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Our War Paint Is Writers' Ink: Anishinaabe Literary Transnationalism (SUNY series, Native Traces)
Our War Paint Is Writers' Ink: Anishinaabe Literary Transnationalism (SUNY series, Native Traces)
The first word of Anishinaabemowin my father ever taught me was “miigwech”—“thank you”—because it is the most important. I have had many opportunities to use the word over the course of writ ing this book, but I would be remiss if I didn’t take the time to say it once...
Diesel Heart: An Autobiography
Diesel Heart: An Autobiography
The doctors gathered around, passing the stethoscope from hand to hand, taking turns listening to my chest. Finally, the lead doctor said, "Now, that's what I call a heartbeat!" I snapped, "Whaddaya mean?"

"It's like hearing a diesel engine inside a Mustang body," he said.

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Organizing for Transgender Rights: Collective Action, Group Development, and the Rise of a New Social Movement (SUNY series in Queer Politics and Cultures)
Organizing for Transgender Rights: Collective Action, Group Development, and the Rise of a New Social Movement (SUNY series in Queer Politics and Cultures)
In 2013, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) updated its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (today known as DSM-5), replac ing the term “gender identity disorder” with “gender dysphoria” (Beredjick 2012). This change did not receive as much attention as the APA’s...
The Sexual Economy of War: Discipline and Desire in the U.S. Army (Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History)
The Sexual Economy of War: Discipline and Desire in the U.S. Army (Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History)

In The Sexual Economy of War, Andrew Byers argues that in the early twentieth century, concerns about unregulated sexuality affected every aspect of how the US Army conducted military operations. Far from being an exercise marginal to the institution and its scope of operations, governing sexuality was, in fact, integral to...

Liberalism as Utopia: The Rise and Fall of Legal Rule in Post-Colonial Mexico, 1820-1900 (Cambridge Latin American Studies)
Liberalism as Utopia: The Rise and Fall of Legal Rule in Post-Colonial Mexico, 1820-1900 (Cambridge Latin American Studies)
The book explores the creation of the post-colonial Mexican state by comparing the legal culture of mestizo towns, indigenous towns and agricultural estates (haciendas). More broadly, it is for readers interested in the social origins of liberalism and authoritarianism in the nineteenth-century world....
Embers of Childhood: Growing Up a Whitney
Embers of Childhood: Growing Up a Whitney
A Look into the Privileged World of the American Aristocracy of the Early Twentieth Century

Flora Miller Biddle was born a blue-blood. The granddaughter of the Whitney museum founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, her childhood played out in a sort of Wharton landscape as she was shielded from the woes of the...
Men in Place: Trans Masculinity, Race, and Sexuality in America
Men in Place: Trans Masculinity, Race, and Sexuality in America

Daring new theories of masculinity, built from a large and geographically diverse interview study of transgender men
 

American masculinity is being critiqued, questioned, and reinterpreted for a new era. In Men in Place Miriam J. Abelson makes an original contribution to this...

Yoga Benefits Are in Breathing Less: Introduction to Yoga Spirit and Anatomy for Beginners
Yoga Benefits Are in Breathing Less: Introduction to Yoga Spirit and Anatomy for Beginners
Yoga benefits, as ancient yoga books teach, are in breathing less air automatically and 24/7, even less than the tiny medical respiratory norm. Then one can expect more oxygen in the brain and other organs, and experience true benefits from yoga. Millions of people think and believe in a myth that yoga progress is about more and more difficult...
Heaven Is Empty: A Cross-Cultural Approach to
Heaven Is Empty: A Cross-Cultural Approach to
In the past few decades, discussions on the role of religion in shaping the interconnections of politics, society, and culture have acquired a particular urgency. Since the end of the Cold War, after 9/11, and even more so with the surge of IS, religion has come to occupy a central position in discourses on the...
Early Computing in Britain: Ferranti Ltd. and Government Funding, 1948 ? 1958 (History of Computing)
Early Computing in Britain: Ferranti Ltd. and Government Funding, 1948 ? 1958 (History of Computing)

This unique book presents the story of the pioneering manufacturing company Ferranti Ltd. – producer of the first commercially-available computers – and of the nine end-user organisations who purchased these machines with government help in the period 1951 to 1957. The text presents personal reminiscences from many of the...

Family Medicine Certification Review (Lipsky, Family Medicine Certification Review)
Family Medicine Certification Review (Lipsky, Family Medicine Certification Review)

Written by family physicians, this book is a comprehensive question-and-answer review for the American Board of Family Medicine certification and recertification exams. Questions match the content, complexity, and type of questions on the exam, and fifty clinical set problems—a major portion of the exam—are included.

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One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon
One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon
The remarkable story of the trailblazers and the ordinary Americans on the front lines of the epic mission to reach the moon.

President John F. Kennedy astonished the world on May 25, 1961, when he announced to Congress that the United States should land a man on the Moon by 1970. No group was more surprised than the...
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