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Lincoln A Mitchell

Three Years Our Mayor

Those who recognize Mayor George Moscone's name may think of him as the career politician who was assassinated along with Harvey Milk, but there was much more to this influential and fascinating man's sto…

César Brioso

Havana Hardball

1947 Cuba, where the most memorable season in the history of the Cuban League coincided with Jackie Robinson's spring training on the island before he made his major-league debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers

Zeinab Badawi

An African History of Africa

Already a major international bestseller, Zeinab Badawi's sweeping and much-needed survey of African history traces the continent's extraordinary legacy from prehistory to the present from the African per…

Joy Schulz

Daily Life in Colonial Hawai'i

Discover the textures of everyday life in colonial Hawai'i-from missionary households and sugar plantations to hula schools and military bases-through the eyes of the people who lived it.Daily Life in Col…

From Garum to Mole

The sauces we eat evoke emotions, define our meals, direct our conversations over those meals, and influence the way we think about ourselves and each other. Sauces, through their consumption and rejectio…

Hanna Garth

Food Justice Undone

Breaks open the privilege and promise of food justice to envision a radical liberatory future.Food justice activists have worked to increase access to healthy food in low-income communities of color acros…

Sanja Ivic

Eastern and Western Conceptions of Human Rights

This book explores Western and non-Western conceptions of human dignity and human rights in order to demonstrate the hermeneutical nature of the concepts of human dignity and human rights.

From Garum to Mole

The sauces we eat evoke emotions, define our meals, direct our conversations over those meals, and influence the way we think about ourselves and each other. Sauces, through their consumption and rejectio…

Jonathan Weber

City on the Edge

By one of San Francisco's foremost chroniclers, the story of the city's meteoric transformation into a global capital of technology, and how the same creative and political forces that gave rise to its bo…

Erich Obermayr, Robert W McQueen

Historical Archaeology in the Cortez Mining District

An archaeology project unearths the details of daily life in a western mining community

Susan Kollin

Thelma & Louise

Thelma & Louise , the 1991 film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis, has been described as a road movie, a buddy movie, a feminist parable, and only incidentally as a …

Bernhard Bitzel

Das Ding mit Noten

Mark Hvizda, Bryan Frederick, Alisa Laufer

Dispersed, Disguised, and Degradable

Current conflicts offer insights into how future wars might be fought. This report describes eight novel or notable observations about the Russia-Ukraine war and summarizes their relevance to hypothetical…

Ernesto Sagás

Latino Colorado

Mexican Americans and other Latinos make up more than 22 percent of Colorado's population, play a vital role in its major economic sectors, and are becoming a political force to be reckoned with. Yet most…

Milan Kundera,

89 Words Followed by Prague, a Disappearing Poem

Two newly translated works from one of the greatest literary writers and thinkers of the modern age, available together in English for the first time.Translating a work from its original language can be c…

Sarah Nickel

Active Women

Active Womenuncovers the widespread, collaborative, adaptive, and transformative activism of Indigenous women in Kanata's West from the 1930s to the 1980s. It shows how Indigenous women responded to socia…

Geospatial Innovations in Disaster Management

As we confront increasingly frequent and complex disasters, geospatial information plays a central role in effective disaster management.This open access book offers a comprehensive examination of how spa…

Randolph Lewis

Bummerland

With radical candor and sardonic wit, Randolph Lewis offers an autopsy of the recent past, looking for glimmers of hope and redemption among the detritus strewn about by neo--Gilded Age billionaires, Big …

Yve Chavez,

Indigenizing California Mission Art and Architecture

Examines how native artists kept their culture alive by creatively adapting under colonial ruleBetween 1769 and 1823, the Franciscans established twenty-one missions in California, colonizing the ancestra…