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Trade Review"This is a great book, valuable for the light it sheds on a little known period in American literary history as well as for the way it rereads these texts. For students of narratives, official and otherwise, it is a compelling reminder of how stories function as the scaffolding on which we build our understandings." * Journal of American Culture *"Joseph Keith compellingly demonstrates how a select group of authors fashioneda radical cosmopolitan literary tradition at the subaltern limits of U.S. citizenship that subverted racial logics, reimagined the state, and addressed the question of 'how shall the human race be organized?'" -- Donald Pease * author of The New American Exceptionalism *"A highly original work that is grounded in compelling literary and historical analysis. Unbecoming Americans illuminates Cold War America and U.S. critical race theory with insights drawn from subaltern historiography and postcolonial theory." -- David Lloyd * author of Irish Culture and Colonial Modernity, 1800-2000 *"A compelling book. Unbecoming Americans is built on the hope that reading, language, and form have the subversivepotential to promote new ideas." * Modern Language Studies *"Unbecoming Americans provides a sophisticated synthesis of disparate texts, highlights the significance of discursive critique during the early years of the Cold War, and encourages scholars to investigate other neglected works in search of both alternative perspectives of social discourse and alternative conceptions of the social itself." * Reviews in Cultural Theory *"Keith has engaged an interesting topic that literary and cultural studies scholars will savor." * Journal of American History *"Unbecoming Americans is a valuable addition to the study of mid-century and Cold War American culture, as it reveals to us in new ways how political history and literary form intersect at the dawn of the American century." * Literature and History *"Its overall value lies in its nuanced attention to how an outsider status can function as a corrective to US exceptionalism and engender a mode of resistance. [Unbecoming Americans] is not only timely—it is academically significant and politically germane." * MELUS *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Shadow Narratives of the TransnationalPart I. Novel Forms: Writing at the Limits of Citizenship1. Neither Citizen nor Alien: Rewriting the Immigrant Bildungsroman across the Borders of Empire in Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart2. The Epistemology of Unbelonging: Richard Wright's The Outsider and the Politics of SecrecyPart II. Peripheral Forms: Literatures of Alienage, Incarceration, and Deportation3. Richard Wright's Cosmopolitan Exile: Race, Decolonization, and the Dialogics of Modernity4. The Undesirable Alien and the Politics of Form: Telling Untold Tales in C. L. R. James's Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways5. Talking Back to the State: Claudia Jones's Radical Forms of AlienageConclusion: An Empire of AlienageNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisDocuments the transition to adulthood for a particularly vulnerable population: young inner-city men of colour who have, by the age of eighteen, already been imprisoned. How do such precariously situated youth become adult men? What are the sources of change in their lives? Falling Back is based on over three years of ethnographic research with black and Latino males.Trade Review"Exceptionally reflexive, ethnographically rich, and theoretically compelling." -- Victor M. Rios * City & Community *"With Falling Back, Fader offers a subtle blending of structural analysis and cultural attentiveness, highlighting the performative and transactional dimensions of both reform school and street life. This is an elegant and important book, one that will significantly shape future scholarship on youth, delinquency, race, and ethnicity." -- Jeff Ferrell * author of Crimes of Style: Urban Graffiti and the Politics of Criminality *"This important, powerful story of young black men demonstrates that even the best intentions cannot help overcome the realities of segregation, racism, and poverty in a society with too few jobs." -- Stephen Richards * University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh *"Falling Back explores the role of incarceration in young men's transition to adulthood by following 15 black and Latino young men over three years as they prepare for and adjust to their release from a reform school." * American Journal of Sociology *"An insightful critique of a Pennsylvania reform school for delinquents and the difficulties encountered when these young men re-enter the community. Fader’s book has an important story to tell because it should be acknowledged that someone who lives and works in these white spaces can often play a larger role initiating a discussion for policy change and suggestions for improvement. Fader’s book provides an important addition to the literature." * Contemporary Sociology *2013 Choice Outstanding Mention "This exemplary book addresses the "complex and manifold character" of urban delinquent behavior....A significant contribution to understanding delinquency, demanding attention by decision makers. Excellent footnotes and bibliography. Essential. All levels/Iibraries." * Choice *"With Falling Back, Fader offers a subtle blending of structural analysis and cultural attentiveness, highlighting the performative and transactional dimensions of both reform school and street life. This is an elegant and important book, one that will significantly shape future scholarship on youth, delinquency, race, and ethnicity." -- Jeff Ferrell * author of Crimes of Style: Urban Graffiti and the Politics of Criminality *"Exceptionally reflexive, ethnographically rich, and theoretically compelling." -- Victor M. Rios * City & Community *"This important, powerful story of young black men demonstrates that even the best intentions cannot help overcome the realities of segregation, racism, and poverty in a society with too few jobs." -- Stephen Richards * University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh *"Falling Back explores the role of incarceration in young men's transition to adulthood by following 15 black and Latino young men over three years as they prepare for and adjust to their release from a reform school." * American Journal of Sociology *"An insightful critique of a Pennsylvania reform school for delinquents and the difficulties encountered when these young men re-enter the community. Fader’s book has an important story to tell because it should be acknowledged that someone who lives and works in these white spaces can often play a larger role initiating a discussion for policy change and suggestions for improvement. Fader’s book provides an important addition to the literature." * Contemporary Sociology *2013 Choice Outstanding Mention "This exemplary book addresses the "complex and manifold character" of urban delinquent behavior....A significant contribution to understanding delinquency, demanding attention by decision makers. Excellent footnotes and bibliography. Essential. All levels/Iibraries." * Choice *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. No Love for the Brothers: Youth Incarceration and Reentry in Philadelphia2. "Because That Is the Way You Are": Predictions of Failure and Cultural Assaults Inside Mountain Ridge Academy3. "You Can Take Me Outta the 'Hood, But You Can't Take the 'Hood Outta Me": The Experience of "Reform" at Mountain Ridge Academy4. "Nothing's Changed but Me": Reintegration Plans Meet the Inner City5. "I'm Not a Mama's Boy, I'm My Own Boy": Employment, Hustling, and Adulthood6. "I Just Wanna See a Part of Me That's Never Been Bad": Family, Fatherhood, and Further Offending7. "I'm Finally Becoming the Person I Always Wanted to Be": Masculine Identity, Social Support, and Falling Back8. "I Got Some Unfinished Business": Fictions of Success at Mountain Ridge Academy's Graduation CeremonyConclusionNotes Index

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Book SynopsisBrings together a group of professionals and activists whose lives have been dedicated to health internationalism. By presenting a combination of historical accounts and first-hand reflections, this collection of essays draws attention to the longstanding international activities of the American health left and the lessons they brought home.Trade Review"Everybody who cares about health and social justice, internationally and in the U.S., should read this book!" -- Amy Goodman * host of Democracy Now! and 2008 winner Right Livelihood Award *"This wonderful book offers a deeply reflective look at the motivations, ideology, and outcomes of this critical work, telling the stories of true heroes and heroines of American medicine and public health. It is must reading for anyone contemplating international health activism today." -- Dr. David Himmelstein and Dr. Steffie Woolhandler * cofounders, Physicians for a National Health Program *"Comrades in Health is a pioneering effort, a major addition to the study of global public health, and a new perspective on U.S. domestic health policy." -- Gerald M. Oppenheimer * coauthor of Shattered Dreams? An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic *"Birn and Brown describe the history of international efforts to improve the health of vulnerable populations as an inherently sociopolitical, leftist, and often communist, endeavor. [The editors] create a coherent picture of the development of international health efforts...and will be an interesting read for more advanced students of public health and political science. Recommended." * Choice *"The most haunting lesson in this fine book stems from its call for an ethic of social consciousness in health care work. In this view, the struggle of justice for all is integral to the improvement of individual health outcomes, and it is as fraught with uncertainty and unintended consequences as is the treatment of individual illness. Birn, Brown and their colleagues update an old social medicine lesson that makes this struggle, with its risks, penuries and triumphs, a core professional duty instead of merely a morally praiseworthy individual pursuit." * Global Public Health *"a captivating journey through the political, economic, and social turmoil that embroiled global health care during the 20th century." * Nursing History Review *"Perhaps the most interesting lesson in Comrades in Health is in showing how the very term socialised medicine came to be such an imagined existential threat to the US body politic." * Lancet *"Comrades in Health is important reading for those interested in the global debate surrounding the post-2015 global developmental agenda and future reform of the UN-centric humanitarian system required to address 21st-century human security and social justice." * Canadian Bulletin of Medical History *Table of ContentsList of FiguresForeword AcknowledgmentsPart I1. Introduction: Health Comrades, Abroad and at Home2. The Making of Health InternationalistsPart II3. The Perils of Unconstrained Enthusiasm4. American Medical Support for Spanish Democracy, 1936–19385. Medical McCarthyism and the Punishment of Internationalist Physicians in the United StatesPart III6. Contesting Racism and Innovating Community Health Centers7. Barefoot in China, the Bronx, and Beyond8. Medical Internationalism and the “Last Epidemic”Part IV9. Social Medicine, at Home and Abroad10. Find the Best People and Support Them11. Cooperantes, Solidarity, and the Fight for Health in Mozambique12. From Harlem to HararePart V13. Brigadistas and Revolutionaries14. Health and Human Rights in Latin America, and Beyond15. History, Theory, and Praxis in Pacific Islands Health16. Doctors for Global Health17. Doctors Across BlockadesPart VI18. Across the GenerationsNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisMaking the American Mouth is at once a history of United States dentistry and a study of a billion-dollar industry. Alyssa Picard chronicles the forces that limited Americans' access to dental care in the early twentieth century and the ways dentists worked to expand that access--and improve the public image of their profession.Trade Review"This fascinating book is the first to explore the social and cultural history of dentistry in the United States. Picard skillfully illuminates the relationship between the emerging dental profession and contemporary developments in child health, American consumer culture, and gender and race relations in the United States. She draws on an impressive range of primary sources to illustrate the historical roots of Americans' 'dental obsession.' This important book has significant implications not only for historians but also for those interested in contemporary dental health policy. " -- Heather Munro Prescott * Central Connecticut State University *"In Making the American Mouth, Alyssa Picard provides us with a much needed and long overdue illumination and analysis of the important role that dentistry has played in twentieth-century American health care and public health." -- Richard Meckel * Brown University *"Picard describes how American dentists were involved in various social movements during the 20th century. Their involvement encompassed public health starting in the early part of the century, efforts to fluoridate the nation's water supplies to prevent tooth decay, social movements for racial and gender equity at mid-century, and the promotion of cosmetic services at the end of the century (a movement that continues today). The book is well written and well researched, interesting, and highly informative. It helps explain the obsession in the US with having perfect teeth and a gleaming white smile. Anyone who wore braces as a child or adult will find it fascinating. Recommended." * Choice *"Good teeth signal social class and intellectual achievement in America, as Alyssa Picardknows well. In Making the American Mouth, she provides an engaging history of the evolution of American dentistry, including the profession's influence over our social norms and health policy. It's a book that anyone keen to understand and improve our current national state of oral health ought to read." * Health Affairs *"An intriguing social history of American dentistry." * American Historical Review *"Picard has provided a well-written, accessible, insightful study of dentistry in the United States that should be of interest to a wide variety of readers with an interest in the history of public health, health care, and dentistry." * Social History of Medicine *"This fascinating book is the first to explore the social and cultural history of dentistry in the United States. Picard skillfully illuminates the relationship between the emerging dental profession and contemporary developments in child health, American consumer culture, and gender and race relations in the United States. She draws on an impressive range of primary sources to illustrate the historical roots of Americans' 'dental obsession.' This important book has significant implications not only for historians but also for those interested in contemporary dental health policy. " -- Heather Munro Prescott * Central Connecticut State University *"In Making the American Mouth, Alyssa Picard provides us with a much needed and long overdue illumination and analysis of the important role that dentistry has played in twentieth-century American health care and public health." -- Richard Meckel * Brown University *"Picard describes how American dentists were involved in various social movements during the 20th century. Their involvement encompassed public health starting in the early part of the century, efforts to fluoridate the nation's water supplies to prevent tooth decay, social movements for racial and gender equity at mid-century, and the promotion of cosmetic services at the end of the century (a movement that continues today). The book is well written and well researched, interesting, and highly informative. It helps explain the obsession in the US with having perfect teeth and a gleaming white smile. Anyone who wore braces as a child or adult will find it fascinating. Recommended." * Choice *"Good teeth signal social class and intellectual achievement in America, as Alyssa Picardknows well. In Making the American Mouth, she provides an engaging history of the evolution of American dentistry, including the profession's influence over our social norms and health policy. It's a book that anyone keen to understand and improve our current national state of oral health ought to read." * Health Affairs *"An intriguing social history of American dentistry." * American Historical Review *"Picard has provided a well-written, accessible, insightful study of dentistry in the United States that should be of interest to a wide variety of readers with an interest in the history of public health, health care, and dentistry." * Social History of Medicine *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction American Dental Hygiene Diet and the Dental Critique of American Life "Like a Sugar-Coated Pill" "This National Stupidity" Behind the Fluorine Curtain The "Satisfaction of Dentistry" and the End of Public Health The Look of the American Mouth Epilogue Notes Index

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Trade Review“Lewis provides a rigorous examination of hate crimes as a cultural product. The first analysis of its kind, the author has eloquently captured hate crimes as a seemingly impossible marriage of an oppressive criminal justice system and an aspiring civil rights movement. A deeply valuable contribution.” -- Michael J. Coyle * California State University, Chico *"Beautifully written and powerfully argued, Tough on Hate? cracks a counterintuitive puzzle: how mainstream understandings and denunciations of hate crime magnify rather than mitigate its social harm. A marvelous and important book." -- Thomas A. Guglielmo * George Washington University *"Lewis skillfully analyzes the rhetoric around hate crimes, examining news coverage, political hearings, legislation, and documentary films, and deploying theories from diverse disciplines in a way that will engage American Studies scholars." * American Studies *"Lewis’ book is relevant, thoughtful and very well argued. Tough on Hate is a highly valuable work that offers a perspective that compliments, advances, and challenges existing scholarship. Its greatest contribution is its critical central point: that combatting contemporary bigotry must be reassessed and expanded to include not only sensationalized violence, but other pervasive yet often ignored harms, that prejudice continues to inflict in our society." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"Lewis’s presentation of the cultural politics of hate crimes is not only thought provoking and courageous but also has a lasting and valuable contribution. The coverage of smaller nuances within the topic, richness of the data, depth and objectivity of the analyses, and eloquence of the language make this book a must read for anyone who has the slightest interest in hate crime and is not afraid of having his or her perceived notion being challenged." * Criminal Justice Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction: The Cultural Politics of Hate Crimes2. The Invention of Hate Crimes3. The Nation and Post-Difference Politics4. Cultural Criminalization and the Figure of the Hater5. Hate Crime Victimhood and Post-Difference CitizenshipEpilogue: Challenging Hate Crimes on a Cultural FrontAppendix: Methods and SourcesNotesIndex

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Trade Review"Borderland Saints offers compelling portraits of popular and secular saints who exist unapologetically outside the realm of official church teaching." * Latino Studies *"Addressing religion, spirituality and sanctity in Chicana/o culture, Borderlands Saints makesa significant contribution to a burgeoning area that demands critical attention." -- Carl Gutiérrez-Jones * University of California, Santa Barbara *"Through Martín’s incisive critical textual analysis we come to see the borderlands—and the exchange there between devotees and saints—as an important site for the performance of secular sanctity. Borderlands Saints is an invaluable contribution to border studies." -- Laura G. Gutiérrez * author of Performing Mexicanidad: Vendidas y Cabareteras on the Transnational Stage *Table of Contents AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Secular Sanctity of Borderlands Saints1. Saint of Contradictions: Teresa Urrea, La Santa de Cabora2. The Remains of Pancho Villa3. Canonizing César Chávez4. "Todos Somos Santos": Subcomandante Marcos and the EZLN5. Illegal Marginalizations: La Santísima MuerteConclusion: Narrative DevotionNotes Works CitedIndex

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Trade Review"Historians of children’s health and school hygiene have eagerly awaited this work, and Classrooms and Clinics does not disappoint. Meckel covers a tremendous range of topics, but the narrative is clearly focused and the argument carefully developed. Classrooms and Clinics is sure to stimulate a wealth of new scholarship on the history of schoolchildren’s health." * Social History of Medicine *"Meckel demonstrates that government and medical authorities contested the claim that because the state mandates education, it bears a concomitant responsibility for student health. This is an excellent history into herto uncharted territory, accompanied by supurb notes and index. Highly recommended." * Choice *"Beautifully written and impressively researched, Classrooms and Clinics is a major contribution to the history of education, medicine, and public health policy. It deserves a wide readership as Americans continue to debate public versus private responsibility for health care and the welfare of urban school children." * American Historical Review *"This detailed, careful, and extensively researched analysis of late nineteenth century and early twentieth century debates related to school hygiene, and the expansion and contraction of school health services that followed them, provides a helpful and arguably essential framework for current debates about the role of the urban schools in the improvement of children’s health (p. 206). Hopefully, the book will find an audience not only within but also beyond academia, among today's child advocates, policy makers, and educators." * History of Education Quarterly *"Classroom and Clinics reveals how the subtleties of disagreement over issues of individual versus governmental responsibility and the dividing line between preventive and therapeutic services resulted in the abandonment of a movement to put clinics in schools. Meckel’s meticulous research and sophisticated analysis challenges scholars of this period to rethink their characterizations of the contours of reform." * Journal of American History *"A valuable contribution to the histories of American education, childhood and youth, public health, and the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. By examining the discourse of urban school hygiene, Meckel demonstrates the enduring nature of tensions between the state's obligations to schoolchildren and the rights and responsibilities of parents." * Journal of the History of Children and Youth *"This book adds an important dimension to our understanding of children’s health and the contested role of the state in providing health services to needy populations. Meckel illuminates the sometimes promising, sometimes disappointing evolution of school health in America during a critical period of growing public institutions, philanthropies, and private entities." -- Alexandra Minna Stern * University of Michigan *"This is the first comprehensive history of public school hygiene in the United States. Meckel skillfully traces the origins and evolution of school health programs and their troubled legacy today." -- Heather Munro Prescott * author of Student Bodies: The Influence of Student Health in American Society and Medicine *Table of Contents AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Going to School, Getting Sick: Mass Education and the Construction of School Diseases2. Incubators of Epidemics: Contagious Disease and the Origins of Medical Inspection3. Defective Children, Defective Students: Medicalizing Academic Failure4. Building Up the Malnourished, the Weakly, and the Vulnerable: Penny Lunches and Open-Air Schools5. From Coercion to Clinics: The Contested Quest to Ensure Treatment6. The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Expansion and Reorientation in the Postwar EraEpilogue: Contraction, Renovation, and RevivalNotesIndex

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Trade Review"Tainted Earth stands out as a compelling demonstration of just how central lead and copper smelters were to the making of our modern science and regulation of environmental pollution in the United States. The research and writing on display are smoothly woven and in places, inspired." -- Christopher Sellers * Stony Brook University *"Sullivan’s comparative study is unique; she sets many of the regulatory problems of smelters into a firm analytical framework that will be useful for many years." -- Christian Warren * Brooklyn College *"Tainted Earth provides a detailed history, with a technical focus, of the environmental impact of three metal smelters located in Tacoma, Washington, El Paso, Texas, and Kellogg, Idaho. This is a well-documented story, providing a warning to other nations where the smelters now glow." * Choice *"Sullivan weaves compelling stories of communities where children's health was irreversibly damaged by heavy metal pollution following smelting industry efforts to downplay and obfuscate the risks of pollution, and efforts to stave off environmental regulation. Well-written and engaging...Tainted Earth will appeal to students oand professionals across a variety of fields, including public health, history of science, toxicology, geography, and environmental policy." * Global Public Health *"Marianne Sullivan's Tainted Earth makes a major contribution to the complex history of smelter smoke." * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *Table of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Tacoma Smelter2. City of Destiny, City of Smoke3. Uncovering a Crisis in El Paso4. Bunker Hill 5. Tacoma: A Disaster Is Discovered6. A Carcinogenic Threat 7. Sacrificed Conclusion Notes Index

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Trade Review"King...began her ethnographic research...under difficult and often dangerous conditions resulting from the brutal, even genocidal, war undertaken by Saddam Hussein to suppress a Kurdish nationalist movement. Her book focuses on kinship organization and household management, with primary emphasis on how patrilineal or male descent works to maintain Kurdish identity and social cohesion. Recommended." * Choice *"Kurdistan on the Global Stage is an important contribution to ethnographic studies of Iraqi Kurdistan and cannot be missed by anthropologists and others with an interest in the global connections of Kurdistand and the larger Middle East." * American Anthropologist *"King analyses how Kurdish symbols and social relations are sustained, reformulated, and questioned in the age of globalization. King's book is a valuable addition to the anthropology of Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan. Its attention to diachronic changes in Kurdish society makes it particularly useful." * Middle East Journal *"This is a very readable, insightful anthropological study that will be welcomed by all those interested in the Kurds and how Kurdish political actors affect regional and even international politics. I highly recommend King's worthy contribution to the literature and encourage her to continue her valuable work." * Kurdish Studies *"Anthropologist Diane King guides the reader through Kurdistan using a radically different lens in an effort to understand social and political change in an unrecognized state. [This] study offers valuable insights into Iraqi Kurdistan's past and present." * Bustan: The Middle East Book Review *"A rare account by an anthropologist of uncommon courage, this unique analysis of the rapid transformation of Iraqi Kurdistan is a must-read for students and scholars of the Middle East." -- Marcia C. Inhorn * Yale University *Table of Contents List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration, Pronunciation, and Proper Nouns1. Kurdistan Glocal2. Fieldwork in a Danger Zone3. A Man on the Land: Lineages, Identity, and Place4. Gendered Challenges: Women Navigating Patriliny5. Politicking 6. Refuge Seeking, Patriliny, and the Global7. Kurdistan in the WorldNotesGlossary and AcronymsReferencesIndex

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Trade Review"Michael Molnar offers the first revolution in Star of Bethlehem research since Kepler's days. Molnar's big advance comes by considering what the Magi themselves would have deemed important. . . . Don't buy any other book on the Star of Bethlehem, because the old astronomical views are guaranteed to be irrelevant. Second, the new astrological paradigm forces the realization that astrology was an important force in historical times so that the disregard of the topic by most historians is blatant chauvinism. Third, the existence of a stunning astrological horoscope for April 17, 6 B.C, announcing the birth of a great king in Judea will now force scholars of religion to reconcile the event with their own beliefs." * Sky & Telescope *"Mr. Molnar takes a different tack, arguing that [the star of Bethlehem] was not an astronomical event that guided the wise men on their journey, but an astrological one. He may not have the best theory, but he certainly has the best story." * Economist *"And because sophisticated computer calculations reveal that such an eclipse did occur on April seventeenth in the year 6 B.C., Molnar fixes this as the celestial event that signaled the Christ child's birth. . . . The uncanny fit of all the ancient and modern pieces of this puzzle makes for a highly persuasive argument." * Booklist *"[The Star] was an alignment of stars and planets that ancient astrologers would have recognized as significant. No portent would have excited greater expectations of a divine birth in Judea . . . than a lunar eclipse of Jupiter (the 'kings' planet) in the constellation Aries. . . . [A] fresh theory providing new scientific support for the biblical story, making the 'star of wonder' a little less of a mystery." * U.S. News and World Report *"The explanation that appears in Molnar's new book . . . unfolds like a detective story: a clever scientific analysis woven into a cultural and historical fabric. . . . Molnar reports that the Magi considered the planet Jupiter to be the royal star. He argues that their astrological readings predicted that on April 17, 6 B.C. a remarkable alignment would occur when the sun passed into the northern sky, entering the constellation of Aries. Jupiter, Saturn, the sun and moon would appear briefly in close alignmentùan event that occurs no more than once a lifetime." * Nation *"This book has stunning new insight and approach, which finally gives a confident answer to a question that has fascinated all Christians through the ages." -- Bradley E. Schaefer * Yale University *"Molnar's The Star of Bethlehem is a fascinating contribution to the immense literature that attempts to come to terms with the Christmas Star represented in Matthew's Gospel. In my opinion, this book is the most original and important contribution of the entire twentieth century on the thorny question of how events recorded there should be interpreted." -- Owen Gingerich * Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics *"In support of an original interpretation of the Star, Molnar has assembled an impressive range of astrological and numismatic data, much of which will be new even to expert readers." -- Virginia Trimble * author of Visit to a Small Universe *"Michael Molnar offers the first revolution in Star of Bethlehem research since Kepler's days. Molnar's big advance comes by considering what the Magi themselves would have deemed important. . . . Don't buy any other book on the Star of Bethlehem, because the old astronomical views are guaranteed to be irrelevant. Second, the new astrological paradigm forces the realization that astrology was an important force in historical times so that the disregard of the topic by most historians is blatant chauvinism. Third, the existence of a stunning astrological horoscope for April 17, 6 B.C, announcing the birth of a great king in Judea will now force scholars of religion to reconcile the event with their own beliefs." * Sky & Telescope *"Mr. Molnar takes a different tack, arguing that [the star of Bethlehem] was not an astronomical event that guided the wise men on their journey, but an astrological one. He may not have the best theory, but he certainly has the best story." * Economist *"And because sophisticated computer calculations reveal that such an eclipse did occur on April seventeenth in the year 6 B.C., Molnar fixes this as the celestial event that signaled the Christ child's birth. . . . The uncanny fit of all the ancient and modern pieces of this puzzle makes for a highly persuasive argument." * Booklist *"[The Star] was an alignment of stars and planets that ancient astrologers would have recognized as significant. No portent would have excited greater expectations of a divine birth in Judea . . . than a lunar eclipse of Jupiter (the 'kings' planet) in the constellation Aries. . . . [A] fresh theory providing new scientific support for the biblical story, making the 'star of wonder' a little less of a mystery." * U.S. News and World Report *"The explanation that appears in Molnar's new book . . . unfolds like a detective story: a clever scientific analysis woven into a cultural and historical fabric. . . . Molnar reports that the Magi considered the planet Jupiter to be the royal star. He argues that their astrological readings predicted that on April 17, 6 B.C. a remarkable alignment would occur when the sun passed into the northern sky, entering the constellation of Aries. Jupiter, Saturn, the sun and moon would appear briefly in close alignmentùan event that occurs no more than once a lifetime." * Nation *"This book has stunning new insight and approach, which finally gives a confident answer to a question that has fascinated all Christians through the ages." -- Bradley E. Schaefer * Yale University *"Molnar's The Star of Bethlehem is a fascinating contribution to the immense literature that attempts to come to terms with the Christmas Star represented in Matthew's Gospel. In my opinion, this book is the most original and important contribution of the entire twentieth century on the thorny question of how events recorded there should be interpreted." -- Owen Gingerich * Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics *"In support of an original interpretation of the Star, Molnar has assembled an impressive range of astrological and numismatic data, much of which will be new even to expert readers." -- Virginia Trimble * author of Visit to a Small Universe *"This small book, written for general readers, is that rarest of works—a scholarly treatise that proposes an entirely new solution to an ancient enigma; namely, the star of Bethlehem. . . . Welcomed by many astronomers and historians of science or religion and their students, the book is well researched, fully referenced, and supplemented with a wealth of explanatory notes, appendices, and glossaries. For interested scholars it will serve as a compact guide to a new line of investigation. For those interested in finding historical bases for as much of the story as possible, Molnar has demonstrated the futility of trying to identity the star with a visible astronomical phenomenon and he has singled out a new date for the birth of Christ. His supporting evidence is so persuasive that, henceforth, it will change the terms of debate on this issue. This is the first new and promising line of inquiry initiated in recent times." * Meteoritics & Planetary Science *"In addition to the enthralling explanation of the Christmas Star episode, the author addresses another of history's great mysteriesùthe actual birth date of Jesus Christ. Postulating the circumstances which would have brought the Magi to Judaea, Molnar defines the very day on which Christ likely was born. Although admittedly speculative, the argument is very powerful." * Celator *"This astronomer and classicist at Rutgers, beginning from the astrological symnbolism of a star in the constellation Aries (the ram) on coins minted AD 6 at Antioch, Syria, offers evidence supporting the historical basis of the messianic star mentioned in Mt 2:1û16. . . . This very readable and clearly organized book is very detailed in its computer-assisted astronomical history and in its expertise in ancient astrology/astronomy." * Southwestern Journal of Theology *"Molnar combines his training in astronomy with his knowledge of astrology and concludes that the star of Bethlehem could have appeared only when Jupiter was 'in the East.' Modern-day computer wizardry enabled him to chart an eclipse of Jupiter in Aries on April 17, 6 B.C., a day when Jupiter was, in fact, in the east, thus confirming the story. . . This book deserves the meticulous attention of pastors and biblical scholars as well as of astronomy buffs. It confirms the accuracy of the Gospel accounts." * Provident Book Finder *"Molnar's theory incorporates easily verified astronomical events. The Star of Bethlehem includes excellent notes, diagrams and photos as well as a very clear glossary of terms and an extensive bibliography." * Madison Eagle *"In [Molnar's] view, it is ancient astrology, rather than astronomy that holds the key to what led the Magi to their destination. . . . Now when people look at the star on top of a Christmas tree they can be assured there was a Star of Bethlehem." * Louisiana News-Star *"This very readable and clearly organized book is very detailed and its computer-assisted astronomical history and in its expertise in ancient astrology/astronomy." * Southwestern Journal of Theology *"Written with a simple and efficacious style, as a sort of scientific-spiritual 'thriller,' the book includes some notes and appendixes also for researchers. Nevertheless, it is addressed to even a wider readers' target." * Bliss Internet Magazine *"Most convincingly, Molnar locates in ancient sources the signs that astrologers of the day would have interpreted as pointing to the kind of birth that would send wise men on a pilgrimage. . . . Is Molnar's case airtight? No. Is it convincing? Yes." * Lingua Franca *"Molnar . . . wrote an interesting, easy to read book. He backs up his investigations by referring to literature in astronomy, astrology, theology, and numismatics. The ancient Chaledan astrologers' wording of their horoscopes is critical for his conclusion. Using those sources and astronomy, he describes the skies at the beginning of our calendar. He draws the conclusion that our Lord was born April 17 in the year six B.C." * Perspective on Science and Christian Faith *"Michael Molnar writes with great style, clarity and originality. . . . If you are one of the many people interested in the Star then you should buy [this] book!" * Science & Christian Belief *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction A Mysterious Star The Dawning of the First Millennium Secrets of Regal Horoscopes Astrological Portents for Judea Epilogue Appendices A Defining the Position of the Zodiac B Astrological Influences C The System of Mundane Houses and Cardinal Points D Regal Horoscopes Chronology Notes Glossaries Astrological and Astronomical Terms Historical and Numismatic Terms Significant Historical Persons Bibliography Index

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Trade Review"This is an engaging, well researched, and thoughtfully organized book on an important topic—the transnational civic engagement of Mexican migrants and their organizations on both sides of the US-Mexico border." -- Michael Peter Smith * co-author of Citizenship Across Borders *"Xóchitl Bada’s richly nuanced study provides compelling evidence that migrant hometown associations have become an integral part of Chicago’s civic landscape, while simultaneously gaining standing as path-breaking advocates for accountable governance at local, state and national levels in Mexico." -- Jonathan Fox * author of Accountability Politics: Power and Voice in Rural Mexico *Table of ContentsSeries Page Title Page Copyright Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1. Migrant Generosity and Transnational Civic Engagement 2. The Transformation of Mexican Migrant Organizations 3. Genealogies of Hometown Associations 4. Migrant Clubs to the Rescue 5. Participatory Planning across Borders 6. Expanding Agendas and Building Transnational Coalitions Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisDriven by a passion for music, for excellence, and for fame, violin soloists are immersed from early childhood in high-pressure competitions, regular public appearances, and arduous daily practice. An in-depth study of nearly one hundred such children, Producing Excellence illuminates the process these young violinists undergo to become elite international soloists.Trade Review"To all those kids out there dreaming of reaching the highest levels of classical music fame, this book whispers be careful what you wish for." 5-star review * Foreword Reviews *"Employing ethnographic evidence that is breathtaking in scope, professor Wagner combines illuminating analysis with compelling and often poignant narrative. Soundly organized and lucidly written, Producing Excellence presents an intimate and insightful view of a fascinating art world." -- Paul DiMaggio * A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University *"Wagner's Producing Excellence is a first-rate piece of ethnographic observation, a solid work of sociological analysis, and a fascinating story of the complex and at times cruel world that produces the violin virtuosi we read about in the newspapers." -- Howard Becker * author of Art Worlds *"The narrative of the child prodigy bewitches parents, and not just when it comes to music. We’re taught that the cost of genius is instability or underdevelopment in other areas, but we rarely hear about the people who finish third through tenth. Also-rans make up the vast majority in every race, but in any field of elite competition the losers have to subject themselves to the same work, same costs, same instability, same underdevelopment, but without the glory or affirmation that come with making it. We like to believe that the winners were that much better or tried that much harder, but the difference between the two is often an arbitrary twist of fate or a powerful person’s whim." Read the full article here (http://bit.ly/1NroPNt) * New Republic *"As several sociologists writing about music worlds, Wagner is herself deeply embedded within the field studied … She reports with rare intellectual honest the methodological pros and cons deriving from this 'embedded researcher' condition … Hopefully her book will help in proving artistic careers as a significant research field not only for sociologists of arts and culture, but also of education and work." * Sociologica *"A keen-eyed participant-observer study of the career training of violin virtuosi." * London Review of Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Prelude—Scandal on the Stage 1 A Short History of the Virtuoso Profession 2 Before Entering Soloist Class: Early Socialization of Soloist Students 3 Triad Collaboration: First Stage of Soloist Education 4 Crisis and Career Coupling: The Second Stage of Soloist Education 5 Entrance into Adult Career: The Third Stage of Soloist Education 6 The Soloist Class Students’ Careers Conclusion: Career Coupling and Nothing New in the Soloist World Appendix Difficulties and Limits: Some Methodological Aspects about Attachment and Distance within Ethnographic Work Notes References Index

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Trade Review"Insightful, beautifully written, and empirically sophisticated, this book will be cited by many others, as it establishes the core of what it means to turn to religious conversion, to become an Orisha 'priest'… a joy to read." -- Salvador Vidal-Ortiz * associate professor, sociology, American University *"[Carr] offers both an insider and outsider perspective (initiate and researcher) that allows us to be privy to the trials and triumphs, the struggles and joys of committing to a faith largely misunderstood and often disparaged by the American mainstream." * Times Higher Education *“Carr has executed a methodologically innovative study of religious identification and self-creation in American Lukumi with integrity, intimacy and insight. Its focus on the 'everyday religion' of devotees is especially welcome.” -- George Brandon * professor emeritus, anthropogy, City University of New York *" An excellent contribution to the study of the complicated process of negotiating religious identity in the increasingly pluralistic context of twenty-first century America." -- Sarah M. Pike * professor, comparative religion, California State University, Chico *"A Year in White is a very fine account and a thoughtful exploration of conversion, deepening faith, and religious socialization, and a thoughtful portrait of the worldview of the Lukumi religion from the inside and how it is incorporated into the lives of the converts that Carr studies." * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Situating the Iyawo 2 Iyawo Experience 3 Iyawo Rules 4 Iyawo Social Relations 5 Relating to the Orisha 6 Conclusion: Two (or more) Worlds Appendix A: Interview & Survey Participants Appendix B: Survey Appendix C: Research Methods Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCan anyone speak a language he or she has not learned normally, in childhood or later? Claims to have accomplished this are made from time to time, but only rarely do they receive support when carefully examines. In this volume Dr. Stevenson presents detailed reports.

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Book SynopsisA collection of poems by the Martinician poet Aime Cesaire, who was read as a poet of revolutionary zeal during the Black Power movement of the 1960s. This collection is the first English edition to include "And the Dogs Were Silent" and "i, laminaria". There is a critical introduction.

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Book SynopsisEmily Shore's journal is the unique self-representation of a prodigious young Victorian woman. From July 5, 1831 until June 24, 1839, two weeks before her death, she recorded her reactions to the world around her. She wrote of political issues, natural history, her progress as a scholar and scientist, and the worlds of art and literature.

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Book SynopsisBy tracing the connections between marginal apparatus, authority, and authorship, Tribble suggests that changes in book production had consequences for the changing relations among readers, writers, and cultural authority in the early modern period.

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Book SynopsisUsing a combination of archaeology, anthropology and ethnohistory, this book traces the rise of one Indian group, the Chicacoans. By presenting a case study of the Chicacoans from AD 200 to the early 17th century, Potter offers readers a window onto the development of Algonquian culture.

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Book SynopsisOne of the Confederacy's most articulate advocates was Lieutenant General James Longstreet's aide-de-camp, Thomas Jewett Goree. Present at Longstreet's HQ, and party to the counsels of Robert E. Lee, Gore wrote incisively on strategy and politics. These letters of his reflect that acuity.

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Book SynopsisThis work interweaves art and fact to recreate a distant world. The author, a native white South African, combines autobiography, historical archaeology and fictional reconstructions, to explore the roots and consequences of colonial conquest in Africa, Australia and the Pacific.

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Book SynopsisThis text explores the culture of the pre-colonial West African state of Dahomey against the backdrop of the Atlantic slave trade and European imperialism. Tracing 200 years of history up to the French colonial conquest in 1894, the book follows change in the monarchy and the palace.

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Book SynopsisIn this text, Schaffer analyzes writers such as Lucas Malet, Ouida, Alice Meynell, Rosamund Marriott Watson and Una Ashworth Taylor. These women used aestheticism to forge a compromise between the two models of female identity available to them - the New Woman and the Angel in the House.

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Book SynopsisIn the 1930s, the discourse of travel furthered divergent and conflicting ideologies and travel writers of the time revealed as much in their texts. This study explores both the intentional political rhetoric and the more oblique, almost unconscious subtexts of Waugh, Orwell, Greene and West.

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Book SynopsisA chronicle of the emergence and development of religion as a field of intellectual inquiry, this volume is an extensive survey of world's fairs from the inaugural Great Exhibition in London to the Chicago Columbian Exposition and World's Parliament of Religions.Trade ReviewExhibiting Religion is authoritative and will eagerly be read by all those interested in the relationship between the concept of religion and the geopolitics of modernity. This book is significantly different from virtually all treatments of such events as the World's Parliament, since the norm among contemporary scholars is to celebrate it uncritically rather than thoroughly historicize it, as John Burris has very nicely done. - Russel T. McCutcheon, University of Alabama, author of Manufacturing Religion: The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia ""John Burris's perspective brings a mass of information into a new focus, which allows him to build a frequently compelling argument about the broad cultural role industrial and cultural exhibitions played in the second half of the nineteenth century in the West."" - Gary Ebersole, University of Missouri, Kansas City, author of Captured by Texts: Puritan to Postmodern Images of Indian CaptivityTable of ContentsInternational expositions in historical context; Britain's Great Exhibition - ideology materialized; social evolutionism and international expositions - a cultural history; exhibitionism, American style; exhibiting religion at Chicago's Columbian Exposition. Conclusion - a parliament for the world's religions?.

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Book SynopsisAddresses the startling fact that many African American intellectuals in the 1930s sympathized with fascism, seeing in its ideology a means of envisioning new modes of African American political resistance. This book surveys the work and thought of several authors to have an understanding of Depression-era African American literary culture.Trade ReviewBlack Fascisms bravely goes against the grain of much received opinion about the main currents in modern African American literature and intellectual history; it has a good story to tell, and it tells it well and convincingly. - Eric Sundquist, UCLA, author of Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America

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Trade Review"One of the best books on post - World War II American poetry ever written. Travisano has found major poems and revealing letters and essays that are unpublished elsewhere. One of the real pleasures of reading this book is the feeling that on any page one might encounter a new master-work." - Steven Gould Axelrod, University of California, Riverside"

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Book SynopsisTraces the the story of victimized childhood to its origins in nineteenth-century Britain. Almost as soon as “childhood” became a distinct category, Laura C. Berry contends, stories of children in danger were circulated as part of larger debates about child welfare and the role of the family in society.

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Book SynopsisTraces the phenomenon of ascribing sentimental meaning to floral imagery from its beginnings in Napoleonic France through its later transformations in England and America. At the heart of the book is a depiction of what the three most important flower books from each of the countries divulge about the period and the respective cultures.

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Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, Frederick Turner presents a new theory of aesthetics based on the argument that beauty is an objective reality in the universe. He identifies the experience of beauty as a pan-cultural, neurobiological phenomenon.

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Book SynopsisSince 1982, the renowned Civil War historian James I. “Bud” Robertson's Civil War Sites in Virginia has enlightened and informed Civil War enthusiasts and scholars alike. In the years since the book's original publication, accessibility to many sites and the interpretive material available have improved dramatically. Brian Steel Wills offers here a revised and updated edition.

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Book SynopsisOffers a comprehensive collection of sophisticated but accessible essays that productively investigate the relationship between European theory and ecocritique. Bringing together approaches and orientations based on the work of European philosophers and cultural theorists, this volume is designed to open new pathways for ecocritical theory and practice in the twenty-first century.

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Book SynopsisTells the stranger-than-fiction story of Lord Dunmore, the last royal governor of Virginia, whose long-neglected life boasts a measure of scandal and intrigue rare in the annals of the colonial world. In this entertaining biography, James Corbett David brings together a rich cast of characters as he follows Dunmore on his perilous path through the Atlantic world from 1745 to 1809.

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Book SynopsisChallenging the assumption that Southern women’s contributions to the war effort were less systematic and organised than those of Union women, Worth a Dozen Men looks at the Civil War as a watershed moment for Southern women. Female nurses in the South played a critical role in raising army and civilian morale and reducing mortality rates, thus allowing the South to continue fighting.

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