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Palms and People in the Amazon Nigel Smith Nigel Smith, Professor Emeritus in Geography. Available from Springer. This book explores the degree to which landscapes have been enriched with palms by human activities and the importance of palms for the lives of people ...

Jewish Histories of the Holocaust: New Transnational Approaches Norman J.W. Goda Norman J.W. Goda, Norman and Irma Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies in the Center for Jewish Studies. Available from Berghahn Books. For many years, histories of the Holocaust focused on its perpetrators, and ...

What it Takes to be a Translator: Theory and Practice Alexander Burak Alexander Burak, Norman and Irma Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies in the Center for Jewish Studies. Available from Berghahn Books. Berghahn Books, Assistant Professor of Russian in Languages, Literatures and Cultures. ...

Media and Translation: An Interdisciplinary Approach Dror Abend-David Dror Abend-David, Lecturer in Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Available from Bloomsbury Publishing and Amazon. Over the last decade there has been a dramatic increase in publications on media and translation. In fact, there are those ...

After Newspeak: Language Culture and Politics in Russia from Gorbachev to Putin Michael S. Gorham Michael S. Gorham, Associate Professor of Russian Studies in Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Available from Cornell University Press. In After Newspeak, Michael S. Gorham presents a cultural history ...

Content Burns Stephanie A. Smith Stephanie A. Smith, Professor of English. Pre-order available from Amazon. CONTENT BURNS chronicles the parallel stories of two women who bear the same Puritan name, in the same family, who are separated by three centuries and who are ...

That Religion in Which All Men Agree: Freemasonry in American Culture David G. Hackett David G. Hackett, Associate Professor of Religion. Available from Amazon. This powerful study weaves the story of Freemasonry into the narrative of American religious history. Freighted with the mythical ...

Tan Men/Pale Women: Color and Gender in Archaic Greece and Egypt, a Comparative Approach Mary Ann Eaverly Mary Ann Eaverly, Associate Professor of Classics. Available from University of Michigan Press. One of the most obvious stylistic features of Athenian black-figure vase painting is ...

“The Other” in Translation: A Case for Comparative Translation Studies Alexander Burak Alexander Burak, Assistant Professor of Russian. Available from Amazon. In The Other in Translation: A Case for Comparative Translation Studies, Alexander Burak brings theorists and practitioners together and discusses ways of ...

Visions of Power in Cuba Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971 Lillian Guerra Lillian Guerra, Associate Professor of History. Available from The University of North Carolina Press. In the tumultuous first decade of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and other leaders saturated the media with ...