Stories from the Surgical Life
Richard C. Karl
In the tradition of Lewis Thomas' The Lives of a Cell, a beautiful book on what it's like to be a surgeon
160 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
Crisis in Professional Ethics
Edited by Elliot D. Cohen, and MIchael Davis
Professionals face tough questions raised by the AIDS pandemic
288 pages
| 6 x 9
Medicine, Miracle, or Mirage?
Michael S. Goldstein
What is alternative medicine? Why is it so popular? What's its future in American health care?
280 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
The Intifada Years
Sherna Berger Gluck
A personal journey forces the author to confront her Jewish identity and Western feminism
248 pages
| 6 x 9
| 5 figures, 5 maps
Intellectuals and Public Responsibility in the Postwar United States
David Paul Haney
A controversial explanation for sociology's isolation from American society
296 pages
| 6 x 9
Rules of the Game
Marc Bekoff
What can we learn from watching animals play?
32 pages
| 9 x 7
| 24 color illustrations
Building a New Future
Edited by Michael W. Suleiman
Setting the record straight about Arab American culture
368 pages
| 7 x 10
| 13 tables, 1 figure
Katy Friedland
A book of opposites for young readers, based on the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s collections
44 pages
| 8.5 x 11
| 32 color illustrations
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
New Views of Local History
edited by Elizabeth Fee, Linda Shopes and Linda Zeidman
A tour guide to places in the city that are important to labor, African Americans, and women's history
288 pages
| 9 x 11
| 11 map(s) 150 figures
Mapping Contemporary Italian Politics
Michael Shin
A richly informed new explanation for the rise and fall of Italy’s colorful Prime Minister
184 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 8 tables 19 figures
The Sixties Generation Grows Up
Jack Whalen, and Richard Flacks
Where do young revolutionaries go when the revolution doesn’t happen?
324 pages
Waves of Change in the Birthplace of American Rowing
Dotty Brown
A magisterial history of Philadelphia's iconic Boathouse Row
288 pages
| 10 x 8
| 63 color photos, 3 line drawings, 110 halftones
Thomas Hauser
From the bestselling author, an insider’s look into a year of “the sweet science”
256 pages
| 6 x 9
Samba, Bossa Nova, and the Popular Music of Brazil, Revised and Expanded Edition
Chris McGowan and Ricardo Pessanha
An encyclopedia survey of Brazilian popular music—now updated and expanded
256 pages
| 7 x 10
| 10 figures, 171 halftones, 10 maps