American Elsewhere, Paperback

Focuses on three policy areas that are particularly damaging for developing countries: traditional agricultural subsidy and trade policies that sup...

Presents multiprecision algorithms used in number theory and elsewhere, such as extrapolation, numerical integration, numerical summation (includin...

Reducere. In his prize-winning poetry collection Reliquaria, R. A. Villanueva embraces liminal, in-between spaces in considering an ever-evolving Filipino Am...

Reducere. About the AuthorRobert L. Dorman was born and raised in Oklahoma. After graduating from the University of Oklahoma with a degree in history, Dorman...

Reducere. Poverty in America too often goes unnoticed, and disregarded. This perhaps results from America's general level of prosperity along with a fairly w...

Reducere. John Nathan arrived in Tokyo in 1961 fresh out of Harvard College, bringing with him no practical experience, no more than two connections, no pros...

Reducere. One of the most original, influential, and commercially successful American songwriters, Doc Pomus (1927-1991) was a role model for several generat...

Reducere. In City of Refuge, a heart-wrenching novel from Tom Piazza, the author of the award-winning Why New Orleans Matters, two New Orleans families--one ...

Reducere. The poems in Catherine Pierce's new Danger Days celebrate our planet while also bearing witness to its collapse. In poems steeped deep in the 21st ...

Reducere. This is an anthology of poems by outstanding poets of diverse backgrounds (age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexuality, etc.) fro...

Reducere. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a Native American empire rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American Southwest,...

Reducere. From public radio This American Life contributor and self-described "history nerd" Sarah Vowell comes a collection of humorous and personal essays ...

Subverting celebrated classics of poetry and mythology and examining horrors from contemporary film and cultural fact, National Book Award winner J...

Reducere. Hoodoo Medicine is a unique record of nearly lost African-American folk culture. It documents herbal medicines used for centuries, from the 1600s u...

Reducere. "The beauty of good writing is that it transports the reader inside another person's experience in some other physical place and culture, " writes ...

Reducere. DescriptionSoft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grounds its exploration of questions not ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 election left specialists of American politics perplexed and concerned about the future of US de...

Reducere. DescriptionGreenwood, the African-American section of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was nicknamed Black Wall Street because it was one of the richest African Am...

DescriptionTwentieth Anniversary Edition with a new preface and afterword From the removal of Confederate monuments in New Orleans in the spring of...

DescriptionLeading mining historian Kerby Jackson introduces us to a classic mining work in this important re-issue of "The Gold Fields of the Sout...

Reducere. Amy Wong is an up-and-coming designer in the New York fashion industry; she is young, beautiful, and has it all. But she finds herself at odds with...

Reducere. This book recounts the history of the Potawatomi Native American tribe, from their early origins in Michigan near the western great lakes, to their...

Lustrous, tender, and expansive, Gold Cure moves from boomtown gold mines and the mythical city of El Dorado to the fracking wells of the American ...

Reducere. The Montana Cree is a study of religion as a sustaining force in American Indian life. On the small Rocky Boy reservation in northern Montana, the ...

A Short History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean presents a concise account of the full sweep of U.S. military invasions an...

Reducere. Napalm, incendiary gel that sticks to skin and burns to the bone, came into the world on Valentine's Day 1942 at a secret Harvard war research labo...

Over the course of five deployments to the Middle East since 9/11, Colonel (retired) Brian Rees documented his daily life at Abu Ghraib, Bagram, Ka...

Reducere. From the days when Buddy Bolden would blow his cornet to attract an audience from one New Orleans park to another, to the brass bands in clubs and ...

Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry, 'Gbenga Adeoba's collection Exodus focuses on forms of migration due to the slave trad...

Reducere. Rachel Swearingen's debut, How to Walk on Water and Other Stories, presents stories that bristle with menace and charm with intimate revelations. A...

Reducere. Literary Nonfiction. Italian & Italian American Studies. It is not an exaggeration that espresso is at the core of Italian culture and history. Mil...

Reducere. Joseph Eagle Elk (1931-91) was an effective and highly respected traditional Lakota healer. He practiced for nearly thirty years, treating serious ...

Reducere. DescriptionDon't Blame Us traces the reorientation of modern liberalism and the Democratic Party away from their roots in labor union halls of nort...

Reducere. "It's not just Murakami but also the shadow of Borges that hovers over this mesmerizing book...and] one may detect a slight bow to the American mac...

Description"Meghan O'Gieblyn's deep and searching essays are written with a precise sort of skepticism and a slight ache in the heart. A first-rate...

Reducere. In the early days of the American Pacific Northwest, small settlements dot the wilds of streams and dense woods. Isaac Evers, a community leader an...

Reducere. Larvae of the Nearest Stars offers deeply serious verse that packs profound emotional and spiritual power while encouraging readers to laugh out lo...

Reducere. From World War II until the 1980s, the United States reigned supreme as both the economic and the military leader of the world. The major shifts in...

Reducere. Winner of the Harriss Poetry Prize, judged by series editor Kwame Alexander and 2019 final judge Erica Dawson, Behind Normalcy is the first chapboo...

Reducere. "'Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien' brilliantly expands the conversation on undocumented migration by tracing the legacy of illeg...

Today's global economy was largely established by political events and decisions in the 1980s and 90s, when scores of nations opened up their econo...

Scholars of second-wave feminism often center their research on northern thought and political activity and usually overlook the vibrant pockets of...

Reducere. In Dominoes at the Crossroads Kaie Kellough maps an alternate nation--one populated by Caribbean Canadians who hopscotch across the country. The ch...

Reducere. All Heathens is a declaration of ownership--of bodies, of histories, of time. Revisiting Magellan's voyage around the world, these poems explore th...

Mark A. Noll, named one of America's most influential evangelicals by Time Magazine, provides a fresh and accessible history of Protestantism from ...

How the optimism gap between rich and poor is creating an increasingly divided societyThe Declaration of Independence states that all people are en...

Reducere. When a pastor has served at one church for a long time, they are considered "legends." They are held in high regard for having conducted marriage c...

Reducere. This book traces the significant history of the U.S. Consular Service, America's principal representation abroad through most its history. This new...

Reducere. Dedicated to all those living elsewhere who would rather be in TucsonTucson is the first comprehensive history of a unique corner of America, a cit...

DescriptionAn all-around skeptic when it comes to the supernatural, literature professor William Porter gives no credence to claims that Twin Tower...

Reducere. Butlers & Household Managers, 21st Century Professionals is designed to assist those seeking a new and rewarding career as a butler or the American...

Reducere. A highly original history, tracing the least understood and most intractable form of organized human aggression from Ancient Rome through the centu...

Reducere. In 1950 Las Vegas saw a million tourists. In 1960 it attracted ten million. The city entered the fifties as a regional destination where prosperous...

Reducere. The U.S. government, complicit with the well-connected corporations, since the so-called Civil War, continues to wage war and destruction. Lincoln'...

Sometimes a fact swings down like a hammer and we are changed. The fact of loss, the fact of desire, and all the wild, unruly facts of history hamm...

Reducere. DescriptionFort Niagara is located twelve miles downriver from the world-renowned Niagara Falls, yet few visitors to either site know this was once...

Tender, emotional contemporary romance--you'll fall in love with this band of brothers and the strong women they're determined to win. If you want ...

This is a quintessential book for Cinema buffs and particularly those who are passionate about Tamil cinema, which has the distinction of having pl...

Reducere. Hip Hop in the 1990s--What an era? Only one hip hop history book tells you how Hip Hop & R&B took over for ages to come This rap history book puts ...

DescriptionOne of two companion volumes of biographies of the players, coaches, announcers, and others involved with the 1986 World Series, one on ...

Reducere. A coming-of-age travel memoir that probes thorny spiritual questions while taking the reader on a wild ride from the deep American South to the Mid...