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Focusing on stardom during the 1920s, this title reveals strong connections and dissonances in matters of storytelling and performance that can be traced both backward and forward, across Europe, Asia, and the United States, from the silent era into the emergence of sound.

Investigates the development and growth of the churches with a goal of shaping the future of American Christianity, which are established by second-generation Korean Americans. Including data gathered over years at twenty-two churches, this comprehensive study addresses generational, identity, political, racial, and empowerment issues.

Examines key turning points during the twentieth century, including the beginning of the Cold War, the debates over nuclear weapons, the Sputnik crisis in 1957, the struggle over the Vietnam War, and the eventual end of the Cold War, showing how the involvement of scientists in executive policymaking evolved over time.

Views Cuba from the Soviet Union's demise to the present, to assess how conflicts over media access play out in their both liberating and repressive potential. This title questions myths of how Internet use necessarily fosters global democracy and reveals the impact of new technologies on the country's governance and culture.

Focuses on what many believe to be the most exciting postseason series in baseball history: the 1995 Division Series between the New York Yankees and the Seattle Mariners. This book chronicles the earlier struggles of both teams during the 1980s, their mid-1990s resurgence and the effects of Seattle's victory.

Every year, millions of children across the country get arrested. This title provides answers to common questions such as: should I let my child talk to the police without a lawyer; how can I help my child succeed on probation; should my child admit to the charges or take the case to trial; and, how will this case impact my child's future.

A study of a grassroots campaign where longtime labor and environmental allies found themselves on opposite sides of a conflict that pitted good jobs against good air. It analyzes how those issues came to be opposed and in doing so unpacks the racial and class dynamics that shape Americans' grasp of labor and environmental issues.

What do Christians do with the Bible? How do they - individually and collectively - interact with the sacred texts? Why does this engagement shift so drastically among and between social, historical, religious, and institutional contexts? This book addresses such questions.

It is estimated that more than 50 million Latinos live in the United States. This book examines the issues affecting Latino men's health and recommend policies to overcome inequities and better serve this population.

Traces the growth of depression as an object of medical study and as a consumer commodity. This book addresses gender issues in the construction of depression, explores key questions of how its diagnosis was developed, how it has been used, and how we should question its application in American society.

Focusing on how science works and how pseudoscience works, this work demonstrates the futility of 'scientific' creationism. It debunks the notion of intelligent design and other arguments that show evolution could not have produced life in its present form. It concludes with a frank discussion of science and religion.

Latin American indigenous media production has recently experienced a noticeable boom, specifically in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Colombia. This title encourages readers to consider how indigenous media contributes to a wider understanding of decolonization and anticolonial study against the universal backdrop of the twenty-first century.

Interprets six essential Biblical texts. This book shows how the Bible embraces sexuality and skepticism, boundary crossing and challenges to authority, how it illuminates the human psyche and mirrors our own violent times, and how it asks us to make difficult choices in the quest for justice.

An anthology of ten essays that looks at the problems of inequality and oppression from various angles. It promotes intersectionality as an interpretive tool that can be utilized to better understand the ways in which race, class, gender, ethnicity, and other dimensions of difference shape our lives.

Explores the process by which boardinghouse life was translated into a lively urban vernacular. This work is at once an essential introduction to a 'lost' world of boarding, even as it comprises an early, engaging, and sophisticated analysis of America's 'urban turn' during the decades leading up to the Civil War.

Features essays that approach Peter Pan from literary, dramatic, film, television, and sociological perspectives and, in the process, analyzes his emergence and preservation in the cultural imagination.

Analyzes the sociocultural context of ultrasound technology and imagery. Drawing upon ethnographic research both within and beyond the medical setting, this title shows how ultrasound has entered into public consumer culture in the United States.

A memoir of an American-Jewish historian who set out to study Yiddish language and Jewish history at YIVO, the Jewish Scientific Institute in Vilna, Poland, in 1938. It describes her pre-war year in Jewish Eastern Europe, and her role in salvaging what remained of Vilna's scorched Jewish archives and libraries.

Examines twenty-two controversial and complex public relations and media mishaps, many of which were played out in public.

Challenges militarization and voices an alternative encompassing vision of human security by analyzing the relationships among gender, race, and militarization.

Addresses key areas of concern and importance to urban planners and suburban residents including McMansions, traffic disasters, house design, homeowner's associations, and big box stores. Through the inclusion of examples and photos, this work creates an accessible portrait of the suburbs supported by data, anecdotes, and social theory.

Explores the public side of reading, and specifically how books and booklists form a public image of African Americans. This work reflects on the ways that the author's parents guided her reading when she was young and her bittersweet memories of reading to her children.

Featuring more than sixty images of the Brooklyn bridge, this volume traces the diverse ways that this structure has been received, adopted, and interpreted as an American idea.

Demonstrates and describes the two types of realignments - ""idealist"" and ""civic"" - that have alternated with one another throughout the nation's history. This book examines the impact of the Millennial Makeover on the elections, issues, and public policies that will characterize America's politics.

A collection of essays that show how the New Woman differed according to region, class, politics, race, ethnicity, and historical circumstance.

Offers a perspective on the structure, function, and care of the major systems of the human body. This work relays medical facts alongside personal stories that help students relate to and apply the information. It teaches the basics of feedback control systems, homeostasis, and physiological gradients.

Explores the pairing of classical and contemporary, art and entertainment, high culture and popular culture to reveal the place that ballet occupies in American life. Drawing on examples that range from musicals to tragic melodramas, this book shows how commercial films have produced an image of ballet that is associated with emotions.

Presents an opinion that we must understand the complexity and interdependency of species and habitats from the microscopic level to the gigantic. This book shows how easily observable species are part of a complicated infrastructure. It also shows that forests are far more complicated, which means simplistic policies will not save them.

Provides a firsthand account of the changing nature of control efforts employed by local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies when confronted with mass activism. Based on ethnographic research, and using an incisive theoretical framework, this title maps the use of legal, physical, and psychological approaches.

Approaching US - China relations from an overlooked perspective, this book reveals that both the expansion and termination of educational ties between the two nations in the first half of twentieth century were largely the results of direct and deep intervention from the American and Chinese governments.