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It seems, at first blush, to be something of a no-brainer: strengthening protections on American intellectual property rights (or IPRs) 鈥� on everything from drugs to music to technology 鈥� would be a boon to the national economy. After all, we hardly want unscrupulous governments and businesses in Brazil, China,...

Unusual Answers to the Usual Questions David Boonin, professor of philosophy Cambridge University Press In this book, philosopher David Boonin attempts to answer the moral questions raised by five important and widely contested racial practices: slave reparations, affirmative action, hate speech restrictions, hate crime laws, and racial profiling. Arguing from...

Poems by Julie Carr , assistant professor of English Coffee House Press Set to the music of rain, these shattered elegies seek communion in the ethereal place between birth and death. In the wake of a mother鈥檚 battle with Alzheimer鈥檚 and a child鈥檚 impending birth, Julie Carr gathers the shards...

By Heimrad B盲cker Translated by Vincent Kling, professor of German and comparative literature at La Salle University in Philadelphia; and Patrick Greaney, assistant professor of German and comparative literature at CU-Boulder Dalkey Archive Press 鈥榯ranscript鈥� is a disturbing document. Using the techniques of concrete and visual poetry, Heimrad B盲cker presents...

Thomas Andrews has a knack for framing American history unconventionally. In his award-winning book 鈥淜illing for Coal,鈥� Andrews traced the central role of coal in Colorado鈥檚 economic growth, environmental change and social conflict. Now he鈥檚 turning his scholarly gaze toward another little-acknowledged actor in American history: animals. 鈥淧aying attention to...

A Legal and Political History (1774-1950) By Mithi Mukherjee, associate professor of history Oxford University Press This pioneering research offers a sweeping new interpretation of the complex and seemingly contradictory nature of Indian democracy and polity. In contrast to much of existing scholarship, it joins the colonial and postcolonial periods...

Part 1 of the Bunnyhead Chronicles By Stephen Graham Jones, professor of English Trapdoor Books There are borders, and then there are borders. Between right and wrong. Between Texas and Mexico. The first is a joke to Dodd Raines, the second a payday. Then there are the borders he鈥檚 made...

From the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip Hop Feminist Movement By Reiland Rabaka, associate professor of ethnic studies Lexington Books 鈥淗ip Hop鈥檚 Inheritance鈥� arguably offers the first book-length treatment of what hip hop culture has, literally, 鈥渋nherited鈥� from the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts movement, the Feminist Art movement and...

Sweden, Japan, and the United States By Sven Steinmo, professor of political science Cambridge University Press 鈥淭he Evolution of Modern States鈥� is a significant contribution to the literatures on political economy, globalization, historical institutionalism and social-science methodology. The book begins with a simple question: Why do rich capitalist democracies respond...

Introduction and Applications By Lise Menn, professor emerita of linquistics Plural Publishing Inc. For students in speech-language pathology, language education, psychology, linguistics, and for working language professionals, this text provides a clear and attractive introduction to current thinking on how our brains process language in speaking, understanding and reading. It...