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Made in NuYoRico: Fania Records, Latin Music, and Salsa’s Nuyorican Meanings

Made in NuYoRico: Fania Records, Latin Music, and Salsa’s...

Author: Marisol Negrón
ISBN: 9781478026662
Format: Hardback
$290.27

Marisol Negrón tells the cultural history of salsa over a fifty-year period that begins in 1964, showing how salsa...  Read More >>

Settler Militarism: World War II in Hawai'i and the Making of US Empire

Settler Militarism: World War II in Hawai'i and the...

Author: Juliet Nebolon
ISBN: 9781478026778
Format: Hardback
$277.07

Juliet Nebolon reveals the mechanisms through which settler colonialism and militarization simultaneously perpetuated,...  Read More >>

Reproductive Labor and Innovation: Against the Tech Fix in an Era of Hype

Reproductive Labor and Innovation: Against the Tech...

Author: Jennifer Denbow
ISBN: 9781478026785
Format: Hardback
$271.79

Jennifer Denbow examines how the push toward techno-scientific innovation in contemporary American life comes at...  Read More >>

The New Nihilism: The Existential Crisis of Our Time

The New Nihilism: The Existential Crisis of Our Time...

Author: Costantino Esposito
ISBN: 9780268207991
Format: Hardback
$100.32

In this highly engaging book, Costantino Esposito argues that nihilism is not merely the loss of the classic values...  Read More >>

Sites of Statelessness: Laws, Cities, Seas

Sites of Statelessness: Laws, Cities, Seas

Author: Ayşe Çağlar ,  Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury
ISBN: 9781438499895
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Explores various unusual sites of statelessness like sea, cities, and laws, beyond mere legal and regulatory frameworks,...  Read More >>

The Cinema of the Real

The Cinema of the Real

Author: Hyon Joo Yoo
ISBN: 9798855800159
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Alters the landscape of Lacanian film theory by revealing an “emancipatory drive” in transnational cinema.  Read More >>

We Oughta Know: How Celine, Shania, Alanis, and Sarah Ruled the '90s and Changed Music

We Oughta Know: How Celine, Shania, Alanis, and Sarah...

Author: Andrea Warner ,  Vivek Shraya
ISBN: 9781770417748
Format: Paperback
$46.55

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Justice Statistics: An Extended Look at Crime in the United States 2024

Justice Statistics: An Extended Look at Crime in the...

Author: Shana Hertz Hattis
ISBN: 9798892050401
Format: Paperback
$300.96

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Capital Punishment and Roman Catholic Moral Tradition, Second Edition

Capital Punishment and Roman Catholic Moral Tradition,...

Author: E. Christian Brugger
ISBN: 9780268209971
Format: Hardback
$330.00

This book traces the doctrinal path the Church has taken to its present position as the world’s largest and most...  Read More >>

Gunlore: Firearms, Folkways, and Communities

Gunlore: Firearms, Folkways, and Communities

Author: Robert Glenn Howard ,  Eric A Eliason
ISBN: 9798228303911
Format: Audio
$131.97

Guns are a ubiquitous part of life in the United States. Arguably more pervasive than physical guns is ‘gunlore’,...  Read More >>

Gunlore: Firearms, Folkways, and Communities

Gunlore: Firearms, Folkways, and Communities

Author: Robert Glenn Howard ,  Eric A Eliason
ISBN: 9798228303928
Format: Audio
$121.31

Guns are a ubiquitous part of life in the United States. Arguably more pervasive than physical guns is ‘gunlore’,...  Read More >>

Becoming the System: A Raciolinguistic Genealogy of Bilingual Education in the Post-Civil Rights Era

Becoming the System: A Raciolinguistic Genealogy of...

Author: Nelson Flores (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9780197516812
Format: Hardback
$181.95

Bilingual education is usually framed as a tool of antiracism. In Becoming the System, author Nelson Flores challenges...  Read More >>

Beirut

Beirut

Author: Barrack Zailaa Rima ,  Carla Calarg
ISBN: 9781778430480
Format: Paperback
$38.79

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Undocumented Migration as a Theologizing Experience: Religious Stories Korean American Dreamers Tell in the Face of Uncertainty

Undocumented Migration as a Theologizing Experience:...

Author: Eunil David Cho
ISBN: 9789004704046
Format: Paperback
$271.92

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Worlds at the End: Los Angeles, Infrastructure, and the Apocalyptic Imagination

Worlds at the End: Los Angeles, Infrastructure, and...

Author: Pacharee Sudhinaraset
ISBN: 9781439925508
Format: Hardback
$331.32

""This book mobilizes a women of color feminist reading practice to examine the role of Los Angeles's infrastructure...  Read More >>

Eccentric Laughter: Queer Possibilities in Postwar British Film Comedy

Eccentric Laughter: Queer Possibilities in Postwar British...

Author: Benedict Morrison
ISBN: 9798855800036
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Dispels the idea that postwar British comedies were apolitical, arguing instead that they presented subversive,...  Read More >>

Chinese Oracle Bone Script

Chinese Oracle Bone Script

Author: Benxing (本興) Wang (王) ,  Hui 輝 Pang 龐
ISBN: 9798987135341
Format: Hardback
$153.12

甲骨文字是中國古代殷商社會的通用文字,是中國發現最早、最成熟、最成系統的古文字,它源遠流長,延續至今,與當今中國漢字是一種因果關係 。2017 年 10 月,甲骨文被聯合國列入《世界記憶名錄》。甲骨文用文字的形式記錄了遠古時代的天文、地理、歷史、社會、軍事、戰爭、農牧、人事、疾病等文明百科,其中有文字的、有藝術的,以...  Read More >>

The Sogo Shosha: Japan's Multinational Trading Companies

The Sogo Shosha: Japan's Multinational Trading Companies...

Author: Alexander Young
ISBN: 9780367311339
Format: Paperback
$77.99

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The Limits Of Reform In China

The Limits Of Reform In China

Author: Ronald A. Morse ,  Shaun Murphy
ISBN: 9780367309046
Format: Paperback
$77.99

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Privatizing Malaysia: Rents, Rhetoric, Realities

Privatizing Malaysia: Rents, Rhetoric, Realities

Author: Jomo K S
ISBN: 9780367299781
Format: Paperback
$77.99

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Southeast Asia's Misunderstood Miracle: Industrial Policy And Economic Development In Thailand, Malaysia And Indonesia

Southeast Asia's Misunderstood Miracle: Industrial Policy...

Author: Jomo K.S.
ISBN: 9780367303532
Format: Paperback
$77.99

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