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Ambushing Water
Poems
Danielle Hanson

"Danielle Hanson must be the incarnation of Gaston Bachelard’s ideal poet, a poet who acutely observes a world as she makes it new. With a ...




Lucky Children of Unity?
Life-Paths of the 1970 Born in the GDR
Volker Benkert

"We know both systems, spent almost half of our lives in the East and the other in the West. We are well-trained ...


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Dark Fish and the Sermon of St. Anthony
Erica Maria Litz

"Dark Fish and the Sermon of St. Anthony," a second poetry collection by Erica Maria Litz, is contemplació and testimonio (contemplation and ...




Reagan and the World
Leadership and National Security, 1981–1989
Edited by Kyle Longley, Bradley Lynn Coleman

Throughout his presidency, Ronald Reagan sought “peace through strength” during an era of historic change. In the decades since, pundits and ...


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Studies in Forensic Biohistory
Anthropological Perspectives
Edited by Christopher M. Stojanowski, William N. Duncan

The lives of kings, poets, authors, criminals and celebrities are a perpetual fascination in the media and popular culture, and for decades ...


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Rethinking the Aztec Economy
Edited by Deborah L. Nichols, Frances F. Berdan, Michael E. Smith

With its rich archaeological and historical record, the Aztec empire provides an intriguing opportunity to understand the dynamics and ...


Testify by Douglas Manuel


Testify
Douglas Manuel

"Testify" is a book of interrogations of race in America; the poems reside in ambivalent spaces that seek a steady reconciliation between past and ...




Fat Planet
Obesity, Culture, and Symbolic Body Capital
Edited by Alexandra Brewis Slade, Eileen P. Anderson-Fye

The average size of human bodies all over the world has been steadily rising over recent decades. The total count of people clinically ...

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