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| • Dark Days in the Newsroom has been named 2008 Best Book of the Year: Adult Non-Fiction by the Connecticut Press Club. |
| • Savoring the Salt was selected as “‘The Best of the Best’ from the University Presses” Books You Should Know About” for the ALA Annual Conference, 2008.
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| • Hapa Girl was named one of 2008’s Notable Books in the Kiriyama Prize See the release here.
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| • On April 4th, The Peace Abbey gave. their “Courage of Conscience” Award to Tommie Smith.
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| • Forklore received two awards at the “Addy’s” (Philadelphia’s Advertising Awards). The cover received a Gold Addy for Publication Design, and the Editorial Spread or Feature received a Silver Addy. |
| • A Guide to the Great Gardens of the Philadelphia Region received a Silver Award of Achievement for book photography in the 2008 Garden Writers Association Media Awards Program. This makes it eligible for a Gold Award, which will be announced in September. |
| • John Tofik Karam’s Another Arabesque was selected as the 2007 Arab American National Museum Book Award in the Adult Non-Fiction Category. |
| • Temple University Press was awarded two grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation—one in American Literature and the other in Ethnomusicology. The award was mentioned in the January 18th “The Chronicle of Higher Education” and in an article in the “Temple Times” on March 6. The link for this story is online here.
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| • Philadelphia Book Festival, May 17-18, 2008, 18th -19th & Vine Streets, Philadelphia. Featured authors scheduled to attend: Ellen Yin/Forklore, Patricia Anne Masters/The Philadelphia Mummers, Ed Kennedy/Life, Liberty, and the Mummers, Bob Lyons/Palestra Pandemonium Rich Westcott/The Mogul and Glenn “Hurricane” Schwartz/The Philadelphia Area Weather Book.
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| • Rich Westcott, author of The Mogul, was just elected to the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame. He was also interviewed in the May 9 issue of “The Delaware County Times” about The Mogul. The link for the article is online here.
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| • Berlusconi's Italy co-author John A. Agnew was featured in Theory Talks #4. The full transcript can be read here.
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| • Challenging the Chip was reviewed in the June 2008 issue of “Labor Studies Journal.” The review read, “Challenging the Chip is the story of those who valiantly fight to make the production of microchips a humane process and the products of chips safe for the environment.... each of the essays provides valuable insight into one or more aspects of the chip industry.... Challenging the Chip will be part of an effort to place the struggles of electronics workers front and center in the fight for social justice.... It is certainly a must-read for any labor activist concerned with organizing the cutting edge of worldwide production: global electronics." |
| • “American Journalism,” the scholarly journal of the American Journalism Historians Association reviewed Dark Days in the Newsroom in their Winter 2008 issue. The review read, “The strongest aspect of the book is the portrait of ruined lives….Alwood’s book poignantly suggests how much more these journalists might have contributed, suggesting a history of what could have been, against a backdrop of the decline of American newspapers, as a younger generation of journalists shaped by technology looked upon the Newspaper Guild and its aging membership as a relic. Using the plight of Judith Miller as a reminder, however, Alwood shows the ongoing role of journalists in defending the First Amendment against government intrusion.” |
| • Messiahs of 1933 was reviewed in the May 8 issue of “The Jewish Daily Forward.” The review read, “Schechter’s passion for these long-forgotten works of Yiddish radicalism is contagious. Readers will be inspired to find out more about the rich tradition of Yiddish leftist theatre.” The complete review can be found online here. |
| • Equal Play was reviewed in the Winter 2008 issue of “The Journal of Legal Aspects of Sport.” The review read, “In Equal Play, editors Nancy Hogshead-Makar and Andrew Zimbalist bundle primary documents and administrative regulations with a diverse and excellent collection of excerpts from well known publications, essays, and speeches… Equal Play will prove to be an invaluable addition to your private collection of resources and references. Similarly, it would serve as an outstanding companion text for a number of courses or as a pre-course reading to establish a common baseline of knowledge regarding the historical, social, and legal context of Title IX…Equal Play is a well written and thoroughly researched text that provides a critical review of the historical, social and political context in which Title IX was conceived, became law, and now exists….[T]he arguments are clearly presented and supported by thorough documentation and research.” |
| • The May 2008 issue of “Choice” reviewed two Temple University Press books. The review for Patricia Anne Masters’ The Philadelphia Mummers read “Masters effectively demonstrates that mummers produced an ongoing ‘successful community in a fragmented larger society,’ a community in which the act of play is central….Highly recommended.” The review for Equal Play edited by Nancy Hogshead-Makar and Andrew Zimbalist read, “[A] valuable edition to the literature...Recommended.” |
| • Multiethnic Moments, by Susan E. Clarke, Rodney E. Hero, Mara S. Sidney, Luis R. Fraga and Bari A. Erlichson was reviewed in the May 2008 issue of the journal “Urban Affairs Review.” The review read, “This book is an important contribution to our understanding of urban politics….Multiethnic Moments is a ‘must-read’ for scholars and practitioners in the field of urban education. It provides a useful analytical perspective that helps us to understand better the changing nature of urban education. This book is at the forefront of those studies helping to analyze and explain the growing multiethnic and multiracial of U.S. cities.” |
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How Many Exceptionalisms?
Explorations in Comparative Macroanalysis
Aristide R. Zolberg
"Ever since the late 1960s…Aristide Zolberg has crafted wonderfully engaging essays that have profoundly altered our understanding of politics and society in Africa, Europe and the United States. His writing has been deeply…global, especially with its focus on the large-scale movement of populations and their reception in new locations….Zolberg has been one of our most creative and informed scholars in the social sciences, at work on issues that really matter."
—Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University
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The Mogul
Rich Westcott
"A great sports biography consists of three key ingredients: a fascinating subject, a skillful writer and lots of research behind the scenes. The Mogul possesses all three in abundance. I spent ten years working with Eddie Gottlieb, an American sports treasure, and now, for the first time, I really feel I know him. You will too."
—Pat Williams, Senior Vice President, Orlando Magic
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Choices and Changes
Interest Groups in the Electoral Process
Michael M. Franz
"An excellent book, theoretically rich and empirically sound. Choices and Changes is interesting, understandable, and informative. Franz’s overall analysis is the most thorough of any book that I have read in the interest group literature. His extensive data analysis fills a major gap in the literature."
—Peter L. Francia, East Carolina University, author of The Future of Organized Labor in American Politics
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Messiahs of 1933
How American Yiddish Theatre Survived Adversity through Satire
Joel Schechter
"One of the most interesting, lively and informative books that I have ever had the pleasure to read on subjects of Jewish-American culture and its connections with American popular culture."
—Paul Buhle, Brown University
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Model City Blues
Urban Space and Organized Resistance in New Haven
Mandi Isaacs Jackson
"Mandi Jackson brings us back to the once-fabled struggle in New Haven over ‘the right to the city’. On the one side, the city's powerbrokers, in the name of urban revitalization, planned to bulldoze the neighborhoods in which African Americans had settled. On the other side, the people of those neighborhoods fought to hold onto the places that had become integral to their lives. Jackson's story shows us the centrality of place in human life and politics, and helps us to recognize the many tragedies that continue to result from contemporary processes of gentrification"
—Frances Fox Piven, Brooklyn College, Graduate School of the City University of New York
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Oral History and Public Memories
edited by Paula Hamilton and Linda Shopes
"A fine, well-conceived book, refreshingly direct and engaged. A collection of sparkling essays that show oral history at work in a diverse array of contexts, levels, and engagements. They demonstrate powerfully its consequentiality for thinking clearly about meaningful intersections in public space, public life, community sensibility, and mobilized memory. This is no small accomplishment."
—Michael Frisch, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
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Customizing the Body
The Art and Culture of Tattooing
Revised and Expanded Edition
Clinton R. Sanders and D. Angus Vail
Praise for the previous edition:
"A fascinating and well-written study, one that finely sharpens the distinction between deviance and respectability."
—Choice
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The Origins of Capitalism and the "Rise of the West"
Eric H. Mielants
"A major contribution to the worldwide debate on the origins of the modern world. It is controversial, encompassing in its survey of the data and the literature, and bound to be included in all further discussions."
—Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University
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She's Got A Gun
Nancy Floyd
"She's Got a Gun is entertaining and informative. Moreover, Floyd's wonderful writing voice has a genuineness that made me trust what she told me. The continuous moving back and forth between real-life gun experiences and representations of gun-toting women in movies and books works really well. This book will have enormous popular appeal."
—Martha McCaughey, Director of Women's Studies, Appalachian State University, and author of Real Knockouts: The Physical Feminism of Women's Self-Defense |
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Ethnicity and Inequality in Hawai'i
Jonathan Y. Okamura
"What is most compelling about Ethnicity and Inequality in Hawai'i is the detail and historiography. Okamura’s knowledge of local issues and ethnic identity in Hawai'i is impressive. This book will make a wonderful contribution to conversations about race and ethnicity in American studies, ethnic studies, and perhaps sociology too."
—Dana Takagi, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz |
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Berlusconi's Italy
Mapping Contemporary Italian Politics
Michael E. Shin and John A. Agnew
"This book presents a novel argument in a succinct manner, offering a new perspective on a big issue: the rise to prominence of Silvio Berlusconi. It adds considerably to our understanding of the Berlusconi phenomenon."
—Martin Bull, University of Salford
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Savoring the Salt
The Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara
edited by Linda Janet Holmes and Cheryl A. Wall
"Brilliance, courage and joy are what I knew of Toni Cade Bambara. Savoring the Salt mirrors her exhilarating intellect and the reach of her incomparable talents. Clearly, in these pages, the impact of her life and work—on family, friends, artists, students, colleagues—is as profound as it is forever."
—Toni Morrison |
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Silent Gesture
Tommie Smith with David Steele
" This is a book about principle, commitment, belief; and consequences. And the consequences of consequences. Tommie Smith says his gesture was done in the name of human rights, and in these pages, he offers himself up, in the fullest-the complexity, the scars, the pain, and the affirmation of his own humanity. Should there ever be an appointed time, would that I might show half the commitment and courage. Bravissimo!"
—Delroy Lindo
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Wheelchair Warrior
Melvin Juette and Ronald J. Berger
"A compelling and richly sociological memoir. The incisive introduction and conclusion highlight how and why Melvin’s successes are not simply of his own making. Wheelchair Warrior provides the reader with an enlightening analysis of how history and society intersect with biography in Melvin’s life."
—Kent Sandstrom, University of Northern Iowa
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