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  • 21st Century Media and Female Mental Health

    Profitable Vulnerability and Sad Girl Culture

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This open access book examines the conversations around gendered mental health in contemporary Western media culture. While early 21st century-media was marked by a distinct focus on happiness, productivity and success, during the 2010s negative feelings and discussions around mental health have become increasingly common in that same media landscape. This book traces this turn to sadness in women ... Read more

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  • Revolutionary Suicide

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    The searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. Newton, in a dazzling graphic packageTracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton's famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the inner circle of America's Black Panther Party. From Newton's impoverished childhood on the streets of Oakland to his adolescence and struggles with the system, from ... Read more

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  • Contact Points

    American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830

    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    The eleven essays in this volume probe multicultural interactions between Indians, Europeans, and Africans in eastern North America’s frontier zones from the late colonial era to the end of the early republic. Focusing on contact points between these groups, they construct frontiers as creative arenas that produced new forms of social and political organization.Contributors to the volume offer ... Read more

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  • Strife and Peace

    Love, Loss, and Resilience in 19th Century Sweden

    Translated by Mary Howitt ...
    In "Strife and Peace," Fredrika Bremer delves into the complexities of human relationships within the confines of societal norms of the 19th century. The novel employs a richly descriptive literary style, blending elements of realism and romanticism to vividly portray the emotional and moral struggles of its characters. Bremer's exploration of gender, class, and the quest for personal fulfillment ... Read more

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  • Natural Products Chemistry of Botanical Medicines from Cameroonian Plants

    Edited by Xavier Siwe-Noundou ...
    Series series Natural Products Chemistry of Global Plants
    A contribution to the series on Natural Products Chemistry of Global Plants, Natural Products Chemistry of Botanical Medicines from Cameroon focuses on the sources and chemistry of natural products from plants in Cameroon, West Africa. The plants selected offer an opportunity to trace a route through history from ancient civilizations to the modern day, showing the important value to man of ... Read more

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  • Representing Infirmity

    Diseased Bodies in Renaissance Italy

    Series series The Body in the City
    This volume is the first in-depth analysis of how infirm bodies were represented in Italy from c. 1400 to 1650. Through original contributions and methodologies, it addresses the fundamental yet undiscussed relationship between images and representations in medical, religious, and literary texts.Looking beyond the modern category of ‘disease’ and viewing infirmity in Galenic humoral terms, each ... Read more

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  • Warring for America

    Cultural Contests in the Era of 1812

    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    The War of 1812 was one of a cluster of events that left unsettled what is often referred to as the Revolutionary settlement. At once postcolonial and neoimperial, the America of 1812 was still in need of definition. As the imminence of war intensified the political, economic, and social tensions endemic to the new nation, Americans of all kinds fought for country on the battleground of culture. ... Read more

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  • Video Surveillance and Social Control in a Comparative Perspective

    Series series Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
    This edited collection reports the results of a comparative study of video surveillance/CCTV in Germany, Poland, and Sweden. It investigates how video surveillance as technologically mediated social control is affected by national characteristics, with a specific concern for recent political history. The book is motivated by asking what makes video surveillance "tick" in three very different ... Read more

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  • Huey

    Spirit of the Panther

    Huey P. Newton remains one of the most misunderstood political figures of the twentieth century. As cofounder and leader of the Black Panther Party for more than twenty years, Newton (1942-1989) was at the forefront of the radical political activism of the 1960s and '70s. Raised in poverty in Oakland, California, and named for corrupt Louisiana governor Huey P. Long, Newton embodied both the ... Read more

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  • The Disappeared

    A Novel

    Series series The Fredrika Bergman Series
    From “one of Sweden’s best younger writers” (Los Angeles Times Magazine) and a “talented new author” (Booklist) comes this riveting third book in the critically acclaimed Fredrika Bergman crime series.A young woman on her way to a party vanishes without a trace, and it’s not until two years later that her body turns up. Mercilessly dismembered, it has deteriorated considerably in its lonely burial ... Read more

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  • The Huey P. Newton Reader

    The first comprehensive collection of writings by the Black Panther Party founder and revolutionary icon of the black liberation era, The Huey P. Newton Reader combines now-classic texts ranging in topic from the formation of the Black Panthers, African Americans and armed self-defense, Eldridge Cleaver’s controversial expulsion from the Party, FBI infiltration of civil rights groups, the Vietnam ... Read more

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  • Unwanted

    A Novel

    Series series The Fredrika Bergman Series
    For fans of Nordic thrillers, the American debut of the first installment of the acclaimed Frederika Bergman crime series, following a Swedish investigator searching for a missing child.In the middle of a rainy Swedish summer, a little girl is abducted from a crowded train. Inspector Fredrika Bergman and her special team are assigned to what at first appears to be a classic custody battle. But ... Read more

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