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Mirror in the Sky
A stunning musical biography of Stevie Nicks that paints a portrait of an artist, not a caricature of a superstar. Reflective and expansive, Mirror in the Sky situates Stevie Nicks as one of the ...
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Q&A with Stephanie L. Canizales, author of Sin Padres, Ni Papeles
Each year, thousands of youth endure harrowing unaccompanied and undocumented migrations across Central America and Mexico to the United States in pursuit of a better future. Drawing on the firsthand ...
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UC Press August Award Winners
As international migration continues to rise, sending states play an integral part in "managing" their diasporas, in some cases even stepping in to protect their citizens' labor and human rights in ...
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Divided by the Wall
The construction of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border—whether to build it or not—has become a hot-button issue in contemporary America. A recent impasse over funding a wall caused the longest ...
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We already have the tools to better address human trafficking
July 30 th is the UN-recognized World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, while January 11 th is the US-recognized National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. Both days center on bringing attention and ...
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Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. I
Fernand Braudel (1902-1985) taught at the Collège de France and was a member of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. He is the author of The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of ...
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The End of Burnout
Going beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for resisting our cultural obsession with work and ...
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The Constitution of Society
Anthony Giddens has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade. In The Constitution of Society he outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period ...
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A Different Nature
Growing up in the Welsh border country, in a world in which television existed but was unheard of by me, I could safely explore ancient oak woodlands, heathlands and marshes and quiet narrow lanes, ...
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In the Shadow of Slavery
The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in greater numbers than Europeans. In the Shadow of ...
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The Book of Yokai
A lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its ever-expanding influence on global popular culture through the concept of yokai. Drawing on years of research in Japan, Michael Dylan Foster unpacks ...
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The Modern World-System I
Immanuel Wallerstein’s highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century’s greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global ...