Spring 2012 Catalog

2133 reg

"To Serve a Larger Purpose"

Engagement for Democracy and the Transformation of Higher Education

Edited by John Saltmarsh and Matthew Hartley

326 pages
6 x 9
5 tables, 1 figs.


PB: 978-1-4399-0507-4 $32.95
HC: 978-1-4399-0506-7 $76.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0508-1 $32.95

2100 reg

AFSCME's Philadelphia Story

Municipal Workers and Urban Power in the Twentieth Century

Francis Ryan

320 pages
6 x 9
2 figs., 30 halftones


PB: 978-1-4399-0279-0 $30.95
HC: 978-1-4399-0278-3 $66.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0280-6 $30.95

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
HC: 978-1-4399-0705-4 $91.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0707-8 $33.95

2174 reg

Catheters, Slurs, and Pickup Lines

Professional Intimacy in Hospital Nursing

Lisa C. Ruchti

226 pages
6 x 9
1 table, 1 figs., 1 halftones


PB: 978-1-4399-0753-5 $27.95
HC: 978-1-4399-0752-8 $91.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0754-2 $27.95

1856 reg

The Chinese Diaspora on American Screens

Race, Sex, and Cinema

Gina Marchetti

258 pages
6 x 9
44 halftones


HC: 978-1-59213-518-9 $81.50
Ebook: 978-1-59213-520-2 $81.50

2099 reg

Civic Talk

Peers, Politics, and the Future of Democracy

Casey A. Klofstad

200 pages
6 x 9
26 tables, 30 figs.


PB: 978-1-4399-0273-8 $29.95
HC: 978-1-4399-0272-1 $66.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0274-5 $29.95

2175 reg

The Company We Keep

Occupational Community in the High-Tech Network Society

Daniel Marschall

204 pages
6 x 9



PB: 978-1-4399-0756-6 $28.95
HC: 978-1-4399-0755-9 $71.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0757-3 $28.95

2160 reg

Ecomusicology

Rock, Folk, and the Environment

Mark Pedelty

242 pages
6 x 9
7 halftones


PB: 978-1-4399-0712-2 $31.95
HC: 978-1-4399-0711-5 $86.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0713-9 $31.95

2177 reg

The Enigmatic Academy

Class, Bureaucracy, and Religion in American Education

Christian J. Churchill and Gerald Levy

234 pages
6 x 9



PB: 978-1-4399-0784-9 $33.95
HC: 978-1-4399-0783-2 $86.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0785-6 $33.95

2226 reg

Espejos y ventanas (Mirrors and Windows)

historias orales de trabajadores agricolos y sus familias (Oral Histories of Mexican Farmworkers and the Families)

Mark Lyons

318 pages
6 x 9
89 halftones


PB: 978-0-9712996-6-5 $15.00

2227 reg

The Forgotten Bottom Remembered

Stories from a Philadelphia Neighborhood

August Tarrier

202 pages
6 x 9
84 halftones


PB: 978-0-9712996-4-1 $20.00

2150 reg

Governing How We Care

Contesting Community and Defining Difference in U.S. Public Health Programs

Susan J Shaw

226 pages
6 x 9
3 figs., 5 halftones


PB: 978-1-4399-0683-5 $30.95
HC: 978-1-4399-0682-8 $86.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0684-2 $30.95

2203 reg

Look, a White!

Philosophical Essays on Whiteness

George Yancy

224 pages
6 x 9



PB: 978-1-4399-0854-9 $29.95
HC: 978-1-4399-0853-2 $86.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0855-6 $29.95

2204 reg

Men's College Athletics and the Politics of Racial Equality

Five Pioneer Stories of Black Manliness, White Citizenship, and American Democracy

Gregory Kaliss

248 pages
6 x 9



PB: 978-1-4399-0857-0 $30.95
HC: 978-1-4399-0856-3 $61.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0858-7 $30.95

2180 reg

A Midwestern Mosaic

Immigration and Political Socialization in Rural America

J. Celeste Lay

238 pages
6 x 9
26 tables, 8 figs., 1 maps


PB: 978-1-4399-0793-1 $32.95
HC: 978-1-4399-0792-4 $86.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0794-8 $32.95

2233 reg

More Than a Game

Life Lessons from Philadelphia's Sports Community

Edited by Eliot Shorr-Parks

266 pages
6 x 9



PB: 978-0-9840429-0-6 $22.95

2225 reg

No Restraints

An Anthology of Disability Culture in Philadelphia

Gil Ott

152 pages
7 x 10.5
57 halftones


PB: 978-0-9712996-2-7 $20.00

2001 reg

Once the American Dream

Inner-Ring Suburbs of the Metropolitan United States

Bernadette Hanlon

224 pages
6 x 9
32 tables, 11 figs., 13 maps


PB: 978-1-59213-937-8 $27.95
HC: 978-1-59213-936-1 $61.50
Ebook: 978-1-59213-938-5 $27.95

2162 reg

Picturing Model Citizens

Civility in Asian American Visual Culture

Thy Phu

218 pages
6.125 x 9.25
42 halftones


PB: 978-1-4399-0721-4 $31.95
HC: 978-1-4399-0720-7 $91.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0722-1 $31.95

2072 reg

The Public and its Possibilities

Triumphs and Tragedies in the American City

John Fairfield

368 pages
6 x 9



PB: 978-1-4399-0211-0 $28.95
HC: 978-1-4399-0210-3 $76.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0212-7 $28.95

2047 reg

Pushing Back the Gates

Neighborhood Perspectives on University-Driven Revitalization in West Philadelphia

Harley F. Etienne

192 pages
5.5 x 8.25



PB: 978-1-4399-0069-7 $26.95
HC: 978-1-4399-0068-0 $61.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0070-3 $26.95

2068 reg

Reframing Transracial Adoption

Adopted Koreans, White Parents, and the Politics of Kinship

Kristi Brian

230 pages
6 x 9



PB: 978-1-4399-0184-7 $31.95
HC: 978-1-4399-0183-0 $86.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0185-4 $31.95

2176 reg

Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square

The Chinese Literary Diaspora and the Politics of Global Culture

Belinda Kong

292 pages
6 x 9
1 halftones


PB: 978-1-4399-0759-7 $29.95
HC: 978-1-4399-0758-0 $91.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0760-3 $29.95

2199 reg

Toomey's Triumph

Inside a Key Senate Campaign

Harold I. Gullan

256 pages
6 x 9
14 halftones


PB: 978-1-4399-0836-5 $
HC: 978-1-4399-0835-8 $36.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0837-2 $36.50

2173 reg

Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies

Edited by Anne Enke

268 pages
6 x 9



PB: 978-1-4399-0747-4 $35.95
HC: 978-1-4399-0746-7 $86.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0748-1 $35.95

2067 reg

Treacherous Subjects

Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism

Lan Duong

264 pages
6 x 9
15 halftones


PB: 978-1-4399-0178-6 $29.95
HC: 978-1-4399-0177-9 $81.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0179-3 $29.95

2044 reg

Whose National Music?

Identity, Mestizaje, and Migration in Ecuador

Ketty Wong

272 pages
6 x 9
18 figs., 19 halftones, 1 maps


HC: 978-1-4399-0057-4 $71.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0059-8 $71.50