Duke University Press
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Escaping Nature: How to Survive Global Climate Change
$28.95 Add to cartIndustrial and agricultural greenhouse gas emissions are rapidly warming Earth’s climate, unleashing rising seas, ocean acidification, melting permafrost, powerful storms, wildfires, floods, deadly he… [more below]
- Author: Pilkey, Orrin H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1478025441
- Language: English
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Tomorrowing
$15.95 Add to cartFor twenty years, Terry Bisson published a regular “This Month in History” column in the science fiction magazine Locus. Tomorrowing collects these two decades of memorable events—four per month—e… [more below]
- Series: Practices
- Author: Bisson, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1478030682
- Language: English
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Dub: Finding Ceremony
$25.95 Add to cartThe concluding volume in a poetic trilogy, Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s Dub: Finding Ceremony takes inspiration from theorist Sylvia Wynter, dub poetry, and ocean life to offer a catalog of possible methods… [more below]
- Author: Gumbs, Alexis Pauline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1478006455
- Language: English
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The Haiti Reader: History, Culture, Politics
$30.95 Add to cartWhile Haiti established the second independent nation in the Western Hemisphere and was the first black country to gain independence from European colonizers, its history is not well known in the Angl… [more below]
- Series: Latin America Readers
- Author: DuBois, Laurent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1478006773
- Language: English
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Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies
$26.95 Add to cartTwentieth Anniversary Edition with a new preface and afterword
From the removal of Confederate monuments in New Orleans in the spring of 2017 to the violent aftermath of the white nationalist march on- Series: Public Planet Books
- Author: Levinson, Sanford
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 26 2018
- ISBN10: 1478002808
- Language: English
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On Learning to Heal: Or, What Medicine Doesn’t Know
$25.95 Add to cartAt thirteen, Ed Cohen was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease–a chronic, incurable condition that nearly killed him in his early twenties. At his diagnosis, his doctors told him that the best he could hop… [more below]
- Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
- Author: Cohen, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1478019328
- Language: English
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Birthing Black Mothers
$27.95 Add to cartIn Birthing Black Mothers Black feminist theorist Jennifer C. Nash examines how the figure of the “Black mother” has become a powerful political category. “Mothering while Black” has become synonymous… [more below]
- Author: Nash, Jennifer C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1478014423
- Language: English
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The Ghana Reader: History, Culture, Politics
$30.95 Add to cartCovering 500 years of Ghana’s history, The Ghana Reader provides a multitude of historical, political, and cultural perspectives on this iconic African nation. Whether discussing the Asante kingdom an… [more below]
- Series: World Readers
- Author: Konadu, Kwasi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 03 2016
- ISBN10: 0822359928
- Language: English
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The Dominican Republic Reader: History, Culture, Politics
$30.95 Add to cartDespite its significance in the history of Spanish colonialism, the Dominican Republic is familiar to most outsiders through only a few elements of its past and culture. Non-Dominicans may be aware th… [more below]
- Series: Latin America Readers
- Author: Roorda, Eric Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 23 2014
- ISBN10: 0822357003
- Language: English
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Remnants: A Memoir of Spirit, Activism, and Mothering
$28.95 Add to cartAn activist influential in the civil rights movement, Rosemarie Freeney Harding’s spirituality blended many traditions, including southern African American mysticism, Anabaptist Christianity, Tibetan … [more below]
- Author: Freeney Harding, Rosemarie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: May 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0822358794
- Language: English
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The Chile Reader: History, Culture, Politics
$30.95 Add to cartThe Chile Reader makes available a rich variety of documents spanning more than five hundred years of Chilean history. Most of the selections are by Chileans; many have never before appeared in Englis… [more below]
- Series: Latin America Readers
- Author: Hutchison, Elizabeth Quay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 29 2013
- ISBN10: 0822353601
- Language: English
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The Paraguay Reader: History, Culture, Politics
$30.95 Add to cartHemmed in by the vast, arid Chaco to the west and, for most of its history, impenetrable jungles to the east, Paraguay has been defined largely by its isolation. Partly as a result, there has been a d… [more below]
- Series: Latin America Readers
- Author: Lambert, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: December 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0822352680
- Language: English
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The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics
$31.95 Add to cartThe Mexico Reader is a vivid introduction to muchos M?xicos-the many Mexicos, or the many varied histories and cultures that comprise contemporary Mexico. Unparalleled in scope and written for the tra… [more below]
- Series: Latin America Readers
- Author: Joseph, Gilbert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 808
- Publish Date: January 16 2003
- ISBN10: 0822330423
- Language: English
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All about Your Eyes, Second Edition, Revised and Updated
$26.95 Add to cartA concise, easy-to-understand reference book, the revised and updated second edition of All about Your Eyes tells you what you need to know to care for your eyes and what to expect from your eye docto… [more below]
- Author: Fekrat, Sharon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1478011602
- Language: English
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Ezili’s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders
$27.95 Add to cartFrom the dagger mistress Ezili Je Wouj and the gender-bending mermaid Lasiren to the beautiful femme queen Ezili Freda, the Ezili pantheon of Vodoun spirits represents the divine forces of love, sexua… [more below]
- Author: Tinsley, Omise’eke Natasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: February 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0822370387
- Language: English
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No Machos or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk
$27.95 Add to cartAfter punk’s arrival in 1976, many art students in the northern English city of Leeds traded their paintbrushes for guitars and synthesizers. In bands ranging from Gang of Four, Soft Cell, and Delta 5… [more below]
- Author: Butt, Gavin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1478018631
- Language: English
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Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women
$26.95 Add to cartE. Patrick Johnson’s Honeypot opens with the fictional trickster character Miss B. barging into the home of Dr. EPJ, informing him that he has been chosen to collect and share the stories of her peopl… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, E. Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1478006536
- Language: English
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Unspooled: How the Cassette Made Music Shareable
$26.95 Add to cartWell into the new millennium, the analog cassette tape continues to claw its way back from obsolescence. New cassette labels emerge from hipster enclaves while the cassette’s likeness pops up on T-shi… [more below]
- Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
- Author: Drew, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 147802559X
- Language: English
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Where Is Ana Mendieta?: Identity, Performativity, and Exile
$25.95 Add to cartAna Mendieta, a Cuban-born artist who lived in exile in the United States, was one of the most provocative and complex personalities of the 1970s’ artworld. In Where Is Ana Mendieta? art historian Jan… [more below]
- Author: Blocker, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: February 24 1999
- ISBN10: 0822323249
- Language: English
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Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art
$40.00 Add to cartContemporary artists such as Ghada Amer and Clare Twomey have gained international reputations for work that transforms ordinary craft media and processes into extraordinary conceptual art, from Amer’… [more below]
- Author: Buszek, Maria Elena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0822347628
- Language: English
