Gold Medal Winner for Best Regional Non-Fiction, 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards

Finalist

2011 International Book Awards

THE ART OF AMERICANIZATION AT THE CARLISLE INDIAN SCHOOL by Hayes Peter Mauro 

In this historical study, Mauro analyzes the visual imagery produced at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School as a specific instance of the aesthetics of Americanization at work. His work combines a consideration of cultural contexts and themes specific to the United States of the time and critical theory to flesh out innovative historical readings of the photographic materials.    

 JEAN-FR�D�RIC WALDECK: Artist of Exotic Mexico

by Esther Pasztory  

A rediscovery of the lively and dramatic art of one of the first European artists to visit the ruins at Palenque in the early nineteenth century. 

 PRIMITIVE REVOLUTION: Restorationist Religion and the Idea of the Mexican Revolution, 1940-1968

by Jason H. Dormady

In this intriguing study, Jason Dormady examines the ways members of Mexico's urban and rural poor used religious community to mediate between themselves and the state through the practice of religious primitivism, the belief that they were restoring Christianity-and the practice of Mexican citizenship-to a more pure and essential state. 

Available for the first time in one volume, Daniel Heath Justice's acclaimed Thorn and Thunder novels take Indigenous fantasy fiction beyond its stereotypes and tell a story set in a world similar to eighteenth-century eastern North America. The original trilogy-an example of green/eco-literature-is collected here in a one-volume novel. 

 

WONDERS OF NUCLEAR FUSION: Creating an Ultimate Energy Source by Neal Singer

With accessible writing, Neal Singer introduces young readers to what fusion is-and isn't.  
With accessible writing, Neal Singer introduces young readers to what fusion is-and isn't. He explains the ways scientists have approached and developed fusion and discusses its advantages over other forms of energy production.