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University Press of Mississippi Bayou Harvest
Book SynopsisTo inhabitants of the Gulf Coast region of Louisiana, food is much more than nourishment. The acts of gathering, preparing, and sharing food are ways to raise children, bond with friends, and build community. This book examines how coastal residents deploy self-reliance and care for each other through harvesting and sharing food.
£19.90
University Press of Mississippi The Delta in the Rearview Mirror
Book SynopsisIntertwined with the true crime narrative, The Delta in the Rearview Mirror: The Life and Death of Mississippi's First Winery details author Di Rushing's life in and out of Mississippi, including growing up in 1960s Greenville, attending university, traveling overseas, and the relationships she cultivated along the way.
£18.86
University Press of Mississippi Jazz in the Hill
Book SynopsisFrom the 1920s through the 1960s, Pittsburgh's Hill District was the heart of the city's Black cultural life and home to a vibrant jazz scene. In Jazz in the Hill, Colter Harper looks at how jazz shaped the neighbourhood and created a way of life.
£23.70
University Press of Mississippi King of the Gunrunners How a Philadelphia Fruit
Book SynopsisReveals the untold story of a forgotten American whose adventures helped pave the way for the United States' emergence as an international power. This volume presents the story of John D. Hart, the defiant king of the Cuban gunrunners, who prolonged a revolution, provoked a war, and left an indelible mark on history.
£26.06
University Press of Mississippi BOOM SPLAT
Book SynopsisComposed of fifteen essays from renowned comics scholars and is organized thematically into four sections, including an examination of histories of violence, forms of violence, modes and systems of violence, and political and social violence.
£26.96
University Press of Mississippi Hot Equations Science Fantasy and the Radical
Book SynopsisInspired by the new diversity of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in the twenty-first century, Hot Equations confronts the kinds of literary and political realism' that continue to suppress the radical imagination.
£23.96
University Press of Mississippi Maverick Feminist
Book SynopsisExamines the extent to which the politics of respectability diminish joy and increase sorrow throughout the lifespan of Black women. By rejecting this damaging standard in society, Black women can wholly and attentively assist in the obliteration of racist, sexist, classist, and ableist oppression.
£23.96
University Press of Mississippi Paddleways of Mississippi
Book SynopsisPart natural history, part narrative nonfiction, this book will appeal to outdoor enthusiasts, anglers, naturalists, campers, and historians, and is suitable for novices as well as experts. Told together, the pieces included are a social and ecological history that exposes and deepens the connection coursing between the people and the rivers.
£19.96
University Press of Mississippi Alt Kid Lit
Book SynopsisOffers theoretical meditations on the category of children's and young adult literature as well as case studies of materials that complicate our understanding of such. The book shines light on materials, methodologies and epistemologies that can be under-acknowledged in the field of children's and young adult literature studies.
£23.96
University Press of Mississippi Copyright Vigilantes
Book SynopsisExplains superhero blockbusters as allegories of intellectual property relations. In movies based on characters owned by DC and Marvel, no narrative recurs more often than a villain's attempt to copy the superhero's unique powers. In this volume, Ezra Claverie explains this fixation as a symptom of the films' mode of production.
£23.96
University Press of Mississippi Beyond Control The Mississippi Rivers New
Book SynopsisTold against the backdrop of the Lower Mississippi River's impending diversion, the book's chapters chronicle historic floods, rising flood crests, a changing strategy for flood protection, and competing interests in the management of the Old River outlet. This is both a history and a close look at an inexorable, living process.
£19.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Dream and Legacy Volume II Revisiting King in
Book SynopsisBeginning early in his career, Dr Martin Luther King Jr recognised the moral and humanitarian need to pursue social justice and equity for marginalized Americans. In this volume, contributors sift through the historical record, engaging one of America's most consequential, radical historical traditions.
£22.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Film by Design The Art of the Movie Poster
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£18.86
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Tougaloo Nine The Jackson Library SitIn at the Crossroads of Civil War and Civil Rights
£27.90
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Sax Expat Don Byas
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Jesmyn Ward
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£18.86
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi A Black Woman for President Shirley Chisholm Carol Moseley Braun and Kamala Harris
£19.79
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Ellen Gilchrist
£19.79
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Driftin on a Memory Celebrating Seventy Years of the Isley Brothers
£19.79
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Real and Imagined Worlds Claude McKays Poetry and Prose
£23.39
Cornell University Press Earth Emotions
Book SynopsisAs climate change and development pressures overwhelm the environment, our emotional relationships with Earth are also in crisis. Pessimism and distress are overwhelming people the world over. In this maelstrom of emotion, solastalgia, the homesickness you have when you are still at home, has become, writes Glenn A. Albrecht, one of the defining emotions of the twenty-first century. Earth Emotions examines our positive and negative Earth emotions. It explains the author''s concept of solastalgia and other well-known eco-emotions such as biophilia and topophilia. Albrecht introduces us to the many new words needed to describe the full range of our emotional responses to the emergent state of the world. We need this creation of a hopeful vocabulary of positive emotions, argues Albrecht, so that we can extract ourselves out of environmental desolation and reignite our millennia-old biophilia—love of life—for our home planet. To do so, he proTrade ReviewAlbrecht offers a framework within which to understand and acknowledge the dissociation of humans from the living world. With a new language and means of expression, a wider array of stories from diverse voices can hopefully be heard. * The Independent *In Earth Emotions, Albrecht seeks to provide a new lexicon of emotional terms. The purpose of these terms is twofold: first, to allow people make better sense of themselves and of their relationship with the planet; second, to encourage development of a more meaningful and optimistic outlook toward the planet. * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. A Sumbiography: A Summation of My Green Past 2. Solastalgia: The Homesickness You Have at Home 3. The Psychoterratic in the Anthropocene: Negative Earth Emotions 4. The Psychoterratic in the Symbiocene: Positive Earth Emotions 5. Gaia and the Ghedeist: Secular Spirituality 6. Generation Symbiocene: Creating the New World Conclusion Glossary of Psychoterratic Terms Notes References Index
£15.19
Cornell University Press Pocket Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of
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MB - Cornell University Press By the Waters of Babylon
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MB - Cornell University Press The Spirit of Socialism
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John Wiley & Sons Arms Politics
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MB - Cornell University Press Dark Concrete
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MB - Cornell University Press Civil Blood Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy
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MB - Cornell University Press Reproducing Revolution Womens Labor and the War
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MB - Cornell University Press Reading Faithfully Russian Modernist Criticism
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MB - Cornell University Press Walking Chicagos Coast A 63Mile Journey to the Indiana Dunes
£15.19
John Wiley & Sons Field Guide to the Woody Plants of the Northern Forest
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MB - Cornell University Press The Feeling of the Form Empathy and Aesthetics from B252chner to Rilke
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MB - Cornell University Press Mindful by Nature The Inner Work of Being Outdoors
£14.24
MB - Cornell University Press Digital Initiation Rites Joining Anonymous in Britain
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MB - Cornell University Press Relief on the Hoof The Seagoing Cowboys the Heifer Project and UNRRA in Poland
£27.90
MB - Cornell University Press Monasticism and Manuscript Culture in Medieval E Studies in Cluniac History c. 9001200
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MB - Cornell University Press Caribbean Blood Pacts Guatemala and the Cold War Struggle for Freedom
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John Wiley & Sons Indigenous Dialectics The Relationship Between the State and Indigeneity in Indonesia
£22.49
MB - Cornell University Press Seeing Things
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MB - Cornell University Press Judgment and Mercy
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MB - Cornell University Press Drama and the Death of God Secularity on Stage from Antiquity to Shakespeare
£25.19
Stanford University Press Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love
Book SynopsisHow Silent Spring stands as a monument to a unique, loving relationship between Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, and how such love underpins a new environmental politicsAfter the success of her first bestseller, The Sea Around Us, Rachel Carson settled in Southport, Maine. The married couple Dorothy and Stanley Freeman had a cottage nearby, and the trio quickly became friends. Their extensive and evocative correspondence shows that Dorothy and Rachel did something more: they fell in love. In this moving new book, Lida Maxwell explores their letters to reveal how Carson's masterpiece, Silent Spring, grew from the love these women shared for their wild surroundings and, vitally and increasingly, for each other. Carson had already demonstrated a profound environmental awareness by the time she purchased her home in Maine; Maxwell proposes that it took her love for Dorothy to open up a more powerful space for critique. As their love unsettled their heteronormative ideas of bourgeois life, it enabled Carson to develop an increasingly critical view of capitalism and its effects on nonhuman nature and human lives alike, and it was this evolution that made the advocacy of Silent Spring possible. In Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love, Silent Spring's exposé of the dangerous and loveless exhaustion of nature for capitalism's ends is set in bold relief against the lovers' correspondence, in which we see the path toward a more loving use of nature and a transformative political desire that, Maxwell argues, should inform our approach to contemporary environmental crises.
£18.99
MK - Stanford University Press Technoskepticism Between Possibility and Refusal
Book SynopsisFrom Munchausen by Tiktok to wellness apps to online communities to AI, the DISCO Network explores the possibilities that technoskepticism can create. This is a book about possibility and refusal in relation to new technologies. Though refusal is an especially powerful modeparticularly for those who have historically not been given the option to say nopeople of color and disabled people have long navigated the space between saying yes and saying no to the newest technologies. Technoskepticism relates some of these stories to reveal the possibilities skepticism can create. The case for technoskepticism unfolds across three sections: the first focused on disability, the creative use of wellness apps, and the desire for diagnosis; the second on digital nostalgia and home for Black and Asian users who produced communities online before home pages gave way to profiles; and the third focused on the violence inherent in A.I.-generated Black bodies and the possibilities for Black style in the age of A.I. Acknowledging how the urge to refuse new technologies emerges from specific racialized histories, the authors also emphasize how care can look like an exuberant embrace of the new.
£12.34
MK - Stanford University Press Absolute Ethical Life Aristotle Hegel and Marx
Book SynopsisKarl Marx gave us not just a critique of the political economy of capital but a way of confronting the impoverished ethical quality of life we face under capitalism. Interpreting Marx anew as an ethical thinker, Absolute Ethical Life provides crucial resources for understanding how freedom and rational agency are impacted by a social world formed by value under capitalism, with consequences for philosophy today. Michael Lazarus situates Marx within a shared tradition of ethical inquiry, placing him in close dialogue with Aristotle and Hegel. Lazarus traces the ethical and political dimensions of Marx's work missed by Hannah Arendt and Alasdair MacIntyre, two of the most profound critics of modern politics and ethics. Ultimately, the book claims that Marx's value-form theory is both a continuation of Aristotelian and Hegelian themes and at the same time his most distinctive theoretical achievement. In this normative interpretation of Marx, Lazarus integrates recent moral philosophy with a historically specific analysis of capitalism as a social form of life. He challenges contemporary political and economic theory to insist that any conception of modern life needs to account for capitalism. With a robust critique of capitalism derived from the determinations of what Marx calls the "form of value," Lazarus argues for an ethical life beyond capital.
£84.15
MK - Stanford University Press Dissident Peace Autonomous Struggles and the
Book SynopsisIn 2016, the Peace Accords between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of ColombiaPeople's Army (FARCEP) and the Colombian government promised to bring an end to over fifty years of armed conflict. Yet, despite widespread international acclaim and heavy investments in the peace process, war continued. In this book, Anthony Dest provides a rigorous reassessment of the terms of peacebuilding through an ethnography of ongoing struggles for autonomy, based on over fifteen years of research and activism in Colombia. By questioning the potential for peace under the aegis of the state, Dissident Peace opens up critical space from which to imagine more radical forms of peace. From the coca fields of southwestern Colombia to the negotiating table in Cuba, Dissident Peace brings the contradictions of peacebuilding and organizing to life. Throughout the book, Dest locates contemporary violence within longer histories of colonial capitalism and centers the lives and insights of Black and Indigenous communities in Colombia. He identifies "dissident peace" as a potent alternative to dominant, state-centric peace frameworksone based on evolving principles of autonomy and self-determination by marginalized communities. With vital implications for social movements globally, this book provides a gripping account of what it means to struggle today.
£77.35
Stanford University Press Lives of the Voice
Book SynopsisWhen it comes to understanding the ontology of individual existencethat is the everyday behaviors that we all perform and hardly ever think aboutthe voice has a particularly complicated status. Together with writing, voice is the medium expressing ideas that, broadly speaking, we have previously formed in our minds. At the same time, voices trigger vague images and associations that do not have determinate forms. They remain in our memory, and we may even hear them as if immediately present, but we are unable to detach the propositional contents they articulate from the centrifugal effects that they have on our lives. Writing in both a personal and philosophical register, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht explores the complexity of the voice as an understudied philosophical, social, and existential phenomenon. He starts out with a focus on its core intellectual problem as the knot of the voice referring to the inseparable proximity between meanings, images, and the physical perceptions on which they depend. In conversation with Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Derrida, Lyotard, Luhmann, and above all Roland Bartes, Gumbrecht addresses topics that range from the social functions of the voice to its status in different historical contexts, and to the ways in which the perception of voices animates imagination. Throughout, incisive analyses of moments such as Julius Caesar's purportedly high-pitched voice, the surprisingly fragile authority of God's voice in the Torah and in the Gospel, and Gumbrecht's own personal attachment to the voices of popular singers such as Edith Piaf, Elvis Presley, and Adele, create a portrait of the voice that is both philosophically challenging and entertaining to read.
£19.19
MT - University of Pennsylvania Press Trafficking Trajectories
Book SynopsisHighlights the role structural vulnerability plays in the lived realities of domestic sex trafficking survivors before, during, and after trafficking Drawing on survivor narratives and ethnographically rich accounts from frontline workers in New England, specifically Maine and New Hampshire, Trafficking Trajectories contextualizes the ways in which structural vulnerability is embodied by domestic sex trafficking survivors in complex ways over time. The book also makes legible where and when upstream responses are most needed to prevent trafficking from occurring. Trafficking Trajectories counters the dominant trafficking narrative of victims and villains and how this narrative decontextualizes and isolates the period of victimization and rescue from broader experiences of vulnerability. Instead, Alicia Peters centers survivor experience to highlight the role of structural violence and vulnerability before, during, and after trafficking. Focusing on the lived realities of survivors, she argues that prioritizing an interventionist criminal legal response to trafficking does little to address the issues that make individuals vulnerable to trafficking in the first place and fails to end trafficking. Peters combines nuanced accounts of survivors with the observations and quandaries faced by frontline workers to reveal opportunities for rethinking and broadening the response to trafficking to make it more focused on prevention, and thus more effective. The book reframes traffickingnot as sporadic instances of interpersonal violence requiring criminal legal intervention but as structural violence that requires systematic and preventive intervention. Trafficking Trajectories concludes with a series of policy recommendations intended to address human trafficking at its root.
£40.50
