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The United States and the Armenian Genocide
History, Memory, Politics
The Other Jersey Shore
Life on the Delaware River
Surviving Alex
A Mother’s Story of Love, Loss, and Addiction
Patricia Roos was a professor of sociology at Rutgers University when she lost her 25-year-old son Alex to a heroin overdose. Turning her grief into action, she began to research the social factors and institutional failures that contributed to his death. Surviving Alex tells her moving story while describing a more compassionate approach that would provide proper care to substance users and reduce addiction.
Meltdown Expected
Crisis, Disorder, and Upheaval at the end of the 1970s
Jewish Education
Governing Maya Communities and Lands in Belize
Indigenous Rights, Markets, and Sovereignties
Global Film Color
The Monopack Revolution at Midcentury
Global Film Color
The Monopack Revolution at Midcentury
Beaches, Bays, and Barrens
A Natural History of the Jersey Shore
At the Glacier’s Edge
A Natural History of Long Island from the Narrows to Montauk Point
To Keep the Republic
Thinking, Talking, and Acting Like a Democratic Citizen
The Cinema of Yakov Protazanov
Yakov Protazanov was the most prolific Russian director of the silent era whose works enjoyed consistent popularity with audiences as he adapted to the Russian Revolution and, later, the transition to sound. This first career-length study in English argues that he pursued a unique artistic vision that reflected his ambivalent position within Soviet culture of the revolutionary era.
The Caravaggio Syndrome
A Novel
Headstrong art historian Leyla is expecting a baby with feckless computer technician Pablo. There’s only one problem: she can’t stand him. And one more problem: her student Michael wants Pablo for himself. But when the writings by utopian philosopher Tommaso Campanella unlocks the secret of a painting and a mystical gateway to 17th-century Naples, Leyla and Michael embark on a voyage of self-discovery in search of a new life.
Life, Brazen and Garish
A Tale of Three Women
Creating the Hudson River Park
Environmental and Community Activism, Politics, and Greed
China's Left-Behind Children
Caretaking, Parenting, and Struggles
Born of War in Colombia
Reproductive Violence and Memories of Absence
A Nation of Family and Friends?
Sport and the Leisure Cultures of British Asian Girls and Women
Politicizing Islam in Austria
The Far-Right Impact in the Twenty-First Century
Politicizing Islam in Austria is a comprehensive examination of the influence of the far right on the Austrian political landscape and the impact its anti-Muslim agenda has had in a country whose longstanding state recognition of the Muslim community dates to as early as 1912.
