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View book details for When Media Goes to War
Hegemonic Discourse, Public Opinion, and the Limits of Dissent
Monthly Review Press
In this fresh and provocative book, Anthony DiMaggio uses the war in Iraq and the United States confrontations with Iran as his touchstones to probe the sometimes fine line between news and propaganda. Using Antonio Gramscis concept of hegemony and …
View book details for Global Imperialism and the Great Crisis
The Uncertain Future of Capitalism
Monthly Review Press
In this provocative study, economist Ernesto Screpanti argues that imperialismfar from disappearing or mutating into a benign globalizationhas in fact entered a new phase, which he terms global imperialism. This is a phase defined by multinational firms cut loose from …
Monthly Review Press
"In this wonderful book, Thomas Patterson effectively dethrones the concept of 'civilization' as an abstract good, transcending human society."--Martin Bernal Drawing on his extensive knowledge of early societies, Thomas C. Patterson shows how class, sexism, and racism have been integral …
View book details for The Captains Widow of Sandwich
Self-Invention and the Life of Hannah Rebecca Burgess, 1834-1917
NYU Press
In 1852 Hannah Rebecca Crowell married sea captain William Burgess and set sail. Within three years, Rebecca Burgess had crossed the equator eleven times and learned to navigate a vessel. In 1856, 22-year-old Rebecca saved the ship Challenger as her …
Monthly Review Press
In 1971, Bruce Neuburgeryoung, out of work, and radicalized by the 60s counterculture in Berkeleytook a job as a farmworker on a whim. He could have hardly anticipated that he would spend the next decade laboring up and down the …
NYU Press
Psychotherapists have an ethical requirement to inform clients about their treatment methods, alternative treatment options, and alternative conceptions of their problem. While accepting the basis for this "informed consent" requirement, therapists have traditionally resisted giving too much information, arguing that …
View book details for The Education of the Southern Belle
Higher Education and Student Socialization in the Antebellum South
NYU Press
The American South before the Civil War was the site of an unprecedented social experiment in women's education. The South offered women an education explicitly designed to be equivalent to that of men, while maintaining and nurturing the gender conventions …
View book details for Trojan Horses
Saving the Classics from Conservatives
NYU Press
A passionate reexamination of the ancient world and the lessons we can draw from antiquityIn todays turbulent cultural moment, it is all too common for conservatives to invoke the wisdom of the ancient Greeks in the name of timeless virtues. …
View book details for Masculinity at Work
Employment Discrimination through a Different Lens
NYU Press
In late October 2013, the Miami Dolphins player Jonathan Martin walked out on his team and checked into a mental health institution. The original story implied that Martin could not take the professional pressure. Within days, the story changed. News …
View book details for The Rise of the Tea Party
Political Discontent and Corporate Media in the Age of Obama
Monthly Review Press
What to make of the Tea Party? To some, it is a grassroots movementaiming to reclaim an out-of-touch government for the people.To others, it is a proto-fascist organization of the misinformed andmanipulated lower middle class. Either way, it is surely …
View book details for Progressive Punishment
Job Loss, Jail Growth, and the Neoliberal Logic of Carceral Expansion
NYU Press
Winner, 2017 American Society of Criminology's Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice Best Book AwardAn examination of the neoliberal politics of incarceration The growth of mass incarceration in the United States eludes neat categorization as a product of the …
View book details for Spreadable Media
Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture
NYU Press
How sharing, linking, and liking have transformed the media and marketing industries Spreadable Media is a rare inside look at todays ever-changing media landscape. The days of corporate control over media content and its distribution have been replaced by the …
NYU Press
Framed in Article II of the Constitution, presidential powers are dictated today by judicial as well as historical precedent. To understand the ways the president wields power as well as how this power is kept in check by other branches …
View book details for At Home with Pornography
Women, Sexuality, and Everyday Life
NYU Press
Twenty-five years after the start of the feminist sex wars, pornography remains a flashpoint issue, with feminists locked in a familiar argument: Are women victims or agents? In At Home with Pornography, Jane Juffer exposes the fruitlessness of this debate …
View book details for The Socialist Imperative
From Gotha to Now
Monthly Review Press
In a little more than a decade, economist Michael A. Lebowitz has written several major works about the transition from socialism to capitalism: Beyond Capital(winner of the Deutscher Prize), Build It Now, The Socialist Alternative, and The Contradictions of Real …
View book details for In a New Land
A Comparative View of Immigration
NYU Press
2007 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleA comparative analysis of the U.S.'s contemporary immigrants to those who arrived a century agoAccording to the 2000 census, more than 10% of U.S. residents were foreign born; together with their American-born children, this group constitutes …
View book details for Irenaeus
Life, Scripture, and Legacy
Fortress Press
Champion of martyrs, scourge of heretics, erudite theologian, shrewd politicianno account of early Christianity is complete without careful consideration of Irenaeus of Lyons. Here a team of international scholars examine aspects of the saints life, historical context, engagement with scripture, …
Michael Wiese Productions
America's most distinguished film professor provides the definitive A to Z course on the intricacies of film. Each entry in this remarkable book, which represents a lifetime of teaching film, has already inspired and educated several generations of Hollywood's greatest …
View book details for Energy Warriors
Overcoming Cancer and Crisis with the Power of Qigong
Michael Wiese Productions
Energy Warriors learn to draw on something deeper during impossible times. You will make better decisions in meeting challenges if you have the clarity that comes when you use the the ancient Chinese art and science of qi gong to …
View book details for Crowdfunding for Filmmakers
The Way to a Successful Film Campaign
Michael Wiese Productions
Crowdfunding for Filmmakers offers practical information, tips, and tactics for launching a successful film campaign by detailing traditional models of fundraising, utilizing todays technological and social innovations, and augmenting each step with an added personal touch. The book examines various …
View book details for Queer Latinidad
Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces
NYU Press
An examination into queer identity in relation to Latino/a AmericaAccording to the 2000 census, Latinos/as have become the largest ethnic minority group in the United States. Images of Latinos and Latinas in mainstream news and in popular culture suggest a …
View book details for Italian Immigrant Radical Culture
The Idealism of the Sovversivi in the United States, 1890-1940
NYU Press
Maligned by modern media and often stereotyped, Italian Americans possess a vibrant, if largely forgotten, radical past. In Italian Immigrant Radical Culture, Marcella Bencivenni delves into the history of the sovversivi, a transnational generation of social rebels, and offers a …
View book details for Community Criminology
Fundamentals of Spatial and Temporal Scaling, Ecological Indicators, and Selectivity Bias
NYU Press
For close to a century, the field of community criminology has examined the causes and consequences of community crime and delinquency rates. Nevertheless, there is still a lot we do not know about the dynamics behind these connections. In this …
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John Bingham and the Invention of the Fourteenth Amendment
NYU Press
A history of the origins of the 14th Amendment and the the man who helped craft itJohn Bingham was the architect of the rebirth of the United States following the Civil War. A leading antislavery lawyer and congressman from Ohio, …
View book details for No Undocumented Child Left Behind
Plyler v. Doe and the Education of Undocumented Schoolchildren
NYU Press
The 1982 U. S. Supreme Court case of Plyler v. Doe, which made it possible for undocumented children to enroll in Texas public schools, was a watershed moment for immigrant rights in the United States. The Court struck down both …
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