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A new book set chronicles the lives and contributions of Latinos in Boulder County. It also explores darker chapters in the county鈥檚 past, including the presence of the Ku Klux Klan and businesses posting 鈥淲hite Trade Only鈥� signs that were ripped down by veterans returning from World War II and the Korean War.

By Janice Ho, assistant professor of English Cambridge University Press Nation and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century British Novel charts how novelists imagined changing forms of citizenship in twentieth-century Britain. This study offers a new way of understanding the constitution of the nation-state in terms of the concept of citizenship. Through...

By Raza Ali Hasan, instructor of English Sheep Meadow Publishing 鈥淥nce at home in Pakistan, now nested in Colorado, Ali Hasan writes in newsreel cuneiform. His poetry tastes of fast foods and ancient feasts, his language is spiced with moral and political ginger. Or you might say his proven experimental...

Hagiography and the Problem of Islam in Medieval Europe By Scott G. Bruce, associate professor of history Cornell University Press In the summer of 972 a group of Muslim brigands based in the south of France near La Garde-Freinet abducted the abbot of Cluny as he and his entourage crossed...

Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England By Katherine Eggert, professor of English University of Pennsylvania Press 鈥淒isknowledge鈥�: knowing something isn鈥檛 true, but believing it anyway. In Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England , Katherine Eggert explores the crumbling state of learning...

By Paul M. Levitt, professor emeritus of English Taylor Trade Publishing Set during the Great Depression, when fascism was looking increasingly attractive to many, Paul M. Levitt鈥檚 latest novel surrounds attempts to boycott the 1936 Berlin Olympics and the counterforces at work: the American Nazi Party, Avery Brundage, a German...

Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South By Paul Sutter, associate professor of history University of Georgia Press Providence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgia鈥檚 鈥淟ittle Grand Canyon,鈥� preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming practices during the nineteenth century. It is a...

By Thomas M. Carsey and Jeffrey J. Harden Sage Publications Taking the topics of a quantitative methodology course and illustrating them through Monte Carlo simulation, Monte Carlo Simulation and Resampling Methods for Social Science , by Thomas M. Carsey and Jeffrey J. Harden, examines abstract principles, such as bias, efficiency,...

Two longtime 麻豆视频 professors who have been using their expertise for decades to help solve crimes, often murder, have teamed up on a new forensic plant science book expected to aid investigators around the world.

Animals, Bodies, Places, Politics Edited by Marguerite S. Shaffer and Phoebe S. K. Young University 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 environmental history: simultaneously collaborative and ambitious.鈥� 鈥擜ndrew Isenberg, author of Destruction of...