Utopia, New Jersey
Travels in the Nearest Eden
Hindu Primary Sources
A Sectarian Reader
Notorious New Jersey
100 True Tales of Murders and Mobsters, Scandals and Scoundrels
Genetic Witness
Science, Law, and Controversy in the Making of DNA Profiling
Yet, this promise took ten turbulent years to be fulfilled. In Genetic Witness, Jay D. Aronson uncovers the dramatic early history of DNA profiling that has been obscured by the technique’s recent success.
Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion
A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles
Abel’s revealing account provides a critical lens through which to view both the contemporary debate about immigration and the U.S. response to the emergent global tuberculosis epidemic.
Hemispheric American Studies
The Many Colors of Hinduism
A Thematic-Historical Introduction
The Many Colors of Hinduism is the first introductory text to provide a balanced view of this rich religious tradition, acknowledging the full range of its many competing and even contradictory aspects. Utilizing a thematic-historical approach, Carl Olson draws on a wide array of textual evidence, the fieldwork of anthropologists in close contact with insiders, and voices of thinkers ranging from Indologist Alf Hiltebeitel to Cambridge scholar Julius Lipner. The result is a narrative approach that offers a view of Hinduism that emulates the storytelling nature of the religion itself.
Not in Front of the Children
'Indecency,' Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth
Money Jungle
Imagining the New Times Square
Big Prisons, Big Dreams
Crime and the Failure of America's Penal System
Breeding Contempt
The History of Coerced Sterilization in the United States
Waste is a Terrible Thing to Mind
Risk, Radiation, and Distrust of Government
The Naked Truth
Why Hollywood Doesn't Make X-rated Movies
Just Don't Get Sick
Access to Health Care in the Aftermath of Welfare Reform
With the Weathermen
The Personal Journal of a Revolutionary Woman
The Weathermen--a U.S.-based, revolutionary splinter group of Students for a Democratic Society--advocated the overthrow of the government and capitalism, and toward that end, carried out a campaign of bombings, jailbreaks, and riots throughout the United States. In With the Weathermen Stern traces her involvement with this group, and her transformation from a shy, married graduate student into a go-go dancing, street-fighting "macho mama." In vivid and emotional language, she describes the attractions and difficulties of joining a collective radical group and in maintaining a position within it.
Stern's memoir offers a rich description of the raw and rough social dynamics of this community, from its strict demands to "smash monogamy," to its sometimes enforced orgies, and to the demeaning character assassination that was led by the group's top members. She provides a distinctly personal and female perspective on the destructive social functionality and frequently contradictory attitudes toward gender roles and women's rights within the New Left.
Laura Browder's masterful introduction situates Stern's memoir in its historical context, examines the circumstances of its writing and publication, and describes the book's somewhat controversial reception by the public and critics alike.
Growing Girls
The Natural Origins of Girls' Organizations in America
Susan A. Miller explores these girls' organizations that sprung up in the first half of the twentieth century from a socio-historical perspective, showing how the notions of uniform identity, civic duty, "primitive domesticity," and fitness shaped the formation of the modern girl.