This document provides summaries of and excerpts from several books being promoted by university presses for University Press Week 2019. The books cover a wide range of topics including portraits of military veterans, religious values in America, works by Toni Morrison, responses to the 2016 US election, climate change effects in the Arctic, and Europe's images of immigrants and refugees.

1. Read. Think. Act.
A Gallery of Works to #ReadUP

2. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
WE THE PEOPLE
Mary Whyte, author/artist
ISBN: 978-1-64336-011-9
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
We the people—these words embody the ethos of what it
means to be an American citizen. In this heart-stirring
collection of watercolor portraits of military veterans—one
from each of the fifty states—internationally acclaimed artist
Mary Whyte captures this ethos as well as the dedication,
responsibility, and courage it takes to fulfill that promise. We
the People is not only a tour across and through these United
States, it is a tour through the heart and soul, the duty and
the commitment of the people who protect not only our
Constitution and our country but our very lives. All royalties
will benefit the Patriot Art Foundation which serves veterans
through initiatives in art for healing, as well as by fostering a
greater appreciation of our military’s service with the public
and in schools.
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3. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
AMERICAN VALUES,
RELIGIOUS VOICES
Andrea L Weiss and Lisa M. Weinberger, editors
ISBN: 978-1-9476-0240-3
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI PRESS
I M A G E H E R E In the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, many
Americans questioned how to respond to the results and the
deep divisions in our country exposed by the campaign.
Many people of faith turned to their religious communities for
guidance and support. Many looked for ways to take action.
In November 2016, biblical scholar Andrea L. Weiss and
graphic designer Lisa M. Weinberger teamed up to create an
innovative response: a national, nonpartisan campaign that
used letters and social media to highlight core American
values connected to our diverse religious traditions. This
book is a collection of these letters.
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4. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
GOODNESS AND THE
LITERARY IMAGINATION
Toni Morrison, author
David Carrasco, Stephanie Paulsell, and Mara Willard, editors
ISBN: 978-0-8139-4362-6
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS
I M A G E H E R E What exactly is goodness? Where is it found in the literary
imagination? Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize-winning author and
one of American letters’ greatest voices, pondered these
questions in her celebrated Ingersoll Lecture, delivered at
Harvard University in 2012 and published now for the first
time. In a lively interview conducted for this book, Morrison
elaborates on her lecture’s ideas, discussing goodness not
only in literature but in history and contemporary society.
Goodness and the Literary Imagination also includes a series
of essays on the moral and religious dimensions of her
novels by Harvard Divinity School faculty and scholars.
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5. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
WHO WILL SPEAK FOR
AMERICA?
Stephanie Feldman and Nathaniel Popkin, editors
ISBN: 978-1-4399-1624-7
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
The editors and contributors to Who Will Speak for America?
are passionate and justifiably angry voices providing a literary
response to today’s political crisis. Inspired by and drawing
from the work of writers who participated in nationwide
Writers Resist events in January 2017, this volume provides
a collection of poems, stories, essays, and cartoons that
wrestle with the meaning of America and American identity.
The contributions confront a country beset by racial injustice,
poverty, misogyny, and violence.
Who Will Speak for America? inspires readers by
emphasizing the power of patience, organizing, resilience
and community. These moving works advance the
conversation that generations of activists, in their efforts to
perfect our union, have elevated and amplified.
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6. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
JIM CROW’S LAST STAND
Thomas Aiello, author
ISBN: 978-0-8071-7237-7
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E A remnant of the racist post-Reconstruction Redeemer
sociopolitical agenda, Louisiana’s nonunanimous jury-verdict
law permitted juries to convict criminal defendants with only
nine, and later ten, out of twelve votes—a legal oddity that
resulted in countless questionable convictions. The
publication of the first edition of this book in 2015 initiated a
grassroots demand for judicial reform in the Pelican State,
which eventually led to the overturning of the archaic law in
2019. This revised edition includes a synopsis of that struggle
for social change.
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7. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
SUDDEN SPRING
Rick Van Noy, author
ISBN: 978-0-8203-5436-1
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Sudden Spring is a call to action to mitigate the current trends
in our environmental degradation. By highlighting stories of
people and places adapting to the impacts of a warmer
climate, Rick Van Noy shows us what communities in the
South are doing to become more climate resilient and to
survive a slow deluge of environmental challenges.
"All the world will feel the effects of our rapidly changing
climate, of course—and those spots that we cherish most for
their sense of place, their long-standing in our hearts, will be
the hardest to watch change. Perhaps these fine reflections
will spur us to some of the action necessary to minimize the
damage!"
—Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature
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8. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
#IDENTITY
Abigail De Kosnik and Keith P. Feldman, editors
ISBN: 978-0-472-07415-0
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
#identity is among the first scholarly books to address the
positive and negative effects of Twitter on our contemporary
world. Hailing from diverse scholarly fields, all contributors
are affiliated with The Color of New Media, a scholarly
collective based at the University of California, Berkeley. The
essays in #identity consider topics such as the social justice
movements organized through #BlackLivesMatter,
#Ferguson, and #SayHerName; the controversies around
#WhyIStayed and #CancelColbert; Twitter use in India and
Africa; the integration of hashtags such as #nohomo and
#onfleek that have become part of everyday online
vernacular; and other ways in which Twitter has been used
by, for, and against women, people of color, LGBTQ, and
Global South communities.
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9. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
THE BIG THAW
Ezra B.W. Zubrow, Errol Meidinger, and Kim Diana Connolly, editors
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7563-9
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Climate change, one of the drivers of global change, is
controversial in political circles, but recognized in scientific
ones as being of central importance today for the United
States and the world. This book brings together experts,
advocates, and academic professionals who address the
serious issue of how climate change in the Circumpolar Arctic
is affecting and will continue to affect environments, cultures,
societies, and economies throughout the world. The
contributors discuss a variety of topics, including
anthropology, sociology, human geography, community
economics, and regional development and planning, as well
as biogeophysical sciences such as ecology, human-
environmental interactions, and climatology.
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10. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
IMAGES OF IMMIGRANTS
AND REFUGEES IN
WESTERN EUROPE
Leen d’Haenens, Willem Joris, and François Heinderyckx, editors
ISBN: 978-9-4627-0180-9
LEUVEN UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
The topic of migration has become particularly contentious in
national and international debates. This book examines the
dynamic interplay between media representations of migrants
and refugees on the one hand and the governmental and
societal (re)actions to these on the other. Largely focusing on
Belgium and Sweden, this collection of interdisciplinary
research essays attempts to unravel the determinants of
people’s preferences regarding migration policy, expectations
towards newcomers, and economic, humanitarian and
cultural concerns about immigration’s effect on the majority
population’s life. Whilst migrants and refugees remain
voiceless and highly underrepresented in the legacy media,
this volume allows their voices to be heard.
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11. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
NOT FAR FROM ME
Daniel Skinner and Berkeley Franz, editors
Ted Strickland, foreword
ISBN: 978-0-8142-5538-4
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
While many have observed the effects of America’s opioid
crisis from a distance, Not Far from Me collects fifty first-
person accounts to provide a detailed mosaic of the many
dimensions of this public health emergency. Clergy,
politicians, family members, addiction survivors, medical
professionals, and more share personal stories, poetry,
interviews, and photos from the front lines. Themes of pain
and healing, despair and hope are woven throughout.
Ultimately, Not Far from Me humanizes the battle against
addiction, challenges the stigma surrounding drug users, and
unflinchingly faces the devastating realities of the epidemic.
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12. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
AWAKENING DEMOCRACY
THROUGH PUBLIC WORK
Harry C. Boyle, author
Marie Strom, Isak Tranvik, Tami Moore, Susan O’Connor,
and Donna Patterson, contributors
ISBN: 978-0-8265-2218-4
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E In the face of authoritarian, divisive trends, when politics-as-
usual is stymied, Awakening Democracy through Public Work
shows it is possible to build foundations for a democratic
awakening grounded in American traditions of a citizen-
centered commonwealth. The book begins with the story of
Public Achievement, a youth civic education and
empowerment initiative. Using the Public Achievement
framework, young people practice "citizen politics" as they
tackle issues ranging from bullying, racism, and sexual
harassment to playground improvements, curriculum
changes, and better school lunches. The book also explores
other powerful examples of public work, including in
education, health, and government, throughout the world.
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13. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
CHICANA MOVIDAS
Dionne Espinoza, María Eugenia Cotera, and Maylei Blackwell, editors
ISBN: 978-1-4773-1559-0
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
I M A G E H E R E With contributions from a wide array of scholars and activists,
including leading Chicana feminists from the period, this
groundbreaking anthology is the first collection of scholarly
essays and testimonios that focuses on Chicana organizing,
activism, and leadership in the movement years. The essays
in Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and
Feminism in the Movement Era demonstrate how Chicanas
enacted a new kind of politica at the intersection of race,
class, gender, and sexuality, and developed innovative
concepts, tactics, and methodologies that in turn generated
new theories, art forms, organizational spaces, and strategies
of alliance.
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14. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
NANNIE HELEN
BURROUGHS
Nannie Helen Burroughs, author
Kelisha B. Graves, editor and annotator
ISBN: 978-0-2681-0553-2
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Nannie Helen Burroughs is just one of the many African
American intellectuals whose work has been long excluded
from the literary canon. In her time, Burroughs was a
celebrated African American female activist, educator, and
intellectual. This book represents a landmark contribution to
African American intellectual history by allowing readers to
experience Burroughs in her own words. This anthology of
her works written between 1900 and 1959 encapsulates
Burroughs' work as a theologian, philosopher, activist,
educator, intellectual, and evangelist, as well as the myriad of
ways that her career resisted definition.
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15. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
WRITING AS PUNISHMENT
IN SCHOOLS, COURTS, AND
EVERYDAY LIFE
Spencer Schaffner, author
ISBN: 978-8173-5955-3
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
This fascinating inquiry into how sinister writing can truly be
directly questions the educational ideal that powerful writing
is invariably a public good. Spencer Schaffner argues that
writing-based punishment should not be dismissed as benign
or condemned as a misguided perversion of writing, but
instead should be understood as an instrument capable of
furthering both the aims of justice and degradation. Through
five succinct case studies, Schaffner provides careful
analysis of familiar punishments, such as schoolchildren
copying lines, and more bizarre public rituals that result in
ink-covered bodies and individuals forced to hold signs in
public.
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16. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
BECAUSE THE LIGHT WILL
NOT FORGIVE ME
Shaun T. Griffin, author
ISBN: 978-1-9489-0821-4
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
This luminous and moving book of essays weaves together a
poetic meditation on living meaningfully in this world. Always
grounded in place—be it Nevada, South Africa, North Dakota,
Spain, Zimbabwe, or Mexico—Shaun T. Griffin confronts the
world with an openness that allows him to learn and grow
from the people he meets. Griffin recounts his discoveries as
a poet and devoted reader of poetry, a teacher of the
disadvantaged, a friend of poets and artists, and a
responsible member of the human family.
Through his adroit essays, Griffin creates a global community
full of diverse voices and landscapes. This moving book is a
meditation on how all of us can confront our own influences
to achieve wholeness in our lives.
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17. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
SEA LEVEL RISE
Orrin H. Pilkey and Keith C. Pilkey, authors
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0637-4
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Acknowledging the impending worldwide catastrophe of
rising seas in the twenty-first century, Orrin H. Pilkey and
Keith C. Pilkey outline the impacts on the United States'
shoreline and argue that the only feasible response along
much of the U.S. shoreline is an immediate and managed
retreat.
With a final chapter entitled "What You Can Do about Sea
Level Rise," this book is an urgent call to action for residents
along the coast, developers, lawmakers, and all citizens who
care about climate change.
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18. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
A DECENT LIFE
Todd May, author
ISBN: 978-0-2266-0974-4
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
You’re never going to be a saint. So . . . How good is good
enough? What does it take to live a decent life? Todd May
has answers. In A Decent Life, May leads readers through
the traditional philosophical bases of a number of arguments
about what ethics asks of us, then he develops a more
reasonable and actionable way of thinking about them, one
that shows us how we can use philosophical insights to
interact with the complicated world around us. He explores
how we should approach the many relationships in our
lives—with friends, family, animals, people in need—through
the use of a realistic, if no less fundamentally serious, moral
compass. With humor, insight, and a lively and accessible
style, May opens a discussion about how we can, realistically,
lead the good life that we aspire to.
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19. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
THE PRIVILEGED POOR
Anthony Abraham Jack, author
ISBN: 978-0-6749-7689-4
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College
presidents and deans of admission have opened their
doors—and their coffers—to support a more diverse student
body. But is it enough just to admit these students? In The
Privileged Poor, Anthony Jack reveals that the struggles of
less privileged students continue long after they’ve arrived on
campus. This bracing and necessary book documents how
university policies and cultures can exacerbate preexisting
inequalities and reveals why these policies hit some students
harder than others. If we truly want our top colleges to be
engines of opportunity, university policies and campus
cultures will have to change. Jack provides concrete advice
to help schools reduce these hidden disadvantages—advice
we cannot afford to ignore.
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20. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
PROTEST AND DEMOCRACY
Moisés Arce and Roberta Rice, editors
ISBN: 978-1-77385-045-0
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
In 2011, protests from Occupy Wall Street to the Arab Spring
took over headlines across the world. Led by ordinary people,
these mass protests challenged political leaders, exposed
failures of representation, and revealed the turmoil left by
economic crisis. But what—if anything—did these protests
accomplish?
Protest and Democracy interrogates the 2011 protest cycle
and corresponding politics and policy. Including examples
from across the political spectrum, this book calls attention to
the content and claims of protest movements, examines how
they are formed, and provides an in-depth examination of
what they can accomplish.
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21. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
REFUGEES IN AMERICA
Lee T. Bycel, author
Ishmael Beah, foreword
Dona Kopol Bonick, photographs
ISBN: 978-1-9788-0621-4
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
In this book, eleven men and women share their
extraordinary stories of fleeing life-threatening hardship in
their home countries in search of a better life in the United
States. Giving voice to refugees from such far-flung locations
as Eritrea, Guatemala, Poland, Syria, and Vietnam, it weaves
together a rich tapestry of human resilience, suffering, and
determination.
"Refugees in America is a timely, important, and deeply
moving testament to the profound ways in which refugees
have enriched our nation. By letting refugees tell their stories,
Rabbi Lee Bycel reminds us of their humanity and our
responsibilities to help them.”
— Former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright
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22. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
A BETTER PLANET
Daniel C. Esty, editor
ISBN: 978-0-3002-4624-7
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
A practical, bipartisan call to action from the world’s leading
thinkers on the environment and sustainability. The book’s
forty essays, edited by celebrated scholar Daniel C. Esty,
cover such subjects as ecology, environmental justice, Big
Data, public health, and climate change, all with an emphasis
on sustainability. The book focuses on moving toward
sustainability through actionable, bipartisan approaches
based on rigorous analytical research.
There is no bigger question facing humans than that of our
fate if climate change continues unabated. These essays
don’t just highlight the need to address critical challenges like
greenhouse gases, water shortages, and air pollution. They
show us how.
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23. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
THE MYTH OF COEQUAL
BRANCHES
David J. Siemers, author
ISBN: 978-0-8262-2169-8
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
The idea that the three branches of U.S. government are
equal in power is taught in classrooms, proclaimed by
politicians, and referenced in the media. But, as David
Siemers shows, that idea is a myth, neither intended by the
Founders nor true in practice. Siemers explains how
adherence to this myth normalizes a politics of gridlock, in
which the action of any branch can be checked by the
reaction of any other. The Founders, however, envisioned a
separation of functions rather than a separation of powers.
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24. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
TRUTHS AND LIES IN THE
MIDDLE EAST
Eric Rouleau, author
Alain Gresh, foreword
ISBN: 978-9-7741-6906-9
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
In 1963, journalist Eric Rouleau was invited by Gamal Abd al-
Nasser to interview him in Cairo. Nasser’s move was not lost
on the young Rouleau—engaging him, a young Egyptian Jew
who had been exiled from Egypt in late 1951 and had joined
Le Monde in 1955, was a means to renew diplomatic ties with
de Gaulle's France. This exclusive interview propelled
Rouleau into the center of the region's conflicts for two
decades as a journalist and a statesman. More than a
memoir, this book presents a history, lived from the inside, of
the Israel-Palestine conflict.
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25. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
BURY MY HEART AT CHUCK
E. CHEESE’S
Tiffany Midge, author
Geary Hobson, foreword
ISBN: 978-1-4962-1557-4
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s is a powerful and
inviting collection of Tiffany Midge’s musings on life, politics,
and identity as a Native woman in America.
With section titles such as “Me, Cutting in Front of All the
People in All the Lines Forever: ‘It’s Okay, I Literally Was
Here First’,” Midge uses humor to engage readers
thoughtfully about life, politics, and Native identity in America.
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26. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
NAMING OUR SINS
Jana M. Bennett and David Cloutier, editors
ISBN: 978-0-8132-3163-1
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
In this volume, editors Jana Bennett and David Cloutier
gather some of the best of the current generation of moral
theologians in order to reflect on the classic tradition of the
vices. Each chapter takes on a different classical vice,
describing the vice, exploring its dimensions in contemporary
experience, and moving the reader toward naming specific
sins that arise from the vice. Naming Our Sins offers an up-
to-date approach to confessing our sins.
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27. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
FROM TURTLE ISLAND TO
GAZA
David Groulx, author
ISBN: 978-1-7719-9261-9
ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E From Turtle Island to Gaza is an expression of solidarity
between the people of Palestine and Indigenous peoples in
North America. In these brief, yet powerful poems, David
Groulx grounds the abstract issues of colonization into
heartfelt human terms and reminds readers that colonialism
is not a concept of the past, it is a current reality. Touching on
cultural appropriation, police prejudice, and the loss of
Indigenous languages, Groulx offers his experiences to the
people of Palestine as a bridge between oppressed cultures.
This collection exposes the limited thinking around
decolonization and reconciliation and contains a message of
hope for colonized peoples.
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28. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
EARTH EMOTIONS
Glenn A. Albrechy, author
ISBN: 978-1-5017-1522-8
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E Amidst climate change and habitat loss, our emotional
relationship to the Earth is in crisis. Pessimism and distress
can feel overwhelming. In this maelstrom of emotion,
solastalgia (feeling homesick when you are still at home) has
become the defining emotion of the 21st century. In Earth
Emotions, Glenn A. Albrecht introduces us to the new words
we need to describe the full range of our emotional
responses to a planet in crisis. We need a hopeful new
vocabulary of positive emotions, argues Albrecht, so that we
can extricate ourselves from environmental desolation and
reignite a biophilia to save our home.
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29. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
BEYOND THE REBEL GIRL
Heather Mayer, author
ISBN: 978-0-87071-939-4
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Historian Heather Mayer questions the well-worn vision of
Wobblies as young, single, male, itinerant workers. In small
towns across the Northwest, and in the larger cities, women
played an integral role in Wobbly life. Single women, but also
families—husband and wife Wobbly teams—played important
roles in some of the biggest fights for justice. Women were
drawn to the IWW for its radical vision, inclusionary policies,
birth control advocacy, and emphasis on freedom of choice in
marriage. Beyond the Rebel Girl deepens our understanding
of how the IWW functioned and how the union supported
women.
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30. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
DOLORES HUERTA STANDS
STRONG
Marlene Targ Brill, author
ISBN: 978-0-8214-2330-1
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Dolores Huerta Stands Strong is a biography for young
readers. In it, author Marlene Brill introduces the life and work
of a woman who has tirelessly advocated for the rights of
farmworkers, Mexican American immigrants, women, and
LGBTQ populations.
Since its 2018 publication, the book has received starred
reviews from School Library Journal and Kirkus; this past
spring, it was named a Bank Street College of Education Best
Book of the Year for 2018 in its category.
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31. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
MLA GUIDE TO DIGITAL
LITERACY
Ellen C. Carillo, author
ISBN: 978-1-60329-439-3
MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
I M A G E H E R E Students face challenges assessing, responding to, and
producing information in today’s fast-paced, complex digital
landscape. This guide helps students understand why digital
literacy is a critically important skill: their education, future
careers, and participation in democratic processes rely on it.
Hands-on, structured activities give students strategies for
evaluating the credibility of sources, detecting fake news,
understanding bias, and more. Readings and writing prompts
support specific concepts, including how to craft a research
question and effectively conduct searches.
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32. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
Marvin Kalb, author
ISBN: 978-0-81573530-4
BROOKINGS INSTITUTION PRESS
I M A G E H E R E After assuming office in January 2017, President Donald
Trump accused the press of the being an “enemy of the
people”—a tactic employed infamously by twentieth-century
dictators. In Enemy of the People, Marvin Kalb, an award-
winning American journalist, writes with passion about why
we should be concerned, recalling instances when the press
has been a bulwark in the defense of democracy.
Marvin Kalb's Enemy of the People is both a frightening
indictment of President Trump's attempts to delegitimize the
American Press but also a call to arms for press to live up to
its legacy.
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33. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
FIGHTER IN VELVET
GLOVES
Annie Boochever, author
Roy Peratrovich, advisor
ISBN: 978-1-6022-3370-6
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
"No Natives Allowed!” The sign blared at the young Tlingit girl
from southeast Alaska. The sting of those words stayed with
Elizabeth Peratrovich all her life. They also made her
determined to work for change. In 1945, when Elizabeth was
34 years old, she gave a powerful speech before a packed
session of the Alaska Territorial Legislature. Her testimony
about the evils of racism crowned years of work by Alaska
Native People and their allies and led to passage of Alaska's
landmark Anti-Discrimination Act, nearly two decades before
President Lyndon Johnson signed the US Civil Rights Act of
1964.
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34. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
AMERICAN STUDIES NOW
Julie Sze, Lázaro Lima, and L.H. Stallings, authors
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
I M A G E H E R E Much of the most exciting contemporary work in American
Studies refuses the distinction between politics and culture—
focusing on historical cultures of power and protest on the
one hand, or the political importance of cultural practices on
the other. The titles in American Studies Now cover these
political and cultural intersections while such teachable
moments are at the center of public conversation.
Understand the public conversation surrounding the
intersectional, historical cultures of power and protest in the
present day United States through this series of short,
compelling, and empowering books.
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35. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
DETAIN AND PUNISH
Carol Lindskoog, author
ISBN: 978-1-6022-3370-6
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF FLORIDA
I M A G E H E R E
Immigrants make up the largest proportion of federal
prisoners in the United States, incarcerated in a vast network
of more than two hundred detention facilities. In Detain and
Punish, Carl Lindskoog investigates when detention became
a centerpiece of US immigration policy, arguing that systems
designed for Haitian refugees in the 1970s laid the
groundwork for the way immigrants to America are treated
today. This book provides essential historical context for the
challenges faced by today’s immigrant groups, which are
some of the most critical issues of our time. Detain and
Punish offers an important historical perspective on America's
current immigrant detention crisis.
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36. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
ALL OUR TRIALS
Emily L. Thuma, author
ISBN: 978-0-252-08412-6
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
I M A G E H E R E During the 1970s, grassroots women activists in and outside
of prisons forged a radical politics against gender violence
and incarceration. Emily L. Thuma traces the making of this
anticarceral feminism at the intersections of struggles for
racial and economic justice, prisoners’ and psychiatric
patients’ rights, and gender and sexual liberation. All Our
Trials explores the organizing, ideas, and influence of those
who placed criminalized and marginalized women at the
heart of their antiviolence mobilizations. In the process, it
illuminates a crucial chapter in an unfinished struggle––one
that continues in today’s movements against mass
incarceration and in support of transformative justice.
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37. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
LYNCHING
Ersula J. Ore, author
ISBN: 978-1-4968-2408-0
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI
I M A G E H E R E
Ersula J. Ore investigates lynching as a racialized practice of
civic engagement, in effect an argument against black
inclusion within the changing nation. Ore scrutinizes the civic
roots of lynching, the relationship between lynching and white
constitutionalism, and contemporary manifestations of
lynching discourse and logic today.
From the 1880s onward, lynchings manifested a violent form
of symbolic action that called a national public into existence,
denoted citizenship, and upheld political community. Ore
demonstrates how lynching functioned as a strategy
interwoven with the formation of America’s national identity
and with the nation’s need to continually restrict and redefine
that identity.
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38. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
TRUTH TELLING IN A POST-
TRUTH WORLD
D. Stephen Long, author
ISBN: 978-1-9459-3550-3
GBHEM PUBLISHING
I M A G E H E R E
In recent years, truth has become a relative term. How can
we recognize the truth when everyone does “what is right in
their own eyes”? When we accept and expect lies, how is civil
society possible? If everyone has their own moral compass,
is there any compass at all? Drawing on his expertise as an
ethics scholar at Southern Methodist University’s Perkins
School of Theology, D. Stephen Long explains the vital role of
truth in securing our freedom and the duty of people of faith
to recognize the truth and speak it. Truth Telling in a Post-
Truth World reminds all of us how to witness to the truth and
share it as a beacon of hope.
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39. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
THE HUMAN AND
ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS
OF TWENTY-FIRST
CENTURY IMMIGRATION
POLICY
Susan Pozo, editor
DOI: 10.17848/978-0-8809-9657-0
W.E. UPJOHN INSTITUTE FOR
EMPLOYMENT RESEARCH
I M A G E H E R E
To effectively debate immigration policy we need to be better
informed. This book helps by presenting a group of prominent
scholars who use data to help unravel the facts. They
address immigration’s fiscal impacts, immigrants’
generational assimilation, enhanced U.S. enforcement, and
alternatives for those seeking refugee status. Together, they
help move us from the personal to the analytical, providing us
a rational appraisal of immigration and the policies currently
before us.
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40. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
TO SERVE THE PEOPLE
LeRoy Chatfield, author; with Jorge Mariscal
ISBN: 978-0-8263-6087-8
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
I M A G E H E R E From the cloisters of the Christian Brothers to the fields of
Central California and the streets of Sacramento, LeRoy
Chatfield’s story reveals a fierce commitment to those who
were denied the promises of the American dream. In this
collection of what the author calls Easy Essays, Chatfield
recounts the decade he spent with the farmworker
movement—advocating alongside Cesar Chavez and
directing the development of cooperative businesses to
support the farmworkers—and his later career as executive
director of Loaves & Fishes, a nonprofit serving Sacramento’s
homeless population. In frank, accessible language, Chatfield
shares lessons from a lifetime of service.
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41. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
THE NATURE OF HOPE
Char Miller and Jeff Crane, editors
ISBN: 978-1-60732-907-7
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF COLORADO
I M A G E H E R E The Nature of Hope focuses on the dynamics of
environmental activism at the local level, examining the
environmental and political cultures that emerge in the
context of conflict. The book considers how ordinary people
have coalesced to demand environmental justice and
highlights the powerful role of intersectionality in shaping the
on-the-ground dynamics of popular protest and social
change.
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42. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
NITINIKIAU INNUSI
Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue, author
Elizabeth Yeoman, editor
ISBN: 978-0-88755-840-5
UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
“What are we going to do for our children before it’s too late?
How will they live if everything that matters is lost?”—Diary
entry for November 8, 1987, Tshaukuesh Elizabeth
Penashue.
Penashue led the Innu campaign against NATO’s low-level
flying and bomb testing on Innu land during the 1980s and
’90s, and was a key respondent in a landmark legal case in
which the judge held that the Innu had the “colour of right” to
occupy the Canadian Forces base in Goose Bay, Labrador.
Over the past twenty years she has led walks and canoe trips
in nutshimit, “on the land,” to teach people about Innu culture
and knowledge.
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43. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
PEOPLE’S PEACE
Yasmin Saikia and Chad Haines, editors
ISBN: 978-0-8156-3661-8
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
People’s Peace lays a solid foundation for the argument that
global peace is possible because ordinary people are its
architects. Yasmin Saikia and Chad Haines offer a unique
perspective on people’s daily lives across the world as they
struggle to create peace despite escalating political violence.
The essays in this volume provide case studies of individuals
defying authority or overcoming cultural stigmas to create
peaceful relations in their communities. From investigating
how ancient Jews established communal justice to exploring
how black and white citizens in Ferguson, Missouri are
working to achieve racial harmony, the contributors find that
people are acting independently to identify everyday methods
of coexisting with others.
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44. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
STAY WOKE
Tehama Lopez Bunyasi and Candis Watts Smith, authors
ISBN: 978-1-4798-3648-2
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
In this essential primer, Tehama Lopez Bunyasi and Candis
Watts Smith inspire readers to address the pressing issues of
racial inequality, and provide a basic toolkit that will equip
them to become knowledgeable participants in public debate,
activism, and politics. This book offers a clear vision of a
racially just society, and shows just how far we still need to go
to achieve this reality. From activists to students to the
average citizen, Stay Woke empowers all readers to work
toward a better future for black Americans.
This essential guide to understanding racism and racial
inequality inspires readers with new ways of working toward
racial justice in America.
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45. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
THE WORLD PUSHES BACK
Garret Keizer, author
ISBN: 978-1-6800-03184-3
TEXAS REVIEW PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
“Because the works cover a 40-year span, there’s no clear
throughline, but the fact that they read as miscellany is no
defect. Rather, it allows readers to observe a skilled writer
and deep thinker as he roves far and wide with his insights.
The passage of time is a recurring concern; in ‘Now and
Then,’ for example, he thinks back to the days before the
oppressive white noise of electricity: ‘How quiet they must
have been, / the days before power / became so literally a
household word. / I think that sounds were sharper / against
that stillness, / bird songs and piano chords, / the voice that
called your name.’ In this piece, Keizer renders the author’s
purest dream; after all, what writer doesn’t hope that his
words might ring out more piercingly?”—Kirkus
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46. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
AMERICAN RESISTANCE
Dana R. Fisher, author
ISBN: 978-0-2311-8764-0
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
American Resistance traces activists from the streets back to
the communities and congressional districts around the
country where they live, work, and vote. Using innovative
data, Dana R. Fisher analyzes how resistance groups have
channeled outrage into activism.
American Resistance “is a must-read for anyone who wants
to understand the people-powered movements that are
changing American politics in the Trump era."
—Leah Greenberg, co-executive director, Indivisible
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47. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
STANDING WITH STANDING
ROCK
Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhillon, editors
ISBN: 978-1-5179-0536-1
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
I M A G E H E R E Amid the Standing Rock movement to protect the land and
the water that millions depend on for life, the Oceti Sakowin
(the Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota people) reunited. Through
poetry and prose, essays, photography, interviews, and
polemical interventions, the contributors reflect on Indigenous
history and politics and on the movement’s significance.
Challenge your understanding of colonial history. Pick up
these essential guideposts for activism.
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48. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
FUKUSHIMA FICTION
Rachel DiNitto, author
ISBN: 978-0-8248-7797-2
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Fukushima Fiction examines the powerful literary works that
have emerged from Japan’s triple disaster, known as 3/11.
The book traces the literature thematically, from the local
experience of victims, through regional and national
conceptualizations, to considerations of the disaster as
history, and to global concerns common to nuclear incidents
worldwide. Although Rachel DiNitto includes writings on the
earthquake and tsunami, she contends that Fukushima fiction
reaches its critical potential as a literature of nuclear
resistance, providing the necessary voice to combat
government and nuclear industry’s attempts to move the
disaster off the headlines as the 2020 Olympics approach
and Japan restarts its idle nuclear power plants.
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49. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
DRIVING IN CARS WITH
HOMELESS MEN
Kate Wisel, author
ISBN: 978-0-8229-4568-0
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS
I M A G E H E R E Our 2019 Drue Heinz Literature Prize winner, Driving in Cars
with Homeless Men by Kate Wisel, is a love letter to women
moving through violence. These linked stories are set in the
streets and the bars, the old homes, the tiny apartments, and
the landscape of a working-class Boston. Serena, Frankie,
Raffa, and Nat collide and break apart like pool balls to come
back together in an imagined post-divorce future. With riotous
energy and rage, these women run towards the future in the
hopes of untangling themselves from failure to succeed and
fail again.
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50. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
RADICAL HOPE
Kevin M. Gannon, author
ISBN: 978-1-949199-51-2
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Higher education has seen better days. Harsh budget cuts,
the precarious nature of employment in college teaching, and
political hostility to the entire enterprise of education have
made for an increasingly fraught landscape. Radical Hope is
an ambitious response to this state of affairs, at once political
and practical—the work of an activist, teacher, and public
intellectual grappling with some of the most pressing topics at
the intersection of higher education and social justice.
Radical Hope tackles urgent issues confronting the university
today—from imposter syndrome to cell phones in class to
allegations of a campus “free speech crisis”—arguing that,
when done effectively, teaching is by definition emancipatory
and hopeful.
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51. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
AFTER GUN VIOLENCE
Craig Rood, author
ISBN: 978-0-271-08384-1
PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Just as mass shootings have become the “new normal” in
American life, so has the public debate that follows: blame is
cast, political postures are assumed, but no meaningful policy
changes are enacted.
In After Gun Violence: Deliberation and Memory in an Age of
Political Gridlock, Craig Rood examines how advocacy
groups, community leaders, politicians, and everyday citizens
talk about gun violence and suggests how we might discuss
the issues more productively. Part of PSU Press’s Rhetoric
and Democratic Deliberation series, After Gun Violence was
included in Project Muse’s open access “Addressing Gun
Violence” project in August.
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52. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
INDIGENOUS FOOD
SOVEREIGNTY IN THE
UNITED STATES
Devon A. Mihesuah and Elizabeth Hoover, editors
Winona LaDuke, foreword
ISBN: 978-0-8061-6321-5
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Unprecedented in its scope, this collection of essays
addresses nearly every aspect of indigenous food
sovereignty, from revitalizing ancestral gardens and
traditional ways of hunting, gathering, and seed saving to the
realities of racism, treaty abrogation, tribal sociopolitical
factionalism, and the entrenched beliefs that processed foods
are superior to traditional tribal fare. The contributors include
scholar-activists of ethnobotany, history, anthropology,
nutrition, marine environmentalism, and federal Indian law, as
well as indigenous seed savers, cooks, farmers, and
community activists. These writers offer encouragement to
those concerned about environmental destruction, loss of
species habitat, and governmental food control.
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53. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
THE ATHENIAN CITIZEN
Mabel Lang, author
John McK. Camp II, revised edition preparation
ISBN: 98-0-87661-642-2
AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL
STUDIES AT ATHENS
I M A G E H E R E
Reprinted in 2019, this introduction to the workings of ancient
democracy has been a bestseller since it was first published
almost 60 years ago. Using archaeological evidence from
excavations at the heart of ancient Athens, this volume shows
the ways in which tribal identity was central to all aspects of
civic life, guiding the reader through the varying duties of
citizenship during peace and war. Also described are the
checks and balances that protected Athenian society from
tyrants, such as ostracism, and the ingenious devices used to
ensure fairness in the courts, including jury selection
machines and water clocks.
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54. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
RESISTING
DISAPPEARANCE
Ather Zia, author
ISBN: 978-0-2957-4498-8
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
I M A G E H E R E Drawn from Ather Zia’s ten years of engagement with the
Association of the Parents of the Disappeared Persons as an
anthropologist and fellow Kashmiri activist, Resisting
Disappearance follows mothers and “half-widows” as they
step boldly into courts, military camps, and morgues in
search of their disappeared kin. Through an amalgam of
ethnography, poetry, and photography, Zia illuminates how
dynamics of gender and trauma in Kashmir have been
transformed in the face of South Asia’s longest-running
conflict, providing profound insight into how Kashmiri women
and men nurture a politics of resistance while facing
increasing military violence under India.
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55. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
ECOLOGICAL
RESTORATION
Steven N. Handel, editor
ISSN: 1522-4740
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS
I M A G E H E R E Ecological Restoration is a forum for people advancing the
science and practice of restoration ecology. This quarterly
journal features articles on the technical and biological
aspects of restoring landscapes, as well as collaborations
between restorationists and the design professions, land-use
policy, the role of education, and more. To help readers
connect with further scholarship and communities of practice,
Ecological Restoration also includes perspectives and notes,
book reviews, abstracts of restoration ecology progress
published elsewhere, and announcements of scientific and
professional meetings.
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56. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
HUMANITY IN CRISIS
David Hollenbach, SJ, author
ISBN: 978-1-62616-718-6
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Millions have been killed and many more have been driven
from their homes in the major recent humanitarian crises: the
Shoah, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Rwandan genocide,
the massacre in Bosnia, the tsunami in Southeast Asia, and
bloody conflicts in South Sudan, Syria, and Afghanistan. The
number of refugees and internally displaced persons has
reached record levels.
David Hollenbach explores the economic and political causes
of these tragedies and uncovers key moral issues. He then
draws on the values that have shaped major humanitarian
initiatives to examine the scope of our responsibilities and
practical solutions to these global crises.
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57. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
COMING OF AGE AT THE
END OF NATURE
Susan A. Cohen and Julie Dunlap, editors
Bill McKibben, foreword
ISBN: 978-1-5953-4780-0
TRINITY UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Coming of Age at the End of Nature explores a new kind of
environmental writing. This powerful anthology gathers the
passionate voices of young writers who have grown up in an
environmentally damaged and compromised world. Each
contributor has come of age since Bill McKibben foretold the
doom of humanity’s ancient relationship with a pristine earth
in his prescient 1988 warning of climate change, The End of
Nature.
Taken as a whole, the work of these compelling young writers
creates a space where everyone can listen and demand
accelerated action of climate change for the future.
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58. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
A PEOPLE’S ATLAS OF
DETROIT
Linda Campbell, Andrew Newman, Sara Safransky, and Tim Stallman,
editors
ISBN: 978-0-8143-4297-8
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E This interdisciplinary volume features contributions by more
than fifty figures from movement building efforts in Detroit,
including activists, farmers, students, educators, scholars,
not-for-profit and city government workers, and members of
neighborhood block clubs. Developed from a community-
based participatory project, the book speaks to the
challenges of fighting for land and housing justice, food
sovereignty, economic democracy, accountable governance,
and the right to the city. A People’s Atlas of Detroit weaves
together maps, poetry, interviews, photographs, essays, and
stories to critique status quo urban governance while
elucidating radical visions for change.
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59. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
THERE IS NO PLANET B
Mike Berners-Lee, author
ISBN: 978-1-1084-3958-9
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Escaping to Planet B to avoid environmental catastrophe is
pure fantasy, but feeding the world, climate change,
biodiversity, plastics—the list of concerns on Earth seems
endless. What is most pressing, what are the knock-on
effects of our actions, and what should we do first to combat
this global challenge? With astonishing facts and analysis,
There is No Planet B maps out a course of action that is
practical and even enjoyable for what you can actually do to
help humanity thrive on this—our only—planet.
There Is No Planet B is for anyone who yearns for a realistic
alternative to the destructive path the world is on at the
moment and wants practical advice on how they can make
things better.
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60. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
RESURGENCE AND
RECONCILIATION
Michael Asch, John Borrows, and James Tully, editors
ISBN: 978-1-4875-2327-5
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
By using “earth-teachings” to inform social practices, the
editors and contributors offer a rich, innovative, and holistic
way forward in response to the world’s most profound natural
and social challenges. This book shows how the complexities
and interconnections of resurgence and reconciliation and
the living earth are often overlooked in contemporary
discourse and debate.
This book calls for quiet contemplation and a peaceful
reframing of the debates and challenges facing all people,
both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, making this a
profoundly important counter-colonial work. Reading this
book should force people to think, rethink, and act.
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61. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
KNOWLEDGE RESISTANCE
Mikael Klintman, author
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3520-9
MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E Why do people and groups ignore, deny and resist
knowledge about society's many problems? In a world of
“alternative facts” and “fake news” that some believe could be
remedied by “factfulness,” the question has never been more
pressing. After years of ideologically polarized debates on
this topic, the book seeks to further advance our
understanding of the phenomenon of knowledge resistance
by integrating insights from the social, economic and
evolutionary sciences. It identifies simplistic views in public
and scholarly debates about what facts, knowledge and
human motivations are and what “rational” use of information
actually means.
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62. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
MOMENTS OF TRUTH
Howard Ruffner, author
ISBN: 978-1-60635-367-7
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E Howard Ruffner was a college sophomore when the tragic
shootings of May 4, 1970, occurred―leaving four students
dead and nine wounded. A student photographer, he was
asked to serve as a stringer for Life magazine as campus
protests against the Vietnam War intensified and National
Guard troops arrived. Several of his photographs, including
one from the cover of Life, have been etched into our
collective consciousness. This book includes 150
photographs, many never before published, alongside
Ruffner’s reflections.
“Tells the unbroken story of a day that nearly broke
America.”—Thomas M. Grace
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63. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
VOTES FOR WOMEN
Kate Clarke Lemay, author
With contributions by Susan Goodier, Martha S. Jones, and Lisa Tetrault
ISBN: 9780691191171
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Published in association with the National Portrait Gallery and
marking the centenary of the ratification of the Nineteenth
Amendment in 1920, Votes for Women is a richly illustrated
history of the national suffrage movement. Weaving together
a diverse collection of portraits and other visual materials with
biographical narratives and trenchant essays, this
comprehensive book presents fresh perspectives on the
history of the movement. Drawing attention to
underrecognized individuals and groups, and exploring the
obstacles African-American women faced when organizing
with white suffragists, Votes for Women sheds new light on
the suffrage movement’s relevance for our own time.
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64. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
WHEN WORDS TRUMP
POLITICS
Adam Hodges, author
ISBN: 978-1-5036-1079-8
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E Those who study democracy have long emphasized the need
for an informed electorate. But being informed on political
issues also demands a keen understanding of the way
language is used to convey, discuss, debate, and contest
those issues. When Words Trump Politics decodes and
analyzes today’s political rhetoric. The actionable insights in
this book give journalists, politicians, and all Americans the
tools they need to respond to the politics of hate. When
Words Trump Politics is an essential resource for political
resistance, for anyone who cares about freeing democracy
from the spell of demagoguery.
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65. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
TO THINK LIKE A MOUNTAIN
Niels S. Nokkentved, author
ISBN: 978-0-8742-2368-2
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
In the West, shortsighted self-interest has resulted in
devastating environmental losses. Author Niels S.
Nokkentved encourages people to think like a mountain—to
consider long-term consequences. His essays examine
cultural conflicts over resource extraction, threats to
watersheds by abandoned mines, wolf recovery in the
northern Rocky Mountains, lingering effects of livestock
grazing on western rangelands, and rapidly disappearing
sage grouse. He discusses the value of forest fires and
beavers, failed promises of salmon hatcheries, reasons
behind the Pacific Northwest timber industry decline, and how
unlikely allies learned to set aside their differences to resolve
long-standing disputes.
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66. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
RETHINKING OPEN SOCIETY
Michael Ignatieff and Stefan Roch, editors
ISBN: 978-963-386-270-4
CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E The key values of the Open Society—freedom, justice,
tolerance, democracy, and respect for knowledge—are
increasingly under threat in today’s world. As an effort to
uphold those values, this volume brings together key thinkers
to re-examine the Open Society closely in terms of its history,
its achievements and failures, and its future prospects. These
studies, among others, reveal the genetic proximity of the
ideals of the Open Society and the fundamental values of the
Euro-Atlantic integration. The book is deeply embedded in
the mission of the Central European University to educate
skeptical but passionate citizens.
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67. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
PROPAGANDA ART IN THE
21ST CENTURY
Jonas Staal, author
ISBN: 978-0-2620-4280-2
MIT PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
In Propaganda Art in the 21st Century, Staal offers an
essential guide for understanding propaganda art in the post-
truth era and shows that propaganda is not a relic of a
totalitarian past but occurs today even in liberal democracies.
This illuminating and timely book discusses artistic and
cultural productions developed by such popular mass
movements of the twenty-first century as the Occupy,
activism by and in support of undocumented migrants and
refugees, and struggles for liberation in such countries as
Mali and Syria.
Propaganda does not merely make a political point; it aims to
construct reality itself.
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68. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
UNCONSCIOUS BIAS IN
SCHOOL
Tracy A. Benson and Sarah E. Fiarman, authors
ISBN: 978-1-68253-369-7
HARVARD EDUCATION PRESS
I M A G E H E R E In Unconscious Bias in Schools, two seasoned educators
describe the phenomenon of unconscious racial bias and
how it negatively affects the work of educators and students
in schools. All too often, conversations about race become
mired in questions of attitude or intention—“But I’m not a
racist!” This book shows how information about unconscious
bias can help shift conversations among educators to a more
productive, collegial approach that has the potential to disrupt
the patterns of perception that perpetuate racism and
institutional injustice.
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69. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
REIMAGINING A PLACE FOR
THE WILD
Leslie Miller and Louise Excell, editors; with Christopher Smart
ISBN: 978-1-6078-1661-4
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRESS
I M A G E H E R E Gleaned from historians, journalists, biologists, ranchers,
artists, philosophers, teachers, and conservationists, these
narratives expose the complex challenges faced by wild
animals and those devoted to understanding them. Whether
discussing species like grizzly bears and gray wolves or
microfauna swimming the thermal depths of geysers, these
accounts reflect the authors’ expertise as well as their wonder
and respect for wild nature. The writers do more than inform
our sensibilities; their narratives examine both humanity’s
conduct and its capacity for empathy toward other life. These
testaments join a chorus of voices seeking improved relations
with the western wild in the twenty-first century.
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70. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
NO PLACE LIKE HOME
C.J. Janovy, author
ISBN: 978-0-7006-2528-4
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KANSAS
I M A G E H E R E Far from the coastal centers of culture and politics, Kansas
stands at the very center of American stereotypes about red
states. In the American imagination, it is a place LGBT people
leave. No Place Like Home is about why they stay. The book
tells the epic story of how a few disorganized and politically
naïve Kansans, realizing they were unfairly under attack,
rolled up their sleeves, went looking for fights, and ended up
making friends in one of the country’s most hostile states.
C.J. Janovy tells the stories of LGBT Kansans that have
made their stand as unlikely activists in an often
uncompromising state.
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71. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
LADY LIBERTY
Joan Marans Dim, co-author, and Antonio Masi, co-author and artist
ISBN: 978-0-8232-8533-4
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E Lady Liberty is a concise, sweeping, entertaining, and
nonpartisan history that also is particularly relevant to
America's immigration policies, past and present. Rife with
poetry, raw ambition, political intrigue, ingenious artistry and
engineering, it turns out the Lady's destiny was to be much
more than just a magnificent monument.
Stirring art complements an unvarnished history of the Statue
of Liberty and its relationship to immigration policy in the
United States throughout the years.
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72. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
JUSTICE, POWER, AND
POLITICS
Heather Ann Thompson and Rhonda Y. Williams, series editors
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
The Justice, Power, and Politics series publishes new works
which center on the intersections between political power and
social justice. Its prize-winning books have revolutionized our
understanding of the carceral state, policing, multiracial
coalition-building, black women’s activism, immigrant
detention, and more. For readers who seek explanations for
the most intractable structures of U.S. society, or lessons
from the toolkit of social movements past, the books of this
series deliver vital insights from cutting-edge thinkers and
historians.
Read these books to learn more about the myriad struggles
for justice, battles for power, and shifts in politics that have
shaped the U.S. over time. Beyond teaching about the past,
they can help to illuminate a way forward.
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73. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
THE BORDER AND ITS
BODIES
Thomas E. Sheridan and Randall H. McGuire, editors
ISBN: 978-0-8165-3947-5
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
The Border and Its Bodies examines the impact of migration
from Central America and México to the United States on the
most basic social unit possible: the human body. It explores
the terrible toll migration takes on the bodies of migrants—
those who cross the border and those who die along the
way—and discusses the treatment of those bodies after their
remains are discovered in the desert.
This book brings into focus the impact the border can have
on those who attempt to cross it. An intimate and human look
at migration, The Border and Its Bodies reminds us of the fact
that the border touches us all.
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74. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
EVERYTHING IS
INTERCONNECTED
Joseph Ogbonnaya and Lucas Briola, editors
ISBN: 978-1-6260-0718-5
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
Today’s overlapping social and ecological crises portend
Bernard Lonergan’s memorable remark that “the world lies in
pieces before us and pleads to be put together again.” The
calls of Catholic social teaching for a “humane globalization”
and, more recently in Laudato si’, an “integral ecology” only
heighten the urgency of this task. Inspired and aided by
Lonergan’s thought, this volume presents an array of essays
that collectively aspire to answer these pleas. Engaging
theology, philosophy, the social sciences, and the natural
sciences, the volume’s authors hope to show how in fact
“everything is interconnected” in the church’s ongoing task of
caring for our common, though fragmented, home.
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75. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
THIS IS NOT A HOAX
Heather Jessup, author
ISBN: 978-1-7711-2364-8
WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY PRESS
I M A G E H E R E
“A parlour game? A sly wink-and-nod? A cruel but usually
harmless trick perpetrated on the unwary? All of my previous
associations with the hoax have been overturned by this
elegantly argued, deeply thoughtful, and passionately political
book.” —Lorraine York, McMaster University
This Is Not a Hoax shows how the work of some
contemporary artists and writers intentionally disrupts the
curatorial and authorial practices of the country’s most
respected cultural institutions: art galleries, museums, and
book publishers. This study of contemporary Canadian
hoaxes in visual art and literature asks why we trust authority
in artistic works and how that trust is manifest.
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76. U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S W E E K 2 0 1 9 R E A D . T H I N K . A C T .
THE RESPONSIBILITY OF
INTELLECTUALS
Nicholas Allott, Chris Knight, and Neil Smith, editors
ISBN: 978-1-7873-5551-4
UCL PRESS
I M A G E H E R E This book revisits Chomsky's The Responsibility of
Intellectuals half a century on, and the responsibility that
privilege brings to tell the truth and expose lies. It is freely
available on UCL's innovative Open Access platform —
where all titles are immediately openly available on
publication.
This OA book shows how Chomsky has equipped a growing
international audience with the facts and arguments needed
to understand—and change—our world, and demonstrates
the importance of privilege in telling the truth and exposing
lies.
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