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Reducere. As the United States expanded west in the 1800s, and cattle became big business, the figure of the young brash cattleman who rode with the herds qu...

Reducere. Jaguars' Tomb is a novel in three parts, written by three interconnected characters. Part one, "Hidden Variables" by María Celina Igarzábal, is nar...

Offers a thorough introductory reading of Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most remarkable and influential writers of the twentieth century. Julio Pre...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Catalan-language publishers were under constant threat during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco (1939-1975). Books against Tyranny examines the ...

The Frist Art Museum and Vanderbilt University Press have partnered to copublish Murals of North Nashville Now. The publication includes plates of ...

At least two generations of transgender, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people have emerged since Becoming a Visible Man was first published i...

DescriptionOver the past twenty-five years, mathematical concepts associated with geometric phases have come to occupy a central place in our moder...

Interweaves an autobiographical narrative with concrete research. John Mraz describes the resistance he encountered in US academia to this new way ...

Argues that Marti's religious views, which at first glance might appear outdated and irrelevant, are actually critical to understanding his social ...

Reducere. Over the last thirty years, the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies has grown from a small group of disaffected conservative law s...

Reducere. Before there were guidebooks, there were just guides--people in the community you could count on to show you around. I'll Take You There is written...

Reducere. These days, hot chicken is a "must-try" Southern food. Restaurants in New York, Detroit, Cambridge, and even Australia advertise that they fry thei...

Reducere. DescriptionBody Battlegrounds explores the rich and complex lives of society's body outlaws--individuals from myriad social locations who oppose he...

Reducere. More than ten thousand known caves lie beneath the state of Tennessee according to the Tennessee Cave Survey, a nonprofit organization that catalog...

Profiles the voices of those who fight against inequalities of care even while they form alliances with the systems that perpetuate them. Lydia Dix...

Reducere. Based on comparative readings of contemporary books from Latin America, Spain, and the United States, the essays in this book present a radical cri...

Publisher: Vanderbilt University PressAuthor(s): Dana RushNumber of pages: 244Collection: Critical Investigations of the African DiasporaPublicatio...

DescriptionFood insecurity rates, which skyrocketed with the Great Recession, have yet to fall to pre-recession levels. Food pantries are stretched...

Reducere. DescriptionMuch has been written about landfills and the monumentality of rubbish, but little attention has been paid to "litter, " the small trash...

Central to the book are Gbigbil women's experiences with different "reproductive interruptions": miscarriages, stillbirths, child deaths, induced a...

Examines the ideological debates and didactic exercises in subject formation during the centenary era of independence (the 1910s), and proposes a n...

Explores the transformation and function of the images of holy females within wider religious, social, and political contexts of Old Spain and New ...

Reducere. Blues Hall of Fame Inductee--Named a "Classic of Blues Literature" by the Blues Foundation, 2019 This remarkable book recovers three invaluable per...

Reducere. William Edmondson (1874-1951) was the first African American sculptor to have a one-person exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. Edmondson starte...

Saul Alinsky, according to Time Magazine in 1970, was a "prophet of power to the people, " someone who "has possibly antagonized more people . . . ...

Argues that the reinterpretation of female mysticism as hysteria and nymphomania in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Spain was part of a...

Reducere. Like spiral galaxies composed of millions of orbiting stars, the works of New York State-based artist Shinique Smith are graceful yet forceful comb...

Reducere. These stories take readers where they cannot go, be it out into space, back in time, deep under the ocean, down to microscopic scales, or out onto ...

When Nashville identified its first case of coronavirus in March 2020, the city was between directors of public health. Dr Alex Jahangir soon found...

Reducere. Was Nashville once home to a giant race of humans? No, but in 1845, you could have paid a quarter to see the remains of one who allegedly lived her...

Reducere. Named One of the "Best Art Books of 2018" by the New York Times Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr.'s death--and at a time when race relations...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Eric EtheridgeBreach of Peace is a photo-history told in images old and new. The book includes the mug shots of all 329 Fre...

Contributor(s): Author: Sebastiaan FaberThe ability to forget the violent twentieth-century past was long seen as a virtue in Spain, even a duty. B...

Reducere. In 1942 Norwegian Odd Nansen was arrested by the Nazis, and he spent the remainder of World War II in concentration camps--Grini in Oslo, Veidal ab...

In the politically volatile period from the 1960s through the end of the twentieth century, Latin American authors were in direct dialogue with the...

The 400th anniversaries of Don Quixote in 2005 and 2015 sparked worldwide celebrations that brought to the fore its ongoing cultural and ideologica...

Peru is classified as one of the deadliest countries in the world for environmental defenders, where activists face many forms of violence. Through...

Tells the story of what happened in Okoboji, a small Iowan tourist town, when a collective turn from the coronavirus to the economy occurred in the...

Reducere. New York Times Best Seller2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition2015 Lillian Smith Book Award2015 AAUP Books Committee "Outstanding" Title Based ...

Reducere. New York Times Best Seller2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition2015 Lillian Smith Book Award2015 AAUP Books Committee "Outstanding" Title This f...

DescriptionIn 1997, when the author began research in Peru, she observed a profound disconnect between the birth care desires of health personnel a...

New Jersey's legal system was plagued with injustices from the time the system was established through the mid-twentieth century. In Battleground N...

In its exploration of puppetry and animation as the performative media of choice for mastering the art of illusion, To Embody the Marvelous engages...

In its exploration of puppetry and animation as the performative media of choice for mastering the art of illusion, To Embody the Marvelous engages...

Reducere. This 200-mile line through Pennsylvania's most challenging mountain terrain was intended to form the heart of a new trunk line from the East Coast ...