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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.