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Demographic Angst

Cultural Narratives and American Films of the 1950s

Rutgers University Press

Alan Nadel explores influential non-fiction books, magazine articles, and public documents to demonstrate how films such as Singin’ in the Rain, On the Waterfront, Sunset Boulevard, Roman Holiday, North by Northwest, and Sayonara, negotiated anxieties over the changes impelled by postwar America’s radically reconfigured population. 

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Lesson Plans

The Institutional Demands of Becoming a Teacher

Rutgers University Press

Judson G. Everitt takes readers into the everyday worlds of teacher training. Using rich qualitative data, he analyzes how people make sense of their prospective jobs as teachers, and how their introduction to this profession is shaped by the institutionalized rules and practices of higher education, K-12 education, and gender.  

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Rock 'n' Roll Movies

Rutgers University Press

This book offers an eclectic look at how rock ‘n’ roll and its fans have been represented in B-movies, blockbusters, biopics, documentaries, and experimental films. David Sterritt explores how rock ‘n’ roll movies kept pace with rapidly changing musical trends, helping to fuel a worldwide revolution in youth culture.  

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Iatrogenicity

Causes and Consequences of Iatrogenesis in Cardiovascular Medicine

Rutgers University Press, Rutgers University Press Medicine

This book addresses consequences on the cardiovascular system that arise from iatrogenesis— the occurrence of untoward effects resulting from actions of health care providers, including medical errors, medical malpractice, practicing beyond one’s expertise, adverse effects of medication, unnecessary treatment, inappropriate screenings, and surgical errors.

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Iatrogenicity

Causes and Consequences of Iatrogenesis in Cardiovascular Medicine

Rutgers University Press, Rutgers University Press Medicine

This book addresses consequences on the cardiovascular system that arise from iatrogenesis— the occurrence of untoward effects resulting from actions of health care providers, including medical errors, medical malpractice, practicing beyond one’s expertise, adverse effects of medication, unnecessary treatment, inappropriate screenings, and surgical errors.

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Embodying the Problem

The Persuasive Power of the Teen Mother

Rutgers University Press

Embodying the Problem shows that the dominant narrative regarding teenage pregnancy perpetuates harmful discourses about women and sustains racialized gender ideologies that construct women’s bodies as sites of national intervention and control. However, many women who embody the “problem” of teenage pregnancy actively resist this narrative by publishing their own stories.  

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Searching for Sycorax

Black Women's Hauntings of Contemporary Horror

Rutgers University Press

Searching for Sycorax highlights the unique position of Black women in horror as both characters and creators. Kinitra D. Brooks creates a racially gendered critical analysis of African diasporic women, challenging the horror genre’s historic themes and interrogating forms of literature that have often been ignored by Black feminist theory.

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Lady Lushes

Gender, Alcoholism, and Medicine in Modern America

Rutgers University Press

In Lady Lushes, medical historian Michelle L. McClellan traces the story of the female alcoholic from the late-nineteenth through the twentieth century. She draws on a range of sources—including medical literature, archival materials, popular media, and autobiographical writings of alcoholic women—to demonstrate the persistence of the belief that alcohol use is antithetical to an idealized feminine role.  
 

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Developing Faculty in Liberal Arts Colleges

Aligning Individual Needs and Organizational Goals

Rutgers University Press

Developing Faculty Members in Liberal Arts Colleges analyzes the career stage challenges these faculty members must overcome, such as a lack of preparation for teaching, limited access to resources and mentors, and changing expectations for excellence in teaching, research, and service to become academic leaders in their discipline and at these distinctive institutions.  

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Essential Facts in Cardiovascular Medicine

Board Review and Clinical Pearls

Rutgers University Press, Rutgers University Press Medicine

A high-yield, concise-yet-comprehensive handbook, Essential Facts in Cardiovascular Medicine provides key facts in cardiovascular medicine in a user-friendly bulleted format. Get the information you need to pass your boards or review core concepts, in this pocket-sized reference that is perfect for trainees and experts alike.  

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Poison in the Ivy

Race Relations and the Reproduction of Inequality on Elite College Campuses

Rutgers University Press

Poison in the Ivy examines college students in the U.S.’s upper-echelon of higher education to identify how young elites interact with one another, how these social interactions influence their views of race and inequality, and how these views and interactions may contribute to broader racial inequalities in society. 
 

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A Dream of Resistance

The Cinema of Kobayashi Masaki

Rutgers University Press

A Dream of Resistance is the first book in English to explore Kobayashi Masaki’s entire career. Drawing from rare archives, including the young director’s wartime diary, Stephen Prince illuminates the political and religious dimensions of Kobayashi’s films and examines how their values were shaped by his intellectual history and upbringing.  

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In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills

Latino Suburbanization in Postwar Los Angeles

Rutgers University Press

In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills examines the multilayered process by which Mexican Americans moved out of the barrios and emerged as a majority population in the San Gabriel Valley, and the impact that movement had on collective racial and class identity. 

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A Queerly Joyful Noise

Choral Musicking for Social Justice

Rutgers University Press


A Queerly Joyful Noise investigates why so many LGBTIQ people are drawn to choral music and how queer chorus members create an experience that is beautiful and politically impactful. Julia “Jules” Balén vividly conveys how queer choruses can collectively empower their singers and serve as progressive rallying calls for their listeners. 
 

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Directing

Rutgers University Press

Directing examines a diverse range of classic and contemporary directors, including Orson Welles, Tim Burton, Cecil B. DeMille, Steven Soderbergh, Spike Lee, and Ida Lupino, and demonstrates how a century’s worth of Hollywood directors have negotiated changing film industry practices while harnessing the creative contributions of many collaborators.  

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Directing

Rutgers University Press

Directing examines a diverse range of classic and contemporary directors, including Orson Welles, Tim Burton, Cecil B. DeMille, Steven Soderbergh, Spike Lee, and Ida Lupino, and demonstrates how a century’s worth of Hollywood directors have negotiated changing film industry practices while harnessing the creative contributions of many collaborators.  

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Gangsters to Governors

The New Bosses of Gambling in America

Rutgers University Press


Gambling was once illegal and controlled by gangsters. But today, gambling is legal in forty-eight states. Are states now addicted to revenue from casinos, lotteries, and online gaming? Clary’s history of American gambling introduces us to the industry’s colorful kingpins while asking tough questions about the pros and cons of legal gambling.

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Shadow Bodies

Black Women, Ideology, Representation, and Politics

Rutgers University Press

Grounded in Black feminist thought, Julia S. Jordan-Zachery looks at the functioning of scripts ascribed to Black women’s bodies in the framing of HIV/AIDS, domestic abuse, and mental illness and how such functioning renders some black female bodies invisible in Black politics in general and Black women’s politics specifically.  

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Challenges of Diversity

Essays on America

Rutgers University Press

What unites and what divides Americans as a nation? Opening with a survey of American literature through the vantage point of ethnicity, Werner Sollors examines the changing self-understanding of the United States from an Anglo-American to a multicultural country and the role writing has played in that process. 

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Food Across Borders

Rutgers University Press

The act of eating defines and redefines borders. The stories told in Food Across Borders highlight the contiguity between the intimate decisions we make as individuals concerning what we eat and the social and geopolitical processes we enact to secure nourishment, territory, and belonging.  

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