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Performing Math
A History of Communication and Anxiety in the American Mathematics Classroom
By Andrew Fiss
Rutgers University Press
Performing Math uncovers math anxiety’s history in stage fright, and how math communication has involved a considerable amount of theatrical performance. Andrew Fiss argues for a new, performance-oriented history of American math education, one that can explain contemporary math attitudes and provide a way forward in reframing the problem of math anxiety.
Linked Lives
Elder Care, Migration, and Kinship in Sri Lanka
Rutgers University Press
When youth shake off their rural roots and middle-aged people migrate for economic opportunities, what happens to the grandparents left at home? Linked Lives invites readers into homes in a Sri Lankan Buddhist village to find out how elders face the challenges of a rapidly globalizing world.
Has It Come to This?
The Promises and Perils of Geoengineering on the Brink
Rutgers University Press
Geoengineering is the deliberate and large-scale intervention in the Earth's climate system in an attempt to mitigate the adverse effects of global warming. Now that a climate emergency is upon us, claims that geoengineering is inevitable are rapidly proliferating. How did we get into this? What options make it onto the table? Which are left out? Whom does geoengineering serve? These are some of the questions that the thinkers contributing to this volume are exploring.
Gentrification Down the Shore
By Molly Vollman Makris and Mary Gatta
Rutgers University Press
Gentrification in cities in the United States is a hot topic, but this book contributes something new to the ongoing discussion by offering a rich case study of seasonal gentrification and its effects on long time residents. Summer days in Asbury once again mean tourists strolling the boardwalk and dining by the Atlantic Ocean. But just across the railroad tracks from the seasonal crowds, many of Asbury’s long-time residents live below the poverty line and struggle for their share of this prosperity throughout all four seasons of the year.
Forget Burial
HIV Kinship, Disability, and Queer/Trans Narratives of Care
By Marty Fink
Rutgers University Press
Queers and trans people in the 1980s and early ‘90s were dying of AIDS and the government failed to care. Lovers, strangers, artists, and community activists came together take care of each other in the face of state violence.These early HIV care-giving narratives continue to shape how we understand our genders and our disabilities, forming ongoing chosen families for body self-determination.
American War Stories
Rutgers University Press
American War Stories breaks down the American perception of wars and focuses on how and why we conceptualize the “war” story. It is one of the first studies to ask readers to contemplate what constitutes a “war story” and how that constitution obscures the normalizing of militarism in American culture.
Citizen Power
A Citizen Leadership Manual, New Jersey Edition
Rutgers University Press
CITIZEN POWER gives all Americans the know how to become no-blame problem solvers and be part of what is emerging as a new model for a citizen driven national public service
The Thinking Woman
By Julienne van Loon; Foreword by Anne Summers
Rutgers University Press
Australian novelist Julienne van Loon engages with eight world-renowned female intellectuals, writers, and activists to consider what philosophy might teach us about ethics, politics, and the nature of existence, and how might we relate these big ideas back to the smaller everyday concerns of domestic life, work, play, love, and relationships.
The Synergistic Classroom
Interdisciplinary Teaching in the Small College Setting
Edited by Corey Campion and Aaron Angello
Rutgers University Press
Written by faculty engaged in the design and delivery of interdisciplinary courses, programs, and experiential learning opportunities in the small college setting, The Synergistic Classroom addresses the many ways faculty can leverage their institutions' small size and openness to pedagogical experimentation to overcome the challenges of limited institutional resources and enrollment concerns and better prepare students for life and work in the twenty-first century.
The Synergistic Classroom
Interdisciplinary Teaching in the Small College Setting
Edited by Corey Campion and Aaron Angello
Rutgers University Press
Written by faculty engaged in the design and delivery of interdisciplinary courses, programs, and experiential learning opportunities in the small college setting, The Synergistic Classroom addresses the many ways faculty can leverage their institutions' small size and openness to pedagogical experimentation to overcome the challenges of limited institutional resources and enrollment concerns and better prepare students for life and work in the twenty-first century.
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