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You gotta have waGet This Now!You can't stop the revolution: community disorder and social ties in post-Ferguson AmericaGet This Now!
"As police brutality and crime in mostly disadvantaged black communities have garnered significant attention, few studies have managed to capture the convergence of the two as…more
Peace or pacification?: Northern Ireland after the defeat of the IRAGet This Now!
Often the so-called 'Irish question' is reduced to one of ancestral hatreds, but this timely book following the revenant tensions borne out of Brexit negotiations grounds its …more
The cooking gene: a journey through African American culinary history in the Old SouthGet This Now!
"Culinary historian Michael W. Twitty brings a fresh perspective to our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture th…more
The black heavens: Abraham Lincoln and deathGet This Now!
"Drawing upon extensive recent historical studies regarding death, funerals, and mourning during the Civil War era as well as primary sources, The Black Heavens provides a rea…more
The complete dramatic works of Tang XianzuGet This Now!
THEATRE STUDIES. Tang Xianzu (1550-1616) is acclaimed as the 'Shakespeare of the East' and widely regarded as China's greatest playwright, yet his work has not reached Western…more
Cultural resistance and security from below: power and escape through capoeiraGet This Now!
"This book uses the Afro-Brazilian art of capoeira to examine how security has been pursued from below and what significance this has for security analysis and policy. The boo…more
On China's road: in search of a new modernityGet This Now!
This book aims to delve deeper into China's road studies, bringing together China's leading scholars from different disciplines to examine, with reference to the grand strateg…more
Free of charge: giving and forgiving in a culture stripped of graceGet This Now!
In our increasingly graceless culture, where can we find the motivation to give? And how do we learn to forgive when forgiving seems counterintuitive or even futile? A deeply …more
Latin American Marxisms in context: past and presentGet This Now!
Salem possessed: the social origins of witchcraftGet This Now!
The book of delightsGet This Now!
"In The Book of Delights, one of today's most original literary voices offers up a genre-defying volume of lyric essays written over one tumultuous year. The first nonfiction …more
