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A Brief Overview of Gemstones in Ancient Civilizations
Publisher: Masaryk University Press
Author: Ivan Mrázek
Discipline: Art & Art History

Description:
Gemstones are masterpieces of nature, and their mysterious sparkle has fascinated man from time immemorial. The representative publication conveys the history of precious stones, as well as history as such. Gemstones reveal to us the life and problems of ancient civilizations. The compelling text and extensive visual material draw readers directly into the long gone times which they discover step by step thanks to the systematic documentation of archaeological finds – artefacts made of precious stones. The book is unique in its scope; it presents a summary of the existing knowledge about the subject. It will be of use to experts on various ancient civilizations and those interested in mineralogy and archaeology, but it will also certainly impress any lover of beauty, history and precious stones.

A Hundred Views of Antarctica
Publisher: Masaryk University Press
Authors: Miloš Barták and a team of authors
Discipline: Environmental Science

Description:
This book contains one hundred questions and answers about Antarctica. In several sections, the authors, who are involved in Antarctic research, present the continent, the history of its discovery and its geology, as well as climatological issues and the effects of global warming on Antarctica.

Affective bordering: Race, deservingness and the emotional politics of migration control
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Author: Billy Holzberg
Discipline: Sociology

Description:
This book is an incisive exploration of the emotional politics of migration and borders. It dives into the intricate interplay between emotions and migration governance, revealing how affect works to reinforce and challenge racial, sexual, and national hierarchies in today’s world.

American Christianity Today: Establishment, Decline, and Revival
Publisher: ACU Press
Author: Dyron Daughrity
Discipline: Religion

Description:
One of the enduring questions about the United States is its relationship with the Christian religion. American Christianity Today offers a wide-ranging survey of the shape of Christianity in the US, answering questions about its apparent decline, history of revivals, and continuing influence in the present day.

An Unlikely Survival: The Politics of Welfare in Australia since 1950
Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing
Author: John Murphy
Discipline: Public Policy & Administration

Description:
This book is about Australian social welfare policy development since 1950. The book considers “welfare” in relatively expansive terms, including social security (income support pensions and benefits), as well as health insurance policy, and retirement savings as superannuation.

Appalachian Mountain Christianity: The Spirituality of Otherness
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Author: Bill J. Leonard
Discipline: Religion

Description:
Appalachian Mountain Christianity: The Spirituality of Otherness examines the beliefs and practices of certain Protestant religious groups, primarily Baptists and Holiness Pentecostals, whose history is shaped in and by the Central Appalachian context. Particular attention is given to Primitive and Old Regular Baptists as well as certain denominationally connected or independent Pentecostal communions.

Available Light: Omar Badsha and the Struggle for Change in South Africa
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Author: Daniel Magaziner
Discipline: African Studies

Description:
Available Light uses the life of photographer Omar Badsha as a lens to illuminate the social history of antiapartheid activism in South Africa’s cities.

Black Revolutionaries: A History of the Black Panther Party
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Author: Joe Street
Discipline: Political Science

Description:
Black Revolutionaries is an accessible yet rigorously argued history of the Black Panther Party, one of the emblematic organizations of the 1960s. It highlights the complexity of the BPP’s history through three key themes: the BPP’s intellectual history, its political and social activism, and the persecution its members endured.

Black Speculative Feminisms: Memory and Liberated Futures in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Author: Cassandra Jones
Author Affiliation: University of Cincinnati
Discipline: Feminist & Women’s Studies

Description:
How do black women writing speculative fiction explore the use of memory as a potential strategy for liberation? Cassandra L. Jones charts the moments in Black women’s science fiction and fantasy where characters harness, or fail to harness, the power of memory, transforming memory from passive recollection to direct or indirect social justice action.

British Bangladeshi Muslims in the East End: The changing landscape of dress and language
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Author: Fatima Rajina
Discipline: Sociology

Description:
This book delves into an in-depth discussion around dress and languages and how they have shaped the changes in the British Bangladeshi Muslim community in the East End of London.

Bubba Ephraim: Texas Basketball Trailblazer
Publisher: ACU Press
Author: Garner Roberts
Discipline: History

Description:
Until now, this story of a basketball pioneer has been largely untold. Though another athlete who played in the NFL is often credited for being the first Texas Black basketball player, Bubba Ephriam broke the color barrier in his sport in March 1957. He led the Pecos High School Eagles to their first outright district title and the UIL state basketball tournament. Bubba grew up in a migrant farm family during pivotal years of segregation and integration. Follow this inspirational story as Bubba plays the game he loves through a turbulent period before pursuing a distinguished career in the US Armed Forces.

Caracoleando Among Worlds: Reconstructing Maya Worldviews in Chiapas
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Author: Silvia Soto
Discipline: Latin American Studies

Description:
This book focuses on the analysis of the contemporary literary movement of Maya writers of Chiapas. At the heart of this examination is a journey into the trajectory of this literary movement and its connection to the Zapatista Army of National Liberation or EZLN insurgency.

China Pop!: Pop Culture, Propaganda, Pacific Pop-Up
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Author: Sheng-mei Ma
Author Affiliation: Michigan State University
Discipline: Film Studies

Description:
China Pop! Pop Culture, Propaganda, Pacific Pop-Ups analyzes millennial Chinese pop culture, particularly TV dramas, films, and web novels–content that appears online or on air almost in real time for over one billion Sinophone consumers in China and in the diaspora. This content acts as propaganda, sending explicit or subliminal messages to viewers worldwide.

Corruption, Class, and Politics in Ghana
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Author: Ernest Harsch
Discipline: Political Science

Description:
Using Ghana as a case study, this book challenges the international discourse on corruption and demonstrates that contemporary opposition to it dates as far back as the precolonial era. That perspective counters negative stereotypes of African societies as complacently corrupt and shows that African actors–including ordinary citizens–have long been engaged in anti corruption struggles.

Embodying Biodiversity: Sensory Conservation as Refuge and Sovereignty
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Author: Terese Gagnon
Discipline: Anthropology

Description:
This interdisciplinary volume argues for the importance of everyday sensuous conservation and its ability to grow diverse, livable worlds where human embodiment is understood as part of–not separate from–plant life. Contributors argue that the majority of biodiversity conservation worldwide is carried out not by large-scale conservation projects but by ordinary people engaging in sensory-motivated, caretaking relationships with specific plants.

Facing the Victorious Turks: How the French Misread the Turkish War of Independence
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Author: Andrew Orr
Discipline: History

Description:
Orr argues that French military, intelligence, and diplomatic officials’ Orientalism and racism led them to misunderstand the Turkish War of Independence by placing Europeans at the center of their analysis of the Middle East.

Faith in Education at the Skidaway Island Benedictine Mission
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Author: Laura Seifert
Discipline: Religion

Description:
Having survived the turmoil of Reconstruction, several hundred African American tenant farmers were settled on Skidaway Island, Georgia, leading a fairly quiet existence. In 1877, Benedictine monks intruded into this relatively safe, if desperately poor, haven and built a Catholic mission and boys’ boarding school.

Foreign Policy Rhetorics in a Global Era: Concepts and Case Studies
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Editors: Sara McKinnon and Allison Prasch
Author Affiliation: University of Wisconsin
Discipline: Communication Studies

Description:
Within the field of rhetorical studies, scholars rarely have addressed foreign policy as a discrete body of discourse. In many instances, the analysis of how foreign policy is conducted, articulated, and enacted is treated as either tangential to another line of inquiry or as a small part of a larger body of work.

Freedom’s Mirage: Virgil Bennehan’s Odyssey from Emancipation to Exile
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Author: Sydney Nathans
Author Affiliation: Duke University
Discipline: African American Studies

Description:
Born in 1808 in Piedmont North Carolina, Virgil Bennehan rose to the position of enslaved doctor on one of the South’s largest plantations and viewed himself a friend to Blacks and whites alike. Emancipated in 1848, he was sent to Liberia.

Haudenosaunee Women Lacrosse Players: Making Meaning through Rematriation
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Author: Sharity L. Bassett
Author Affiliation: University of Wisconsin
Discipline: American Indian Studies

Description:
Since the 1970s lacrosse has become one of the fastest-growing sports in North America, and Haudenosaunee communities have worked at the international level to claim lacrosse as an important part of Haudenosaunee culture and tradition. Lacrosse is also known as the medicine game as it is part of a medicine ceremony named in creation narratives and the Great Law of Peace that binds the six nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Six Nations.

Health Extension: Cooperative Extension’s Role in Community-Based Healthcare
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Editors: Cheryl Eschbach, Elizabeth Weybright, Jeffrey Dwyer
Author Affiliation: Michigan State University; Washington State University
Discipline: Public Policy & Administration

Description:
This multi-author collection builds on Michigan State University’s and MSU Extension’s leadership in developing concepts, programming, and scholarship that now define Health Extension as a movement. The editors define the term Health Extension as health-focused education, programming, interventions, and research in which Cooperative Extension is an authentic partner leveraging history, infrastructure, and relationships to enhance community-based healthcare and outcomes (i.e., person-centered care provided in the home or community). Three sections focus on foundations, health equity, and current and future impacts that highlight both contemporary successes and future potential.

Heritage in the Body: Sensory Ecologies of Health Practice in Times of Change
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Author: Kristina Baines
Discipline: Anthropology

Description:
Through storytelling, ethnography, and interviews, this volume examines how Indigenous Maya and Garifuna Belizeans–both in Belize and in the USA–navigate macro-level processes such as economic development, climate change, political shifts, and global health crises in the context of changes in their own lives. Employing an embodied ecological heritage (EEH) framework, this work explores the links between health and heritage.

Inscribing Sovereignties: Writing Community in Native North America
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Author: Phillip H. Round
Author Affiliation: University of Iowa
Discipline: American Indian Studies

Description:
Before European contact, more than 300 separate languages were being spoken in North America among the continent’s Indigenous people. But the emphasis among Euro-American settlers and their descendants on alphabetic literary has historically hidden the power and influence of Indigenous language diversity on both verbal and nonverbal encounters between Indigenous North Americans and settlers.

John Ford’s America
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Author: Jeffrey Richards
Discipline: Film Studies

Description:
This volume explores John Ford’s preoccupations throughout his long career, showing how he attempted to come to terms with American history, with how America kept changing its relationship with history and how many of the myths of the West’ were just that – myths.

Khitan and Mongol Imperial Women in the Chinese Imagination: Ming Fantasies About Conquest Dynasty Harems
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Author: Olivia Milburn
Author Affiliation: University of Hong Kong
Discipline: Language & Literature

Description:
Khitan and Mongol Imperial Women in the Chinese Imagination is a study and translation of two classic Chinese texts about the lives of Khitan and Mongol empresses and imperial consorts, never before translated into English. In 1075, Empress Xuanyi of the Liao dynasty was accused of adultery and forced to commit suicide. An Account of Burned Pepper (Fenjiao lu) purports to be an eyewitness account penned by a Liao government official of the conspiracy against the lovely and talented empress, who became tragically embroiled in a vicious court intrigue. Meanwhile, Yuan Dynasty Records of the Lateral Courts (Yuanshi yeting ji) claims to tell the true story of life in the imperial harem in the final years of Emperor Shun (r. 1333-1368), as he ceased participating in the government of the country, preferring instead to spend his time enjoying louche pleasures in the luxurious surroundings of his Beijing palace. Both these highly influential accounts have shaped understandings of the role of women in conquest dynasty courts for centuries, yet both can be shown to be forgeries, dating to the late Ming dynasty.

Making Mexican Rock: Censorship, Journalism, and Popular Music after Avndaro
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Author: Andrew Green
Discipline: Music

Description:
The history of Mexican rock is one of censorship. A number of cultural histories recount how rock was repressed, censored, and marginalized by Mexico’s single-party regime in the twentieth century, often focusing on the authoritarian crackdown that followed a mediatized moral panic after the Avndaro Festival of 1971.

Maya Blue: Unlocking the Mysteries of an Ancient Pigment
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Author: Dean E. Arnold
Author Affiliation: Field Museum of Natural History; Wheaton College
Discipline: Archaeology

Description:
Maya Blue centers on the eponymous pigment used by the ancient Maya from the Late Preclassic period through the Prehispanic period. One of the world’s most unusual pigments, it combines the organic dye indigo and the inorganic clay mineral palygorskite in a highly stable chemical hybrid that, unlike indigo, endures without fading even after hundreds of years.

Minoan Wall Painting of Pseira, Crete: A Goddess Worshipped in the Shrine
Publisher: INSTAP Academic Press
Author: Bernice R. Jones
Discipline: Art & Art History

Description:
Evidence is presented for restoring the fragmentary wall painting from the Minoan shrine on the islet of Pseira located just off the northeastern coast of Crete. A large-scale goddess faces a smaller suppliant in a presentation scene on an incurved altar platform.

Money Isn’t Everything: Buying and Selling Sex in Twentieth-Century Argentina
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Authors: Patricio Simonetto and Sarah Booker
Author Affiliation: University of Leeds
Discipline: Latin American Studies

Description:
Patricio Simonetto here draws on thousands of judicial papers, prison archives, secret police reports, labor documents, and media dealing with sex work and its regulation to focus on the stories of twentieth-century Argentines who offered, exploited, or consumed sex. In doing so, he reveals a relationship between the sex trade and government policy, including policy on immigration. In the late 1920s, state officials were generally welcoming of immigration. But in this era, they linked aliens, especially Arabs, Jews, and Eastern Europeans, to sex work, contending that these newcomers threatened to contaminate the health of a modernizing nation.

More Than Blue, More Than Yankee: Complexity and Change in New England Politics
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Editors: Amy Fried and Erin O’Brien
Discipline: Political Science

Description:
New England politics can, at first blush, appear monochromatic. After all, only one member of the entire region’s delegation to the US Congress is a Republican, and citizens have elected few Republicans to the US House or Senate in the last decade. But this has not always been the case. In 1948, only two states in the region–Rhode Island and Connecticut–had Democratic senators. Yet a closer examination of the region today reveals fascinating political variation. Liberal policies, greater diversity, and engaged political movements are reshaping stereotypical Yankee tendencies of close-fisted government, whiteness, and laconic discourse.

New Destinations of Empire: Mobilities, Racial Geographies, and Citizenship in the Transpacific United States
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Author: Emily Mitchell-Eaton
Discipline: Population Studies

Description:
In 1986, the Compact of Free Association marked the formal end of U.S. colonialism in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, while simultaneously re-entrenching imperial power dynamics between the two countries.

Phonographic Modernity: The Gramophone Industry and Music Genres in East and Southeast Asia
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Editors: Fumitaka Yamauchi & Ying-Fen Wang
Author Affiliation: National Taiwan University
Discipline: Music

Description:
This project explores East and Southeast Asia as vibrant sites in the global history of phonographic technologies and industries. Moving beyond narratives that characterize this sonic dimension of global modernity essentially as a Western event, with East and Southeast Asia as objects of Western recording companies and experts, this project documents the importance of local and colonized peoples as cultural agents: industry figures, cultural intermediaries, and musical performers.

Pitfalls of Prestige: Black Women and Literary Recognition
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Author: Laura Elizabeth Vrana
Author Affiliation: University of South Alabama
Discipline: Language & Literature

Description:
Writing Transgressions investigates how and why institutions recognize Black poets. To fully understand the aesthetics and circulation of contemporary Black women’s verse, Laura Elizabeth Vrana digs beneath the surface to expose the scholarly and institutional mechanisms and discourse that subtly perpetuate disrespectful approaches to even lauded poets.

Plagues of the heart: Crisis and covenanting in a seventeenth-century Scottish town
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Author: Michelle D. Brock
Discipline: History

Description:
Using a wide range of archival material, Plagues of the heart provides a fresh understanding of religion and identity not only in seventeenth-century Scotland, but in protestant communities across the early modern world grappling with a range of interrelated crises.

Postconflict Utopias: Everyday Survival in Choco, Colombia
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Author: Tania Lizarazo
Discipline: Feminist & Women’s Studies
Author Affiliations: University of Maryland

Description:
Makes visible the peace-building potential of activist impulses that make life possible in marginalized spaces, particularly for Black women in the Colombian Pacific.

Predicaments of Knowledge: Decolonisation and Deracialisation in Universities
Publisher: Wits University Press
Author: Suren Pillay
Discipline: Education

Description:
Reflections on race, language, colonial, postcolonial and decolonial knowledge projects that explore the pitfalls and possibilities that face South African universities and a post-apartheid generation inventing the future of knowledge.

Q Policing: LGBTQ+ Experiences, Perspectives, and Passions
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Editors: Roddrick Colvin, Angela Dwyer, and Sulaimon Giwa
Discipline: Criminology & Criminal Justice

Description:
This edited volume seeks to expand the conversation and include themes and voices typically not heard in the context of policing. Specifically, we approach these themes from an intersectional perspective.

Radical Solidarity: Ruth Reynolds, Political Allyship, and the Battle for Puerto Rican Independence
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Author: Lisa G. Materson
Author Affiliation: University of California
Discipline: Latin American Studies

Description:
The movement for Puerto Rico’s independence was one of the most determined liberation struggles for national sovereignty in the twentieth century and mobilized supporters across the Americas and throughout the world. Without minimizing the efforts, perseverance, and risks of Puerto Rican nationalists, Lisa G.

Resistance through Higher Education: Myanmar Universities’ Struggle against Authoritarianism
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Author: Licia Proserpio
Discipline: International Relations

Description:
This book argues that Myanmar’s resistance is deeply rooted in its university spaces. Drawing on the experiences of key actors – rectors, professors, students and activists – the book offers a compelling narrative about the life of the country following the latest coup d’état, an event that continues to puzzle the international community.

Resisting Olympic evictions: Contesting space in Rio de Janeiro
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Author: Adam Talbot
Discipline: Sociology

Description:
By tracing the way evictions in a small community of around 600 families made news headlines all over the world, this book explores how activists in Rio protested against evictions at the Rio 2016 Olympics. They constructed the favela as safe, welcoming and homely, directly contesting the myth of marginality – the notion of favelas as havens of crime and poverty which is used to justify slum clearance.

Romanticizing Masculinity in Baathist Syria: Gender, Identity and Ideology
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Authors: Rahaf Aldoughli
Discipline: International Relations

Description:
This book documents the influence of European Romantic nationalism in shaping the vision and practices of the Baathist regime in Syria, with particular attention to the impact of new concepts of gender in public life, the role of these constructs in perpetuating conflict and inequality, and current civic challenges to the Romantic Baathist ideal.

School, ideas and values in the age of tl;dr
Publisher: Masaryk University Press
Author: Zdenk Jeek
Discipline: Education

Description:
In the world that offers us an abundance of information, opinions or attitudes, what can be trusted to? Does the school education provide any sufficient tools to find a way in this flood of information? Is it possible to use common sense to fight with misinformation? Furthermore, are not the metaphors of a flood and a fight only linguistic devices shifting the meaning of the entire subject matter from rationality to emotionality? The society of the 21st century has to cope with many pitfalls. One of them is the oversaturation with information, in which a nonexpert has no chance to find a correct one – but at the same time, everyone faces not only to the possibility, but rather to the obligation to opt an opinion.

Securing the Prize: Presidential Metaphor and US Intervention in the Persian Gulf
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Author: Randall Fowler
Author Affiliation: Abilene Christian University
Discipline: Communication Studies

Description:
How presidential metaphors shaped US discourse on the Persian Gulf, from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush.

Social Inequality and Difference in the Ancient Greek World: Bioarchaeological Perspectives
Publisher: University of Florida Press
Author: Anna Lagia and Sofia Voutsaki
Author Affiliation: University of Freiburg; University of Groningen
Discipline: Archaeology

Description:
Moving beyond elitism and the idealization in the ancient Greek world, this collection focuses on health-related disparities and difference through the lens of bioarchaeology.

Specters, Monsters, and the Damned: Fantastic Threats to the Social Order in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Fiction
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Author: Wan Sonya Tang
Discipline: Latin American Studies

Description:
Specters, Monsters, and the Damned examines a rich selection of Spanish fantastic literature to illustrate how the language of the supernatural expresses the fears of complex societies beset by dizzying change and perceived decline

Staying in the Fight: How War on Terror Veterans in Congress Are Shaping US Defense Policy
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Author: Jeffrey S. Lantis
Discipline: Political Science

Description:
In Staying in the Fight, author Jeffrey S. Lantis shines a spotlight on this cohort of legislators and their unique position in the American government.

Territorial politics in Catalonia and Scotland: Nations in flux
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Author: Paul Anderson
Discipline: Political Science

Description:
This book compares the developments of territorial politics in Catalonia and Scotland since 2010, paying particular attention to the impact of independence referenda, Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic. It examines the experiences of state and substate elites in both cases and argues for further reform to create more accommodative territorial models.

The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Author: Claudia Gastrow
Author Affiliation: North Carolina State University
Discipline: Anthropology

Description:
After centuries of colonial rule, the end of a three-decade civil war in 2002 provided an irresistible opportunity for the Angolan government to reimagine the Luanda cityscape. Awash with petrodollars cultivated through strategic relationships with foreign companies, President Jos Eduardo dos Santos rolled out the National Reconstruction program in the hopes of transforming Angola’s capital into a “modern” metropolis rivaling Dubai and boosting appeal to foreign investors.

The Brontës and the Fairy Tale
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Author: Jessica Campbell
Discipline: Language & Literature

Description:
This is the first comprehensive study devoted to the role of fairy tales and folklore in the work of the Brontë family of writers: Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and Branwell. It engages with and extends the contemporary critical discourse on genre, literary realism, the history of the fairy tale, national identity, and the position of women in the Victorian period.

The Hidden Cost of Freedom: The Untold Story of the CIA’s Secret Funding System, 1941-1962
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Author: Brad L.Fisher
Discipline: History

Description:
Investigates the key role of the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 in the transformation of the CIA’s financial administration into a global enterprise for financing CIA’s foreign intelligence activities.

The Monumental Andes: Geology, Geography, and Ancient Cultures in the Peruvian Andes
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Author: Roseanne Chambers
Discipline: Geology

Description:
Geologist Roseanne Chambers takes us on a sprawling journey through the Andes, tying her expertise in the dynamic processes that have formed (and continue to form) those mountains to the full history of human occupation that has taken place there.

The Texture of Change: Dress, Self Fashioning, and History in Western Africa, 1700-1850
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Author: Jody Benjamin
Discipline: African Studies

Description:
This book looks at how a range of West Africans interacted with the regional and global trade in textiles from 1700 to 1850, how their choices as consumers and agents shaped a global textile trade that was critical to the emergence of capitalist and colonial economies, and what their dress tells us about how their societies changed over time.

These Vivid American Documents: Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and FSA Photobooks
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Author: Joseph R. Millichap
Discipline: Language & Literature

Description:
This book is an analysis of a unique genre of books created by the Farm Security Administration when it paired up a well-known writer with a photographer and set them loose on interpreting some feature of contemporary American culture. Doubtless the most famous of these is James Agee and Walker Evans’s Now Let Us Praise Famous Men, but there were a half-dozen others that are deserving of attention. The book goes into some detail about how the FSA came to commission these, what the daily working conditions of the projects were like, then provides close analysis of the meaning of the texts/photos. It is accompanied by 32 images by Evans, Dorothea Lange, and other photographers who achieved fame documenting the Great Depression.

Unfracked:The Struggle to Ban Fracking in New York
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Author: Richard Buttny
Discipline: Environmental Studies

Description:
Since fracking emerged as a way of extracting natural gas, through intense deep drilling and the use of millions of gallons of water and chemicals to fracture shale, it has been controversial. It is perceived in different ways by different people—by some as an opportunity for increased resources and possibly jobs and other income; by others as a public health and environmental threat; and for many, an unknown. Richard Buttny, a scholar who works on rhetoric and discursive practices, read a story in his local paper in New York about hydrofracking coming to his area and had to research what it was, and what it could mean for his community. Soon he joined.

Unsettling Thoreau: Native Americans, Colonialism, and the Power of Place
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Author: John J Kucich
Discipline: Language & Literature

Description:
Henry David Thoreau’s interest in Native Americans is widely known and a recurring topic of scholarly attention, yet it is also a source of debate. This is a figure who both had a deep interest in Native American history and culture and was seen by many of his contemporaries, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne, as “more like an Indian” than his white neighbors.

Undermining resistance: The governance of participation by multinational mining corporations
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Author: Lian Sinclair
Discipline: Political Science

Description:
Why do multinational mining corporations use participation to undermine resistance? Do the struggles of communities, activists and NGOs matter on a global scale? This book provides a new critical political economy of extractive accumulation to explain how participation crises and governance are related through local, national and global resistance.

Ujamaa’s Army: The Creation and Evolution of the Tanzania People’s Defence Force, 1964-1979
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Author: Charles G. Thomas
Discipline: African Studies

Description:
This first scholarly study of the Tanzania People’s Defence Force is a critical text in the story of Cold War international support for African liberation movements and armed liberation fronts. The military reflected the national project of a newly independent Tanzania and became a stable and effective force in supporting liberation struggles across southern Africa.

Vehicle Type-approval and Emission Regulation in the EU: Environmental Perspective
Publisher: Masaryk University Press
Author: Jiří Vodička
Discipline: Law

Description:
The publication focuses on the EU type approval framework, critically analysing Regulation 2018/858 on vehicle type approval and its implications for preventing another Dieselgate scandal. It looks at the specifics of vehicle emissions testing, in particular Regulation 715/2007 (Euro 5 and 6), which sets limits for pollutants, defines emissions testing requirements and introduces new Euro 7 emissions standards.

Villages and Market Towns in Hong Kong: Settlement and History
Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Author: Patrick H. Hase
Author Affiliation: Lingnan University
Discipline: Anthropology

Description:
Ever since he came to Hong Kong some 50 years ago, Patrick Hase has researched the local history of Hong Kong, and especially of the New Territories villages and market towns. This history he found to be perpetually fascinating, and an entirely satisfying field of study.

Virus Research in Twentieth-Century Uganda: Between Local and Global
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Author: Julia Ross Cummiskey
Discipline: Health Sciences

Description:
This case study contextualizes calls to decolonize global health within a long history of negotiations between scientists based in Uganda, the United States, and Europe over what research should be done, by whom, and where. The book covers colonial Uganda through the first years of Yoweri Museveni’s presidency.

Warrior Soldier Brigand: Institutional Abuse within the Australian Defence Force
Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing
Author: Ben Wadham and James Connor
Discipline: Military Studies

Description:
Questions of institutional abuse have been at the centre of numerous royal commissions, inquiries and reviews of the clergy, the police and defence forces over the past decade. This scrutiny has highlighted how those organisations foster forms of violence and violation.

Zones of Encuentro: Language and Identities in Northern New Mexico
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Author: Lillian Gorman
Discipline: American Studies
Author Affiliations: University of Arizona

Description:
Working at the intersection of Latino cultural studies and sociocultural linguistics, Lillian Gorman’s Zones of Encuentro: Language and Identities in Northern New Mexico focuses on the everyday lived language experiences of U.S. Latinos in northern New Mexico and engages with how these communities theorize about language and identity in their own lives.