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Thomas Sankara
Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa offers the first complete biography in English of the dynamic revolutionary leader from Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara. Coming to …
Amtrak, America's Railroad
Discover the story of Amtrak, America's Railroad, 50 years in the making.In 1971, in an effort to rescue essential freight railroads, the US government founded Amtrak. In the …
The Revolutionary Mystique and Terrorism in Contemporary Italy
What drives terrorists to glorify violence? In The Revolutionary Mystique and Terrorism in Contemporary Italy, Richard Drake seeks to explain the origins of Italian terrorism and …
Contemporary Korean Shamanism
Once viewed as an embarrassing superstition, the theatrical religious performances of Korean shamans—who communicate with the dead, divine the future, and become possessed—are …
Radical Documentary and Global Crises
When independent filmmakers, activists, and amateurs document the struggle for rights, representation, and revolution, they instrumentalize images by advocating for a particular …
Touch of an Angel
The extraordinary story of a child's survival of the Holocaust and the basis for the award-winning documentary directed by Marek T. Pawlowski.Henryk Schonker was born in 1931 into …
Gaming Utopia
In Gaming Utopia: Ludic Worlds in Art, Design, and Media, Claudia Costa Pederson analyzes modernist avant-garde and contemporary video games to challenge the idea that gaming is an …
Collector's Guide to Fort Payne Crinoids and Blastoids
Collector's Guide to Fort Payne Crinoids and Blastoids is the first comprehensive guide for identifying the fossils of echinoderms from hundreds of millions of years ago, when …
International Education at the Crossroads
International Education at the Crossroads captures the essence and complexity of international education in an interconnected and globalized world. Written by leading scholars, …
Contested Antiquity
While the archaeological legacies of Greece and Cyprus are often considered to represent some of the highest values of Western civilization—democracy, progress, aesthetic harmony, …
Politics, Money, and Persuasion
In Politics, Money, and Persuasion, distinguished philosopher John Russon offers a new framework for interpreting Plato's The Republic. For Russon, Plato's work is about the …
Imaging Culture
Imaging Culture is a sociohistorical study of the meaning, function, and aesthetic significance of photography in Mali, West Africa, from the 1930s to the present. Spanning the …