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Sarah鈥擮f Fragments and Lines

Oct. 1, 2012

Poems by Julie Carr , assistant professor of English Coffee House Press Set 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 impending birth, Julie Carr gathers the shards...

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Oct. 1, 2012

By Heimrad B盲cker Translated 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-Boulder Dalkey Archive Press 鈥榯ranscript鈥 is a disturbing document. Using the techniques of concrete and visual poetry, Heimrad B盲cker presents...

Thomas Andrews

A bird鈥檚 (and mule鈥檚) eye view of U.S. history

Dec. 1, 2011

Thomas Andrews has a knack for framing American history unconventionally. In his award-winning book 鈥淜illing for Coal,鈥 Andrews traced the central role of coal in Colorado鈥檚 economic growth, environmental change and social conflict. Now he鈥檚 turning his scholarly gaze toward another little-acknowledged actor in American history: animals. 鈥淧aying attention to...

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It Came From Del Rio

Oct. 1, 2011

Part 1 of the Bunnyhead Chronicles By Stephen Graham Jones, professor of English Trapdoor Books There are borders, and then there are borders. Between right and wrong. Between Texas and Mexico. The first is a joke to Dodd Raines, the second a payday. Then there are the borders he鈥檚 made...

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India in the Shadows of Empire

Oct. 1, 2011

A Legal and Political History (1774-1950) By Mithi Mukherjee, associate professor of history Oxford University Press This pioneering research offers a sweeping new interpretation of the complex and seemingly contradictory nature of Indian democracy and polity. In contrast to much of existing scholarship, it joins the colonial and postcolonial periods...

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Hip Hop鈥檚 Inheritance

March 1, 2011

From the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip Hop Feminist Movement By Reiland Rabaka, associate professor of ethnic studies Lexington Books 鈥淗ip Hop鈥檚 Inheritance鈥 arguably offers the first book-length treatment of what hip hop culture has, literally, 鈥渋nherited鈥 from the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts movement, the Feminist Art movement and...

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The Evolution of Modern States

March 1, 2011

Sweden, Japan, and the United States By Sven Steinmo, professor of political science Cambridge University Press 鈥淭he Evolution of Modern States鈥 is a significant contribution to the literatures on political economy, globalization, historical institutionalism and social-science methodology. The book begins with a simple question: Why do rich capitalist democracies respond...

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Psycholinguistics

March 1, 2011

Introduction and Applications By Lise Menn, professor emerita of linquistics Plural Publishing Inc. For students in speech-language pathology, language education, psychology, linguistics, and for working language professionals, this text provides a clear and attractive introduction to current thinking on how our brains process language in speaking, understanding and reading. It...

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Missionary Scientists

March 1, 2011

Jesuit Science in Spanish South America, 1570-1810 By Andres I. Prieto, assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese Vanderbuilt University Press 鈥淢issionary Scientists鈥 explores the scientific activities of Jesuit missionaries in colonial Spanish America, revealing a little-known aspect of religions role in the scholarship of the early Spanish Empire. Grounded in...

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Enduring Legacies

Dec. 1, 2010

Ethnic Histories and Cultures of Colorado Edited by Arturo J. Aldama, with Elisa Facio, Daryl Maeda, and Reiland Rabaka University of Colorado Press Traditional accounts of Colorado鈥檚 history often reflect an Anglocentric perspective that begins with the 1859 Pikes Peak Gold Rush and Colorado鈥檚 establishment as a state in 1876...

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