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Herman L. Bennett
Colonial Blackness: A History of Afro-Mexico (Blacks in the Diaspora)
Asking readers to imagine a history of Mexico narrated through the experiences of Africans and their descendants, this book offers a radical reconfiguration of Latin American history. Using ecclesiastical and inquisitorial records, Herman L. Bennett frames the history of Mexico around the private li...
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Gonçalo Santos
Transforming Patriarchy: Chinese Families in the Twenty-First Century
Each successive wave of revolution to hit modern China―political, cultural, and economic―has radically reshaped Chinese society. Whereas patriarchy defined the familial social structure for thousands of years, changing realities in the last hundred years have altered and even reversed long-held ...
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Seanan McGuire
Butterfly Effects (InCryptid, 15)
Seanan McGuire’s New York Times -bestselling and Hugo Award-nominated InCryptid series continues with the fifteenth book following the Price family, cryptozoologists who study and protect the creatures living in secret all around us. Sarah Zellaby is a Johrlac, a member of a species of psychic ...
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Sandra C. Mendiola Garcia
Street Democracy: Vendors, Violence, and Public Space in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico (The Mexican Experience)
No visitor to Mexico can fail to recognize the omnipresence of street vendors, selling products ranging from fruits and vegetables to prepared food and clothes. The vendors compose a large part of the informal economy, which altogether represents at least 30 percent of Mexico’s economically act...
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Ellen Barker
East of Troost: A Novel
Under the guise of a starting-over story, this novel deals with subtle racism today, overt racism in the past, and soul-searching about what to do about it in everyday living. East of Troost ’s fictional narrator has moved back to her childhood home in a neighborhood that is now mostly Black an...
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Dave Taylor
Predators of North America
A season-by-season reference on North America's most thrilling wild animals. In this book, renowned wildlife photographer Dave Taylor presents 300 full-color images of North American predators in their natural habitats. He offers interesting notes on each animal: its behavior, the role it plays in i...
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Genka Rafailova
Development of a Smart Tourism Destination
This monograph presents a summary of theory and good practices, research results, and a model and strategy for the development of a smart tourism destination using the Varna Municipality in Bulgaria as an example. It begins with a theoretical overview and analysis of the characteristics of smart cit...
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Jeana Jorgensen
Folklore 101: An Accessible Introduction to Folklore Studies
When's the last time you got to pick a folklorist's brain? Did you know memes count as folklore? Or that folklorists assign numbers to fairy tales to keep track of them all? The field of folklore studies is over two centuries old, and it's full of amazing insights about human behavior, creativity, ...
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Gustavo Ambrosini
Roofscape Design: Regenerating the City upon the City
As focus shifts to “no net land take” city regeneration approaches one of the main traditional elements of architecture―the roof―is gaining renewed prominence. This book provides a survey of worldwide experiences of city rooftop re-use strategies such as building-on and integrating new volum...
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Tanya Erzen
Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement
Every year, hundreds of gay men and lesbians join ex-gay ministries in an attempt to convert to non-homosexual Christian lives. In this fascinating study of the transnational ex-gay movement, Tanya Erzen focuses on the everyday lives of men and women at New Hope Ministry, a residential ex-gay progra...
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Kimberly L. Nelson
Municipal Corruption
This book represents the most comprehensive exploration of corruption in U.S. municipal governments written to date. Exploring the 30-year time period from 1990 to 2020 and including all U.S. municipalities with populations of 10,000 people or more, Municipal Corruption: From Policies to People us...
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Anna Visvizi
Smart Cities: Issues and Challenges: Mapping Political, Social and Economic Risks and Threats
Smart Cities: Issues and Challenges: Mapping Political, Social and Economic Risks and Threats serves as a primer on smart cities, providing readers with no prior knowledge on smart cities with an understanding of the current smart cities debates. Gathering cutting-edge research and insights from a...
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Steven Leinen
Black Police, White Society
"Extremely informative. . . deserves a wide readership, both inside and outside police departments." — Publishers Weekly "An imaginative and insightful account of the day-to-day life of the black police officer in a large urban environment. A must read for all police officers, white as well as b...
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Yuri Lotman
Culture and Communication: Signs in Flux. An Anthology of Major and Lesser-Known Works (Cultural Syllabus)
Yuri Lotman (1922-1993) was one of the most prominent and influential scholars of the twentieth century working in the Soviet Union. A co-founder of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics, he applied his mind to a wide array of disciplines, from aesthetics to literary and cultural history, narrative t...
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Global Canine Research Alliance
Everything You Need to Know to Raise a Maltese: History, Health, Training, and More (Get to Know Your Dog’s Breed)
Everything You Need to Know to Raise a Maltese History, Health, Training, and More A practical, evidence-based guide to health, grooming, nutrition, training, and responsible care for toy companions. If you love the Maltese’s classic white, silky look—and want a calm, healthy dog who enjoys ...
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Rachel Aaron
Nice Dragons Finish Last (Heartstrikers)
As the smallest dragon in the Heartstriker clan, Julius survives by a simple code: keep quiet, don’t cause trouble, and stay out of the way of bigger dragons. But this meek behavior doesn't fly in a family of ambitious magical predators, and his mother, Bethesda the Heartstriker, has finally reach...
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Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant
Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World
“As sensitive and touching as it is urgent . . . [ Wild Life is] a poignant exploration of the natural world.” – O, The Oprah Magazine “ Wild Life is the bushwacking, honest, and inspiring memoir I wish I'd had as a budding scientist. Dr. Wynn-Grant's richly-told, revelatory journey wil...
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Luis Alvarez
The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II (American Crossroads) (Volume 24)
Flamboyant zoot suit culture, with its ties to fashion, jazz and swing music, jitterbug and Lindy Hop dancing, unique patterns of speech, and even risqué experimentation with gender and sexuality, captivated the country's youth in the 1940s. The Power of the Zoot is the first book to give nationa...
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Joyce Ann Brown
Tailed: A Psycho Cat and the Landlady Mystery (Psycho Cat and the Landlady Mysteries)
Near the end of an almost purr-fect RV vacation to Texas, Beth, the landlady, and her Psycho Cat deal with break-ins, gun theft, and murder. Beth’s brother-in-law becomes a “person of interest.” It’s all enough to make Beth wonder if trouble is tailing them on the way home, too. “Doubtful,...
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Melissa F. Olson
Nightshades: A Paranormal Thriller
First in Melissa F. Olson's gritty urban fantasy series, Nightshades: A Paranormal Thriller is a "fast-paced, action-filled clash between federal agents and vampires" (Christopher Farnsworth, author of The President's Vampire ). Alex McKenna is the new Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago of...
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