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Destined for Greatness
Passions, Dreams, and Aspirations in a College Music Town
Michael Ramirez examines the lives of forty-eight independent rock musicians who seek out non-normative choices in a renowned college music town. He explores the life course trajectories of women and men to understand the extent to which pathways are structured to allow some individuals to fashion careers in music worlds.
The Douglass Century
Transformation of the Women’s College at Rutgers University
Using Servant Leadership
How to Reframe the Core Functions of Higher Education
Prohibition Gangsters
The Rise and Fall of a Bad Generation
Based on FBI and other government files, trial transcripts, and the latest scholarship, this book provides a lively narrative of shootouts, car chases, courtroom clashes, wire tapping and rub-outs from the 1920s and beyond, acknowledging how the Prohibition generation forever transformed organized crime from loosely associated gangs into sophisticated, complex syndicates.
At War
The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Transitive Cultures
Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific
A Short History of Film, Third Edition
Post-Borderlandia
Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique
Child Survivors of the Holocaust
The Youngest Remnant and the American Experience
Knickerbocker
The Myth behind New York
Fractured Communities
Risk, Impacts, and Protest Against Hydraulic Fracking in U.S. Shale Regions
LatinAsian Cartographies
History, Writing, and the National Imaginary
The Modern British Horror Film
Tracking the revitalization of the British horror film industry over the past two decades, Steven Gerrard examines the genre’s highlights, including The Descent, Outpost, and The Woman in Black, while provocatively exploring how these films reflect viewers’ gravest fears about the state of the nation.