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Infortunios de Alonso Ramirez / The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramirez (1690)
Annotated Bilingual Edition
Edited by José F. Buscaglia-Salgado; By Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora; Translated by José F. Buscaglia-Salgado
Rutgers University Press
Buscaglia is the first scholar to furnish direct and irrefutable proof that the story contained in the Infortunios/Misfortunes was based on the life and times of a man certifiably named Alonso Ramírez. This Rutgers edition is the most complete and authoritative bilingual edition of a work that grants us privileged access to the intricacies of early American subjectivity.
Guys Like Me
Five Wars, Five Veterans for Peace
Rutgers University Press
Guys Like Me introduces us to five ordinary veterans from different generations who have done extraordinary work as peace activists. Michael A. Messner reveals how the horror and trauma of the battlefront motivated onetime warriors to reconcile with former enemies, crusade for justice, and heal themselves and others.
Liberating Hollywood
Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema
Rutgers University Press
Liberating Hollywood examines the professional experiences and creative output of women filmmakers during a unique moment in history when the social justice movements that defined the 1960s and 1970s challenged the enduring culture of sexism and racism in the U.S. film industry.
Liberating Hollywood
Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema
Rutgers University Press
Liberating Hollywood examines the professional experiences and creative output of women filmmakers during a unique moment in history when the social justice movements that defined the 1960s and 1970s challenged the enduring culture of sexism and racism in the U.S. film industry.
Potential on the Periphery
College Access from the Ground Up
By Omari Scott Simmons; Foreword by Damon T. Hewitt
Rutgers University Press
This book profiles the Simmons Memorial Foundation (SMF), a grassroots non-profit organization co-founded by Omari Scott Simmons, that promotes college access for vulnerable students. Simmons discusses how the organization has helped students secure admission and succeed in college, using this example to contextualize the broader realm of existing education practice, academic theory, and public policy.
The Trials of Richard Goldstone
Rutgers University Press
Richard Goldstone emerged as a leading champion of human rights, first as a judge taking on the apartheid system in his native South Africa, then investigating war crimes in Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, and Gaza. This new biography tells the story of a remarkable individual and the price he paid for his convictions.
Sugar and Tension
Diabetes and Gender in Modern India
Rutgers University Press
In Sugar and Tension, Lesley Jo Weaver uses women’s experiences with diabetes in New Delhi as a lens to explore how gendered roles and expectations are taking shape in contemporary India. Weaver describes how women negotiate the many responsibilities in their lives when chronic disease is at stake.
Postfeminist War
Women in the Media-Military-Industrial Complex
Rutgers University Press
By examining news and documentary media produced since September 11, 2001, Vavrus demonstrates that news narratives that include women use feminism selectively in gender equality narratives. She ultimately asserts that such reporting advances post-feminism, which, in tandem with banal militarism, subtly pushes military solutions for an array of problems women and girls face.
A Clinician's Guide to Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
Rutgers University Press
A Clinician’s Guide to Progressive Supranuclear Palsy emphasizes early diagnostic signs, medication options, non-pharmacologic management and palliative care. It offers a quick overview of the complications of PSP most likely to prompt an ER visit; a widening spectrum of PSP variants; and clear description of the components of the disease.
A Hundred Acres of America
The Geography of Jewish American Literary History
Rutgers University Press
Michael Hoberman combines literary history and geography to restore Jewish American writers to their roles as critical members of the American literary landscape from the 1850s to the present, and to argue that Jewish history, American literary history, and the inhabitation of American geography are, and always have been, contiguous entities.
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