A Guide to New Jersey's Revolutionary War Trail
for Families and History Buffs
Hit the road with journalist Mark DiIonno as he takes you on a tour of New Jersey’s extraordinary Revolutionary War history. Listing more than 350 historic sites throughout the state, DiIonno has compiled the most complete guide ever to the Revolutionary War in the Garden State.
The First World War and Popular Cinema
1914 to the Present
The First World War and Popular Cinema provides fresh insight into the role of film as an historical and cultural tool. Through a comparative approach, essays by contributors from Europe, Australia, Canada, and the United States enrich our understanding of cinematic depictions of the Great War in particular and combat in general. New historical research on both the uses of propaganda and the development of national cinemas make this collection one of the first to show the ways in which film history can contribute to our study of national histories.
Feminism and the Biological Body
As a trained biologist, Lynda Birke was frustrated by the gap between feminist cultural analysis and her own scientific background. In this book, she seeks to bridge this gap using ideas in anatomy and physiology to develop the feminist view that the biological body is socially and culturally constructed. Birke rejects the assumption that bodily function is somehow fixed and unchanging, claiming that biology offers more than just a deterministic narrative of how nature works. Feminism and the Biological Body brings natural science and feminist theory together and suggests that we need a new politics that includes, rather than denies, our flesh.
Emergence of Life on Earth
A Historical and Scientific Overview
Reckless Legislation
How Legislators Ignore the Consitution
Reckless Legislation examines legislative consideration and avoidance of issues of constitutionality through a number of examples: the regulation of the Internet by Congress and two state legislatures; the reliance by legislatures of Minneapolis, Indianapolis, and Tennessee on “experts” to justify passage of unconstitutional laws; the repeated passage of unconstitutional laws in New York and Missouri relating, respectively, to religion and abortion to wear down the courts and the opposition; and the efforts by Congress to reverse Supreme Court decisions believed by it to be incorrect or harmful.
Off the Record
The Technology and Culture of Sound Recording in America
Living Between Danger and Love
The Limits of Choice
Elder Law in New Jersey
Finding Solutions for Legal Problems
Controlling Hollywood
Censorship and Regulation in the Studio Era
A Particular Place
Urban Restructuring and Religious Ecology in a Southern Exurb
Theorizing the City
The New Urban Anthropology Reader
Anthropological perspectives are not often represented in urban studies, even though many anthropologists have been contributing actively to theory and research on urban poverty, racism, globalization, and architecture. The New Urban Anthropology Reader corrects this omission by presenting 12 cross-cultural case studies focusing on the analysis of space and place.
Five images of the city—the divided city, the contested city, the global city, the modernist city, and the postmodern city—serve as the framework for the selected essays. These images highlight current research trends in urban anthropology, such as poststructural studies of race, class, and gender in the urban context; political economic studies of transnational culture; and
studies of the symbolic and social production of urban space and planning.
Selected Chapters:
Theorizing the City: An Introduction by Setha M. Low
Part I. The Divided City
The Changing Significance of Race and Class in an African American Community, Steven Gregory
Fortified Enclaves: The New Urban Segregation by Teresa P. R. Caldeira
Part II. The Contested City
Spatializing Culture: The Social Production and Social Construction of Public Space in Costa Rica, Setha M. Low
Part III. The Global City
Wholesale Sushi: Culture and Commodity in Tokyo’s Tsukiki Market, Ted Bestor
Part IV. The Modernist City
The Modernist City and the Death of the Street by James Holston
Part V. The Postmodern City
Spatial Discourse and Social Boundaries: Re-imagining the Toronto Waterfront by Matthew Cooper
Paths Along The Hudson
A Guide to Walking and Biking
Of Orphans and Warriors
Inventing Chinese American Culture and Identity
No Place for a Woman
A Life of Senator Margaret Chase Smith
Gone Fishin'
The 100 Best Spots in New York
The Victorian World Picture
The Victorian era was a time of unprecedented population growth and massive industrialization. Darwinian theory shook people's religious beliefs and foreign competition threatened industry and agriculture. The transformation of this nineteenth-century world was overhwelming, pervading the social, cultural, intellectual, economic, and political spheres. By the time of the Great Exhibition in 1851, the British were calling themselves Victorians and Prince Albert was able to proclaim, "We are living at a period of most wonderful transition." David Newsome weaves all these strands of Victorian life into a compelling evocation of the spirit of a fascinating time that laid the foundation for the modern age.
Telling is Risky Business
Mental Health Consumers Confront Stigma
Neighborhood Recovery
Reinvestment Policy for the New Hometown
The Long Retreat
The Calamitous Defense of New Jersey, 1776
Restoring America's Neighborhoods
How Local People Make a Difference
Restoring America's Neighborhoods profiles twenty-four such cases from across the United States.
Recovering the Nation's Body
Cultural Memory, Medicine, and the Politics of Redemption
Recovering the Nation’s Body is the first book to analyze the actual practices involved in procuring human tissue, and the first to examine how the German past and the unique present-day situation within the European Union are key in understanding the form that medical practices take within various contexts.
Design and Feminism
Re-visioning Spaces, Places, and Everyday Things
When History Is A Nightmare
Lives and Memories of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Titanic
Anatomy of a Blockbuster
The Holistic Inspiration of Physics
The Underground History of Electromagnetic Theory
While many books have claimed parallels between modern physics and Eastern philosophy, none have dealt with the historical influences of both Chinese traditional thought and non-mechanistic, holistic western thought on the philosophies of the scientists who developed electromagnetic field theory. In The Holistic Inspirations of Physics, R. Valentine Dusek asks: to what extent is classical field theory a product of organic and holistic philosophies and frameworks?
The Evolution of Culture
A Historical and Scientific Overview
The Evolution of Culture seeks to explain the origins, evolution and character of human culture, from language, art, music and ritual to the use of technology and the beginnings of social, political and economic behavior. It is concerned not only with where and when human culture evolved, but also asks how and why. The book draws together original contributions by archaeologists, anthropologists, linguists and psychologists. The contributors call into question the gulf currently separating the natural from the cultural sciences. Human capacities for culture, they argue, evolved through standard processes of natural and sexual selection, and properly be analyzed as biological adaptations.
Newark's Little Italy
The Vanished First Ward
Jewish and Islamic Philosophy
Crosspollinations in the Classic Age
Sex Ed
Film, Video, and the Framework of Desire
Sex Ed also highlights the classroom. Eberwein draws connections between the earliest and most recent examples of educational films as he analyzes their ideological complexity. He concludes by examining marriage-manual films of the early 1970s and very recent videos for couples and individuals seeking instruction in sexual techniques to increase pleasure.
When Night Fell
An Anthology of Holocaust Short Stories
In When Night Fell: An Anthology of Holocaust Short Stories, Linda Schermer Raphael and Marc Lee Raphael have collected twenty-six short stories that tell of the human toll of the Holocaust on those who survived its horrors, as well as later generations touched by its memory. The stories are framed by discussion of the current debate about who owns the Holocaust and who is entitled to speak about it.
What It Means To Be A Man
Reflections on Puerto Rican Masculinity
Retrieving Bones
Stories and Poems of the Korean War
Prometheus Bedeviled
Science and the Contradictions of Contemporary Culture
Children in New Religions
A Map of Hope
Women's Writing on Human Rights—An International Literary Anthology
The Water We Drink
Water Quality and Its Effects on Health
Adolescence in a Moroccan Town
John Keats
Thai Women in the Global Labor Force
Consuming Desires, Contested Selves
By Airship to the North Pole
An Archaeology of Human Exploration
Women and Politics in Latin America
They Married Adventure
The Wandering Lives of Martin and Osa Johnson
Martin and Osa Johnson thrilled American audiences of the 1920s and 30s with their remarkable movies of far-away places, exotic peoples, and the dramatic spectacle of African wildlife. Their own lives were as exciting as the movies they made--sailing through the South Sea Islands, dodging big game at African waterholes, flying small planes over the veldt, taking millionaires on safari. Heroes to millions, Osa and Martin seemed to embody glamor, daring, and the all-American ideal of self-reliance.
Pretty in Punk
Girl's Gender Resistance in a Boy's Subculture
Jersey Blue
Civil War Politics in New Jersey, 1854–1865
Heresy in the University
The Black Athena Controversy and the Responsibilities of American Intellectuals
Forever Foreigners or Honorary Whites?
The Asian Ethnic Experience Today
Mia Tuan examines the salience and meaning of ethnicity for later generation Chinese- and Japanese-Americans, and asks how their concepts of ethnicity differ from that of white ethnic Americans. She interviewed 95 middle-class Chinese and Japanese Californians and analyzes the importance of ethnic identities and the concept of becoming a "real" American for both Asian and white ethnics. She asks her subjects about their early memories and experiences with Chinese/Japanese culture; current lifestyle and emerging cultural practices; experiences with racism and discrimination; and attitudes toward current Asian immigration.