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Books by authors published in 2020 that you might have missed!

Browse through the thread below for excellent reading materials and gift ideas. Support authors who missed out on the usual book promotion.

An edited collection of essays "From the hair of a famous dead poet to botanical ornaments and meat pies, the subjects of this book are dynamic, organic artifacts."

@JulieLong18thC @eronusis @AngieRHogan

Buy here: https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5224 

By @DrVickyRandall, this book offers the first comprehensive treatment of the historian and public moralist E. A. Freeman since the publication of W. R. W. Stephens' Life and Letters of Edward A. Freeman (1895).

Buy here: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526135810/ 

This study by @EssakaJoshua "addresses the anachronistic use of 'disability' in scholarship of the Romantic era, providing a disability studies theorized account that explores the relationship between ideas of function and aesthetics."

Buy here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/physical-disability-in-british-romantic-literature/E4D5DAAF624CEE08E4203ABA03915D0C#

"How much of the human experience can fit into 750 words?"

An edited collection by @brevitymag and Zoë Bossiere.

Buy here: https://rosemetalpress.com/books/the-best-of-brevity/

"The creative collaborations of engineers, artists, scientists, and curators over the past fifty years," by @LeapingRobot

Buy here: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/making-art-work

"This book demonstrates the inherently social construction of ‘mental health’, and highlights the role of nurses in challenging, and complying with, modern approaches to psychiatry." By @drkyliesmith

Buy here: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/talking-therapy/9781978801455

"It’s 1905, and the Japanese victory over the Russians has shocked the British and their imperial subjects..." An exciting new novella by @rashirohatgi

Buy here: https://www.galaxygalloper.com/new-page-1 

A debut essay collection by @SejalShahWrites, mapping "her identity as an American, South Asian American, writer of color, and feminist."

Buy here: https://ugapress.org/book/9780820357232/this-is-one-way-to-dance/

Philip Beeley @YeldaNasif Benjamin Wardhaugh's edited collection "seeks to close the gap between the history of mathematics as a history of texts and history of mathematics as part of the broader history of human culture."

Buy here: https://www.routledge.com/Reading-Mathematics-in-Early-Modern-Europe-Studies-in-the-Production-Collection/Beeley-Nasifoglu-Wardhaugh/p/book/9780367609252

"What does the ‘Dark Ages’ mean in contemporary society?" An open-access edited collection by @howardmrw & Pauline Magdalene Clarke on the politics, pop culture and public archaeology of the Early Middle Ages.

Buy/Access here: https://www.archaeopress.com/ArchaeopressShop/Public/displayProductDetail.asp?id=%7BDE9A5B19-7AAD-4FA7-A097-060E0525533D%7D

As Victorian medical reformers framed typhoid as an urgent public health concern, the disease became "as much a social and political problem as it was a scientific one." By @steerewilliams

Buy here: https://boydellandbrewer.com/the-filth-disease.html

An examination of "authors such as Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus to persuasively demonstrate how non-Greek communities affected and were in turn deeply affected by their local animals, plants, climate, and landscape," by @thaumatic

Buy here: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520343481/other-natures

An exciting study of "how the five senses became important elements in the biopolitical work of constructing human difference along the lines of race, gender, and ability" by @upstaterica

Buy here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/sensory-experiments

A study of how "the genealogies of race are especially visible in the racialization of white women, whose whiteness often depends on their ability to reproduce white family and white supremacy" by @BrigField

Buy here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/relative-races 

The "first comprehensive study addressing the role ephemera played in twentieth-century fiction and its relevance to contemporary digital culture" by @SarahLWasserman

Buy here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-death-of-things

In this book, @wraggem "offers a groundbreaking reconsideration of scientific representation in the early modern period and brings to light the hitherto overlooked role of aesthetic experience in the history of the empirical sciences."

Buy here: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo46479577.html

A debut historical novel by @saralread on plague and pregnancy in 17th century London.

Buy here: http://www.wildpressedbooks.com/the-gossips-choice.html

"How do public employees win and lose their collective bargaining rights? And how can public sector labor unions protect those rights?" @DominicDWells examines 50 years of state-level data to analyze the expansion and restriction of rights.

Buy here: http://tupress.temple.edu/book/20000000010054

A collection of essays edited by @besswww & @elizguffey to examine how designed objects and spaces contributes to the meanings of ability and disability from the late 18th century to the present day.

Buy here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/making-disability-modern-9781350070455/

An edited collection by Viktoria Tkaczyk, @maramills & Alexandra Hui historicizing the testing of hearing and testing with hearing to explore the co-creation of modern epistemic and auditory cultures.

Buy here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/testing-hearing-9780197511138?cc=us&lang=en&#

In this book, @CJeffersonHall examines "five Adirondack Park communities from the 1840s through the early 2000s to demonstrate that the histories of mass incarceration and environmental consciousness are interconnected."

Buy here: https://www.umasspress.com/9781625345356/a-prison-in-the-woods/