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  The Days of Afrekete: A Novel

  Asali Solomon

  Liselle Belmont is having a dinner party. It seems a strange occasion—her husband, Winn, has lost his bid for the state legislature—but what better way to thank key supporters than a feast? Liselle was never sure about her husband becoming a politician, never sure about the limelight, never sure about ... Read More

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  Woody Guthrie: An Intimate Life

  Gustavus Stadler

  Woody Guthrie is often mythologized as the classic American “rambling’ man,” a real-life Steinbeckian folk hero who fought for working-class interests and inspired Bob Dylan. Biographers and fans frame him as a foe of fascism and focus on his politically charged folk songs. What’s left unexamined is how the bulk ... Read More

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  Semi Queer: Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers

  Anne Balay

  Long-haul trucking is linked to almost every industry in America, yet somehow the working-class drivers behind big rigs remain largely hidden from public view. Gritty, inspiring, and often devastating oral histories of gay, transsexual, and minority truck drivers allow award-winning author Anne Balay to shed new light on the harsh ... Read More

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  Muertes Imaginarias

  Roberto Castillo-Sandoval

  Muertes imaginarias es un híbrido que pide una lectura activa que vaya calibrando el estándar de verdad o verosimilitud de los textos y determinando el modo de lectura, o sea el género, más aplicable. Es remix, mashup, versioneo. Marcel Schwob y Stephen Pressfield se pasean por el bosque de referencias ... Read More

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  MOVE: An American Religion

  Richard Kent Evans

  This book is a religious history of MOVE, a small, mostly African American religious group devoted to the religious teachings of John Africa that emerged in Philadelphia in the early 1970s. MOVE is perhaps best known for the MOVE Bombing. In 1985, the Philadelphia Police Department—working in concert with federal ... Read More

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  Making Kantha, Making Home: Women at Work in Colonial Bengal

  Pika Ghosh

  In Bengal, mothers swaddle their infants and cover their beds in colorful textiles that are passed down through generations. They create these kantha from layers of soft, recycled fabric strengthened with running stitches and use them as shawls, covers, and seating mats. Making Kantha, Making Home explores the social worlds ... Read More

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  Ethnographies of Islam in China

  Rachel Harris, Guangtian Ha, and Maria Jaschok

  In the late 1970s Islam regained its force by generating novel forms of piety and forging new paths in politics throughout the world, including China. The Islamic revival in China, which came to fruition in the 2000s and the 2010s, prompted increases in government suppression but also intriguing resonances with ... Read More

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  Introduction to Physics in Modern Medicine (3rd ed.)

  Suzanne Amador Kane and Boris A. Gelman

  From x-rays to lasers to magnetic resonance imaging, developments in basic physics research have been transformed into medical technologies for imaging, surgery and therapy at an ever-accelerating pace. Physics has joined with genetics and molecular biology to define much of what is modern in modern medicine and allied health. Covering ... Read More

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  A Companion to Late Ancient Jews and Judaism: 3rd Century BCE - 7th Century CE

  Gywnn Kessler and Naomi Koltun-Fromm

  A Companion to Late Ancient Jews and Judaism explores the Jewish people, their communities, and various manifestations of their religious and cultural expressions from the third century BCE to the seventh century CE. Presenting a collection of 30 original essays written by noted scholars in the field, this companion provides ... Read More

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  The Greek Orthodox Church in America: A Modern History

  Alexander Kitroeff

  In this sweeping history, Alexander Kitroeff shows how the Greek Orthodox Church in America has functioned as much more than a religious institution, becoming the focal point in the lives of the country's million-plus Greek immigrants and their descendants. Assuming the responsibility of running Greek-language schools and encouraging local parishes ... Read More

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  Drawing on Religion: Reading and the Moral Imagination in Comics and Graphic Novels

  Ken Koltun-Fromm

  Comics traffic in stereotypes, which can translate into real danger, as was the case when, in 2015, two Muslim gunmen opened fire at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, which had published depictions of Islam and Muhammad perceived by many to be blasphemous. As a response to that tragedy, Ken Koltun-Fromm ... Read More

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  Genetic Analysis: Genes, Genomes, and Networks in Eukaryotes (3rd. ed.)

  Philip Meneely

  Genetic Analysis applies the combined power of molecular biology, genetics, and genomics to explore how the principles of genetics can be used as analytical tools to solve biological problems. Opening with a brief overview of key genetic principles, model organisms, and epigenetics, the book goes on to explore the use ... Read More

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  Sugar, Smoke, Song: A Novel

  Reema Rajbanshi

  Sugar, Smoke, Song is a collection of nine linked stories set in the Bronx, California, India, and Brazil. Following the secrets and passions of young women, these stories and their narrators cross genres and rules to arrive at unforeseen lives. A subway rider remembers enacting the gods with her estranged ... Read More

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  Realist Ecstasy: Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature

  Lindsay V. Reckson

  Recovering a series of ecstatic performances in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American realism, Realist Ecstasy travels from camp meetings to Native American ghost dances to storefront church revivals to explore realism’s relationship to spiritual experience. In her approach to realism as both an unruly archive of performance and a ... Read More

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  Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia

  Zainab Saleh

  With the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraqis abroad, hoping to return one day to a better Iraq, became uncertain exiles. Return to Ruin tells the human story of this exile in the context of decades of U.S. imperial interests in Iraq—from the U.S. backing of the 1963 Ba'th coup and ... Read More

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  Experimental Physics: Principles and Practice for the Laboratory

  Walter Fox Smith

  This textbook provides the knowledge and skills needed for thorough understanding of the most important methods and ways of thinking in experimental physics. The reader learns to design, assemble, and debug apparatus, to use it to take meaningful data, and to think carefully about the story told by the data.

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  Entre fuegos, memoria y violencia de Estado: Los textos literarios y testimoniales del movimiento armado en México

  Aurelia Gómez Unamuno

  A partir de los ejes centrales, memoria y violencia, el libro traza un recorrido por los textos literarios y testimoniales publicados por exmilitantes del movimiento armado socialista en México, desde fines de la década de los setenta hasta nuestros días. Pese a la amplia producción escrituraria y prácticas de memoria, ... Read More

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  Queering the Global Filipina Body: Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/o Diaspora

  Gina Velasco

  Contemporary popular culture stereotypes Filipina women as sex workers, domestic laborers, mail order brides, and caregivers. These figures embody the gendered and sexual politics of representing the Philippine nation in the Filipina/o diaspora. Gina K. Velasco explores the tensions within Filipina/o American cultural production between feminist and queer critiques of ... Read More

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  Party Pictures

  William Earle Williams

  Party Pictures is a fascinating record of the time, touching on the history ofphotography, the legacy of Philadelphia and the societal changes of the late 20th C.Williams’ stunning photographs present the intersections of widely divergent communities,bound by their aspirations and foibles.

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  The Archive of Fear: White Crisis and Black Freedom in Douglass, Stowe, and Du Bois

  Christina L. Zwarg

  Not about Haiti but about the haunting power of its revolution, The Archive of Fear explores the traumatic force field that continued to inflect U.S. discussions of slavery and abolition both before and after the Civil War, sometimes with surprising intensity and endurance. Focusing on U.S. slavery and its aftermath ... Read More

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  Steel Closets: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers

  Anne Balay

  Even as substantial legal and social victories are being celebrated within the gay rights movement, much of working-class America still exists outside the current narratives of gay liberation. In Steel Closets, Anne Balay draws on oral history interviews with forty gay, lesbian, and transgender steelworkers, mostly living in northwestern Indiana, ... Read More

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  Trickster Theatre: The Poetics of Freedom in Urban Africa (African Expressive Cultures)

  Jesse Weaver Shipley

  Trickster Theatre traces the changing social significance of national theatre in Ghana from its rise as an idealistic state project from the time of independence to its reinvention in recent electronic, market-oriented genres. Jesse Weaver Shipley presents portraits of many key figures in Ghanaian theatre and examines how Akan trickster ... Read More

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  Living the Hiplife: Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music

  Jesse Weaver Shipley

  Hiplife is a popular music genre in Ghana that mixes hip-hop beatmaking and rap with highlife music, proverbial speech, and Akan storytelling. In the 1990s, young Ghanaian musicians were drawn to hip-hop's dual ethos of black masculine empowerment and capitalist success. They made their underground sound mainstream by infusing carefree ... Read More

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  Creating Spiritual & Psychological Resilience: Integrating Care in Disaster Relief Work

  Grant H. Brenner, Daniel H. Bush, and Joshua Moses

  Creating Spiritual and Psychological Resilience explores the interface between spiritual and psychological care in the context of disaster recovery work, drawing upon recent disasters including but not limited to, the experiences of September 11, 2001. Each of the three sections that make up the book are structured around the cycle ... Read More