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Features a diverse array of perspectives on the team and the games from fans - both partisan and non-partisan.

Experiences that mirror work-family dilemmas that all employed parents face.

Restores black women to their rightful place in American and black history and demonstrates their faith in themselves, their race, and their God.

Experiences that mirror work-family dilemmas that all employed parents face.

Provides a compelling framework for understanding the links between religion and politics.

Offers new ways of thinking about our longer lives.

The conflict between the nation's ideals and the racial animus that persists even into the second term of America's first black president.

Ethnographies of Youth and Temporality use youth as a prism to understand time and its subjective experience.

Focuses on the citizen resistance and struggle in Appalachia since 1960.

How images portraying Asians as civil subjects contribute to debates on Asian American citizenship

How popular music reflects the contradictions and dreams of communities searching for more sustainable ways to live

Aims to establish a basic framework for moral military action and to assist in analyzing military professional ethics. This work argues for the seriousness of the concept of military honour but limits honourable military activity by a strict interpretation of the notion of war crime.

An inspirational and telling story about a family's struggle to get equal educational opportunity for their deaf daughter

Examines the impact of hundreds of federal court decisions on the policies and administration of the EPA since its inception in 1970. This title presents case studies of five important policy areas: water quality, pesticides, toxic substances, air quality, and hazardous wastes.

Many new mothers and fathers are surprised at how they change as individuals and as couples after a baby is born. This title includes various interviews that explore the tendency for men and women to experience their transitions into parenthood in different ways - a pattern that has been linked to marital stress.

Through a series of photo essays, this work evokes the mood of an era that embraced the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, and the complacent prosperity of the 1950s. The photos document physical changes in the metropolitan area: the developing skyline, the streets of rowhouses, the expanding suburbs.

Provides a savvy cultural, historical, and media-based analysis that shows how Fu Manchu's irrepressibility gives shape to - and reinforces - the persistent Yellow Peril myth.

Describes a city that was always reinventing itself, filled with people who always had a very measured view of the worth and beauty of its public architecture. This book takes the reader through an illustrated journey through three centuries of Philadelphia's architecture.

Illustrates how these works gesture towards less exclusionary forms of citizenship and nationalism.

Throughout U.S. history, our unrealized civic aspirations provide the essential counterpoint to an excessive focus on private interests of Technology.

From mayors and mummers to tap dancers and gamblers, South Philly has it all. This book provides an historical examination that spans 300 years, from Thomas Jefferson living in South Philadelphia in 1793 to the burning of Palumbo's in 1994.

Small-scale fishing, a house-hold based enterprise in Puerto Rico, rarely provides sufficient income for a family, but it anchors their culture and sense of themselves within that culture. This title describes Puerto Rican fishing families as they negotiate homeland and diaspora.

Between 1870 and 1942, successive generations of Asians and Asian Americans predominantly Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino formed the predominant body of workers in the Pacific Coast canned-salmon industry. This study traces the shifts in the ethnic and gender composition of the cannery labor market from its origins through it decline.

A memoir of the author's experience as a profoundly deaf infant who became an expert lipreader, and who never learned sign language or met another deaf person until her mid-thirties. It follows her story as she made it through college, to become a corporate litigator.

Takes us from the private aspects of sexuality into the arena of public policy and state regulation.

What is the mission of American public education? This book describes one of America's most notable experiments in "community education." It offers a contextualized history of twentieth-century efforts to educate students as community-minded citizens.