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The Zoom
Drama at the Touch of a Lever
Children and Drug Safety
Balancing Risk and Protection in Twentieth-Century America
The Limits of Auteurism
Case Studies in the Critically Constructed New Hollywood
A Rhetorical Crime
Genocide in the Geopolitical Discourse of the Cold War
Historians on Hamilton
How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America's Past
Historians on Hamilton
How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America's Past
Standing on Principle
Lessons Learned in Public Life
Rest Uneasy
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Twentieth-Century America
Empowering Men of Color on Campus
Building Student Community in Higher Education
Monster Cinema
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.