The Riddled Chain
Chance, Coincidence and Chaos in Human Evolution
The Hidden War
Crime and the Tragedy of Public Housing in Chicago
Seeker Churches
Promoting Traditional Religion in a Nontraditional Way
America’s religious landscape is in flux. New churches are springing up and many older churches are redefining themselves to survive. At the forefront of this denominational free-for-all are evangelical “seeker” churches.
These churches target “seekers”—individuals of any faith or denominational background who seek spiritual fulfillment but are not currently affiliated with any specific church. By focusing on this largely untapped group, seeker churches have become one of the fastest-growing religious movements in the country. In his study, Kimon Sargeant provides a sociological context for the rise of these churches by exploring the rituals, messages, strategies, and denominational functions of this emerging form of American evangelical Protestantism.
Screening Violence
Graphic cinematic violence is a magnet for controversy. From passionate defenses to outraged protests, theories abound concerning this defining feature of modern film: Is it art or exploitation, dangerous or liberating? Screening Violence provides an even-handed examination of the history, merits, and effects of cinematic “ultraviolence.”
Recalling the Wild
Naturalism and the Closing of the American West
Pillar of Salt
Gender, Memory, and the Perils of Looking Back
Hunting Tradition in a Changing World
Yup'ik Lives in Alaska Today
Exit Here for Fish!
Enjoying and Conserving New Jersey's Recreational Fisheries
A History of the Circle
Mathematical Reasoning and the Physical Universe
The circle is an elegant, abstract form that has been transformed by humans into tangible, practical forms to make our lives easier. And yet no one has ever discovered a true mathematical circle. Ernest Zebrowski, Jr., discusses why investigations of the circle have contributed enormously to our current knowledge of the physical universe. Beginning with the ancient mathematicians and culminating in twentieth-century theories of space and time, the mathematics of the circle has pointed many investigators in fruitful directions in their quests to unravel nature’s secrets.
A Citizen's Guide to Grassroots Campaigns
Jan Barry provides a pragmatic, common-sense handbook to civic action. Using case studies from his home state of New Jersey, Barry has crafted what he calls a “guidebook for creative improvement on the American dream.” He dissects civic actions such as environmental campaigns, mutual-help groups, neighborhood improvement projects, and a grassroots peace mission to Russia.
Religion as a Chain of Memory
25 Nature Spectacles in New Jersey
While New Jersey boasts far more than 25 nature spectacles, the authors have selected those that are the most dramatic, predictable, and characteristic of the state so readers can easily enjoy them over and over again. Being in the right place at the right time makes all the difference, so the guidebook is organized by season to ensure the best viewing.
The Public Life of the Arts in America
The Public Life of the Arts in America, Revised Edition
Speaking the Unspeakable
Marital Violence among South Asian Immigrants in the United States
Over the past 20 years, much work has focused on domestic violence, yet little attention has been paid to the causes, manifestations, and resolutions to marital violence among ethnic minorities, especially recent immigrants. Margaret Abraham’s Speaking the Unspeakable is the first book to focus on South Asian women’s experiences of domestic violence, defined by the author as physical, sexual, verbal, mental, or economic coercion, power, or control perpetrated on a woman by her spouse or extended kin. Abraham explains how immigration issues, cultural assumptions, and unfamiliarity with American social, legal, economic, and other institutional systems, coupled with stereotyping, make these women especially vulnerable to domestic violence.
New Jerseyans in the Civil War
For Union and Liberty
A New and Untried Course
Women's Medical College and Medical College of Pennysylvania, 1850-1998
Zion on the Hudson
Dutch New York and New Jersey in the Age of Revivals
As Fabend describes the efforts of the Dutch to preserve the European standards and traditions of their church, while developing a taste for a new kind of theology and a preference for an American identity, she documents how Dutchness finally became a historical memory. The Americanization of the Reformed Dutch Church, Fabend writes, is a microcosm of the story of the Americanization of the United States itself.
The Tyranny of Change
America in the Progressive Era, 1890-1920
The Rhetoric of Midwifery
Gender, Knowledge, and Power
What roles should midwives play within our healthcare system? Must they have certified degrees and be under the jurisdiction of a professional board? Do notions of gender create competition and erect barriers between the medical professions? The Rhetoric of Midwifery offers new insights into understanding these questions within the context of our present-day medical system.