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Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South By Paul Sutter, associate professor of history University of Georgia Press Providence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgia’s “Little Grand Canyon,” preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming practices during the nineteenth century. It is a...

By Thomas M. Carsey and Jeffrey J. Harden Sage Publications Taking the topics of a quantitative methodology course and illustrating them through Monte Carlo simulation, Monte Carlo Simulation and Resampling Methods for Social Science , by Thomas M. Carsey and Jeffrey J. Harden, examines abstract principles, such as bias, efficiency,...

By Janice Ho, assistant professor of English Cambridge University Press Nation and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century British Novel charts how novelists imagined changing forms of citizenship in twentieth-century Britain. This study offers a new way of understanding the constitution of the nation-state in terms of the concept of citizenship. Through...

By Raza Ali Hasan, instructor of English Sheep Meadow Publishing “Once at home in Pakistan, now nested in Colorado, Ali Hasan writes in newsreel cuneiform. His poetry tastes of fast foods and ancient feasts, his language is spiced with moral and political ginger. Or you might say his proven experimental...

Two longtime University of Colorado Boulder professors who have been using their expertise for decades to help solve crimes, often murder, have teamed up on a new forensic plant science book expected to aid investigators around the world.

Animals, Bodies, Places, Politics Edited by Marguerite S. Shaffer and Phoebe S. K. Young University of Pennsylvania Press “Rendering Nature collects the work of exemplary scholars working at the nexus of the vibrant fields of American studies and environmental history: simultaneously collaborative and ambitious.” —Andrew Isenberg, author of Destruction of...

Laura DeLuca published a young adult novel that tells the often-overlooked story of one of the Lost Girls of Sudan and shines a light on the inadvertently competitive nature of asylum-seeking; it won a 2014 Colorado Book Award and was named by the Wall Street Journal as one of its top 2014 book picks.

Stalin’s Barber A Novel By Paul M. Levitt, professor of English Taylor Trade Publishing Avraham Bahar leaves debt-ridden and depressed Albania to seek a better life in, ironically, Stalinist Russia. A professional barber, he curries favor with the Communist regime, ultimately being invited to become Stalin’s personal barber at the...

Political, Cultural and Technological Challenges Edited by Tim Kuhn, associate professor of communication Hampton Press “Matters of Communication: Political, Cultural and Technological Challenges” is an invitation to consider the consequences of thinking about communication as (im)material with respect to pressing political, cultural and technological problems. Arguing against those who would...

Vol. 3: Struggling for Social Justice Amidst Difference Edited by Lawrence R. Frey, professor of communication at CU; and Kevin M. Carragee, Suffolk University Hampton Press Extending the scholarship presented in the first two volumes of “Communication Activism”, the studies in this volume offer further rich examples of communication scholars...