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  • Star Wars Be More Boba Fett

    Always Get the Job Done

    by Joseph Jay Franco ...
    Throw aside the 9-to-5 and discover the joys of going freelance!In a big wide galaxy you'll find every personality type. There are those who want to work for a large, stable employer like the Imperial Navy, pushing buttons on a space cruiser. There are also those who are content living the simple (but dull) life of a merchant or moisture farmer. And then there are those special few who long for ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Brazil's Sex Wars

    The Aesthetics of Queer Activism in São Paulo

    by Joseph Jay Sosa ...
    An ethnography and media analysis of LGBT+ activism in São Paulo during Brazil’s conservative turn from 2010 to 2018.For decades, LGBT+ activists across the globe have secured victories by persuasively articulating rights to sexual autonomy. Brazilian activists, some of the world’s most energetic, have kept pace. But since 2010, a backlash has set in, as defenders of “tradition” and “family” have ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Schizophrenia and Genetics

    The End of An Illusion

    by Jay Joseph ...
    Schizophrenia is a widely investigated psychiatric condition, and though there have been claims of gene "associations," decades of molecular genetic studies have failed to produce confirmed causative genes. In this book, Joseph focuses on the methodological shortcomings of schizophrenia genetic research.His findings have major implications not only on how we understand the causes of schizophrenia ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Genetic Explanations

    Sense and Nonsense

    by Jon Beckwith, Carl F. Cranor, Martha R. Herbert, Mae-Wan Ho, Ruth Hubbard, Eva Jablonka, David S. Jones Ph.D., M.D., Jay Joseph, Evelyn Fox Keller, M. Susan Lindee, David S. Moore, Stuart Newman, Carl Ratner, Shirley Shalev, Carlos Sonnenschein, Ana M. Soto, Stephen L. Talbott, William C. Thompson ...
    Can genes determine which fifty-year-old will succumb to Alzheimer’s, which citizen will turn out on voting day, and which child will be marked for a life of crime? Yes, according to the Internet, a few scientific studies, and some in the biotechnology industry who should know better. Sheldon Krimsky and Jeremy Gruber gather a team of genetic experts to argue that treating genes as the holy grail ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • The Trouble with Twin Studies

    A Reassessment of Twin Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

    by Jay Joseph ...
    The Trouble with Twin Studies questions popular genetic explanations of human behavioral differences based upon the existing body of twin research. Psychologist Jay Joseph outlines the fallacies of twin studies in the context of the ongoing decades-long failure to discover genes for human behavioral differences, including IQ, personality, and the major psychiatric disorders. This volume critically ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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    Frontline Struggles to Resist the Violence of Patriarchy and Capitalism

    by Susana Draper, Liz Mason-Deese, Silvia Federici, Sheila Gruner ...
    • There is widespread interest in intersectional approaches and voices of BIPOC on issues of violence in society.• The contributors in this book are not just theorizing about gender-based violence but are also on the frontlines of organizing against it.• Silvia Federici is a celebrated feminist, Marxist theorist and author of Caliban and the Witch, Revolution at Point Zero, Witches, Witch-Hunting, ... Read more

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  • Lullaby Lake: A Branches Book (The Last Firehawk #4)

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    Tag and his friends finally come face-to-face with their greatest enemy -- the powerful vulture named Thorn!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. ... Read more

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  • Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond

    by Mario Blaser, Arturo Escobar, Dianne Rocheleau ...
    Series series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
    For more than fifteen years, Mario Blaser has been involved with the Yshiro people of the Paraguayan Chaco as they have sought to maintain their world in the face of conservation and development programs promoted by the state and various nongovernmental organizations. In this ethnography of the encounter between modernizing visions of development, the place-based “life projects” of the Yshiro, and ... Read more

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  • Keywords for Latina/o Studies

    Edited by Nancy Raquel Mirabal, Deborah R. Vargas, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes ...
    Series Book 6 - Keywords
    2018 Outstanding Academic Title, given by CHOICE MagazineIntroduces key terms, concepts, debates, and histories for Latinx StudiesKeywords for Latina/o Studies is a generative text that enhances the ongoing dialogue within a rapidly growing and changing field. The keywords included in this collection represent established and emergent terms, categories, and concepts that undergird Latina/o studies ... Read more

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  • The Anti-Black City

    Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil

    by Jaime Amparo Alves ...
    An important new ethnographic study of São Paulo’s favelas revealing the widespread use of race-based police repression in BrazilWhile Black Lives Matter still resonates in the United States, the movement has also become a potent rallying call worldwide, with harsh police tactics and repressive state policies often breaking racial lines. In The Anti-Black City, Jaime Amparo Alves delves into the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • One Hundred Steps: The Story of Captain Sir Tom Moore

    by Captain Tom Moore ...
    Illustrated by Adam Larkum ...
    The story of the man who captured the heart of a nation in its darkest days, Captain Sir Tom Moore. This fully illustrated book is about life's ups and downs, about family, about never giving up, and about what we can achieve when we work together.This is an inspirational picture book which tells the incredible story of the man who walked 100 laps of his garden and captured the heart of a nation. ... Read more

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  • Working the Boundaries

    Race, Space, and "Illegality" in Mexican Chicago

    by Nicholas De Genova ...
    While Chicago has the second-largest Mexican population among U.S. cities, relatively little ethnographic attention has focused on its Mexican community. This much-needed ethnography of Mexicans living and working in Chicago examines processes of racialization, labor subordination, and class formation; the politics of nativism; and the structures of citizenship and immigration law. Nicholas De ... Read more

    $28.79 USD