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Earth Eats
Real Food Green Living
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Focusing on local products, sustainability, and popular farm-to-fork dining trends, Earth Eats: Real Food Green Living compiles the best recipes, tips, and tricks to plant, harvest, and prepare local food. Along with renowned chef Daniel Orr, Earth Eats radio host Annie Corrigan presents tips, grouped...
Thinking about Video Games
Interviews with the Experts
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
The growth in popularity and complexity of video games has spurred new interest in how games are developed and in the research and technology behind them. David Heineman brings together some of the most iconic, influential, and interesting voices from across the gaming industry and asks them to weigh...
Climate Change in the Midwest
Impacts, Risks, Vulnerability, and Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
The research presented in this volume focuses on identifying and quantifying the major vulnerabilities to climate change in the Midwestern United States. By providing state-of-the-art spatially disaggregated information regarding the historical, current, and possible future climate within the region,...
Bastards of Utopia
Living Radical Politics after Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Bastards of Utopia, the companion to a feature documentary film of the same name, explores the experiences and political imagination of young radical activists in the former Yugoslavia, participants in what they call alterglobalization or "globalization from below." Ethnographer Maple Razsa follows...
by Marianne McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2003
Marianne McDonald brings together her training as a scholar of classical Greek with her vast experience in theatre and drama to help students of the classics and of theatre learn about the living performance tradition of Greek tragedy. The Living Art of Greek Tragedy is indispensable for anyone interested...
Women of the Midan
The Untold Stories of Egypt's Revolutionaries
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2019
While there are many books on the Egyptian revolution and the Arab Spring movement, this work focuses on the testimonies of women revolutionaries, the social and political discourses about women that circulated during the revolution, and the often-brutal encounter women faced during the uprising.
It...
Secularism Soviet Style
Teaching Atheism and Religion in a Volga Republic
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Sonja Luehrmann explores the Soviet atheist effort to build a society without gods or spirits and its afterlife in post-Soviet religious revival. Combining archival research on atheist propaganda of the 1960s and 1970s with ethnographic fieldwork in the autonomous republic of Marij El in Russia’s...
Rethinking Testimonial Cinema in Postdictatorship Argentina
Beyond Memory Fatigue
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
For roughly two decades after the collapse of the military regime in 1983, testimonial narrative was viewed and received as a privileged genre in Argentina. Today, however, academics and public intellectuals are experiencing "memory fatigue," a backlash against the concepts of memory and trauma, just...
Muslims and New Media in West Africa
Pathways to God
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Although Islam is not new to West Africa, new patterns of domestic economies, the promise of political liberalization, and the proliferation of new media have led to increased scrutiny of Islam in the public sphere. Dorothea E. Schulz shows how new media have created religious communities that are...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
This volume examines important aspects of China's century-long search to provide appropriate and effective health care for its people. Four subjects—disease and healing, encounters and accommodations, institutions and professions, and people's health—organize discussions across case studies of...
Consuming Ocean Island
Stories of People and Phosphate from Banaba
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2014
Consuming Ocean Island tells the story of the land and people of Banaba, a small Pacific island, which, from 1900 to 1980, was heavily mined for phosphate, an essential ingredient in fertilizer. As mining stripped away the island's surface, the land was rendered uninhabitable, and the indigenous Banabans...
Tropical Cowboys
Westerns, Violence, and Masculinity in Kinshasa
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2016
During the 1950s and 60s in the Congo city of Kinshasa, there emerged young urban male gangs known as "Bills" or "Yankees." Modeling themselves on the images of the iconic American cowboy from Hollywood film, the "Bills" sought to negotiate lives lived under oppressive economic, social, and political...
Searching for Hope
Life at a Failing School in the Heart of America
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
“A gritty, wonderfully honest investigation of life in an urban American high school in the 21st Century.” —Jay Mathews, Washington Post education columnist
Searching for Hope is a gripping account of life in a once-great high school in a rough Indianapolis neighborhood. Granted unfiltered...
Beyond Bollywood and Broadway
Plays from the South Asian Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2009
This collection of 11 plays, from North America, the U.K., and South Africa—many published here for the first time—delves into the vibrant, cosmopolitan theatre of the South Asian diaspora. These original and provocative works explore the experience of diaspora by drawing on cultural references...