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<\/a><\/b>By Jean Halley \u201989<\/b> and Amy Eshleman\n\u201cSeeing Straight\u201d introduces students to key concepts in gender and sexuality through the lens of privilege and power. The book asks students to examine the privilege inherent in approaching heterosexual and cisgender (a person whose gender identity corresponds with that person\u2019s biological sex assigned at birth) identities as \u201cnormal,\u201d as well as the problems of treating queer gender and sexuality as \u201cabnormal.\u201d The book addresses topics such as hate, violence, and privilege, and considers institutionalized heteronormativity through the military, law, religion, and more. Halley is professor of sociology at the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York and has taught extensively in women\u2019s, gender, and sexuality studies. Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2017.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n
Get After It<\/h3>\n
By Karen R. Roybal, assistant professor of Southwest StudiesBy Patrick Shea \u201984<\/b>
\nBy word count, \u201cGet After It\u201d is a novelette. In reality, the book is Shea\u2019s debrief for himself after 22 years in business reporting on the Colorado Rapids and other soccer teams in the state. The characters include a girls high school soccer\u00a0 <\/span>team, the coaching staff, and a woman with early-onset dementia. \u201cGet After It\u201d is a true story \u2014 his sister Bridget has dementia \u2014 but Shea uses characters to tell it. The project is a mix of text, illustrations, and an hour of Shea\u2019s footage with the author reading aloud. Over the years, Shea has performed standup comedy, drawn comics with hopes for syndication, and filmed all levels of soccer. \u201cGet After It\u201d is available online only at currentofcolorado.com\/archives\/20815<\/i><\/span><\/p>\nUnbound<\/span><\/h3>\n
<\/a>By John Shors \u201991<\/b><\/span>
\nThe year is 1548, and the Chinese Empire faces an imminent Mongol invasion. All that prevents the violent end of a dynasty is the Great Wall. Yet even this famed fortification has weaknesses, and against his will, a talented Chinese craftsman is taken from his home and wife, so that he may labor alongside the wall\u2019s defenders. Fan has been missing for a year when his wife, Meng, decides to do the impossible \u2014 leave everyone and everything she knows in a daunting effort to find him. At a time when many women fear even stepping outside their homes, Meng disguises herself as a man and begins a perilous journey of deliverance. As two armies gather at the Great Wall, the fates of Fan and Meng collide with a Mongol horseman seeking redemption, a Chinese concubine fighting injustice, and a ruthless general determined to destroy them all. Published by Passport Press, 2017<\/i><\/span><\/p>\nLeaving The Wild: The Unnatural History of Dogs, Cats, Cows, and Horses<\/span><\/h3>\n
<\/a>By Gavin Ehringer \u201984<\/b><\/span>
\nA thought-provoking book that explores the ever-evolving relationship between humans and domesticated animals. Within, readers will meet cows cloned from steaks, learn about a Quarter horse stallion valued at $7.5 million, and visit a cat show featuring hairless felines. The author ponders, \u201cIs this what the animals bargained for all those millennia ago, when they first joined us by the fire?\u201d For dogs, cats, cows, and horses, domestication has proven a wildly successful survival strategy. But this success has not been without drawbacks. A modern dairy cow\u2019s energy output equals that of a Tour de France rider. Feral cats contribute to wildlife extinctions. And methods of breeding horses and dogs have resulted in debilitating and sometimes lethal genetic diseases. But, as Ehringer shows, these problems and more can be addressed if people have the will and the compassion. Published by Pegasus Books, 2017.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/b>Archives of Dispossession: Recovering the Testimonios of Mexican American Herederas, 1848\u20131960<\/span><\/h3>\n
\nRoybal\u2019s goal in writing the book was to \u201cdocument what I thought was really a hidden history of women within the history of land tenure in the Greater Southwest.\u201d The book notes that one method of American territory expansion in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands was the denial of property rights to Mexican landowners, which led to dispossession. Many historical accounts overlook this colonial impact on Indigenous and Mexican peoples, and studies that do tackle this tend to privilege the male experience. Roybal recenters the focus of dispossession on women, arguing that gender, sometimes more than race, dictated legal concepts of property ownership and individual autonomy. Drawing on diverse sources \u2014 legal land records, personal letters, and literature \u2014 Roybal locates voices of Mexican American women in the Southwest to show how they fought against the erasure of their rights, both as women and as landowners. Published by the University of North Carolina Press, 2017.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\nIn the Flow: Bridging the Science and Practice of Mindfulness<\/span><\/h3>\n
By Deborah Norris \u201979<\/b><\/span>
\nNorris is a neuroscientist, founder and president of The Mindfulness Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and the director of the Psychobiology of Healing Program at American University. In her book, she lays out new theories in the science of mindfulness, revealing how simple practices are able to remove roadblocks to health and happiness. The book aims to help readers live the life of their own choosing by identifying and using mindfulness practices that best work for each individual. Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017.<\/i><\/p>\nVayneLine Chronicles<\/span><\/h3>\n
<\/a>By Eric Szabelski \u201908<\/b><\/span>
\nSzabelski\u2019s new sci-fi series explores humanity\u2019s future after the Earth has been environmentally devastated. With humanity nearly driven to extinction and at their lowest point, they were offered a deal no one could refuse. Focusing on survival and adventure among the stars, this series offers readers a chance to enjoy many aspects of the writing, from intense action to thought-provoking themes. Published by CreateSpace, 2017.<\/i><\/span><\/b><\/p>\nAll about Children<\/h3>\n