🍂 Autumn reading time! Let our AI Librarian find your perfect cozy read 🫖
Explore the literary world of this author
Essays on Evil in Popular Media
What is evil? How do we understand it in our culture? The thirteen essays in this critical volume explore the different ways in which evil is portraye...
The Making of the Environmental Movement
In this first comprehensive authorized biography of David Brower, a dynamic leader in the environmental movement over the last half of the twentieth c...
The e-book guide for publishers: how to publish, EPUB format, ebook readers and suppliers. An electronic book (also e-book, ebook, electronic book, di...
The Grapes of Wrath and New Deal Documentary Photography
As time passes, personal memories of the Great Depression die with those who lived through the desperate 1930s. In the absence of firsthand knowledge,...
The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles
The remarkable story of the Jewish moguls in Hollywood who established the first anti-Nazi Jewish resistance organization in the country in the 1930s....
California Artists and Democratic Culture in the Twentieth Century
In 1921 Sam Rodia, an Italian laborer and tile setter, started work on an elaborate assemblage in the backyard of his home in Watts, California. The r...
The Tragic History of a Bodybuilding Icon
For most of the twentieth century, the “Mr. America” image epitomized muscular manhood. From humble beginnings in 1939 at a small gym in Schenecta...
Why Queer Politics Mean the End of America
Pride Used to Be a Sin—Now It Is the Flag of Our Occupation. In this shocking new book, Joy Pullmann shows how radical ideologues and sexual revolut...
Ce texte est la première biographie de Fray Marcos de Niza.Né à Nice, Franciscain Observant, il part en 1531 pour rejoindre Pizarro au Pérou, mais...
Extremism at Home in Red Scare Hollywood
Rooms of Nancy Vernon Kelly’s childhood home in Hollywood, California, provide scaffolding for Souls at Risk, a memoir about the roots and consequen...
A World History
'Odd Arne Westad's daring ambition, supra-nationalist intellect, polyglot sources, masterly scholarship and trenchant analysis make The Cold War a boo...
Taiwan's Quest for Security and the Good Life
" How Taiwan can overcome internal stresses and the threat from China Taiwan was a poster child for the “third wave” of global democratization in ...
The Suburban Crisis in American Culture, 1975–2001
How—haunted by the idea that their suburban homes were under siege—the second generation of suburban residents expanded spatial control and cultur...
Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s
This is the authoritative and long-awaited volume on Berkeley's celebrated Free Speech Movement (FSM) of 1964. Drawing from the experiences of many mo...
Seamus Heaney’s American Odyssey describes, with a new archive of correspondence, interviews, and working drafts, the some 40 years that Seamus Hean...
An Oral History of Nazi Genocide in Belorussia
Pioneers and Partisans weaves together oral histories, video testimonies, and memoirs produced in the former Soviet Union to show how the first genera...
Nisei Buddhism in the Transwar Years, 1943–1965
Post–World War II historical developments, including Japanese American resettlement, the U.S. occupation of Japan, the Cold War, and decolonization ...
Treacherous Twin to the Pecos, 1535-1900
In his newest book, Devils River, Patrick Dearen traces the 400-year history of the notorious river from the time of the first Spanish explorers to th...
How a Southern California Backyard Party Band Saved Heavy Metal
A vivid and energetic history of Van Halen's legendary early years After years of playing gigs everywhere from suburban backyards to dive bars, Van Ha...
The Explosive Story of M19, America's First Female Terrorist Group
“A deeply-researched and well-written account of” (Peter Bergen, author of United States of Jihad) M19—the first and only domestic terrorist gro...
How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics
In the 1960s and 1970s, America experienced a sports revolution. New professional sports franchises and leagues were established, new stadiums were bu...
Offers a guide to census indexes, including federal, state, county, and town records, available in print and online; arranged by year, geographically,...
150 Years of Experiences and Contributions
The first in-depth look at how women have shaped the history and legacy of Indiana University. Women first enrolled at Indiana University in 1867. In ...
A Systems Approach to Research and Best Practice
Student success comprises a complex system of expectations and measurements. Designed for school library media specialists, this book focuses on libra...
Fake News and Fake Journalism in American History
Winner, 2023 Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award Winner, 2023 Frank Luther Mott / Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award Winner, 2023 Journalis...
A History of America Through Forced Removal
Introduction : the roots and routes of American deportation -- Building the deportation state -- Eastbound -- Westbound....
Five Charismatic Men and the Conquest of Africa
Examines, through the lives of five important English and French figures, the history of the exploration and colonization of Africa between 1870 and 1...
Decolonizing Histories, Extractivism, and Maya Resistance in Guatemala
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminoso...
“An important and telling critique of the myth and rhetoric of contemporary American expansionism and grand strategy. What is particularly original ...
Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century
Trans Kids is a trenchant ethnographic and interview-based study of the first generation of families affirming and facilitating gender nonconformity i...
Kid pro quo?
This book presents a committed quest to unravel and document the postwar adoption networks that placed more than 3,000 Greek children in the United St...
The Making of an International Human Rights Movement
This book chronicles the dawn of the global movement for women's rights in the first decades of the twentieth century. The founding mothers of this mo...
Southern Student Activism in the 1960s
SynnottJeffrey A. TurnerErica WhittingtonJoy Ann Williamson-Lott...
The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity
The fiery true story of America's most famous radical fugitives, urgently and passionately told....
The Shadow of Selma evaluates the 1965 civil rights campaign in Selma, Alabama, the historical memory of the campaign’s marches, and the continuing ...
The Mystery of a WW II Plane Crash and the Frozen Airmen in the High Sierra
"In October 2005, two mountaineers climbing above Mendel Glacier in the High Sierra found the mummified remains of a man in a WWII uniform, entombed i...
Satire in the Courts, 1670-1792
Libel and Lampoon shows how English satire and the law mutually shaped each other during the long eighteenth century. Following the lapse of prepublic...
Electronic Texts in the Humanities
The first comprehensive guide to explore the growing field of electronic information, The Text in the Machine: Electronic Texts in the Humanities will...
The first history of Spanish-language television in the United States In the most comprehensive history of Spanish-language television in the United S...
An Introduction to Theory and Practice
A comprehensive, easy-to-read introductory text for nursing students. The book is organized into three sections: Introduction to Psychiatric-Mental He...