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San Miguel de Allende
Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Struggling to free itself from a century of economic decline and stagnation, the town of San Miguel de Allende, nestled in the hills of central Mexico, discovered that its “timeless” quality could provide a way forward. While other Mexican towns pursued policies of industrialization, San Miguel—on...
Thinking Big Data in Geography
New Regimes, New Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Thinking Big Data in Geography offers a practical state-of-the-field overview of big data as both a means and an object of research, with essays from prominent and emerging scholars such as Rob Kitchin, Renee Sieber, and Mark Graham. Part 1 explores how the advent of geoweb technologies and big data...
In the Best Interests of Baseball?
Governing the National Pastime
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
In the Best Interests of Baseball? is a thoughtful, balanced look at the impact of the ninth commissioner of baseball, Bud Selig, on the sport as well as an examination of the commissioner’s position in a historical context. The more controversial topics Andrew Zimbalist probes include the conflicts...
Transforming the Fisheries
Neoliberalism, Nature, and the Commons
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
There is now widespread agreement that fish stocks are severely depleted and fishing activity must be limited. At the same time, the promise of the green economy appears to offer profitable new opportunities for a sustainable seafood industry. What do these seemingly contradictory ideas of natural...
Telling Stories
The Craft of Narrative and the Writing Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
A prolific and award-winning writer, Lee Martin has put pen to paper to offer his wisdom, honed during thirty years of teaching the oh-so-elusive art of writing. Telling Stories is intended for anyone interested in thinking more about the elements of storytelling in short stories, novels, and memoirs....
Rights Remembered
A Salish Grandmother Speaks on American Indian History and the Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Rights Remembered is a remarkable historical narrative and autobiography written by esteemed Lummi elder and culture bearer Pauline R. Hillaire, Scälla–Of the Killer Whale. A direct descendant of the immediate postcontact generation of Coast Salish in Washington State, Hillaire combines in her...
Empress San Francisco
The Pacific Rim, the Great West, and California at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
When the more than 18 million visitors poured into the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) in San Francisco in 1915, they encountered a vision of the world born out of San Francisco’s particular local political and social climate. By seeking to please various constituent groups ranging...
Growing Local
Case Studies on Local Food Supply Chains
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
In an increasingly commercialized world, the demand for better quality, healthier food has given rise to one of the fastest growing segments of the U.S. food system: locally grown food. Many believe that “relocalization” of the food system will provide a range of public benefits, including lower...
A Lenape among the Quakers
The Life of Hannah Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
On July 28, 1797, an elderly Lenape woman stood before the newly appointed almsman of Pennsylvania’s Chester County and delivered a brief account of her life. In a sad irony, Hannah Freeman was establishing her residency—a claim that paved the way for her removal to the poorhouse. Ultimately,...
The Five-Ton Life
Carbon, America, and the Culture That May Save Us
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Winner of the 2018 Nautilus Book Award, Silver, for Green Living/Sustainability
At nearly twenty tons per person, American carbon dioxide emissions are among the highest in the world. Not every American fits this statistic, however. Across the country there are urban neighborhoods, suburbs,...
The Pedagogical Imagination
The Republican Legacy in Twenty-First-Century French Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
French school debates of recent years, which are simultaneously debates about the French Republic’s identity and values, have generated a spate of internationally successful literature and film on the topic of education. While mainstream media and scholarly essays tend to treat these works as faithful...
by Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Written as a tribute to family, place, and bodily awareness, Mukoma Wa Ngugi’s poems speak of love, war, violence, language, immigration, and exile. From a baby girl’s penchant for her parents’ keys to a warrior’s hunt for words, Wa Ngugi’s poems move back and forth between the personal...
by Clifton Gachagua
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Clifton Gachagua’s collection Madman at Kilifi, winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, concerns itself with the immediacy of cultures in flux, cybercommunication and the language of consumerism, polyglot politics and intrigue, sexual ambivalence and studied whimsy, and the mind...
Deep Map Country
Literary Cartography of the Great Plains
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Taking its name from the subtitle of William Least Heat-Moon’s PrairyErth (a deep map), the “deep-map” form of nonfiction and environmental writing defines an innovative and stratigraphic literary genre. Proposing that its roots can be found in Great Plains nonfiction writing, Susan Naramore...