Reveals the powerful influence of financial elites on New York City’s mayors.

Compelling stories and striking photographs illustrate the challenges and highlights of Latino/a life in Portland, Maine.

Explores the universal longing for home, illuminated through the essays, poetry, and fiction of forty Jewish women writers from around the world.

A look at Nativity schools, alternative middle schools that have had great success educating at-risk, urban students.

An interdisciplinary look at the dramatic changes in the contemporary Japanese family, including both empirical data and analyses of popular culture.

An in-depth look at the theory of solidarity of German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, serving also as a comprehensive introduction to his work.

From explorers’ accounts to boys’ adventure fiction, how Arctic exploration served as a metaphor for nation-building and empire in nineteenth-century Britain.

An account of the origin, enactment, and implementation of Maryland’s Smart Growth land use program begun in 1966.

How perceptions of land and space influence social and aesthetic conditions in the Tamil region of India.

Offers a detailed picture of the lives of Cuban Americans through interviews with artists, writers, and philosophers.

Anthropological case studies of the interplay of space, culture, and power in Iberia since 1850.

Examines both the legal and illegal uses of the death penalty in American history.

Disputes standard explanations of police brutality against minority citizens to offer new insights and suggestions on dealing with this problem.

Looks at the social implications of having constant access to others through cell phones, wireless computers, and other electronic devices.

Essays explore a wide range of contemporary feminist mothering practices.

Looks at how prosecution of offenders is evolving in the contemporary legal milieu.

Interview-based study of contemporary African American feminist men.

Essays on various facets of Nursi’s spirituality as portrayed in his Risale-i Nur.

A critical look at the Olympics in the postbribery, post-9/11 era, particularly at consequences for host cities and so-called “Olympic education” for schoolchildren.

The first in-depth examination of self-employment from the perspectives of low-income entrepreneurs.

Critically examines diagnostic and popular discourses on eating disorders.

A postmodern critique of sociology’s presuppositions.

Locates the origins of the mass audience and the emergence of everyday moviegoing in the culture of cities.

A pickup basketball player looks at the pickup game as a distinctive culture using both personal experience and cultural studies theory.

Using scripture and science, a Christian agricultural scientist presents an ethic of farming that promotes good food and a healthy environment.