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Environmental sociology now
It is a critical time for environmental sociology. Against a backdrop of increasingly dynamic environmental and social change, contemporary scholarship must reorient itself to cut through the noise and directly confront the urgent socio-environmental questions of today. In Environmental Sociology...
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How to read the mishnah and midrash
The early rabbinic period produced two major literary formations—the Mishnah and Midrash—which have since remained central pillars of Jewish textual tradition. How to Read the Mishnah and Midrash is the first comprehensive introduction to these two foundational works of Jewish thought in English....
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Teaching solidarity
A call for critical race reading as a step towards creating progressive and democratic politics.Critical race theory (CRT) has been targeted for bans in forty-nine US states and subjected to a flurry of legislative acts surveilling its teaching at all levels of education. Malini Johar Schueller a...
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Trans cinema
An exciting introduction to cinema by the trans creators who are innovating filmmaking to imagine a more inclusive world. Since the 1990s, a largely underground upwelling of trans creativity has helped new trans identities, communities, and political movements come together. In Trans Cinema, La...
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Making care work
A bold critique of conventional economics that reveals why the time and money we devote to care work is vital to our economic future. Our economy is much bigger than the dollar value of things we buy and sell. It depends on us—our health, our creativity, and our moral commitments. These capabilit...
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Leave if you can
The consequences of U.S. border policies through the experiences of Honduran migrants. Hondurans have been at the heart of some of the most visible migration phenomena in the last few years, as well as the direct target of anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy. In Leave If You Can, Amelia Frank-Vi...
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Invisible illness
"An incisive study that illuminates the myriad complexities of chronic illness.”—Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)"Movingly spotlights the struggles of chronically ill patients.”—Publishers WeeklyA moving cultural history of disability—and a powerful call to action to change how our medical system ...
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American peril
This probing account shines a new light on the problem of anti-Asian violence and inspires us to build lasting solidarity. During the COVID-19 pandemic, racist demagoguery fomented a campaign of terror against Asian Americans. But these attacks were part of a much longer pattern that made anti-As...
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Trans pleasure
A bold and provocative book centering the voices of trans women and femmes in the pursuit of pleasure and gender liberation. What are the possibilities of pleasure when we stop labeling our desires? In Trans Pleasure, Brandon Andrew Robinson answers this seductive question by exploring the sex ...
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Predicted
How AI is rewiring our social fabric—and how we can better shape our future. The age of AI is not what you think. Rather than ushering in a fourth Industrial Revolution, AI has become a crucial social infrastructure of everyday life. It's embedded in the tools, platforms, and systems that organiz...
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Huang di nei jing su wen
A foundation of Chinese life sciences and medicine, the Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen is now available for the first time in a complete, fully annotated English translation. Also known as Su Wen, or The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic, this influential work came into being over a long period reaching ...
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Crafting ethical scholarship
A timely, evidence-based guide to reclaiming academic integrity and the mission of higher education.Today's academic integrity policies are punitive, ineffective, and entirely focused on student misconduct. Crafting Ethical Scholarship shifts the paradigm away from compliance by exploring how sch...
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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 across the United States. Yet despite their best intentions, they often perpetuate food access ...
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A womb of one's own
A bold new history of women's health and midwifery, brought to life through ancient women's stories of pregnancy and birth.In the well-trod history of the Roman Empire, a pivotal moment has long gone unnoticed: It was in ancient Rome that medical men first set their sights on childbirth, the trad...
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Art-science undisciplined
A guide to mutually transformative collaboration between artists and scientists. Art-Science Undisciplined invites us into a collaborative journey grounded in mutual exploration and transformation. Moving beyond transactional exchanges of expertise, artist Janani Balasubramanian and astrophysi...
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What can i get out of this?
A Forbes Best Higher Education Book Of 2025A moving story from a formidable teacher that doubles as a guide to teaching the humanities today. At a time when college students and their parents often question the "return on investment" from humanities courses, accomplished feature writer and Englis...
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