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Bits of Life

Feminism at the Intersections of Media, Bioscience, and Technology

edited by Anneke Smelik and Nina Lykke

Since World War II, the biological and technological have been fusing and merging in new ways, resulting in the loss of a clear distinction between the two. This entanglement of biology with technology isn't new, but the pervasiveness of that integration is staggering, as is the speed at which the two have been merging in recent decades. As this process permeates more of everyday life, the urgent necessity arises to rethink both biology and technology. Indeed, the human body can no longer be regarded either as a bounded entity or as a naturally given and distinct part of an unquestioned whole.

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Border Landscapes

The Politics of Akha Land Use in China and Thailand

By Janet C. Sturgeon

"Sturgeon admirably demonstrates how local people live with the reality of continually negotiated political, social and ecological boundaries between China and Thailand. A scholarly, interesting and timely treatment of an important issue, the ever-changing and local nature of political and environmental transformation of a minority culture not just in a single political setting, but on the boundaries of multi-state formation and resource control." - Pacific Affairs

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Boundaries of Jewish Identity (Samuel and Althea Stroum Book)

Susan A. Glenn is Howard and Frances Keller Endowed Professor of History and a member of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Washington. Naomi B. Sokoloff is professor of Near Eastern languages and civilizations and professor of comparative li

The subject of Jewish identity is one of the most vexed and contested issues of modern religious and ethnic group history. This interdisciplinary collection draws on work in law, anthropology, history, sociology, literature, and popular culture to consider contemporary and historical responses to the question: "Who and what is Jewish?"

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Bringing Indians to the Book

Albert Furtwangler

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Building New Pathways to Peace

Noriko Kawamura is associate professor of history at Washington State University. Yoiichiro Murakami and Shin Chiba teach at the International Christian University in Tokyo.

Japanese and American scholars explore new, multidisciplinary ways of thinking about peace and how to achieve it. Noriko Kawamura is associate professor of history at Washington State University. Yoichiro Murakami and Shin Chiba teach at the International Christian University in Tokyo.

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Building Ships, Building a Nation

Korea's Democratic Unionism under Park Chung Hee

by Hwasook Nam

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Candles in the Dark

A New Spirit for a Plural World

edited by Barbara Sundberg Baudot

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Captured in the Middle

Tradition and Experience in Contemporary Native American Writing

by Sidner Larson

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The Carbon Efficient City

Building Blocks to Cool Our Planet

A-P Hurd

The Carbon Efficient City shows how regional economies can be aligned with practices that drive carbon efficiency. It details ten strategies for reducing carbon emissions in our cities: standardized measurement, frameworks that support innovation, regulatory alignment, reducing consumption, reuse and restoration, focus on neighborhoods, providing spaces for nature, use of on-site life cycles for water and energy, coordination of regional transportation, and emphasis on solutions that delight people.

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Carl Maxey

a fighting life

Jim Kershner

Carl Maxey made a name for himself, first as an NCAA championship boxer, and then as eastern Washington State's first prominent black lawyer and renowned civil rights attorney who always fought for the underdog. This is a moving portrait of the man called a “Type-A Gandhi” by the New York Times and whose own personal misfortune only spurred his lifelong, tireless crusade against injustice.

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