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Art Direction and Production Design
The Things That Fly in the Night
Female Vampires in Literature of the Circum-Caribbean and African Diaspora
Jewish Mad Men
Advertising and the Design of the American Jewish Experience
Hiking the Road to Ruins
Daytrips and Camping Adventures to Iron Mines, Old Military Sites, and Things Abandoned in the New York City Area...and Beyond
The Autobiography of Citizenship
Assimilation and Resistance in U.S. Education
Our Aging Bodies
It's Not Your Fault!
Strategies for Solving Toilet Training and Bedwetting Problems
Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood
Smoking Privileges
Psychiatry, the Mentally Ill, and the Tobacco Industry in America
Black Female Sexualities
Caring on the Clock
The Complexities and Contradictions of Paid Care Work
Cinema Civil Rights
Regulation, Repression, and Race in the Classical Hollywood Era
Aging and Loss
Mourning and Maturity in Contemporary Japan
The Raritan River
Our Landscape, Our Legacy
Don't Act, Just Dance
The Metapolitics of Cold War Culture
Reproductive Justice
The Politics of Health Care for Native American Women
Battleground New Jersey
Vanderbilt, Hague, and Their Fight for Justice
Puerto Ricans in the Empire
Tobacco Growers and U.S. Colonialism
Family Activism
Immigrant Struggles and the Politics of Noncitizenship
Family Activism
Immigrant Struggles and the Politics of Noncitizenship
Phantom Ladies
Hollywood Horror and the Home Front
War Is Not a Game
The New Antiwar Soldiers and the Movement They Built
The New Neighborhood Senior Center
Redefining Social and Service Roles for the Baby Boom Generation
Dashiell Hammett and the Movies
Kabbalistic Revolution
Reimagining Judaism in Medieval Spain
Reading Prisoners
Literature, Literacy, and the Transformation of American Punishment, 1700–1845
A Ray of Light in a Sea of Dark Matter
A Ray of Light in a Sea of Dark Matter offers readers an accessible explanation of how astronomers probe dark matter. Readers quickly gain an understanding of what might be out there, how scientists arrive at their findings, and why this research is important to us. Engaging and insightful, Charles Keeton gives everyone an opportunity to be an active learner and listener in our ever-expanding universe.
New Jersey's Postsuburban Economy
Raised at Rutgers
A President's Story
Therapeutic Revolutions
Medicine, Psychiatry, and American Culture, 1945-1970
Therapeutic Revolutions examines the evolving relationship between American medicine, psychiatry, and culture from World War II to the dawn of the 1970s. In this richly layered intellectual history, Martin Halliwell ranges from national politics, public reports, and health care debates to the ways in which film, literature, and the mass media provided cultural channels for shaping and challenging preconceptions about health and illness.
Black Dogs and Blue Words
Depression and Gender in the Age of Self-Care
As depression and other forms of mental illness move from the medical-professional sphere into that of the consumer-public, the boundary at which distress becomes disease grows ever more encompassing, the need for remediation and treatment increasingly warranted. Black Dogs and Blue Words demonstrates the need for rhetorical reading strategies as one response to these expanding and gendered illness definitions.
Beasts of the Earth
Animals, Humans, and Disease
The Reappeared
Argentine Former Political Prisoners
Mean Lives, Mean Laws
Oklahoma's Women Prisoners
Loft Living
Culture and Capital in Urban Change
Fictions Inc.
The Corporation in Postmodern Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture
Urban Nightlife
Entertaining Race, Class, and Culture in Public Space
Misconception
Social Class and Infertility in America
Misconception
Social Class and Infertility in America
Living with Insecurity in a Brazilian Favela
Urban Violence and Daily Life
Deserving Desire
Women's Stories of Sexual Evolution
Health Humanities Reader
Screenwriting
Like a Natural Woman
Spectacular Female Performance in Classical Hollywood
Law and the Gay Rights Story
The Long Search for Equal Justice in a Divided Democracy
The Migration of Musical Film
From Ethnic Margins to American Mainstream
The Methamphetamine Industry in America
Transnational Cartels and Local Entrepreneurs
Activism and the Olympics
Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London
American Hybrid Poetics
Gender, Mass Culture, and Form
Cinematography