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Wesleyan University Press On Edge Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century The state of performance art in the 80s and 90s, documented by the form’s leading critic.

Carr, C.

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Brandeis University Press The Art of the Turnaround Creating and Maintaining Healthy Arts Organizations Practical advice (supported by extensive case studies) for fixing troubled arts organizations

Kaiser, Michael M.

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University Press of New England A Master Class Sensational Recipes from the Chefs of the New England Culinary Institute and Ellen Michaud The award-winning Vermont cooking school brings its commitment to taste, flavor, and contemporary, sustainable cuisine to the home kitchen

Chefs of the New England Culinary Institute; Ellen Michaud ed.

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Tufts University Press Uncharitable How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential A courageous call to free charity from its ideological and economic constraints

Pallotta, Dan

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University Press of New England In Words and Deeds Battle Speeches in History The first-ever survey of inspirational battle speeches from Greco-Roman times to the present

Miller, Richard F.

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Brandeis University Press Yehuda Amichai The Making of Israel’s National Poet An astonishing revision of the prevailing critical analysis of the poetry of Yehuda Amichai, based on newly discovered materials

Gold, Nili Scharf

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Brandeis University Press Marie Syrkin Values Beyond the Self The life and times of Marie Syrkin, polemicist of pragmatic idealism

Kessner, Carole S.,

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Northeastern University Press Execution’s Doorstep True Stories of the Innocent and Near Damned The stories of five men unfairly condemned to death

Lytle, Leslie

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Northeastern University Press Abolition One Man’s Battle Against the Death Penalty The English translation of a behind-the-scenes account of the abolition of the death penalty in France

Badinter, Robert, Mercer, Jeremy, tr., Roth, Kenneth, fwd.

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University Press of New England To the Life of the Silver Harbor Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy on Cape Cod The Cape as evoked and experienced by a legendary literary couple

Wilson, Reuel K.

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University Press of New England Boston Beheld Antique Town and Country Views Boston seen anew through historical paintings

Simons, D. Brenton

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University Press of New England Ghost Hunters of New England Captivating profiles of irrepressible investigators of the paranormal in New England

Brown, Alan

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Northeastern University Press Red Sox Nation Guide to the Players Short biographies and statistical career summaries for every Boston Americans (Pilgrims) and Boston Red Sox player from 1901 through 2007

McNeil, William F.

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University Press of New England Gone Fishin’ Massachusetts’ 100 Best Waters A guide to the best fishing spots in all of Massachusetts

Luftglass, Manny, Bowles, Ian A., fwd

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University Press of New England Good Tidings The History and Ecology of Shellfish Farming in the Northeast Both a history of the New England shellfish industry and a look into the science, economics, and techniques of shellfish aquaculture

Brennessel, Barbara

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University Press of New England Polluted and Dangerous America’s Worst Abandoned Properties and What Can Be Done About Them A probing and timely look at how American cities can achieve sustainability in the face of decline

Hollander, Justin B.

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University of Vermont Press Energy in America A Tour of Our Fossil Fuel Culture and Beyond Presents a broad, cultural view of America’s energy sector—traditionally the domain of engineers and policy makers—for nonscientists involved in creating sustainable communities

Kelley, Ingrid

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Northeastern University Press Voting Amid Violence Electoral Democracy in Colombia Timely lessons from Colombia on the coexistence of civil democracy and political violence in the context of international affairs and institutional reform

Taylor, Steven L.

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Tufts University Press Smallville Institutionalizing Community in Twenty-First-Century America A path-breaking study of organizational dynamics in community movements and in small, local, nonprofit organization

Milofsky, Carl

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University of Vermont Press Defending the Master Race Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant A historical rediscovery of one of the heroic founders of the conservation movement who was also one of the most infamous racists in American history

Spiro, Jonathan Peter

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University of New Hampshire Press Rousseau’s Daughters Domesticity, Education, and Autonomy in Modern France Provocative assessment of how new ideas about motherhood and domesticity in pre-Revolutionary France helped women demand social and political equality later on

Popiel, Jennifer J.

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University of New Hampshire Press Slavery and Sentiment The Politics of Feeling in Black Atlantic Antislavery Writing, 1770-1850 Illuminates the political dimensions of American and British antislavery texts written by blacks

Levecq, Christine

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Brandeis University Press Four Centuries of Jewish Women’s Spirituality A Sourcebook The only comprehensive volume of Jewish women’s spiritual writing from the sixteenth century to the present

Umansky, Ellen M., Ashton, Dianne,eds.

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Dartmouth College Press The Treaty of Portsmouth and Its Legacies The latest, probing look at the 1905 Portsmouth Peace Treaty, the last peace agreement between Japan and Russia

Ericson, Steven, Hockley, Allen, eds.

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University Press of New England Selling Anxiety How the News Media Scare Women A powerful and witty exposé of how the media distorts news about women

Rivers, Caryl

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Brandeis University Press The Jews of Bialystok During World War II and the Holocaust Jewish society as an active protagonist in the story of the Holocaust

Bender, Sara; Yaffa Murciano, trs.

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Brandeis University Press Between Jew and Arab The Lost Voice of Simon Rawidowicz An exploration of the fascinating Jewish thinker Simon Rawidowicz and his provocative views on Arab refugees and the fate of Israel

Myers, David N.

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Northeastern University Press In the Truth Room Winner of the 2008 Morse Poetry Prize

Roeser, Dana, Jones, Rodney, selected and introduced by

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University of New Hampshire Press Charles Eliot Norton The Art of Reform in Nineteenth-Century America An impassioned reassessment of a major nineteenth-century public intellectual

Dowling, Linda

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University Press of New England European Art at Dartmouth Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art Second in a series of publications presenting the Hood’s extensive and varied collections

Thurber, T. Barton

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Wesleyan University Press Challenges A Memoir of My Life in Opera A powerful pioneer in opera and music recounts her struggles and triumphs

Caldwell, Sarah with Rebecca Matlock

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Wesleyan University Press Making Freedom The Extraordinary Life of Venture Smith The inspiring story of an 18th-century New England slave who emancipated himself

Saint, Chandler B. and George A. Krimsky

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Wesleyan University Press My Vocabulary Did This to Me The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer An essential collection of a highly original American poet

Spicer, Jack, edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian

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Wesleyan University Press Odes and Elegies Powerful new translations of this seminal figure in modern poetry

Hölderlin, Friedrich, Translated by Nick Hoff.

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Wesleyan University Press All Odd and Splendid Intimate new poems from an important contemporary voice

Raz, Hilda

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Wesleyan University Press Grave of Light New and Selected Poems, 1970–2005 Selected poems from a visionary feminist poet.

Notley, Alice

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Wesleyan University Press The Outernationale A luminous new work for the 21st century August 2008 (new in paper)

Gizzi, Peter

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Wesleyan University Press The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction A major critical work from one of the preeminent voices of science fiction scholarship

Csicsery-Ronay, Istvan, Jr.

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Wesleyan University Press The Black Mirror and Other Stories An Anthology of Science Fiction from Germany and Austria The first collection of classic and contemporary German-language science fiction in English

Rottensteiner, Franz, ed. Translated by Mike Mitchell.

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Wesleyan University Press The Old Leather Man Historical Accounts of a Connecticut and New York Legend Fascinating documentation of a mysterious figure

DeLuca, Dan W.

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Wesleyan University Press Henry Austin In Every Variety of Architectural Style A colorful introduction to one of New England’s most productive and imaginative architects

O’Gorman, James F.

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Wesleyan University Press Westover Giving Girls a Place of Their Own A century of girls’ education in the history of an extraordinary school

Lisle, Laurie

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Wesleyan University Press Global Soundtracks Worlds of Film Music The first volume focusing on film music as a worldwide phenomenon

Slobin, Mark, ed.

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Wesleyan University Press It’s the Pictures That Got Small Hollywood Film Stars on 1950s Television An original study of Hollywood film stars and 1950s television

Becker, Christine

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Saturnalia Books Letters to Poets Conversations About Poetics, Politics, and Community

Firestone, Jennifer, Lomax, Dana Teen, eds.

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Saturnalia Books Days of Unwilling Cal Bedient’s third collection of poems.

Bedient, Cal

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Cavankerry Press An Apron Full of Beans An exploration of African-American history and popular culture emphasizing the relations between men and women

Cornish, Sam

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Cavankerry Press The Red Canoe Love in Its Making The Red Canoe: Love in Its Making—poetry and memoir exploring the anatomy of a marriage—underbelly and crown

Handler, Joan Cusack

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Four Way Books After Dayton

Carrier, C.S.

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Four Way Books Orphan Fire This remarkable sequence of lyric poems combines to a beautiful, luminous exploration of emotional intensity, of how the body is inhabited by fear, or love, or “a cynical knowledge that helps us endure.” The images in these poems will be etched in your mind long after you have put this book down.

Valles, Alissa

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Four Way Books Second Things

Tobin, Daniel

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Fence Books Star in the Eye Winner of the 2008 Fence Modern Poets Series

Shea, James, selected by Nick Flynn

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Fence Books The Method

Steensen, Sasha

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Fence Books The Orphan & Its Relations

Robinson, Elizabeth

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Fence Books Site Acquisition A certain slant lubricates the vision of Brian Young’s second book of poems

Young, Brian

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Fence Books Collapsible Poetics Theater

Toscano, Rodrigo

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Sheep Meadow Press The English Channel An Original Play About Shakespeare

Brustein, Robert

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Sheep Meadow Press These are not Oranges, My Love

Mersal, Iman, Translated from the Arabic by Mattawa, Khaled, intr.

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Sheep Meadow Press Ghosts, The Space of Joy, Song & Dance

Fuller, John

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Sheep Meadow Press Questions of Love New and Selected Poems New and Selected Poems

Lesser, Rika

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Sheep Meadow Press Storyknife New and Selected Poems New and Selected Poems

Baron, Mary

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Strawbery Banke Museum Historic Portsmouth Early Photographs from the Collection of Strawbery Banke A fascinating collection 19th- and early 20th-century photographs of this "old town by the sea".

Garvin, James L.

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Peabody Essex Museum Wedded Bliss The Marriage of Art and Ceremony This lavishly illustrated book is the first to explore the wedding’s global terrain as a source of artistic inspiration, both historically and today

Richter, Paula Bradstreet; Contributing authors: Baldizzone, Tiziana and Gianni; Ingraham, Chrys; Johnson, Donald Clay; and Richter, Paula Bradstreet

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Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art At Home With Gustav Stickley Arts & Crafts from the Stephen Gray Collection Arguably the finest private collection of early Gustav Stickley furniture

Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin; Roth, Linda H., eds.; Gray, Stephen, intr.; Cathers, David and McPherson, Tommy, essays by

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