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The Grand Gennaro (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas (Mela)) מאת Lapolla The Grand Gennaro, a riveting saga set at the turn of the last century in Italian American Harlem, reflects on how youthful acts of cruelty and desperation follow many to the grave. A classic in the truest sense, this operatic narrative is alive once again, addressing the question: How does one beco...

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Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube, and the Future of American Politics מאת Morley Winograd It happens in America every four decades and it is about to happen again. America's demand for change in the 2008 election will cause another of our country's periodic political makeovers. This realignment, like all others before it, will result from the coming of age of a new generation of young Am...

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Dr. Mary Walker: An American Radical, 1832-1919 מאת Sharon M. Harris In this biography, Dr. Mary Walker, Sharon M. Harris steers away from a simplistic view and showcases Walker as a Medal of Honor recipient, examining her work as an activist, author, and Civil War surgeon, along with the many nineteenth-century issues she championed: political, social, medical, and ...

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Knickerbocker: The Myth behind New York מאת Elizabeth L. Bradley Diedrich Knickerbocker was created in 1809 by a young Washington Irving, who used the character to narrate his classic satire, A History of New York. Bradley's stunning volume offers a surprising and delightful glimpse behind the scenes of New York history, and invites readers into the world of Knic...

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Embodying Culture: Pregnancy in Japan and Israel (Studies in Medical Anthropology) מאת Tsipy Ivry Embodying Culture is an ethnographically grounded exploration of pregnancy in two different cultures—Japan and Israel—both of which medicalize pregnancy. Tsipy Ivryfocuses on “low-risk” or “normal” pregnancies, using cultural comparison to explorethe complex relations among e...

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Salt Marshes: A Natural and Unnatural History מאת Judith S. Weis Now championed as critical habitats for plants, animals, and people because of the environmental service and protection they provide, salt marshes were once considered unproductive wastelands. Salt Marshes, with an emphasis coastal wetlands in the Atlantic and Gulf regions and the San Francisco Bay ...

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One People, One Blood: Ethiopian-Israelis and the Return to Judaism (Jewish Cultures of the World) (Jewis Cultures of the World) מאת Don Seeman The Feres Mura, Ethiopian Jews whose families converted to Christianity during the nineteenth century and then reasserted their Jewish identity in the late twentieth century, still await acceptance by Israel. Since the 1980s, they have sought homecoming through the state's right of return law. Inste...

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Incurable and Intolerable: Chronic Disease and Slow Death in Nineteenth-Century France מאת Jason Incurable and Intolerable looks at the history of incurable illness from a variety of perspectives, including doctors, patients, families, religious counsel, and policy makers. This compellingly documented history illuminates the physical, emotional, social, and existential consequences of chronic d...

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To Test or Not To Test: A Guide to Genetic Screening and Risk מאת Doris Teichler Zallen Tests are a standard part of modern medicine. We willingly screen our blood, urine, vision, and hearing, and submit to a host of other exams with names so complicated that we can only refer to them by their initials: PET, ECG, CT, and MRI. Genetic tests of our risks for disease are the latest trend ...

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Veins of Devotion: Blood Donation and Religious Experience in North India (Studies in Medical Anthropology) מאת Jacob Copeman Veins of Devotion tells the story of recent remarkable collaborations between guru-led devotional movements and public health campaigns to encourage voluntary blood donation in northern India. Focusing primarily on Delhi, Jacob Copeman carefully situates blood donation practices within the co...

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Designing Modern Childhoods: History, Space, and the Material Culture of Children (Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies) מאת Paula S. Fass With the advent of urbanization in the early modern period, the material worlds of children were vastly altered. In industrialized democracies, a broad consensus developed that children should not work, but rather learn and play in settings designed and built with these specific purposes in mind. Un...

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Baby Boomers and Hearing Loss: A Guide to Prevention and Care מאת John Burkey Baby boomers have always had high expectations. As a generation, they have worked hard and played hard. They have been distinguished for their trendsetting and active lifestyles. As they move into their senior years, this ambitious constituency of 76 million Americans continues to demand a lot from ...

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Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909-1970 (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine) מאת Cynthia A. Connolly Known as "The Great Killer" and "The White Plague," few diseases influenced American life as much as tuberculosis. Sufferers migrated to mountain or desert climates believed to ameliorate symptoms. Architects designed homes with sleeping porches and verandas so sufferers could spend time in the open...

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Risky Lessons: Sex Education and Social Inequality (Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies) מאת Jessica Fields Curricula in U.S. public schools are often the focus of heated debate, and few subjects spark more controversy than sex education. While conservatives argue that sexual abstinence should be the only message, liberals counter that an approach that provides comprehensive instruction and helps young pe...

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Scribbling Women: Short Stories by 19th-Century American Women מאת Elaine Showalter A new mother longing to write is judged "hysterical" and confined to her bedroom where she slowly loses herself in horrific fantasy. A young girl stirred by two beings--a handsome young man and an ethereal white heron--is forced to make a choice between them. A love affair quashed by convention igni...

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Notorious New Jersey: 100 True Tales of Murders and Mobsters, Scandals and Scoundrels מאת Jon Blackwell It's a common complaint in New Jersey: We're not taken seriously. New York City is the place of skyscrapers, glitz, and glamour; New Jersey gets mocked as the land of swamps and malls. But there is one area in which our often-overlooked state deserves to be recognized for total supremacy. It is seco...

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Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age מאת Jacob Darwin Hamblin Poison in the Well provides a balanced look at the policy decisions, scientific conflicts, public relations strategies, and the myriad mishaps and subsequent cover-ups that were born out of the dilemma of where to house deadly nuclear materials. Hamblin traces the development of the issue in Western...

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Backroads, New Jersey: Driving at the Speed of Life מאת Mark Di Ionno Mark Di Ionno is a Jersey guy through and through. He's lived in fifteen different towns in six different New Jersey counties. He's been a journalist for the state's top newspapers, currently the Star-Ledger, where his first job was to go out and write about things that were "interesting." Who bette...

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Happy Tails Across New Jersey: Things to See and Do with Your Dog in the Garden State מאת Diane Goodspeed Are you among the thousands of dog owners in the Garden State who would like to spend more time with your four-footed friend? Now you can! In this first-of-its-kind guidebook, Diane Goodspeed brings the encouraging news to pet lovers that their furry companions are welcome at many of New Jersey...

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Mama, PhD: Women Write About Motherhood and Academic Life מאת Elrena Evans Every year, American universities publish glowing reports stating their commitment to diversity, often showing statistics of female hires as proof of success. Yet, although women make up increasing numbers of graduate students, graduate degree recipients, and even new hires, academic life remains ov...

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Community Health Centers: A Movement and the People Who Made It Happen (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine) מאת Bonnie Lefkowitz The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has placed a national spotlight on the shameful state of healthcare for America’s poor. In the face of this highly publicized disaster, public health experts are more concerned than ever about persistent disparities that result from income and race. This boo...

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Inventing Modern Adolescence: The Children of Immigrants in Turn-of-the-Century America (Series in Childhood Studies) מאת Sarah Chinn The 1960s are commonly considered to be the beginning of a distinct "teenage culture" in America. But did this highly visible era of free love and rock 'n' roll really mark the start of adolescent defiance?In "Inventing Modern Adolescence", Sarah E. Chinn follows the roots of American teenage identi...

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What Were They Thinking?: Crisis Communication -- the Good, the Bad, and the Totally Clueless מאת Steve Adubato Some corporations spend millions of dollars on so-called 'crisis communication plans.' Others offer lip service, avoiding the subject like the plague. They simply hope for the best, praying that they never face a crisis. Either way, as Steve Adubato says, 'Wishful thinking is no substitute for a str...

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Do Bats Drink Blood?: Fascinating Answers to Questions about Bats (Animal Q&a Series) מאת Barbara A. Schmidt-French Highly beneficial animals, bats are critical to global ecological, economic, and publichealth. Do Bats Drink Blood? illuminates the role bats play in the ecosystem, their complex social behavior, and how they glide through the night sky using their acute hearing—echolocation skills that have hel...

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A Guide to Bird Finding in New Jersey, revised and updated מאת William J., Jr. Boyle New Jersey is one of the smallest and most densely populated states, yet the remarkable diversity of its birdlife surpasses that of many larger states. Well over 400 species of birds have been recorded in New Jersey and an active birder can hope to see more than 300 species in a year. William J. Boy...

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The Jersey Shore Uncovered: A Revealing Season on the Beach מאת Peter Genovese Spend a summer with Peter Genovese as he chronicles a typical wild and wacky, kitschy and classy season along the New Jersey coastline. Lifeguards, surfers, beachgoers, birders, ice cream vendors, seashell sellers, banner pilots-they're all here. You'll be on the scene when Atlantic City's ma...

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Why Don't Jumbo Jets Flap Their Wings?: Flying Animals, Flying Machines, and How They Are Different מאת David E. Alexander Why Don't Jumbo Jets Flap Their Wings? offers a fascinating explanation of how nature and human engineers each arrived at powered flight. What emerges is a highly readable account of two very different approaches to solving the same fundamental problems of moving through the air, including lift, thr...

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On Duty: Power, Politics, and the History of Nursing in New Jersey מאת Ward In 1886, Newark City Hospital opened a training school for nurses in New Jersey. With the dawn of a new century women began to demand rights that had been denied them, and nurses too demanded changes in health care and higher education. For the first time, On Duty offers a highly readable account of...

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The History of American Homeopathy: From Rational Medicine to Holistic Health Care מאת John S. Jr. Haller The History of American Homeopathy traces the rise of lay practitioners in shaping homeopathy as a healing system and its relationship to other forms of complementary and alternative medicine in an age when conventional biomedicine remains the dominant form. omplementary medicine within the American...

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An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba מאת Ruth Behar Yiddish-speaking Jews thought Cuba was supposed to be a mere layover on the journey to the United States when they arrived in the island country in the 1920s. They even called it "Hotel Cuba." But then the years passed, and the many Jews who came there from Turkey, Poland, and war-torn Europe stayed...

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New York City Politics: Governing Gotham מאת Bruce F. Berg Most experts consider economic development to be the dominant factor influencing urban politics. They point to the importance of the finance and real estate industries, the need to improve the tax base, and the push to create jobs. In New York City Politics: Governing Gotham--the first compr...

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A People's History of the European Court of Human Rights מאת Michael D. Goldhaber The exceptionality of America's Supreme Court has long been conventional wisdom. But the United States Supreme Court is no longer the only one changing the landscape of public rights and values. Over the past thirty years, the European Court of Human Rights has developed an ambitious, American-style...

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Between worlds : interpreters, guides and survivors Frances Karttunen

Between worlds : interpreters, guides and survivors מאת Frances Karttunen

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Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner City Violence (The Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies) מאת Nikki Jones Between Good and Ghetto reflects the social world of inner city African American girls and how they manage threats of personal violence. Drawing on personal encounters, traditions of urban ethnography, Black feminist thought, gender studies, and feminist criminology, Nikki Jones provides a richly de...

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The Other Side of the Sixties: Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of Conservative Politics (Perspectives on the Sixties) מאת John Andrew This work looks at the activities of the Young Americans for Freedom in the sixties. Many of their ideas lay the groundwork for the conservatism prevalent in the USA today. The author explores their efforts to form a viable organization, and to attack the liberal establishment....

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Artifacts of Loss: Crafting Survival in Japanese American Concentration Camps מאת Jane E. Dusselier From 1942 to 1946, as America prepared for war, 120,000 people of Japanese descent were forcibly interned in harsh desert camps across the American west. In Artifacts of Loss, Jane E. Dusselier looks at the lives of these internees through the lens of their art. These camp-made creations included fl...

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Science Talk: Changing Notions of Science in American Culture מאת Daniel Patrick Thurs Science news is met by the public with a mixture of fascination and disengagement. On the one hand, Americans are inflamed by topics ranging from the question of whether or not Pluto is a planet to the ethics of stem-cell research. But on the other hand, the complexity of scientific research can be ...

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An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba מאת Ruth Behar As a child of five, Ruth Behar left Cuba with her Jewish family. Growing up in the United States, she wondered about the Jews who stayed behind. Who were they and why had they stayed? What traces were left of the Jewish presence, of the cemeteries, synagogues, and Torahs? Who was taking care of this...

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War on Crime: Gangsters, G-Men, and the Politics of Mass Culture מאת Claire Bond Potter War on Crime revises the history of the New Deal transformation and suggests a new model for political historyone which recognizes that cultural phenomena and the political realm produce, between them, an idea of "the state." The war on crime was fought with guns and pens, movies and legislation, ra...

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Matters of Choice: Puerto Rican Women's Struggle for Reproductive Freedom מאת Iris Lopez Sterilization remains one of the most popular forms of fertility control in the world, but it has received little acknowledgment for decreasing birthrates on account of its dubious use as a means of population control, especially in developing countries. In Matters of Choice, Iris Lopez prese...

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The Animated Bestiary: Animals, Cartoons, and Culture מאת Paul Wells Cartoonists and animators have given animals human characteristics for so long that audiences are now accustomed to seeing Bugs Bunny singing opera and Mickey Mouse walking his dog Pluto. The Animated Bestiary critically evaluates the depiction of animals in cartoons and animation more g...

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The Delaware Indians: A History מאת C. A. Weslager

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Delaware Diary: Episodes in the Life of a River מאת Frank Talbot Dale Tracing the history of the Delaware, this book delves into archives and newspaper files to explore the men who tried to tame this wild river. Many attempted to venture down it in a variety of vehicles due to the needs of commerce, but in recent times it has been converted to leisure activities....

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Menopause: A Biocultural Perspective (Studies in Medical Anthropology) מאת Lynnette L. Sievert Menopause is a biological reality for all women in their forties and fifties. Yet the way we think about the cessation of menstruation is influenced by a variety of factors. Cultural and technological influences combine with biology to transform this universal phenomenon into an experience that vari...

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New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones: History in the Landscape מאת Richard F. Veit In this sweeping tour of New Jersey's burial sites from the seventeenth century through the dawn of the twenty-first, readers will discover how headstones are much more than place markers for the deceased. From the earliest memorials that were once used by Native Americans, to some of the el...

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Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West מאת Scott Martelle By early April 1914, Colorado Governor Elias Ammons thought the violence in his state's strike-bound southern coal district had eased enough that he could begin withdrawing the Colorado National Guard, deployed six months earlier as military occupiers. But Ammons misread the signals, and on April 20...

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There's More to New Jersey than the Sopranos מאת Marc Mappen In this lively romp through history from the primitive past to the present day, Marc MappenÂ’s message resonates—ThereÂ’s More to New Jersey than the Sopranos. Real tales, wise tales, tall tales abound throughout the pages of MappenÂ’s collection, filled with zest, humor, scandal, and o...

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The Burdens of Disease: Epidemics and Human Response in Western History מאת J.N. Hays A history of the social effects of epidemic diseases, human responses to epidemics, and human constructions of them....

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Other People's Children: The Battle for Justice and Equality in New Jersey's Schools מאת Deborah Yaffe In 1981, when Raymond Abbott was a twelve-year-old sixth-grader in Camden, New Jersey, poor city school districts like his spent 25 percent less per student than the state's wealthy suburbs did. That year, Abbott became the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit demanding that the state pr...

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Making Room in the Clinic: Nurse Practitioners and the Evolution of Modern Health Care (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine) מאת Julie Fairman For years, nurses expanded their practice boundaries to meet their patients' needs, both with and without physician consent. But during the 1960s and 1970s, their level of recognition and authority changed dramatically. Today, nurse practitioners hold graduate degrees in a clinical specialty and are...

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Risky Lessons: Sex Education and Social Inequality (Series in Childhood Studies) מאת Jessica Fields Curricula in U.S. public schools are often the focus of heated debate, and few subjects spark more controversy than sex education. While conservatives argue that sexual abstinence should be the only message, liberals counter that an approach that provides comprehensive instruction and helps young pe...

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Second Star to the Right: Peter Pan in the Popular Imagination מאת Allison Kavey Over a century after its first stage performance, Peter Pan has become deeply embedded in Western popular culture, as an enduring part of childhood memories, in every part of popular media, and in commercial enterprises.Since 2003 the characters from this story have had a highly visible presence in ...

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With Shaking Hands: Aging with Parkinson's Disease in America's Heartland (Studies in Medical Anthropology) מאת Samantha Solimeo At the heart of With Shaking Hands is the account of elder Americans in rural Iowa who have been diagnosed with PD. With a focus on the impact of chronic illness on an aging population, Samantha Solimeo combines clear and accessible prose with qualitative and quantitative research to demonstrate how...

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Abject Relations: Everyday Worlds of Anorexia (Studies in Medical Anthropology) מאת Megan Warin Abject Relations presents an alternative approach to anorexia, through detailed ethnographic investigations. Megan Warin looks at the heart of what it means to live with anorexia on a daily basis. Unraveling anorexiaÂ’s complex relationships and contradictions, Warin provides a new theoretical p...

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Cottages and Mansions of the Jersey Shore מאת Caroline Seebohm The Jersey Shore is many things to many people. It is 127 miles of sand and surf, a sanctuary of untamed marshlands and endless dunes, a home to kitschy boardwalks, quirky shops, pulsing casinos, and countless examples of offbeat culture. But, above all, it is a powerful repository of nostal...

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Pleasures and Perils: Girls' Sexuality in a Caribbean Consumer Culture (Series in Childhood Studies) מאת Debra Curtis Pleasures and Perils follows a group of young girls living on Nevis, an island society in the Eastern Caribbean. In this provocative ethnography, Debra Curtis examines their sexuality in gripping detail: why do Nevisian girls engage in sexual activity at such young ages? Where is the line between co...

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Children and Childhood in World Religions: Primary Sources and Texts (Series in Childhood Studies) (Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies) מאת Bunge This is the first book to examine the theme of children in major religions of the world. Each of six chapters, edited by world-class scholars, focuses on one religious tradition and includes an introduction and a selection of primary texts. Through both the scholarly introductions and the primary so...

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Best Years: Going to the Movies, 1945-1946 מאת Charles Affron Best Years shines light on a critical juncture in American history and the history of American cinema—the end of World War II (1945) and a year of unprecedented success in HollywoodÂ’s “Golden Age” (1946). This book focuses on films that were famous, infamous, forgotten, and unforgett...

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Looking for America on the New Jersey Turnpike מאת Angus K. Gillespie

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Congregations in Conflict: The Battle over Homosexuality מאת Keith Hartman At a time when fanatics of various stripes use faith as a smokescreen for intolerance and hate, this work, focusing on the conflict over homosexuality in the Church, argues that religious belief can also foster a spirit of compassion and understanding....

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Rutgers Football: A Gridiron Tradition in Scarlet מאת Michael J. Pellowski Thirteen seconds remaining, score tied at 25, fourth and seven for Rutgers at Louisville's 27. Against the third ranked team in the nation, on a perfect autumn evening, the Scarlet Knights stormed back from 18 down, with Coach Greg Schiano's vaunted defense shutting down Louisville's passing attack....

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Local Heroes: The Asbury Park Music Scene מאת Anders Martensson During the 1950s and 1960s, Asbury Park, New Jersey, was the place to be-to stroll along the boardwalk, to sunbathe, and, most importantly, to listen to live music. But since the city fell into ruin, culminating in the race riots of the 1970s, many were left to wonder if the former rock 'n' roll mec...

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Muslims of Metropolis: The Stories of Three Immigrant Families in the West מאת Kavitha Rajagopalan The Muslim population globally is comprised of hundreds of ethnic, linguistic, and religious sub-communities. Yet, more often than not, the public conflates these diverse and unrelated communities, branding Muslim immigrants as a single, suspicious, and culturally antagonistic group of people. Gener...

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Asian America: Forming New Communities, Expanding Boundaries מאת Huping Ling The last half century witnessed a dramatic change in the geographic, ethnographic, and socioeconomic structure of Asian American communities. While traditional enclaves were strengthened by waves of recent immigrants, native-born Asian Americans also created new urban and suburban areas. Asian Ameri...

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Blacks, Reds, and Russians: Sojourners in Search of the Soviet Promise מאת Joy G. Carew One of the most compelling, yet little known stories of race relations in the twentieth century is the account of blacks who chose to leave the United States to be involved in the Soviet Experiment in the 1920s and 1930s. Frustrated by the limitations imposed by racism in their home country, African...

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Medical Research for Hire: The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine) מאת Jill A. Fisher Today, more than 75 percent of pharmaceutical drug trials in the United States are being conducted in the private sector. Once the sole province of academic researchers, these important studies are now being outsourced to non-academic physicians.According to Jill A. Fisher, this major change in the ...

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The War on Human Trafficking: U.S. Policy Assessed מאת Anthony M. DeStefano The War on Human Trafficking covers the policy battles surrounding efforts to abolish human trafficking. Anthony M. DeStefano details events leading up to the creation of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 1000--the federal law that first addressed this phenomenon--and assesses the effectiven...

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Making Room in the Clinic: Nurse Practitioners and the Evolution of Modern Health Care (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine) מאת Julie Fairman Fairman writes an impressive history of nurse practitioners - an eminently readable and scholarly critique of how nursing changed and adapted to society, politics and economics from the 1960s through the 1980s....

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An American in the Making: The Life Story of an Immigrant (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas (Mela)) מאת Ravage M.E. Ravage, one of almost two million Jews, was lured by tales of success to America at the turn of the twentieth century. After learning a new language and finding success in college he penned a vivid account of his own assimilation. Steven G. Kellman brings Ravage's story to life again in this ne...

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The Architecture of Bergen County, New Jersey: The Colonial Period to the Twentieth Century מאת T. Robins Brown This illustrated volume presents an overview of Bergen County's architectural history and its historic structures. It is arranged chronologically, and each chapter includes historical background and description and analysis of building types common to the county for that period....

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Time Warps: Silent and Evasive Pasts in Indian Politics and Religion מאת Ashis Nandy In this book, Ashis Nandy, one of India's foremost public intellectuals, contends that India's political and cultural élites have been trying to impose a secular ideology on their country. This ideology makes little sense to most Indians, who have their own religious and cultural lives, their own d...

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Under the Radar: Cancer and the Cold War (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine) מאת Ellen Leopold At the end of the Second World War, a diagnosis of cancer was a death sentence. Sixty years later, it is considered a chronic disease rather than one that is invariably fatal. Although survival rates have improved, the very word continues to evoke a special terror and guilt, inspiring scientists and...

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Digit Ratio: A Pointer to Fertility, Behavior, and Health (A volume in the Rutgers Series in Human Evolution, edited by Robert Trivers.) מאת John T. Manning Could the length of your fingers predict a predisposition to breast cancer? Or musical genius? Or homosexuality? The author posits that relative lengths of the second and fourth digits in humans (2D:4D ratio) provides a window into fertility- and sex-related traits. It has been known for more than a...

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City at the Water's Edge: A Natural History of New York מאת Betsy Mccully Concrete floors and concrete walls, buildings that pierce the sky, taxicabs and subway corridors, a steady din of noise. These things, along with a virtually unrivaled collection of museums, galleries, performance venues, media outlets, international corporations, and stock exchanges make N...

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Children and Childhood in American Religions (Series in Childhood Studies) (Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies) מאת Don S. Religious traditions play a central role in the lives of many American children. In this collection of essays, leading scholars reveal for the first time how various religions interpret, reconstruct, and mediate their traditions to help guide children and their parents in navigating the opportunitie...

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The Grand Gennaro (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas (Mela)) מאת Garibaldi M. The Grand Gennaro, a riveting saga set at the turn of the last century in Italian American Harlem, reflects on how youthful acts of cruelty and desperation follow many to the grave. A classic in the truest sense, this operatic narrative is alive once again, addressing the question: How does one beco...

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Practice Under Pressure: Primary Care Physicians and Their Medicine in the Twenty-first Century (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine) מאת Timothy Hoff Through ninety-five in-depth interviews with primary care physicians (PCPs) working in different settings, as well as medical students and residents, Practice Under Pressure provides rich insight into the everyday lives of generalist physicians in the early twenty-first century—their work, stres...

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Crimes of Power & States of Impunity: The U.S. Response to Terror (Critical Issues in Crime and Society) מאת Michael Welch Since 9/11, a new configuration of power situated at the core of the executive branch of the U.S. government has taken hold. In Crimes of Power & States of Impunity, Michael Welch takes a close look at the key historical, political, and economic forces shaping the country's response to terror...

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Power Politics: Environmental Activism in South Los Angeles מאת Karen Brodkin In the late 1990s, when California's deregulation of the production and sale of electricpower created massive energy shortages a group of environmental justice activists, largely high school students, blocked construction of a power plant in their working-class Mexican and Central American neighborh...

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Transforming Environmentalism: Warren County, PCBs, and the Origins of Environmental Justice מאת Eileen McGurty Transforming Environmentalism explores a moment central to the emergence of the environmental justice movement. Eileen McGurty traces the evolving approaches residents took starting in 1978 and lasting four years to contest environmental racism in their community and shows how activism in Warren Cou...

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MIA, or Mythmaking in America מאת H. Bruce Franklin Shattering the MIA myth, the author demonstrates conclusively that the MIA issue was manufactured by the Nixon administration and kept alive by politicians for the last twenty years....

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Jane Austen: A Companion מאת Josephine Ross This illuminating, entertaining, up-to-date companion is the only general guide to Jane Austen, her work, and her world. Josephine Ross explores the literary scene during the time Austen's works first appeared: the books considered classics then, the "horrid novels" and romances, and the gra...

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Asbury Park's Glory Days: The Story of an American Resort מאת Helen-Chantal Pike Long before Bruce Springsteen picked up a guitar; before Danny DeVito drove a taxi; before Jack Nicholson flew over the cuckoo's nest, Asbury Park was a seashore Shangri-La filled with shimmering odes to civic greatness, world-renowned baby parades, temples of retail, and atmospheric movie p...

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Matters of Choice: Puerto Rican Women's Struggle for Reproductive Freedom מאת Iris Lopez In "Matters of Choice," Iris Lopez presents a comprehensive analysis of the dichotomous views that have portrayed sterilization either as part of a coercive program of population control or as a means of voluntary, even liberating, fertility control by individual women. Drawing upon her twenty-five ...

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Abject Relations: Everyday Worlds of Anorexia (Studies in Medical Anthropology) מאת Megan Warin Abject Relations presents an alternative approach to anorexia, through detailed ethnographic investigations. Megan Warin looks at the heart of what it means to live with anorexia on a daily basis. Unraveling anorexiaÂ’s complex relationships and contradictions, Warin provides a new theoretical p...

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Metroburbia, USA מאת Paul L. Knox Decades of economic prosperity in the United States have redefined the American dream. Paul Knox explores how extreme versions of this dream have changed the American landscape. Increased wealth has led AmericaÂ’s metropolitan areas to develop into vast sprawling regions of “metroburbia”...

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Why Evolution Works (and Creationism Fails) מאת Matt Young Focusing on what other books omit, how science works and how pseudoscience works, Matt Young and Paul K. Strode demonstrate the futility of "scientific" creationism. They debunk the notion of intelligent design and other arguments that show evolution could not have produced life in its present form....

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Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America מאת Bert Hansen Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio offers a refreshing portrait of an era when the public excitedly anticipated medical progress and research breakthroughs. This unique study with 130 archival illustrations drawn from newspaper sketches, caricatures, comic books, Hollywood films, and L...

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American Melancholy (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine) מאת Laura D. Hirshbein In American Melancholy, Laura D. Hirshbein traces the growth of depression as an object of medical study and as a consumer commodity and illustrates how and why depression came to be such a huge medical, social, and cultural phenomenon. This is the first book to address gender issues in the c...

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The Burdens of Disease: Epidemics and Human Response in Western History מאת J.N. Hays A history of the social effects of epidemic diseases, human responses to epidemics, and human constructions of them....

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Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence: Conundrums in Modern American Medicine (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine) מאת Gerald N. Grob In Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence, Gerald N. Grob and Allan V. Horwitz employ historical and contemporary data and case studies, combining into one book a variety of medical and psychiatric conditions. They utilize case studies and examine tonsillectomy, cancer, heart disease, PTSD, anxiety, and ...

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Cash For Your Trash: Scrap Recycling in America מאת Carl A. Zimring In Cash for Your Trash, Carl A. Zimring provides a fascinating history of scrap recycling, from colonial times to the present. Integrating findings from archival, industrial, and demographic records, and moving beyond the environmental developments that have shaped modern recycling enterprises, Zimr...

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A Guide to Bird Finding in New Jersey, revised and updated מאת William J., Jr. Boyle New Jersey is one of the smallest and most densely populated states, yet the remarkable diversity of its birdlife surpasses that of many larger states. Well over 400 species of birds have been recorded in New Jersey and an active birder can hope to see more than 300 species in a year. William J. Boy...

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New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones: History in the Landscape מאת Richard F. Veit In this sweeping tour of New Jersey's burial sites from the seventeenth century through the dawn of the twenty-first, readers will discover how headstones are much more than place markers for the deceased. From the earliest memorials that were once used by Native Americans, to some of the elaborate ...

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Guidebook for the Scientific Traveler: Visiting Astronomy and Space Exploration Sites Across America (Scientific Traveler) מאת Duane S. Nickell Finding all the fascinating scientific sites to visit throughout America can be a daunting task. This guidebook does all the work for you. The first in a series of travel books that will celebrate science and technology in America, Astronomy and Space Exploration describes astronomy and space-relate...

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Cultivating Health: Los Angeles Women and Public Health Reform (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine) מאת Jennifer Lisa Koslow Cultivating Health, an interdisciplinary chronicle, details women's impact on remaking health policy, despite the absence of government support. Jennifer Lisa Koslow explores community nursing, housing reform, milk sanitation, childbirth, and the campaign against venereal disease in late nineteenth ...

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What Freud Didn't Know: A Three-Step Practice for Emotional Well-Being through Neuroscience and Psychology מאת Timothy B. Stokes Ph.D. What Freud Didn’t Know,combines neuroscience and psychology to explain how the amygdala region of the brain evolved to unconsciously record, store, and activate emotional memory loops and imagery associated with painful events, especially those of childhood. This book is the first to bring togethe...

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When Kids Get Arrested: What Every Adult Should Know מאת Sandra Simkins Esq. When Kids Get Arrested gives “top tips” to help adults make the best choices to protect children from long-term negative consequences. Sandra Simkins takes complicated legal concepts and breaks them down into easy-to-understand guidelines. She includes information on topics such as police in...

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Homecoming Queers: Desire and Difference in Chicana Latina Cultural Production (Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States) מאת Marivel T. Danielson Homecoming Queers provides a critical discussion of the multiple strategies used by queer Latina authors and artists in the United States to challenge silence and invisibility within mainstream media, literary canons, and theater spaces. Marivel T. Danielson's analysis reveals the extensive legacy o...

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The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: Their Place Inside the Body-Politic, 1887 to 1895 (Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony) מאת Ann D. Gordon Their Place Inside the Body-Politic is a phrase Susan B. Anthony used to express her aspiration for something women had not achieved, but it also describes the woman suffrage movement's transformation into a political body between 1887 and 1895. This fifth volume opens in February 1887, just after t...