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Crónica de un Amor Terrible — Celis
$19.95
By Nadia V. CelisProfessor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies Una fascinante investigación por los lugares, personajes y hechos reales que inspiraron una de las novelas más reconocidas de Gabriel García Márquez: Crónica de una muerte anunciada. Durante una visita al Harry Ransom Center, donde r...
La rebelión de las niñas — Celis
$32.50
By Nadia V. CelisProfessor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies A study of the representation of girlhood in the work of Hispanic Caribbean women writers, The Rebellion is also a critique of the multifaceted relation of power and gendered bodies in Caribbean cultures. Combining feminist theory wi...
Lección Errante — Celis
Lección Errante — Celis
$26.00
By Nadia V. CelisProfessor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies Lección errante: Mayra Santos Febres y el Caribe contemporáneo is the first book of critical essays on Mayra Santos-Febres, one of the Caribbean’s most versatile writers, and arguably the first Latin American Afra-Hispanic literary c...
Muerte de Utopía — Wolfenzon Niego
$35.00
By Carolyn Wolfenzon NiegoAssociate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Muerte de Utopía: historia, antihistoria e insularidad en la novela latinoamericana, analyzes the representation of the colonial period (16th-18th centuries) and its literal and metaphorical islands in seven contemporary Latin American novels. The central hypothe...
I, Grape — Clarke
I, Grape — Clarke
$17.00
By Brock Clarke Professor of English In fifteen sharply engaging essays, acclaimed novelist and short story writer Brock Clarke examines the art (and artifice) of fiction from unpredictable, entertaining, and often personal angles, positing through a slant scrutiny of place, voice, and syntax what fiction can—and can’t—do. (“Very: is there a wea...
Buddhism in the Krishna River Valley of Andhra — Padma
$65.00
Edited by Sree Padma, Research Associate in Asian Studiesand A.W. Barber Offering perspectives from a distinguished group of international scholars, this book provides a multidisciplinary inquiry into the various forms of Buddhism that thrived during the early centuries of the common era in the Krishna River Valley areas of what is now the moder...
Shen Gua’s Empiricism — Zuo
Shen Gua’s Empiricism — Zuo
$49.95
By Ya Zuo, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies Shen Gua (1031–1095) is a household name in China, known as a distinguished renaissance man and the author of Brush Talks from Dream Brook, an old text whose remarkable “scientific” discoveries make it appear curiously ahead of its time. In this first book-length study of Shen in Engli...
Nature Behind Barbed Wire — Chiang
$37.99
By Connie Chiang, Director of Environmental Studies Program and Professor of History and Environmental Studies The mass imprisonment of over 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II was one of the most egregious violations of civil liberties in United States history. Removed from their homes on the temperate Pacific Coast, Japanes...
Shaping the Shoreline — Chiang
$25.00
By Connie Chiang, Director of Environmental Studies Program and Professor of History and Environmental Studies The Monterey coast, home to an acclaimed aquarium and the setting for John Steinbeck's classic novel Cannery Row, was also the stage for a historical junction of industry and tourism. Shaping the Shoreline looks at the ways in which Mo...
The Physical Comedy Handbook — Robinson
$19.95
By Davis Robinson, Professor of Theater Although there are numerous books that examine physical comedy from a historic or aesthetic perspective, few provide guidance in how to do it. So where can actors and teachers go for instruction? To The Physical Comedy Handbook. The Physical Comedy Handbook is a one-of-a-kind resource for actors, teachers...
Apartheid in South Africa — Gordon
$24.15
By David Gordon, Professor of History This volume introduces undergraduates to a collection of primary documents on apartheid in South Africa, one of the best known and frequently cited systems of institutionalized and legalized racial and ethnic segregation. David Gordon’s introduction provides context essential to understanding the emergence, ...
Demography in the Age of the Postmodern — Riley
$20.00
By Nancy Riley, A. Myrick Freeman Professor of Social Sciencesand James McCarthy Nancy Riley and James McCarthy examine demography in this study from the new perspective of postmodernism, and survey its development as a field. Demography as a social science has struggled to maintain its political and academic strength. Riley and McCarthy accordi...
Forging the Ideal Educated Girl - Khoja-Moolji
$34.95
By Shenila Khoja-Moolji, Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies In Forging the Ideal Educated Girl, Shenila Khoja-Moolji traces the figure of the ‘educated girl’ to examine the evolving politics of educational reform and development campaigns in colonial India and Pakistan. She challenges the prevailing common sense associ...
Time Use of Mothers — Connelly
$18.00
By Rachel Connelly, Bion R. Cram Professor of Economicsand Jean Kimmell This book focuses on the time use of mothers of preteenaged children in the United States from 2003 to 2006. We explore how mothers at the start of the twenty-first century are using their time in order to better understand their lives, the lives of their partners, and the l...
Gendered Bodies — Cui
Gendered Bodies — Cui
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By Shuqin Cui, Bowdoin Professor of Asian Studies and Cinema Studies This book introduces readers to women's visual art in contemporary China by examining how the visual process of gendering reshapes understandings of historiography, sexuality, pain, and space. When artists take the body as the subject of female experience and the medium of aest...
Sutton E. Griggs — Chakkalakal
$29.95
Edited by Tess Chakkalakal, Peter M. Small Associate Professor of Africana Studies and English, Director of Africana Studies Program, and Kenneth W. Warren Imperium in Imperio (1899) was the first black novel to countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence against Jim Crow segregation. Its author, a Baptist minister and newspap...
The Labor of Faith — Casselberry
$24.95
By Judith Casselberry, Associate Professor of Africana Studies In The Labor of Faith Judith Casselberry examines the material and spiritual labor of the women of the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Inc., which is based in Harlem and one of the oldest and largest historically Black Pentecostal denominations in the United S...
The Democratization of Invention — Khan
$35.99
By Zorina KhanProfessor of Economics An examination of the evolution and impact of American intellectual property rights during the 'long nineteenth century,' this book compares the American system to developments in the more oligarchic societies of France and Britain. The United States created the first modern patent system and its policies wer...
Take Me To the River
Take Me To the River
$60.00
By Michael KolsterProfessor of Art In Take Me to the River, Michael Kolster explores four American rivers that flow into the Atlantic Ocean—the Androscoggin, Schuylkill, James, and Savannah—as they emerge from two centuries of industrial use and neglect. Even as these well-known rivers still carry the legacies of longstanding pollution in their ...
L.A. River — Kolster
L.A. River — Kolster
$40.00
By Michael KolsterProfessor of Art Three centuries ago, the Los Angeles River meandered through marshes and forests of willow and sycamore. Trout spawned in its waters, and grizzly bears roamed its shores in search of food. The river and its adjacent woodlands helped support one of the largest concentrations of indigenous peoples in North Americ...
The Fact of a Body — Marzano-Lesnevich
$17.99
By Alex Marzano-Lesnevich Assistant Professor of English Before Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job at a law firm in Louisiana, working to help defend men accused of murder, she thinks her position is clear. The child of two lawyers, she is staunchly anti-death penalty. But the moment convicted murderer Ricky Langley’s face flashes ...
The Passion of Perfection — Vail
$18.95
By June VailProfessor of Dance Emerita The edelweiss pin at Gertrude’s throat signifies her Swiss-American heritage and her autonomy as a woman activist. Gertrude’s “life’s work” is perfecting humankind, morally and socially. Confronting Gilded Age double standards, she advocates for sex education, marriage equality and “voluntary motherhood.” A...
Until There Is Justice — Scanlon
$34.95
By Jennifer ScanlonProfessor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies; Senior Vice President and Dean for Academic Affairs A demanding feminist, devout Christian, and savvy grassroots civil rights organizer, Anna Arnold Hedgeman played a key role in over half a century of social justice initiatives. Like many of her colleagues, including A. Phi...
Berlin Coquette — Smith
Berlin Coquette — Smith
$27.95
By Jill Suzanne SmithAssociate Professor of German During the late nineteenth century the city of Berlin developed such a reputation for lawlessness and sexual licentiousness that it came to be known as the “Whore of Babylon.” Out of this reputation for debauchery grew an unusually rich discourse around prostitution. In Berlin Coquette, Jill Suz...