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Fault Lines of Care
Gender, HIV, and Global Health in Bolivia
Rutgers University Press
Heckert provides a detailed examination of the effects of global health and governmental policy decisions on the everyday lives of people living with HIV in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. She focuses on the gendered dynamics that play a role in the development and implementation of HIV care programs and shows how decisions made from above impact what happens on the ground.
Prelude to Hospice
Florence Wald, Dying People, and their Families
Rutgers University Press
Award-winning medical historian Emily K. Abel provides insight into several important issues surrounding the growth of hospice care, including the relationships between doctors and patients at a time when a growing number of patients began to feel emboldened to challenge medical authority, demanding information about diagnosis and treatment and participation in decision-making.
No Slam Dunk
Gender, Sport and the Unevenness of Social Change
By Cheryl Cooky and Michael A. Messner
Rutgers University Press
No Slam Dunk provides important theoretical and empirical insights into the contemporary world of sports to help explain the unevenness of social change and how, despite significant progress, gender equality in sports has been “No Slam Dunk.”
Precision Radiation Oncology
By Bruce G. Haffty and Sharad Goyal
Rutgers University Press, Rutgers University Press Medicine
Precision Radiation Oncology provides readers with an up-to-date overview of developments in the precision medicine wing of radiation oncology. Focusing on recent research and technology, and therapies both novel and trusted, this reference advances the integration of new research findings into individualized radiation therapy and its clinical applications.
Ignition!
An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
By John Drury Clark; Foreword by Isaac Asimov
Rutgers University Press, Rutgers University Press Classics
Ignition! is the inside story of the Cold War era search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take humans into space. A favorite of Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, this “really good book on rocket[s]” is back in print for the first time in decades. Readers will want to get their hands on this irreverent and fascinating debut book in the Rutgers Classics imprint.
Walking Harlem
The Ultimate Guide to the Cultural Capital of Black America
By Karen Taborn
Rutgers University Press
This illustrated guide takes readers on five separate walking tours of Harlem, covering 91 different historical sites. With detailed maps, informative text, and nearly 70 stunning photographs, Walking Harlem gives individuals all the tools they need to thoroughly explore a century’s worth of the neighborhood’s cultural, political, religious, and artistic heritage.
The Zoom
Drama at the Touch of a Lever
By Nick Hall
Rutgers University Press
From the queasy zooms in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo to the avant-garde mystery of Michael Snow’s Wavelength, from the excitement of televised baseball to the drama of the political convention, the zoom shot is instantly recognizable and highly controversial. Nick Hall traces the century-spanning history of the zoom lens in American film and television.
The Zoom
Drama at the Touch of a Lever
By Nick Hall
Rutgers University Press
From the queasy zooms in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo to the avant-garde mystery of Michael Snow’s Wavelength, from the excitement of televised baseball to the drama of the political convention, the zoom shot is instantly recognizable and highly controversial. Nick Hall traces the century-spanning history of the zoom lens in American film and television.
Children and Drug Safety
Balancing Risk and Protection in Twentieth-Century America
Rutgers University Press
This book traces the development, use, and marketing of drugs for children in the twentieth century. It illuminates the historical dimension of a clinical and policy issue with great contemporary significance—many of the drugs administered to children today have never been tested for safety and efficacy in the pediatric population.
The Limits of Auteurism
Case Studies in the Critically Constructed New Hollywood
Rutgers University Press
The New Hollywood era of the late 1960s and early 1970s has become one of the most romanticized periods in motion picture history. The Limits of Auteurism challenges many of these assumptions. The book explores how distribution and critical reception determined the parameters of the New Hollywood canon.
A Rhetorical Crime
Genocide in the Geopolitical Discourse of the Cold War
By Anton Weiss-Wendt; Foreword by Douglas Irvin-Erickson
Rutgers University Press
A Rhetorical Crime shows how, over the course of the Cold War era, genocide morphed from a legal concept into a political discourse used in international propaganda battles. Through a unique comparative analysis of U.S. and Soviet statements on genocide, Weiss-Wendt investigates why their moral posturing far exceeded their humanitarian action.
Historians on Hamilton
How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America's Past
Edited by Renee C. Romano and Claire Bond Potter
Rutgers University Press
Historians on “Hamilton” brings together a diverse collection of top scholars to explain the Hamilton phenomenon and explore what it might mean for our understanding of America’s history. In short, lively essays, these experts assess what the musical got right, what it got wrong, and why it matters.
Historians on Hamilton
How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America's Past
Edited by Renee C. Romano and Claire Bond Potter
Rutgers University Press
Historians on “Hamilton” brings together a diverse collection of top scholars to explain the Hamilton phenomenon and explore what it might mean for our understanding of America’s history. In short, lively essays, these experts assess what the musical got right, what it got wrong, and why it matters.
Standing on Principle
Lessons Learned in Public Life
By James J. Florio; Foreword by William Bradley
Rutgers University Press
This political memoir tells the remarkable story of how New Jersey’s James J. Florio, a high school dropout, went on to become an attorney, a congressman, and finally one of the nation’s most progressive governors—a passionate advocate for health care, gun control, and environmental protection.
Rest Uneasy
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Twentieth-Century America
Rutgers University Press
Rest Uneasy investigates the processes by which SIDS became both a discrete medical enigma and a source of social anxiety construed differently over time and according to varying perspectives. Brittany Cowgill chronicles and assesses Americans’ fraught but consequential efforts to explain and conquer SIDS.
Empowering Men of Color on Campus
Building Student Community in Higher Education
Rutgers University Press
Empowering Men of Color on Campus examines how men of color negotiate college through their engagement in Brothers for United Success (B4US). The authors introduce the concept of educational agency, which is harbored in cultural wealth and demonstrates how ongoing B4US engagement empowers the men’s efforts and abilities to persist in college.
Monster Cinema
Rutgers University Press
Monster Cinema introduces readers to a vast menagerie of movie monsters, from gigantic beasts to microscopic parasites, from grotesque demons to normal-looking serial killers. Film expert Barry Keith Grant considers what each type of movie monster might reveal about how we regard the natural, the supernatural, and the human.
Destined for Greatness
Passions, Dreams, and Aspirations in a College Music Town
Rutgers University Press
Michael Ramirez examines the lives of forty-eight independent rock musicians who seek out non-normative choices in a renowned college music town. He explores the life course trajectories of women and men to understand the extent to which pathways are structured to allow some individuals to fashion careers in music worlds.
The Douglass Century
Transformation of the Women’s College at Rutgers University
Rutgers University Press
The Douglass Century tells a powerful tale of the creativity and determination of successive generations of women who have claimed intellectual space, devised educational programs, and sustained an academic project, Douglass Residential College that has reshaped the worlds available to women in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Using Servant Leadership
How to Reframe the Core Functions of Higher Education
Rutgers University Press
The theory of servant leadership posits that the most effective leaders nurture the personal growth and well-being of their followers. Using Servant Leadership provides an instructive guide for how college and university faculty members can engage with administrators, students, and community members to put these principles into practice.
Prohibition Gangsters
The Rise and Fall of a Bad Generation
By Marc Mappen
Rutgers University Press
Based on FBI and other government files, trial transcripts, and the latest scholarship, this book provides a lively narrative of shootouts, car chases, courtroom clashes, wire tapping and rub-outs from the 1920s and beyond, acknowledging how the Prohibition generation forever transformed organized crime from loosely associated gangs into sophisticated, complex syndicates.
At War
The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Edited by David Kieran and Edwin A. Martini
Rutgers University Press
At War offers essays addressing the central issues in the new military history—ranging from diplomacy and the history of imperialism to the environmental issues that war raises and the ways that war shapes and is shaped by discourses of identity, to questions of why and how U.S. wars have been represented in the media.
Transitive Cultures
Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific
Rutgers University Press
Transitive Cultures offers a new perspective on transpacific Anglophone literature, revealing how these chameleonic writers enact a variety of hybrid, transnational identities and intimacies. Examining texts from Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Canada, and the United States, this book challenges conventional expectations regarding diaspora and minority writers.
A Short History of Film, Third Edition
Rutgers University Press
With more than 250 images, new information on international cinema—especially Polish, Chinese, Russian, Canadian, and Iranian filmmakers—an expanded section on African-American filmmakers, updated discussions of new works by major American directors, and a new section on the rise of comic book movies and computer generated special effects, this is the most up to date resource for film history courses in the twenty-first century.
Post-Borderlandia
Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique
Rutgers University Press
Post-Borderlandia examines why gender variance is such a core theme in contemporary Chicana and Chicanx narratives. Cuevas explores how a new generation of Chicanx writers, performers, and filmmakers are drawing on a rich tradition of challenging heteropatriarchal norms to offer new directions for Chicana feminist theory.
Child Survivors of the Holocaust
The Youngest Remnant and the American Experience
Rutgers University Press
Over ninety percent of Europe’s 1.5 million Jewish children were murdered during the Holocaust, but a tiny fragment of about 150,000 children survived. Cohen traces the postwar lives of these children, shedding new light on the way their experiences and perceptions both during and after the war shadowed and shaped their lives through adulthood.
Knickerbocker
The Myth behind New York
Rutgers University Press
Deep within New York’s compelling, sprawling history lives an odd, ornery Manhattan native named Diedrich Knickerbocker. This book invites readers into the world of Knickerbocker, the antihero who surprised everyone by becoming the standard-bearer for the city’s exceptional sense of self, or what we now call a New York “attitude.”
Fractured Communities
Risk, Impacts, and Protest Against Hydraulic Fracking in U.S. Shale Regions
Edited by Anthony E. Ladd
Rutgers University Press
In Fractured Communities, Anthony E. Ladd and other leading environmental sociologists present a set of crucial case studies analyzing the differential risk perceptions, socio-environmental impacts, and mobilization of citizen protest (or quiescence) surrounding unconventional energy development and hydraulic fracking in a number of key U.S. shale regions.
LatinAsian Cartographies
History, Writing, and the National Imaginary
Rutgers University Press
LatinAsian Cartographies examines how Latina/o and Asian American writers provide important counter-narratives to the stories of racial encroachment that have come to characterize twenty-first century dominant discourses on race.
The Modern British Horror Film
Rutgers University Press
Tracking the revitalization of the British horror film industry over the past two decades, Steven Gerrard examines the genre’s highlights, including The Descent, Outpost, and The Woman in Black, while provocatively exploring how these films reflect viewers’ gravest fears about the state of the nation.
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