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Critically examines the new destructive projects of resentment that have surfaced in the political spaces opened by neoliberalism's failures, particularly since the financial collapse of 2008. It contextualises the recent history of the Global North - notably Brexit and the Trump election - among wider comparative politics.

In Heeding the Call, William Jolliff offers the first book-length discussion of West Virginia writer and activist Denise Giardina, perhaps best known for her novel Storming Heaven, which helped spark renewed interest in the turn-of-the-century Mine Wars. Jolliff proposes that Giardina's fiction be considered under three thematic complexes: regional, political, and theological. Though addressing all three, Heeding the Call foregrounds the theol...

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Mass starvation's causes may seem simple and immediate: crop failure, poverty, outbreaks of violence, and poor governance. But famines are complex, and scholars cannot fully understand what causes them unless they look at their numerous social and environmental precursors over long arcs of history and over long distances. Famine in the Remaking examines the relationship between the reorganization of food systems and large-scale food crises thr...

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The West Virginia University Mountaineer is not just a mascot: it is a symbol of West Virginia history and identity embraced throughout the state. In this deeply informed but accessible study, folklorist Rosemary Hathaway explores the figure's early history as a backwoods trickster, its deployment in emerging mass media, and finally its long and sometimes conflicted career--beginning officially in 1937--as the symbol of West Virginia Universit...

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MK and Colleen get reacquainted while working at different stores in a bankrupt mall. Way back, the women went to Catholic school together and collaborated on racy letters to a soldier in Vietnam who thought they were much older than seventh graders--a ruse that typifies later shenanigans, usually brought on by red-headed Colleen, a self-proclaimed "Celtic warrior."After ditching Colleen's car to collect the insurance, they drive from one unex...

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Argues that you can be honest and unflinching in your teaching about racism while also providing a compassionate learning environment that allows for mistakes. Cyndi Kernahan provides evidence for how learning works with respect to race and racism along with practical teaching strategies to help instructors feel more confident.

Argues that you can be honest and unflinching in your teaching about racism while also providing a compassionate learning environment. Cyndi Kernahan provides evidence for how learning works with respect to race and racism along with practical teaching strategies rooted in that evidence to help instructors feel more confident.

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Traces the recent history of geography, information, and technology through the biography of Edward A. Ackerman, an important figure in geography's "quantitative revolution". The book argues that Ackerman's work helped encode the hidden logics of a distorted philosophical heritage into the network architectures of surveillance capitalism.

A funny, evidence-based, pragmatic, readable guide to the process of learning and relearning how to be an effective college teacher. This is the first college teaching guide that encourages faculty to embrace their inner nerd, inviting readers to view themselves in light of contemporary discourse that celebrates increasingly diverse geek culture.

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Focuses on the slavery writings of three of Brazil's literary giants - Machado de Assis, Castro Alves, and Euclides da Cunha. Wood finds that all three writers responded to the memory of slavery in ways that departed from their counterparts in Europe and North America, where emancipation has typically been depicted as a moment of closure.