Sex, Drugs, and Crime in the Americas
Stephanie C. Kane
A fresh, astute means for debating the issues connecting the AIDS pandemic to government policy and crime in the Americas
256 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 4 figures, 3 halftones
African-Americans and Cubans before the Cuban Revolution
edited by Lisa Brock and Digna Casteñada Fuertes, foreword by Manning Marable
The relationship between the two peoples of color, their similar experiences with slavery and reaching for political power, and their parallel race consciousness
289 pages
| 6 x 9
| 1 table 26 halftones
U.S. Latinos, Latin Americans, and the Paradox of Interdependence
Edited by Frank Bonilla, Edwin MelÈndez, Rebecca Morales, and MarÌa de los Angeles Torres
Over the past several decades, Latinos in the United States have emerged as strategic actors in major processes of social transformation
336 pages
| 6 x 9
Environmental Ethics in Theory and Practice
Patti H. Clayton, photographs by Charles Mason
An extraordinary whale rescue that revealed a great deal about values and decision making and about how we think of ourselves as human beings
352 pages
| 6 x 9
| 2 tables, 16 halftones
How Business Campaign Contributions Subvert Democracy
Dan Clawson
How does the campaign finance system really workand why do corporate executives say they contribute?
256 pages
| 6 x 9
| 7 tables 1 figure
Kinship and Domestic Politics
Edited by Karen V. Hansen, and Anita Ilta Garey
Leading feminist scholars contemplate the complexity of today's American families
944 pages
| 7 x 10
| 21 tables, 10 figs.
Authorship and the Studio System
Edited by Robert Sklar and Vito Zagarrio
Legendary film director Frank Capra composed a unique American vision, but how was that vision influenced by the strategies and production style of Columbia Pictures?
304 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 25 halftones
Religious Communities and the New Immigration
Edited by R. Stephen Warner and Judith G. Wittner
The new religious communities of the United States in their churches, mosques, temples, home meetings, and festivals, being built by immigrants
416 pages
| 6 x 9
| 3 tables
Puerto Rican Politics and the Challenge of Ethnicity
José Cruz
Identity politics as a positive force in political mobilization and access to power
296 pages
| 6 x 9
| 11 tables, 2 figures, 28 halftones, 2 maps
Portrait of a Psychotherapy Cult
Marybeth F. Ayella
Group therapy goes awry in one community and shows how vulnerable we all can be to cult mentality
213 pages
| 6 x 9
Baseball and the Law
Roger I. Abrams
An accessible, insightful look at how baseball and salary arbitration are shaped by law
240 pages
| 6 x 9
National Cultures, Sexual Identity Politics, and the Discourse of Rights
Carl F. Stychin
How sexuality and sexual orientation intersect with gender, race, ethnicity, and religion in the ongoing formation of national identity
256 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
Occupational Health and Women Workers
Karen Messing
A provocative look at why researchers are blind to the health problems of women workers
264 pages
| 5.5 x 8.2
| 18 tables, 1 figs.
Exploring Agency and Autonomy
Susan Sherwin, and The Feminist Health Care Ethics Research Network
The practical issues of women's empowerment in the health-care system and the deep assumptions and values that underlie that system
336 pages
| 6 x 9
| 2 figures
A Theoretical Interpretation
H. Mark Roelofs
This classic analysis challenges America's complacency about its political system
368 pages
| 6 x 9
| 8 figs.
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