HGTV and the Spectacle of Gentrification
Robert Goldman
Reveals how the comforting story told by HGTV programs obscures the reality of housing investment, renovation, and flipping
250 pages
| 6 x 9
| 2 figures, 7 halftones
Gender and Power in Fantasy Sports
Rebecca Joyce Kissane and Sarah Winslow
How fantasy sport participants experience gendered power
242 pages
| 6 x 9
| 3 tables
Mary Lou Nemanic
How daily metro newspapers can continue to survive in the age of digital journalism
208 pages
| 5.25 x 8.5
| 1 line drawing, 18 halftones
50 Years of Wit and Wisdom from the Groundbreaking Sportswriter
Edited by Gloria Hochman
50 years of classic columns from one of Philadelphia's most beloved sportswriters
360 pages
| 6 x 9
| 17 halftones
Stories of Lives at the Margins
Alex Tizon
Now in Paperback—an anthology of richly reported and beautifully written stories about marginalized people
264 pages
| 5.25 x 8.5
| 1 halftone
The Public Agenda in the Information Age
Jill A. Edy and Patrick C. Meirick
Evaluates how the lack of public consensus on issue priorities has affected the way public opinion is represented in U.S. democratic institutions
272 pages
| 6 x 9
| 15 tables, 21 figures, 3 line drawings
Transnational Legal Graffiti Scenes as Spaces for Encounter
Caitlin Frances Bruce
Argues that public art generates spaces for encounter as well as places and moments that can reenergize the felt sense of possibility in urban spaces
276 pages
| 6 x 9
| 54 color photos
Film, Media, and the Radical Imagination
Greg Burris
A window into the Palestinian freedom struggle, drawing on an analysis of Palestinian film and media
270 pages
| 6 x 9
| 8 halftones
Black and Irish Press and the Struggle for Citizenship, 1870-1914
Brian Shott
How black and Irish journalists in the Gilded Age used newspapers to shape and constrain the struggle for American belonging
250 pages
| 6 x 9
| 22 halftones
His Best Writing on the Sixers, the Dream Team, and Beyond
Edited by Andy Jasner
Three decades of reporting by renowned Philadelphia Hall of Fame sportswriter Phil Jasner
264 pages
| 6 x 9
| 13 halftones
Campaign Oratory and Democracy in the United States, Britain, and Australia
Sean Scalmer
The story of how the “stump speech” was created, diffused, and helped to shape the modern democracies of the Anglo-American world
232 pages
| 6 x 9
| 8 halftones
Rethinking Sport and Religion
Daniel A. Grano
Rethinking the changes surrounding religion and elite sport cultures
282 pages
| 6 x 9
| 1 halftone
Mass Culture in America's Decade of Disaster
Timothy Recuber
Examines the media’s coverage of four American disasters, arguing that media attention directs our concern for the suffering of others toward efforts to soothe our own emotional turmoil
228 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 5 tables
Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements
Edited by Andrew T. Lamas, Todd Wolfson, and Peter N. Funke
An in-depth examination of the relevance of Marcuse's writing for today's social movements
440 pages
| 6 x 9
Resources, Engagement, and Recruitment
Edited by Casey A. Klofstad
Cutting-edge research by prominent social scientists on new topics and methods of inquiry in the field of civic participation
294 pages
| 6 x 9
| 20 tables, 29 line drawings
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