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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 1h
Prophets of Love alters our views of both Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul, re-introducing us to two poetic prophets of divine and human love. Learn more at the the University of Ghent Exhibition: buff.ly/Zam0KnO 📚 buff.ly/rCYhcmm #LeonardCohen2026
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 8h
NEW IN STOCK - Mackert explores how the calorie became regarded as not only a unit of measurement, but also a way of creating social differences as it translates to individual bodies and populations. 📚 buff.ly/LeUpGIZ @nyupress.bsky.social
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Aggersborg follows the archaeologists who uncovered the history of the largest fortresses. @smsindbaek.bsky.social recently appeared on @vikingologypodcast.bsky.social to discuss the ongoing series. 📚 mngbookshop.co.uk/author/soren... 🎙️ vikingology.substack.com/p/denmarks-v...
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW IN STOCK - A different kind of sports history, Athlete and Activist is an inspiring look at heroic acts beyond our favorite games. 📚️ buff.ly/YmksZEs @illinoispress.bsky.social
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SUP Mktg Dir @supmktg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
PSA for authors: if a representative of a media organization invites you to be interviewed about your work but requires a "small participation fee," chances are this is not a legit request. Please examine the message closely for signs of phishing; when in doubt, check with us.
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NEW IN STOCK - Drawing from 30 years of creative writing teaching experience, Roberts offers down-to-earth, witty, and wise straight talk about writing, accessible craft discussions, and thought-provoking twenty-minute genre-crossing writing prompts. 📚️ buff.ly/soD4Ld9 @univnebpress.bsky.social
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW IN STOCK - Silent Knowledge explores a contemporary example of Indigenous cultural revival in Sápmi, the Sámi homeland, to investigate issues of embodied cultural memory. 📚️ buff.ly/ioKDLJU @ubcpress.bsky.social
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW IN STOCK - Reexamining ancient literature, Clark argues that the earliest Roman historians wrote appreciatively about women's communities and engagement in the Republic, challenging attitudes assumed by 18th and 19th century scholars. 📚️ buff.ly/mfIngaM @uwiscpress.bsky.social
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW IN STOCK - By integrating insights from green and spatial criminology, urban studies and planning, this book envisions alternative futures and solutions to various urban challenges. 📚️ buff.ly/DeqUUCX @rutgersupress.bsky.social
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Explores how Jews and Germans began reparations discussions fewer than seven years after the Holocaust and the complexities that emerged from the resulting settlement. 🗓️ 8 October 2026 📍South Hampstead Synagogue 🔗 buff.ly/nvUwW3K @cornellupress.bsky.social
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW IN STOCK - Everything is Everything celebrates record producer Tom Wilson as a key figure in 1966's pop music eclecticism and search for authenticity. 📚️ buff.ly/bxhu7aw @stanfordpress.bsky.social
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Being, Hage explores the great French social theorist’s work and revitalizes conventional and undertheorized aspects of his thinking. 🗓️ 8 October 2026 📍The University of Sydney 🔗 buff.ly/yImDZSx @dukepress.bsky.social @anthroprofhage.bsky.social
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Drawing on extensive archival research, this groundbreaking book uncovers the lives of those who were doubly marginalized, not only persecuted as Jews but also as queer individuals. 🗓️ 6 October 2026 📍The Bookish Type, Leeds 🔗 buff.ly/6Gs5stb @uoftpress.bsky.social
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW IN STOCK - Compiling essays, reviews, artist’s statements, presentations, letters, and interviews, Still Dangerous! fleshes out Hammond’s career while providing a valuable resource for scholars and students of contemporary culture. 📚️ buff.ly/ehqUxHf @dukepress.bsky.social
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
NEW IN STOCK - Explore Sedgwick's art and theory with this richly illustrated volume on queer and trans craft. 📚️ buff.ly/ELuRXmo @dukepress.bsky.social
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A landmark new translation of the most significant text in medieval Jewish thought. 📚 buff.ly/ZYZkdKl Browse MNG's virtual exhibit ⬇️ buff.ly/UN95hvY @stanfordpress.bsky.social #ReligiousStudies
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW IN STOCK - The first book to celebrate Santa Fe’s world-famous Plaza Café with stories, mouthwatering photographs, and over ninety recipes from the oldest restaurant in continuous service in one of the oldest cities in America. 📚️ buff.ly/9b2i2Br @unmpress.bsky.social
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Focusing on three former prison camps, Rouhier-Willoughby untangles a nexus of memory, legend, and vernacular religious practice afforded by the existence of sacred springs at these sites. Browse MNG's virtual exhibit ⬇️ buff.ly/UN95hvY @uwiscpress.bsky.social #ReligiousStudies
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Illuminating Scriptural Connections invites readers into a bold and revelatory dialogue between two of the world's foundational scriptures. 📚 buff.ly/iKrV1g2 Browse MNG's virtual exhibit ⬇️ buff.ly/UN95hvY @univnebpress.bsky.social #ReligiousStudies
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
NEW IN STOCK - Richly detailed and historically grounded, Early Modern Maritime Recipes documents the cosmopolitan quality of settler household knowledge, revealing that the history of settler domesticity is never far from the history of colonialism. 📚️ buff.ly/FMJXs0u @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW IN STOCK - Theater company Fake Friends' first publication features their absurd, serious internet plays: Circle Jerk (Pulitzer-shortlisted) and This American Wife. 📚️ buff.ly/a0ndxRV @nupress.bsky.social
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Expansive yet accessible, Forbidden offers a captivating look into Jewish history and identity through the lens of the pig. 📚 buff.ly/GGPlJ8h Browse MNG's virtual exhibit ⬇️ buff.ly/UN95hvY @nyupress.bsky.social #ReligiousStudies
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This handsome paperback version from the publishers of the pope's doctoral thesis, will spark reflection and action upon Pope Leo's words. 📚 buff.ly/AWbhbZ8 Browse MNG's virtual exhibit ⬇️ buff.ly/UN95hvY #ReligiousStudies
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In this groundbreaking book, John T. Lowe reexamines Jonathan Edwards's legacy by focusing on the intersections among slavery, race, and theology. 📚 buff.ly/AKWzEuA Browse MNG's virtual exhibit ⬇️ buff.ly/UN95hvY @uscpress.bsky.social #ReligiousStudies
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Water Powers is an interdisciplinary collection that presents timely, original research on sacred aquatic animals and environmental change. 📚 buff.ly/Yte4WFn Browse MNG's virtual exhibit ⬇️ buff.ly/UN95hvY #ReligiousStudies
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Focuses on contemporary art and media to examine the role of visuals in environmental violence and war in Northern Kurdistan. 🔗 buff.ly/STK2B5O 📍Mosaic Rooms, London 🗓️ 26 September, 4-6pm @eraycayli.bsky.social @utexaspress.bsky.social
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NEW IN STOCK - Blending film analysis with literature, music, sociology, and cultural studies, the volume positions Singleton’s work as a critical intersection of African American history, identity, and popular culture. 📚️ buff.ly/rK0iEdU @upmississippi.bsky.social
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Butler reflects on the diaries, letters, publications, performances, lives, and afterlives of her most beloved queer feminist writers: Kathy Acker and Cookie Mueller. 🔗 buff.ly/LyaNopo 📍East Bristol Books 🗓️ 24 September @dukepress.bsky.social
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
NEW IN STOCK - James Mason: The Movie Star Hollywood Forgot explores the complexities of Mason’s life and career—a reluctant star whose refined demeanor and enigmatic choices made him one of cinema’s most intriguing figures. 📚️ buff.ly/AlLgdmg @upmississippi.bsky.social
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW IN STOCK - Dylan in Cincinnati takes a fresh approach to Bob Dylan’s performance art by asking what happens when we focus on a single city across six decades. 📚️ buff.ly/rAq0Jok @upmississippi.bsky.social
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Connecting green and urban criminology, urban studies and planning to reveal how ordinary and extraordinary challenges are entangled in urban design, harm and, most importantly, imagining alternative futures and cities 🔗 buff.ly/pJcLtAE 📍Online & in person 🗓️ 22 September @rutgersupress.bsky.social
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Frank and richly detailed, this book provides insiders’ accounts of how jazz intertwined with struggle and both expressed and resisted the bitter unfairness of apartheid-era South Africa. 🔗 buff.ly/AVfQ5ch 📍Phoenix Cinema, East Finchley 🗓️ 21 September @illinoispress.bsky.social
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Sandra T. Barnes offers a history focused on the Benin Region’s patchwork of small states and ports that saw a constant movement of people and goods for centuries. Visit our stand in person at #ASAUK26 or find us online ⬇️ mngbookshop.co.uk/asauk-2026/ @uwiscpress.bsky.social
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NEW IN STOCK - Based on author Josef Benson’s interviews with Meko, Infinity Land presents exclusive, never-before-revealed information that radically reshapes our understanding of Dahmer, his crimes, and the city that enabled them. 📚️ buff.ly/jHsZptI @upmississippi.bsky.social
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Drawing on a comparative ethnography in South Africa and the UK, Clawing Back explores how notions of reallocation and payout are intimately connected with those of compensation for a loss. Visit our stand at #ASAUK26 or find us online ⬇️ mngbookshop.co.uk/asauk-2026/ @stanfordpress.bsky.social
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Butler reflects on the diaries, letters, publications, performances, lives, and afterlives of her most beloved queer feminist writers: Kathy Acker and Cookie Mueller. 🔗 buff.ly/tdB4kPD 📍This House, Market Street, England 🗓️ 19 September, 16:00 - 18:30 @dukepress.bsky.social
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Join us today at 15:30 on our stand at #ASAUK26 for the launch of Marginalising Colonialism. Meet author Domenico Cristofaro, and pick up a copy of the book with 30% discount. Not attending? Order online with discount code ASAUK26 here: mngbookshop.co.uk/asauk-2026/ @ohiounivpress.bsky.social
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Unjust Developments offers a powerful account of city building as both a site of injustice and a terrain of struggle—where justice is not guaranteed, but persistently demanded. Visit our stand in person at #ASAUK26 or find us online ⬇️ mngbookshop.co.uk/asauk-2026/ @fordhampress.bsky.social
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NEW IN STOCK - Kim's Fruit of Life offers a raw portrait of 1920s–30s Korea, driven by her personal experiences of sexual assault, misogynistic journalism and criticism, displacement, and poverty during the Japanese colonial occupation (1910–1945). 📚️ buff.ly/UpCF7Ej @rutgersupress.bsky.social
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NEW IN STOCK - Drawing on an array of new documents, interviews, diaries, and periodicals, Torigian tells the life story of Xi Zhongxun, a man who spent his entire life struggling to balance his own feelings with the party's demands. 📚 buff.ly/v8pyi9b @stanfordpress.bsky.social
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NEW IN STOCK - Starting Over transports readers back to 1980 and into Manhattan's Hit Factory, where Lennon and Ono recorded their acclaimed LP Double Fantasy. 📚️ buff.ly/9hZAfNq @rutgersupress.bsky.social
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
NEW IN STOCK - Illuminating important connections between theories about the relationship between humans and the built environment, Anker's provocative study provides new insight into a critical period in the evolution of environmental awareness. 📚️ buff.ly/mlur3UM @lsupress.bsky.social
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
An excerpt from WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING now in @nplusonemag.com!!! www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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The Billboards of Silicon Valley | Adrian Daub
YOUR AI AGENT NEEDS A WORKFLOW ENGINE. The billboard stands by a nondescript stretch of highway somewhere between Redwood City and Mountain View. A boom, likely a bubble, made manifest. A cry of trium...
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
NEW IN STOCK - Dive into the experimental science and treatments happening across Australia and the world, from the history of psychedelic use in medicine in 1960s Melbourne to the latest science on microdosing and psychedelic therapies. 📚️ buff.ly/72hIaWe @newsouthpublishing.bsky.social
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Robert Sommer reveals the hidden horrors of sexual forced labor within the SS camp system, a subject long overshadowed and seldom acknowledged in the discourse on the Holocaust. Browse the MNG #GermanHistSoc2026 virtual exhibit ⬇️ buff.ly/QrFua4X @germanhistsoc.bsky.social @fordhampress.bsky.social
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Samantha Maurer Fox traces the transformation of Eisenhüttenstadt, East Germany's first planned socialist city, from a Cold War showcase to a paragon of sustainable shrinkage.
 Visit our stand in person at #RGSIBG26 or find us online ⬇️ buff.ly/hP92E25 @cornellupress.bsky.social @rgs.org
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
.@jennifervevans.bsky.social examines postwar & contemp German history to broadly argue for a practice of queer history that moves beyond bounded concepts & narratives of identity Browse the MNG #GermanHistSoc2026 virtual exhibit buff.ly/QrFua4X @germanhistsoc.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Delving into Central Appalachia’s transforming landscape amid coal’s decline, the analysis charts how entrenched power structures evolve as communities rally for a fairer future.
 Visit our stand in person at #RGSIBG26 or find us online ⬇️ buff.ly/hP92E25 @illinoispress.bsky.social @rgs.org
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
An engaging 700-year history of meat at the intersection of German and Jewish culture, uniquely illuminating the rich, fraught, and tragic history of German Jewry. Browse the MNG #GermanHistSoc2026 virtual exhibit ⬇️ buff.ly/QrFua4X @germanhistsoc.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
On the Backs of Others offers the first book-length study of the relationship between exploration and empire and their legacies within academic geography.
 Visit our stand in person at #RGSIBG26 or find us online ⬇️ buff.ly/hP92E25 @univnebpress.bsky.social @rgs.org @edarmstonsheret.bsky.social
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