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Are We One?
Jewish Identity in the United States and Israel
In Are We One? Jerold S. Auerbach presents a surprising new interpretation of this contemporary Jewish dilemma. The modern Jewish impulse to embrace Western values, he writes, exacts a terrible price. He offers a critical reassessment of Zionism, a challenging analysis of the sources of the identification of American Jews with Israel—and a gloomy prognosis of the future of Jewish life, both in Israel and the United States.
Under the Mask
A Guide to Feeling Secure and Comfortable During Anesthesia and Surgery
Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories
Women and Welfare
Theory and Practice in the United States and Europe
The Uncommon Vision of Sergei Konenkov, 1874-1971
A Russian Sculptor and His Times
Physics, the Human Adventure
From Copernicus to Einstein and Beyond
Fashion, Desire and Anxiety
Image and Morality in the Twentieth Century
The Actor's Art
Conversations with Contemporary American Stage Performers
Resistance of the Heart
Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany
Mothers and Children
Feminist Analyses and Personal Narratives
The Making of American Resorts
Saratoga Springs, Ballston Spa, and Lake George
Headline Hollywood
A Century of Film Scandal
Bold Words
A Century of Asian American Writing
Women and Borderline Personality Disorder
Symptoms and Stories
In Women and Borderline Personality Disorder, Janet Wirth-Cauchon presents a feminist cultural analysis of the notions of “unstable” selfhood found in case narratives of women diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.
The Architecture of Bergen County, New Jersey
The Colonial Period to the Twentieth Century
The Architecture of Bergen County, New Jersey presents an accessible overview of the county's architectural heritage and its historic structures. The volume explores the styles, trends, and events that influenced the design and setting of the region's buildings. More than 150 photos document Bergen County's architectural treasures, generating awareness and appreciation for these structures and their history.
The Architecture of Bergen County, New Jersey demonstrates the close association between architectural development at the national and local levels, and shows how social, technological, and political changes occurring within the county have been reflected in the building types and styles of the area.
Recovering the Black Female Body
Self-Representation by African American Women
Labor's Text
The Worker in American Fiction
Jean Toomer & Harlem Renaissance
Jean Toomer's novel Cane has been hailed as the harbinger of the Harlem Renaissance and as a model for modernist writing, yet it eludes categorization and its author remains an enigmatic and controversial figure in American literature. The present collection of essays by European and American scholars gives a fresh perspective by using sources made available only in recent years, highlighting Toomer's bold experimentations, as well as his often ambiguous responses to the questions of his time.
Good Sex
Feminist Perspectives from the World's Religions
Cosmetic Surgery
The Cutting Edge of Commercial Medicine in America
The Right Blood
America's Aristocrats in Thoroughbred Racing
Recreating Motherhood
Selling “genetically gifted” human eggs on the free market for a hefty price. In vitro fertilization. Fetal rights. Prenatal diagnosis. Surrogacy. All are instances of biomedical and social “advancements” with which we have become familiar in recent years. Yet these issues are often regarded as distinct or only loosely related under the rubric of reproduction.
Barbara Katz Rothman demonstrates how they form a complex whole that demands of us in response a woman-centered, class-sensitive way of understanding motherhood.
Healing Narratives
Women Writers Curing Cultural Dis-ease
Daughters of Suburbia
Growing Up White, Middle Class, and Female
Tripping on the Color Line
Black-White Multiracial Families in a Racially Divided World
The Historical Film
History and Memory in Media
Circling Dixie
Contemporary Southern Culture through a Transatlantic Lens
Iron, Nature's Universal Element
Why People Need Iron and Animals Make Magnets
One of nature’s most dramatic mysteries—the migration of birds, turtle, salmon and other animals—depends on iron magnets. The bodies of some animals contain minute deposits of magnetite that are sensory navigators. Far reaching in scope, Iron, Nature’s Universal Element also looks at global issues including iron’s power over the earth’s oceans, vegetation, and populations; and the low-protein diets that lead to long-term cognitive damage in iron-deficient children in poor countries.