Municipal Workers and Urban Power in the Twentieth Century
Francis Ryan
A history of the largest union in the AFL-CIO and its growth in a major American city
320 pages
| 6 x 9
| 2 figures, 30 halftones
The Social Landscape of Pets in Disasters
Sarah E. DeYoung and Ashley K. Farmer
Lessons from recent disasters on accounting for the safety of animals and humans alike
224 pages
| 6 x 9
| 1 table, 10 halftones
Disability Activism and Parents of Children with Disabilities
Allison C. Carey, Pamela Block, and Richard K. Scotch
Addresses the nature and history of activism by parents of people with disabilities, and its complex relationship to activism by disabled leaders
348 pages
| 6 x 9
| 2 tables
A Tale of Two Taverns and the Growth of Philadelphia
Rebecca Yamin
152 pages
| 5 x 8
| 55 color photos, 2 figures, 8 halftones, 6 maps
Civic Engagement, Contested Issues, and Emerging Identities
James S. Lai
Examines how social media has changed the way Asian Americans participate in politics
224 pages
| 6 x 9
| 10 tables, 8 figures, 11 halftones
Nigrescence and Eudaimonia
William E. Cross Jr.
On Blackness, identity formation, and the deconstruction of the deficit perspective on Black life
200 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 4 tables, 2 figures
Women and Political Candidacy
Edited by Shauna L. Shames, Rachel I. Bernhard, Mirya R. Holman, and Dawn Langan Teele
How and why women run for office
324 pages
| 6 x 9
| 8 tables, 32 figures, 2 maps
Picking Up the Baton of Athlete Activism
David Steele
Examining American athletes' activism for racial and social justice, on and off the field
218 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
The Art and Science of Belonging to Earth
Mrill Ingram
Providing a new vision for the ignored and abused spaces around us
194 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 24 color photos, 2 halftones, 5 maps
A Life in Philadelphia Labor and Politics
Wendell W. Young III
A behind-the-scenes look at a legendary Philadelphia labor leader and how he shaped local and national politics in profound ways
296 pages
| 6 x 9
| 28 halftones
Race and Gender in Men's Work
Adia Harvey Wingfield
Making visible the experiences of black professional men in white male-dominated occupations
212 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 3 tables
Illness, Memoir, and the Ends of the Model Minority
James Kyung-Jin Lee
What happens when illness betrays Asian American fantasies of indefinite progress?
224 pages
| 6 x 9
Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Andrew Israel Ross
How female prostitutes and men who sought sex with other men shaped the history and emergence of modern Paris in the nineteenth century
264 pages
| 6 x 9
| 1 figure, 7 halftones, 2 maps