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How Many Exceptionalisms?
Explorations in Comparative Microanalysis
Aristide R. Zolberg
A collection of essays on the importance of comparative cultural analysis
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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
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Messiahs of 1933
How American Yiddish Theatre Survived Adversity through Satire
Joel Schechter
A lively examination of Yiddish theatre during the Great Depression
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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
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Oral History and Public Memories
edited by Paula Hamilton and Linda Shopes
Understanding how individual perspectives on history build collective memory
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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
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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
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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
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Ethnicity and Inequality in Hawai'i
Jonathan Y. Okamura
In Hawai'i, ethnicity rather than race structures social and economic inequalities
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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
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Choices and Changes
Interest Groups in the Electoral Process
Michael M. Franz
The most comprehensive book about interest groups in recent American politics
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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She's Got a Gun
Nancy Floyd
A fascinating, revealing look at women who own-and use-guns
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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?
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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 |
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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
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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
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Blue Skies
A History of Cable Television
Patrick R. Parsons
The first comprehensive history of cable television in the United States
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One Last Read
Collected Works of the World's Slowest Sportswriter
Ray Didinger
The very best writing from one of Philadelphia's finest sportswriters
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The Spike Lee Reader
Paula J. Massood
Looking at the films of the prolific, often controversial, and always provocative director
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Economic Citizens
A Narrative of Asian American Visibility
Christine So
In narratives dominated by money, exchange is the route to Asian American visibility
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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
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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
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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
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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 |
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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
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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?
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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
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Life, Liberty, and the Mummers
E. A. Kennedy III
A stunning photo-essay on America's most dazzling parade
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Forklore
Recipes and Tales from an American Bistro
Ellen Yin
True-life tales and scrumptious recipes from Philly's trendsetting restaurant
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Forgotten Philadelphia
Lost Architecture of the Quaker City
Thomas H. Keels
Lost treasures of Philadelphia architecture come to life again
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The Redskins Encyclopedia
Michael Richman, foreword by Dexter Manley
The definitive history of the Washington Redskins
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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 |
