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Compound Remedies

Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain

By Paula S. DeVos

A Unique History of the Galenic Pharmaceutical Tradition in New Spain

Rhet Ops

Rhetoric and Information Warfare

Edited By Jim Ridolfo, William Hart-Davidson

Weaponized Digital Rhetorics

At the Table of Power

Food and Cuisine in the African American Struggle for Freedom, Justice, and Equality

By Diane M. Spivey

A Hard-Hitting and Provocative Rethinking of American Culinary History

Mirrors of Whiteness

Media, Middle-Class Resentment, and the Rise of the Far Right in Brazil

By Mauro P. Porto

Highlights the Intersections between Media, Whiteness, and Middle-Class Identity That Feed Brazil’s Ultraconservative Movement

That Ship Has Sailed

By Terence Winch

Poems that Zoom In on the Mysterious and Transformative Nature of Expression

Unorganized Women

Repetitive Rhetorical Labor and Low-Wage Workers, 1834-1937

By Jane Greer

A Detailed Study of the Rhetorical Labor of Low- and No-Wage Women Workers Unaffiliated with Traditional Labor Unions

Every Form of Ruin

Poems

By Erin Adair-Hodges

A Refutation of Silence and Choosing of Operatic Anger over Abuse and Marginalization

Vortex, The

An Environmental History of the Modern World

By Frank Uekötter

Dissects a Global Environmental Legacy That Will Shape Policies in the New Millennium

New Energies

A History of Energy Transitions in Europe and North America

Edited By Stephen G. Gross, Andrew Needham

Captures the Drama and Complexity of Past Transitions While Looking toward Energy Sources of the Future

The Many Voices of Modern Physics

Written Communication Practices of Key Discoveries

By Joseph E. Harmon, Alan G. Gross

A Tribute to the Communicative Practices of Physicists in the Twentieth Century

Donora Death Fog

Clean Air and the Tragedy of a Pennsylvania Mill Town

By Andy McPhee

The Complete Story of the Worst Air Pollution Disaster in US History

Iron Artisans

Welsh Immigrants and the American Age of Steel

By Ronald L. Lewis

How Skilled Welsh Workers and Managers Helped Build the American Steel Industry

Capitalist Outsiders

Oil's Legacies in Mexico and Venezuela

By Leslie C. Gates

How Capitalist Outsiders Willing to Accommodate the Dominant Economic Elite Often Defeat Anticapitalist Outsiders

Representing the Barrios

Culture, Politics, and Urban Poverty in Twentieth-Century Caracas

By Rebecca Jarman

Charts the Rise of the Barrios in the Venezuelan Imagination

Writing and Desire

Queer Ways of Composing

By Jonathan Alexander

Explores Writing as a Practice of Desire through an LGBTQ+ Lens