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Book SynopsisA meditation on the key narratives of the Hebrew Bible, this book includes characters of the Old Testament, and is viewed by the author from a feminist perspective.Trade ReviewAlicia Ostriker combines her talents as poet, essayist, and literary critic in this witty and profound meditation on key narratives of the Hebrew Bible. . . .It is vital reading for anyone concerned with contemporary women's reimagining of the sacred. * Cross Currents *All of us who are women poets, idol breakers, and revisionists . . . feel a deep kinship to the work of Alicia Ostriker, and a debt as well. -- Eleanor Wilner * recipient of a MacArthur fellowship and author of Sarah's Gift *Transgressive, devout, poetic, bawdy, Ostriker's book executes a Jewish feminist's contradance with tradition and makes of it an ecstatic celebration. -- Marilyn Hacker * poet and former editor of Kenyon Review *The Nakedness of the Fathers belongs on the bookshelf of Jewish feminists beside Plaskow's Standing Again at Sinai. * Outlook *An imaginative and spiritual dialogue with characters and narratives of the Old Testament. * Publishers Weekly *Table of Contents1. Entering the tents In the beginning the being Entering the tents 2. As in myth: The Garden The Garden Creation The brothers Survival The father's nakedness The rainbow 3. Myth into legend: The fathers I The bosom of Abraham Sarah, or defiance The opinion of Hagar The cave Isaac, or laughter The opinion of the ram Rebecca's way Jacob, or the man of touch The sisters Rachel solo The interpretation of dreams. 4. Legend into history: The fathers II The nursing father The songs of Miriam The opinion of Aaron History: A Midrash on Sinai The Sabbath: Mystery against history The story of Joshua Judges, or disasters of war The redeeming of Ruth Hannah, or sons and lovers David the king The wisdom of Solomon 5. Though she delay: The return of the mothers Esther, or the world turned upside down Job, or a meditation on justice Tree of life Intensive care A prayer to the Shekhinah

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Book SynopsisA translation of the original and unedited diary entries of the black Brazilian slum dweller who became an international best-selling author. The entries span the years 1958 to 1966 and there is also an explanation of how the Brazilian elites tried to obscure her true personality.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1958 1961 1962 1963 1966 Afterword Notes Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisAn insider's look at the work and lives of New York City transit workers, told in their own words. The text blends anecdotes, happy memories and painful tales; weaving together vignettes about race, unions and gender within the workforce of the last 50 years.Table of ContentsForeword Notes from Underground Acknowledgments Introduction 1 War Stories 2 Getting on Board 3 Stations and Fares 4 Operating Trains 5 Six Inches from Death 6 Law and Order 7 Driving Buses 8 Shops and Yards 9 Matters of Color 10 Work, Women, and Men 11 Union Talk 12 Moving into Management 13 Generations 14 Into the Future Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAn examination of themes in both the contemporary and historical geography of New Jersey. It provides an analysis of the state's physical geography, human ecology, early European settlement, cultural landscape, race and ethnicity, agriculture, transportation, industrial development and regions.Trade ReviewWhile the second edition is similar to the first, only with more up-to-date statistics, improved maps and figures, and organization, the material covered is factually interesting. Following an introduction . . . there are several chapters on the physical geography. . . . These are followed by interesting chapters on managing physical environments, human ecology and early European settlements, including excellent sections on historical geography. . . . The number and informational content of the maps is far superior in the second edition. The book is of value for use in either a high school or university regional geography class. Stansfield must be commended for his writing style that holds the interest and for his knowledgeable selection of materials to be included. * Pennsylvania Geographer *More than an ecological primer, this book provides essential social and economic information. Over one hundred figures and forty-five tables capture details to support the straightforward prose, and an annotated bibliography leads the reader on. * New Jersey Monthly *This is an up-to-date, comprehensive and well-written text that will appeal to both the student and the general reader. I shall make it required reading for my course on the geography of the state. -- Peter O. Wacker * professor of geography, Rutgers University *The book is chock full of nuggets of information on all aspects of New Jersey from the beginning of the colonial period to the mid-1990Æs. -- Harbans Singh * Montclair State University *Table of ContentsLIST OF FIGURES LIST OF TABLES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1 Introduction 2 Physical Geography of New Jersey 3 Managing Physical Environments 4 Human Ecology in New Jersey 5 Early European Settlement 6 The Cultural Landscape 7 Population Characteristics 8 Race and Ethnicity 9 Transportation 10 Agriculture 11 Industrial Development 12 Recreation and Tourism 13 The City in the Garden 14 Region SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY IINDEX

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Book SynopsisAn ecological survey, bringing together the work of 41 specialists. They describe the people, geology and soils, climate, water and aquatic ecosystems, vegetation patterns, plants and animals, and animal communities of the Pine Barrens, a 2000 square mile forested landscape in New Jersey.Trade ReviewNaturalists, ecologists, and environmentalists should find this text a valuable resource for teaching and research. * American Biology Teacher *This is a volume that all who wish to be knowledgeable about conifer forests, the vegetation of coastal southeastern America, or regional monographic synthesis will need. * Science *A scholarly treatise of many scientific disciplines, useful as a teaching text, as a model in landscape studies, and for application in natural resource management. . . . Pine Barrens is written to be easily understood by æthe layman, the environmentalist, and the nature club member.Æ. * Sierra Atlantic *This volume can be looked upon as constituting a model for monographs on significant areas, covering a multitude of aspects and destined to inform the reader as thoroughly as possible. * BioScience *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Location and Boundaries of the New Jersey Pine Barrens / Jack McCormick and Richard T. T. Forman 1. Human Exploitation of the New Jersey Pine Barrens Before 1900 / Peter O. Wacker 2. Plant and Animal Products of the Pine Barrens / James E. Applegate, Silas Little and Philip E. Marucci 3. Geology of the Pine Barrens of New Jersey / Edward C. Rhodehamel 4. Development of Pine Barrens Soils / John C. F. Tedrow 5. Soil Series of the Pine Barrens / Marco L. Markley 6. Mineralogy of Pine Barrens Soils / Lowell A. Douglas and John J. Trela 7. Climate and Microclimate of the New Jersey Pine Barrens / A. Vaughn Havens 8. Fluxes of Water and Energy Through the Pine Barrens Ecosystems / John Thomas Ballard 9. Hydrology of the New Jersey Pine Barrens / Edward C. Rhodehamel 10. Streams and Lakes in the Pine Barrens / Ruth Patrick, Barbara Matson and Lee Anderson 11. Nutrient and Hydrological Effects of the Pine Barrens on Neighboring Estuaries / James B. Durand 12. Vegetational History of the Pine Barrens / Calvin J. Heusser 13. The Vegetation of the New Jersey Pine Barrens / Jack McCormick 14. Vegetation of the New Jersey Pine Barrens: A Phytosociological Classification / Hans Olsson 15. Vegetational Gradients of the Pine Plains and Barrens of Long Island, New York / Linda S. Olsvig, John F. Cryan and Robert H. Whittaker 16. The Pine Barren Plains / Ralph E. Good, Norma F. Good and John W. Andresen 17. Fire and Plant Succession in the New Jersey Pine Barrens / Silas Little 18. Vegetational Relationships of the Pine Barrens / Robert H. Whittaker 19. Leaky Ecosystems: Nutrient Fluxes and Succession in the Pine Barrens Vegetation / George M. Woodwell 20. Pitch Pine (Pinus rigida Mill.): Ecology, Physiology, and Genetics / F. Thomas Ledig and Silas Little. 21. Common Vascular Plants of the Pine Barrens / Wayne R. Ferren, Jr., John W. Braxton and Louis Hand 22. Endangered, Threatened, and Rare Vascular Plants of the Pine Barrens and their Biogeography / David E. Fairbrothers 23. Common Bryophytes and Lichens of the New Jersey Pine Barrens / Richard T. T. Forman 24. Algae of the Pine Barrens / Edwin T. Moul and Helen Foot Buell 25. Mammals of the New Jersey Pine Barrens / Leonard J. Wolgast 26. Birds of the Pine Barrens / Charles F. Leck 27. A Zoogeographical Review of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Southern New Jersey, with Emphasis on the Pine Barrens / Roger Conant 28. Fish of the Pine Barrens / Robert W. Hastings 29. Arthropods of the Pine Barrens / Howard P. Boyd and Philip E. Marucci 30. Soil Arthropod Microcommunities of the Pine Barrens / Daniel L. Dindal 31. Animal Communities of the New Jersey Pine Barrens / Edmund W. Stiles 32. Ecological Research Opportunities in the New Jersey Pine Barrens / William A. Reiners 33. The Pine Barrens of New Jersey: An Ecological Mosaic / Richard T. T. Forman

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Book SynopsisThis text reviews the history of water, disease and sanitation. It offers information on drinking water regulation, and on water sources, treatment, and contaminant levels. It examines health issues, the effects of mineral and metal content, and looks at bottled waters and purification systems.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One. General Information Part Two. Drinking Water and Disease Part Three. Drinking Water and the Consumer Conclusion Appendices Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection restores to current literature the creative work of a critic respected by his peers as one of the truly original practitioners in the most active age of modern criticism. Passionately committed, unaffected, practical and theoretical, William Troy's work embraced all literature.

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Book SynopsisOffers the first comprehensive history of the world's roads, highways, bridges, and the people and vehicles that traverse them, from prehistoric times to the present. Encyclopaedic in its scope, fascinating in its details, Ways of the World is a unique work for reference and browsing.

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Book SynopsisOne in five New Jersey residents is over 65 and the state's legal and healthcare systems are becoming ever more complex. This guide explains in layman's terms seniors' rights and helps them take full advantage of available assistance and services. Useful contact addresses are also provided.Table of ContentsSect. I. Benefits Ch. 1. Social Security Ch. 2. Medicare and Medicaid Ch. 3. Health and Medical Programs in New Jersey Sect. II. Health Care Ch. 4. Health Care, Health Insurance, and HMOs Ch. 5. Nursing Homes and Long-Term Care Sect. III. Personal Decision Making Ch. 6. Wills Ch. 7. Powers of Attorney and Alternative Financial Arrangements Ch. 8. Advance Directives Ch. 9. Guardianship and Conservatorship Sect. IV. Family Concerns Ch. 10. Grandparent Visitation and Custody Ch. 11. Divorce and Remarriage Ch. 12. Abuse of the Elderly Sect. V. Employment, Discrimination, and Pensions Ch. 13. Employment and Discrimination Ch. 14. Pensions Sect. VI. Consumer Issues and Fraud Ch. 15. Home Repair Contracts and the Consumer Fraud Act Ch. 16. Consumer Purchases and Common Consumer Fraud Schemes Sect. VII. Housing: Finding It, Keeping It, and Maintaining It Ch. 17. Home Ownership Ch. 18. Tenant Issues Ch. 19. Alternative Housing Arrangements App. A. County Offices on Aging App. B. Finding Legal Help App. C. Social Security Administration Offices App. D. County Surrogate Offices App. E. Victim Assistance

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Book SynopsisThis illustrated work guides the reader through some of New Jersey's most impressive natural spectacles. From mating horseshoe crabs in the Delaware Bay to goldenclub and orchids at Web's Mill Bog, the authors seek to capture the Garden State at its bestTrade ReviewNew Jersey is a natural history treasure trove; this book is your treasure map. -- Pete Dunne * New Jersey Audubon Society *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter of Events Maps SPRING 1 Chorusing Frogs in the Spring 2 Shad Run on the Delaware River 3 Glass Eels (American Eels) at Cheesquake 4 Spawning Horseshoe Crabs on Delaware Bay 5 Migrant Shorebirds at Delaware Bay 6 Mountain Laurel SUMMER 7 Nesting Herons at Avalon 8 Laughing Gulls at Stone Harbor 9 Nesting Least Terns and Black Skimmers 10 Fiddler Crabs at Low Tide 11 Butterflies in Gardens 12 Grass Pink and Other Orchids at Webb's Mill 13 American Lotus at Mannington Marsh 14 Coalescing Terns and Skimmers at Hereford Inlet FALL 15 Migrating Monarchs at Cape May 16 Migrant Hawks on the Inland Ridges 17 Migrant Hawks at Cape May 18 Migrant Songbirds at Cape May 19 Cranberries in the Pine Barrens 20 Bats at Hibernia Mine WINTER 21 Dwarf Pine Plains 22 Migrant Snow Geese at Brigantine 23 Wintering Gulls in Coastal New Jersey 24 Brant and Other Waterfowl on the North Shore 25 Swans at Whites Bog and Coastal Lakes 26 Other Spectacles Epilogue: People at the Mall Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Selected References Subject Index Taxonomic Index

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Book Synopsis Hit the road with journalist Mark DiIonno as he takes you on a tour of New Jersey’s extraordinary Revolutionary War history. Listing more than 350 historic sites throughout the state, DiIonno has compiled the most complete guide ever to the Revolutionary War in the Garden State. Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Bergen County Burlington County Essex and Hudson Counties Lower Delaware Region Mercer County Middlesex County Morris County Passaic County The Shore Counties Somerset County Union County Upper Delaware Region The Research Index

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Book SynopsisThe Yup'ik are members of the Inuit family. This book explores how these subarctic hunters engage their past in a """"hunt"""" for history to make connections within their own communities, and between them and the larger world.Trade ReviewThese essays, some by Native voices, focus on two related themes: cultural revival in YupÆik communities, and the intercultural production of indigenous practices and knowledge. * Choice *Fienup-RiordanÆs latest book is a stimulating look at her anthropological and personal relationships among the YupÆik in southwestern Alaska. Reflecting on 25 years of research in the region . . . she offers several views of the changing world of Alaska Natives, of the relationship between anthropologist and subjects, and of the very goals of anthropology herself. . . . [She] addresses these topics and more with grace and humor. * Arctic *If you donÆt believe that indigenous cultures have survived and even thrived in the modern world, read Hunting Traditions in a Changing World. Fienup-Riordan shows that, far from relinquishing their culture, the Yupiit (the YupÆik people) are eagerly reclaiming it. This reclamation project is not simply an effort to record dances, songs, and customs; it is a way to engage and shape the present. . . . As an ethnographerÆs report on the changing culture of anthropology and on the changing culture of the Yupiit, this book is fascinating, innovative, empathetic, and plain god reading. * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *The book offers fascinating and engaging material. * Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History *This stimulating book of essays contributes fresh ways of thinking about meanings of tradition in the late twentieth century. -- Julie Cruikshank * associate professor of anthropology, University of British Columbia *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction - Continuity and Change in Southwestern Alaska An Anthropologist Reassess Her Methods The Boy Who Went to Live with the Seals / Paul John Yup'ik and Christian Encounter - Metaphors of Conversion, Metaphors of Change Life Is Like a Toolbox / Paul John Mixed Metaphors: Old Yup'ik Acts in the New Catholic Church My Experiences Growing Up / William Tyson yup'ik@alaska.net - Yup'ik Community in the 1990s: A Worldwide Web Yup'iks in the City / John Active What's in a Name?: Becoming a Real Person in a Yup'ik Community Tuqluryaraq (``The Way of Knowing Who Your Relatives Are'') Hunting Tradition in the Late Twentieth Century Collaboration on Display: A Yup'ik Exhibit at Three National Museums Speaking with Elders / Marie Meade Elders in Museums: Fieldwork Turned on Its Head Museums: Part of God's Plan / Paul John ``Let the Millennium Come...We'll Make It'' / John Active Notes References Resources Index

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Book SynopsisNineteen stories spanning Hisaye Yamamoto's forty-year career cover themes including the cultural conflicts between the first generation, the Issei, and their children, the Nisei; coping with prejudice; and the World War II internment of Japanese Americans.Trade ReviewThese remarkable stories are written with the proportion and craft of the mastersùthere are hints of Chekhov, Elizabeth Bowen, Katherine Mansfield, and Grace Paley. . . . Each of the fifteen short stories, written with the economy of haiku, is a treasure. * Booklist *The writing of history and the telling of stories are in our time very different. But these stories about the daily lives of Japanese American women in and out of the World War II internment camps of the United States are history and herstory. The women are gutsy or fragileùthat is, like any of us would be caught in exile while at home. The stories are beautifully written so we feel them even more deeply. * Grace Paley *You can imagine my delight to learn that a collection of her work is now finally seeing the light of day. How good that feels. At last more people will be touched by the grace that flows through Hisaye YamamotoÆs pen. The world will be a better place because of it. * Joy Kogawa *Reading Hisaye Yamamoto's Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories is like sitting down and having a good talk with someone who really remembers, someone who will open a door to her feelings and thoughts about what it has meant to be Japanese American during the last 40 years. . . . Seventeen Syllables is an excellent resource, one that keeps getting better with time. * International Examiner: The Pacific Reader *Table of ContentsContents Introduction ix The High-Heeled Shoes, A Memoir 1 Seventeen Syllables 8 The Legend of Miss Sasagawara 20 Wilshire Bus 34 The Brown House 39 Yoneko's Earthquake 46 Morning Rain 57 Epithalamium 60 Las Vegas Charley 70 Life Among the Oil Fields, A Memoir 86 The Eskimo Connection 96 My Father Can Beat Muhammad Ali 105 Underground Lady 109 A Day in Little Tokyo 114 Reading and Writing 122 Preface to the Revised and Expanded Edition 129 Death Rides the Rails to Poston 131 Eucalyptus 142 A Fire in Fontana 150 Florentine Gardens 158 Selected Bibliography 173

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Book SynopsisThis work is a collection of essays encompassing a global perspective on women and a wide range of issues, including political and domestic violence, education, literacy, and reproductive rights.Trade ReviewThis anthology adds strength and credence to the struggle for women's human rights. It reinforces the conviction that no society can prosper and no new world be born until the rights of women are fully protected and realized. -- William F. Schulz * executive director of Amnesty International, USA *The Devastating commonalities and startling differences in women's oppression and activism around the world are keenly explored in this excellent anthology. Agosin's collection provokes a powerful reexamination of the humans rights field. -- Jacqueline Bhabha * Harvard University *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction I. Theoretical Visions Becoming Human: The Origins and Development of Women's Human Rights ARVONNE S. FRASER Indivisible or Invisible: Women's Human Rights in the Public and Private Sphere SHEILA DAUER Women, Violence, and the Human Rights System SALLY ENGLE MERRY Mainstreaming a Concern for the Human Rights of Women: Beyond Theory FELICE D. GAER II : Women and Health Women's Health and Human Rights JULIE H. LEVISON AND SANDRA P. LEVISON The Rights of the Girl Child JULIA CHILL AND SUSAN KILBOURNE Psychocultural Factors in the Adaptation of Immigrant Youth: Gendered Responses CAROLA SUÁREZ-OROZCO III : Women, Activism, and Social Change Women's Rights as Human Rights: Women as Agents of Social Change TEMMA KAPLAN The Forgotten Minority JEAN TROUNSTINE Degrees of Separation JANE STAPLETON Gender Apartheid, Cultural Relativism, and Women's Human Rights in Muslim Societies MAHNAZ AFKHAMI Grassroots Organizations and Women's Human Rights: Meeting the Challenge of the Local-Global Link MARY GESKE AND SUSAN C. BOURQUE IV : Women and the Cultures of Displacement "What Was She Doing There?": Women as "Legitimate Targets" BARBARA HARLOW How Long Does Exile Last? AGATE NESAULE Letters of the Law: Women, Human Rights, and Epistolary Literature JOSEPH SLAUGHTER AND JENNIFER WENZEL Before the Mirror CHRISTOPHER MERRILL About the Contributors Index About the Editor

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Book SynopsisThis study progresses chronologically from abolitionist newspapers to the impact and implications of the Internet, to reveal how the black press' content and its very form changed with evolving historical and cultural conditions in America.Trade Reviewàprovides substantive, multi-dimensioned interpretations of texts and images that gave voice and influence to people marginalized by mainstream society. àThis collection of essays is a welcome addition to the historiography of the black press. * Journalism History *From the antebellum years, when abolitionist Frederick Douglass gained prominence, through the Harlem Renaissance . . . black publications have always flourished. This scholarly collection tracks their history. * Library Journal *This volume is new evidence of the persistent vitality of the black press over more than 170 years. The thirteen essays cover a span from David WalkerÆs Appeal (1829), a pioneering antislavery tract, to Internet editions of black newspapers. * CJR *With the essays gathered here, Vogel eloquently demonstrates that the early black pressÆs contribution to African American life and culture and mainstream American culture extended beyond slavery and elite African American issues. . . . This volume will help the reader gain a fuller understanding of not just African American culture but also the varied cultural battles fought throughout the U.S.Æs history. The collection begins in the 1820s with the first print publication, and ends in the twenty-first century with online black presses. . . . The volume combines history, culture, and theory in assessing the value, responsibilities, and challenges of the black press and other ethnic publications, past, present, and future. * Choice *Ambitious and wide-ranging, a number of the essays in The Black Press reflect the best and most innovative interpretive strategies in African American and Black diaspora studies. -- Kevin Gaines * University of Michigan *The work of historical recuperation provided by The Black Press is especially valuable not only for what it tells us about the evolution of black culture in the United States, but also for what it reveals about the undercurrents of American culture at key moments in history. -- Eric J. Sundquist * Northwestern University *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction / Todd Vogel Part I The Antebellum Years Circulating the Nation: David Walker, the Missouri Compromise, and the Rise of the Black Press / Robert S. Levine The New Face of Black Labor / Todd Vogel Frederick Douglass's ``Colored Newspaper'': Identity Politics in Black and White / Robert Fanuzzi ``We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident'': The Rhetoric of Frederick Douglass's Journalism / Shelley Fisher Fishkin / Carla L. Peterson Part II After the Civil War Black Separatism in the Periodical Writings of Mrs. A. E. (Amelia) Johnson / Wendy Wagner Poetics of Memory and Marginality: Images of the Native American in African-American Newspapers, 1870-1900 and 1970-1990 / Hannah Gourgey Part III The Harlem Renaissance and the 1930s Our(?) Country: Mapping ``These `Colored' United States'' in The Messenger / Adam Mckible ``Bombed in Spain'': Langston Hughes, the Black Press, and the Spanish Civil War / Michael Thurston Part IV World War II and Postwar America ``Kin in Some Way'': The Chicago Defender Reads the Japanese Internment, 1942-1945 / C. K. Doreski On Sale at Your Favorite Newsstand: Negro Digest /Black World and the 1960s / James C. Hall ``Photographs Taken in Everyday Life'': Ebony's Photojournalistic Discourse / Maren Stange Black Panther Newspaper: A Militant Voice, a Salient Vision / Rodger Streitmatter The Black Press in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Two Exemplars / Anna Everett Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThese novellas appeared at the height of fin-de-siecle American fascination with Japanese culture. Usually dismissed by critics because of their stereotypical treatment of Asian women, they have been paired here to show how they defined and redefined contemporary misconceptions of the """"Orient"""".Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Note on the Texts Madame Butterfly by John Luther Long A Japanese Nightingale by Onoto Watanna Edited by Winnifred Eaton Appendix Glossary Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis text takes the reader inside children's classrooms and reveals the lessons about race that are communicated there, both implicitly and explicitly. It examines how ideas about race and racial inequality take shape and are passed along in the classroom and schoolyard.Trade ReviewIn this pioneering ethnography in elementary schools, Lewis shows brilliantly how racism is taught and learned in the small places of everyday life. -- Joe Feagin * University of Florida and author of Racist America *A wonderful and timely book. Ethnographically rich, theoretically sophisticated, and clearly written, this book addresses the ubiquitous issue of race in all its complexity. -- MichFle Foster * author of Black Teachers on Teaching *A compelling ethnography of the racial landscape of contemporary schools. -- Barrie Thorne * author of Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School *Race in the Schoolyard is a wonderful book for social scientists studying race, education, and childhood studies. The book showcases the talents of a gifted fieldworker whose theoretically rich work sits on the cutting edge of a growing body of scholarship examining the social worlds of children. School officials, parents, and, most especially, a new generation of teachers will benefit from these lessons on race. * American Journal of Sociology *Instructors may recommend this book to students to whom the topic is surely vital and engrossing and for whom the text will be lively and engaging. * Contemporary Sociology *Lewis moves beyond traditional research methods used to examine achievement gaps and differences in test scores to look closely at the realities of schooling. I highly recommend this work for every person involved in teaching and learning. * Multicultural Review *Through eloquent case studies of three California elementary schools-a white-majority 'good' school, a mostly minority 'tough' school, and an integrated 'alternative' school-[Lewis] demonstrates that schools promote racial inequalities through their daily rituals and practices. Even the notion of a "color-blind" America-an especially popular ideal in the white school-perpetuates racism, Lewis argues, because it denies or dismisses the very real constraints that schools place on minorities. Lewis is nevertheless an optimist, insisting that schools can change ideas of race. . . . Highly recommended. Undergraduate collections and above. * Choice *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements ONE Examining the Color Line in Schools TWOThere is No Race in the Schoolyard: Color-Blind Ideology at Foresthills THREE Struggling with Dangerous Subjects: Race at West City Elementary FOUR Breaking the Silence: Race, Culture, Language, and Power at Metro2 FIVE Learning and Living Racial Boundaries: Constructing and Negotiating Racial Identity in School SIXSchooling and the Social Reproduction of Racial Inequality SEVEN Schools as Race-Making Institutions APPENDIX Research Methods: Stories from the Field Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this work the author tells the story of how and why women enter paid childcare work through the eyes and experiences of twenty family childcare providers. She explores the social, political and economic forces and processes that draw women into this field of work.

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Book SynopsisAn account of recent battles over publicly financed stadiums in some of America's largest cities. Interviews with the key decision makers present a behind-the-scenes look at how and why powerful individuals and organisations foist these sports palaces on increasingly unreceptive communities.Trade Review"Public Dollars, Private Stadiums helps us understand the political processes involved in using public money for new sports stadiums. It is a must read for anyone interested in this important new issue." -- Richard E. Lapchick * Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University *"This book is readable and smart . . . Kevin Delaney and Rick Eckstein show how conflicts over sports subsidies are emblematic of the kinds of power relationships that prevail in each community." -- Lee Clarke * author of Mission Improbable: Using Fantasy Documents to Tame Disaster *"Every time you hear a politician or millionaire sports mogul start to promote the benefits of building a brand-spanking new stadium, your immediate reaction, as a taxpayer, should be to watch your wallet. This revealing, dead-on investigation of the modern-day sports stadium boondoggle and its often-devastating impact on American cities is an essential read for anyone, sports fan or not, who wants to avoid getting fleeced." -- Steve Lopez, * Los Angeles Times columnist *"Public Dollars, Private Stadiums helps us understand the political processes involved in using public money for new sports stadiums. It is a must read for anyone interested in this important new issue." -- Richard E. Lapchick * Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University *"This book is readable and smart . . . Kevin Delaney and Rick Eckstein show how conflicts over sports subsidies are emblematic of the kinds of power relationships that prevail in each community." -- Lee Clarke * author of Mission Improbable: Using Fantasy Documents to Tame Disaster *"Every time you hear a politician or millionaire sports mogul start to promote the benefits of building a brand-spanking new stadium, your immediate reaction, as a taxpayer, should be to watch your wallet. This revealing, dead-on investigation of the modern-day sports stadium boondoggle and its often-devastating impact on American cities is an essential read for anyone, sports fan or not, who wants to avoid getting fleeced." -- Steve Lopez, * Los Angeles Times columnist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Local Growth Coalitions and Publicly Funded Stadiums 2. Strategies for Building Private Stadiums with Public Dollars 3. Cincinnati: Queen City of Local Growth Coalitions 4. Cleveland: The Comeback Growth Coalition 5. Minneapolis and Hartford: Declining Local Growth Coalitions 6. Denver, Phoenix, and San Diego: Nascent Growth Coalitions on the Frontier 7. Pittsburgh and Philadelphia: Strong versus Weak Local Growth Coalitions 8. Public Dollars, Private Stadiums, and Democracy Appendix: Methodology Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe gripping story of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop and her relationship with the extraordinary Brazilian woman Lota de Macedo Soares.

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Book SynopsisIn this volume, university presidents and others in higher education leadership positions comment on the many connections between business and scholarship when intellectual property and learning are treated as marketable commodities, providing guidelines to govern commercial activities.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1 A personal perspective on the selling of academia / Donald G. Stein 2 College Sports, Inc. / Murray Sperber 3 The benefits and cost of commercialization of the academy / Derek Bok 4 Increased commercialization of the academy following the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 / Mary Good 5 Delicate balance / James J. Duderstadt 6 Pushing the envelope in university involvement with commercialization / Ronald A. Bohlander 7 Conflicting goals and values / Karen A. Holbrook and Eric C. Dahl 8 Buyer and seller views of university/industry licensing / Jerry G. Thursby and Marie C. Thursby 9 The increasingly proprietary nature of publicly funded biomedical research / Arti Rai 10 The clinical trials business / Marcia Angell 11 Reforming research ethics in an age of multivested science / Sheldon Krimsky 12 The academy and industry / Zach W. Hall 13 Responsible innovation in the commercialized university / David Guston Contributions index

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Book SynopsisSome critics describe science not as the solution to environmental problems, but as their source. Science itself is often a basis of controversy, as debates over global warming and environmental health risks show. This book explores the contributions and challenges presented when scientific authority enters the realm of environmental affairs.Trade ReviewWith clarity and grace, Stephen Bocking tackles the complicated question of the role of scientific expertise in environmental policy making. Nature's Experts is a timely and important book. -- David H. Guston * author of Between Politics and Science: Assuring the Integrity and Productivity *If knowledge is power, how should expert advice be deployed by a would-be democratic society? This perennial question is newly illuminated by this timely and wide-ranging review of the role played by science in the making of environmental policy. -- William C. Clark * Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development, Harvard Univ *This book by Stephen Bocking is as much about deliberative democracy as it is about science and the environment. Stephen Bocking's treatment is deep, perceptive and profoundly wise. He has caught the heart of present and future environmental science, politics and democratic governance. -- C.S. Holling * The Resilience Alliance and Emeritus Professor, Arthur R. Marshall Jr. Chair in *With clarity and grace, Stephen Bocking tackles the complicated question of the role of scientific expertise in environmental policy making. Nature's Experts is a timely and important book. -- David H. Guston * author of Between Politics and Science: Assuring the Integrity and Productivity *Table of ContentsPreface Part 1 Introduction 1 Encountering Science and Politics 2 The Uncertain Authority of Science Part 2 Science and Politics in Environmental Affairs 3 Science and Environmental Values 4 Science and Natural Resources Management 5 Science and the Global Environmental 6 Science in a Risky World Part 3 Seeking Effective and Democratic Science 7 Credible and Effective Science 8 Democratic Environmental Science 9 Achieving Effective and Democratic Science Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisEach chapter in this text explores the ways in which we construct ""authenticity"" in order to replace seemingly vacated identities, including: the place of minorities in academia; mixed-race dynamics; the popularity of Irish culture in America; the Good Friday agreement in Northern Ireland; and the Jewish American identity.Trade ReviewCheng effectively combines the scholarly and the personal, adding critical insight and human interest to a topic that will surely attract the attention of both scholars and laymen. - King-Kok Cheung, author of Articulate SilencesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: The Anxiety of Identity 2. Who Can Speak as Other? Authenticity, Postcoloniality, and the Academy 3. Inventing Irishness: Authenticity and Identity 4. International Adoption and Identity: The Anxiety over Authentic Cultural Heritage 5. The Inauthentic Jew: Jewishness and Its Discontents 6. Asian American Identity: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly—and the Future 7. Coda: Living Cultures Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive guide to methodological issues within feminist scholarship. Drawing upon the debates concerning the incidence of rape, public support for reproductive rights, and welfare reform, the author demonstrates how seemingly abstract questions about the nature of knowledge have palpable effects on the lives of contemporary women and men.Trade ReviewSuccinctly locating three decades of innovative feminist epistemological challenges in relation to Western philosophy and sexual politics, Mary Hawkesworth's Feminist Inquiry is a boldly erudite tour-de-force, invaluable and indispensable for specialist scholars and general readers alike. -- Judith A. Allen * professor of gender studies and history, Indiana University *Feminist Inquiry accomplishes what many texts claim to, but few achieve, namely, a truly interdisciplinary approach. By explicating the philosophical, political, and empirical concerns that enliven feminist epistemology, Mary Hawkesworth provides a rich resource for anyone interested in answering the question 'how do feminists know? -- Nancy A. Naples * author of Feminism and Method: Ethnography, Discourse Analysis, and Activist Res *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I Knowledge and Feminist Knowledge Production Chapter 1 Sources of Error, Strategies of Redress Chapter 2 Grappling with Claims of Truth Chapter 3 Reconceptualizing Objectivity Chapter 4 Evidence Chapter 5 Evidence Blindness Part II Methodological Innovations Chapter 6 Gender as an Analytic Category Chapter 7 Feminist Standpoint Theory as Analytical Tool Chapter 8 Intersectionality Bibliography Index

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Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface Prologue 1. The Origins of Racial Science, Antiquity-1800 2. The Establishment of Racial Typology, 1800-1859 3. Race and Evolution, 1859-1900 4. The Hardening of Scientific Racism, 1900-1945 5. The Retreat of Scientific Racism, 1890-1940 6. The Liberal Orthodoxy, 1940-1960 7. A Multicultural Science of Race, 1965 to the Present Chronology Glossary Documents Bibliography Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisDocuments the disproportionate representation of black Americans in the US criminal justice system. This book brings together twelve original essays by prominent scholars to examine not only the discrimination that is evident, but also the structural and cultural forces that have influenced and continue to perpetuate the situation.Trade ReviewA first-rate book on the treatment of race, gender and punishment. - Susan L. Miller, professor of sociology and criminal justice, University of DelawareTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I. Colonialism Part II. Slavery Part III. Immigration Part IV. Globalization Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisPresents a collection of writings by Einstein on the topic of race. This book tells how he spoke out vigorously against racism both in the United States and around the world. It brings attention to Einstein's antiracist public activities, and provides insight into antiracist struggles in America.Trade Review"As any reader of Faulkner knows, Princeton University before the Second World War was a southern university, and the town of Princeton adopted corresponding racial attitudes. In 1933 into this community came Albert Einstein, fresh from cosmopolitan Weimar Berlin and with the example of how Nazi anti-Semitism was helping to destroy all that was best in German culture. This book tells the story of how he reacted to the racism he saw around him, and to the fight-back against it by Princeton's long-established black community. It is a fascinating story and, unfortunately for our country, it is not just history but a contribution to contemporary struggles against American racism, at home and abroad." -- John Stachel * director of the Center for Einstein Studies, Boston University *"For many people around the world, Einstein's name is a household word, and yet Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor's important new book reveals in startling ways how little we know about his profound insights into the realities of race and racism. Who knew? Fortunately for all of us, Einstein's ideas and insights on this issue are as timely and instructive as his most advanced scientific contributions. We owe Fred and Rodger a huge debt of gratitude." -- Danny Glover"In Einstein on Race and Racism, the authors remind us that it is significant to achieve consciousness through education. Through their historical analysis, they unveil the interconnection that existed between Paul Robeson and Einstein, so as to ensure that contemporary scholars understand humanizing pedagogy and civic responsibilities. This is insightful scholarship that explores race and racism, drawing on the analytical insights of innovative giants of divergent social and professional recognition." -- Prosper Godonoo * Director, Paul Robeson Cultural Center, Rutgers University *"Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor paint a compelling portrait of an Einstein who has been almost completely absent from the public record: the man who co-chaired a committee that pushed for federal anti-lynching legislation, who joined the campaign to save the 'Scottsboro boys,' who helped sponsor the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund, who became a close friend and supporter of Paul Robeson, who frequently strolled through Princeton's African-American neighborhoods-in short, a man not afraid to use his fame to battle the racism that plagued America (and Princeton, both town and university) during his years in the U.S. This is a side-an important side-of the great physicist and pacifist that anyone interested in the man, and his times, will find eye-opening." -- Sharon Begley * science writer and coauthor of The Mind and the Brain *"This book continues the process of peeling back the politics of Albert Einstein to reveal a vital (and up to now invisible) layer of anti-racism activities. It demonstrates, through Einstein's example, how not to 'stand idly by' in the face of America's most pernicious problem-racism." -- Dorothy M. Zellner * civil rights activist, member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee *"While Albert Einstein is most famous for his theory of relativity, he held fervently to some moral absolutes, few more precious than his heroic and passionate anti-racist writing and activism. Einstein on Race and Racism brilliantly recovers the engaging, principled, and courageous views of one of history's most famous scientists, whose anti-racist writings have been ignored, overlooked, even hidden from the world by his biographers and custodians. Thanks to Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor, we have unimpeachable evidence that the 'Man of the Century' wrestled fearlessly and insightfully with what his friend W.E.B. Du Bois termed the century's greatest problem: the color line. This is one of the year's most important books." -- Michael Eric Dyson * author of The Michael Eric Dyson Reader *"As any reader of Faulkner knows, Princeton University before the Second World War was a southern university, and the town of Princeton adopted corresponding racial attitudes. In 1933 into this community came Albert Einstein, fresh from cosmopolitan Weimar Berlin and with the example of how Nazi anti-Semitism was helping to destroy all that was best in German culture. This book tells the story of how he reacted to the racism he saw around him, and to the fight-back against it by Princeton's long-established black community. It is a fascinating story and, unfortunately for our country, it is not just history but a contribution to contemporary struggles against American racism, at home and abroad." -- John Stachel * director of the Center for Einstein Studies, Boston University *"For many people around the world, Einstein's name is a household word, and yet Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor's important new book reveals in startling ways how little we know about his profound insights into the realities of race and racism. Who knew? Fortunately for all of us, Einstein's ideas and insights on this issue are as timely and instructive as his most advanced scientific contributions. We owe Fred and Rodger a huge debt of gratitude." -- Danny Glover"In Einstein on Race and Racism, the authors remind us that it is significant to achieve consciousness through education. Through their historical analysis, they unveil the interconnection that existed between Paul Robeson and Einstein, so as to ensure that contemporary scholars understand humanizing pedagogy and civic responsibilities. This is insightful scholarship that explores race and racism, drawing on the analytical insights of innovative giants of divergent social and professional recognition." -- Prosper Godonoo * Director, Paul Robeson Cultural Center, Rutgers University *"Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor paint a compelling portrait of an Einstein who has been almost completely absent from the public record: the man who co-chaired a committee that pushed for federal anti-lynching legislation, who joined the campaign to save the 'Scottsboro boys,' who helped sponsor the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund, who became a close friend and supporter of Paul Robeson, who frequently strolled through Princeton's African-American neighborhoods-in short, a man not afraid to use his fame to battle the racism that plagued America (and Princeton, both town and university) during his years in the U.S. This is a side-an important side-of the great physicist and pacifist that anyone interested in the man, and his times, will find eye-opening." -- Sharon Begley * science writer and coauthor of The Mind and the Brain *"This book continues the process of peeling back the politics of Albert Einstein to reveal a vital (and up to now invisible) layer of anti-racism activities. It demonstrates, through Einstein's example, how not to 'stand idly by' in the face of America's most pernicious problem-racism." -- Dorothy M. Zellner * civil rights activist, member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee *"While Albert Einstein is most famous for his theory of relativity, he held fervently to some moral absolutes, few more precious than his heroic and passionate anti-racist writing and activism. Einstein on Race and Racism brilliantly recovers the engaging, principled, and courageous views of one of history's most famous scientists, whose anti-racist writings have been ignored, overlooked, even hidden from the world by his biographers and custodians. Thanks to Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor, we have unimpeachable evidence that the 'Man of the Century' wrestled fearlessly and insightfully with what his friend W.E.B. Du Bois termed the century's greatest problem: the color line. This is one of the year's most important books." -- Michael Eric Dyson * author of The Michael Eric Dyson Reader *

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Book SynopsisNew Jersey has a varied and fascinating history - from its earliest Native American settlements, through its central role in the Revolutionary War, to its strategic position in the major events of our country's past. This guidebook includes information on forty-eight of the best sites for historical walks in New Jersey.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Paterson Falls 2 Weehawken 3 Ellis Island 4 Fort Lee 5 Undercliff 6 Skunk Hollow 7 Ringwood and Long Pond 8 Edison National Historic Site 9 Feltville 10 Historic Speedwell 11 Pyramid Mountain 12 Jockey Hollow 13 Cooper Mill and the Black River 14 The Sussex Branch Rail Trail 15 Waterloo Village 16 Millbrook Village 17 Hope 18 Belvidere 19 Clinton 20 The Prallsville Mills 21 Princeton Cemetery 22 Princeton Battlefield State Park 23 The Delaware and Raritan Canal 24 Washington Crossing State Park 25 Monmouth Battlefield State Park 26 Georgian Court College 27 Twin Lights of Navesink 28 Allaire 29 Ocean Grove 30 Cattus Island and Barnegat Light 31 Double Trouble and Whitesbog Villages 32 Lakehurst 33 Historical Walnford 34 Roosevelt 35 Bordentown 36 Burlington 37 Burlington and its Neighbors 38 Roebling 39 Rankokus Indian Reservation 40 Mount Holly 41 Batsto 42 Wheaton Village 43 Red Bank Battlefield 44 Fort Mott, Pea Patch Island, and the Finn's Point National Cemetery 45 Greenwich 46 Bridgeton 47 East Point Lighthouse to Mauricetown 48 Cape May Choosing an Outing Index Photo Credits

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Book SynopsisFocuses on the ways in which the comic persona is constructed and changes across media, from stand-up, to the small screen, to film. This title examines the comic televisual and cinematic personae of Dick Gregory, Bill Cosby, Flip Wilson, and Richard Pryor and considers how these figures set the stage for black comedy.Trade ReviewThis enormously valuable book will have a major impact on the ways in which scholars and general readers alike think about race, gender, and comic performance. -- Valerie Smith * Princeton University *In Laughing Mad, Bambi Haggins deftly uses comedy to complicate the construction, performance, and masquerade of blackness especially as it relates to racial politics, white supremacy, and black critique. -- Herman Gray * author of Cultural Moves: African Americans and the Politics of Representation *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Enter laughing From Negro to Black: coming of comic age in the Civil Rights era Murphy and Rock: from the "Black guy" to the "Rock star" Post-soul comedy goes to the movies: cinematic adjustments and [pop] cultural currency Crossover diva: Whoopi Goldberg and persona politics Dave Chappelle: provocateur in the promised land Epilogue: Laughing sad, laughing mad

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Book SynopsisA book on miscarriage for the woman who has lost at least one pregnancy. Approaching the topic from a reporter's perspective, it takes us on a journey into the laboratories and clinics of researchers at the front, weaving together their findings with portraits of families who have had difficulty bringing a baby to term.Trade ReviewThis enlightening and comprehensive study is a must read for any woman battling the emotional roller coaster of miscarriage and for all those interested in an underexplored area of pregnancy and women's health. * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsPreface to the Paperback Edition Foreword by Sandra Ann Carson, M.D. PART ONE: MOTHER NATURE 1: Not Viable 2: Through a Glass, Clearly 3: Scrambled Eggs PART TWO: MYSTERIES 4: Rejection 5: Black Swans 6: The Cycle of Life 7: Really? 8: Anatomically Incorrect PART THREE: HOPE 9: The Sky Isn't Falling 10: Expert Care 11: Miracle Babies Acknowledgments Notes Glossary Index

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Book Synopsis13 essays from leading experts, discusses international trade in cultural goods and services, discusses integration of arts and cultural policy on urban revitalization, civic engagement and historic preservationTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I. Defining the Arts and Creative Sector 1. Toward an Arts and Creative Sector 2. Interrelations in the Arts and Creative Sector 3. Field Building: The Road to Cultural Policy Studies in the United States Part II. Field Issues 4. The Universality of the Arts in Human Life 5. About Artists 6. Art and Cultural Participation at the Heart of Community Life 7. The Arts and Artist in Urban Revitalization 8. The Evolution of Arts and Cultural Districts 9. Capital, Commerce, and the Creative Industries 10. Internet as Medium: Art, Law, and the Digital Environment 11. Historic Preservation in the United States 12. Between Cooperation and Conflict: International Trade in Cultural Goods and Services 13. Identity and Cultural Policy Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisRisky Lessons brings readers inside three North Carolina middle schools to show how students and teachers support and subvert the official curriculum through their questions, choices, viewpoints, and reactions. Most important, the book highlights how sex education's formal and informal lessons reflect and reinforce gender, race, and class inequalities.Trade Review"Topical, important, interesting, and accessible, Fields's book will appeal to a wide audience of sociologists and educators." -- Christine L. Williams * University of Texas at Austin *"In an elegant, candid, and rich qualitative study set in three North Carolina schools, Fields argues that the denial of young people's sexualities is at the heart of school based sex education. Utilizing a feminist analysis, the author deftly describes the constituencies, policies, issues, and people involved in the everyday controversies of sex education. Highly recommended." * Choice *"An engaging feminist ethnography. Risky Lessons is the first to examine not only the debates, but also how sex education policy is translated into district-wide cuirricula and implemented (or not) in the classroom. Fields' unflinchingly critical, feminist perspective, combined with her determination to advocate for social and sexual justice in sex education, makes for a vividness and urgency that is utterly compelling. Everyone should read this brave book." * Sex Roles *"Intellectually thrilling, politically timely, theoretically strong and ethnographically elegant, Risky Lessons reveals the problematic effects of abstinence-only education and profound social inequalities, and the social dangers that mutate at their nasty intersection. At the same time, Fields demonstrates the power and urgency of teaching for desire, sexual subjectivity, safety and pleasure." -- Michelle Fine * co-author, Muslim American Youth: Understanding Hyphenated Identities *"Smart, passionate and engaging, Risky Lessons throws open the classroom door to show the high stakes for teachers and students in our political battles over sex education. It should be required reading for every U.S. politician." -- Janice M. Irvine * author of Talk About Sex: The Battles over Sex Education in the United States *"Jessica Fields casts a critical lens on the contentious national debates surrounding the content and form sex education should have in public schools. Risky Lessons is one of those few books whose values lies in the possibility of genuine change in policy and practice." * American Journal of Sociology *"Risky Lessons is a must-read for feminist educators who are committed to challenging systems of oppression by transforming and 'politicizing' the formal and hidden curriculum of the classroom space. Fields provides concrete examples of how this classroom labor can and should be done in the face of immense opposition from policy and social movements that dictate abstinence-only education." * Feminist Teacher *"Topical, important, interesting, and accessible, Fields's book will appeal to a wide audience of sociologists and educators." -- Christine L. Williams * University of Texas at Austin *"In an elegant, candid, and rich qualitative study set in three North Carolina schools, Fields argues that the denial of young people's sexualities is at the heart of school based sex education. Utilizing a feminist analysis, the author deftly describes the constituencies, policies, issues, and people involved in the everyday controversies of sex education. Highly recommended." * Choice *"An engaging feminist ethnography. Risky Lessons is the first to examine not only the debates, but also how sex education policy is translated into district-wide cuirricula and implemented (or not) in the classroom. Fields' unflinchingly critical, feminist perspective, combined with her determination to advocate for social and sexual justice in sex education, makes for a vividness and urgency that is utterly compelling. Everyone should read this brave book." * Sex Roles *"Intellectually thrilling, politically timely, theoretically strong and ethnographically elegant, Risky Lessons reveals the problematic effects of abstinence-only education and profound social inequalities, and the social dangers that mutate at their nasty intersection. At the same time, Fields demonstrates the power and urgency of teaching for desire, sexual subjectivity, safety and pleasure." -- Michelle Fine * co-author, Muslim American Youth: Understanding Hyphenated Identities *"Smart, passionate and engaging, Risky Lessons throws open the classroom door to show the high stakes for teachers and students in our political battles over sex education. It should be required reading for every U.S. politician." -- Janice M. Irvine * author of Talk About Sex: The Battles over Sex Education in the United States *"Jessica Fields casts a critical lens on the contentious national debates surrounding the content and form sex education should have in public schools. Risky Lessons is one of those few books whose values lies in the possibility of genuine change in policy and practice." * American Journal of Sociology *"Risky Lessons is a must-read for feminist educators who are committed to challenging systems of oppression by transforming and 'politicizing' the formal and hidden curriculum of the classroom space. Fields provides concrete examples of how this classroom labor can and should be done in the face of immense opposition from policy and social movements that dictate abstinence-only education." * Feminist Teacher *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Asking more of sex education Differences and divisions: Social inequality in sex education debates and policies The prophylactic of talk: Sex educations's competing lessons on sexual communication Natural and ideological: Depicting bodies in sex education Embattled knowledge: Curiosity and understanding in sex education Conclusion: Policy, practice, and sexuality education

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Book SynopsisIncludes essays that examine the big-budget blockbusters and critically acclaimed independent films that defined 1990s.Trade Review“There is nothing like this series. Screen Decades firmly situates American cinema in the realms of material culture, popular culture, cultural narrative, reception analysis, and industrial history.” * American Quarterly *“There is nothing like this series. Screen Decades firmly situates American cinema in the realms of material culture, popular culture, cultural narrative, reception analysis, and industrial history.” * American Quarterly *Table of ContentsMovies and the off-white gangster / Linda Mizejewski Movies and wayward images / Sharon Willis Movies and the politics of authorship / Amy Villarejo Movies and the new economics of blockbusters and indies / Chuck Kleinhans Movies and partisan politics / Diane Waldman Movies, teens, tots, and tech / Tim Shary Movies and homeland insecurity / Debra White-Stanley and Caryl Flinn Movies and the usable past / José B. Capino Movies, dying fathers, and a few survivors / Krin Gabbard Movies and millennial masculinity / Chris Holmlund

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Book SynopsisTraces the rise of lay practitioners in shaping homeopathy as a healing system and its relationship to other forms of complementary and alternative medicine in an age when conventional biomedicine remains the dominant form.Trade Review"This is an important and outstanding work of scholarship. Neither partisan nor apologetic, it brings the strength of objectivity to homeopathy that has often been lacking in its checkered historiography. Meticulously researched and engagingly written, this book is destined to be the standard work on this colorful and historically rich group of healthcare crusaders for years to come." -- Michael A. Flannery * associate director for Historical Collections, University of Alabama *"Once again, Professor Haller offers an incisive analysis of a major alternative medical system, providing an extraordinarily thorough and nuanced examination of the evolution of homeopathic medicine over the last one hundred years." -- James C. Whorton * author of Nature Cures: The History of Alternative Medicine in America *"John Haller, an eminent historian of alternative medicine, has written a unique and finely woven account on homeopathy and the transformations that have characterized its long history. In this volume, he focuses on its evolving status from a medical practitioner based system of treatment to one now largely embraced by segments of the public in search of alternative therapies. Well-organized and bearing the imprint of a master historian, it is a pleasure to read." -- Pascal James Imperato * founding dean, School of Public Health, State University of New York, Downstate *"Haller takes readers on a historical journey involving American homeopathy as it traversed the political, professional, scientific, and cultural landscape from the late-19th century to the beginning of the 21st century. Experts and novices to American homeopathy will find this book to be comprehensive, objective, informative, and engaging. Recommended." * Choice *"A key achievement of this intriguing book is in capturing the shifting and diverse nature of homeopathy itself, which Haller depicts as having developed from an empirical science to a religious belief system. Haller encompasses the complexity of the development of homeopathy within a cogent narrative." * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: The Decline of Academic Homeopathy Chapter 2: Esoteric Homeopathy Chapter 3: The Laity Speaks Out Chapter 4: Postwar Trends Chapter 5: Roads Taken and Not Taken Chapter 6: Whither the Future? Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisShows the social world of inner city African American girls and how they manage threats of personal violence. This title presents an account of how African American girls negotiate schools and neighborhoods governed by the so-called 'code of the street' - the form of street justice that governs violence in distressed urban areas.Trade Review"This book adds invaluable information and analysis to the growing debate on the violence perpetrated by girls, and the ethnographic method is exactly what is needed to further the question of whether today's girls—particularly those most marginalized due to class, race, and neighborhood—are more violent." -- Joanne Belknap * author of The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime & Justice *"Between Good and Ghetto is an expertly written and fascinating ethnography of the gendered racial dimensions of violence in the inner city. Jones does an excellent job in communicating the strength and sensitivity [of the girls she interviewed] to her readers while, simultaneously, producing a work of tremendous insight and immense sociological imagination." * Contemporary Sociology *"A very compelling account of daily life as experienced by poor, urban, African American adolescent girls. Recommended." * Choice *"Nikki Jones' sharp, detailed investigation of the way fighting, on the street and in school, shapes the lives of young African American women combines shrewd analytical insight and clear evocative language to give readers an understanding of what it costs a 'good girl' to stay good, and what happens to those who 'go for bad.'" -- Howard S. Becker * author of Outsiders and Writing for Social Scientists *"The young women in Between Good and Ghetto compel the reader to consider their lives and the violence they experience in relation to the shifting and dynamic concept of protection. What is perhaps the most significant and disturbing revelation in the book is that there are few contexts, behavioral strategies, institutional spaces, or ways of identifying that fully protect young inner-city African American women's physical well-being, emotional health, and empowered self-perception." * Signs *"Intellectually and emotionally evocative. Jones’s [book] is hard to put down due to her adept use of imagery and obvious passion for her work." * Feminist Formations *"This book adds invaluable information and analysis to the growing debate on the violence perpetrated by girls, and the ethnographic method is exactly what is needed to further the question of whether today's girls—particularly those most marginalized due to class, race, and neighborhood—are more violent." -- Joanne Belknap * author of The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime & Justice *"Between Good and Ghetto is an expertly written and fascinating ethnography of the gendered racial dimensions of violence in the inner city. Jones does an excellent job in communicating the strength and sensitivity [of the girls she interviewed] to her readers while, simultaneously, producing a work of tremendous insight and immense sociological imagination." * Contemporary Sociology *"A very compelling account of daily life as experienced by poor, urban, African American adolescent girls. Recommended." * Choice *"Nikki Jones' sharp, detailed investigation of the way fighting, on the street and in school, shapes the lives of young African American women combines shrewd analytical insight and clear evocative language to give readers an understanding of what it costs a 'good girl' to stay good, and what happens to those who 'go for bad.'" -- Howard S. Becker * author of Outsiders and Writing for Social Scientists *"The young women in Between Good and Ghetto compel the reader to consider their lives and the violence they experience in relation to the shifting and dynamic concept of protection. What is perhaps the most significant and disturbing revelation in the book is that there are few contexts, behavioral strategies, institutional spaces, or ways of identifying that fully protect young inner-city African American women's physical well-being, emotional health, and empowered self-perception." * Signs *"Intellectually and emotionally evocative. Jones’s [book] is hard to put down due to her adept use of imagery and obvious passion for her work." * Feminist Formations *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 The Social World of Inner City Girls 2 "It's Not Where You Live, It's How You Live" 3 "Ain't I A Violent Person?" 4 "Love Make You Fight Crazy" Conclusion: The Other Side of the Crisis Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPresents the tragic tale of a family's destruction - the story of a mother who denies her clan its heritage.Table of ContentsChronology Introduction A Note on the Text Comedy: American Style Selected Essays Yarrow Revisited Nostalgia This Way to the Flea Market Selected Poems Oriflamme TouchT La Vie C'est la Vie Explanatory Notes

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Book SynopsisSchools under Surveillance gathers together some of the very best researchers studying surveillance and discipline in contemporary public schools. Surveillance is not simply about monitoring or tracking individuals and their dataùit is about the structuring of power relations through human, technical, or hybrid control mechanisms.Trade Review"After reading Schools Under Surveillance one is forever impacted by the gripping ethnographic moments of multiple school contexts where surveillance is embodied and resisted. This book is a must read for undergraduate and graduate students in sociology, anthropology, psychology and education interested in the issues of social control, culture, power and resistance in schools." * Contemporary Sociology *"A fascinating and sophisticated look at the structure of power relations present in the security practices of public education. Focusing on 'the other side' of school safety policies which typically do not fully consider the effects of various control mechanisms, Schools Under Surveillance represents a major addition to the literature that will undoubtedly be of great value to scholars, practitioners, and policy makers alike." -- Henry Pontell * University of California, Irvine *"A thought-provoking anthology." * H-Education *"This volume's interdisciplinarity makes the collection a provocative and stimulating reflection on cultures of control but also provides a brilliant overview of creative forms of resistance." * Surveillance and Society *"Schools under Surveillance raises a set of important and critical questions about how public schools have become one of the most surveilled of contemporary spaces. Monahan and Torres have put together a fine collection of provocative work that captures the essence of these new school accountability regimes." -- William G. Staples * author of Everyday Surveillance: Vigilance and Visibility in Postmodern Life *"After reading Schools Under Surveillance one is forever impacted by the gripping ethnographic moments of multiple school contexts where surveillance is embodied and resisted. This book is a must read for undergraduate and graduate students in sociology, anthropology, psychology and education interested in the issues of social control, culture, power and resistance in schools." * Contemporary Sociology *"A fascinating and sophisticated look at the structure of power relations present in the security practices of public education. Focusing on 'the other side' of school safety policies which typically do not fully consider the effects of various control mechanisms, Schools Under Surveillance represents a major addition to the literature that will undoubtedly be of great value to scholars, practitioners, and policy makers alike." -- Henry Pontell * University of California, Irvine *"A thought-provoking anthology." * H-Education *"This volume's interdisciplinarity makes the collection a provocative and stimulating reflection on cultures of control but also provides a brilliant overview of creative forms of resistance." * Surveillance and Society *"Schools under Surveillance raises a set of important and critical questions about how public schools have become one of the most surveilled of contemporary spaces. Monahan and Torres have put together a fine collection of provocative work that captures the essence of these new school accountability regimes." -- William G. Staples * author of Everyday Surveillance: Vigilance and Visibility in Postmodern Life *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I New Disciplinary Orders To Protect, Serve, and Mentor? Police Officers in Public Schools School Surveillance in America The Docile Body in School SpacePart II Schools as Markets Safety or Social Control? The Security Fortification of Schools in a Capitalist Society Online Surveillance in Canadian Schools "School Ownership is the Goal"Part III Security Cultures Reading, Writing and Readiness Risky Youth and the Psychology of SurveillancePart IV Accountability Regimes "Politics by Other Means" The Measure of Success Lying, Cheating and Teaching to the TestPart V Everyday Resistance Scan This Seductions of Risk, Social Control and Resistance to School Surveillance

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Book SynopsisExamines the complex, and often hidden, bodily worlds of diverse women in Argentina during a period of profound social upheaval. Set against the backdrop of a severe economic crisis and intensified social movement activism post-2001, this title illuminates how multiple forms of injustice converge in and are contested through women's bodies.Trade Review"Bodies in Crisis is one of the few books that deals with the bodily dimensions of exclusion and resistance in Latin America. Bravo to Sutton for this highly original work." -- Javier Auyero * author of Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown *"A masterful study on embodiment and modes of feminity in 21st century Argentina. It is accessible enough to be used with upper-level undergraduates even as it is detailed and complex enough to be essential for specialists in Argentina, a difficult balance which Sutton nonetheless achieves flawlessly." * Anthropological Quarterly *"Barbara Sutton provides a unique account of the social and political conjuncture in her country at the beginning of the twenty-first century that is both a brilliant attempt to theorize women's lives and struggles by bringing thhe body clearly 'back' into the picture, and a rendering of a concrete story of oppression and resistance in which women come to life as embodied subjects of history. Her well-written text brings her informants' stories richly to life." * Contemporary Sociology *"I rarely say this about academic books but I had a hard time putting this one down! Sutton has authored an exciting and engaging contribution to the literature on women and social movements." -- Michelle D. Bonner * University of Victoria *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Bodies in Crisis: An Introduction 2. Bodies Scars of Neoliberal Globalization 3. Beautiful Bodies: Femininity, Appearance, and Embodiment 4. More Than Reproductive Uteruses: Maternal Bodies and Abortion 5. Embattled Bodies: Violence against Women 6. Bodies in Protest: Poner el Cuerpo 7. Conclusion: Embodiment, Globcalities, and Resistance Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisNeurofeedback is a drug-free therapeutic technique used by licensed therapists in North America to treat a range of conditions from attention deficit and hyperactivity disorders to epilepsy, stroke, anxiety, migraine, and depression. This title describes how this procedure works.Trade ReviewSwingle is a seasoned biofeedback practitioner. His work will appeal to both professionals and the concerned public. -- Siegfried Othmer * chief scientist, The EEG Institute *Dr. Swingle's book is the first (and the best) to give the rationale for neurotherapy in a panoply of neurological and psychological disorders. He has a practical, yet sophisticated approach to neurofeedback and to adjunctive techniques which make it work faster and better. It is an outstanding guide to neurofeedback for the beginner and the experienced clinician. -- Jonathan E. Walker, M.D., Board Certified Neurologist * Medical Director, Neurotherapy Center of Dallas *This book is a readable primer or introduction, written to help readers decide whether neurotherapy might be of benefit to you or someone close to you. The book achieves that objective with clear examples and sidebars that highlight questions readers may have. [Swingle's] book provides guidance for those seeking a neurotherapy practitioner. Recommended. * CHOICE *A wonderful primer for the would-be practitioner. . . . Swingle writes nicely, very readably, and is a good teacher, and surely, a good healer. -- Roy Sugarman * Metapsychology *The growing demand for information on cognitive neurotherapy is met by Paul Swingle, whose book deserves to be widely read. -- Lynda T. Thompson * co-author, The A.D.D. Book and The Neurotherapy Book *Swingle is a seasoned biofeedback practitioner. His work will appeal to both professionals and the concerned public. -- Siegfried Othmer * chief scientist, The EEG Institute *Dr. Swingle's book is the first (and the best) to give the rationale for neurotherapy in a panoply of neurological and psychological disorders. He has a practical, yet sophisticated approach to neurofeedback and to adjunctive techniques which make it work faster and better. It is an outstanding guide to neurofeedback for the beginner and the experienced clinician. -- Jonathan E. Walker, M.D., Board Certified Neurologist * Medical Director, Neurotherapy Center of Dallas *This book is a readable primer or introduction, written to help readers decide whether neurotherapy might be of benefit to you or someone close to you. The book achieves that objective with clear examples and sidebars that highlight questions readers may have. [Swingle's] book provides guidance for those seeking a neurotherapy practitioner. Recommended. * CHOICE *A wonderful primer for the would-be practitioner. . . . Swingle writes nicely, very readably, and is a good teacher, and surely, a good healer. -- Roy Sugarman * Metapsychology *The growing demand for information on cognitive neurotherapy is met by Paul Swingle, whose book deserves to be widely read. -- Lynda T. Thompson * co-author, The A.D.D. Book and The Neurotherapy Book *

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Book SynopsisThis analyzes the politics of gender in the animal rights movement, incorporating in-depth interviews with women and participant observation of animal rights organizations, conferences, and protests to describe struggles over divisions of labour and leadership.Trade Review"Emily Gaarder offers a careful analysis of not only the preponderance of women in the animal rights movement, but also how gender has shaped social movements, more broadly." -- Leslie Irvine * author of If You Tame Me: Understanding Our Connections with Animals *"Animal advocacy has always been a social movement powered by women—but it has not always been feminist. Gaarder's work uncovers the gendered politics of animal activism, advancing current discussions in Animal Studies and Gender Studies alike." -- Greta Gaard * author of Ecological Politics: Ecofeminists and the Greens *"Based on indepth interviews with women animal rights activists, this eye-opening study provides a valuable grassroots portrait of the movement, showing how it affected the women and how women have shaped it." -- Josephine Donovan * The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics and Animals and Women *"At the heart of Gaarder’s critique is a dual commitment to feminist care theory and to the idea of interlocking oppressions wrought by the long arms of sexism and male dominance. Gaarder give us rich starting points for such crossgenerational feminist conversation." * Signs *"Gaarder undertakes the important project of historicizing the role of women in animal rights through narratives drawn from in-depth interviews and participant observation. Women and the Animal Rights Movement adds texture to the history of women in the animal advocacy movement." * Feminist Formations *"Emily Gaarder offers a careful analysis of not only the preponderance of women in the animal rights movement, but also how gender has shaped social movements, more broadly." -- Leslie Irvine * author of If You Tame Me: Understanding Our Connections with Animals *"Animal advocacy has always been a social movement powered by women—but it has not always been feminist. Gaarder's work uncovers the gendered politics of animal activism, advancing current discussions in Animal Studies and Gender Studies alike." -- Greta Gaard * author of Ecological Politics: Ecofeminists and the Greens *"Based on indepth interviews with women animal rights activists, this eye-opening study provides a valuable grassroots portrait of the movement, showing how it affected the women and how women have shaped it." -- Josephine Donovan * The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics and Animals and Women *"At the heart of Gaarder’s critique is a dual commitment to feminist care theory and to the idea of interlocking oppressions wrought by the long arms of sexism and male dominance. Gaarder give us rich starting points for such crossgenerational feminist conversation." * Signs *"Gaarder undertakes the important project of historicizing the role of women in animal rights through narratives drawn from in-depth interviews and participant observation. Women and the Animal Rights Movement adds texture to the history of women in the animal advocacy movement." * Feminist Formations *

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Book SynopsisOverviews the system in US juvenile drug courts, taking readers behind the scenes. Based on fifteen months of ethnographic fieldwork and interviews at a California court, the author explores the staff's decision-making practices in assessing the youths' cases, concentrating on the way accountability and noncompliance are assessed.Trade Review"Paik's extraordinary data illuminates the tension between therapy and punishment in juvenile drug courts. A terrific read!" -- Aaron Kupchik * author of Homeroom Security: School Discipline in an Age of Fear *"This important, timely analysis reveals how meanings are constructed and bureaucratic decisions are created within a youth drug court." -- Madelaine Adelman * Associate Professor, Justice & Social Inquiry, Arizona State University *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1. Inside the Black Box of Drug Court Justice 2. Setting and Methods 3. What Court Day Is He? Intercourt Variations 4. Building Accountability through Assessments of Noncompliance 5. Social Construction of Drug Test Results 6. It's Not Just His Probation, It's Mine: Parental Involvement in the Drug Court 7. Youth Trajectories in the Court 8. The (In)justice of Discretion: Drug Courts as Therapeutic Punishment and Therapeutic Justice Appendix A: Methods Appendix B: Concepts and Terms Appendix C: Additional Resources Notes Bibliography Index

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Table of ContentsPreface Ilan StavansThe Prophet of Race Jose VasconcelosMestizaje The Race Problem in Latin America Chronology Acknowledgments

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Trade Review"In an exemplary application of intersectional analysis to Black women’s labor history, Branch convincingly demonstrates that the 100- year legacy of racial and gender exclusion explains Black women’s poverty today." -- Bonnie Thornton Dill * author of Emerging Intersections: Race, Class and Gender in Theory Policy and Practice *“This is an important story to tell and Branch’s Opportunity Denied makes a significant contribution to the study of black women’s work.” -- Margaret L. Andersen * professor of sociology, University of Delaware *"This is a wonderful, well-written and carefully argued book. Branch does an excellent job of demonstrating how historical inequalities can take hundreds of years to remedy." * Labour/Le Travail *"Branch has done an excellent job analyzing a very complex and loaded topic. This book will surely required reading for scholars interestedin intersectionality and labor-market inequalities." * American Journal of Sociology *"Branch’s thesis is a powerful one. What does opportunity and economic progress really mean for black women as mothers, sisters, partners, and caretakers? For Branch, and the majority of black women, it indicates an occupational structure that maintains and protects the status quo and offers little promise of change." * American Studies Journal *"In an exemplary application of intersectional analysis to Black women’s labor history, Branch convincingly demonstrates that the 100- year legacy of racial and gender exclusion explains Black women’s poverty today." -- Bonnie Thornton Dill * author of Emerging Intersections: Race, Class and Gender in Theory Policy and Practice *“This is an important story to tell and Branch’s Opportunity Denied makes a significant contribution to the study of black women’s work.” -- Margaret L. Andersen * professor of sociology, University of Delaware *"This is a wonderful, well-written and carefully argued book. Branch does an excellent job of demonstrating how historical inequalities can take hundreds of years to remedy." * Labour/Le Travail *"Branch has done an excellent job analyzing a very complex and loaded topic. This book will surely required reading for scholars interestedin intersectionality and labor-market inequalities." * American Journal of Sociology *"Branch’s thesis is a powerful one. What does opportunity and economic progress really mean for black women as mothers, sisters, partners, and caretakers? For Branch, and the majority of black women, it indicates an occupational structure that maintains and protects the status quo and offers little promise of change." * American Studies Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Hierarchies of Preference at Work: The Need for an Intersectional Approach2. As Good as Any Man: Black Women in Farm Labor3. Excellent Servants: Domestic Service as Black Women's Work4. Existing on the Industrial Fringe: Black Women in the Factory5. Your Blues Ain't Nothing Like Mine: Race and Gender as Keys to Occupational Opportunity6. The Illusion of Progress: Black Women's Work in the Post-Civil Rights Era

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Trade Review“Elegantly written, Main Street and Empire is of the utmost importance to the reconceptualization of American exceptionalism within a transnational geography. This book is certain to exert a major influence on accounts of global American modernity for many years to come.” -- Donald E. Pease * founding director of the Futures of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth *"The most incisive analysis available about representational discourses of small towns U.S.A. From classic texts to corporate advertising, Poll reveals a small town imaginary shaping an age of globalization." -- Evan Watkins * author of Class Degrees *"Using broad cultural analysis, Poll investigates the centrality of the small town, as represented in literature, to the cultural imagination of the US. An impressive, multifaceted exploration of the small town as a symbol. Readers with some background in literary theory will find this book most compelling. Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Small Town as Modern Nation Form1. Sacred Islands in Modernity: The Prehistory of the Dominant Small Town2. An Unfinished Revolution: "The Revolt from the Village" Reconsidered3. Mapping the Modern Small Town: A Circular Imaginary4. A New Machine in the Small-Town Garden: Periodizing an Automodernity5. The Formation of a U.S. Fascist Aesthetics; or, Welcome to Main Street6. Staging and Archiving the Nation: Pedagogical Theater, Thornton Wilder's Our Town, and U.S. Imperialism7. "One Happy World": The Postmodern Small Town and the Small-Town Postmodern8. Global Belonging: The Small Town as the World's HomeAfterword: The Global VillageNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World examines how national health care reform will impact safety net programs that serve low-income and uninsured patients. With contributions from leading health care scholars, it is the first comprehensive assessment of the safety net following enactment of national health care reform.Trade Review"This is a really important, well-organized, and timely book by some of the best thinkers on the subject. It would be hard to gather a more knowledgeable group on this topic." -- Julie Fairman * Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing *"A comprehensive must-read for those who truly want to understand the US health care system. Hall and Rosenbaum dissect the hodge-podge of US safety net providers and complex financing in the only high-income country in the world that does not provide universal coverage to its citizens." -- Lynn A. Blewett * University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Health Policy and Management *"Given the current debate on health care policies in the US, this volume is both timely and informative. It is also very accessible to readers without a background in the health care industry. Highly recommended." * Choice *"The Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World provides food for thought for policy makers and providers striving to understand and strengthen the safety net's post-reform role." * Health Affairs *"This is a really important, well-organized, and timely book by some of the best thinkers on the subject. It would be hard to gather a more knowledgeable group on this topic." -- Julie Fairman * Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing *"A comprehensive must-read for those who truly want to understand the US health care system. Hall and Rosenbaum dissect the hodge-podge of US safety net providers and complex financing in the only high-income country in the world that does not provide universal coverage to its citizens." -- Lynn A. Blewett * University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Health Policy and Management *"Given the current debate on health care policies in the US, this volume is both timely and informative. It is also very accessible to readers without a background in the health care industry. Highly recommended." * Choice *"The Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World provides food for thought for policy makers and providers striving to understand and strengthen the safety net's post-reform role." * Health Affairs *Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of Tables1. The Health Care Safety Net in the Context of National Health Insurance ReformPart I2. Dr. StrangeRove; or, How Conservatives Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Community Health Centers3. Reinventing a Classic: Community Health Centers and the Newly Insured4. Applying Lessons from Social Psychology to Repair the Health Care Safety Net for Undocumented Immigrants5. Community Health Center and Academic Medical Partnerships to Expand and Improve Primary Care6. Examining the Structure and Sustainability of Health Care Safety-Net ServicesPart II7. Safety-Net Hospitals at the Crossroads: Whither Medicaid DSH?8. The Safety-Net Role of Public Hospitals and Academic Medical Centers: Past, Present, and Future9. The Declining Public Hospital SectorPart III10. Achieving Universal Access through Safety-Net Coverage11. Public Coverage Expansions and Private Health Insurance Crowd-Out: Implications for Safety NetsAbout the ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisAfrican American culture is often considered expressive, dramatic, and even defiant, and this matrix has dominated our understanding of black communities and texts. This explores how a different kind of expressiveness, from protests to readings to landmark texts, as represented in the idea of quiet could change common conceptions and provide a more nuanced view of black culture.Trade Review"With fluid and beautiful prose, Quashie’s book not only offers readers another way to think about African American selfhood, but also other ways to approach the very act of reading itself."— Emily Bernard, author of Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance "Quashie challenges the general assumption that African American commentary is expressed in loud voices as he studies the often-overlooked internal conflicts of 'black culture'. His intertwining of both factual and fictional situations provides a brilliant and intriguiging insight that ultimately suggests an overwhelming gentle message about African American protest and resistance. Recommended." — Choice "The Sovereignty of Quiet is a profound and excellent look at quiet and its relationship with black identity, black culture, and existentialism. With impeccable scholarship, beautiful writing, and powerful arguments, Quashie makes a fabulous contribution to the field. A success!"— Debra Walker King, author of African Americans and the Culture of PainTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Publicness, Silence, and the Sovereignty of the Interior 2. Not Double Consciousness but the Consciousness of Surrender 3. Maud Martha and the Practice of Paying Attention 4. Quiet, Vulnerability, and Nationalism 5. The Capacities of Waiting, the Expressiveness of Prayer Conclusion Acknowledgments Permissions Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhen non-Orthodox Jews become frum (religious), they encounter much more than dietary laws and Sabbath prohibitions. They find themselves in the midst of a whole new culture, involving matchmakers, homemade gefilte fish, and Yiddish-influenced grammar. This explains how these newcomers learn Orthodox language and culture through their interactions with community veterans and other newcomers.Trade Review"Benor's engaging and innovative study of language and identity surprises, delights, and educates. Becoming Frum is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand Jewish language and culture today." -- Mary Bucholtz * department of lingustics, University of California, Santa Barbara *“Becoming Frum offers a nuanced visual and sound portrait of Orthodox Jewish life, enabling us to hear the way individuals’ identities evolve.” -- Samuel Heilman * department of sociology, Queens College, CUNY *"This volume by Benor is a sociolinguistic study of non-Orthodox Jews becoming frum (religious) by returning to the beliefs and practices of Orthodox Jewish life. Nine well-researched chapters underscore the state of hesitation, decision, and action of returnees. Becoming Frum encodes dress change, eating habits, social outlook, and an impressive array of 'dos and don'ts' that will identify the newly observant. Very informative is Benor's investigative scrutiny of frumster speech (religious Yinglish). This is a strong ethnographic study of issues and lessons related to becoming religiously Orthodox observant. Recommended." * Choice *"Benor does a superb job of enhancing our understanding of the complex process of cultural change and language socialization that individuals go through as they become observant." * Jewish Link *Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsTranscription Conventions1. Introduction: Orthodox Jews and Language Socialization2. "Now You Look Like a Lady": Adventures in Enthnographic and Sociolinguistic Fieldwork3. "He Has Tzitzis Hanging Out of His Ponytail": Orthodox Cultural Practices and How BTs Adapt Them4. "This Is Not What to Record": Yiddish, Hebrew, and the English of Orthodox Jews5. "Torah or Toyrah": Language and the Modern Orthodox Black Hat Continuum6. "Just Keepin' It Real, Mamish": Why Ba'alei Teshuva Adopt (or Avoid) Orthodox Language7. "I Finally Got the Lingo": Progression in Newcomers' Acquisition of Orthodox Language8. "A Ba'al Teshuva Freak": Distinguishing Practies of Newly Orthodox Jews9. Matisyahu and My Fair Lady: Reflections on Adult Language SocializationNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisStudies the lives of women who use methamphetamine (ice, speed, crystal, shards) and examines the effects of its use on their families. In-depth interviews of women in the suburban counties of Atlanta, the largest metropolitan area in the southeastern U.S, illustrate the divergent pathways taken and the details of their initiation into meth and the turning points into problematic use of the drug.Trade Review"The insights in Miriam Boeri’s compelling page-turner make an eloquent case for implementing social policy that cares for its most vulnerable mothers and children." -- Annette Bairan * Professor Emeritus of Nursing, Kennesaw State University *"In Women on Ice, Boeri sets out to study an almost invisible group of women and provides a well-written but gut-wrenching portrait of the America produced by suburbanization, patriarchy, and class division." -- David Broad * North Georgia College and State University *"In this unique book, Boeri studies hidden women living in and near suburbs, a group that to date has never been studied as a subgroup of drug users. The many gripping in-depth interviews are captivating and unforgettable, making the book difficult to put down. A very highly recommended must read for anyone looking to hear the clear voices of women who are ensnared by methamphetamine addiction. Essential." * Choice *"This is an extremely difficult book to read—not because it is poorly written, but precisely because it is written so well. The stories of these women are gut-wrenching. What emerges from this candid, engaged, and detailed study is a picture of how a marginalized population is produced by the convergence of [suburbanization, patriarchy, and social class division]." * International Social Science Review *Table of ContentsList of Figures and TablesPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Methamphetamine: The Perfect Drug for Suburban Women2. Ethnographic Research: Exploring Methamphetamine Use in the Suburbs3. The Gendered Drug Career: Initiation and Progression in Methamphetamine Use4. Gendered Lives: Combining Work and Family with Drug-Using Roles5. Gendered Risks: Health and Infectious Diseases6. Gendered Risks: Violence and Crime7. The Revolving Door: Treatment, Recovery, and Relapse8. Policy ImplicationsAppendix AAppendix BReferencesIndex

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