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Revolutionizing Romance
Interracial Couples in Contemporary Cuba
Rutgers University Press
Revolutionizing Romance is an account of the continuing significance of race in Cuba as it is experienced in interracial relationships.
Healing the Body Politic
El Salvador's Popular Struggle for Health Rights from Civil War to Neoliberal Peace
Rutgers University Press
Incorporating investigative journalism and drawing on interviews with participants and leaders, Sandy Smith-Nonini examines the contested place of health and development in El Salvador over the last two decades. Healing the Body Politic recounts the dramatic story of radical health activism from its origins in liberation theology and guerrilla medicine during the third-world country's twelve-year civil war, through development of a remarkable "popular health system," administered by lay providers in a former war zone controlled by leftist rebels.
Why Do Bees Buzz?
Fascinating Answers to Questions about Bees
By Elizabeth Evans and Carol A Butler
Rutgers University Press
Why Do Bees Buzz? reports on the mysterious "colony collapse disorder" that has affected honey bee populations, as well as other captivating topics, such as their complex, highly social lives, and how other species of bees are unique and different from honey bees. Organized in chapters that cover everything from these provocative pollinators' basic biology to the aggressive nature of killer bees, this insightful question and answer guide provides a honeycomb of compelling facts.
Guidebook for the Scientific Traveler
Visiting Physics and Chemistry Sites Across America
Rutgers University Press
Written in an easy-to-read and accessible style, Guidebook for the Scientific Traveler: Visiting Physics and Chemistry Sites across America is a practical and fun way to promote scientific literacy. Readers meet some of the world's great physicists, engineers, and chemists. Filled with more than fifty photographs and organized into chapters on individuals, places, and sites-from universities of science to national laboratories, particle accelerators to energy labs and beyond-this comprehensive guide illuminates the history of each topic and paints a panorama of stunning achievements in physics and chemistry.
No Permanent Waves
Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism
Edited by Nancy A. Hewitt; Introduction by Nancy A. Hewitt
Rutgers University Press
No Permanent Waves boldly enters the ongoing debates over the utility of the "wave" metaphor for capturing the complex history of women's rights by offering fresh perspectives on the diverse movements that comprise U.S. feminism, past and present. Seventeen essays--both original and reprinted--address continuities, conflicts, and transformations among women's movements in the United States from the early nineteenth century through today.
A New Jersey Anthology
Edited by Maxine N. Lurie
Rutgers University Press, Rivergate Books
This anthology contains seventeen essays covering eighteenth-century agrarian unrest, the Revolutionary War, politics in the Jackson era, feminism and the women's movements, slavery from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, strikes and labor struggles, land use and regional planning issues, Blacks in Newark, the current political state of New Jersey, and more.
Architecture Walks
The Best Outings Near New York City
By Lucy D. Rosenfeld and Marina Harrison
Rutgers University Press, Rivergate Books
From reflections of three hundred years of history to expressions of the most modern design, Architecture Walks guides readers on a tour of nearly one hundred inspiring, informative, and aesthetically intriguing architectural treasures in and around New York and the surrounding area, including Connecticut, New Jersey, the eastern edge of Pennsylvania, and Delaware. This book also incorporates descriptions of architectural styles, suggestions for special adventures, lists of jaunts arranged by architect or designer, architectural style, and particular types of sites, and forty photos.
Hollywood on the Hudson
Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff
Rutgers University Press
Contesting Childhood
Autobiography, Trauma, and Memory
By Kate Douglas
Rutgers University Press
Drawing on trauma and memory studies and theories of authorship and readership, Contesting Childhood offers commentary on the triumphs, trials, and tribulations that have shaped the genre of autobiographical writings about childhood. Douglas examines the content of the narratives and the limits of their representations, as well as some of the ways in which autobiographies of youth have become politically important and influential.
The New Chinese America
Class, Economy, and Social Hierarchy
Rutgers University Press
The New Chinese America explores the historical, economic, and social foundations of the Chinese American community, revealing the emergence of a new social hierarchy after the 1965 Immigration Act. Xiaojian Zhao uses class analysis to illuminate the difficulties of everyday survival for poor and undocumented immigrants and analyzes the process through which social mobility occurs. While the growth of the ethnic economy enhances ethnic bonds by increasing mutual dependencies among different groups of Chinese Americans, it also determines the limits of possibility for various individuals depending on their socioeconomic and immigration status.
The Jewish Graphic Novel
Critical Approaches
Rutgers University Press
The Jewish Graphic Novel is a lively, interdisciplinary collection of essays that addresses critically acclaimed works in this subgenre of Jewish literary and artistic culture. Featuring insightful discussions of notable figures in the industryùsuch as Will Eisner, Art Spiegelman, and Joann Sfarùthe essays focus on the how graphic novels are increasingly being used in Holocaust memoir and fiction, and to portray Jewish identity in America and abroad
Digital Dilemmas
The State, the Individual, and Digital Media in Cuba
Rutgers University Press
Digital Dilemmas views Cuba from the Soviet Union's demise to the present, to assess how conflicts over media access play out in their both liberating and repressive potential. Drawing on extensive scholarship and interviews, Cristina Venegas questions myths of how Internet use necessarily fosters global democracy and reveals the impact of new technologies on the country's governance and culture. She includes film in the context of broader media history, as well as artistic practices such as digital art and networks of diasporic communities connected by the Web. This book is a model for understanding the geopolitic location of power relations in the age of digital information sharing.
Biofeedback for the Brain
How Neurotherapy Effectively Treats Depression, ADHD, Autism, and More
Rutgers University Press
Neurofeedback is a cutting-edge, drug-free therapeutic technique used by over a thousand licensed therapists in North America to treat a range of conditions from attention deficit and hyperactivity disorders to epilepsy, stroke, anxiety, migraine, and depression. In Biofeedback for the Brain, Dr. Paul G. Swingle describes in clear and coherent language how these procedures work. With numerous actual case examples, readers follow the progress of clients from the initial “brain map” that shows the location and severity of the neurological abnormalities to the various stages of treatment.
Baseball's Greatest Series
Yankees, Mariners, and the 1995 Matchup That Changed History
Rutgers University Press, Rivergate Books
Baseball's Greatest Series details what many believe to be the most exciting postseason series in baseball history: the 1995 Division Series between the New York Yankees and the Seattle Mariners. Chris Donnelly's replay of this entire season focuses on five games that reminded people, after the devastating players' strike in 1994, how great a game baseball is because comebacks are always possible, no matter how great the obstacles may seem.
Leading the Way
Young Women's Activism for Social Change
Edited by Mary K. Trigg; Preface by Mary Hartman
Rutgers University Press
Leading the Way is a collection of personal essays written by twenty-one young, hopeful American women who describe their work, activism, leadership, and efforts to change the world. It responds to critical portrayals of this generation of "twenty-somethings" as being disengaged and apathetic about politics, social problems, and civic causes. This collection introduces readers to young women who are being prepared and empowered to assume leadership roles with men in all public arenas, and to accept equal responsibility for making positive social change in the twenty-first century.
From Madness to Mental Health
Psychiatric Disorder and Its Treatment in Western Civilization
Edited by Greg Eghigian
Rutgers University Press
In From Madness to Mental Health, Greg Eghigian has compiled a unique anthology of readings, from ancient times to the present, which also includes an updated bibliography of first-person narratives on mental illness compiled by Gail A. Hornstein. This work neither glorifies nor denigrates the contributions of psychiatry, clinical psychology, and psychotherapy, but rather considers how mental disorders have historically challenged the ways in which human beings have understood and valued their bodies, minds, and souls.
Final Acts
Death, Dying, and the Choices We Make
Edited by Nan Bauer-Maglin and Donna Perry
Rutgers University Press
Today most people die gradually, from incremental illnesses, rather than from the heart attacks or fast-moving diseases that killed earlier generations. Given this new reality, the essays in Final Acts explore how we can make informed and caring end-of-life choices for ourselves and for those we loveùand what can happen without such planning.
Your Pocket Is What Cures You
The Politics of Health in Senegal
Rutgers University Press
In the wake of structural adjustment programs in the 1980s and health reforms in the 1990s, the majority of sub-Saharan African governments spend less than ten dollars per capita on health annually, and many Africans have limited access to basic medical care. Using a community-level approach, anthropologist Ellen E. Foley analyzes the implementation of global health policies and how they become intertwined with existing social and political inequalities in Senegal. Your Pocket Is What Cures You examines qualitative shifts in health and healing spurred by these reforms, and analyzes the dilemmas they create for health professionals and patients alike. It also explores how cultural frameworks, particularly those stemming from Islam and Wolof ethnomedicine, are central to understanding how people manage vulnerability to ill health.
While offering a critique of neoliberal health policies, Your Pocket Is What Cures You remains grounded in ethnography to highlight the struggles of men and women who are precariously balanced on twin precipices of crumbling health systems and economic decline. Their stories demonstrate what happens when market-based health reforms collide with material, political, and social realities in African societies.
Black Sexualities
Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and Policies
Edited by Juan Battle and Sandra L. Barnes
Rutgers University Press
From questioning forces that have constrained sexual choices to examining how Blacks have forged healthy sexual identities in an oppressive environment, Black Sexualities acknowledges the diversity of the Black experience and the shared legacy of racism. Contributors seek resolution to Blacks' understanding of their lives as sexual beings through stories of empowerment, healing, self-awareness, victories, and other historic and contemporary life-course panoramas and provide practical information to foster more culturally relative research, tolerance, and acceptance.
Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence
Conundrums in Modern American Medicine
By Gerald N. Grob and Allan V. Horwitz
Rutgers University Press
Employing historical and contemporary data and case studies, the authors also examine tonsillectomy, cancer, heart disease, anxiety, and depression, and identify differences between rhetoric and reality and the weaknesses in diagnosis and treatment.
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