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Humanities & Interdisciplinary Studies: Featured Books/eBooks

This is a supporting LibGuide for HCC Students and Faculty in the Humanities and related Interdisciplinary subject areas, such as, Africana/African American Studies, Global Studies, Mexican-American/Latinx Studies, and Women & Gender Studies.

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Explore Books for the Humanities

The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell

The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet nonfiction

NPR Interview with Texas transplant and author, Jeff Goodell

Diccionario de Mexicanismos: Propios Y Compartidos by Academia Mexicana de la Lengua

Diccionario de Mexicanismos: Propios Y Compartidos nonfiction

The betrayal of the humanities: the university during the Third Reich

The Betrayal of the Humanities: The University During the Third Reich nonfiction

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Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands nonfiction

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Negro Motorist Green Book Compendium nonfiction

If I Had Your Face: A Novel

If I Had Your Face: A Novel fiction

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Under red skies : three generations of life, loss, and hope in China

Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China nonfiction

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This Other Eden fiction

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The Twilight Zone: A Novel

The Twilight Zone: A Novel fiction

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The trouble with big data: how datafication displaces cultural practices

The Trouble with Big Data: How Datafication Displaces Cultural Practices nonfiction

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I am Malala : the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban nonfiction

Invisible Women: data bias in a world designed for men

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men nonfiction

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Black AF History: The un-Whitewashed Story of America nonfiction

The poetry and music of science : comparing creativity in science and art

The Poetry and Music of Science: Comparing Creativity in Science and Art nonfiction

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Explore eBooks for the Humanities

Crooked Plow: A Novel

Crooked Plow: A Novel fiction

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Algorithms of Oppression : How Search Engines Reinforce Racism [Nonfiction]

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism [+Print Copies] nonfiction

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To the Last Drop: Affective Economies of Extraction and Sentimentality

To the Last Drop: Affective Economies of Extraction and Sentimentality nonfiction

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Radical suburbs : experimental living on the fringes of the American city

Radical Suburbs: Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City nonfiction

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Collision of Worlds : A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain

Collision of Worlds : A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain nonfiction

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The Swan Book

The Swan Book (Folk tales of the Indigenous Peoples of Australia) fiction

Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism [+Print Copiesnonfiction

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A People's Guide to Finding Algorithmic Bias

A People's Guide to Finding Algorithmic Bias nonfiction

The Injustice Never Leaves You : Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas

The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas [+Print Copiesnonfiction

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Phenotypes

Phenotypes fiction

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Mabu Mabu : an Australian kitchen cookbook

Mabu Mabu: An Australian Kitchen Cookbook nonfiction

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The Absent Moon : A Memoir of a Short Childhood and a Long Depression

The Absent Moon: A Memoir of a Short Childhood and a Long Depression nonfiction

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Landfall 239

Landfall: 239 nonfiction

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Walkabout aka Gone-Boy

Walkabout/Gone-Boy fiction

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