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| • The September 22 issue of “Publishers Weekly” contained a story on Temple University Press’ children’s book publishing initiative, and quoted TUP editor Micah Kleit. The article is available online here.
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| • Race and Class Matters at an Elite College was the “Book of the Month” for September on the website “Class Action”
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| • Mark Bekoff, author of Animals at Play, was interviewed in the October 2008 issue of Vegetarian Times. Animals at Play was also featured in the "Book Nook" column of "Ranger Rick" for the month of October. Visit the publication online here.
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| • KCLU (88.3 FM, Ventura County, CA) aired an interview with Adina Nack, author of Damaged Goods? on October 6 at 6:30 a.m., 7:30 a.m., and 8:30 a.m. It will soon be available as a MP3 available for download here. Nack also taped an episode of the nationally syndicated TV show, "The Doctors" which will air on Wednesday, October 15th.
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| • Carolyn Adams, co-author of Restructuring the Philadelphia Region (with David Bartelt, David Elesh and Ira Goldstein) was interviewed for WHYY’s “It’s Our City.” The link for this story is online here.
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| • Michael Franz, co-author of Campaign Advertising and American Democracy and author of Choices and Changes published an article in the September 26 issue of “The Bowdoin Orient” about campaign advertising. The article appeared online here.
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| • The September 26 issue of “The Chronicle of Higher Education” contained an excerpt from Elizabeth Aries’ Race and Class Matters at an Elite College. The excerpt can be found online here.
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| • A Q&A with author Elizabeth Aries about her book Race and Class Matters at an Elite College was featured on the website, “Inside Higher Education” on September 12. A link to the story is here.
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| • Berlusconi's Italy was reviewed in the October 2008 issue of “Choice.” The review read, “[S]hort but detailed…The book is written in part as a reaction to notions that political geography no longer matters, and that personality and national media are dominant in Italian politics and Western politics generally…The most crucial chapters…detail how Berlusconi put together center-right coalitions with differing allies in different parts of Italy. Summing Up: Recommended.” |
| • Musicians from a Different Shore was reviewed in the October 2008 issue of “Choice.” The review read, “[Yoshihara] pays particular attention to the role of ethnicity, gender, and social class in the experiences of Asian and Asian American classical musicians in the US….Summing Up: Recommended.” |
| • Estella Habal’s San Francisco's International Hotel was reviewed in the Fall/Winter 2008/2009 issue of the publication make/shift. The review read, "Habal’s work is participant history at its best. Only someone writing from an insider’s vantage point could so vividly capture the psychological and political impact on all sides when young Filipinos encountered and then struggled together with Filipino elders…Only someone immersed in the culture of the hotel tenants and their supporters could take us inside the complex gender, race, and generational dynamics of this fight….Habal explores debates and conflicts among the tenants and within the Left with a tremendously deft balance of solidarity, frank evaluation and self-criticism. The quality of this book whets the reader’s appetite for more…. [T]here is much to be learned from this book for present and future battles." |
| • Academe reviewed The University Against Itself edited by Monika Krause, Mary Nolan, Michael Palm, and Andrew Ross in its September-October 2008 issue. The review, which can be found online here, read, "It studies NYU specifically and universities in general, offering a solid reassessment of corporate growth in higher education, while exploring how to fight for better universities through collective action. Blessedly free of jargon and unforgiving in its critique, this book speaks powerfully to any faculty member interested in retaining academic freedom, shared governance, dignity on the job, or just the job itself[...] thought-provoking." |
| • The August 2008 issue of “Current Anthropology” reviewed Arnold Arluke's Just a Dog. The review read, "Arluke provides a methodological blueprint for those who wish to move the study of human-animal relationships from the margins of social enquiry to the center. In Just a Dog he has produced a nonsensational rendering of a difficult and complex subject that deserves to be read by all students of these relationships…. He approaches [cruelty to animals] with sensitivity." |
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New in Paperback!
Musicians from a Different Shore
Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music
Mari Yoshihara
"An excellent overview of the role that Asians and Asian Americans have come to play in the world of Western classical music. It is beautifully written, extremely lucid, and well researched. What is particularly enlightening here is the author's dedication in seeking out many musicians to interview and her integration of these stories into a coherent whole."
—Timothy D. Taylor, Professor of Ethnomusicology and Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles
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Frankie Manning
Ambassador of Lindy Hop
Frankie Manning and Cynthia R. Millman
"On behalf of all of the Hoofer’s, we thank you and salute you for every moment of truth, love and dedication translated to us all through your art form, your dance. Thank you Frankie Manning. I Love You!"
—Savion Glover
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The Story Is True
The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories
Bruce Jackson
"Jackson's goal is to deconstruct the stories, to determine what is true about them, why and how they work, how they differ from reality, and how and why they are central to our everyday experiences…[W]riting with breakneck energy, he consistently entertains...Happily, Jackson's opinions, even those that annoy, make for good reading."
—Publishers Weekly
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Hapa Girl
A Memoir
May-lee Chai
"A tour-de-force sojourn into a never-before-told zone of small town American bigotry. Hapa Girl is consistently stylish, permanently courageous, bitingly tragic, but always rationally detached with a Marx Brothers' wit. This is May-lee Chai's best comment yet about America."
—Anthony B. Chan, author of Perpetually Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May Wong
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The African Transformation of Western Medicine and the Dynamics of Global Cultural Exchange
David Baronov
"David Baronov has not hesitated to tread where few would dare. His study of African biomedicine is a unique application of the world-systems perspective to an area that has not heretofore been an object of the perspective's analytical lens."
—Roderick Bush, St. John's University
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Women's Activism and Feminist Agency in Mozambique and Nicaragua
Jennifer Leigh Disney
"Women's Activism and Feminist Agency in Mozambique and Nicaragua provides a compelling account of women's
contributions to revolutionary struggle and social transformation in two nations, illuminating the enormity of the challenge
posed by gender equality, the effects of revolution on women's and men's lives, and the increasing precariousness of social
justice struggles in a globalizing world."
—Mary Hawkesworth, Professor and Chair, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, and Editor in Chief, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
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Violent Belongings
Partition, Gender, and National Culture in Postcolonial India
Kavita Daiya
"Daiya has argued persuasively and perceptively for the combination of literary and cinematic texts, deftly combining these with social history and journalism to produce informed, contextualized readings of the cultural moment. Engagingly written, covering a longish (fifty-year) history of literary and film texts with surprising contextual detail, Violent Belongings embraces a dauntingly sophisticated theoretical repertoire which Daiya handles with confidence, tact, and common sense."
—Henry Schwarz, Georgetown University
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Tomboys
A Literary and Cultural History
Michelle Ann Abate
"An ambitious and exciting book that examines representations of what could be considered tomboys, in U.S. fiction and film, since 1859. The scope is impressive: Abate has done a great deal of archival research to unearth the titles she examines and cites many relevant theoretical and critical texts."
—Beverly Lyon Clark, Wheaton College
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