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  • Cover of Rendering Nature
    Animals, Bodies, Places, PoliticsEdited by Marguerite S. Shaffer and Phoebe S. K. YoungUniversity of Pennsylvania Press鈥淩endering Nature collects the work of exemplary scholars working at the nexus of the vibrant fields of American studies and
  • Laura DeLuca, assistant professor adjunct in anthropology and and director of CU-Boulder鈥檚 Global Seminar in Tanzania, is shown here in Nairobi, Kenya. Photo courtesy of Laura DeLuca.
    Laura DeLuca published a young adult novel that tells the often-overlooked story of one of the Lost Girls of Sudan and shines a light on the inadvertently competitive nature of asylum-seeking; it won a 2014 Colorado Book Award and was named by the Wall Street Journal as one of its top 2014 book picks.
  • Cover of Communication Activism
    Vol. 3: Struggling for Social Justice Amidst DifferenceEdited by Lawrence R. Frey, professor of communication at CU; and Kevin M. Carragee, Suffolk UniversityHampton PressExtending the scholarship presented in the first two volumes of 鈥淐ommunication
  • Cover of Matters of Communications
    Political, Cultural and Technological ChallengesEdited by Tim Kuhn, associate professor of communicationHampton Press鈥淢atters of Communication: Political, Cultural and Technological Challenges鈥 is an invitation to consider the consequences of
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    Stalin鈥檚 BarberA NovelBy Paul M. Levitt, professor of EnglishTaylor Trade PublishingAvraham Bahar leaves debt-ridden and depressed Albania to seek a better life in, ironically, Stalinist Russia. A professional barber, he curries favor with the
  • Cover of Poetics of the Iconotext
    Written by Liliane Louvel, professor emeritus at the University of Poitiers; Edited by Karen Jacobs, associate professor of English at CU; Translated by Laurence Petit, Universit茅 Paul Val茅ry-MonpellierAshgate鈥淧oetics of the Iconotext鈥 makes
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    By Heimrad B盲ckerTranslated by Vincent Kling, professor of German and comparative literature at La Salle University in Philadelphia; and Patrick Greaney, assistant professor of German and comparative literature at CU-BoulderDalkey Archive Press鈥
  • Cover of Fragments
    Poems by Julie Carr, assistant professor of EnglishCoffee House PressSet to the music of rain, these shattered elegies seek communion in the ethereal place between birth and death.In the wake of a mother鈥檚 battle with Alzheimer鈥檚 and a child鈥檚
  • Cover of Should Race Matter?
    Unusual Answers to the Usual QuestionsDavid Boonin, professor of philosophyCambridge University PressIn this book, philosopher David Boonin attempts to answer the moral questions raised by five important and widely contested racial practices: slave
  • Cover of book by Keith Maskus
    It seems, at first blush, to be something of a no-brainer: strengthening protections on American intellectual property rights (or IPRs) 鈥 on everything from drugs to music to technology 鈥 would be a boon to the national economy.After all, we hardly
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