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    • Imacoqwa’s Arrow
      Mimica, Jadran (2025)
      A pathbreaking study of Yagwoia cosmological concepts. In Imacoqwa’s Arrow, Jadran Mimica draws on decades of field research to bring us a rich ethnographic account of myth and meaning in the lifeworlds of the Yagwoia of ...
    • Wild and Wonderful
      Manceron, Vanessa (2025)
      In Wild and Wonderful, social anthropologist Vanessa Manceron investigates an understudied but indispensable scientific practice: getting to know and recognize the living worlds around us. Her research takes her to England, ...
    • The Elementary Forms of Corruption
      Ansell, Aaron (2025)
      Seeks to better understand the nature of corruption through a case study of a rural Brazilian community’s response to the country’s political fraud. The Elementary Forms of Corruption is an ethnographic history of rural ...
    • Becoming Somebody Else
      Burraway, Joshua (2025)
      A study of homelessness and addiction exploring the void of drug-induced blackout and its impact on identity and time. What does it mean to exist outside the normative temporality of life, of housed living, and, ultimately, ...
    • Excavations At Sidi Khrebish Benghazi (Berenice) Volume III, Part 1
      Kenrick, P.M. (1985)
      The Fine Pottery (P. M. Kenrick) includes a detailed type series of the forms recorded in some 38 major categories of fine ware, spanning a period from the third century B.C. to the seventh century A.D. (more than 800 ...
    • Ghirza A Libyan Settlement in the Roman Period
      Brogan, Olwen; Smith, D.J. (1984)
      This volume reports one of the most important sites in the Tripolitanian hinterland. It contains detailed studies of the many buildings of the settlement (including a pagan temple) and its cemeteries. Particular attention ...
    • The Social, Cultural and Environmental Costs of Hyper-Connectivity
      Hynes, Mike (2021)
      The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online.↵This book seeks broader critical engagement with the design, development and adoption processes ...
    • Making Things Happen
      Thomas, Jane Murphy (2022)
      Drawing on the Pakistan Earthquake Reconstruction and Recovery Project (PERRP), this volume explores the sociocultural side of post-disaster infrastructure reconstruction. As the latter is often fraught with delays and ...
    • A-B processes
      (2019)
      The principle of the conventional activated sludge (CAS) for municipal wastewater treatment is primarily based on biological oxidation by which organic matters are converted to biomass and carbon dioxide. After more than ...
    • African Ecological Ethics and Spirituality for Cosmic Flourishing
      Chu Ilo, Stan (2022)
      This is the definitive African text on ecological ethics, African environmental spirituality, a theology of creation, and climate justice. The contributors to this important volume explore the common threats facing this ...
    • Diversity and Dominion
      Van Houtan, Kyle S.; Northcott, Michael S. (2010)
      This book records a set of dialogues between scientists, theologians, and philosophers on what can be done to prevent a global slide into ecological collapse. It is a uniquely multidisciplinary book that exemplifies the ...
    • On Earth as in Heaven
      Bartholomew, Ecumenical Patriarch (2025)
      Over the past two decades, the world has witnessed alarming environmental degradation—climate change, the loss of biodiversity, and the pollution of natural resources—together with a failure to implement environmental ...
    • With a Pure Conscience
      Levy, Ian Christopher (2025)
      Offers new perspectives on freedom of conscience and religious liberty by tracing their origins to the Middle Ages, thereby challenging the common assumption that these core tenets of modernity were products of the ...
    • The Location of Experience
      Pinch, Adela (2024)
      We tend to feel that works of fiction give us special access to lived experience. But how do novels cultivate that feeling? Where exactly does experience reside?The Location of Experience argues that, paradoxically, novels ...
    • Fragile World
      Cavanaugh, William T. (2018)
      In Fragile World: Ecology and the Church, scholars and activists from Christian communities as far-flung as Honduras, the Philippines, Colombia, and Kenya present a global angle on the global ecological crisis—in both its ...
    • Everyday Sustainability
      Sen, Debarati (2017)
      Honorable Mention, 2019 Michelle Z. Rosaldo Prize presented by the Association for Feminist AnthropologyWinner of the 2018 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize presented by the National Women's Studies AssociationWinner of the ...
    • The Geopolitics of Green Colonialism
      Lang, Miriam; Ann Manahan, Mary; Bringel, Breno (2024)
      The time for denial is over. Across the Global North, the question of how we should respond to the climate crisis has been answered: with a shift to renewables, electric cars, carbon trading and hydrogen. Green New Deals ...
    • Antiblackness and Global Health
      Hirsch, Lioba (2024)
      Antiblackness and Global Health offers a major new account of the 2014-2016 West African Ebola crisis and a radical perspective on the racial politics of global health. Lioba Hirsch traces the legacies of colonialism across ...
    • Women Under Suspicion
      Kazyulina, Regina (2025)
      Officially, women in the Soviet Union enjoyed a degree of equality unknown elsewhere in Allied countries at the time. However, long-standing norms of gendered behavior and stereotypes that cast women as morally weak, ...
    • Legitimating Nationalism
      Stewart, Katie L. (2024)
      Russia is a large, diverse, and complicated country whose far-flung regions maintain their own histories and cultures, even as President Vladimir Putin increases his political control. Powerful, autocratic regimes still ...