Fall 2009

Perry's Arcana

A Fascimile Edition with a Collation and Systematic Review

Richard E. Petit

One of the original zoological journals, now in full facsimile

576 pages | 2 halftones

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Recasting Welfare Capitalism

Economic Adjustment in Contemporary France and Germany

Mark I. Vail

Compares and contrasts the development of welfare capitalism in France and Germany, through good times and bad, since the 1970s

248 pages | 6 x 9 | 10 tables

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Resentment's Virtue

Jean Améry and the Refusal to Forgive

Thomas Brudholm

Is forgiveness always the proper moral response to collective violence?

254 pages | 6 x 9

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The Sorcery of Color

Identity, Race, and Gender in Brazil

Elisa Larkin Nascimento

An examination of how racial and gender hierarchies are intertwined in Brazil

336 pages | 6 x 9 | 6 tables

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Sounding Off

Rhythm, Music, and Identity in West African and Caribbean Francophone Novels

Julie Huntington

Examining the author’s use of sound in novels to construct and negotiate identity

256 pages | 6 x 9

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Swimming Against the Tide

African American Girls and Science Education

Sandra L. Hanson

Following African American girls who “swim against the tide” in the white male science education system

224 pages | 5.5 x 8.25 | 22 tables

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Temple University

125 Years of Service to Philadelphia, the Nation, and the World

James Hilty and Matthew Hanson

A celebration of Temple University’s 125th Anniversary

320 pages | 9 x 11 | 250 Color Illustrations

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Theorizing Discrimination in an Era of Contested Prejudice

Discrimination in the United States

Samuel R. Lucas

Offers a fresh, important new understanding of racial and sexual discrimination

296 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 tables, 19 halftones

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Unchopping a Tree

Reconciliation in the Aftermath of Political Violence

Ernesto Verdeja

A significant new examination of the possibilities of reconciliation after wars and genocide

240 pages | 5.5 x 8.25

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