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Explores Jackie Robinson?s compelling and complicated legacy Before the United States Supreme Court ruled against segregation in public schools, and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus...

Reveals the mass mobilization tactics that helped free Soviet Jews and reshaped the Jewish American experience from the Johnson era through the Reagan?Bush years What do these things have in common?...

A luminous translation of Arabic tales of enchantment and wonder Translated into English for the very first time, A Hundred and One Nights is a marvelous example of the rich tradition of popular...

Scrutinizes possibilities for an equalised global order, in light of recent conflicts between the world?s major powers The ?post-Cold War era is definitively over,? asserted US President Joe Biden as...

A Physician on the Nile begins as a description of everyday life in Egypt at the turn of the seventh/thirteenth century, before becoming a harrowing account of famine and pestilence--Author: ?Abd...

Reveals the historical and political significance of ?The Divine Nine??the Black Greek Letter Organizations In 1905, Henry Arthur Callis began his studies at Cornell University. Despite their...

A Treasury of Virtues is a collection of sayings, sermons, and teachings attributed to 'Ali ibn Abi Talib (d. 40/661), the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad, the first Shia Imam and the...

Reveals how the European travels of John and Abigail Adams helped define what it meant to be an American From 1778 to 1788, the Founding Father and later President John Adams lived in Europe as a...

Focuses on the challenges faced in accessing and providing abortion services in rural areas, even under progressive abortion legislation Accessing abortion services in rural areas under conditions of...

The ninth and tenth centuries witnessed the establishment of a substantial network of maritime trade across the Indian Ocean, providing the real-life background to the Sinbad tales. An exceptional...

Dissent and protest have been at the heart of the American story from the first days of settlement to the present day. American Patriots highlights many of the ways that dissent has shaped American...

New results and interpretations challenging the notion of a uniform, macroregional collapse throughout the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean Ancient Western Asia Beyond the Paradigm of Collapse...

Arabian Romantic: Poems On Bedouin Life And Love (Library Of Arabic Literature, 69)Author: ?Abdallah ibn SbayyilPublisher: Nyu PressPublication Date: Oct 06, 2020Number of Pages: 328 pagesLanguage:...

Satirical verse on society and its hypocrisies A master of satire known for his ribald humor, self-deprecation, and invective verse (hija?), the poet ?medan al-Shwe?ir was an acerbic critic of his...

Diversity and anti-racism work is too often reduced to training, therapy, education, and policy, or what the author calls Feel-Good" approaches that focus on emotions and morality and prevent us from...

Best-selling author Cass R. Sunstein examines how to avoid worst-case scenarios The world is increasingly confronted with new challenges related to climate change, globalization, disease, and...

Avidly Reads is a series of short books about how culture makes us feel. Founded in 2012 by Sarah Blackwood and Sarah Mesle, Avidly?an online magazine supported by the Los Angeles Review of...

Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures reclaims the femme fictions dismissed as trash" to celebrate the surprisingly cathartic pleasures of domination, privilege, and the material trappings of patriarchal...

Avidly Reads is a series of short books about how culture makes us feel. Founded in 2012 by Sarah Blackwood and Sarah Mesle, Avidly?an online magazine supported by the Los Angeles Review of...

Avidly Reads Opera - 9781479811731Author: Alison KinneyPublisher: NYU PressPublication Date: Oct 12, 2021Number of Pages: 160 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1479811734ISBN-13:...

What is the value of Black life in America? In Avidly Reads Passages, Michelle D. Commander plies four freighted modes of travel?the slave ship, train, automobile, and bus?to map the mobility of her...

?Poetry has leapt out of its world and into the world? Poetry is everywhere. From Amanda Gorman performing ?The Hill We Climb? before the nation at Joe Biden?s Presidential inauguration, to poems...

Avidly Reads Screen Time is a heartwarming, harrowing diary of our relationship with screens and the complicated feelings we have about them--Author: Phillip MaciakPublisher: Nyu PressPublication...

Avidly Reads is a series of short books about how culture makes us feel. Founded in 2012 by Sarah Blackwood and Sarah Mesle, Avidly?an online magazine supported by the Los Angeles Review of...

A collection of poems from a changing Bedouin world Bedouin Poets of the Nafud Desert features poetry from three poets of the Ibn Rashid dynasty?the highwater mark of Bedouin culture in the...

An inside look at how police officers are trained to perpetuate state violence Michael Brown. Philando Castile. George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. As the names of those killed by the police became...

Bibliography and Modern Book Production is a fascinating historic journey through the fields of print history, librarianship and publishing. It covers key developments from 1494 to 1949 in...

Black Power, Jewish Politics expands with this revised edition that includes the controversial new preface, an additional chapter connecting the book's themes to the national reckoning on race, and a...

What does it mean to be Black in an anti-Black world? In Black X: Liberatory Thought in Azania, Tendayi Sithole offers a compelling example of how to engage South Africa differently. Set in the Black...

A queer way to be in the world and with others--Author: Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-GomezPublisher: NYU PressPublication Date: Aug 13, 2024Number of Pages: 268 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...