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The Red Caddy: Into the Unknown with Edward Abbey (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The first literary biography of Edward Abbey in a generation, this thoughtful memoir serves as a meditation on the writing life, the cult of readers, reputation, and the literary afterlife of a well-known writer.
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Exile and the Nation: The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Connecting oft-disparate fields, this book explores the Zoroastrian diaspora living in India and its role in using antiquity to bolster twentieth-century Iranian nationalism.
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The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel: John Williams, Stoner, and the Writing Life (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This biography by the New York Times best-selling author of Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee traces the life of National Book Award-winning novelist John Williams, author of the cult classic novel Stoner.
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MeXicana Fashions: Politics, Self-Adornment, and Identity Construction (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Fifteen scholars examine the social identities, class hierarchies, regionalisms, and other codes of communication that are exhibited or perceived in meXicana clothing styles.
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Si, Ella Puede!: The Rhetorical Legacy of Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This unique study of the life and legacy of activist Dolores Huerta explores her integral role as a leader and organizer in the fight for farmworkers’ rights from the 1950s to the present.
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Houston Rap Tapes: An Oral History of Bayou City Hip-Hop (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Portraying a vibrant, but often overlooked, music scene, this amplified edition of Houston Rap Tapes includes new interviews of Scarface, Slim Thug, Lez Moné, B L A C K I E, Lil’ Keke, and Sire Jukebox of the original Ghetto Boys, as well as many addition
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Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The first book in Charles Bowden’s “Unnatural History of the United States” sextet, Blood Orchid is a dizzying excavation of the violence and corruption at the roots of American society.
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Hollywood in San Francisco: Location Shooting and the Aesthetics of Urban Decline (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This pioneering study of postwar feature films set in San Francisco tracks the transformation of Hollywood filmmaking as location shooting became the dominant production method in an era of urban anxiety.
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Slavery and Utopia: The Wars and Dreams of an Amazonian World Transformer (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Through the career of a charismatic indigenous leader, this book chronicles the struggles surrounding indigenous slavery in Peruvian Amazonia from the collapse of the rubber economy to the beginnings of mass colonization in the region.
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The Art of Solidarity: Visual and Performative Politics in Cold War Latin America (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Examining artistic production in solidarity movements throughout the Cold War era, this multidisciplinary anthology reveals the tremendous role that art and performance have played in the quest for social justice in the Americas.
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What Every Teen Should Know About Texas Law (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Back in print and completely updated, this practical, easy-to-understand guide covers the most common areas of law that affect young adults, including driving, employment, renting, relationships, and minor criminal offenses.
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Words of the True Peoples/Palabras De Los Seres Verdaderos: Anthology of Contemporary Mexican Indigenous-Language Writers/Antologia De Escritores Actuales En Lenguas Indigenas De Mexico: Volume Two/Tomo Dos: Poetry/Poesia (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The second book in a major three-volume trilingual anthology of Mexican indigenous writing.
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