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In the mid-1990s, residents of Anniston, Alabama, began a legal fight against the agrochemical company Monsanto over the dumping of PCBs in the citys historically African American …

America is being held back by the quality and quantity of learning in college. Many graduates cannot think critically, write effectively, solve problems, understand complex issues, …

Nominated Best Nonfiction Book for 2004 by the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters On August 17, 1969, Hurricane Camille roared out of the Gulf of Mexico and smashed into …

Mar a Palitachi encarna en sus palabras ...] la vida de la hermosa tierra hospitalaria, ahora sufriendo muertes. La poeta se solidariza con estos sentimientos en compa a de las …

Christian Liberal Arts articulates the practical, pedagogical, and theological reasons why Christian liberal arts colleges are distinctive in the world of American higher …

In the wake of the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire, the city of San Francisco desperately needed reliable supplies of water and electricity. Its mayor, James Phelan, pressed …

The Great Basin was the last region of continental North America to be explored and mapped, and it remained largely a mystery to Euro-Americans until well into the nineteenth …

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them …

This book explores resource development at Mississippi's Community and Junior Colleges. It determines whether revenue generated from fundraising adequately serves the colleges' …

The tireless resistance of local communities fighting for ownership of America’s third largest water system.  Toxic Water, Toxic System exposes the consequences of a seemingly …

Although much has been written about leaders and leadership, we unfortunately know little about women, particularly minority women, who fill this particular role. This book …

Written by a leading scholar of juvenile justice, this book examines the social and legal changes that have transformed the juvenile court in the last three decades from a …