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Powerful Devices
Prayer and the Political Praxis of Spiritual Warfare
Port Newark and the Origins of Container Shipping
On Transits and Transitions
Trans Migrants and U.S. Immigration Law
Making Choices, Making Do
Survival Strategies of Black and White Working-Class Women during the Great Depression
In the Shadow of Tungurahua
Disaster Politics in Highland Ecuador
Growing Gardens, Building Power
Food Justice and Urban Agriculture in Brooklyn
First-Generation Faculty of Color
Reflections on Research, Teaching, and Service
First-Generation Faculty of Color
Reflections on Research, Teaching, and Service
1980
America's Pivotal Year
Every Wrong Direction
An Emigré’s Memoir
Every Wrong Direction recreates and dissects the bitter education of Dan Burt, an American émigré who never found a home in America. Burt's memoir follows his wanderings through three countries and seven cities over 43 years, culminating in his emigration to Britain, the country where he finally found a home.
The Politics of Genocide
From the Genocide Convention to the Responsibility to Protect
The Perils of Populism
Social Exchange
Barter as Economic and Cultural Activism in Medellín, Colombia
Preventing Child Maltreatment in the U.S.: The Latinx Community Perspective
Preventing Child Maltreatment in the U.S.: The Black Community Perspective
Preventing Child Maltreatment in the U.S.: Multicultural Considerations
Preventing Child Maltreatment in the U.S.: American Indian and Alaska Native Perspectives
Islamic Divorce in the Twenty-First Century
A Global Perspective
Islamic Divorce in the Twenty-First Century
A Global Perspective
In the Crossfire of History
Women's War Resistance Discourse in the Global South
In the Crossfire of History
Women's War Resistance Discourse in the Global South
From Honolulu to Brooklyn
Running the American Empire’s Base Paths with Buck Lai and the Travelers from Hawai’i
Chinese Americans in the Heartland
Migration, Work, and Community
Indigenous Motherhood in the Academy
Wrecked
Deinstitutionalization and Partial Defenses in State Higher Education Policy
The changing politics of the Right place it on a collision course with higher education. These political forces support a policy agenda of deinstitutionalization, in which Republican officials both slash funding for and undermine trust in public higher education. Campus leaders respond with partial defenses that provide short-term relief without addressing underlying mistrust. Wrecked traces the disastrous collision between the Right and higher education resulting from these politics, policies and practices.
Taking Sides in Revolutionary New Jersey
Caught in the Crossfire
Shattered Justice
Crime Victims' Experiences with Wrongful Convictions and Exonerations
Shattered Justice presents original crime victims’ experiences with violent crime, investigations and trials, and later exonerations in their cases. Cook reveals how homicide victims’ family members and rape survivors describe the painful impact of the primary trauma, the secondary trauma of the investigations and trials, and then the tertiary trauma associated with wrongful convictions and exonerations.
Mad River, Marjorie Rowland, and the Quest for LGBTQ Teachers’ Rights
German Ways of War
The Affective Geographies and Generic Transformations of German War Films
Day of the Dead in the USA, Second Edition
The Migration and Transformation of a Cultural Phenomenon
Authentically Jewish
Identity, Culture, and the Struggle for Recognition
Unruly Souls
The Digital Activism of Muslim and Christian Feminists
This book explores the intersectional feminist activism of young people within Islam and Evangelical Christianity. Deemed unruly souls due to their sexuality, gender, or race, these activists employ the creative tactics of digital media to seek justice and display their inherent value. The case studies demonstrate the overlaps between the hybrid identities of young Americans and the playful and interstitial aspects of digital media.
Separate Paths
Lenapes and Colonists in West New Jersey
Separate Paths: Lenapes and Colonists in West New Jersey is the first cross-cultural study of European colonization in the region south of the Falls of the Delaware River (now Trenton). In the 1670s, Quaker men and women sought to acquire all Lenape territory for their own use and to sell as real estate to new immigrants. Through epidemics that ravaged Lenape communities and the introduction of slavery to the colony, Quakers defied their prior experience of religious persecution and their principles of peaceful resolution of conflict and equality of everyone before God. Despite mutual commitment to peace by Lenapes, old settlers, and Friends, Quaker colonization had similar results to military conquests of Natives by English in Virginia and New England, and Dutch in the Hudson Valley and northern New Jersey.
Mechanical Vibration
Theory and Application
Mechanical Vibration: Analysis, Uncertainty, and Control presents the fundamental principles of mechanical vibration, including the theory of vibration and examples of the applications of these principles to practical engineering problems. Mechanical Vibration contains numerous new example problems with solutions to enable students to master the science of mechanical vibration.
Jewish Lives under Communism
New Perspectives
Flooded
Development, Democracy, and Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam
Flooded provides insights into the little-known effects of dam building through a close examination of Brazil’s Belo Monte hydroelectric facility, the fourth largest dam in the world. Klein tells the stories of dam-affected communities, such as fishermen and displaced urban residents, as well as their advocates, including activists, social movements, public defenders, and public prosecutors. This ground-level perspective shows how local democracy is at once strengthened and weakened by a rapid influx of government resources. In the midst of today’s climate crisis, Flooded showcases the challenges and opportunities of meeting increasing demands for energy in equitable ways.
Fashionable Masculinities
Queers, Pimp Daddies, and Lumbersexuals
Fashionable Masculinities explores the expression of masculinities through constructions of fashion, identity, style and appearance. Essays include musical pop sensation Harry Styles, rapper and producer “Puff Daddy” Sean Combs, lumbersexuals, spornosexuals, sexy daddies, and aging cool black daddies. This book interrogates and challenges the meaning of masculinities and the ways that they are experienced and lived.