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MHC Faculty and Staff Books

One of the best things for an independent bookstore about being so close to a premier liberal arts college is the community of scholars and writers. Here is a non-exhaustive list of books by MHC faculty!

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Coming to Our Senses: A Boy Who Learned to See, a Girl Who Learned to Hear, and How We All Discover the World By Susan R. Barry Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781541675155
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Published: Basic Books - June 8th, 2021

The Eternal City: A History of Rome in Maps By Jessica Maier Cover Image
$46.00
ISBN: 9780226591452
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Published: University of Chicago Press - November 4th, 2020

Afterlives of Affect: Science, Religion, and an Edgewalker's Spirit By Matthew C. Watson Cover Image
$26.95
ISBN: 9781478008439
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Published: Duke University Press - August 28th, 2020

Fablesque By Anna Maria Hong Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781946482341
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Published: Tupelo Press - September 1st, 2020

Dangerous Art: On Moral Criticisms of Artwork By James Harold Cover Image
$65.00
ISBN: 9780197519769
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Published: Oxford University Press, USA - September 18th, 2020

If: The Untold Story of Kipling's American Years By Christopher Benfey Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780735221451
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Published: Penguin Books - July 7th, 2020

These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson By Martha Ackmann Cover Image
$26.95
ISBN: 9780393609301
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - February 25th, 2020

Romantic Vacancy: The Poetics of Gender, Affect, and Radical Speculation (SUNY Series) By Kate Singer Cover Image
$95.00
ISBN: 9781438475271
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Published: State University of New York Press - August 1st, 2019

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl By Andrea Lawlor Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780525566182
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Published: Vintage - April 23rd, 2019

The Poet's Prose and Other Essays: Race, National Identity, and Diaspora in the Americas By Roberto Márquez Cover Image
$69.95
ISBN: 9781433160837
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Published: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi - February 28th, 2019

A Monster with a Thousand Hands: The Discursive Spectator in Early Modern England By Amy J. Rodgers Cover Image
$82.45
ISBN: 9780812250329
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press - November 9th, 2018

Phantasmatic Shakespeare: Imagination in the Age of Early Modern Science By Suparna Roychoudhury Cover Image
$48.95
ISBN: 9781501726552
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Published: Cornell University Press - October 15th, 2018

Confronting Dystopia: The New Technological Revolution and the Future of Work By Eva Paus (Editor) Cover Image
By Eva Paus (Editor)
$31.95
ISBN: 9781501719851
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Published: ILR Press - June 15th, 2018

Obligated Self: Maternal Subjectivity and Jewish Thought (New Jewish Philosophy and Thought) By Mara H. Benjamin Cover Image
$31.50
ISBN: 9780253034328
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Published: Indiana University Press (Ips) - August 1st, 2018

New York Exposed: The Gilded Age Police Scandal That Launched the Progressive Era By Daniel Czitrom Cover Image
$20.99
ISBN: 9780190864347
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Published: Oxford University Press, USA - May 1st, 2018

Bureaucratic Intimacies: Translating Human Rights in Turkey (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and) By Elif M. Babül Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781503603172
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Published: Stanford University Press - October 3rd, 2017

Conversation about America: The Faux-G.O.P.'s War against Right, Wrong, and Democracy. By Thomas I. White Cover Image
$12.95
ISBN: 9780983708032
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Published: Desiderius Press - August 11th, 2017

Curveball: The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone, the First Woman to Play Professional Baseball in the Negro League By Martha Ackmann Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781613736562
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Published: Lawrence Hill Books - February 1st, 2017

Beyond Answers: Exploring Mathematical Practices with Young Children By Mike Flynn Cover Image
$36.00
ISBN: 9781571109026
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Published: Stenhouse Publishers - November 23rd, 2016

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Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape By Lauret Savoy Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781619028258
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Published: Counterpoint - September 13th, 2016

Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism By Iyko Day Cover Image
$26.95
ISBN: 9780822360933
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Published: Duke University Press - March 18th, 2016

The Repeating Body: Slavery's Visual Resonance in the Contemporary By Kimberly Juanita Brown Cover Image
$27.95
ISBN: 9780822359296
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Published: Duke University Press - September 25th, 2015

Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York By Bonnie Yochelson, Daniel Czitrom Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780226182865
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Published: University of Chicago Press - August 18th, 2014

Quince Duncan: Writing Afro-Costa Rican and Caribbean Identity By Dr. Dorothy E. Mosby, d Cover Image
$44.95
ISBN: 9780817313494
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Published: University Alabama Press - February 28th, 2014

Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay: Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival By Christopher Benfey Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780143122852
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Published: Penguin Books - February 26th, 2013

Alter-Nations: Nationalisms, Terror, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland By Amy E. Martin Cover Image
$59.95
ISBN: 9780814212028
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Published: Ohio State University Press - December 20th, 2012

Ousmane Sembène: The Making of a Militant Artist By Samba Gadjigo, Moustapha Diop (Translator), Danny Glover (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Samba Gadjigo, Moustapha Diop (Translator), Danny Glover (Foreword by)
$19.95
ISBN: 9780253221513
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Published: Indiana University Press (Ips) - May 1st, 2010

Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions By Susan R. Barry, Oliver Sacks (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Susan R. Barry, Oliver Sacks (Foreword by)
$17.99
ISBN: 9780465020737
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Published: Basic Books - August 3rd, 2010

Aromatics By Robert B. Shaw Cover Image
$15.00
ISBN: 9780982156193
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Published: Pinyon Publishing - April 15th, 2011

A World among These Islands: Essays on Literature, Race, and National Identity in Antillean America By Roberto Marquez Cover Image
$26.95
ISBN: 9781558498518
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Published: University of Massachusetts Press - November 11th, 2010

Icons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos By Lynn Morgan Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780520260443
Published: University of California Press - September 9th, 2009

Getting Away with Torture: Secret Government, War Crimes, and the Rule of Law By Christoher H. Pyle Cover Image
$29.95
ISBN: 9781597973878
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Published: Potomac Books - June 1st, 2009

Warnings to the Kings and Advice on Restoring Spain: A Bilingual Edition (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe) By María de Guevara, Nieves Romero-Díaz (Translated by) Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780226140810
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Published: University of Chicago Press - November 1st, 2007

Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology By Lauret E. Savoy (Editor), Eldridge M. Moores (Editor), Judith E. Moores (Editor) Cover Image
By Lauret E. Savoy (Editor), Eldridge M. Moores (Editor), Judith E. Moores (Editor)
$24.95
ISBN: 9781595340238
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Published: Trinity University Press - March 16th, 2006

To Redeem One Person is to Redeem the World: The Life of Freida Fromm-Reichmann By Gail A. Hornstein Cover Image
$32.00
ISBN: 9781590511831
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Published: Other Press - September 17th, 2005

The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight By Martha Ackmann, Lynn Sherr (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Martha Ackmann, Lynn Sherr (Foreword by)
$18.00
ISBN: 9780375758935
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - July 13th, 2004

Queenship and Sanctity: The Lives of Mathilda and the Epitaph of Adelheid (Medieval Texts in Translation) By Sean Gilsdorf Cover Image
$31.45
ISBN: 9780813213743
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Published: Catholic University of America Press - June 23rd, 2004

Mademoiselle Giraud, Ma Femme: An MLA Text Edition By Adolphe Belot, Christopher Rivers (Editor) Cover Image
$9.95
ISBN: 9780873527989
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Published: Modern Language Association of America - January 1st, 2003

Halving It All: How Equally Shared Parenting Works By Francine M. Deutsch Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780674002098
Published: Harvard University Press - April 7th, 2000

Ousmane Sembene: Dialogues with Critics and Writers By Thomas Cassirer (Editor), Ralph H. Faulkingham (Editor), Samba Gadjigo (Editor), Reinhard Sander (Editor) Cover Image
By Thomas Cassirer (Editor), Ralph H. Faulkingham (Editor), Samba Gadjigo (Editor), Reinhard Sander (Editor)
$19.95
ISBN: 9780870238895
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Published: University of Massachusetts Press - December 14th, 1993

Puro Teatro, A Latina Anthology By Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez (Editor), Nancy Saporta Sternbach (Editor) Cover Image
$25.50
ISBN: 9780816518272
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Published: University of Arizona Press - December 1st, 1999

Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader By Critical Ethnic Studies Editorial Collec Cover Image
$34.95
ISBN: 9780822361275
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Published: Duke University Press - May 13th, 2016

Arjuna and the Hunter (Murty Classical Library of India #9) By Bharavi, Indira Viswanathan Peterson (Editor), Indira Viswanathan Peterson (Translator) Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780674504967
Published: Harvard University Press - January 5th, 2016

What in the World Is Going On?: Wisdom Teachings for Our Time By Penny Gill Cover Image
$11.99
ISBN: 9781504326117
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Published: Balboa Press - January 19th, 2015

On Sovereignty and Other Political Delusions (Theory for a Global Age) By Joan Cocks Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781780933542
Published: Bloomsbury Academic - December 1st, 2014

The Language of Secular Islam: Urdu Nationalism and Colonial India By Kavita Datla Cover Image
$49.00
ISBN: 9780824836092
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Published: University of Hawaii Press - January 31st, 2013

Some Assembly Required: Work, Community, and Politics in China's Rural Enterprises (Harvard East Asian Monographs #302) By Calvin Chen Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780674027831
Published: Harvard University Press - March 1st, 2008

Flora's Empire: British Gardens in India (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture) By Eugenia W. Herbert Cover Image
$88.00
ISBN: 9780812243260
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press - September 21st, 2011

Real Choices / New Voices: How Proportional Representation Elections Could Revitalize American Democracy By Douglas Amy Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780231125499
Published: Columbia University Press - September 4th, 2002

Getting Development Right: Structural Transformation, Inclusion, and Sustainability in the Post-Crisis Era By E. Paus (Editor) Cover Image
By E. Paus (Editor)
$63.24
ISBN: 9781137360908
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Published: Palgrave MacMillan - September 19th, 2013

Wild Bird Guide: Black-Capped Chickadee (Wild Bird Guides) By Susan M. Smith Cover Image
$19.95
ISBN: 9780811726863
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Published: Stackpole Books - August 1st, 1997

UnCommon Bonds: Women Reflect on Race and Friendship (Counterpoints #372) By Shirley R. Steinberg (Other), Kersha Smith (Editor), Marcella Runell Hall (Editor) Cover Image
By Shirley R. Steinberg (Other), Kersha Smith (Editor), Marcella Runell Hall (Editor)
$47.00
ISBN: 9781433148743
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Published: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi - April 16th, 2018

Pet Projects: Animal Fiction and Taxidermy in the Nineteenth-Century Archive (Animalibus #14) By Elizabeth Young Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780271084947
Published: Penn State University Press - December 15th, 2019

The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World By Alison Hawthorne Deming (Editor), Lauret E. Savoy (Editor) Cover Image
$22.00
ISBN: 9781571313195
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Published: Milkweed Editions - February 1st, 2011