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Title Author Year Publication typesort descending
The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are David M Henkin 2022 Book
The Right of Sovereignty: Jean Bodin on the Sovereign State and the Law of Nations Daniel Lee 2021 Book
Love Dances: Loss and Mourning in Intercultural Collaboration SanSan Kwan 2021 Book
Persian Carpets : The Nation as a Transnational Commodity Minoo Moallem 2018 Book
Holocaust Consciousness and Cold War Violence in Latin America Estelle Tarica 2022 Book

Global Raciality: Empire, PostColoniality, DeColoniality

2018

Global Raciality expands our understanding of race, space, and place by exploring forms of racism and anti-racist resistance worldwide. Contributors address neoliberalism; settler colonialism; race, class, and gender intersectionality; immigrant rights;

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Homage to the Black Arts Movement: A Handbook

2018

Homage to the Black Arts Movement: a handbook pays tribute to the father of that historic literary protest movement, Amiri Baraka (1934-2014), through the writing of Judy Juanita, who encountered him and emulated his work and activism when she was a twenty-year-old student at San...Read more about Homage to the Black Arts Movement: A Handbook

Persian Carpets : The Nation as a Transnational Commodity

2018

Persian Carpets: the Nation As a Transnational Commodity tracks the Persian carpet as an exotic and mythological object, as a commodity, and as an image from mid-

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Persian Carpets: Nation as a Transnational Commodity

2018

Persian Carpets: the Nation As a Transnational Commodity tracks the Persian carpet as an exotic and mythological object, as a commodity, and as an image from mid-nineteenth-century England to contemporary Iran and the Iranian diaspora. Following the journey of this single object, the...Read more about Persian Carpets: Nation as a Transnational Commodity

Oil Spell

2018

Oil Spell gathers many of today’s dark energies—US drone strikes, environmental disaster—and asks: what kind of tool is poetry to mirror these violences? Oil Spell animates diverse influences—Dorothy Wordsworth’s journals, environmental reports of extinction and endangerment, and the...Read more about Oil Spell

In Defense of Troublemakers: The Power of Dissent in Life and Business

2018
We’ve decided by consensus that consensus is good. In In Defense of Troublemakers, psychologist Charlan Nemeth argues that this principle is completely wrong: left unchallenged, the majority opinion is often biased, unoriginal, or false. It leads planes and markets to crash, causes
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Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field

2018

Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field makes a formidable intervention into the emerging field of ecopoetics. The volume’s essays model new and provocative methods for reading twentieth and twenty-first century ecological poetry and poetics, drawing on the insights of ecocriticism,...Read more about Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field

The Cloud of Unknowing

2018

This anonymous fourteenth-century text is the glory of English mysticism, and one of the most practical and useful guides to finding union with God ever written. Carmen Acevedo Butcher’s new translation is the first to bring the text into a modern English idiom—while remaining strictly...Read more about The Cloud of Unknowing

Treating Sleep Problems: A Transdiagnostic Approach

2017

This practical manual presents an innovative modular treatment for adults and adolescents with a wide range of

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Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer: Undocumented Vignettes from a Pre-American Life

2017

“The future of America, its openness and understanding that we, as a nation, have always depended has thrived on the energy, ideas and struggle of immigrants like Alberto Ledesma. The promised land can only be envisioned by the newcomer to our shore. Ledesma’s story, its powerful images, is...Read more about Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer: Undocumented Vignettes from a Pre-American Life