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Catheters, Slurs, and Pickup Lines
Professional Intimacy in Hospital Nursing
Ruchti, Lisa C.
A detailed ethnography exploring the professional skill of intimate care in nursing
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More Than a Game
Life Lessons from Philadelphia's Sports Community
Shorr-Parks, Eliot, and Steve Parks
Voices from Philadelphia's athletic community on what it's like being a Philadelphian and a fan, and on what makes a community work
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The Public and Its Possibilities
Triumphs and Tragedies in the American City
Fairfield, John D.
New in Paperback!
Throughout U.S. history, our unrealized civic aspirations provide the essential counterpoint to an excessive focus on private interests
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"To Serve a Larger Purpose"
Engagement for Democracy and the Transformation of Higher Education
Saltmarsh, John, and Matthew Hartley, Eds.
New in Paperback!
How to return democracy to the heart of a university's mission
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The Company We Keep
Occupational Community in the High-Tech Network Society
Marschall, Daniel
How computer technologists developed an occupational identity that persists in cyberspace long after the dot-com bubble has burst
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Laotian Daughters
Working toward Community, Belonging, and Environmental Justice
Shah, Bindi V.
How environmental activism in youth shapes political engagement and citizenship for Laotian American women
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Dangerous Trade
Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World
edited by Sellers, Christopher and Joseph Melling
The first comprehensive survey of the global history of industrial hazards and their control
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Constructing the Enemy
Empathy/Antipathy in U.S. Literature and Law
Srikanth, Rajini
An argument, based in history, law, literature, and philosophy, for empathy as an integral part of decisions about who will be designated an enemy of the state
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An Immigrant Neighborhood
Interethnic and Interracial Encounters in New York before 1930
Yee, Shirley J.
How the crowded neighborhoods of New York's Lower East Side gave rise to cross-racial and cross ethnic bonds before 1930
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Hope Is Cut
Youth, Unemployment, and the Future in Urban Ethiopia
Mains, Daniel
A detailed look at young men in urban Ethiopia that reveals the impact of economic development and globalization
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Reading Up
Middle-Class Readers and the Culture of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century United States
Blair, Amy L.
The role of cultural elites and journalists in promoting reading as a means of self-improvement and social mobility
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Club Modernity for Reluctant Christians
Swidler, Leonard
An invitation to reflect on the core values of spirituality
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Saving San Francisco
Relief and Recovery after the 1906 Disaster
Davies, Andrea Rees
How the relief and rebuiliding efforts after the 1906 disaster reproduced the class and racial divisions of pre-quake San Francisco
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Sweating Saris
Indian Dance as Transnational Labor
Srinivasan, Priya
Seeing Indian dancers as gendered labor highlights the politics of Asian American racialization, migration, and citizenship
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Prisons and Patriots
Japanese American Wartime Citizenship, Civil Disobedience, and Historical Memory
Lyon, Cherstin M.
Reexamining wartime definitions of citizenship, patriotism, prisons, and civil disobedience through the lives of Gordon Hirabayashi and the Tucsonians
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Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It
A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs
Second Edition
Gray, James P.
A forceful argument for why we need to repeal drug prohibition
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Refounding Environmental Ethics
Pragmatism, Principle, and Practice
Minteer, Ben A.
Explains environmental pragmatism and shows how to apply it to real world issues
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Vodou Songs in Haitian Creole and English
Hebblethwaite, Benjamin
The first comprehensive collection of Vodou sacred literature in bilingual form
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The Borders of Justice
edited by Balibar, Étienne, Sandro Mezzadra and Ranabir Samaddar
Exploring the limits of and contradictions of transitional justice
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Merger Games
The Medical College of Pennsylvania, Hahnemann University, and the Rise and Fall of the Allegheny Health Care System
Swazey, Judith P.
The story of one of the most public failures in healthcare consolidation
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Multicultural Girlhood
Racism, Sexuality, and the Conflicted Spaces of American Education
Thomas, Mary E.
How high school girls perpetuate social spaces of racism, misogyny, and gender stereotyping despite their best intentions
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Creolizing Contradance in the Caribbean
edited by Manuel, Peter
New in Paperback!
How contradance and quadrille gave rise to merengue, danzón and other popular Creole dances
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Free!
Great Escapes from Slavery on the Underground Railroad
Cary, Lorene
Stories that celebrate people who insisted on freedom
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AFSCME's Philadelphia Story
Municipal Workers and Urban Power in the Twentieth Century
Ryan, Francis
New in Paperback!
A history of the largest union in the AFL-CIO and its growth in a major American city
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Civic Talk
Peers, Politics, and the Future of Democracy
Klofstad, Casey A.
New in Paperback!
Exploring how the simple act of talking about politics and current events with friends, colleagues, and relatives causes us to become more civically active
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The Dance of Politics
Gender, Performance, and Democratization in Malawi
Gilman, Lisa
New in Paperback!
How gender and class intersect in Malawi through women's roles as political praise performers
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St. Peter's Church
Faith in Action for 250 Years
Biddle, Cordelia Frances, Elizabeth S. Brown, Alan J. Heavens and Charles P. Peitz
A history of the second-oldest Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, published in honor of its 250th anniversary
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The Protestant Ethic Revisited
Gorski, Philip S.
Essays on the contradictory resurgence of religion and liberalism in the twenty-first century by one of the most important voices in the study of the sociology of religion
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Community Gardening
A PHS Handbook
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
How to build a community garden for all to share
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The Ethics of Care
A Feminist Approach to Human Security
Robinson, Fiona
Applying feminist ethics to a comprehensive reworking of the theory of human security, addressing such issues as poverty, health, environment, conflict and peace building
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The Philly Fan's Code
The 50 Toughest, Craziest, Most Legendary Philadelphia Athletes of the Last 50 Years
Tanier, Mike
An original and quirky take on Philadelphia legends and the meaning of “tough athlete”
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Body Language
Sisters in Shape, Black Women's Fitness, and Feminist Identity Politics
Lau, Kimberly J.
How Black women's engagement in improving health and fitness raises questions about feminism and the construction of black female identity
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The Production of Living Knowledge
The Crisis of the University and the Transformation of Labor in Europe and North America
Roggero, Gigi, foreword by Enda Brophy
How universities in Europe and North America are run like factories and how this affects academic workers
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Sonic Spaces of the Karoo
The Sacred Music of a South African Coloured Community
Jorritsma, Marie
A groundbreaking study of music in an ethnically marginalized South African community
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Closure
The Rush to End Grief and What It Costs Us
Berns, Nancy
Do we really need closure after bad things happen?
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Tutoring Matters
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about How to Tutor
Second Edition
Chin, Tiffani, Jerome Rabow and Jeimee Estrada
The authoritative manual for both the aspiring and seasoned tutor
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Troubling Gender
Youth and Cumbia in Argentina's Music Scene
Vila, Pablo and Pablo Semán, contributions by Eloísa Martín and María Julia Carozzi
How cumbia villera and Argentine popular culture reshape and reflect the changes in gender relations among the country's underclass youth
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The Renewal of Cultural Studies
edited by Smith, Paul
A collective manifesto for the future of Cultural Studies
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The Disability Rights Movement
From Charity to Confrontation
Updated Edition
Fleischer, Doris Zames and Frieda Zames
A newly updated account of the struggle for disability rights in the U.S.
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American Culture and Religious Diversity
A Saudi Perspective
Alhomoudi, Fahad
Chronicling the unique religious-based travels of a Muslim in America
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Youth Violence
Sex and Race Differences in Offending, Victimization, and Gang Membership
Esbensen, Finn-Aage, Dana Peterson, Terrance J. Taylor and Adrienne Freng
The first comprehensive overview to examine how sex and race/ethnicity impact the interrelationships among youth violence, violent victimization, and gang membership
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Baltimore '68
Riots and Rebirth in an American City
Edited by Elfenbein, Jessica I., Thomas L. Hollowak, and Elizabeth M. Nix
The first comprehensive study of one city, Baltimore, forty years after the unrest that swept across some 120 U.S. cities
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The City on the Hill from Below
The Crisis of Prophetic Black Politics
Marshall, Stephen H.
A compelling conversation between African American political intellectuals and the canon of western political philosophy
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The Strange Music of Social Life
A Dialogue on Dialogic Sociology
Bell, Michael Mayerfeld, edited by Ann Goetting
How the music of human interaction can help us better understand the nature of social science research
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Under New Management
Universities, Administrative Labor, and the Professional Turn
Martin, Randy
A balanced review of the changing nature of the corporate university
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The American Dream in the 21st Century
Edited by Hanson, Sandra L. and John Kenneth White
A multidisciplinary conversation on the state of the American Dream
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Public Financing in American Elections
Panagopoulos, Costas
The first book-length treatment of the public financing of elections in the United States
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Asian American Plays for a New Generation
Edited by Lee, Josephine, Don Eitel, and R. A. Shiomi
Asian American plays from the heartland
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"To Serve a Larger Purpose"
Engagement for Democracy and the Transformation of Higher Education
Edited by Saltmarsh, John and Matthew Hartley
How to return democracy to the heart of a university's mission
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American History Now
Edited for the American Historical Association by Eric Foner and Lisa McGirr
A new generation of scholars addresses the current themes and questions in interpreting American history
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As French as Everyone Else?
A Survey of French Citizens of Maghrebin, African, and Turkish Origin
Brouard, Sylvain and Vincent Tiberj
Foreword by Paul M. Sniderman
Translated by Jennifer Fredette
Shedding new light on integration and citizenship in France to reveal the ways in which immigrants do-and do not-share the attitudes of the majority population
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Second Cities
Globalization and Local Politics in Manchester and Philadelphia
Hodos, Jerome
How Philadelphia and Manchester have successfully grappled with globalization, carving out a series of distinctive niche roles for themselves over time
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Moral Problems in Higher Education
Cahn, Steven M.
A reader on the key ethical dilemmas confronting higher education
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The SPHAS
The Life and Times of Basketball's Greatest Jewish Team
Stark, Doug, Foreword by Lynn Sherr
The history of the South Philadelphia Hebrew Association's basketball team and the legends it spawned
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Abuse of Power
How Cold War Surveillance and Secrecy Policy Shaped the Response to 9/11
Theoharis, Athan
An argument that domestic surveillance erodes civil liberties and fails to protect the country
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Modeling Citizenship
Jewish and Asian American Writing
Schlund-Vials, Cathy
In fiction and nonfiction, Asian Americans and Jewish Americans grapple with their "model minority" status and the contested nature of citizenship
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My Soul's Been Psychedelicized
Electric Factory: Four Decades in Posters and Photographs
Magid, Larry with Robert Huber
Philadelphia's popular music scene and the concert promoters who shaped it for more than forty years
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Distant Corners
International Perspectives on Miscarriages of Justice
Wangerin, David
From bestselling author David Wangerin, a history of America's curious relationship with the "beautiful game"
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Numbers on the Move
1 2 3 Dance and Count with Me
Benzwie, Teresa, Illustrated by Mark Weber
Young children learn by moving and dancing in this playful book for children ages four through ten
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Israel's Dead Soul
Salaita, Steven
How Zionism became an exceptional ideology in the eyes of the West
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How to Be South Asian in America
Narratives of Ambivalence and Belonging
jain, anupama
A variety of immigrant narratives probe the dynamic process of South Asian Americanization
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The Persuasive Power of Campaign Advertising
Ridout, Travis N. and Michael M. Franz
How campaign ads persuade voters
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Mexican Voices of the Border Region
Velasco Ortiz, Laura and Oscar F. Contreras, with translations by Sandra del Castillo
How the border shapes the experiences and opportunities of Mexicans on each side
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Living in the Crossfire
Favela Residents, Drug Dealers, and Police Violence in Rio de Janeiro
Alves, Maria Helena Moreira and Philip Evanson
Communities organizing to end Brazil's urban war on drugs
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The Production of Modernization
Daniel Lerner, Mass Media, and The Passing of Traditional Society
Shah, Hemant
How Daniel Lerner's seminal work contributed to the overall professionalization of communication theory and sociology
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How Racism Takes Place
Lipsitz, George
How racism shapes urban spaces and how African Americans create vibrant communities that offer models for more equitable social arrangements |
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Race Appeal
How Candidates Invoke Race in U.S. Political Campaigns
McIlwain, Charlton D. and Stephen M. Caliendo
Why, when, and how often candidates use race appeals, and how the electorate responds
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Violent Belongings
Partition, Gender, and National Culture in Postcolonial India
Daiya, Kavita
New in Paperback!
How the Partition of India set in motion the violence, ethnic divisions, and dislocations that continue into our own time
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Higher Education and Democracy
Essays on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement
Saltmarsh, John and Edward A. Zlotkowski
A masterful collection of essays on the democratic potential of education
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Cheaper by the Hour
Temporary Lawyers and the Deprofessionalization of the Law
Brooks, Robert
How attorneys' work is deprofessionalized, downgraded, and controlled through part-time and temporary assignments
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Putting the Horse before Descartes
My Life's Work on Behalf of Animals
Rollin, Bernard E.
A pioneer in animal ethics tells his story
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To The City
Urban Photographs of the New Deal
Foulkes, Julia L.
New Deal photographs reveal the inexorable "pull of the city" even as they lament the demise of rural America
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