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Guidebook for the Scientific Traveler
Visiting Physics and Chemistry Sites Across America
Rutgers University Press
Written in an easy-to-read and accessible style, Guidebook for the Scientific Traveler: Visiting Physics and Chemistry Sites across America is a practical and fun way to promote scientific literacy. Readers meet some of the world's great physicists, engineers, and chemists. Filled with more than fifty photographs and organized into chapters on individuals, places, and sites-from universities of science to national laboratories, particle accelerators to energy labs and beyond-this comprehensive guide illuminates the history of each topic and paints a panorama of stunning achievements in physics and chemistry.
No Permanent Waves
Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism
Edited by Nancy A. Hewitt; Introduction by Nancy A. Hewitt
Rutgers University Press
No Permanent Waves boldly enters the ongoing debates over the utility of the "wave" metaphor for capturing the complex history of women's rights by offering fresh perspectives on the diverse movements that comprise U.S. feminism, past and present. Seventeen essays--both original and reprinted--address continuities, conflicts, and transformations among women's movements in the United States from the early nineteenth century through today.
A New Jersey Anthology
Edited by Maxine N. Lurie
Rutgers University Press, Rivergate Books
This anthology contains seventeen essays covering eighteenth-century agrarian unrest, the Revolutionary War, politics in the Jackson era, feminism and the women's movements, slavery from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, strikes and labor struggles, land use and regional planning issues, Blacks in Newark, the current political state of New Jersey, and more.
Architecture Walks
The Best Outings Near New York City
By Lucy D. Rosenfeld and Marina Harrison
Rutgers University Press, Rivergate Books
From reflections of three hundred years of history to expressions of the most modern design, Architecture Walks guides readers on a tour of nearly one hundred inspiring, informative, and aesthetically intriguing architectural treasures in and around New York and the surrounding area, including Connecticut, New Jersey, the eastern edge of Pennsylvania, and Delaware. This book also incorporates descriptions of architectural styles, suggestions for special adventures, lists of jaunts arranged by architect or designer, architectural style, and particular types of sites, and forty photos.
Hollywood on the Hudson
Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff
Rutgers University Press
Contesting Childhood
Autobiography, Trauma, and Memory
By Kate Douglas
Rutgers University Press
Drawing on trauma and memory studies and theories of authorship and readership, Contesting Childhood offers commentary on the triumphs, trials, and tribulations that have shaped the genre of autobiographical writings about childhood. Douglas examines the content of the narratives and the limits of their representations, as well as some of the ways in which autobiographies of youth have become politically important and influential.
The New Chinese America
Class, Economy, and Social Hierarchy
Rutgers University Press
The New Chinese America explores the historical, economic, and social foundations of the Chinese American community, revealing the emergence of a new social hierarchy after the 1965 Immigration Act. Xiaojian Zhao uses class analysis to illuminate the difficulties of everyday survival for poor and undocumented immigrants and analyzes the process through which social mobility occurs. While the growth of the ethnic economy enhances ethnic bonds by increasing mutual dependencies among different groups of Chinese Americans, it also determines the limits of possibility for various individuals depending on their socioeconomic and immigration status.
The Jewish Graphic Novel
Critical Approaches
Rutgers University Press
The Jewish Graphic Novel is a lively, interdisciplinary collection of essays that addresses critically acclaimed works in this subgenre of Jewish literary and artistic culture. Featuring insightful discussions of notable figures in the industryùsuch as Will Eisner, Art Spiegelman, and Joann Sfarùthe essays focus on the how graphic novels are increasingly being used in Holocaust memoir and fiction, and to portray Jewish identity in America and abroad
Digital Dilemmas
The State, the Individual, and Digital Media in Cuba
Rutgers University Press
Digital Dilemmas views Cuba from the Soviet Union's demise to the present, to assess how conflicts over media access play out in their both liberating and repressive potential. Drawing on extensive scholarship and interviews, Cristina Venegas questions myths of how Internet use necessarily fosters global democracy and reveals the impact of new technologies on the country's governance and culture. She includes film in the context of broader media history, as well as artistic practices such as digital art and networks of diasporic communities connected by the Web. This book is a model for understanding the geopolitic location of power relations in the age of digital information sharing.
Biofeedback for the Brain
How Neurotherapy Effectively Treats Depression, ADHD, Autism, and More
Rutgers University Press
Neurofeedback is a cutting-edge, drug-free therapeutic technique used by over a thousand licensed therapists in North America to treat a range of conditions from attention deficit and hyperactivity disorders to epilepsy, stroke, anxiety, migraine, and depression. In Biofeedback for the Brain, Dr. Paul G. Swingle describes in clear and coherent language how these procedures work. With numerous actual case examples, readers follow the progress of clients from the initial “brain map” that shows the location and severity of the neurological abnormalities to the various stages of treatment.