2015 Award-Winning Books

2289 reg

Accessible Citizenships

Disability, Nation, and the Cultural Politics of Greater Mexico

Julie Avril Minich

240 pages
5.5 x 8.5


PB: 978-1-4399-1070-2 $28.95 Dec 13
HC: 978-1-4399-1069-6 $86.50 Dec 13
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1071-9 $28.95

MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary Cultural Studies, 2015

2158 reg

Blue Juice

Euthanasia in Veterinary Medicine

Patricia Morris

244 pages
6 x 9
1 table

PB: 978-1-4399-0706-1 $33.95 Jun 12
HC: 978-1-4399-0705-4 $91.50 Jun 12
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0707-8 $33.95 Jun 12

Midwest Sociological Society Distinguished Book Award, 2015

2327 reg

Chilean New Song

The Political Power of Music, 1960s-1973

J. Patrice McSherry

254 pages
6 x 9


PB: 978-1-4399-1152-5 $45.95 May 15
HC: 978-1-4399-1151-8 $98.50 May 15
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1153-2 $45.95

Cecil B. Currey Book Award, 2015

2277 reg

Conceiving Masculinity

Male Infertility, Medicine, and Identity

Liberty Walther Barnes

228 pages
5.5 x 8.25
1 table

PB: 978-1-4399-1042-9 $30.95 Apr 14
HC: 978-1-4399-1041-2 $90.50 May 14
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1043-6 $30.95

British Sociological Association's Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize, 2015

2251 reg

Disability and Passing

Blurring the Lines of Identity

Edited by Jeffrey A. Brune and Daniel J. Wilson

216 pages
5.5 x 8.25
1 halftone

PB: 978-1-4399-0980-5 $31.95 May 13
HC: 978-1-4399-0979-9 $86.50 May 13
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0981-2 $31.95

Contributor Dea H. Bolster, won the Disability History Association Award for Best Book Chapter, 2015

2298 reg

Dominican Baseball

New Pride, Old Prejudice

Alan Klein

200 pages
6 x 9


PB: 978-1-4399-1088-7 $25.95 Mar 14
HC: 978-1-4399-1087-0 $90.50 Mar 14
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1089-4 $25.95

Outstanding Book Award from the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, 2015

1615 reg

Financialization of Daily Life

Randy Martin

240 pages
5.5 x 8.25


PB: 978-1-56639-988-3 $29.95 Oct 02
HC: 978-1-56639-987-6 $71.50 Oct 02
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0597-5 $29.95 Oct 02

Randy Martin is the recipient of the American Sociological Association's Marxist Sociology Lifetime Achievement Award, 2015

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Knowledge LTD

Toward a Social Logic of the Derivative

Randy Martin

280 pages
6 x 9


PB: 978-1-4399-1224-9 $30.95 May 15
HC: 978-1-4399-1223-2 $90.50 May 15
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1225-6 $30.95 Jul 15

Randy Martin is the recipient of the American Sociological Association's Marxist Sociology Lifetime Achievement Award, 2015

2299 reg

Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood

Brooklyn's Sunset Park

Tarry Hum

300 pages
6 x 9
15 tables, 7 halftones, 1 maps

PB: 978-1-4399-1091-7 $33.95 Jun 14
HC: 978-1-4399-1090-0 $90.50 Jun 14
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1092-4 $33.95 Jun 14

Honorable Mention from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning's Paul Davidoff Award, 2015

2274 reg

Mobilizing Gay Singapore

Rights and Resistance in an Authoritarian State

Lynette Chua

228 pages
6 x 9
4 tables, 1 maps

PB: 978-1-4399-1032-0 $30.95 Jul 15
HC: 978-1-4399-1031-3 $70.50 Apr 14
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1033-7 $30.95 Apr 14

Distinguished Book Award from the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association, 2015
Awarded a certificate from the International Convention of Asia Scholar's Book Prize acknowledging it as Ground-Breaking Matter in the Social Sciences category by the 2015 Reading Committee, 2015

2339 reg

Movements in Times of Democratic Transition

Edited by Bert Klandermans and Cornelis van Stralen

390 pages
6 x 9
34 tables, 16 figs.

PB: 978-1-4399-1181-5 $35.95 Jan 15
HC: 978-1-4399-1180-8 $95.50 Jan 15
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1182-2 $35.95

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2015

1476 reg

Out in the Union

A Labor History of Queer America

Miriam Frank

240 pages
6 x 9


PB: 978-1-4399-1140-2 $30.95 Jan 15
HC: 978-1-4399-1139-6 $55.50 Jun 14
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1141-9 $30.95

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2015

2275 reg

Reverse Engineering Social Media

Software, Culture, and Political Economy in New Media Capitalism

Robert Gehl

236 pages
5.5 x 8.25


PB: 978-1-4399-1035-1 $30.95 Jun 14
HC: 978-1-4399-1034-4 $65.50 Jun 14
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1036-8 $30.95

Nancy Baym Book Award, 2015

2317 reg

Softly, with Feeling

Joe Wilder and the Breaking of Barriers in American Music

Edward Berger

400 pages
6 x 9
1 tables, 35 halftones

HC: 978-1-4399-1127-3 $36.00 Apr 18
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1129-7 $36.00

Association for Recorded Sound Collections' Award for Excellence in the category of Best Historical Research in Recorded Jazz, 2015

2155 reg

Under New Management

Universities, Administrative Labor, and the Professional Turn

Randy Martin

272 pages
6 x 9
1 tables

PB: 978-1-4399-0696-5 $32.95 Jun 12
HC: 978-1-4399-0695-8 $76.50 Jun 11
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0697-2 $32.95 Jun 11

Randy Martin is the recipient of the American Sociological Association's Marxist Sociology Lifetime Achievement Award, 2015