readers and serious historians for its carefully chosen content and its novel methodology... As to methodology, Rupp is an old school historian who scrupulously recognizes the limitations of her craft, but who doesnt let those limitations keep her from rich imaginings and a refreshingly humane interest in the historical record... Sixty six pages of endnotes attest to the seriousness of the work; over two hundred pages of lucid and accessible prose make history fun again. * Salem Press, Magill Book Reviews *The narrative shines when Rupp describes love between women in its many forms, whether innocent (the schoolgirl & raves of early twentieth-century England) or romantic (intense & romantic friendships throughout the Western world) or outright erotic. With acute cultural sensitivity and a panoramic scope stretching from early Native American societies to contemporary India, Rupp delivers an academically rigorous and brilliantly told history. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *Rupp succeeds in writing a fascinating and at times startling transnational history. . . . The range of this book is extraordinary. . . . Rupp has given us an invaluable history that promises to inform and inspire. * The San Francisco Chronicle *This is a useful source text that expands, rather than contracts, the interpretations of erotic subjectivities among women who desire women. * Historian *A fascinating book about the history of same-sex female attraction. . .reminds the reader all too poignantly never to take hard-won sexual freedoms for granted. * Bust Magazine *Rupps intellectually ambitious monograph attempts to present and trace the diverse threads of lesbian history in a worldwide and comparative framework... The resulting text is thought-provoking, readable, and challenging and belongs in every college and university library. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsPreface 1 Introduction 2 In the Beginning (40,000-1200 BCE) 3 In Ancient Worlds (3500 BCE-800 CE) 4 In Unlikely Places (500 BCE-1600 CE) 5 In Plain Sight (1100-1900) 6 Finding Each Other (1600-1900) 7 What's in a Name? (1890-1930) 8 In Public (1920-1980) 9 A World of Difference (1960-Present) 10 Conclusion Notes References Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An impressive collection of essays on a central problem of political theory. I recommend it highly." -- Jeffrey C. Isaac,Indiana University

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Book SynopsisRepresents a unique effort by an international group of scholars to understand the future of teaching and learning about the pastTrade Review"This is not a static voyage; rather, it is one that will take the interested reader on a wonderful journey of discovery and reexamination. . . . Captured within its pages, Knowing provides an educational framework that anchors the discipline and centers its impact upon society." * Canadian Social Studies *"A remarkable intellectual synthesis by the key people who have made history education a very new field, linking practice, theory and historical perspective." -- William Weber,editor of The History Teacher"A state-of-the-art compendium of interdisciplinary understandings of how we best learn history." -- Leon Fink,professor of history, University of Illinois at Chicago; Vice President, Teaching Division, AHA"Knowing, Teaching, and Learning History examines the current state of history education by exploring the connections between the historical discipline, learning theory, and classroom practice. This interdisciplinary collection of articles addresses recent developments in the theory and practice of history education by scrutinizing how historical narratives are learned and what disciplinary practices and habits of mind facilitate historical understanding. Contributions by historians, teacher educators, educational psychologists, and classroom teachers bridge institutional boundaries and explore history education from elementary schools to university classrooms." -- Loretta Sullivan Lobes,Executive Director, National History Education Network, Carnegie Mellon University"The 22 useful and engaging essays in this book represent leading work in the scholarship of teaching and learning related to history. The collection is a valuable effort. Hopefully these essays will do much to bridge the gap between historians, teacher educators, and teachers." * Teaching History *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The release of Freakery is as much a comment on modern academia as it is an intriguing exploration of the enduring fascination with the construction and presentation of those "who have been coarsely categorized as 'freaks,' 'curiosities', prodigies' and 'monstrosities.'" * Ethnologies *

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Book SynopsisThe number of people incarcerated in the U.S. now exceeds 2.3 million, due in part to the increasing criminalization of drug use: over 25% of people incarcerated in jails and prisons are there for drug offenses. Judging Addicts examines this increased criminalization of drugs and the medicalization of addiction in the U.S. by focusing on drug courts, where defendants are sent to drug treatment instead of prison. Rebecca Tiger explores how advocates of these courts make their case for what they call enlightened coercion, detailing how they use medical theories of addiction to justify increased criminal justice oversight of defendants who, through this process, are defined as both sick and bad. Tiger shows how these courts fuse punitive and therapeutic approaches to drug use in the name of a progressive and enlightened approach to addiction. She critiques the medicalization of drug users, showing how the disease designation can complement, rather than contradict, punitive approaTrade Review[T]his is an excellent book that will be of interest to sociologists who study punishment, health, deviance, and social control. It is well written and persuasive. Tiger effectively brought the sociology of knowledge to bear on a contemporary, policy-relevant question. This is no small accomplishment. While there are other critical books on drug courts available, Tigers approach is fresh and unique and therefore should be required reading by anyone studying the drug court movement. * Social Forces *[Judging Addicts] is interesting and well written, and perhaps its greatest strength lies in the way in which its author sets her discussion of the drug court initiative in a historic context. * Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy *Table of ContentsBoth Bad and Sick2 Criminalizing Deviance: Reconciling the Punitive and Rehabilitative3 "The Right Thing to Do for the Right Reasons": The Institutional Context for the Emergence of Drug Courts 4 "Enlightened Coercion": Making Coercion Work5 "Force Is the Best Medicine": AddictionRecovery, and Coercion6 "Now That We Know the Medicine Works": Expanding the Drug Court Model

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Book SynopsisPresents the inside story of Kurdish guerrilla movement. This book combines reportage and scholarship to give an account of PKK, the Kurdistan Workers' Party.Trade ReviewIts an achievement of Blood and Belief that despite the bloodletting, Marcus still generates empathynot for the murderous Ocalan, but for the desperate Kurds who joined the PKK revolution feeling they had nowhere else to turn. * The Washington Post Book World *;Marcus dispassionate recounting of events is impressive in its factual, documented style and avoidance of partisan shrillness. * The Bloomsberry Review *Blood and Belief offers unusual insight into the rebels' shadowy universe and, by extension, into Turkey's festering Kurdish problem. . . . [A] scholarly, gripping account. * The Economist *Marcus dispassionate recounting of events is impressive in its factual, documented style and avoidance of partisan shrillness. While never condoning any of the PKK’s excesses, she points out its one achievement: to have put the Kurdish problem on the agenda in Turkey and in front of the world. * Bookforum *Blood and Belief gives meaning and context to the grinding guerrilla war that claimed tens of thousands of lives. * Boston Globe *Table of ContentsA Note to ReadersAcronyms Introduction Prologue I Ocalan, Kurds, and the PKK's Start1 The Origins of the PKK, 1949-1976 2 Abdullah Ocalan, Leader, 1975-1980 3 The Flight to Survive, 1980-1982 4 On the Road to War, 1982-1984 II The PKK Consolidates Power5 Loyalty and Violence, 1985-19906 The Struggle to Succeed, 1985-1990 7 The Deluge, 1988-1991 III PKK Militants Fight for Control8 War in the Streets, 1991-1992 9 Fueling the War, 1992-1993 10 Mixing War and Politics, 1991-1993 11 Change in Fortunes, 1993-1997vIV Ocalan's Capture and After12 The Decline, 1995-1998 23913 Searching for a New Way, 1995-1998 14 Ocalan, Caught by Surprise, 1998-1999 15 The PKK Saves Itself, 1999-2007 Conclusion Timeline Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisWhen the images of desperate, hungry, thirsty, sick, mostly black people circulated in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it became apparent to the whole country that race did indeed matter when it came to government assistance. The authors place the government response to natural and human-induced disasters in historical context over the years.Trade ReviewA fine overview for those interested in the subject matter. Summing Up: Highly recommended. * Choice *The Wrong Complexion for Protectionis an intellectual version of a 'greatest hits' album, combining autobiography and research findings to give a picture of the authors' important contributions to the field of environmental justice, and a picture of what environmental justice has contributed to political science and other fields. -- Patrick S. Roberts * Political Science Quarterly *A fascinating insiders account from the frontlines of the struggle to get the government to act fairly in the face of environmental injustice, with vast implications for future disasters. -- Timmons Roberts,co-author of A Climate of InjusticeThe brutal realities of institutional racism in disaster readiness, response, and recovery are unveiled here in black and white, through compelling case studies, jaw-dropping statistics, and thoroughly documented sociological and historical data. -- David Naguib Pellow,co-author of The Slums of Aspen: Immigrants vs. the Environment in America’s EdenTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Acronyms and Abbreviations Preface Introduction: Anatomy of Vulnerability 1. Race, Place, and the Environment in a Small Southern Town: A Personal Perspective from Robert D. Bullard 2. Growing Up in a City That Care Forgot, New Orleans: A Personal Perspective from Beverly Wright 3. The Legacy of Bias: Hurricanes, Droughts, and Floods 4. Recovery and Reconstruction in Post-Katrina New Orleans: A Time for Healing and Renewal 5. The Wrong Complexion for Protection: Response to Toxic Contamination 6. Nightmare on Eno Road: Poisoned Water and Toxic Racism in Dickson, Tennessee 7. Living and Dying on the Fenceline: Response to Industrial Accidents 8. Separate and Unequal Treatment: Responseto Health Emergencies, Human Experiments, and Bioterrorism Threats: 9. Critical Conditions: Fixing a Broken System Notes References Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLeaving no stone—or brick—unturned she weaves together every tantalizing aspect of the creation of Stanford White’s magnificent Madison Square Garden. I found this in-depth work by Suzanne Hinman quite remarkable. Hinman’s skillful narrative hand, sense of structure, and the incredible amount of historical detail she weaves into every chapter make a wonderful book for anyone who enjoys a great read. What a splendid book! This scholarly history of the second Madison Square Garden (1890-1925) provides an important addition to the story of New York City Gilded Age architecture, entertainment, and popular culture. This building, it must be noted, lasted only a few years. In a rapidly changing city, this Palace of Pleasure was torn down to make way for a great Cathedral of Insurance. Thus, this book is especially rich in expanding our knowledge of the work of the architect Stanford White and the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The author has read widely and presents her findings in highly readable prose. This is a book for scholars and lay readers alike. A detailed and wide-ranging account of the Gilded Age from its picaresque characters, social choreography, and cultural preferences to its volatile economy, favorite restaurants, and even construction technology, with Stanford White and his beloved Madison Square Garden at the center of it all. Hinman observes the complex lives of her subjects with assurance in this accessible study that will appeal to readers interested in late 19th-century American architecture and sculpture, New York City, and LGBTQ history. Hinman uses the construction of the second Madison Square Garden as an armature upon which to hang a depiction of the Gilded Age. The Grandest Madison Square Garden will appeal to a wide audience. It tells an inherently fascinating story and does so with evident enthusiasm. Ought to be in collections devoted to New York City, the Gilded Age, architecture, art, and entertainment history. . . . Highly Recommended.

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Book SynopsisThe historic lakeside village of Cazenovia in the scenic Finger Lakes region is one of the jewels of Central New York, and yet very few books have told its story. The Bear Tree and Other Stories from Cazenovia's History explores the unheralded, inaccurately told, and long-forgotten tales of the town.

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Book SynopsisWith enchanting humor, social satire, and verbal dexterity, From a Distant Relation captures the world of the shtetl in a sharp realist prose style. Themes of repressed desire, poverty, relations with non-Jews, and historic upheavals echo in a cast of memorable characters.

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Book SynopsisA story of two neighbours in San Juan, Puerto Rico: Galán Betances, a Cuban emigrant, and Pat McAllister, a young Coast Guard officer. During long evenings spent together talking on their Calle Luna rooftop, a deep friendship develops based on shared traumas and a common desire to heal.Trade Review"A suspenseful, humane novel, moving in its portrait of families divided by the hostilities of their governments, in this case Cuba and the United States."—Tobias Wolff"Thomas Bardenwerper will keep you engaged to the very last page with this well-crafted and often thrilling exploration of moral quandaries that challenge us all."—E. J. Dionne Jr., author of Code Red"What would you risk for a sister, a brother, a friend, a stranger? Mona Passage is one of those rare novels that will expand your heart."—Janet Benton, author of Lilli de Jong"An engrossing five-star read from a talented new author—not to be missed!"—Jim Howe, author of Red Crew"Captures the maritime mood that evokes Hemingway and marries it with the terse, tense dialog of Elmore Leonard. He wraps it all in a political swirl of current events, romance and a plucky plot."—Michael Fabey, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist and author of Crashback: The Power Clash Between the U.S. and China in the Pacific"Mona Passage is a fast-paced storm of an adventure that seizes you on the first page, and doesn’t let go until the very end."—Adrian Bonenberger, author of Afghan Post"This exciting debut novel brims with elements from Bardenwerper’s days at sea. I recommend it for anyone who wants to understand those souls caught on the edge of the American empire."—Brian Castner, author of The Long Walk"Bardenwerper has crafted a chilling tale of intrigue and courage, which covers the range of human emotion and demonstrates the lengths to which people will go to circumvent the law, even if it means risking one’s life or ending a career."—Peter McShane, author of Save a Life, Take a Life; Green Beret Medic in Vietnam and the Passage Home

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Book SynopsisClosely based on the author’s own experiences over the twenty-five years he devoted to running a café that became an important Jerusalem cultural venue and landmark, Café Shira is a work of disarming tenderness and bittersweet love.

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking study exploring the use of metaphors and images of place in literature. Drawing comparisons over a wide range of works, principally American and British literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Lutwack illustrates how writers have charged different environments with symbolic and psychological meaning.Trade ReviewFor its magisterial scope and referential breadth, Lutwack’s book is essential for anyone interested in the interrelationships of place and literary value. Lutwack has made a notable scholarly contribution with his book. The Role of Place in Literature has a place in literary studies. Will be of interest to geographers as well as to all readers who share a sensitivity to the rich rhetoric of place and a concern for the future of the earth.

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Book SynopsisProvides a new perspective on Muslim youth, presenting them as agents of creative social change and as active participants in cultural and community organisations where resistance leads to negotiated change. In a series of case studies, contributors capture the experiences of being young and Muslim in ten countries.

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Book SynopsisAnalyses the communication, politics, stereotypes, and genre techniques featured in the television series Scandal while raising key questions about the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and viewing audiences.

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Book SynopsisSince the publication of their first controversial novels in the 1950s and 1960s, Philip Roth and Edna O'Brien have always argued against the isolation of mind from body, autobiography from fiction, life from art, and self from nation. In this book Dan O'Brien investigates these shared concerns of the two authors.Trade ReviewExceptional, original . . . O’Brien takes on a fascinating topic about which very little has been written and, in so doing, makes a valuable contribution to the growing corpus of books in the emergent field of Irish-Jewish studies. O'Brien's Fine Meshwork interlaces intricately the works, lives and preoccupations of two (variously) misunderstood contemporary writers so as to ask questions that go beyond considerations of nation and biography. O'Brien's carefully and playfully written study, with its bold thesis of flirtatious intertextuality, will do much to advance their cause, while offering new and exciting frameworks against which to consider Irish and Jewish-American literature both as separate entities and in relation to transnational and transatlantic studies.

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Book SynopsisAnalyses the communication, politics, stereotypes, and genre techniques featured in the television series Scandal while raising key questions about the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and viewing audiences.

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Book SynopsisDuring his more than fifty-year writing career, American Jewish philosopher Horace Kallen incorporated a deep focus on science into his pragmatic philosophy of life. In this intellectual biography, Kaufman explores Kallen's life and illumines how American scientific culture inspired not only Kallen's thought but that of an entire generation.

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Book SynopsisMoishe Rozenbaumas (1922-2016) recounts his fascinating life, from his Lithuanian boyhood, to the fraught experiences that take him across Europe and Central Asia and back again, to his daring escape from Soviet Russia to build a new life in Paris.Trade ReviewA fascinating read that portrays life in Telz, the vibrant Jewish shtetl or market town that was also a famous Yeshiva center. With an enchanting eye for detail, Moishe Rosenbaumas tells a lesser known story out of the Holocaust: escape to Russia from Lithuania, heroic service in the Red Army, hair-raising escape from the Soviet Union and successful resettlement in France. His is a fresh and unique voice and his book deserves recognition as a literary masterpiece in the library of Jewish memoir literature of the twentieth century. A riveting story of a resilient survivor who underwent the most harrowing experiences during the time of World War II and its aftermath, never lost courage, always exhibited saving resourcefulness, and emerged from it all to build a good life for himself and his family. This is far from a run-of-the-mill memoir about the horrors of the Holocaust, and it will be a real gift to American readers. "[An] incredibly gripping memoir.

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Book SynopsisFocuses on the narratives, scholarly lives, pedagogies, and educational activism of established and emerging Latina leaders in K-16 educational environments. As the first edited collection foregrounding the voices of Latina educators, this volume highlights the ways in which these leaders shape educational practices.Trade ReviewThese authors have collectively responded to multiple, intersecting issues facing Latina educators, students, and activists with brilliance, nuance, care/love, and rigor. They have accomplished the task of highlighting the often unseen, overlooked, and undervalued labor and intellectual legacies of Latinas in education. Currently, there is not enough published in mainstream university presses and academic journals which engages these kinds of Latina perspectives, especially in their varied forms, something this volume accomplishes in no uncertain terms.

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Book SynopsisOffers a pioneering study of the unique nexus between literature and photography in the works of Hebrew authors. Exploring the use of photography - both as a textual element and through the inclusion of actual images - Amihay shows how the presence of visual elements in a textual work of fiction has a powerful subversive function.

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Book SynopsisExplores the gendered identities of two generations of men in the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut. Gustavo Barbosa compares the fida'iyyin, the men who served as freedom fighters to reconquer Palestine in the 1970s, to the shabab, their sons who lead seemingly mundane lives with limited access to power.Table of Contents List of Illustrations, Tables, and Charts xi Acknowledgments xiii Acronyms xix Timeline: History of the Palestinian Diaspora in Lebanon xxi Introduction: Thinking through Water 1 1. Submerging: Under Siege 43 2. Drowning by Numbers and Legislation: Statistics and (Non)State Making in Shatila 73 3. Swirling and Twirling: The Fida’iyyin’s Heroism and the Shabab’s Burden 122 4. Pororoca, Thinking through Music: Fida’iyyin and Shabab Talk (Sometimes) Past Each Other 181 5. Reemerging: Noncockfights 236 6. Resurfacing: The Antilove of Empire 251 Glossary of Levantine Arabic Terms 273 References 285 Index 311

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Book SynopsisIn this timely volume, Zhu and Xiao offer an examination of the ways in which Chinese feminist ideas have developed since the mid-1990s. By juxtaposing the plural “feminisms” with “Chinese characteristics”, they both underline the importance of integrating Chinese culture, history, and tradition in the discussions of Chinese feminisms.

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Book SynopsisWith its wide-ranging introduction, detailed notes, and eye-catching maps, this book retrieves the remarkable travel accounts of Kathleen M. Murphy from obscurity and presents them to a new generation of readers interested in travel and adventure.

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive account of space's centrality to confronting state-endorsed violence, this volume draws upon ethnographic research gathered throughout the first half of the 2010s, the period of Turkey's quickly deteriorating global image.

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Book SynopsisFocuses on the intersections of phallocratic violence and masculine identity in contemporary works of fiction across North America, Western Europe, and sub-Saharan Africa. In doing so, Messier details the ways in which male desire is predicated on mediated forms of predatory and misogynistic sexuality that cross national and cultural divides.

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Book SynopsisThis is a collection of fifteen 'fables' that ask, in the words of Jean-Francois Lyotard, "how to live, and why?" Here, Lyotard provides a mixture of anarchistic, irreverence and sober philosophical reflection on a wide range of topics with attention to issues of justice and ethics, aesthetics and judgement.

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Book SynopsisUsing his vast knowledge of campcraft, Rutstrum describes the wilderness life and details what one can expect from the wild- inspiration from exploring, pleasure from encountering natural settings, satisfaction after gaining experience, and mental stimulation from observation and problem solving.

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Book SynopsisFrom Boulder in 1974 to Maine Question 1 in 2009, the first comprehensive history of the LGBT movement’s fight against anti-gay ballot measuresTrade Review"Amy L. Stone crafts a compelling, deeply textured portrayal of the more than 200 anti-gay ballot campaigns in the U.S. since 1974. Through interviews with movement leaders and other sources, Stone deftly analyzes the tension between winning campaigns and building a sustainable movement, between national, urban activists and local, rural communities, as well as debates over tactics and messaging. Gay Rights at the Ballot Box is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the central, disturbing role anti-gay politics has played in contemporary U.S. politics." —Sean Cahill, Ph.D., Fenway Institute and New York UniversityTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Winning (but Mostly Losing) at the Ballot Box1. From Anita Bryant to California Proposition 8: The Religious Right’s Attack on LGBT Rights2. An Uphill Battle in the 70s and 80s: Building LGBT Movement Infrastructure3. Fighting the Right in the 90s: Developing Sophisticated Campaigns4. A Winning Streak: Teaching Campaign Tactics, Building Statewide Organizations, and Spreading Victories 5. Losing at Same-Sex Marriage: Rethinking Ballot Measure Tactics6. Smears, Tears, and Queers: Race and Transgender Inclusion in CampaignsConclusion: The Future of Gay Rights at the Ballot BoxNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA grounded, tender, and mournful reckoning with the catastrophes that launched poor, white Anglos into their role as itinerant foot soldiers for modern imperialismnow in paperback with a new preface Joanna Brooks's ancestors were among the early waves of emigrants to leave England for North America. For generations, they lived hardscrabble lives, eking out subsistence in one place after another as they continually moved west in search of a better life. Why, Brooks wondered, did her people and countless other poor English subjects abandon their homeland for such unremitting hardship? The question leads her on a journey through an obscure dimension of American history. Why We Left reveals the violence and dislocation that propelled seventeenth- and eighteenth-century working-class English emigration, presenting a powerful restorying of how we arrived at our present moment of precarity and rootlessness. Following American folk ballads back across the Atlantic to find histories of econ

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Amazing; revelatory: at last, a book that guides scholars and students who have only known humans into care for other beings. Care of the Species walks readers through the steps that allowed John Hartigan Jr. to open his attention to plants. He starts with a meditation on race: what happens to this category when it refers to cultivated plants? Rather than assume readers who already care, Hartigan Jr. shows us how to care. Rather than stereotype science as a way of thought, Care of the Species shows how ethnographers might listen closely to botanists to appreciate what their caring might be about. Reading this book made me realize I had waited for it a long time; it shows humanists why the more-than-human matters. I can’t wait to teach it."—Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, coeditor of Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet "Care of the Species examines the infrastructures, labs, and gardens that contain the dynamism of botanical life forms. Corn plants—with unruly ‘jumping genes’ and racialized strains—are the stars of John Hartigan Jr.’s multispecies story. Making metaphoric leaps across divisions separating bodies and species, this book is an erudite engagement with model organisms, mutant forms, and molecular techniques. Revealing tips on ‘How to Interview a Plant’ will be useful to multispecies ethnographers who seek to reflexively localize, describe, theorize, and contextualize their subjects of study."—Eben Kirksey, author of Emergent EcologiesTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroductionPart I. Species Interiors1. Follow the Species: In and Out of Labs2. Maize: An Ethnohistory3. Racial Thinking: Transgenics versus Razas4. Selfing: The Sexual History of a Species5. Species Thinking: Calibrating Knowledge of Life FormsInterlude: Figure and Ground Part II. Knowing Plants6. Living Ethnographies: Of Plants and Arguments7. Species Don’t Exist: Theorizing Life Forms8. Care and Its Publics: Peopling Botanical Gardens9. How to Interview a Plant: Ethnography of Life FormsEpilogue: An Elegant PlantAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisProviding a solid analytic framework for understanding conflict over women's rights policies without stereotyping Muslims, Bargaining for Women's Rights demonstrates that, contrary to conventional wisdom, Islam does not have a uniformly negative effect on the prospects of such legislation. Trade Review"Alice J. Kang compellingly argues that governments are more likely to adopt women's rights reforms when local activists mobilize for them, that opposing activists must also be considered, and that political context is essential for understanding outcomes around women's rights."—Gretchen Bauer, University of Delaware"Bargaining for Women’s Rights is a refreshing approach to thinking about women's rights in majority Muslim countries that captures how civil society groups mobilize and how multiple components of 'the state' actually debate women's rights legislation."—Barbara Cooper, Rutgers University"[Kang] includes an impressive combination of original empirical research and review and analysis of alternative hypotheses to assert the argument that women, and women's movements, matter in the adoption of gender equality policies."—CHOICE"An engaging, detailed look at how women activists played a vital role in Niger’s adoption of women’s rights policies."—Washington Post"Fills an important research void on determinants of women’s rights policy making in Muslim-majority democracies."—International Journal of Feminist Politics"Scholars in political science, sociology, women’s studies, and public policy will benefit from the theoretical and substantive contributions of Bargaining for Women’s Rights."—Mobilization"An impressive study of the competition between women activists and religious conservatives in Muslim-majority, francophone Niger."—Canadian Journal of Political ScienceTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Women’s Rights in an African Muslim Democracy1. A French Colonial Legacy: The Making of Niger’s Legal System2. The Puzzle of Non-Adoption: Why Niger Has No Family Code3. Bargaining for Women’s Representation: The Adoption of a Gender Quota4. Bringing Rights Home: How Niger Ratified CEDAW and Rejected the Maputo ProtocolConclusion: Rethinking Women’s ActivismAppendix: Research MethodsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book Synopsis Marta Oulie, written in diary form, intimately documents the inner life of a young woman disappointed by the conventions of marriage and longing for passion. Set in early twentieth century Kristiania (now Oslo), this is an incomparable psychological portrait of a woman whose destiny is defined by the changing mores of her day—as she descends into an ever-darker reckoning. Trade Review "Like those two other great European novels of adultery, Lady Chatterley's Lover and Anna Karenina, Marta Oulie traces the interior life of a woman from the beautiful and expansive rush of her first love, to her swelling dissatisfaction with her ‘doll's house’ existence constrained by turn-of-the-nineteenth-century values, her growing distance from her adoring husband, her unconsidered entry into an affair, and finally to her ultimate disillusion, self-recrimination, and despair. Thanks to Tiina Nunnally’s nuanced translation, we can experience this strangely compelling novel in all the precise observations of Undset’s original Norwegian text."—Susan Vreeland, author of Clara and Mr. Tiffany and Luncheon of the Boating Party"A vote of gratitude is due to the University of Minnesota Press for bringing us, for the first time in English, this impeccably translated edition of Undset's early and remarkable novella." —John Banville"Most of Undset’s later novels—including the medieval epic “Kristin Lavransdatter,” which earned her the Nobel Prize—took their cue from this blunt début, dealing in various ways with the social and familial constraints of women." —The New Yorker"It’s unsurprising that Undset won a Nobel Prize for Literature, and I’m shocked that it took this long to become more widely known in the United States. I’d compare it to Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles, or even The Scarlet Letter in its intensity." —Off the Book"Undset’s writing is vivid, engaging, and fast moving. Never before published in English, this translation by Tiina Nunnally is clear, stark and gripping." —The Chronicle-JournalTable of ContentsContentsIntroductionJane SmileyMarta OuliePart IPart IIPart III

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Book SynopsisCritiques the environmental destruction caused by media technologies in the anthropocene era

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