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Camping Grounds: Public Nature in American Life from the Civil War to the Occupy Movement

July 20, 2021

Camping Grounds rediscovers unexpected and interwoven histories of sleeping outside.

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Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living

During a difficult time, Karen Auvinen flees to a primitive cabin in the Rockies to live in solitude as a writer and to embrace all the beauty and brutality nature has to offer. What she found was a community.

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The Puritan Cosmopolis: The Law of Nations and the Early American Imagination

In Nan Goodman鈥檚 book, 鈥淭he Puritan Cosmopolis: The Law of Nations and the Early American Imagination,鈥 she traces a sense of kinship that emerged from within the larger realm of Puritan law and literature in late seventeenth-century New England.

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Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain

Brian A. Catlos鈥 book, Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain (2018, Basic Books), explores the history of Islamic Spain and displays a complex portrait of how Muslims, Christians and Jews built a sophisticated civilization that transformed the Western world.

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More than Just Mountains

Craig Jones's book The Mountains That Remade America (2017, University of California Press) reflects on the Sierra Nevada range and how the mountains have changed the way Americans live.

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The Carpetbaggers of Kabul and Other American-Afghan Entanglements

By Jennifer Fluri

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Face Au Public 2017: Problemes D'identite

By Masano Yamashita

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Enhancing the Climate Resilience of Africa's Infrastructure

By Paul Chinowsky

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Bandit Narratives in Latin America: from Villa to Ch谩vez

By Juan Dabove

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Differential Dynamical Systems Revised Edition

By James D. Meiss

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