Universalist Aspirations in Modernist Literature and Art
Audrey Wu Clark
Examining early Asian American writers and artists as modernists
248 pages
| 6 x 9
| 10 figures
Basketball and the Age of Obama
Alexander Wolff
The influence Barack Obama has had on basketball and vice versa, in essays and photographs
192 pages
| 10 x 8
| 108 color photos, 22 halftones
Information Technology, Water, and Neoliberal Governance in India
Simanti Dasgupta
An ethnographic investigation of the class politics that underscore the emergence of neoliberalism in urban India
232 pages
| 6 x 9
Visions of the Organic City in the United States, Europe, and Latin America
Harold L. Platt
An international comparative study that considers how competing agents of change have interacted to build the urban environment
312 pages
| 6 x 9
| 1 figure, 14 maps
A History of Philadelphia's Fairmount Park System
James McClelland and Lynn Miller
How Philadelphia’s early efforts at conservation led to the country’s greatest park system
392 pages
| 8 x 10
| 158 color photos, 19 halftones
The Sociospatial Exclusion of Homeless People
Jürgen von Mahs
An international account of homelessness, comparing Berlin and Los Angeles and the possibility of exiting homelessness in each city
208 pages
| 6 x 9
| 7 tables, 13 figures
Realism and Fantasy in Hindi Cinema
Samir Dayal
How Hindi cinema has reflected the Indian public's self-understanding and posited new possibilities for national and individual identities
320 pages
| 6 x 9
| 9 halftones
Baltimore, St. Louis, Chicago
Robert R. Gioielli
How the postwar decay of America's industrial city's helped to give rise to environmental movement
224 pages
| 6 x 9
| 11 halftones
Art and the Politics of Culture in the United States, 1929-1945
Isadora Anderson Helfgott
How artists, American critics, and media sought to widen the appreciation of fine art but held different views of democratic culture
330 pages
| 6 x 9
| 13 color photos, 2 figures, 1 line drawing, 9 halftones, 1 map
Apologies for the Past
Ashraf H. A. Rushdy
The study and meaning of public apologies that have become frequent in the contemporary world
232 pages
| 6 x 9
Debts of Freedom and the Speculative Roots of U.S. Culture
Heidi Hoechst
A persuasive meditation on how capitalism intersects with American nationalism in the making of race and class relations
298 pages
| 6 x 9
Rights and Resistance in an Authoritarian State
Lynette Chua
How gay activism survives in a state that maintains power while promoting the rule of law and social harmony
228 pages
| 6 x 9
| 4 tables, 1 map
Transformative Education in the New Orleans Planning Initiative
Edited by Ken Reardon and John Forester
How a community-university partnership brought together analysis and political muscle to sustain New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward
262 pages
| 6 x 9
| 15 halftones, 7 maps
Social Theory and Governance
Eugene A. Rosa, Aaron M. McCright, and Ortwin Renn
How risk is a feature in all societies, and its connection to the challenges of sustainability
264 pages
| 6 x 9
| 22 figures
A Global Dance in Local Contexts
Edited by Sydney Hutchinson
How an understanding of salsa dancing enhances our appreciation of salsa's global reach and meanings
240 pages
| 6 x 9
| 2 tables, 2 figures, 12 halftones
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