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Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People

Colonialism, Nature, and Social Action

Rutgers University Press

Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People: Colonialism, Nature and Social Action draws upon nearly two decades of examples and insight from Karuk experiences on the Klamath River to illustrate how the ecological dynamics of settler-colonialism are essential for theorizing gender, race and social power today.

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Refugees in America

Stories of Courage, Resilience, and Hope in Their Own Words

By Lee T Bycel; Foreword by Ishmael Beah; By (photographer) Dona Kopol Bonick
Rutgers University Press

In this book, eleven men and women share their extraordinary stories of fleeing life-threatening hardship in their home countries in search of a better life in the United States. Giving a voice to refugees from such far-flung locations as Eritrea, Guatemala, Poland, Syria, and Vietnam, it weaves together a rich tapestry of human resilience, suffering, and determination.

 

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Precision Medicine Oncology

A Primer

Rutgers University Press

Precision medicine is rapidly becoming the standard-of-care for the treatment of cancer patients. Precision Medicine Oncology: A Primer is a concise review of the fundamental principles and applications of precision medicine, and intended for clinicians, particularly those working in the field of oncology.

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Medicine over Mind

Mental Health Practice in the Biomedical Era

Rutgers University Press

In an era in which the medicalization of mental health troubles and treatment has been settled for several decades, little is known about how this biomedical framework affects practitioners’ experiences. This book explores how practitioners make sense of a field that has shifted rapidly in just a few decades.

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For the Birds

Protecting Wildlife through the Naturalist Gaze

Rutgers University Press

Offering readers a glimpse behind the binoculars, For the Birds reveals birders to be important allies in the larger environmental conservation movement. Drawn from extensive interviews and field observations, it shows birders participating in citizen science projects, witnessing the devastating effects of climate change, and discovering small pockets of biodiversity in unexpected places.
 

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The Poetics of Natural History

By Christoph Irmscher; Foreword by Rosamond Purcell; By (photographer) Rosamond Purcell
Rutgers University Press, Rutgers University Press Classics

Newly expanded and in full color, this groundbreaking book argues that early American natural historians had a distinctly poetic sensibility, producing work that had a visionary intensity. Covering naturalists from John James Audubon to PT Barnum, it considers not only natural history writing, but also illustrations, photographs, and actual collections of flora and fauna. 

Photography and all associated expenses made possible by a generous grant from Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund

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Dangerous Masculinity

Fatherhood, Race, and Security Inside America's Prisons

Rutgers University Press

For incarcerated fathers, prison rather than work mediates access to their families. Incarcerated men negotiate expectations of gender performance and their relationships with the mothers of their children during incarceration.These negotiations around masculinity and fatherhood inside prison provide insight into gender inequity, racism, and ideological underpinnings of security practices.

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Studying Hasidism

Sources, Methods, Perspectives

Rutgers University Press

Studying Hasidism, edited by internationally recognized historian of Hasidism Marcin Wodziński, introduces previously untapped sources, such as folklore, music, or material culture and shows how they can be employed to answer new questions in the history of Hasidism.

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Obsessed

The Cultural Critic’s Life in the Kitchen

Rutgers University Press

In this unique culinary memoir and cookbook, renowned cultural critic Elisabeth Bronfen tells of her lifelong love affair with cooking and reveals what she has learned about creating delicious home meals. As she shares her personal stories, and over 250 recipes, she also offers practical advice about tweaking recipes, reusing leftovers, and cooking for one.

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Living When Everything Changed

My Life in Academia

Rutgers University Press

In this compelling memoir, Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault describes how a Catholic girl from small-town Nebraska discovered her callings as a feminist, as an academic, and as a university administrator. With remarkable candor and compassion, she reflects on how second-wave feminism has transformed academia and how much reform is still needed.  

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Baltimore Revisited

Stories of Inequality and Resistance in a U.S. City

Rutgers University Press

Nicknamed both “Mobtown” and “Charm City,” Baltimore is a city of contradictions. To help untangle those apparent paradoxes, Baltimore Revisited assembles over thirty experts, both from inside and outside academia. Together, they find that the city has become ground zero for neoliberal policies, but also home to intensely engaged resistance movements. 

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The Visual Is Political

Feminist Photography and Countercultural Activity in 1970s Britain

Rutgers University Press

This book examines the phenomenon of feminist photography as it unfolded in Britain during the 1970s and 1980s. Klorman-Eraqi offers a unique analysis of the intersection between feminism and photography and the period’s social conflicts and theoretical debates, and adds to the understanding of feminist countercultural practices produced in this moment and of their continuing relevance.

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Reformed American Dreams

Welfare Mothers, Higher Education, and Activism

Rutgers University Press

Reformed American Dreams explores the experiences of low-income single mothers who pursued higher education while on welfare after the 1996 welfare reforms. This research occurred in an area where grassroots activism by and for mothers on welfare in higher education was directly able to affect the implementation of public policy. 

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Pathogenic Policing

Immigration Enforcement and Health in the U.S. South

Rutgers University Press

In Pathogenic Policing, Nolan Kline focuses on the hidden, health-related impacts of immigrant policing to examine the role of policy in shaping health inequality in the U.S., and responds to fundamental questions regarding biopolitics, especially the ways in which policy can reinforce ‘race’ as a vehicle of social division.

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Back in School

How Student Parents Are Transforming College and Family

Rutgers University Press

Fifty years ago, students who were parents were a rarity in college classrooms, but recently, over a quarter of all undergraduate students were parents. A. Fiona Pearson explores how these student parents navigate cultural norms and institutional resources, forging pathways as they journey to become better parents and successful students. 

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The End of International Adoption?

An Unraveling Reproductive Market and the Politics of Healthy Babies

Rutgers University Press

Estye Fenton studies parents in the United States who adopted internationally in the past decade. She investigates the experiences of a cohort of adoptive mothers who were forced to negotiate their desire to be parents in the context of a growing societal awareness of international adoption as a flawed reproductive marketplace.

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Love, Anarchy, & Emma Goldman

A Biography

Rutgers University Press, Rutgers University Press Classics

More than an account of Emma Goldman’s legendary career as a political activist, this biography offers an intimate look into her tumultuous affair with Chicago activist and red-light-district gynecologist Ben Reitman. As it charts her twin passions for Reitman and for social reform, it provides new insights into a brilliant, complex woman.  

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Touched Bodies

The Performative Turn in Latin American Art

Rutgers University Press

Polgovsky Ezcurra examines the politics and ethics of intermedial performance in Latin America during the “long 1980s”. Looking at the work of artists from Argentina, Chile, and Mexico, she examines the flourishing of performance art in times of authoritarianism and the ways in which performative gestures animated a range of artistic practices, including collage, poetry, sculpture, mail art, and cybernetic art.

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Dr. David Murray

Superintendent of Education in the Empire of Japan, 1873-1879

Rutgers University Press

This is the first biography in English of an uncommon American, Dr. David Murray, professor of mathematics at Rutgers University, who was appointed by the Japanese government as Superintendent of Education in the Empire of Japan in 1873. Murray’s unwavering commitment to the modernization of Japanese education renders him an educational pioneer in early Meiji Japan.  

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Mothering from the Field

The Impact of Motherhood on Site-Based Research

Rutgers University Press

Mothering from the Field offers both a mosaic of perspectives from real women scientists’ experiences of conducting field research while raising children, and an analytical framework to understand how we can redefine methodological and theoretical contributions based on mothers’ experiences in order to revolutionize how we conceptualize research.

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