Everyday People
Profiles from the Garden State
In this time of ever-shorter news stories telling us everything that’s wrong with the world, it’s a nice change of pace to read about someone like Felix Addeo, who takes time out of his busy schedule to teach middle school kids what it’s like to be an accountant. Or biomedical engineer Lois Ross, who twice a year leads a group of volunteers to clean up a local pond. These are just two of the ordinary, yet extraordinary, people profiled in this collection of feature articles by New Jersey reporter Al Sullivan. Through richly detailed stories—a kind of writing that has all but disappeared from our local newspapers—about small-town people in extraordinary situations, Sullivan depicts the characters that enliven life in the Garden State. While his stories always have a strongly local feel, each contains an element of the universal that draws in readers whose interest lies not in a specific location, but in the diverse experiences and stories of people who live in and shape a community.
Communities and The Environment
Ethnicity, Gender, and the State in Community-Based Conservation
For years environmentalists thought natural resources could be best protected by national legislation. But the poor outcomes of this top-down policy have led conservation professionals today to regard local communities as the agents of conservation efforts. According to a recent survey, more than fifty countries report that they pursue partnerships with local communities in an effort to protect their forests. Despite the recent popularity of a community-based approach, the concept of community rarely receives the attention it should get from those concerned with resource management. This balanced volume redresses the situation, demonstrating both the promise and the potential dangers of community action.
Christianity, Social Change, and Globalization in the Americas
Organized around three central themes-family, youth, and community; democratization, citizenship, and political participation; and immigration and transnationalism-this book argues that, at the local level, religion helps people, especially women and youths, solidify their identities and confront the challenges of the modern world.
Camden County, New Jersey
The Making of a Metropolitan Community, 1626-2000
Biography of a Chairman Mao Badge
The Creation and Mass Consumption of a Personality Cult
Alan V. Lowenstein
New Jersey Lawyer and Community Leader
Are We One?
Jewish Identity in the United States and Israel
In Are We One? Jerold S. Auerbach presents a surprising new interpretation of this contemporary Jewish dilemma. The modern Jewish impulse to embrace Western values, he writes, exacts a terrible price. He offers a critical reassessment of Zionism, a challenging analysis of the sources of the identification of American Jews with Israel—and a gloomy prognosis of the future of Jewish life, both in Israel and the United States.
Under the Mask
A Guide to Feeling Secure and Comfortable During Anesthesia and Surgery
Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories
Women and Welfare
Theory and Practice in the United States and Europe
The Uncommon Vision of Sergei Konenkov, 1874-1971
A Russian Sculptor and His Times
Physics, the Human Adventure
From Copernicus to Einstein and Beyond
Fashion, Desire and Anxiety
Image and Morality in the Twentieth Century
The Actor's Art
Conversations with Contemporary American Stage Performers
Resistance of the Heart
Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany
Mothers and Children
Feminist Analyses and Personal Narratives
The Making of American Resorts
Saratoga Springs, Ballston Spa, and Lake George
Headline Hollywood
A Century of Film Scandal
Bold Words
A Century of Asian American Writing
Women and Borderline Personality Disorder
Symptoms and Stories
In Women and Borderline Personality Disorder, Janet Wirth-Cauchon presents a feminist cultural analysis of the notions of “unstable” selfhood found in case narratives of women diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.
The Architecture of Bergen County, New Jersey
The Colonial Period to the Twentieth Century
The Architecture of Bergen County, New Jersey presents an accessible overview of the county's architectural heritage and its historic structures. The volume explores the styles, trends, and events that influenced the design and setting of the region's buildings. More than 150 photos document Bergen County's architectural treasures, generating awareness and appreciation for these structures and their history.
The Architecture of Bergen County, New Jersey demonstrates the close association between architectural development at the national and local levels, and shows how social, technological, and political changes occurring within the county have been reflected in the building types and styles of the area.
Recovering the Black Female Body
Self-Representation by African American Women
Labor's Text
The Worker in American Fiction
Jean Toomer & Harlem Renaissance
Jean Toomer's novel Cane has been hailed as the harbinger of the Harlem Renaissance and as a model for modernist writing, yet it eludes categorization and its author remains an enigmatic and controversial figure in American literature. The present collection of essays by European and American scholars gives a fresh perspective by using sources made available only in recent years, highlighting Toomer's bold experimentations, as well as his often ambiguous responses to the questions of his time.
Good Sex
Feminist Perspectives from the World's Religions
Cosmetic Surgery
The Cutting Edge of Commercial Medicine in America
The Right Blood
America's Aristocrats in Thoroughbred Racing
Recreating Motherhood
Selling “genetically gifted” human eggs on the free market for a hefty price. In vitro fertilization. Fetal rights. Prenatal diagnosis. Surrogacy. All are instances of biomedical and social “advancements” with which we have become familiar in recent years. Yet these issues are often regarded as distinct or only loosely related under the rubric of reproduction.
Barbara Katz Rothman demonstrates how they form a complex whole that demands of us in response a woman-centered, class-sensitive way of understanding motherhood.