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  • Deep Learning for the Life Sciences

    Applying Deep Learning to Genomics, Microscopy, Drug Discovery, and More

    by Bharath Ramsundar, Peter Eastman, Pat Walters, Vijay Pande ...
    Deep learning has already achieved remarkable results in many fields. Now it’s making waves throughout the sciences broadly and the life sciences in particular. This practical book teaches developers and scientists how to use deep learning for genomics, chemistry, biophysics, microscopy, medical analysis, and other fields.Ideal for practicing developers and scientists ready to apply their skills ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies

    Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space

    by Mary Pat Brady, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    A train station becomes a police station; lands held sacred by Apaches and Mexicanos are turned into commercial and residential zones; freeway construction hollows out a community; a rancho becomes a retirement community—these are the kinds of spatial transformations that concern Mary Pat Brady in Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies, a book bringing together Chicana feminism, cultural geography, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • News for All the People

    The Epic Story of Race and the American Media

    by Juan Gonzalez, Joseph Torres ...
    A new, sweeping narrative history of American news media that puts race at the center of the storyFrom the earliest colonial newspapers to the Internet age, America’s racial divisions have played a central role in the creation of the country’s media system, just as the media has contributed to—and every so often, combated—racial oppression. News for All the People reveals how racial segregation ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Unbuttoning America

    A Biography of "Peyton Place"

    by Ardis Cameron ...
    Published in 1956, Peyton Place became a bestseller and a literary phenomenon. A lurid and gripping story of murder, incest, female desire, and social injustice, it was consumed as avidly by readers as it was condemned by critics and the clergy. Its author, Grace Metalious, a housewife who grew up in poverty in a New Hampshire mill town and had aspired to be a writer from childhood, loosely based ... Read more

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  • Delmira Agustini, Sexual Seduction, and Vampiric Conquest

    by Cathy L. Jrade ...
    Delmira Agustini (1886–1914) has been acclaimed as one of the foremost modernistas and the first major woman poet of twentieth-century Spanish America. Critics and the reading public alike were immediately taken by the originality and power of her verse, especially her daring eroticism, her inventive appropriation of vampirism, and her morbid embrace of death and pain. No work until now, however, ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination

    Edited by Monica Hanna, Jennifer Harford Vargas, José David Saldívar ...
    The first sustained critical examination of the work of Dominican-American writer Junot Díaz, this interdisciplinary collection considers how Díaz's writing illuminates the world of Latino cultural expression and trans-American and diasporic literary history. Interested in conceptualizing Díaz's decolonial imagination and his radically re-envisioned world, the contributors show how his aesthetic ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Mestizo State

    Reading Race in Modern Mexico

    by Joshua Lund ...
    The Mestizo State examines how the ideas, images, and public discourse around race, nation, and citizen formation have been transformed in Mexico from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Starting with the Porfiriato, Joshua Lund investigates the rise of a racialized “mestizo state,” its reinvention after the Mexican Revolution, and its mobilization as a critical lever that would act both on ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • From the Edge

    Chicana/o Border Literature and the Politics of Print

    by Allison E. Fagan ...
    Series series Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
    Chicana/o literature frequently depicts characters who exist in a vulnerable liminal space, living on the border between Mexican and American identities, and sometimes pushed to the edge by authorities who seek to restrict their freedom. As this groundbreaking new study reveals, the books themselves have occupied similarly precarious positions, as Chicana/o literature has struggled for economic ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Through the Eyes of Rebel Women, The Young Lords: 1969-1976

    by Iris Morales ...
    THROUGH THE EYES OF REBEL WOMEN: The Young Lords, 1969-1976 is the first account of women members — a "story within a story" told from the inside out. The Young Lords Organization emerged in the late sixties to fight poverty, racial and gender inequality, and the colonial status of Puerto Rico. Women joined to build a people's movement for justice and fought the "revolution within the revolution" ... Read more

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  • Post-Borderlandia

    Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique

    by T. Jackie Cuevas ...
    Series series Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
    Honorable Mention, 2018 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize from the National Women's Studies Association2019 Lambda Literary Awards FinalistBringing Chicana/o studies into conversation with queer theory and transgender studies, Post-Borderlandia examines why gender variance is such a core theme in contemporary Chicana and Chicanx narratives. It considers how Chicana butch lesbians and Chicanx trans ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Word Images

    New Perspectives on Canícula and Other Works by Norma Elia Cantú

    Edited by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs ...
    This collection of critical essays unveils for the first time Norma Elia Cantú’s contribution as a folklorist, writer, scholar, and teacher. Word Images unites two valuable ways to view and use Cantú’s work: Part 1 comprises essays that individually examine Cantú’s oeuvre through critical analysis. Part 2 is dedicated to ideas and techniques to improve the use of this literature by teachers and ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Three Traveling Women Writers

    Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Brazil, Patagonia, and the U.S from the Nineteenth Century

    by Natália Fontes de Oliveira ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
    This book presents an alternative framework for reading nineteenth century women’s travel narratives by challenging the traditional paradigms which often limit women’s space in print culture. For the first time, through a comparative lens, a Latin American woman’s travel narrative is analyzed concomitantly with the narratives of a North American and a European writer. Contrary to the common ... Read more

    $64.99 USD