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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