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Policy Challenges in Modern Health Care
Family-Friendly Biking
in New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania
A Woman's Concise Guide to Common Medical Tests
Local Acts
Community-Based Performance in the United States
The New Anthology of American Poetry
Modernisms: 1900-1950
The Harriman Alaska Expedition Retraced
A Century of Change, 1899-2001
American History and Contemporary Hollywood Film
Bringing exciting new perspectives to how and why Hollywood has sought to repicture American history, this book offers analysis of more than twenty mainstream contemporary films, including The Patriot, Amistad, Glory, Ride with the Devil, Cold Mountain, Saving Private Ryan, TheThin Red Line, Pearl Harbor, U-571, Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, Heaven and Earth, JFK, Nixon, Malcolm X, Ali, Black Hawk Down, and Three Kings. Both authoritative and engaging, American History and Contemporary Hollywood Film is the first book to comprehensively explore the post-cold war period of filmmaking, and to navigate the complex ways that film mediates history—sometimes challenging or questioning, but more frequently reaffirming traditional interpretations.
The Churching of America, 1776-2005
Winners and Losers in Our Religious Economy
Domestic Violence at the Margins
Readings on Race, Class, Gender, and Culture
Reprints of the most influential recent work in the field as well as more than a dozen newly commissioned essays explore theoretical issues, current research, service provision, and activism among Latinos, African Americans, Asian Americans, Jewish Americans, and lesbians. The volume rejects simplistic analyses of the role of culture in domestic violence by elucidating the support systems available to battered women within different cultures, while at the same time addressing the distinct problems generated by that culture. Together, the essays pose a compelling challenge to stereotypical images of battered women that are racist, homophobic, and xenophobic.
Johnny Depp Starts Here
We Took the Streets
Fighting for Latino Rights with the Young Lords
Sparing Nature
The Conflict between Human Population Growth and Earth's Biodiversity
Jeffrey K. McKee contends yes. The more people there are, the more we push aside wild plants and animals. In Sparing Nature, he explores the cause-and-effect relationship between these two trends, demonstrating that nature is too sparing to accommodate both a richly diverse living world and a rapidly expanding number of people.
Armies of the Young
Child Soldiers in War and Terrorism
Wonder Shows
Performing Science, Magic, and Religion in America
The Different Paths of Buddhism
A Narrative-Historical Introduction
International Exposure
Perspectives on Modern European Pornography, 1800–2000
Gender and Planning
A Reader
Enduring Roots
Encounters with Trees, History, and the American Landscape
Enduring Roots tells the stories of historic American trees, including the oak, the apple, the cherry, and the oldest of the world’s trees, the bristlecone pine. These stories speak of our attachment to the land, of our universal and eternal need to leave a legacy, and demonstrate that the landscape is a gift, to be both received and, sometimes, tragically, to be destroyed.