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Imprisoned Minds

Lost Boys, Trapped Men, and Solutions from Within the Prison

Rutgers University Press

Imprisoned Minds tells the stories of men in prison that few people ever hear. Six gripping, first-person narratives of unimaginable childhood trauma and neglect set the men on a pathway for prison or death. We finally hear their stories because the author is in prison alongside them—incarcerated for life at the age of 21. 
 

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Hollywood Unions

Rutgers University Press

Who makes films and television shows? How do those people make a living in Hollywood? Hollywood Unions tells the stories of the unions and guilds that have organized and negotiate on behalf of motion picture and television labor: the DGA, IATSE, SAG-AFTRA, and WGA.

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Hollywood Unions

Rutgers University Press

Who makes films and television shows? How do those people make a living in Hollywood? Hollywood Unions tells the stories of the unions and guilds that have organized and negotiate on behalf of motion picture and television labor: the DGA, IATSE, SAG-AFTRA, and WGA.

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Grieving Pregnancy

Memorializing Loss in Japanese Buddhism and American Catholicism

Rutgers University Press

Grieving Pregnancy compares contemporary American Catholic and Japanese Buddhist memorial practices focused on miscarriage, stillbirth, and abortion. Maureen L. Walsh demonstrates that while the memorial practices confront the same basic problem—that is, pregnancy loss—they conceive of the problem in different terms, and as a result, propose distinct responses to it.

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God's Waiting Room

Racial Reckoning at Life's End

Rutgers University Press

A ghost story rich in mystery and life lessons, God’s Waiting Room takes readers on a day-long tour of a tropical nursing home to hear stories of older white people and the younger Black nurses who care for them, showing how people formerly primed to be enemies find grace despite the odds.

 

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British Romanticism and Prison Reform

Bucknell University Press

British Romanticism and Prison Reform is the first full-length study to explore and define the close relationship between British Romantic literary texts, on the one hand, and the birth of the modern prison, on the other, giving long overdue attention to the revolution in punishment coterminous with the age we call Romantic.

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Becoming an Expert Caregiver

How Structural Flaws Shape Autism Carework and Community

Rutgers University Press

This book features the voices of 50 primary caregivers of autistic and neurodivergent children who illuminate the process through which lay women become expert caregivers to provide the best care for their children. Expert caregiving captures an intensification of traditional family carework – meeting dependents’ financial, emotional, and physical needs – that transcends the walls of one’s private home and family and challenges the strict boundaries between many worlds: lay and professional, family and work, private and public, medical and social, and individual and society. 

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Tasting and Testing Books

Good Housekeeping, Popular Modernism, and Middlebrow Reading

University of Massachusetts Press
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Building for People

Designing Livable, Affordable, Low-Carbon Communities

Island Press

In Building for People, architect and ecodistrict planner Michael Eliason makes the case for low-carbon ecodistricts and presents practical tools for developing these residential and mixed-use communities. As cities turn brownfields into green fields and look to maximize public investment in transit and infrastructure, ecodistricts are the answer. Eliason shows that this type of affordable, climate-adaptive living option is possible anywhere.

Full-color photos and illustrations show what is possible in ecodistricts through examples around the world. Looking at small districts like Steingau in Kirchheim unter Teck, to massive urban redevelopment like Vienna’s Sonnwendviertel and Seestadt-Aspern as models, Eliason argues that building regulations and planning processes in the US must change to make these livable neighborhoods possible.

Building for People shows professionals involved in regulating, planning, or designing our communities that high-quality, low-carbon living is within reach.
 

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Green Public Procurement

Lessons from the Fields: Canada, France, Italy, Portugal, Netherlands and Switzerland

Les Presses de l'Université Laval, Laval University Press
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The Earth That Modernism Built

Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design

University of Texas Press

Rewrites the history of architectural modernism for an age of environmental crisis and enduring colonialism.

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Prohibition in Turkey

Alcohol and the Politics of Identity

University of Texas Press

A social history of alcohol, identity, secularism, and modernization from the late Ottoman and early Turkish republican eras to the present day.

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Ida Lupino, Forgotten Auteur

From Film Noir to the Director's Chair

University of Texas Press

An archival study of Ida Lupino’s work in film and television directing, writing, producing, and acting from the 1940s to the 1970s.

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A Carpetbagger in Reverse

Arthur W. Mitchell, America's First Black Democratic Congressman

University of Alabama Press

A long overdue account of the pioneering life and work of controversial African American Congressman Arthur Wergs Mitchell of Chicago

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Inventing the Boston Game

Football, Soccer, and the Origins of a National Myth

University of Massachusetts Press
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