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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
The vast and influential American military has been aided and abetted by cinema since the earliest days of the medium. The army, navy, and air force put films to work in myriad ways, enlisting them to entertain, train, and heal soldiers as well as to propagandize, strategize, spy, map, and develop...
The Chicano Generation
Testimonios of the Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
In The Chicano Generation, veteran Chicano civil rights scholar Mario T. García provides a rare look inside the struggles of the 1960s and 1970s as they unfolded in Los Angeles.
Based on in-depth interviews conducted with three key activists, this book illuminates the lives of Raul Ruiz, Gloria...
Green Wars
Conservation and Decolonization in the Maya Forest
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Global conservation efforts are celebrated for saving Guatemala’s Maya Forest. This book reveals that the process of protecting lands has been one of racialized dispossession for the Indigenous peoples who live there. Through careful ethnography and archival research, Megan Ybarra shows how conservation...
Love, Inc.
Dating Apps, the Big White Wedding, and Chasing the Happily Neverafter
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
The notion of “happily ever after” has been ingrained in many of us since childhood—meet someone, date, have the big white wedding, and enjoy your well-deserved future. But why do we buy into this idea? Is love really all we need?
Author Laurie Essig invites us to flip this concept of...
The Practice of Reproducible Research
Case Studies and Lessons from the Data-Intensive Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
The Practice of Reproducible Research presents concrete examples of how researchers in the data-intensive sciences are working to improve the reproducibility of their research projects. In each of the thirty-one case studies in this volume, the author or team describes the workflow that they used...
The Politics of Gender in Colonial Korea
Education, Labor, and Health, 1910–1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
This study examines how the concept of "Korean woman" underwent a radical transformation in Korea's public discourse during the years of Japanese colonialism. Theodore Jun Yoo shows that as women moved out of traditional spheres to occupy new positions outside the home, they encountered...
Killing Your Neighbors
Friendship and Violence in Northern Kenya and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Neighboring communities who once lived together in peace have committed some of the most disturbing genocidal violence in recent decades: ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia; the slaughter of Tutsis in Rwanda; or Sunni-versus-Shia violence in today’s Iraq. As these instances illustrate, lethal...
Jacked Up and Unjust
Pacific Islander Teens Confront Violent Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
In the context of two hundred years of American colonial control in the Pacific, Katherine Irwin and Karen Umemoto shed light on the experiences of today’s inner city and rural girls and boys in Hawai‘i who face racism, sexism, poverty, and political neglect. Basing their book on nine years of...
Words Matter
Communicating Effectively in the New Global Office
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
In a twenty-first-century global economy, in which multinational companies coordinate and collaborate with partners and clientele around the world, it is usually English that is the parlance of business, research, technology, and finance. Most assume that if parties on both ends of the conference call...
Secure the Soul
Christian Piety and Gang Prevention in Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
"I’m not perfect," Mateo confessed. "Nobody is. But I try." Secure the Soul shuttles between the life of Mateo, a born-again ex-gang member in Guatemala and the gang prevention programs that work so hard to keep him alive. Along the way, this poignantly written ethnography uncovers...
The Crime of Nationalism
Britain, Palestine, and Nation-Building on the Fringe of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
The Palestinian national movement gestated in the early decades of the twentieth century, but it was born during the Great Revolt of 1936–39, a period of Arab rebellion against British policy in the Palestine mandate. In The Crime of Nationalism, Matthew Kraig Kelly makes the unique case that the...
Earth's Insights
A Multicultural Survey of Ecological Ethics from the Mediterranean Basin to the Australian Outback
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1994
The environmental crisis is global in scope, yet contemporary environmental ethics is centered predominantly in Western philosophy and religion. Earth's Insights widens the scope of environmental ethics to include the ecological teachings embedded in non-Western worldviews. J. Baird Callicott ranges...
Ecology, Conservation, and Management of Grouse
Published for the Cooper Ornithological Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Grouse—an ecologically important group of birds that include capercaillie, prairie chickens, and ptarmigan—are distributed throughout the forests, grasslands, and tundra of Europe, Asia, and North America. Today, many grouse populations are in decline, and the conservation and management of these...
It's Madness
The Politics of Mental Health in Colonial Korea
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
It’s Madness examines Korea’s years under Japanese colonialism, when mental health first became defined as a medical and social problem. As in most Asian countries, severe social ostracism, shame, and fear of jeopardizing marriage prospects compelled most Korean families to conceal the mentally...