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Knowing an Empire

Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue

Edited by Mackenzie Cooley & Huiyi Wu
Subjects: History, China, Spain & Portugal
Series: ASIANetwork Books

Gleanings from the Field

Food Security, Resilience, and Experiential Learning

Edited by Dan Trudeau, William Moseley, and Paul Schadewald
Subjects: Social Science, Agriculture & Food, Education, Social Science

Addressing the food security crisis through experiential learning in the classroom and beyond

Unlocking the Treasury

Elementary Learning for Boys in Qing China

By Katherine Ngo
Subjects: History, China, Education, History
Series: ASIANetwork Books

The first major study in English of the Qing era textbook on elementary education

Ordering Tang China

Cultural Memory, Emperor Taizong, and the Essentials

By Kelly Ngo
Subjects: History, China, Education, History
Series: ASIANetwork Books

Analysis of a seventh-century Chinese anthology on imperial governance

The Detroit Genre

Race, Dispossession, and Resilience in American Literature and Film, 1967-2023

By Vincent Haddad
Subjects: Literary Criticism, African American, Performing Arts, History & Criticism

The first comprehensive investigation of the literary and popular cultural representations of Detroit

The Hero and the Victim

Narratives of Criminality in Iraq War Fiction

By Gregory Brazeal
Subjects: Literary Criticism, General, Social Science, General, History, Iraq War (2003-2011)

How American fiction represents soldiers—and soldier criminality—in depictions of the Iraq War

Urban Fantasy

Exploring Modernity through Magic

By Stefan Ekman
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Science Fiction & Fantasy, General

The first book-length historical and theoretical analysis of the urban fantasy genre

Twilight Zone Reflections

An Introduction to the Philosophical Imagination

By Saul Traiger
Subjects: Philosophy, General, Performing Arts, Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror

An introduction to philosophy through thought experiments in the 1959–1964 television series, The Twilight Zone

Queer Compassion in 15 Comics

Edited by Andrew Thomas, Megan Aston, and Phillip Joy
Subjects: Comics & Graphic Novels, Gay & Lesbian, Fiction, General

Comics from an international cast of queer artists that respond to trauma with compassion

Theater and Crisis

Myth, Memory, and Racial Reckoning in America, 1964-2020

By Patrice D. Rankine
Subjects: Drama, African American, Social Science, Media Studies

Demonstrates how myth, literature, and theater are part of and respond to public or political events

The Chemistry of Character in Breaking Bad

A Videographic Book

By Jason Mittell
Subjects: Social Science, Media Studies, Performing Arts, General
Series: Videographic Books: Film and Media Scholarship in Sound and Image

An exploration of characters in Breaking Bad, with over 20 video essays

Women Making History

The Revolutionary Feminist Postcard Art of Helaine Victoria Press

By Julia M. Allen & Jocelyn H. Cohen
Subjects: History, Women

Tells the story of Helaine Victoria Press, the first publisher of women’s history postcards

An Asian American Theology of Liberation

By Tian An Wong
Subjects: Social Science, Asian American Studies, Religion, Liberation

Offers foundations for a new generation seeking to reconcile faith and politics without compromise

Transforming the Authority of the Archive

Undergraduate Pedagogy and Critical Digital Archives

Edited by Andi Gustavson & Charlotte Nunes
Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines, Archives & Special Libraries, Education, Library Skills

Perspectives from educators, archivists, and students involved in efforts to deconstruct and transform the institutional authority of archives

Open Access Musicology

Volume Two

By Louis Epstein
Edited by Daniel Barolsky
Subjects: Music, General, Essays
Series: Open Access Musicology

Multimedia-rich scholarly essays intended for students and teachers of music history and ethnomusicology

The Politics of India under Modi

An Introduction to India’s Democracy, Economy, and Foreign Policy

By Vikash Yadav & Jason A. Kirk
Subjects: Political Science, Asian, History, India & South Asia
Series: ASIANetwork Books

A detailed, readable overview of India’s political trends, economic prospects, and foreign policy since 2014

Public Feminisms

From Academy to Community

By Carrie N. Baker & Aviva Dove-Viebahn
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Feminism & Feminist Theory

Feminist scholars write about the dynamic ways they reach beyond academia to engage broader communities

South End Shout

Boston’s Forgotten Music Scene in the Jazz Age

By Roger House
Subjects: Music, Jazz, History, African American

Chronicles the power of music in Boston’s African American community

Like a Captive Bird

Gender and Virtue in Plutarch

By Lunette Warren
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Ancient & Classical, Women

How Plutarch’s moral education shapes gender identities

Democratic Criticism

Poetics of Incitement and the Muslim Sacred

By Masood Ashraf Raja
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Religion, Religion, General

Outlines new reading practices and promotes cross-cultural knowledge to help read from the perspective of the Other

Meaningful Technologies

How Digital Metaphors Change the Way We Think and Live

By Eric Chown & Fernando Nascimento
Subjects: Science, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Psychology, Cognitive Psychology

Digital artifacts change how we think, and metaphors are the vehicle for that change

Casa Pueblo

A Puerto Rican Model of Self-Governance

By Alexis Massol González
Translated by Ashwin Ravikumar & Paul Schroeder Rodríguez
Subjects: Social Science, Caribbean & Latin American Studies, History, Social History

A manifesto on sustainable community organizing and development by a winner of the "Green Nobel" Goldman Prize

What Kind of Island in What Kind of Sea?

By Franz Fühmann
Translated by Elizabeth C. Hamilton
Subjects: Photography, Photoessays & Documentaries, Essays

The first English-language translation of a 1986 photo essay about people with cognitive disabilities in former East Germany

Culture and Content in French

Frameworks for Innovative Curricula

By Aurélie Chevant-Aksoy
Edited by Kathryne Adair Corbin
Subjects: Foreign Language Study, French, Education, Language Arts

A timely collection of essays on contemporary pedagogy practices for French language classrooms

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