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Cotton Candy: Poems Dipped Out of the Air (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The poems in Cotton Candy were written during Ted Kooser’s daily writing routine of getting up long before dawn and snatching out of the air whatever comes to... Læs mere
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The Old Iron Road: An Epic of Rails, Roads, and the Urge to Go West (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A combination of travelogue, history, and storytelling, this is the story of David Haward Bain’s family’s travels from their home in Vermont to the West in search of America’s past.
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Under My Bed and Other Essays (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Jody Keisner searches for the roots of the violence and fear that afflict women, starting with the working-class midwestern family she was adopted into and ending with her own experience of mothering daughters.
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Imperial Zions: Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Imperial Zions explores the importance of the body in Latter-day Saint theology through the faith’s attempts to spread its gospel as a “civilizing” force, highlighting the intertwining of Latter-day Saint theology and American ideas about race, sexuality, and colonialism.
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Preserving Yellowstone's Natural Conditions: Science and the Perception of Nature (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this new edition James A. Pritchard has added a summary of recent developments in wildlife science and management and discusses historical continuities in the role of Yellowstone Park as a wildlife refuge and conservator.
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The Nature of Data: Infrastructures, Environments, Politics (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
By synthesizing scholarly work at the intersection of political ecology, digital geography, and science and technology studies, The Nature of Data analyzes how new digital technologies affect environments and their control.
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Out Here on Our Own: An Oral History of an American Boomtown (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
J.J. Anselmi tells the story of Rock Springs, Wyoming, a mining boomtown with a history of brutal racial violence, widespread addiction, prostitution, and a staggeringly high per-capita suicide rate—yet a place that has proven remarkably resilient.
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Do What They Say or Else (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Originally published in 1977, Do What They Say or Else tells the story of a fifteen-year-old girl named Anne who lives with her working-class parents in a small town in Normandy, France.
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Life of the Indigenous Mind: Vine Deloria Jr. and the Birth of the Red Power Movement (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
David Martínez examines the early activism, life, and writings of Vine Deloria Jr., the most influential Indigenous activist and writer of the twentieth century and one of the intellectual architects of the Red Power movement.
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Standing Bear's Quest for Freedom: The First Civil Rights Victory for Native Americans (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Lawrence A. Dwyer has written the story of Chief Standing Bear of the Ponca Nation, who was willing to face arrest... Læs mere
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Might Kindred (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The poems of Might Kindred wonder: “can a people belong to a dreaming machine?” Conjuring mountains and bodies of water, queer and immigrant poetics, beloveds both human and animal, Mónica Gomery explores the intimately personal and the possibility of a collective voice.
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There Where It's So Bright in Me (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
These poems pry at the complexities of difference—race, religion, gender, nationality—that shape our twenty-first-century geopolitical conditions.
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