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How Many Exceptionalisms?

How Many Exceptionalisms?
Explorations in Comparative Microanalysis
Aristide R. Zolberg

A collection of essays on the importance of comparative cultural analysis

Messages from Home

Messages from Home
The Parent-Child Home Program for Overcoming Educational Disadvantage
Revised and Updated Edition
Phyllis Levenstein and Susan Levenstein

An up to date overview of one of the longest-running home visiting programs, emphasizing school readiness and early literacy in toddlers

Messiahs of 1933

Messiahs of 1933
How American Yiddish Theatre Survived Adversity through Satire
Joel Schechter

A lively examination of Yiddish theatre during the Great Depression

Model City Blues

Model City Blues
Urban Space and Organized Resistance in New Haven
Mandi Isaacs Jackson

A lively account of social protest and urban renewal in a struggling American city

Oral History and Public Memories

Oral History and Public Memories
edited by Paula Hamilton and Linda Shopes

Understanding how individual perspectives on history build collective memory

She's Got a Gun

The Mogul
Eddie Gottlieb, Philadelphia Sports Legend and Pro Basketball Pioneer
Rich Westcott, foreword by Paul Arizin

The first full-length study of Eddie Gottlieb, a pioneering player, coach, owner, and entrepreneur in basketball and baseball

Customizing the Body

Customizing the Body
The Art and Culture of Tattooing
Revised and Expanded Edition
Clinton R. Sanders and D. Angus Vail

Tattoos as art, work, decoration and defiance

Silent Gesture

New in Paperback!
Silent Gesture
The Autobiography of Tommie Smith

Tommie Smith and David Steele

The story of the most famous protest in sports history, written by one of the men who staged it

Ethnicity and Inequality in Hawai'i

Ethnicity and Inequality in Hawai'i
Jonathan Y. Okamura

In Hawai'i, ethnicity rather than race structures social and economic inequalities

The Origins of Capitalism and the "Rise of the West"

New in Paperback!
The Origins of Capitalism and the "Rise of the West"
Eric H. Mielants

The origins of capitalism can be found in the Middle Ages

Choices and Changes

Choices and Changes
Interest Groups in the Electoral Process
Michael M. Franz

The most comprehensive book about interest groups in recent American politics

Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture

Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture
edited by Sucheng Chan and Madeline Y. Hsu

New perspectives on making and writing Chinese American history

Americans First

Americans First
Chinese Americans and the Second World War
K. Scott Wong

The Second World War's role in bringing Chinese Americans into the mainstream of American society

Wheelchair Warrior

Wheelchair Warrior
Gangs, Disability, and Basketball
Melvin Juette and Ronald J. Berger

The remarkable story of a disabled man’s struggle to make a productive life for himself

Berlusconi's Italy

Berlusconi's Italy
Mapping Contemporary Italian Politics
Michael E. Shin and John A. Agnew

A richly-informed new explanation for the rise and fall of Italy’s colorful Prime Minister

The Forest and the Trees

The Forest and the Trees
Sociology as Life, Practice, Promise
Revised and Expanded Edition
Allan G. Johnson

An updated exploration of sociology as a way of thinking

The University Against Itself

The University Against Itself
The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace
edited by Monika Krause, Mary Nolan, Michael Palm and Andrew Ross

Lessons for what a graduate strike has for the corporatization of higher education

Long Distance Love

Long Distance Love
A Passion for Football
Grant Farred

A well-known scholar and lifelong soccer fan tells what the game has meant for him

The Coolie Speaks

The Coolie Speaks
Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba
Lisa Yun

A remarkable examination of bondage in Cuba that probes questions of slavery, freedom, and race

She's Got a Gun

She's Got a Gun
Nancy Floyd

A fascinating, revealing look at women who own-and use-guns

Resentment's Virtue

Resentment's Virtue
Jean Améry and the Refusal to Forgive
Foreword by Jeffrie Murphy
Thomas Brudholm

Is forgiveness always the proper moral response to collective violence?

San Francisco's International Hotel

New in Paperback!
San Francisco's International Hotel
Mobilizing the Filipino American Community in the Anti-Eviction Movement
Estella Habal

How a protest galvanized a cultural identity for Filipino Americans

Drug Smugglers on Drug Smuggling

Drug Smugglers on Drug Smuggling
Lessons from the Inside
Scott H. Decker and Margaret Townsend Chapman

Convicted drug smugglers describe the business from the inside

The Americanization of Social Science

The Americanization of Social Science
Intellectuals and Public Responsibility in the Postwar United States
David Paul Haney

A controversial explanation for sociology's isolation from American society

Blue Skies

Blue Skies
A History of Cable Television
Patrick R. Parsons

The first comprehensive history of cable television in the United States

One Last Read

One Last Read
Collected Works of the World's Slowest Sportswriter
Ray Didinger

The very best writing from one of Philadelphia's finest sportswriters

The Spike Lee Reader

The Spike Lee Reader
Paula J. Massood

Looking at the films of the prolific, often controversial, and always provocative director

Economic Citizens

Economic Citizens
A Narrative of Asian American Visibility
Christine So

In narratives dominated by money, exchange is the route to Asian American visibility

Black Communists Speak on Scottsboro

Black Communists Speak on Scottsboro
A Documentary History
edited by Walter T. Howard

Surprising revelations about the role of black Communists in a notorious case of bigotry and injustice

Managing the Infosphere

Managing the Infosphere
Governance, Technology, and Cultural Practice in Motion
Stephen D. McDowell, Philip E. Steinberg and Tami K. Tomasello

Comprehending the issues at stake in the networked world

Savoring the Salt

Savoring the Salt
The Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara
edited by Linda Janet Holmes and Cheryl A. Wall

An anthology that celebrates the life and work of a major African American writer

Judging Children as Children

New in Paperback!
Judging Children as Children
A Proposal for a Juvenile Justice System
Michael A. Corriero

An innovative judge proposes a better way to discipline young lawbreakers

Campaign Advertising and American Democracy

Campaign Advertising and American Democracy
Michael M. Franz, Paul B. Freedman, Kenneth M. Goldstein and Travis N. Ridout

Surprising findings about the positive effects of political advertising

Musicians from a Different Shore

Musicians from a Different Shore
Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music
Mari Yoshihara

Why do so many Asians devote their lives to playing Western classical music?

Equal Play

Equal Play
Title IX and Social Change
edited by Nancy Hogshead-Makar and Andrew Zimbalist

A reader of influential essays on the history and future of Title IX

Life, Liberty, and the Mummers

Life, Liberty, and the Mummers
E. A. Kennedy III

A stunning photo-essay on America's most dazzling parade

Forklore

Forklore
Recipes and Tales from an American Bistro
Ellen Yin

True-life tales and scrumptious recipes from Philly's trendsetting restaurant

Forgotten Philadelphia

Forgotten Philadelphia
Lost Architecture of the Quaker City
Thomas H. Keels

Lost treasures of Philadelphia architecture come to life again

The Redskins Encyclopedia

The Redskins Encyclopedia
Michael Richman, foreword by Dexter Manley

The definitive history of the Washington Redskins

Forms in the Abyss

New in Paperback!
Forms in the Abyss
A Philosophical Bridge between Sartre and Derrida
Steve Martinot

How the work of Derrida and Sartre can be bridged


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