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Book Cover for: Labor's Outcasts: Migrant Farmworkers and Unions in North America, 1934-1966, Andrew J. Hazelton

Labor's Outcasts: Migrant Farmworkers and Unions in North America, 1934-1966

Andrew J. Hazelton
Illinois PressIllinois Press

LABOR'S OUTCASTS examines the NAWU's opposition to the Bracero Program against the backdrop of Mexican migration and the transformation of North American agriculture. Andrew J. Hazelton's new book is now available! https://t.co/EVzM1P6wid cc: @txamiu https://t.co/B9mZeAEuU2

Paperback, 2022

$28.00Member price:$28.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Book Cover for: Democracy's Rebirth: The View from Chicago, Dick Simpson

Democracy's Rebirth: The View from Chicago

Dick Simpson
Illinois PressIllinois Press

"Simpson’s book provides a thorough diagnosis for what’s gone wrong with the country’s democratic ideals." --@newcity Explore Dick Simpson's (@uicpols) timely book, DEMOCRACY'S REBIRTH, via the link below⬇️ https://t.co/mqm3swLnhO 2/2

Hardcover, 2022

$110.00Member price:$110.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Book Cover for: Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and Context, Timothy E. Eastman

Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and Context

Timothy E. Eastman
Illinois PressIllinois Press

In "Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and Context," Timothy E. Eastman offers the “Logoi framework” as a meta-theory. Read the review by @ThouArtThat in Process Studies Volume 51, Issue 2. cc: @ctr4process https://t.co/DF9CLpXepX https://t.co/J1ZJ9XDh4R

Paperback, 2022

$45.99Member price:$43.69 + Free shipping5% off
Book Cover for: Jazzing: New York City's Unseen Scene, Thomas H. Greenland

Jazzing: New York City's Unseen Scene

Thomas H. Greenland
Illinois PressIllinois Press

Check out some of the media reviews from Ethnomusicology Vol. 67, Iss. 1: 📖@mikeallemana on "Jazzing: New York's City Unseen Scene" by Thomas Greenland (@IllinoisPress) https://t.co/L0GG7tEhLa 🎥@daniedoesmusic on @summerofsoul movie from @questlove https://t.co/00M3uhltRT https://t.co/CIiLRI0XQQ

Paperback, 2016

$28.00Member price:$28.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Book Cover for: Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women's Activism in Modern America, Anya Jabour

Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women's Activism in Modern America

Anya Jabour
Illinois PressIllinois Press

You're so great, Anya! And so is your book -- SOPHONISBA BRECKINRIDGE: CHAMPIONING WOMEN'S ACTIVISM IN MODERN AMERICA https://t.co/1c6nheieca https://t.co/r2ZrDsiRR8

Paperback, 2019

$29.95Member price:$29.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Book Cover for: Manifest Technique: Hip Hop, Empire, and Visionary Filipino American Culture Volume 1, Mark R. Villegas

Manifest Technique: Hip Hop, Empire, and Visionary Filipino American Culture Volume 1

Mark R. Villegas
Illinois PressIllinois Press

Join authors @DrGinaVelasco (QUEERING THE GLOBAL FILIPINA BODY -- https://t.co/JcE36gm0gz) & Mark Villegas (@FandMCollege; MANIFEST TECHNIQUE -- https://t.co/sxFcUyoRya) for a Filipinx book party *today*! cc: @AAAStudies https://t.co/vXI8J2VNmK

Paperback, 2021

$26.00Member price:$26.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Book Cover for: Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser

Sister Carrie

Theodore Dreiser
Illinois PressIllinois Press

In American Literary Realism (Vol. 55, Iss. 2), @jbretmaney (@LehmanCollege) argues that Theodore Dreiser's novel "Sister Carrie" should be understood as a reworking for the American scene of the 19th century European realist novel of ambition. Read more: https://t.co/FHbuDvr9f6

Paperback, 2009

$13.95Member price:$6.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Music as Mao's Weapon: Remembering the Cultural Revolution, Lei X. Ouyang

Music as Mao's Weapon: Remembering the Cultural Revolution

Lei X. Ouyang
Illinois PressIllinois Press

MUSIC AS MAO'S WEAPON Remembering the Cultural Revolution By Lei X. Ouyang https://t.co/HZuOFrHUTn 🧵3/4 @Choice_Reviews #ChoiceOATS2022 https://t.co/l35PvjiAGr

Paperback, 2022

$28.00Member price:$28.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Book Cover for: Joseph Smith's Translation: The Words and Worlds of Early Mormonism, Samuel Morris Brown

Joseph Smith's Translation: The Words and Worlds of Early Mormonism

Samuel Morris Brown
Illinois PressIllinois Press

Christian Swenson reviews @DrSamuelBrown's book "Joseph Smith's Translation: The Words and Worlds of Early Mormonism" (@OxUniPress, 2020) in vol. 31 of Journal of Book of Mormon Studies. The book is divided into "Contexts" and "Texts"—worlds and words. https://t.co/h0y8SIw28G

Hardcover, 2020

$45.99Member price:$45.99 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Book Cover for: An Ethical Critique of Fur Factory Farming, Andrew Linzey

An Ethical Critique of Fur Factory Farming

Andrew Linzey
Illinois PressIllinois Press

Journal of Animal Ethics editors Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey have published a new report, "An Ethical Critique of Fur Factory Farming," as a part of @Palgrave's 40-volume Animal Ethics Series. https://t.co/dGBjYKl991 #JournalofAnimalEthics

Hardcover, 2022

$44.99Member price:$42.74 + Free shipping5% off