Sociology
Main Street to Mainframes
Tells the story of Poughkeepsie’s transformation from small city to urban region.
Jewish Fundamentalism and the Temple Mount
Examines radical and messianic movements in Israel seeking to rebuild the Third Temple in Jerusalem.
When Play Was Play
A celebration of childhood pick-up games.
The Body in Medical Culture
Engages critically with historical and contemporary representations of the medicalized human body.
Follow the Money
Reveals the powerful influence of financial elites on New York City’s mayors.
Latino Voices in New England
Compelling stories and striking photographs illustrate the challenges and highlights of Latino/a life in Portland, Maine.
Where We Find Ourselves
Explores the universal longing for home, illuminated through the essays, poetry, and fiction of forty Jewish women writers from around the world.
Improving Urban Middle Schools
A look at Nativity schools, alternative middle schools that have had great success educating at-risk, urban students.
Imagined Families, Lived Families
An interdisciplinary look at the dramatic changes in the contemporary Japanese family, including both empirical data and analyses of popular culture.
The Ends of Solidarity
An in-depth look at the theory of solidarity of German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, serving also as a comprehensive introduction to his work.
White Horizon
From explorers’ accounts to boys’ adventure fiction, how Arctic exploration served as a metaphor for nation-building and empire in nineteenth-century Britain.
Sprawl and Politics
An account of the origin, enactment, and implementation of Maryland’s Smart Growth land use program begun in 1966.
Tamil Geographies
How perceptions of land and space influence social and aesthetic conditions in the Tamil region of India.
Identity, Memory, and Diaspora
Offers a detailed picture of the lives of Cuban Americans through interviews with artists, writers, and philosophers.
Recasting Culture and Space in Iberian Contexts
Anthropological case studies of the interplay of space, culture, and power in Iberia since 1850.
Race, Class, and the Death Penalty
Examines both the legal and illegal uses of the death penalty in American history.
Race and Police Brutality
Disputes standard explanations of police brutality against minority citizens to offer new insights and suggestions on dealing with this problem.
Portable Communities
Looks at the social implications of having constant access to others through cell phones, wireless computers, and other electronic devices.
Feminist Mothering
Essays explore a wide range of contemporary feminist mothering practices.
The Changing Role of the American Prosecutor
Looks at how prosecution of offenders is evolving in the contemporary legal milieu.
Ain't I a Feminist?
Interview-based study of contemporary African American feminist men.
Spiritual Dimensions of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi's Risale-I Nur
Essays on various facets of Nursi’s spirituality as portrayed in his Risale-i Nur.
Olympic Industry Resistance
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.
Kitchen Capitalism
The first in-depth examination of self-employment from the perspectives of low-income entrepreneurs.
The Anorexic Self
Critically examines diagnostic and popular discourses on eating disorders.