Christmas Trees for Pleasure and Profit
Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age
Essays explore a range of topics that include drug development and the production of race-based therapeutics, the ways in which genetics could contribute to future health disparities, the social implications of ancestry mapping, and the impact of emerging race and genetics research on public policy and the media.
American Cinema of the 1990s
Themes and Variations
To Test or Not To Test
A Guide to Genetic Screening and Risk
Black Robes, White Coats
The Puzzle of Judicial Policymaking and Scientific Evidence
New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones
History in the Landscape
New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones presents a culturally diverse account of New Jersey’s historic burial places from High Point to Cape May and from the banks of the Delaware to the ocean-washed Shore, to explain what cemeteries tell us about people and the communities in which they lived.
Horrors of Slavery
Or, The American Tars in Tripoli
Hester Blum's introduction situates Horrors of Slavery in its literary, historical, and political contexts, bringing to light a crucial episode in the early history of our country's relations with Islamic states.
A volume in the Subterranean Lives series, edited by Bradford Verter
The Public Life of the Fetal Sonogram
Technology, Consumption, and the Politics of Reproduction
From that Place and Time
A Memoir, 1938-1947
Hollywood Faith
Holiness, Prosperity, and Ambition in a Los Angeles Church
In Hollywood Faith, Gerardo Marti shows how a multiracial evangelical congregation of 2,000 people accommodates itself to the entertainment industry and draws in many striving to succeed in this harsh and irreverent business. Oasis strategically sanctifies ambition and negotiates social change by promoting a new religious identity as "champion of life"-an identity that provides people who face difficult career choices and failed opportunities a sense of empowerment and endurance.
The first book to provide an in-depth look at religion among the "creative class," Hollywood Faith will fascinate those interested in the modern evangelical movement and anyone who wants to understand how religion adapts to social change.