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Sue Consolo-Murphy
The Bears of Grand Teton

Sue Consolo-Murphy’s autobiographical narrative traces the history of bear management in Grand Teton National Park and the Jackson Hole area, considering in particular bears’ interaction with livestock.

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Robin Wall Kimmerer
Gathering Moss

'Kimmerer blends, with deep attentiveness and musicality, science and personal insights to tell the overlooked story of the planet's oldest plants' Guardian 'Bewitching ... a masterwork ... a glittering …

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Andrew Bomback
Long Days, Short Years

How parenting became a verb, from Dr. Spock and June Cleaver to baby whispering and free-range kids. When did “parenting” become a verb? Why is it so hard to parent, and so rife with the possibility of f…

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Jared Poley
Luck, Leisure, and the Casino in Nineteenth-Century Europe

"Casino gambling is central to understanding the cultural, social, and intellectual history of nineteenthcentury Europe. Tracing the development of casino gambling across this period, this book connects t…

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James Chapman
Licence to Thrill

In this new edition of Licence To Thrill, James Chapman builds upon the success of his classic work, regarded as the definitive scholarly study of the history of the James Bond film series from the first …

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Brian F Wright
The Bastard Instrument

Centering the electric bass in popular music history

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Brian F Wright
The Bastard Instrument

Centering the electric bass in popular music history

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Rachel Elder
Secrecy and Safety

A history of epilepsy and the challenges faced by those with the stigmatized condition. In the middle of the twentieth century, medical advancements like anticonvulsant drugs and electroencephalograms pro…

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James Chapman
Licence to Thrill

Cinema and Society

In this new edition of Licence To Thrill, James Chapman builds upon the success of his classic work, regarded as the definitive scholarly study of the history of the James Bond film series from the first …

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Jennifer Hansen-Glucklich
German Memorials, Motifs, and Meanings

German Memorials, Motifs, and Meanings offers a unique cultural history of German memorialization. The book focuses not on a single, isolated era, but rather on enduring memorial motifs--enchanted stones,…

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Jan-Peter Hartung
The Pashtun Borderland

"A history of the religious and socio political developments in the Pashtun borderland of modern Afghanistan and Pakistan since the 17th century, and how these have informed the worldview of the various T…

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Kathleen B. Casey
The Things She Carried

The Things She Carried provides a thorough and surprising examination of the purse--an object that generations of Americans have used to achieve a host of social, cultural, and political objectives over t…

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Eric A. Cheezum
Chessie

Chessie is an enthralling exploration of the profound power of a symbol that underscores both the affection the public continues to have for the monster and the cultural transformations in the region at t…

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Dean G. Lampros
Preserved

"This work uses the history of American funeral homes to reimagine the beginnings of our decentralized consumer landscape"--

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Stephen Nissenbaum
The Battle for Christmas

Anyone who laments the excesses of Christmas might consider the Puritans of colonial Massachusetts: they simply outlawed the holiday. The Puritans had their reasons, since Christmas was once an occasion f…

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Michelle Ann Abate
Singular Sensations

Michelle Ann Abate examines what The Family Circus, Ziggy, and The Far Side all have in common—they’re single-panel comics, a seemingly simple form that presents cartoonists with a wide range of possibili…

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Michelle Ann Abate
Singular Sensations

Michelle Ann Abate examines what The Family Circus, Ziggy, and The Far Side all have in common—they’re single-panel comics, a seemingly simple form that presents cartoonists with a wide range of possibili…

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Nina S Studer
The Hour of Absinthe

The Hour of Absinthe contextualizes and deconstructs some of the numerous myths surrounding absinthe, locating race, gender, class, and colonialism at the heart of France's cultural narratives about the d…

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Arnoud S. Q. Visser
On Pedantry

A lively and entertaining cultural history of a supremely annoying intellectual viceIntellectuals have long provoked scorn and irritation, even downright aggression. Many learned individuals have cast suc…

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Susanna Morton Braund
Translating Virgil

"The first synthesis and analysis of the translation history of Roman poet Virgil's works into European languages. A wide-ranging interdisciplinary investigation that contributes to western intellectual h…

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