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Poems by Julie Carr , assistant professor of English Coffee House Press Set to the music of rain, these shattered elegies seek communion in the ethereal place between birth and death. In the wake of a mother’s battle with Alzheimer’s and a child’s impending birth, Julie Carr gathers the shards...

By Heimrad Bäcker Translated by Vincent Kling, professor of German and comparative literature at La Salle University in Philadelphia; and Patrick Greaney, assistant professor of German and comparative literature at CU-Boulder Dalkey Archive Press ‘transcript’ is a disturbing document. Using the techniques of concrete and visual poetry, Heimrad Bäcker presents...

Thomas Andrews has a knack for framing American history unconventionally. In his award-winning book “Killing for Coal,” Andrews traced the central role of coal in Colorado’s economic growth, environmental change and social conflict. Now he’s turning his scholarly gaze toward another little-acknowledged actor in American history: animals. “Paying attention to...

Part 1 of the Bunnyhead Chronicles By Stephen Graham Jones, professor of English Trapdoor Books There are borders, and then there are borders. Between right and wrong. Between Texas and Mexico. The first is a joke to Dodd Raines, the second a payday. Then there are the borders he’s made...

A Legal and Political History (1774-1950) By Mithi Mukherjee, associate professor of history Oxford University Press This pioneering research offers a sweeping new interpretation of the complex and seemingly contradictory nature of Indian democracy and polity. In contrast to much of existing scholarship, it joins the colonial and postcolonial periods...

From the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip Hop Feminist Movement By Reiland Rabaka, associate professor of ethnic studies Lexington Books “Hip Hop’s Inheritance” arguably offers the first book-length treatment of what hip hop culture has, literally, “inherited” from the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts movement, the Feminist Art movement and...

Sweden, Japan, and the United States By Sven Steinmo, professor of political science Cambridge University Press “The Evolution of Modern States” is a significant contribution to the literatures on political economy, globalization, historical institutionalism and social-science methodology. The book begins with a simple question: Why do rich capitalist democracies respond...

Introduction and Applications By Lise Menn, professor emerita of linquistics Plural Publishing Inc. For students in speech-language pathology, language education, psychology, linguistics, and for working language professionals, this text provides a clear and attractive introduction to current thinking on how our brains process language in speaking, understanding and reading. It...

Jesuit Science in Spanish South America, 1570-1810 By Andres I. Prieto, assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese Vanderbuilt University Press “Missionary Scientists” explores the scientific activities of Jesuit missionaries in colonial Spanish America, revealing a little-known aspect of religions role in the scholarship of the early Spanish Empire. Grounded in...

Ethnic Histories and Cultures of Colorado Edited by Arturo J. Aldama, with Elisa Facio, Daryl Maeda, and Reiland Rabaka University of Colorado Press Traditional accounts of Colorado’s history often reflect an Anglocentric perspective that begins with the 1859 Pikes Peak Gold Rush and Colorado’s establishment as a state in 1876...