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Neighborhood Recovery
Reinvestment Policy for the New Hometown
The Long Retreat
The Calamitous Defense of New Jersey, 1776
Restoring America's Neighborhoods
How Local People Make a Difference
Restoring America's Neighborhoods profiles twenty-four such cases from across the United States.
Recovering the Nation's Body
Cultural Memory, Medicine, and the Politics of Redemption
Recovering the Nation’s Body is the first book to analyze the actual practices involved in procuring human tissue, and the first to examine how the German past and the unique present-day situation within the European Union are key in understanding the form that medical practices take within various contexts.
Design and Feminism
Re-visioning Spaces, Places, and Everyday Things
When History Is A Nightmare
Lives and Memories of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Titanic
Anatomy of a Blockbuster
The Holistic Inspiration of Physics
The Underground History of Electromagnetic Theory
While many books have claimed parallels between modern physics and Eastern philosophy, none have dealt with the historical influences of both Chinese traditional thought and non-mechanistic, holistic western thought on the philosophies of the scientists who developed electromagnetic field theory. In The Holistic Inspirations of Physics, R. Valentine Dusek asks: to what extent is classical field theory a product of organic and holistic philosophies and frameworks?
The Evolution of Culture
A Historical and Scientific Overview
The Evolution of Culture seeks to explain the origins, evolution and character of human culture, from language, art, music and ritual to the use of technology and the beginnings of social, political and economic behavior. It is concerned not only with where and when human culture evolved, but also asks how and why. The book draws together original contributions by archaeologists, anthropologists, linguists and psychologists. The contributors call into question the gulf currently separating the natural from the cultural sciences. Human capacities for culture, they argue, evolved through standard processes of natural and sexual selection, and properly be analyzed as biological adaptations.
Newark's Little Italy
The Vanished First Ward
Jewish and Islamic Philosophy
Crosspollinations in the Classic Age
Sex Ed
Film, Video, and the Framework of Desire
Sex Ed also highlights the classroom. Eberwein draws connections between the earliest and most recent examples of educational films as he analyzes their ideological complexity. He concludes by examining marriage-manual films of the early 1970s and very recent videos for couples and individuals seeking instruction in sexual techniques to increase pleasure.
When Night Fell
An Anthology of Holocaust Short Stories
In When Night Fell: An Anthology of Holocaust Short Stories, Linda Schermer Raphael and Marc Lee Raphael have collected twenty-six short stories that tell of the human toll of the Holocaust on those who survived its horrors, as well as later generations touched by its memory. The stories are framed by discussion of the current debate about who owns the Holocaust and who is entitled to speak about it.
What It Means To Be A Man
Reflections on Puerto Rican Masculinity
Retrieving Bones
Stories and Poems of the Korean War
Prometheus Bedeviled
Science and the Contradictions of Contemporary Culture
Children in New Religions
A Map of Hope
Women's Writing on Human Rights—An International Literary Anthology
The Water We Drink
Water Quality and Its Effects on Health
Adolescence in a Moroccan Town
John Keats
Thai Women in the Global Labor Force
Consuming Desires, Contested Selves
By Airship to the North Pole
An Archaeology of Human Exploration
Women and Politics in Latin America
They Married Adventure
The Wandering Lives of Martin and Osa Johnson
Martin and Osa Johnson thrilled American audiences of the 1920s and 30s with their remarkable movies of far-away places, exotic peoples, and the dramatic spectacle of African wildlife. Their own lives were as exciting as the movies they made--sailing through the South Sea Islands, dodging big game at African waterholes, flying small planes over the veldt, taking millionaires on safari. Heroes to millions, Osa and Martin seemed to embody glamor, daring, and the all-American ideal of self-reliance.
Pretty in Punk
Girl's Gender Resistance in a Boy's Subculture
Jersey Blue
Civil War Politics in New Jersey, 1854–1865
Heresy in the University
The Black Athena Controversy and the Responsibilities of American Intellectuals
Forever Foreigners or Honorary Whites?
The Asian Ethnic Experience Today
Mia Tuan examines the salience and meaning of ethnicity for later generation Chinese- and Japanese-Americans, and asks how their concepts of ethnicity differ from that of white ethnic Americans. She interviewed 95 middle-class Chinese and Japanese Californians and analyzes the importance of ethnic identities and the concept of becoming a "real" American for both Asian and white ethnics. She asks her subjects about their early memories and experiences with Chinese/Japanese culture; current lifestyle and emerging cultural practices; experiences with racism and discrimination; and attitudes toward current Asian immigration.
Encyclopedia of British Women Writers
African Fractals
Modern Computing and Indigenous Design
Writing Under the Raj
Gender, Race, and Rape in the British Colonial Imagination, 1830-1947
The Planetary Interest
Talking Leadership
Conversations with Powerful Women
Ottoman Warfare 1500-1700
Consuming Environments
Television and Commercial Culture
William Troy
Selected Essays
Ways of the World
A History of the World's Roads and of the Vehicles that Used Them
This is the first comprehensive history of the world's roads, highways, bridges, and the people and vehicles that traverse them, from prehistoric times to the present. Encyclopedic in its scope, fascinating in its details, Ways of the World is a unique work for reference and browsing. Maxwell Lay considers the myriad aspects of roads and their users: the earliest pathways, the rise of wheeled vehicles and animals to pull them, the development of surfaced roads, the motives for road and bridge building, and the rise of cars and their influence on roads, cities, and society. The work is amply illustrated, well indexed and cross-referenced, and includes a chronology of road history and a full bibliography.
It is indispensable for anyone interested in travel, history, geography, transportation, cars, or the history of technology.
God Gave Us The Right
Conservative Catholic, Evangelical Protestant, and Orthodox Jewish Women Grapple with Feminism
A Dutch Family in the Middle Colonies
1660-1880
The Unedited Diaries of Carolina Maria De Jesus
Carolina Maria de Jesus' book, Quarto de Despejo (The Trash Room), depicted the harsh life of the slums, but it also spoke of the author's pride in her blackness, her high moral standards, and her patriotism. More than a million copies of her diary are believed to have been sold worldwide. Yet many Brazilians refused to believe that someone like de Jesus could have written such a diary, with its complicated words (some of them misused) and often lyrical phrasing as she discussed world events. Doubters prefer to believe the book was either written by Audáulio Dantas, the enterprising newspaper reporter who discovered her, or that Dantas rewrote it so substantially that her book is a fraud. With the cooperation of de Jesus' daughter, recent research shows that although Dantas deleted considerable portions of the diary (as well as a second one), every word was de Jesus'.
Pregnant Women on Drugs
Combating Stereotypes and Stigma
Sociologists Murphy and Rosenbaum interviewed over 120 women who had children while using drugs. Their interviews reveal how the women became addicted, how they may or may not have modified their behavior to protect their children, and how they have dealt with having children and losing them as a result of their addiction. Not all the women interviewed were from abusive or poor families; there is extensive information on how the study population was selected. Also included are suggestions on how to deal with the problem, including women-centered drug treatment and training programs to help women learn trades as well as parenting skills. Though the interviews are enlightening, readers may wish for more answers to the question of how to deal with the root problem and less about the problems drug-addicted mothers face. For academic libraries, especially those with women's studies and sociology collections.?Danna C. Bell-Russel, Natl. Equal Justice Lib., Washington, DC