Rave Culture
The Alteration and Decline of a Philadelphia Music Scene
Tammy L. Anderson

"Anderson clearly has a passion for the subject matter and a keen focus on the 'decline' of rave culture which is to be commended. There is a need for in-depth considerations of post-rave club cultures as embedded in global, national, local and virtual spaces. The thoroughness of Anderson's empirical work, and her engagement with the data is useful and gives voice to young (and not so young!) people and culture."
—Karenza Moore, Lancaster University

The Unheard Voices
Community Organizations and Service Learning
edited by Randy Stoecker and Elizabeth A. Tryon with Amy Hilgendorf

"The Unheard Voices is one of the most accessible service-learning texts I have read, due in large part to the willingness of the contributors to let the community participants’ voices be heard extensively. This book provides a compelling vision and concrete steps for moving forward in new directions. It is a unique and important contribution to the service-learning literature and one that has the potential to change the discussion about and the future of service learning. In the end, The Unheard Voices will make our programs more effective"
—Stephen Fisher, Professor Emeritus, Emory & Henry College

The Transnational Politics of Asian Americans
edited by Christian Collet and Pei-te Lien
Foreword by Don Nakanishi

"The range of chapters and activities examined is excellent … The book conveys the sense that there is something dynamic, complex, and compelling at work here when considering the transnational dimension of Asian American political lives."
—Paul Watanabe, Director of the Institute for Asian American Studies and Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Boston

The Teacher's Attention
Why Our Kids Must and Can Get Smaller Schools and Classes
Garrett Delavan

"Delavan makes his case well and he handles the overall issues on class size very well. This is a unique book. No one has brought together this large body of literature and work on class size. The references are solid, thorough, and impressive."
—Jerome Rabow, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles, and Lecturer, California State University, Northridge

Mobilizing Science
Movements, Participation, and the Remaking of Knowledge
Sabrina McCormick

"Mobilizing Science offers a sharp and focused analysis of the complicated relationship between scientists and lay-people in grassroots movements aimed at influencing policies on issues that have a strong technical component. McCormick grounds her arguments in two detailed cases that are extremely different in their overall contexts. Yet she is able to identify similar mechanisms at work, which have useful distinctions that are helpful in thinking about these types of movements more generally."
—William Gamson, Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Media Research and Action Project at Boston College

Filling the Ark
Animal Welfare in Disasters
Leslie Irvine

"Filling the Ark is a fascinating combination of scholarship, public policy, and animal advocacy. Leslie Irvine examines the plight of animals in the face of man-made and natural disasters in light of larger issues associated with our society's ambivalence about the moral status of other species. The writing is excellent and the author's first hand experiences rescuing companion animals during Hurricane Katrina are compelling."
—Harold Herzog, Department of Psychology, Western Carolina University

Runaway Romances
Hollywood's Postwar Tour of Europe
Robert R. Shandley

"Shandley’s careful analysis is informed by a wealth of relevant historical and critical studies. Runaway Romances is both conceptually interesting and original and it is a meaningful scholarly addition to the field."
—Antje Ascheid, Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at the University of Georgia, and author of Hitler’s Heroines: Stardom and Womanhood in Nazi Cinema (Temple)

The Dance of Politics
Gender, Performance, and Democratization in Malawi
Lisa Gilman

"The Dance of Politics is well written and analytically provocative. Gilman advances the scholarship on intersections between performance, gender, and nation building in postcolonial Africa and makes an important contribution in this regard. The situating of Malawi political dance within a broader understanding of political power, imbalances in economic power, and the gendering of power are the strengths of this book. The Dance of Politics is an excellent example of a diachronic, historical documentation of an African cultural form."
—Daniel Reed, Associate Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University