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Comparing Lessons from Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Peru By Krister Andersson, assistant professor of environmental policy; Gustavo Gordillo de Anda, former U.N. official; and Frank van Laerhoven, Ph.D. University of Arizona Press Despite the recent economic upswing in many Latin American countries, rural poverty rates in the region have actually...

A Science Adventure with Max the Dog By Jeffrey Bennett, former CU astronomer; Nick Schneider, associate professor of astrophysics; and Erica Ellingson; associate professor of astrophysics Big Kid Science (publisher) Scientifically accurate illustrations and information-packed sidebars enrich this fascinating tale, the third in this acclaimed series about diversity and space...

By Marjorie Keniston McIntosh, distinguished professor of history emerita Indiana University Press The Yoruba, one of the largest and most historically important ethnic groups in Nigeria, are noted for the economic activity, confidence, and authority of their women. Yoruba Women, Work, and Social Change traces the history of women in...

Stephen H. Lekson, curator of anthropology, CU Museum of Natural History SAR Press According to archaeologist Stephen H. Lekson, much of what we think we know about the Southwest has been compressed into conventions and classifications and orthodoxies. This book challenges and reconfigures these accepted notions by telling two parallel...

By William Kuskin, associate professor of English University of Notre Dame Press “Symbolic Caxton” is the first study to explore the introduction of printing in symbolic terms. It presents a powerful literary history in which the 15 th century is crucial to the overall story of English literature. William Kuskin...

By Paul M. Levitt, professor of English Cross Cultural Communications In his latest work of fiction, Levitt tells a tale of the first recorded charge of ritual murder that took place in Norwich, England, 1144, alleging that the Jewish community, “In despite of our Lord,” killed a Christian child, subsequently...

By David Ferris, professor and chair of comparative literature and humanities Cambridge University Press For students of modern criticism and theory, Walter Benjamin’s writings have become essential reading. His analyses of photography, film, language, history, allegory, material culture, the poet Charles Baudelaire, and his vast examination of the social, political...

By Robert Hanna, CU professor of philosophy; and Michelle Maiese assistant professor of philosophy at Emmanuel College, Boston Oxford University Press In Embodied Minds in Action , Robert Hanna and Michelle Maiese work out a unified treatment of three fundamental philosophical problems: the mind-body problem, the problem of mental causation,...

By Susan Kingsley Kent, professor of history Palgrave Macmillan Aftershocks examines the impact of collective trauma arising out of the Great War on the politics of the 1920s in Britain. Aftershocks studies how meanings of shellshock, and imagery that presented the traumatized psyche as shattered, contributed to Britons’ understandings of...