Sociology and anthropology Books

Book SynopsisThe Internet in Everyday Life is the first book to systematically investigate how being online fits into people''s everyday lives. Opens up a new line of inquiry into the social effects of the Internet. Focuses on how the Internet fits into everyday lives, rather than considering it as an alternate world. Chapters are contributed by leading researchers in the area. Studies are based on empirical data. Talks about the reality of being online now, not hopes or fears about the future effects of the Internet. Trade Review"Wellman is to be congratulated for pulling together a collection of excellent articles that will make a valuable contribution to empirically grounding discussions about the effects of the Internet on our everyday life experiences." Communication & Society "Its breadth, depth and empiricism make for an immensely impressive collection which is likely to influence the field of internet studies for years to come" New Media and Society "Work like that done in The Internet in Everyday Life is invaluable in helping us see and understand the technological world in which we are immersed. As such, it makes a major contribution to our discipline and our society." Contemporary Sociology "A powerful collective statement both about the domestication of the Internet in everyday life and about the need for new kinds of questions and methodologies in the next generation of Internet studies." Social ForcesTable of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. Foreword: The Virtual Community in the Real World. (Howard Rheingold). Series Editor's Preface: The Internet and the Network Society . (Manuel Castells). Introduction: The Internet in Everyday Life. (Caroline Haythornthwaite and Barry Wellman). Part I: Moving The Internet Out Of Cyberspace. The internet in Everyday Life: An Introduction. (Caroline Haythornthwaite and Barry Wellman). Part II: The Place Of The Internet In Everyday Life. 1. Days and Nights on the Internet. (Philip Howard, Lee Rainie, and Steve Jones). 2 The Global Villagers: Comparing Internet Users and Uses Around the World. (Wenhong Chen, Jeffrey Boase and Barry Wellman). 3 Syntopia: Access, Civic Involvement and Social Interaction on the Net. (James Katz and Ronald Rice). 4 Digital Living: The Impact (or Otherwise) of the Internet in Everyday British Life. (Ben Anderson and Karina Tracey). 5 The Changing Digital Divide in Germany. (Gert Wagner, Rainer Pischner and John Haisken-DeNew). 6 Doing Social Science Research Online . (Alan Neustadtl, John Robinson and Meyer Kestnbaum). Part III: Finding Time For The Internet. 7 Internet Use, Interpersonal Relations and Sociability: A Time Diary Study. (Norman Nie, D. Sunshine Hillygus and Lutz Erbring). 8 The Internet and Other Uses of Time. (John Robinson, Meyer Kestnbaum, Alan Neustadtl and Anthony Alvarez). 9 Everyday Communication Patterns of Heavy and Light Email Users. (Janell Copher, Alaina Kanfer and Mary Bea Walker). Part IV: The Internet In The Community. 10 Capitalizing on the Net: Social Contact, Civic Engagement and Sense of Community. (Anabel Quan-Haase and Barry Wellman). 11 The Impact of Computer Networks on Social Capital and Community Involvement in Blacksburg. (Andrea Kavanaugh and Scott Patterson). 12 The Not So Global Village of Netville. (Keith Hampton and Barry Wellman). 13 Gender and Personal Relationships in HomeNet. (Bonka Boneva and Robert Kraut). 14 Belonging in Geographic, Ethnic and Internet Spaces. (Sorin Matei and Sandra Ball-Rokeach). Part V: The Internet At School, Work And Home. 15 Bringing the Internet Home: Adult distance learners and their Internet, Home and Work worlds. (Caroline Haythornthwaite and Michelle Kazmer). 16 Where Home is the Office: The New Form of Flexible Work. (Janet Salaff). 17 Kerala Connections: Will the Internet Affect Science in Developing Areas?. (Teresa Davidson, R. Sooryamoorthy and Wesley Shrum). 18 Social Support for Japanese Mothers Online and Offline . (Kakuko Miyata). 19 Shopping Behavior Online. (Robert Lunn and Michael Suman). Index

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Book SynopsisThe Internet in Everyday Life is the first book to systematically investigate how being online fits into people''s everyday lives. Opens up a new line of inquiry into the social effects of the Internet. Focuses on how the Internet fits into everyday lives, rather than considering it as an alternate world. Chapters are contributed by leading researchers in the area. Studies are based on empirical data. Talks about the reality of being online now, not hopes or fears about the future effects of the Internet. Trade Review"Wellman is to be congratulated for pulling together a collection of excellent articles that will make a valuable contribution to empirically grounding discussions about the effects of the Internet on our everyday life experiences." Communication & Society "Its breadth, depth and empiricism make for an immensely impressive collection which is likely to influence the field of internet studies for years to come" New Media and Society "Work like that done in The Internet in Everyday Life is invaluable in helping us see and understand the technological world in which we are immersed. As such, it makes a major contribution to our discipline and our society." Contemporary Sociology "A powerful collective statement both about the domestication of the Internet in everyday life and about the need for new kinds of questions and methodologies in the next generation of Internet studies." Social ForcesTable of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. Foreword: The Virtual Community in the Real World. (Howard Rheingold). Series Editor's Preface: The Internet and the Network Society . (Manuel Castells). Introduction: The Internet in Everyday Life. (Caroline Haythornthwaite and Barry Wellman). Part I: Moving The Internet Out Of Cyberspace. The internet in Everyday Life: An Introduction. (Caroline Haythornthwaite and Barry Wellman). Part II: The Place Of The Internet In Everyday Life. 1. Days and Nights on the Internet. (Philip Howard, Lee Rainie, and Steve Jones). 2 The Global Villagers: Comparing Internet Users and Uses Around the World. (Wenhong Chen, Jeffrey Boase and Barry Wellman). 3 Syntopia: Access, Civic Involvement and Social Interaction on the Net. (James Katz and Ronald Rice). 4 Digital Living: The Impact (or Otherwise) of the Internet in Everyday British Life. (Ben Anderson and Karina Tracey). 5 The Changing Digital Divide in Germany. (Gert Wagner, Rainer Pischner and John Haisken-DeNew). 6 Doing Social Science Research Online . (Alan Neustadtl, John Robinson and Meyer Kestnbaum). Part III: Finding Time For The Internet. 7 Internet Use, Interpersonal Relations and Sociability: A Time Diary Study. (Norman Nie, D. Sunshine Hillygus and Lutz Erbring). 8 The Internet and Other Uses of Time. (John Robinson, Meyer Kestnbaum, Alan Neustadtl and Anthony Alvarez). 9 Everyday Communication Patterns of Heavy and Light Email Users. (Janell Copher, Alaina Kanfer and Mary Bea Walker). Part IV: The Internet In The Community. 10 Capitalizing on the Net: Social Contact, Civic Engagement and Sense of Community. (Anabel Quan-Haase and Barry Wellman). 11 The Impact of Computer Networks on Social Capital and Community Involvement in Blacksburg. (Andrea Kavanaugh and Scott Patterson). 12 The Not So Global Village of Netville. (Keith Hampton and Barry Wellman). 13 Gender and Personal Relationships in HomeNet. (Bonka Boneva and Robert Kraut). 14 Belonging in Geographic, Ethnic and Internet Spaces. (Sorin Matei and Sandra Ball-Rokeach). Part V: The Internet At School, Work And Home. 15 Bringing the Internet Home: Adult distance learners and their Internet, Home and Work worlds. (Caroline Haythornthwaite and Michelle Kazmer). 16 Where Home is the Office: The New Form of Flexible Work. (Janet Salaff). 17 Kerala Connections: Will the Internet Affect Science in Developing Areas?. (Teresa Davidson, R. Sooryamoorthy and Wesley Shrum). 18 Social Support for Japanese Mothers Online and Offline . (Kakuko Miyata). 19 Shopping Behavior Online. (Robert Lunn and Michael Suman). Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on diverse research literature from the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, cultural geography, and media studies, Cultural Globalization: A User's Guide presents a new perspective through which to raise questions about globalization, a perspective framed by the concepts of territory, identity, and culture.Trade Review?There's no question that Wise's Cultural Globalization is a useful addition to cultural studies pedagogy.? (Reconstruction, March 2009) "MacGregor Wise?s meander through music and youth culture offers a vision of a free global sweet shop, in which fashionable kids can pick and mix their identities ... .A comparison of the manner in which the music press elevates certain types of 'world music' with British colonial approval of the Indian caste system provides ... originality." (Times Literary Supplement, February 2009) "I would not hesitate to recommend Cultural Globalization as a standard textbook for courses in media and cultural studies dealing with the nature and consequences of globalization. The book brings together complex theories in an accessible and elegant way, and provides a truly global and grounded view of creative processes and political battlefields. There is also strength in the fact that Wise advocates a perspective that accounts for the sedimented nature of all cultural expression."Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. 1. Culture at Home. Culture. Territory. Identity. Home. Ideology and Hegemony. 2. Culture and the Global. Non-Local Connections. Globalization. Global Flows. Form and Content, Local and Global. 3. Global Youth. Youth as a Contested Category. Constructing Youth. Surveillance and Youth. Global Youth. Core and Periphery. 4. Global Music. World Music and Cultural Imperialism. Global Flows of Music. Forms of Global Music. 5. Territories of Cultural Globalization. Faye Wong. Dick Lee. Panlatinidad. Audiotopias. Citizenship. Conclusion: Opening Windows. References. Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on diverse research literature from the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, cultural geography, and media studies, Cultural Globalization: A User's Guide presents a new perspective through which to raise questions about globalization, a perspective framed by the concepts of territory, identity, and culture.Trade Review"MacGregor Wise’s meander through music and youth culture offers a vision of a free global sweet shop, in which fashionable kids can pick and mix their identities ... .A comparison of the manner in which the music press elevates certain types of 'world music' with British colonial approval of the Indian caste system provides ... originality." (Times Literary Supplement, February 2009)Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. 1. Culture at Home. Culture. Territory. Identity. Home. Ideology and Hegemony. 2. Culture and the Global. Non-Local Connections. Globalization. Global Flows. Form and Content, Local and Global. 3. Global Youth. Youth as a Contested Category. Constructing Youth. Surveillance and Youth. Global Youth. Core and Periphery. 4. Global Music. World Music and Cultural Imperialism. Global Flows of Music. Forms of Global Music. 5. Territories of Cultural Globalization. Faye Wong. Dick Lee. Panlatinidad. Audiotopias. Citizenship. Conclusion: Opening Windows. References. Index

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Book SynopsisPresents a statement about communication in contemporary life. This title offers a comprehensive appraisal of mass communication. It provides a critical perspective on media and communication in society. It contains critical insights into the state of mass communication, democracy, and the construction of the self in society.Trade Review"Hanno Hardt is one of the outstanding media thinkers of our times. Myths for the Masses reflects a lifetime of study and critical analysis, and is one of the most provocative ‘big picture’ books on media I have ever read. Certain to become a classic text, I urge all students and scholars to read it closely." Robert W. McChesney, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Hanno Hardt once again exhibits the breadth and depth of his thinking as he critiques the presence of mass media in everyday life. This deeply disturbing and important manifesto underscores the value of a genuinely critical framework for the study of communication." Theodore L. Glasser, Stanford University "An excellent journey through the land of critical theory and its application to the cultural phenomenon of mass media. It provides the reader with rich and fruitful argumentation, which enables understanding of the pivotal dimension and problems of mass communication." Tomaž Krpič, Ljubljana University "The book is an excellent journey through the land of critical theory and its application to the cultural phenomenon of mass media." Media International Australia incorporating Culture and PolicyTable of ContentsPreface. 1. Mass Communication and the Promise of Democracy. 2. Mass Communication and the Meaning of Self in Society. Bibliography. Subject Index.

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Book SynopsisThe End of Ideology has been a landmark in American social thought, regarded as a classic since its first publication in 1962. Daniel Bell postulated that the older humanistic ideologies derived from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were exhausted, and that new parochial ideologies would arise.Trade ReviewA very polished book. The overall argument on the relationship of declining religious and rising national feeling is highly appropriate and particularly significant. Bell is obviously completely conversant with recent work by Habermas, Chartier, Gordon, Baker, and Crow, to name but a few authors whose findings he weaves into his own purpose. I was also taken with his thought on the relationship between national feeling in France and the awareness of France's changing place in the world, and with that, of Britain's surprisingly swift advance from 1688 to the middle decades of the eighteenth century. His pages on 'Great Men' as the vehicles of national sentiment are likewise very thoughtful. -- Patrice Higonnet, author of Goodness Beyond VirtuePraise for earlier editions:The End of Ideology was one of the most influential, most controversial, and most misunderstood books about the 1950s. But it is not simply a central text of the intellectual history of those years (although it certainly is that). It is also a provocative discussion by one of America's most creative thinkers of political and philosophical issues that concern us still. -- Alan BrinkleyNo one could consider himself politically literate without an intimate knowledge of the issues foreseen in The End of Ideology. -- Theodore DraperOriginally published in 1960, this collection of essays focuses on the protean nature of American society and the decay of Marxism and other systematic ideologies in the West...Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [has] admired the book's 'unflagging confidence, trenchancy, and authority.' -- Scott Veale * New York Times Book Review *Table of ContentsThe Resumption of History in the New Century Introduction: The Restless Vanity PART 1: AMERICA: THE AMBIGUITIES OF THEORY 1. America as a Mass Society: A Critique 2. The Breakup of Family Capitalism: On Changes in Class in America 3. Is There a Ruling Class in America? The Power Elite Reconsidered 4. The Prospects of American Capitalism: On Keynes, Schumpeter and Gaibraith 5. The Refractions of the American Past: On the Question of National Character 6. Status Politics and New Anxieties: On the "Radical Right" and Ideologies of the Fifties PART 2: AMERICA: THE COMPLEXITIES OF LIFE 7. Crime as an American Way of Life: A Queer Ladder of Social Mobility 8. The Myth of Crime Waves: The Actual Decline of Crime in the United States 9. The Racket-Ridden Longshoremen: The Web of Economics and Politics 10. The Capitalism of the Proletariat: A Theory of American Trade-Unionism 11. Work and its Discontents: The Cult of Efficiency in America PART 3: THE EXHAUSTION OF UTOPIA 12. The Failure of American Socialism: The Tension of Ethics and Politics 13. The Mood of Three Generations: A. The Once-Born, the Twice-Born, and the After-Born B. The Loss of Innocence in the Thirties C. Politics in the Forties D. Dissent in the Fifties 14. Ten Theories in Search of Reality: The Prediction of Soviet Behavior 15. Two Roads from Marx: The Themes of Alienation and Exploitation and Workers' Control in Socialist Thought The End of Ideology in the West: An Epilogue Afterword, 1988: The End of Ideology Revisited Acknowledgment Notes Index

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Book SynopsisOnly 30 minutes a day of moderate exercise can save your life. This is the message that Mansona lead investigator of both the Women's Health Initiative and the Nurses's Health Studyand her coauthor send to American women. Their book offers medical research coupled with step-by-step instructions on how to maintain a physically active lifestyle.Trade ReviewFinally, a book that not only discusses the 30-minute fitness solution, but also talks about various health issues that women face or may face in the future. JoAnn Manson and Patricia Amend are truly Champions of Women's Health. -- Pat SchroederThis is a great guide for women. For too long the emphasis has been on disease and treatment when we should be concentration on prevention. Every woman at every age should be able to use this guide to devise a beneficial exercise program for themselves. -- Phyllis Greenberger, MSW, Executive Director, Society for Women's Health ResearchA clear, immensely helpful guide for physical fitness co-written by JoAnn Manson, one of the nation's most respected experts in women's health. -- Marianne J. Legato, MD, FACP, Director, Partnership for Women's Health at ColumbiaDr. JoAnn Manson is a distinguished clinician and scientist who has made many important discoveries regarding the health benefits of a fit and active way of life. Dr. Manson and Patricia Amend have now translated the results of their work and that of other leading investigators into a practical guide for women who wish to increase their physical activity and improve their fitness and health. The recommendations in this text are based on sound science, and if followed will provide important health benefits. -- Steven N. Blair, Director of Research, The Cooper InstituteManson, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Amend, a fitness writer, present four steps that even the busiest women can follow to make exercise and enjoyable, daily habit. -- Samantha Gust * Library Journal *JoAnn Manson, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Preventive medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, has collaborated with journalist Patricia Amend to write what is really a handbook that is designed to help women get back in shape. The heart of the book is a four-step program that provides the impetus and the means to exercise...The four-step program is also designed to build lasting momentum for those who buy this book and take the first step. It includes illustrated weight-bearing exercises and stretches, and charts for tracking progress. This direct, supportive approach to exercise might be just as effective for some as the personal fitness trainer. -- Rae Francoeur * Salem News *

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Book SynopsisReviewing previous research and presenting new empirical data from Sweden and elsewhere, the authors of this revised volume examine basic concepts, possible hypotheses, explanatory models, and policy solutions for the biological and social causes of the differences in health between men and women.

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Book SynopsisIntegrating a wealth of perspectives and research—biological, sociocultural, developmental—Brody’s work explores the nature and extent of gender differences in emotional expression, and the complex question of how such differences come about. Nurture, far more than nature, emerges here as the stronger force.Trade ReviewGender, Emotion, and the Family focuses on gender differences in the experience and expression of emotion...[Brody] has gathered an amazing amount of data from innumerable studies...[and gives] a balanced account of the effect of environmental variables on the development of emotion. -- Lucy Horwitz * Boston Book Review *Finally, an accurate and well-balanced discussion of topics that are on everybody's mind. Brody integrates research on the socialization of violence in boys and of the caretaking role for girls. Both this book and actual scientific research strongly support the role of nurture rather than nature in gender socialization...[A] highly recommended book. -- F. Smolucha * Choice *Drawing on a wealth of information, [Leslie Brody] illuminates the ways in which men and women, boys and girls, develop and express emotions in the context of the family...This in-depth research addresses many issues, from power in relationships to the physiological expression of emotion; evidence of contradictory findings is detailed. This is a valuable addition to the ever-changing frontiers of behavior research. -- Margaret Cardwell * Library Journal *Brody has formidable mastery of this burgeoning field. Gender, Emotion, and the Family offers new theoretical insights for lay readers and fellow scholars alike. Highly readable, responsible, and original, this will be the major work on the socialization of emotion for a long time to come. -- Judith A. Hall, Northeastern UniversityA beautifully written text that integrates theory and research in a sophisticated yet highly readable way. Brody examines the development of emotional experience and expression in the family and the intimate connections between emotion, familial relationships, and gender. Brody's tremendous breadth of scholarship shows in every chapter, and her thoughtful, comprehensive, and insightful responses to the complex questions in the field are a must read for students and scholars alike. -- Amy G. Halberstadt, North Carolina State UniversityLeslie Brody provides a careful evaluation of the research data on precisely what the gender differences are--and are not--in emotional experience and expression, but that is only the first strength of her book. With an original and complex transactional theory, she shows how physiological, relational and cultural factors interact in creating gender differences in emotion, and reminds us how peculiar it is to try--as psychologists have!-- to make much of any single factor. Gender, Emotion, and the Family outlines a compelling research agenda that will move the next generation of empirical studies to a new and much more exciting level. -- Abigail Stewart, Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies, University of MichiganAn invaluable resource for researchers on all aspects of the psychology and sociology of gender, Gender, Emotion, and the Family comprehensively synthesizes and re-analyzes the enormous research literature on supposed gender differences in emotional expression. Leslie Brody offers a clear and compelling critique of the widespread belief that males and females have essentially different emotional styles. Arguing that apparent gender differences in emotion are closely related to gender differences in dominance and power, Brody illuminates the great diversity of experience and behavior found among members of the same sex, and reminds us of the powerful role played by stereotypes in dictating emotions that men and women should display, and the pressures they feel to conform to those stereotypes. -- Elizabeth Aries, Amherst CollegeBeyond the main points about the complexities and contingencies of gender differences and their development, the book contains accounts of many, many fascinating studies and intriguing points of view...Brody ultimately succeeds in articulating a comprehensive, thoughtful, and intellectually rigorous review of the research literature on gender differences in emotional expression, from a feminist empiricist perspective. This is an important book to own...a valuable reference for researchers and professionals. * Contemporary Psychology *Table of ContentsIntroduction THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF GENDER DIFFERENCES Understanding Emotional Expression Words, Faces, Voices, and Behaviors Physiological Arousal and Patterns of Emotional Expression Sad or Mad? The Quality of Emotions GENDER, BIOLOGY, AND THE FAMILY The State of the Art: Biological Differences? Transactional Relationships within Families Gender Identification and De-identification in the Family Fathers and the Family Climate CULTURAL ORIGINS AND CONSEQUENCES OF GENDER DIFFERENCES Social Motives, Power, and Roles Stereotypes and Display Rules The Power of Peers The Health Consequences of Gender-Stereotypic Emotional Expression Rethinking Gender and Emotion Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn this meditation on the relationship between East Asia and the United States, Warren I. Cohen examines how cultural influences have transformed - and benefited - both Asians and Americans.Trade ReviewThis is a gem. Warren Cohen has long been the leading historian of the relationship between the United States and East Asia. When such a scholar writes a spirited, delightful, and personalized account of American-Asian relations, it commands special attention. He shows convincingly how the histories of East Asia and the United States have become intertwined since the nineteenth century. The book argues, in essence, that the modern history of the world can never be fully understood unless we recognize this fact. -- Akira Iriye, Harvard UniversityPerceptive and witty, these provocative reflections consider what some Americans celebrate and some Americans fear and condemn, but what most Americans refuse to acknowledge: the "Asianization" of America. The cultures of the world are dramatically and quickly changing and Cohen offers a historian's long view of an East-West encounter that transcends immigration exclusion, atomic bombs, and economic boycotts: the changes in the everyday lives of everyday East Asians and Americans produced by their cultural contact. -- Gordon H. Chang, Stanford UniversityWarren Cohen is a master historian of US-East Asia relations. In these lectures he examines a new topic, the history of cultural relations between the United States and Asia. He traces how Americanization has swept Asia but he reveals that the United States has been more Asianized than one might guess from our "Western heritage." -- Ezra F. Vogel, Harvard University

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Book SynopsisIn this cross-cultural study of emotion management, the author argues that even though the goals of normative control in factories, offices, and shops may be similar across cultures, organizational structure and the surrounding culture affect how that control is discussed and conceived.

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Book SynopsisThis is the story of the sexual revolution in a small university town in the quintessential heartland state of Kansas. Bypassing oft-told tales of radicals and revolutionaries on the coasts, Bailey argues that the revolution was forged in towns and cities alike, as ordinary people struggled over boundaries of sexual behavior in postwar America.Trade Review[A] vivid reminder of just how national and chaotic the events we call ‘the sixties’ really were… Bailey’s exploration of the sexual revolution offers a subtler sense of the underlying forces of that era, which unified even while dividing a nation and, ultimately, the world. -- Tom Engelhardt * The Nation *[Beth Bailey’s] applied research here is interesting, imaginative and compassionate, and the final treat is that Bailey is a very good writer. Sex in the Heartland is simply a fascinating read. I’m sorry I can’t call her up and congratulate her on this book in person… [This book is] beautifully shaped, carefully thought out, a treasury of useful information. -- Carolyn See * Washington Post *One of the great strengths of this book is Bailey’s ability to make local characters, institutions and fights vital and compelling, all the while keeping an eye on the broader issues at stake. She gives us a vivid portrait of one university town in transition and a case study for U.S. social history. A cast of local characters comes alive… Virtually every chapter has surprising, subtle turns in which Bailey’s thesis of historical paradox and unintended consequences is amply demonstrated. -- Maureen McLane * Chicago Tribune *The book’s greatest strength is its delineation of ‘social and cultural changes’ as effected by watershed events (panty raids, the advent of the Pill, birth control clinics, co-ed dorms, coffee houses, and underground newspapers); [and] local and national institutions (which provided moral direction and financial and social support). -- Jay A. Gertzman * American Historical Review *Bailey’s account of the sexual revolution in Lawrence, Kansas is a rejoinder to American critics on the right who continue to see this process as something imposed on ordinary people by bohemian intellectuals and sex radicals located on either coast, and not as a phenomenon integral to America’s ‘heartland.’ In Bailey’s account, the sexual revolution was a grassroots movement happening in any number of college towns across the USA, and created unwittingly by ‘people who had absolutely no intention of abetting a revolution in sex.’ Bailey argues that the replacement of moral with therapeutic frameworks for understanding sexual and emotional problems undermined any remaining moral consensus by offering non-punitive judgments on homosexuality and other forms of deviance. Unnoticed developments like the reform of parietals were far more important, in Bailey’s reading, than the pill or the counter culture… The fact that Bailey’s attention is directed towards the less renowned, everyday sources of sexual revolution makes this a valuable book. -- H. G. Cocks * Journal of Contemporary History *Published by the prestigious Harvard University Press, the book suggests that out-of-the-mainstream states such as Kansas actually were on the cutting edge of the nation’s sexual revolution during the early 1960s. -- Matt Moline * Capital-Journal (Topeka, KS) *[Bailey] points out that those who claim the radical nature of the [sexual] revolution may be surprised by just how deep-seated and mainstream the origins of many of those revolutionary changes were. -- Philip Godwin, M.D. * Lawrence Journal-World *Bailey examines the 20th-century ‘sexual revolution’ as it played out in the midwestern college town of Lawrence, Kansas… Bailey is especially perceptive on the ambivalent and conflicted relationship of both the feminist and gay rights movements to the sexual revolution. She also has strong sections on the birth control pill and other more mundane but long-lasting changes in American sexual culture… [A] fascinating and impressive book. -- K. Blaser * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction Before the Revolution Sex and the Therapeutic Culture Responsible Sex Prescribing the Pill Revolutionary Intent Sex as a Weapon Sex and Liberation Remaking Sex Epilogue Abbreviations Notes Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisRace, ethnicity, and nation, Lie argues, are modern notions, associated with the rise of the modern state, the industrial economy, and Enlightenment ideas. The state is responsible for the development and nurturing of feelings of belonging associated with ethnic, racial, and national identity; but also for racial and ethnic conflict, even genocide.Trade ReviewModern Peoplehood is a most impressive achievement by an extraordinarily intelligent, courageous, and—that goes without saying—‘well-read’ mind. The scope of this work is enormous: it provides no less than a comprehensive historically-grounded theory of ‘modern peoplehood,’ which is Lie’s felicitous umbrella term for everything that goes under the names ‘race,’ ‘ethnicity,’ and ‘nationality.’ -- Christian Joppke * American Journal of Sociology *Lie’s objective is to treat a series of large topics that he sees as related but that are usually treated separately: the social construction of identities, the origins and nature of modern nationalism, the explanation of genocide, and racism. These multiple themes are for him aspects of something he calls ‘modern peoplehood.’ His mode of demonstration is to review all the alternative explanations for each phenomenon, and to show why each successively is inadequate. His own theses are controversial but he makes a strong case for them. This book should renew debate. -- Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University, author of The Decline of American Power: The U.S. in a Chaotic WorldIn discussing what are usually termed race, ethnicity, and nationalism, here rendered felicitously by the general term ‘peoplehood,’ Lie has produced an original, erudite work that will appeal to sociologists, political scientists, and historians, as well as a wider public interested in race, ethnicity, and nationalism. It is a groundbreaking contribution that will recast our understanding of some of the core issues of our day. -- Kevin Anderson, Purdue University, coauthor of Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of IslamismTable of ContentsPreface Prelude 1. In Search of Foundations 2. Naturalizing Differences 3. Modern State / Modern Peoplehood 4. The Paradoxes of Peoplehood 5. Genocide 6. Identity Postlude References Index

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Book SynopsisThe Other Latinos addresses the presence in the U.S. of Latin American and Caribbean immigrants from countries other than Mexico, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. This introductory work focusing on the Andes, Central America, and Brazil will, the contributors hope, inspire a more complete understanding of Latin American migration into the U.S.Trade ReviewEditors Falconi and Mazzotti have assembled a most impressive cadre of authoritative scholars in editing this collection focusing on Central Americans, Andeans, and Brazilians. -- A. A. Sisneros * Choice *

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Book SynopsisBased on years of fieldwork with the New York City Police Department and the District Attorney of New York, this book examines the moral ambiguities of the detectives' world as they shuttle between the streets and a bureaucratic behemoth.Trade Review[An] engaging study of New York City detectives...Well-told tales of true crime, buttressed by clearly wrought descriptions of life on the street, turn it into something rarer: a fascinating peek into a world most of us would not want to inhabit--but can't resist wanting to hear about. -- Mark Kamine * Times Literary Supplement *There is much to commend Street Stories. It is an engaging and enthralling read. -- Martin Innes * Theoretical Criminology *Table of Contents1. In the Field 2. Looking for Shorty 3. When the Ball Fell 4. The Girl in the Park 5. Squad Work 6. Street Work 7. Waiting for Chocolate 8. Tracing the Past 9. A Death in the Field 10. The Long Arm of the Job Notes Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisOn the eve of World War I, Russia, not known as a nation of joiners, had thousands of voluntary associations. Joseph Bradley examines the crucial role of voluntary associations in the development of civil society in Russia from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century.Trade ReviewThis splendid book is lucidly written, shrewdly organized, well researched and forcefully argued. Bradley's contention that voluntary organizations played an indispensable role in the formation of Russian civil society is sound. His exploration of the relationship between voluntary associations and Russia's central government is both intelligent and richly suggestive for historians of Russian political culture. This is a first-rate book that will secure wide readership in Russian imperial history and modern European history. -- Gary M. Hamburg, Claremont McKenna CollegeBradley adds significantly to our understanding of social processes and state-society relations in tsarist Russia. Educated Russians seized opportunities provided by the country's need for science and education and within the constraints maintained by the regime, they created something plausibly described as civil society. A major strength of the book is the consistent comparison with associational activity in Europe. Bradley makes an important contribution in showing that nineteenth-century Russia was not as different from its Western neighbors as many less well-documented accounts suggest. -- Harley Balzer, Georgetown UniversityThis outstanding book presents an important new perspective on prerevolutionary Russian social and political history through its focus on private nongovernmental associations. While most other scholars have emphasized the paucity of voluntary associations and the overwhelming dominance of the state throughout Russian history, this exemplary study convincingly rebuts those viewpoints and argues that by the end of the 19th century, the burgeoning network of associations and societies had created the institutional basis for civil society in Russia. -- N. M. Brooks * Choice *Table of Contents* Preface * List of Illustrations * Introduction: Russian Associations * European Societies and the State: Russia in Comparative Perspective * The Application of Science: The Free Economic Society and the Moscow Agricultural Society * The Quest for National Identity: The Russian Geographical Society * Patriotism and Useful Knowledge: The Society of Friends of Natural History * Government and the Public Trust: The Russian Technical Society and Education for Industry * Advocacy in the Public Sphere: Scientific Cognresses * Conclusion: An Unstable Partnership * List of Abbreviations * Notes * Index

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Book SynopsisClassroom-tested over many years and filled with fresh examples, Essential Demographic Methods is tailored to beginners, advanced students, and researchers. Award-winning teacher and eminent demographer Kenneth Wachter draws on themes from the individual lifecourse, history, and global change to bring out the wider appeal of demography.Trade ReviewKen Wachter’s unique and fascinating approach to teaching demographic methods has shaped generations of undergraduates and graduate students at UC Berkeley. Essential Demographic Methods is a major accomplishment and makes his invaluable and original teachings available to a broad audience. -- Hans-Peter Kohler, University of PennsylvaniaI studied with Ken Wachter and became a demographer because of the course he taught with the materials that became this book. -- Mary C. Waters, Harvard University

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Book SynopsisEmphasizing the importance of parental choice, quality of care, and work opportunities, Waldfogel guides readers through a maze of social science research to offer comprehensive answers and a vision for change. He proposes a plan to better meet the needs of children in working families while respecting the core values of choice, quality, and work.Trade ReviewWaldfogel's book is undoubtedly the best informed, wisest, and most convincing description of the benefits and risks of childcare arrangements in the United States. It is tightly organized, lucidly written, and utterly engaging. -- Frank Furstenberg, Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology, University of PennsylvaniaWhat Children Need argues that there are three principles that policy makers should use to ensure that children's needs are met: respecting parental choice, promoting quality, and supporting parental employment. Waldfogel believes that there are tensions among these values and it is by identifying and grappling with the tensions that we will find real possibilities for creative solutions. -- Ellen Galinsky, President and Co-Founder, Families and Work InstituteIn What Children Need, Jane Waldfogel guides us through more closely defined approaches to questions about the effects of parental care and attention and takes a pragmatic view of the way children adapt to variations in their environment. -- Terri Apter * Times Literary Supplement *[Waldfogel's] analysis is written from an American perspective, and most of her statistics refer to the United States, but the issues and her discussion of them transcend national boundaries. -- Gerald Haigh * Times Educational Supplement *What would a children's services system based on evidence and respect for choice look like? This lucid, well-organized and carefully researched book cuts to the heart of such debates. It should be read widely and, if taken seriously, will encourage far-reaching and positive changes in practice and research in the field. -- Nick Axford * British Journal of Social Work *What Children Need is an impressive, thought-provoking synthesis of information and ideas for designing social policy to support the healthy development of children living in an industrialized world. -- Lisa Gennetian * Industrial and Labor Relations Review *[Waldfogel] gives readers a solid sense of the gaps between what children need and what they are getting, as well as a blueprint for what public policy can and should do to provide for those needs. -- Christine Carter McLaughlin * Greater Good *Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Children and Parents 3. Infants and Toddlers 4. Preschoolers 5. School-age Children 6. Adolescents 7. Where Do We Go from Here? Notes References Acknowledgements Index

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Book SynopsisHartog tells the heartbreaking stories of how families fought over the work of caring for the elderly, and its compensation, in a time before pensions, Social Security, and nursing homes filled this gap. As an explosive economy drew the young away from home, we see how the elderly used promises of inheritance to keep children at their side.Trade ReviewIn this gem of a book, Hartog reveals the human drama of growing old and dependent, and the enduring dilemma in mixing love and economic need. -- Martha Minow, Dean, Harvard Law SchoolHartog brilliantly illuminates the central role that law has played in shaping Americans' ideas about getting old. Poignant, funny, and analytically razor-sharp, this is a groundbreaking book. -- Dylan Penningroth, author of The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century SouthWith empathy and captivating style, Hartog, a superb historian, offers a memorable analysis of changing family struggles over inheritance and care. -- Viviana A. Zelizer, author of Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the EconomyThis is a disturbing book, in the best sense--a transformative book. With unique sensitivity and ingenuity, Hartog tells a profound story about the meaning of inheritance and what one owes and is owed as a member of a family, making brilliant history of seemingly eternal human predicaments. -- Amy Dru Stanley, author of From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave EmancipationA page-turner with Dickensian overtones. -- Fred A Bernstein * New York Times blog *Aside from the history of development in this area of law, the book offers a social and cultural history of families caring for their elder members. This book will be of interest not only to those interested in estate law but also students and researchers of gerontology. -- C. Ross * Choice *

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Book SynopsisPalaces of Time resurrects the seemingly banal calendar as a means to understand early modern Jewish life. Elisheva Carlebach has unearthed a trove of beautifully illustrated calendars, to show how Jewish men and women both adapted to the Christian world and also forged their own meanings through time.Trade ReviewA remarkable and pioneering study of the Jewish calendar and its significance. Brilliantly researched, gracefully written, and timely -- in every sense of the word. -- Jonathan D. Sarna, author of American Judaism: A HistoryIn a brilliant tour de force, Carlebach presents a masterful and penetrating analysis of the Jewish calendar as literature and material object, and as a dynamic, complex expression of cultural values, religious competition, social discipline, and personal meaning. -- Lois Dubin, author of The Port Jews of Habsburg TriesteFocusing on the measure and meaning of time, Elisheva Carlebach has produced a work of enormous importance for all those interested in the convergence of humanistic and scientific knowledge. -- Jay Berkovitz, author of Rites and Passages: The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Culture in France, 1650-1860This study of fascinating, richly illustrated manuscripts and early printed books opens up new horizons in the history not only of the Jewish calendar but also of the Hebrew book, Jewish daily life, personal piety, and the engagement of early modern Jews with surrounding Christianity. -- Sacha Stern, author of Calendar and Community: A History of the Jewish Calendar, 2nd Century BCE to 10th Century CECarlebach takes a narrow subject--sifrei evronot (European Jewish calendars/almanacs) of the 15th to 18th centuries--and mines it for its considerable riches. She demonstrates how these works reflected both Jews' values and beliefs and their interaction with the external Christian society...Carlebach is also particularly good at delving into Jewish folk beliefs as found in the calendars. She is equally illuminating on the calendars' iconography, illustrated by a 1716 calendar that shows the biblical Jepththah's daughter as a teenage European aristocrat...This well-organized and extensively researched book is a magnificent piece of scholarship and a pleasure to read, demonstrating the calendars' importance "as mirrors and agents of change,...indexes of acculturation, and...matchless reflections of the Jewish experience." * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *If you've ever wondered about the Jewish year and its history, Elisheva Carlebach's marvelous new book, Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe, has much to offer you. A preeminent specialist on the Jews of early modern Germany, Carlebach concentrates on what became of the calendar in the early modern period. In the 16th century and after, technical literature about time, which had once been treated as an esoteric knowledge reserved for an elite, became widely available to Jews for the first time, and Carlebach traces this process in detail. But as she reaches back to explain the distant origins of early modern debates and practices and sets the calendars into their larger contexts, Palaces of Time provides even more than it promises: a fascinating and provocative introduction, full of surprises, to the Jewish experience of time. Richly documented and sumptuously illustrated, the book tells a sinuous and sometimes wild story, one in which books of many kinds, in all their grubby materiality, play central roles...The book is exemplary. Palaces of Time is cultural history at its finest: a minutely observant, vivid, and passionately enthusiastic guide book to a world of experience that we--or at least most of us--have lost. -- Anthony Grafton * Tablet Magazine *Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe, shows that Jews developed some of the most important theories and discovered some of the most fundamental mathematical underpinnings of early calendar setting. -- Menachem Wecker * Jewish Press *Calendars are the kind of object that are usually taken for granted, that are almost invisible to our everyday glance; therefore they are a perfect subject of analysis for cultural history. Very little good cultural history has been produced about Jewish subjects, and Elisheva Carlebach's book sets a very high standard for the field. Tackling a subject that is ubiquitous but also obscure, Carlebach looks at the topic of Jewish calendars from a number of perspectives. The actual calendrical aspects of the Jewish calendar, the references to non-Jewish dates that were incorporated into many calendars, the startling artistic traditions that are found in many early modern Jewish calendars--each subject is analyzed on its own, and placed in a diachronic and synchronic historical context, explaining how it developed from internal Jewish traditions while incorporating and responding to outside occurrences. Highlights include handwritten calendars from colonial America, symbolic pictures of elephants and bare-bottomed men, informative curses of Christian saints and statistics of fair attendance in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Despite the ostensibly obscure subject matter, Palaces of Time is as far from arcane as can be, written in language that is enjoyable and accessible. The numerous color photographs of Jewish calendars make the volume even more enjoyable and easier to follow. -- Pinchas Roth * Jewish Book Council *This meticulous study of manuscripts and printed books deals with Jewish ways of keeping time, especially during the 16th to l8th centuries in Western and Central Europe. -- R.S. Kohn * Choice *[An] admirable book, beautifully produced and brimming with fascinating pictures and extraordinary facts...[Carlebach] weaves a thoroughly-researched tale of adventures and frequent mishaps in cross-cultural negotiation between Jewish communities and their host societies over several centuries; dealing also with ideological battles, where Christian polemicists attacked Judaism through calendar issues. Anti-Semitic coercion even extended to calendar censorship which could prohibit publicizing rival foreign trade fairs and the sometimes amusing if not plain derogatory nicknames given to gentile festive days. The ubiquitous pocket luach, now so often replaced by an electronic version or a glance at the inside cover of a newspaper for notification of upcoming times and dates, is also dealt with in fascinating detail, its humble transience marked by tribulation and the acute survival instinct of our people under Nazi occupation in Tunisia in 1940 in Judaeo-Arabic and French, or secretly printed in Soviet-ruled Vilna. The book deals with much else of interest, giving a unique view and one of visual delight, ranging from weird and wonderful manuscript illustrations to a table with appropriately depicted "Zodiac man" giving propitious dates for bloodletting from a calendar published in Sulzbach as late as 1789. A worthy contribution to an under-researched subject presented with brio and elegant erudition, certainly one of the most important works of its kind to appear in recent years. -- Yerachmiel Rubin * Jewish Tribune *

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Book SynopsisSchuman examines the question-answer process that is basic to polls and surveys. This book is less about the substance of wording effects and more about approaches to interpreting the respondentâs world, and how surveys can make that world understandableâthough often in ways not anticipated by the researcher.Trade ReviewThe premier expert on academic survey research, Howard Schuman is a man of superb judgment, balance, and wisdom. On any debate that flies through cyberspace on survey methods, Schuman's is the voice I most await, and listen to. Here, he urges readers to take a judicious position about surveys, neither ritualistically taking their results as reflecting revealed truth, nor rejecting them as misleading, full of error and bias, and signifying nothing. Method and Meaning in Polls and Surveys is an original and erudite contribution from the field's eminent scholar. -- David O. Sears, University of California, Los AngelesMethod and Meaning in Polls and Surveys makes a notable and vital contribution to the field of public opinion and survey research. Not only will Schuman's search for a "larger meaning to responses to survey questions" deepen our understanding of the discipline of method, it will leave us with fundamental epistemological questions to ponder for years to come about the limits of survey-based knowledge. -- George Bishop, University of CincinnatiHoward Schuman's Method and Meaning in Polls and Surveys is a wonderfully written exploration of methodological issues both broad and narrow by one of the field's masters--a must-read for survey researchers and poll watchers alike. -- Andrew Kohut, President, Pew Research CenterThis book represents the culmination of sociologist Schuman's more than four decades' devotion to social surveys. Reading the book is akin to sitting in Schuman's research methodology class and listening to his wisdom and skepticism about surveys... Insights leap from virtually every page. As a bonus, the book is an enjoyable read. Schuman writes with passion and humor, and the examples--Americans' perceptions of the communist threat in the 1950s, the Vietnam War in the 1960s-70s, the role of "moral values" in the 2004 presidential election, gun permits--are often engaging and stimulating. One of the best books on social surveys available, it should quickly become required reading for students of research methods. -- J. Li * Choice *Method and Meaning in Polls and Surveys is an exemplar of what social science research should be. It adds significant insight into survey research methods and how survey research can advance the scientific understanding of society. -- Tom W. Smith * Field Methods *Once more, Howard Schuman brings his scholarly imagination and methodological rigor to the task of deciphering the question-and-answer process...It is the work of the master craftsman, the consummate methodologist demonstrating how to discover the multifaceted "meaning" of responses to survey questions through the discipline of "method" construed in all its manifold forms. Think of it as the practice of survey research at its very best. -- George Franklin Bishop * Public Opinion Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisIn the Leipzig Mahzor, one of the most lavish Hebrew illuminated manuscripts of all time, Kogman-Appel has discovered a fascinating portal into the life of the fourteenth century Jewish community in Worms. A prayer book used only during holidays, it brings to life the religious culture and customs of medieval Ashkenazi Jews.Trade ReviewKatrin Kogman-Appel has established herself as perhaps the foremost expositor of medieval illuminated Hebrew manuscripts today. Her treatment of the Leipzig Mahzor demonstrates once again that she is a scholar of formidable erudition who peels away the layers of these magnificent manuscripts to reveal the rich complexity of medieval society and the important role that visual culture plays in it. -- Adam S. Cohen, University of TorontoAn authoritative study of a stunning manuscript, Katrin Kogman-Appel’s A Mahzor from Worms illuminates one of the great masterpieces of medieval Hebrew book painting. With great learning and historical imagination, Kogman-Appel unravels the Mahzor’s intricate integration of ritual and pietistic practice in Worms, one of the great centers of medieval Ashkenazi culture. -- Jeffrey Hamburger, Harvard UniversityA Mahzor from Worms offers a notably learned and thoughtful examination of a fascinating manuscript that has received surprisingly little scholarly attention. Conceptually sophisticated and thoroughly interdisciplinary, it convincingly reads the Mahzor as a kind of self-portrait created by and for the Worms Jewish community. The sensitive analysis reveals a still vibrant but increasingly pressured community struggling to honor sometimes-conflicting traditions and reconcile a proud heritage with contemporary needs. It is a significant contribution to cultural history as well as art history and Judaic Studies. -- Sara Lipton, State University of New York at Stony BrookIn this meticulously researched book, Kogman-Appel casts new light on the religious concepts, ideas, rituals, and values in 14th-century Worms and in Ashkenaz in general. Her work provides us with historical insights about one of the important Jewish communities of medieval Europe about which we still know too little. We learn how the Jews of Worms ‘saw’ the Mahzor, how they saw themselves, and how they perceived their community in a time of decline. -- Shmuel Shepkaru, University of Oklahoma

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Book SynopsisMigration Miracle humanizes the immigration controversy by exploring the harsh realities of the migrants’ desperate journeys. Drawing on over 300 interviews with men, women, and children, Hagan focuses on an unexplored dimension of the migration undertaking—the role of religion and faith in surviving the journey.Trade ReviewIn her magnificent book, Migration Miracle, Jacqueline Hagan shows that religion has not been consigned to the dustbin of history, but is a vital and dynamic feature of contemporary social life. It constitutes essential reading for people interested in immigration and religion alike. -- Douglas S. Massey, Princeton UniversityJackie Hagan's beautifully written book opens up new territory in the field. She not only sheds light on a neglected dimension of migration, but also describes in intimate detail how spirituality and religious practice help migrants face the dangers and uncertainties inherent in that process. Hagan's lucid writing draws on an international sample of extensive interviews and ethnographic data. -- Robert Smith, Baruch College, CUNYMigration Miracle is a deep and nuanced engagement with religion and faith in Latin American migration odysseys. By examining the real needs of undocumented migrants, Hagan offers new insights for those who work with migrants during these incredibly difficult journeys. This groundbreaking study should inspire similar research in Africa and elsewhere, where much work still needs to be done in understanding the role of religion in the migration process. Migration Miracle paves the way for a new way of thinking about migration in the twenty-first century. -- Archbishop Michael A. Blume, SVD, Apostolic Nuncio in Benin and Togo; Undersecretary of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Internant People, 2000-2005It will be an essential text for scholars of religion and migration, and likely a favorite in graduate seminars. Migration Miracle should also be read by scholars interested in the theoretical explanations for migration, as it adds complexity to the traditional economic explanations of why people leave. But the audience most in need of this book is the policy makers who, in their narrow focus on the economic and political ramifications of undocumented migration, have forgotten that migrants are not mere economic units but human beings who face inhuman conditions in their attempts for survival and the survival of their families, beseeching God along the way. -- Stephanie J. Nawyn * American Journal of Sociology *Table of Contents* Introduction * Decision-Making and Leave Taking * The Dangerous Journey * Churches Crossing Borders * Miracles in the Desert * La Promesa * Conclusion * Notes * References * Acknowledgments * Index

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Book SynopsisAs a young anthropologist, the author undertook fieldwork in Jamaica, Haiti, and Puerto Rico. This title presents a summation of his work in the region and is a reminder of how anthropology allows people to explore the deep truths that history may leave unexamined.Trade ReviewIn this engaging, delightfully readable and provocative work, Sidney Mintz distills a lifetime of pioneering research to illuminate the making of three Caribbean plantation societies and of the creolized cultures that challenged the slave system from within. The work seamlessly brings together history and anthropology, showcasing Mintz's impassioned and encyclopedic knowledge of the Caribbean. A must-read for all those interested in the history of slavery and the Atlantic world. -- Laurent Dubois, Duke UniversityDrawing upon a lifetime of ethnographic fieldwork in the Caribbean region, Mintz arrives at bold conclusions about the societies and realities of our provocative, complex, and generally undervalued region. -- Nicolette Bethel * Caribbean Review of Books *An engaging, accessible, and masterly work. -- R. Berleant-Schiller * Choice *

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Book SynopsisThis first English translation of lectures Claude Lévi-Strauss delivered in Tokyo in 1986 synthesizes his ideas about structural anthropology, critiques his earlier writings on civilization, and assesses the dilemmas of cultural and moral relativism, including economic inequality, religious fundamentalism, and genetic and reproductive engineering.Trade ReviewLévi-Strauss was certainly not the only French intellectual to develop a fascination for Japan. Indeed, Japan’s sculptured landscapes, highly stylized rituals and philosophies of self-denial struck a particular chord with his structuralist contemporaries, Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault. But the impressions gathered here are distinctively his, and indeed sometimes read as if they were lifted straight from the Mythologiques… There is much to admire [here]… Still fizzing with ideas as he approached eighty, Claude Lévi-Strauss never relented on his increasingly lonely structuralist quest. His fascination for Japanese traditions, similar to his lifelong obsession with ethnography in general, stemmed in part from his feeling of alienation from modernity. -- Patrick Wilcken * Times Literary Supplement *This new translation provides an accessible gloss on the unique special contributions of a dynamic thinker who forever altered the course of anthropology. * Publishers Weekly *

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Book SynopsisIn the twelve essays in Reflections on Memory and Democracy, an interdisciplinary group of contributors explores legacies of authoritarian political regimes noted for repression and injustice, questioning how collective experiences of violence shape memory and its relevance for contemporary social and political life in Latin America.Trade ReviewThis excellent volume makes a clear contribution to the field of Latin American Studies by bringing together analysis of the relation between memory and democracy, on the one hand, with exploration of the unsettledness and complexity of memory, on the other. -- Jeffrey Rubin, Associate Professor of History, Boston UniversityReflections on Memory and Democracy is an extraordinary volume, at once powerful, analytical, and beautiful… The interdisciplinary nature of this volume, coupled with the extraordinary insider knowledge of the contributors, has painted a compelling picture of the difficulties of mobilizing memory in a way that strengthens democratic institutions, practices, and cultures. More centrally, the volume demonstrates the importance of human dignity—the dignity of being remembered—for a high-quality democracy. -- Jocelyn Viterna, Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard UniversityThis collection of essays by journalists, writers and poets; literary critics, political scientists and historians; philosophers, economists and linguists transcends disciplinary boundaries in a felicitous way. It also offers a challenge to comparative studies, in that apart from its binding focus on Chile it includes essays on Guatemala, Peru, Brazil, Haiti, Mexico and Colombia. What emerges is a multidirectional view of memory politics across the continent that allows the reader to draw inferences between the different national cases discussed and to recognize fundamental differences between, say, Chile and Brazil, Argentina and Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico. -- Andreas Huyssen * ReVista *The elegantly crafted contributions cover means of historical memory as diverse as investigative journalism, Mayan oral histories, and Argentine fiction. -- Richard Feinberg * Foreign Affairs *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis absolutely splendid book is a triumph on every level. A first-rate history of the United States, it is beautifully written, deeply researched, and filled with entertaining stories. For anyone who wants to see our democracy flourish, this is the book to read. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals and The Bully PulpitBrilliantly adapting the provocative format of the Harvard Business School's case study method, Democracy: A Case Study challenges readers to think anew on topics ranging from James Madison's quest for a workable federalism to such modern flashpoints as the power of the Federal Reserve and the Citizens United decision. Each episode is crisp and compelling, entertaining and inspiring. The effect is nothing less than to open the gates of our most elite university to the reading public. -- Roger Lowenstein, author of America's BankDemocracy: A Case Study gives us the facts of key controversies in our history—from the adoption of the Constitution to Citizens United—and invites readers to decide for themselves. This novel approach makes American history a valuable resource for civic education. -- Michael J. Sandel, author of Justice and What Money Can't BuyIn this powerfully provocative exploration of the nation’s core political values, David Moss shows why after more than two centuries we cannot take democracy for granted. Drawing on a number of well-selected case studies, he invites readers to interrogate the fundamental assumptions that have informed our civil society since the ratification of the Constitution. -- Timothy H. Breen, author of Colonial America in an Atlantic WorldIf we are going to breathe new life into democracy, there is no better way to begin than by reacquainting ourselves with our history. David Moss does this brilliantly in Democracy: A Case Study. Through well-chosen examples, drawn from his case-method course at Harvard, he helps us to understand the paths chosen and not chosen, and how each generation has adapted to new realities. Democracy may be something of a contact sport, as he argues, but we can play the game better if we understand the rules and why they keep changing. This timely book goes a long way toward that end. -- Ted Widmer, Brown UniversityThis set of well-documented, accessible essays presents the prickly challenges facing the rapidly changing American democracy, for lawmakers and citizens alike…A sterling educational tool that offers a fresh presentation of how ‘democracy in America has always been a contact sport.’ * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *It’s hard to imagine a timelier book, given America’s tumultous 2016 elections, than this eminently readable survey of political disputes. * Publishers Weekly *Democracy should command the attention of teachers and students of all ages…Moss’s case studies are engagingly written, well researched, rich in content and context…Moss believes that fierce political conflicts can be constructive if they are mediated by shared ideals. He seems to demonstrate, moreover, that in a world in which ‘alternative facts’ are gaining traction, an informed understanding of the past can help us identify pathways to a prosperous and just democracy. -- Glenn C. Altschuler * Huffington Post *Moss makes [his] argument in his brilliant introductory and concluding chapters, while the core of the book consists of 19 cases from throughout U.S. history that exemplify the complexity of political conflict. -- Suzanne Mettler * Foreign Affairs *If this book does not read like a prediction of the present, then perhaps its sangfroid will nevertheless suit the reader with nerves jangled by the news. David Moss suggests we ought to be overdefensive of democracy; he recommends a salutary ‘political hypochondria.’ It seems an appropriate neurosis for the moment. -- Eric Rauchway * Times Literary Supplement *

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking study of prison religion, Karma and Punishment introduces a form of chaplaincy rooted in the Buddhist concept of doctrinal admonition. Through research and fieldwork, Adam Lyons uncovers a dimension of Buddhist modernism that developed as Japan's religious organizations carved out a niche as defenders of society by fighting crime.Trade ReviewIn this meticulously researched, thoughtfully composed book, Adam J. Lyons examines the relation between religion and the state in Japan through the lens of prison chaplaincy…An important contribution to a lively conversation among scholars of Japanese religions around the entanglements between religion and other spheres of social life. -- Melissa Anne-Marie Curley * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Lyons’ book is a must-read for scholars of religion and law who want to understand the modern history of Japan’s church-state relationship as it plays out in the domain of crime and punishment…Now that Lyons has ably laid the groundwork, future scholars of religion in Japan will certainly want to explore additional dimensions of this fascinating topic. -- Jessica Starling * Religious Studies Review *This book offers a valuable and fascinating case study through which to analyze religion-state relations in modern Japan…Lyons’ honest and beautifully written account of the conflicts prison chaplains feel gives this superb and field-defining history of prison chaplaincy in Japan more than just academic heft. -- Timothy Benedict * Contemporary Japan *[Karma and Punishment] not only makes a major contribution towards filling a gap within the broader debates regarding crime and punishment, but it also makes a compelling and fascinating argument about the role of religion in the establishment of the modern prison and probation system and its continuing influence on public perceptions of justice. This is a fascinating story…Impressive and original…A must-read for anyone who is interested in these topics. -- Jason Danely * International Institute for Asian Studies *This volume provides a comprehensive perspective on Japanese prison chaplaincy and the dynamic relationship between religions and the state. It is a must-read for scholars of Japanese religions. -- Marzia Alteno * Religious Studies Review *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewGraetz and Shapiro wrestle with a fundamental question of our day: How do we address a system that makes too many Americans anxious that economic security is slipping out of reach? Their cogent call for sensible and achievable policies offers a pathway back to functional governance and should be read by progressives and conservatives alike. -- Jacob J. Lew, former Secretary of the TreasuryIn The Wolf at the Door, Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro trace masterfully the sources of insecurity increasingly haunting millions of Americans. Not content to tell the tale or just focus on politicians’ desire to exploit that insecurity, they consider important policy ideas to reward work and bolster individuals’ ability to cope with economic shifts beyond their control. The thesis of the book and its recommendations are a must-read for any serious observer of what is happening to the American economy and body politic today. -- Glenn Hubbard, Columbia Business School, former chairman of the US Council of Economic AdvisersSmart, interesting, and important, The Wolf at the Door tackles the topic of policy and political responses to economic insecurity and political dysfunction with concrete recommendations and evidentiary backing. Graetz and Shapiro write with vigor and clarity, telling readers directly what policies and politics are empirically supportable, feasible, and normatively desirable, and what are not. -- Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard UniversityTwo books in one! A concise, trenchant, and very readable history of how economic insecurity produced today’s American populism—and a thoughtful, politically realistic, economically sound set of remedies for those who know both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are onto something, but who also know their answers to American economic insecurity won’t succeed. -- David Wessel, The Brookings InstitutionMichael Graetz and Ian Shapiro take a hard and pragmatic look at how America can ameliorate its inequality, focusing especially on ‘bottom-up’ approaches. Their work is deep, informed, and reeks of common sense. This book should be read by every presidential candidate and every lawmaker. -- Norman Ornstein, coauthor of One Nation After TrumpIt is now beyond debate that rising inequality is not only leaving millions of Americans living on a sharp edge but also is threatening our democracy. Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro provide a fresh, insightful look at how we got here and, more to the point, how we might work our way out. For activists and scholars alike who are struggling to create a more equitable society, this is an essential read. -- David Gergen, Professor at Harvard Kennedy School and adviser to four US presidentsThis is a terrific book, original, erudite, and superbly well-informed, and full of new wisdom about what might and what might not help the majority of Americans who have not shared in our growing prosperity, but are left facing the wolf at the door. Graetz and Shapiro use coalition building as their organizing principle, explaining the coalitions behind previous policy successes, and suggesting what sort of new coalitions could get us out of the current mess. They have a brilliantly startling suggestion for Medicare for all, by extending it first, not to the near old, but to the young. They make a powerful case for a value added tax, and against the idea that the wolf can be seen off only by taxing the rich. Everyone interested in public policy should read this book. -- Angus Deaton, Princeton University and the University of Southern California[An] eye-opener for anyone interested in tracing the origins of economic insecurity in the U.S. -- Arthur Zaczkiewicz * Women’s Wear Daily *

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Book SynopsisPaley sets out to discover the truth about the multicultural classroom from those who participate in it. Here are the voices of black teachers and minority parents, immigrant families, a Native American educator, and the children themselves, whose stories mingle with the author's to create a candid picture of the integrated classroom.Trade ReviewPaley has learned the essential lesson, and from her little schoolroom in Hyde Park, she's taught it to a generation of teachers and parents and caretakers of children around the globe. It is this: Take very seriously the things that children say, and take equally seriously the things you say to your children...Paley has poured what she's heard onto the pages of eight remarkable books, the latest, Kwanzaa and Me: A Teacher's Story. Each book tackles a single central question of classroom life--the racism, the stories, the gender differences, the children's development, the outsider and the struggle to belong, the ethics, and the ways in which classrooms dismiss the differences, and thus the heart, of the children who make up their rosters...Along the way, and probably a good bit of the reason she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation 'genius' award in 1989, Paley has given all of us not just snapshots of the minds and souls of preschoolers and kindergartners but full-blown portraits of how they think, what they feel and the ways in which they imagine, complete with all the shadings and brush strokes that can be born only of a child's most intimate, unguarded revelations. -- Barbara Mahany * Chicago Tribune Magazine *Paley has, once again, shown an uncanny sensitivity to what young people are interested in and meshed it with the needs of our society? -- Senator Paul Simon[Paley's] message, conveyed with touching simplicity and never a heavy hand, is twofold. One component is to encourage people to talk to one another about race, and she is clearly a master of that. The second, more elusive, is what one of her colleagues calls 'the other curriculum,' which allows children to feel comfortable with their emotions and their differences... Every teacher and every parent should read this. -- David K. Shipler * New York Times Book Review *

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Book SynopsisThis second edition of Dru Gladney’s critically acclaimed study of the Muslim population in China includes a new preface by the author, as well as a valuable addendum to the bibliography, already hailed as one of the most extensive listing of modern sources on the Sino-Muslims.Trade ReviewGladney locates the significance of the Hui (and the study of minorities) in their challenge to the dominant Chinese and Western perceptions of China… [A] fine, pioneering work. * Journal of Asian Studies *Muslim Chinese is an anthropological study of the Hui based on three years’ fieldwork in China and supported by a formidable battery of references, including most of the important scholarship on Hui history, society, and literature that has emerged… A vivid and detailed picture of Hui life and attitudes. * China Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisWhen feminists argued for political rights in the context of liberal democracy, they insisted that the differences between men and women were irrelevant for citizenship. Yet by acting on behalf of women, they introduced the very idea of difference they sought to eliminate. Scott reads feminist history in terms of this paradox.Trade ReviewIn her subtle and provocative new book, Joan Scott convincingly argues that the exclusion of women was central to the logic of French republicanism in the 19th century, and she traces the workings of this logic through the eyes of its most persistent feminist critics. -- Joshua Cole * Village Voice Literary Supplement *Readers of this book will enjoy discovering (or rediscovering) four compelling women, while marveling at how the terms of earlier feminism are at once familiar and strange. Rather than taking the category of women for granted as the subject of feminist discourse and politics, Scott argues that feminist agency is itself profoundly paradoxical...[T]his book contributes a probing intellectual history of the central questions in modern feminist thought which will also add much to contemporary feminist inquiry. -- Joan B. Landes * American Political Science Review *Joan Scott's tour de force is written with clarity, grace, humor, trenchant knowledge, imagination, and a sense of the politically extravagant...After Scott's brilliant book, none of us will be able to read French feminism in the same way again. -- Judith Butler, University of California, BerkeleyIt is the sense of feminism as dynamic, searching, inventive, historically specific, and often divided against itself, rather than abstract, timeless, or doctrinaire, that gives this story its spin. -- Laura Englestein, Princeton UniversityA feminist's history of feminist history, one that is likely to shape the debate not simply over the history of gender but over the larger questions of political and cultural history. -- Mark Poster, University of California, IrvineThose interested in feminism, postmodernism, historiography, and/or the fundamental assumptions that sustain contemporary political debates will find this book richly rewarding. Philosophers of science concerned with the methodological production of facticity will find this work exemplary of the contributions of postmodernism to the construction of the past. -- Mary Hawkesworth * Canadian Philosophical Reviews *Only Paradoxes to Offer is a valuable and stimulating book which synthesises a number of theoretical issues and applies them in original ways to specific historical contexts. It will be of great value to scholars engaged in feminist critical theory, women's studies and French history. -- Felicia Gordon * Women's Philosophy Review [UK] *The four feminists examined in this book all had differing ideas about [the] problem of women's 'equality' or 'difference', ideas that Scott clearly shows to be a product of the dominant political discourses of their time...[Only Paradoxes to Offer] is successful and important in its exposure of the internal contradictions, dilemmas and 'obsessive repetitions' of the feminist experience. -- Jane Freedman * Modern and Contemporary France [UK] *Table of ContentsPreface Rereading the History of Feminism The Uses of Imagination: Olympe de Gouges in the French Revolution The Duties of the Citizen: Jeanne Deroin in the Revolution of 1848 The Rights of "the Social": Hubertine Auclert and the Politics of the Third Republic The Radical Individualism of Madeleine Pelletier Citizens but Not Individuals: The Vote and After Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThis wholly innovative study demonstrates that presidents are persistent agents of change, continually disrupting and transforming the political landscape. But each president also inherits a particular type of political context, a regime shaped by his predecessors that he either rejects or affirms.Trade ReviewA magisterial work, one of the most important studies of the presidency--indeed, of American politics--ever written...[Skowronek] comes very close to identifying the root problem affecting presidents...This is the all-important fact that the Constitution is unchanging and nondeveloped, while at all times intersecting with a social, economic, and political world that has undergone incessant development from the beginning. The whole work may be read as an extended, powerful, and penetrating meditation on some of the global consequences of this fact. -- Walter Dean Burnham * American Political Science Review *In evaluating the field of political authority, Skowronek skillfully and systematically makes use of historical evidence. His approach can only be applauded as it brings a new and broader understanding of the historical evolution of the presidency. -- Birgitte Nielsen * American Studies in Scandinavia *Skowronek...brings illuminating insights to each president that he discusses...A major theoretical contribution to the study of the presidency. -- Richard M. Pious * Political Science Quarterly *The book brings together current ideas of political scientists on the theory of presidential leadership, as well as incorporating the major historical works on the various presidents. It is history from the top rather than from the bottom, and while current historical trends are in the opposite direction, this sophisticated, scholarly analysis of presidential leadership illustrates that the history of political leadership is a subject on which innovative, imaginative approaches can still produce important new perspectives. -- Peter G. Boyle * The Americas *Stephen Skowronek's much awaited book relating cycles of the US presidency to what the author has previously called "political time" is an instant conversation piece. The Politics Presidents Make is a book that will engage scholars of political leadership and, particularly, those of the US presidency with its categories and its arguments. It is also easy to imagine that this book will evoke theological debates. -- Bert A. Rockman * Governance *A work of great insight...This is a book that kicks aside all the conventional ways of thinking about presidential leadership and erects a daring, powerful, analytic machine that compels attention. -- Hugh Heclo, George Mason UniversityThis is a remarkable book...A skilled practitioner of the use of historical evidence systematically to understand not only the evolution, but also the current nature, of American political institutions, [Skowronek] examines the whole crowded history of the presidency to catalog and organize the two hundred year experience in a fresh and striking fashion. -- Joel Silbey * Review of Politics *In this pathbreaking work, Stephen Skowronek escapes from "secular time" to view presidents in what he calls "political time," meaning incumbents' relationships to their predecessors and to the status quo...This rich, insightful, resonant volume merits reading and rereading. It is destined to be a classic of presidential scholarship. -- Gil Troy * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsPreface, 1997 I. PLACES IN HISTORY 1. Rethinking Presidential History 2. Power and Authority 3. Structure and Action II. RECURRENT AND EMERGENT PATTERNS 4. Jeffersonian Leadership: Patrician Prototypes Part One: Thomas Jefferson's Reconstruction Part Two: James Monroe's Articulation Part Three: John Quincy Adams's Disjunction 5. Jacksonian Leadership: Classic Forms Part One: Andrew Jackson's Reconstruction Part Two: James Polk's Articulation Part Three: Franklin Pierce's Disjunction 6. Republican Leadership: Stiffening Crosscurrents Part One: Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction Part Two: Theodore Roosevelt's Articulation Part Three: Herbert Hoover's Disjunction 7. Liberal Leadership: Fraying Boundaries Part One: Franklin Roosevelt's Reconstruction Part Two: Lyndon Johnson's Articulation Part Three: Jimmy Carter's Disjunction III. THE WANING OF POLITICAL TIME 8. Reagan, Bush, and Beyond Afterward Notes Index

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Book SynopsisReturns—third in a trilogy—explores the ways people recover and renew their roots. James Clifford looks at native peoples who have become not victims but inventive agents of a tangled, open-ended modernity. Their returns to the land, performances of heritage, and diasporic ties are strategies for moving toward “traditional futures.”Trade ReviewIn writing about aboriginal peoples, Clifford aims to challenge the apparently simple, exposing proofs of persistence and resilience where others might resort to elegy. -- Mark Abley * Times Literary Supplement *Returns tracks the multiple and numerous narratives involved in this reconceptualization of what it means to be ‘indigenous’ or ‘native’ in the cosmopolitan twenty-first century… Returns brings new forms of analysis and perspectives to these debates owing to its fresh consideration of cosmopolitanism and (post)modernity and the impact of these upon indigeneity… Returns is of potential interest to a range of readers—both those interested in the anthropology of social movements but also scholars of knowledge and intellectual history… Thoughtful and fascinating. -- Sarah Burton * LSE Review of Books *Clifford brings together processes and phenomena that are commonly regarded as antithetical—specifically, modernity and native peoples. His is a detailed analysis of the connections and multidimensional cultural relationships linking places and people far and near… While native societies have indeed suffered, many flourished in an increasingly interconnected world, a culturally and demographically positive trend. Global in scope and covering much ground, the book celebrates and explains the resurgence of subordinated societies ranging from Pacific Islanders to Native Americans, and discusses cultural renewal among the Maya as well as the cultural and political aspirations of Catalonia. -- O. Pi-Sunyer * Choice *Clifford deftly examines two major themes—globalization and decolonization—and their complex impact on native lives… Clifford successfully interweaves ideas from multiple disciplines including anthropology, sociology, history, and political science to create a fascinating cultural exploration. -- Elizabeth Salt * Library Journal *Over the last forty years, indigenous peoples have gained unprecedented global visibility. Too often, the academic response has lurched between facile romanticism and disingenuous critique. In contrast, James Clifford’s writings on these challenging movements are insightful, balanced, and lucid. Returns is an indispensable guide to a vital dimension of the present and the future. -- Nicholas Thomas, University of CambridgeHomecomings as becomings: in this visionary book, Clifford shows us what it means to listen for the entangled agencies of indigènitude in various ‘primitive’ populations’ practices of survival and self-renewal in the contemporary world. Rather than subsuming these agencies under the uni-directional biopolitics of capitalist modernity and Euro-American colonialism, he brings to them the patience, dedication, and capaciousness of an ethnographic realism, one that challenges our entrenched habits of teleological historical thinking at every turn. -- Rey Chow, Duke UniversityLike Clifford’s previous books, Returns is written for a broad audience and demonstrates the range, generosity, and acuity of his thinking. Using extended examples ranging from the Pacific to California to Alaska, Clifford reflects provocatively on the meaning of belonging to a place, reclaiming one’s heritage, and forging indigenous futures. This book is destined to become as significant for anthropology and cultural studies as its predecessors. -- Pauline Strong, The University of Texas at Austin

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Book SynopsisJeffrey Schnapp and Matthew Battles reflect on what libraries have been in order to speculate about what they will become: hybrid places that intermingle books and ebooks, analog and digital formats, paper and pixels. They combine the cultural history of libraries with innovations at metaLAB, a research group at the forefront of digital humanities.Trade ReviewTranscending the tired debate of print vs. electronic, analog vs. digital, the authors take a long view of library history and attempt to envision possible scenarios for libraries of the future… Schnapp and Battles make an invaluable point: libraries, from the smallest to the largest, have way more stories than they know, and The Library Beyond the Book represents a rare attempt from outside the professional community to help libraries reconceive and better tell these stories. Also, they show that imagining the future of libraries doesn’t have to be a gripe session filled with doom and gloom; it can be exciting, original, and fun. -- Justin Wadland * Los Angeles Review of Books *While iPad-bearing soothsayers banish print books to dustbins, coauthors Schnapp and Battles, both insightful provocateurs from Harvard University, envision dynamic and fluid architectural spaces warehousing paper as well as pixels. In a spirit of refreshing experimentation, they ask: What flexible qualities from the past can accommodate tomorrow’s information consumers and, when combined, produce innovative configurations for a digital world? These structures incorporate basic components used in libraries across centuries, such as bookshelves, card catalogs, librarians, and reference desks. Building upon this framework, the authors imagine six plausible scenarios for serving tomorrow’s diverse information consumers, situating libraries as everything from study shelters to civic institutions functioning as mobile libraries, reading rooms promoting social change, and/or event-driven knowledge centers… Schnapp and Battles offer plausible configurations of both book and library in the age of the Internet of Everything. Their imaginative essays demonstrate the rigorous research and design thinking customary within university settings. -- Jerry P. Miller * Library Journal *Lively, quirky, and irreverent, this provocative book provides a refreshing tonic to stale debates about the death or deathlessness of the book. -- Leah Price, Professor of English, Harvard UniversityJeffrey T. Schnapp and Matthew Battles’ The Library Beyond the Book offers a brilliant reflection on, and a cross-section through, the past, present, and future of the library. If books have never been just books, as they suggest, this publication demonstrates that libraries have never been just libraries. -- Mirko Zardini, Director, Canadian Centre for Architecture

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Book SynopsisMore than a physical space, a hypercity is a real city overlaid with information networks that document the past, catalyze the present, and project future possibilities. Hypercities are always under construction. HyperCities puts digital humanities theory into practice to chart the proliferating cultural records of places around the world.Trade ReviewA provocative overview and theoretical explication of ‘thick mapping’ projects that show enormous potential for complex, multilayered, multidimensional explorations of urban areas. HyperCities is an important book that makes signal contributions to the digital humanities. -- Matthew K. Gold, Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities, Graduate Center, City University of New York

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Book SynopsisTara McPherson asks what might it mean to designfrom conceptiondigital tools and applications that emerge from contextual concerns of cultural theory and from a feminist concern for difference. This question leads to the Vectors Lab, which for a dozen years has experimented with digital scholarship at the intersection of theory and praxis.Trade ReviewTara McPherson’s digital work is a model of intelligent design in a crazed world; her projects are bold and innovative. This is a fascinating account of the emancipatory drive she invests into those projects and an even bolder look at the genealogy of computing from the 1960s. She seeks to link the abstract universe of software design with ongoing ideologies of race and gender, and suggests even the algorithm is not immune from its cultural context. A must-read in every way. -- Daniel Herwitz, University of MichiganA beautifully nuanced and wide-ranging elaboration of the creative energy and possibilities that reverberate from the messy entanglements of the humanities, computational technologies, digital aesthetics, cultural histories, and feminist theory. McPherson does what few can: she moves into the messiness, not to settle the matter, but rather to expand our thinking about how to understand what matters. There is no one better at navigating the span between critical modes of theoretical inquiry and the creative cultural production of digital tools. -- Anne Balsamo, The New SchoolTara McPherson has been at the heart of the digital humanities for the last decade as a much-admired critical scholar and tool-maker. This book is a letter from the trenches of that discipline as well as an impassioned and sophisticated argument for why digital humanists must concern themselves with both praxis and theory. This book radicalizes the digital humanities, persuasively arguing for the centrality of difference in parts of the field that ignore it. Richly illustrated with digital scholarly projects on race, gender, and social justice that her lab helped to build, as well as a retelling of the history of code and computing using a feminist lens, this book is deeply generous and generative. -- Lisa Nakamura, University of Michigan

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Book SynopsisFrom the end of WWI to the 1950s, a group of British writers and artists including George Orwell, Barbara Jones, and Dylan Thomas forged a politics that resisted the empty idealism of their age. Celebrating the wisdom and pragmatism of ordinary life, they offered a remedy for the destructive polarization that afflicts us again today.Trade ReviewAn elegant essay on the need to recognize the value in down-to-earth, small scale activity as well as the grand scheme. -- Andrew Hill * Financial Times *Uncovers a hidden tradition in British politics, one of local attachments and civic pride, which he pieces together from the writings of George Orwell, J. B. Priestley, D. H. Lawrence, and Dylan Thomas, figures who placed as Stears puts it, ‘humble, everyday humanity’ at the center of their optimistic understanding of a politics of a patriotic and progressive left. Orwell et al. are all figures from the past, whose influence peaked during the 1940s. But Stears believes they give hope Britons can escape the current culture war which pits a conservative ‘Us’ against a liberal ‘Them.’ -- Steven Fielding * The Spectator *[An] elegiac study of how our literary and aesthetic past might animate our political future…Stears [is] trying to make the larger point that it is in our daily life that the most significant experiences reside and that politics is too often unhelpfully broad-brush, arrogantly distant from the things that really matter. -- Melissa Benn * New Statesman *Stands as a timely and provocative work of centrism. -- Peter Berard * Los Angeles Review of Books *Beautifully written and evocative, Out of the Ordinary moves artfully between personal narrative and historical reflection, political theory and literary criticism. It is a wonderful book, illuminating and engrossing. -- Nicholas Pearce, University of BathOut of the Ordinary is a brilliant account of a neglected tradition of radical political thought and a compelling contribution to contemporary political debate. Stears deftly evokes a generation of British writers and artists who confronted extremism, technocratic rule, and populism in the mid-twentieth century—and demonstrates that their political thought speaks powerfully to the troubled politics of our own time. -- Benjamin Jackson, University of OxfordOut of the Ordinary is a moving and intimate reflection on a potent, lost moment in British cultural history and what it still might mean for our political imaginations, and in it Marc Stears has found his voice. -- Helen Thompson, Professor of Political Economy, University of CambridgeInspiring and energizing, Out of the Ordinary lays out a vision for social and political progress through solidarity and rooted in everyday human dignity. Against the ideological rigidities of our age and polarization of our thinking, Stears eloquently and movingly draws on a British intellectual lineage represented by George Orwell, Dylan Thomas, and Barbara Jones to show us how tradition can be combined with progress, patriotism with diversity, and individual rights with social duties. -- Danielle Allen, author of Our Declaration and CuzA brilliant, subtle book…Serves up a remarkable lost history of British radical ideas and offers a set of well-conceived policy proposals…Ought to be widely and closely read. As both a historical narrative and a work of political theory, it is an important book. -- Seamus Flaherty * Spiked *Stears’ book cites and quotes exhilarating, vivid, poetic descriptions and invocations of shared ordinary life…There is much to enjoy in this readable book. -- Elizabeth Frazer * Society *

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Book SynopsisAmerican science produces the best medical treatments in the world. Yet U.S. citizens lag behind in life expectancy and quality of life. Robert Kaplan marshals extensive data to make the case that U.S. health care priorities are sorely misplaced—invested in attacking disease, not in solving social problems that engender disease in the first place.Trade ReviewKaplan…argues that our enthusiasm for biomedical science has inflated health-care costs while encouraging us to neglect more fundamental determinants of ill health, such as behavior and social conditions. -- Chris Pope * Wall Street Journal *Many Americans are already aware of the extraordinary cost of health care in the United States. This fact is frequently explained away by asserting that such is the price to be paid for the best health care system in the world. Kaplan’s book shatters that comforting myth and exposes the American health care system for what it is: below average in quality and therefore way above average in cost. -- Joseph Q. Jarvis * American Interest *More than Medicine makes a clear and compelling case for why America’s overspending on medical care contributes to poor health outcomes. To improve health and well-being in current and future generations, we must heed Kaplan’s call to prioritize financial support for the social determinants of health. -- Jonathan Fielding, UCLA Fielding School of Public HealthThis is the right book, by the right author, at the right time. Kaplan asks a simple question that should concern all of us: why do we spend so much on health but have such poor results? He challenges the fundamental premise that has guided much of American biomedicine for the past half century: that we will achieve health through medical intervention. He makes a convincing argument that we need to think differently—that the promotion of health and prevention of disease should motivate our spending. -- Sandro Galea, Boston University School of Public HealthFrom one of the world’s leading experts on public health, a brilliant data-driven examination of the mismatch between the pathways to optimal health and the narrow focus of legacy medicine. More than Medicine offers a new vision to advance health, science, and public policy. -- Howard S. Friedman, author of The Longevity ProjectBy combining scientific and clinical evidence with rare insight into political funding processes, Kaplan argues persuasively that the vast amount of money we spend on health care is not worth the cost. More than Medicine challenges us to reincorporate the essential element of human care back into medicine. -- Rose McDermott, Brown UniversitySharp, authoritative, and intensely data-driven…The argument is deeply compelling. * Kirkus Reviews *Kaplan’s call to ‘rethink’ how health-care costs could be lowered through greater attention to disease prevention and social and behavioral risk factors is worth noting. * Publishers Weekly *

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Book SynopsisAntibiotics are powerful drugs that can prevent and treat infections, but they are becoming less effective as a result of drug resistance. Superbugs describes this growing global threat, the systematic failures that have led to it, and solutions that governments, industries, and public health specialists can adopt.Trade Review[L]ucid and thoughtful… Superbugs provides a set of policy prescriptions, framed in pragmatic terms meant to motivate self-interested politicians. -- Jerome Groopman * New York Review of Books *An immensely readable description of the challenges that encourage overuse of antibiotics and discourage new drug development…Superbugs is a worthy exposition of the challenges we will have to surmount to incentivize more responsible antibiotic use until we discover new ways of dealing with infections. -- Ramanan Laxminarayan * Science *As antibiotics become increasingly ineffective, modern medicine faces a global threat. Can we do anything to stop it? That’s the question posed by the book Superbugs: An Arms Race against Bacteria. [The] authors look at the rise of drug resistance, and their research is sobering. * Late Night Live (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) *Excellent. * Choice *Jim O’Neill helped take the issue of antimicrobial resistance from the science lab to the global stage. He and coauthors Anthony McDonnell and William Hall impart a compelling story about the battle against what could become a mass killer of humanity. -- David Cameron, former Prime Minister of the United KingdomAddressing antimicrobial resistance requires the kind of thoughtful yet action-oriented analysis that this vitally important book provides. The messages in Superbugs should be heeded by individuals, government officials, and policymakers around the world. -- Larry Summers, former director of the White House National Economic CouncilWith superb insight into one of the greatest health threats to humankind, Superbugs highlights the need for an integrated, multifaceted approach to treating drug-resistant infections. This riveting book makes a compelling case for action. -- Peter Piot, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

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Book SynopsisDespite declining stocks and health risks, island communities in the Caribbean and North Atlantic still use traditional methods to hunt whales and dolphins for food. Russell Fielding presents the art, history, and purpose of whaling in these different cultures and describes what their future might look like as modern realities take hold.Trade ReviewThe Wake of the Whale would be fascinating just for its rich ethnographic account of the history and present state of whaling in St. Vincent and the Faroe Islands. Yet, gradually, it also turns the mirror back on its readers, urging us to rethink our own attitudes to whaling. -- Matthew Reisz * Times Higher Education *Russell Fielding’s multilayered assessment of artisanal whaling traditions unfolds as a riveting narrative. Readers entranced by the oceanic tales of writers such as Melville and Conrad will likewise find in The Wake of the Whale many colorful, firsthand accounts of seagoing experience to stir the imagination. Fielding’s book is not only provocative, discerning, and solidly researched, but a real page-turner. -- John Gatta, literary critic and author of Making Nature SacredA wonderful storyteller, Fielding guides us with sensitivity and insight through the cultural, scientific, and ethical complexities of humanity’s long relationship with whales. In doing so, he illuminates the heart of our relationships with other animal species, both domestic and wild. -- David George Haskell, author of The Forest UnseenRussell Fielding compares whaling in two different communities and locations through a historical and sociocultural lens. He both respects the whalers, offering readers insight into the tradition, and honors environmental organizations protecting whales. A well-documented, well-written, and balanced book. -- Jóan Pauli Joensen, University of the Faroe IslandsThe Wake of the Whale is a truly magnificent piece of work, an epic tale of two worlds connected by North Atlantic currents and the creatures that navigate them. Artisanal whaling, an ancient communal practice, faces multiple threats in the Caribbean and North Atlantic territories, the largest of which may be the pollution of the ocean and its deleterious effects on biodiversity and health. -- Priya Kissoon, University of the West IndiesThe Wake of the Whale provides detailed historical, sociocultural, geographic, and political insight on a practice that is considered by many to be taboo. Readers, whether for or against whaling, will be challenged on many of the issues that underpin their positions. Some may even defect to the other side. -- Janice Cumberbatch, University of the West IndiesAn enjoyable read…The Wake of the Whale provokes numerous critical thoughts regarding the morality of different practices in post-domestic societies. -- Benedict Singelton * Conservation and Society *A rare mix of scientific and social insight, The Wake of the Whale raises compelling questions about the place of cultural traditions in the contemporary world and the sacrifices we must make for sustainability. -- Mae Dorricott * Caribbean Compass *A thought-provoking page-turner…Contributes to the literature of contemporary global cultural geography and environmental history by weaving together the landscapes of two geographically distant places and peoples. -- Chie Sakakibara * AAG Review of Books *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is an essential book. W. Russell Neuman, a towering figure in communication research, accurately charts the structure and dynamics of communication in the digital age by examining the interaction between technology, culture, institutions, business, and social evolution. His analysis is clear, empirically grounded, and theoretically meaningful. -- Manuel Castells, University of Southern CaliforniaThe social media have enhanced the power, and exacerbated the problems, of the ‘active audience.’ This ambitious book—by a maestro of communication research—is at once a history of the field and its changing zeitgeist, a critique and reconciliation of its dominant paradigms, a diagnosis of the cognitive and societal processes of reception, and an insistence on its relevance to the making of public policy. -- Elihu Katz, University of PennsylvaniaWell-documented, methodical, provocative, and clear, The Digital Difference deserves a prominent place in communication proseminars and graduate courses in research methods because of its reorientation of media effects research and its application to media policy making. -- John P. Ferré * Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisBased on more than three decades of observation, this title concludes that the very foundations of many social science theories - especially those in political science - are faulty. It observes that we live in a world where things are interconnected, where unintended consequences of our actions are unavoidable and unpredictable.Trade ReviewCo-Winner of the 1998 Best Book Award, Political Psychology Section of the American Political Science Association Winner of the 1998 Lionel Trilling Award, Columbia University Honorable Mention for the 1997 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Government and Political Science, Association of American Publishers One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1998 "Drawing on a diverse body of scholarly research and a wealth of illuminating examples, Jervis shows that 'system effects' are an important and often overlooked part of social and political life... His insights will capture the imagination of those who puzzle over other social problems as well... Viewed as a whole, System Effects offers a sobering and valuable moral."--Steven M. Walt, The Atlantic Monthly "There are few doubts that System Effects is an important and timely book, one that should be studied closely not only by Foreign Offices, but by all people faced with the task of making decisions while uncertain about the consequences of alternative actions--and such people make a very large readership indeed."--Zygmunt Bauman, The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgments One Introduction Definitions and Illustrations WE CAN NEVER DO MERELY ONE THING Emergent Properties Interconnections KINDS OF INTERCONNECTIONS Games against Nature Are Not Games against Nature Two System Effects Indirect and Delayed Effects Relations Are Often Not Bilaterally Determined Interactions, Not Additivity FIRST INTERACTIONS: RESULTS CANNOT BE PREDICTED FROM THE SEPARATE ACTIONS SECOND INTERACTIONS: STRATEGIES DEPEND ON THE STRATEGIES OF OTHERS THIRD INTERACTIONS: BEHAVIOR CHANGES THE ENVIRONMENT Products of Interaction as the Unit of Analysis Circular Effects Outcomes Do Not Follow from Intentions A QUALIFICATION Regulation Implications for Testing and Method POWER CAUSES AND EFFECTS TESTING PROPOSITIONS YARDSTICKS AND INDICATORS Three Systemic Theories of International Politics What Are the Variables? STABILITY Both Dependent and Independent Variables Systemic System as the Dependent Variable System as the Independent Variable Waltz WALTZ'S CONCEPT OF STRUCTURE WHAT WALTZ'S THEORY CAN EXPLAIN Structural versus Behavioral Polarity BIPOLARITY AND STABILITY: IGNORING THE PERIPHERIES AND OVERREACTING TO THEM STRUCTURE AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS Four Feedback Types of Feedback DEBATES ABOUT FEEDBACKS Balance of Power AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW--IS IT SYSTEMIC? ANTICIPATION OF THE OPERATION OF BALANCE OF POWER Negative Feedback That Resembles Balance of Power Other Forms of Negative Feedback SELF-LIMITING SUCCESS INFORMATION, INFERENCES, AND PSYCHOLOGY Positive Feedback PROCESSES AND AREAS OF POSITIVE FEEDBACK Information and Expectations Tipping Consensus Effects Competition Power POSITIVE FEEDBACK AND PATH DEPENDENCE--THE BIG IMPACT OF SMALL ADVANTAGES OTHER AREAS OF POSITIVE FEEDBACK DOMINO DYNAMICS Reputation General Validity of the Domino Theory Conditions under Which Domino Effects Are Likely SPIRALS AS POSITIVE FEEDBACK Balance of Power, Dominoes, and Spirals: Feedback and Force Five Relations, Alternatives, and Bargaining Triangular Relations THE PIVOT Seeking and Maintaining the Pivot: Divide and Influence Alternatives and Bargaining Leverage PUSHES AND PULLS The Influence of Structure Structure Does Not Determine--Room for Judgments Six Alignments and Consistency How and Why Systems Become Consistent Causes of Consistency THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY IS MY FRIEND Who Is the Main Enemy? Balance as a Psychological Dynamic Conditions and Limits AVOIDING UNDESIRED BALANCE SEEKING IMBALANCE: TRYING TO BE FRIENDS WITH TWO ADVERSARIES Differences in Strategies Producing Imbalance CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH BALANCE IS LIKELY Necessity for Choice PRE-WORLD WAR I DIPLOMACY: THE FORMATION OF A BALANCED SYSTEM THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENTENTES Seven Acting in a System Information, Beliefs, and Action EFFECTS DEPEND ON IMPRESSIONS Lack of Awareness of System Effects Acting in a System CONSTRAINING Anticipating System Effects THE LIJPHART EFFECT THE DOMINO THEORY PARADOX DOING THINGS "IN TWOS" QUASI-HOMEOSTASIS Seeking the Desired Level of Risk The Sequel to a Great Victory Is Often a Great Defeat Indirect Approaches MOVING IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION Doing More Than One Thing Index

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