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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...

Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War By Carole McGranahan, associate professor of anthropology Duke University Press In the 1950s, thousands of ordinary Tibetans rose up to defend their country and religion against Chinese troops. Their citizen army fought through 1974 with covert support from the Tibetan exile...

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...

Citizen-Scholars and Civic Engagement Edited by John Ackerman, CU associate professor of communication, and David Coogan, associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University The University of South Carolina Press “ The Public Work of Rhetoric” presents the art of rhetorical techné as a contemporary praxis for civic engagement and...

Gender, Genocide and Collective Memory By Janet Jacobs, professor of sociology and women and gender studies I.B. Taurus How do collective memories of histories of violence and trauma in war and genocide come to be created? Janet Jacobs offers new understandings of this crucial issue in her examination of the...

Frantz Fanon’s Critical Theory and the Dialectics of Decolonization By Reiland Rabaka, associate professor of ethnic studies Lexington Books When Frantz Fanon’s critiques of racism, sexism, colonialism, capitalism and humanism are brought into the ever-widening orbit of Africana critical theory, something unprecedented in the annals of Africana intellectual history happens:...

From "Invisible Man" to "Three Days Before the Shooting . . . " By Adam Bradley, associate professor of English Yale University Press Ralph Ellison may be the preeminent African-American author of the 20 th century, though he published only one novel, 1952’s “Invisible Man.” He enjoyed a highly successful...

A History By Peter Simonson, associate professor of communication University of Illinois Press This unique inquiry into the history and ongoing moral significance of mass communication also represents a defense, extension and overhaul of the idea and social form of the discipline. Organized around narrative accounts of individuals and their...

W.E.B. Du Bois and the Disciplinary Decadence of Sociology By Reiland Rabaka, associate professor of ethnic studies Lexington Books In this intellectual history-making volume, multiple award-winning W. E. B. Du Bois scholar Reiland Rabaka offers the first book-length treatment of Du Bois’s seminal sociological discourse: from Du Bois as inventor...