New American Press

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Karen Hunger ParshallIllustration(s): 38 b/w illus.Number of pages: 640Publication date: 2022Dimens...

Conventional wisdom dates the origins of activist federal government to the New Deal. William J. Novak shows that the roots run deeper. Tracing the...

Zara Dinnen analyzes a range of contemporary novels, films, and artworks to contend that we live in the condition of the "digital banal, " not noti...

Brent Salter draws on extensive original archival research to explain how copyright has been negotiated in the American theatre over the previous t...

A powerful dissection of a core American myth.Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Ian TyrrellNumber of pages: 288Publication date:...

Reducere. From the Introduction: "The goal with this anthology is to represent that full range of contemporary expressions of Islam, as well as a full range ...

Reducere. New American Press releases a new volume of recently published work from the Midwest each year to bring more visibility to Midwestern writing that ...

Reducere. Poetry. Women's Studies. Italian American Studies. Janine Certo is a poet of grief and joy who searches inward and outward to find the transcendent...

Reducere. Eight years apart, half-sisters Ingrid and Kate suffer the loss of their shared father when Ingrid is twenty and Kate only twelve. As they negotiat...

Reducere. Watch the Author Interview on KNMEIn both the historic record and the popular imagination, the story of nineteenth-century westward expansion in Am...

Reducere. The year was 1609, and British explorer Henry Hudson had landed in North America at the bidding of the Dutch East India Company. But Hudson was not...

Reducere. Developing life-changing drugs is risky and expensive--but that's not what makes them unaffordable. Drug pricing is a staple of every news cycle an...

Reducere. Discover the history of the American Revolution--an introduction for kids ages 6 to 9On April 19, 1775, the American Minutemen clashed with British...

Publisher: The New PressAuthor(s): Thomas O. McGarityNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 237 x 32Cover type: HardbackRedesc...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Sivan ZakaiIllustration(s): 8 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions:...

At its dawn in the early twentieth century, the new technology of aviation posed a crucial question to American and British cavalry: what do we do ...

Provides a compelling explanation of something that has bedeviled a number of feminist scholars: why did popular authors like Edna Ferber continue ...

Publisher: Prentice Hall PressAuthor(s): Winifred GallagherNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 212 x 25Cover type: Paperbac...

Reducere. The American labor movement isn't dead. It's just moving from the bargaining table to the streets. In A New American Labor Movement, William Scheue...

Reducere. From Pariah to Priority gives a unique, insider perspective that explains the unexpected incorporation of LGBTI rights into the United States and S...

Reducere. A compelling account of how a group of Hasidic Jews established its own local government on American soil Settled in the mid-1970s by a small conti...

Reducere. Focusing on the first five years of a young professional's career, First-Gen, NextGen explores the formation of first-generation Latinx individual'...

Reducere. The First Communion New Testament is the perfect gift for first communicants. This small Bible contains the complete New Testament text of the New ...

Reducere. For decades, scholars have conceived of the coastal city of New Orleans as a remarkable outlier, an exception to nearly every "rule" of accepted U....

Reducere. By 1994, Arizona Governor Fife Symington was arguably the hottest young star in the Republican Party--a lively, articulate voice for a new breed of...

Reducere. Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema brings together fourteen scholars to analyze Latin American cinema in dialogue with recent theories...

Reducere. In The Other American Dilemma, Rubén Donato and Jarrod Hanson examine the experiences of Mexican immigrants, Mexican Americans, and Hispanos/as in ...

Reducere. This book is the first anthology to explore the connection between race and the suburbs in American cinema from the end of World War II to the pres...

Reducere. New American Babble presents itself as a pretty Trojan horse for the age of hypermedia and stimulation. It is poetry, prose, and part ceremonial ou...

Reducere. "Acknowledgement is the first step in the journey of unpacking the ways our cities are built with systems of power and erasure. True reconciliation...

An examination of the concept and practice of contemporary tribal sovereignty which proposes that tribal self-determination might be better pursued...

This Element covers the history of Native North America's largest city: Cahokia, providing the archaeological history of its emergence and collapse...

The volume is for scholars and researchers interested in African American and American literature and history. Chapters explore African American wr...

Publisher: ZondervanAuthor(s): Catholic Bible PressNumber of pages: 512Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 112 x 173 x 17Cover type: Leather / fine b...

Publisher: The New PressAuthor(s): Arlie Russell HochschildNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2018Dimensions: 139 x 209 x 35Cover type: Paperbac...

A History of Financial Technology and Regulation explains business, economic, financial, and legal concepts clearly, while its historical approach ...

This book traces an unexpected journey to Latin America for South Asian literature in English. It shows how this encounter fundamentally shaped the...

Reducere. An authoritative account by preeminent Egyptologist Miroslav Verner covering over 70 of Egypt's and Sudan's pyramids, their historical and politica...

Reducere. John Eugene Rodriguez's Spanish New Orleans is the first comprehensive academic analysis of how Spain governed the largest imperial city in its Nor...

Reducere. Traces the development of Catholic cultures in the South, the Midwest, the West, and the Northeast, and their contribution to larger patterns of Ca...

Reducere. The Ecology of Herbal Medicine introduces botanical medicine through an in-depth exploration of the land, presenting a unique guide to plants found...

Reducere. In this study of Christian Science and the culture in which it arose, Amy B. Voorhees emphasizes Mary Baker Eddy's foundational religious text, Sci...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. This book is a gripping collection of American naval war diaries recently found in the National Archives about what was happening on the northern c...

During the half-millennium from the eleventh through the sixth centuries BC, the power and the glory of the imperial pharaohs of the New Kingdom cr...

DescriptionThe origins of a transnational adoption strategy that secured the future for Korean-black children The Korean War left hundreds of thous...

Reducere. Reveals the important role of Muslim Americans in American politics Since the 1950s, and especially in the post-9/11 era, Muslim Americans have pla...

A new American creed has reconstructed the social contract. Generations from 1890 to 1940 took for granted that citizenship entailed voting, volunt...

Reducere. How did Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, and Cubans become known as "Hispanics" and "Latinos" in the United States? How did several distinct cultures and n...

Reducere. The Great Depression coincided with a wave of natural disasters, including the Dust Bowl and devastating floods of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers....

Publisher: Nabu PressAuthor(s): Clinton Hart MerriamIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 84Publication date: 2011Dimensi...

Looking into the economics of American Protestantism, this work examines how churches have raised and spent money since colonial times and consider...

Reducere. Making a New American Constitution explores the grave flaws in the United States Constitution that obstruct reforms urgently needed for national un...

Reducere. Wyoming's colorful story of water management illuminates the powerful forces that impact water use in the rural American West. The state's rich his...

Create delicious, highly nutritious salads at home with dozens of inventive recipes inspired by the incredible Burmese tea leaf salad. Bursting wit...

The first anthology in over twenty-five years to focus exclusively on American dance practices across a wide span of American culture. This volume ...

DescriptionWinner of the National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies--an engaging firsthand portrait of American Judaism todayAmerican Ju...

Reducere. "The poems in The Falls dive down and emerge with the treasures of a deep interior life. A connection with the idiosyncratic and fiercely passionat...

Reducere. Rachel Swearingen's debut, How to Walk on Water and Other Stories, presents stories that bristle with menace and charm with intimate revelations. A...

This counter-cultural collection of American verse fits in Robert Lowell's famous definition of the raw in American poetry. Contributors include: O...

Reimagines the American 19th century through a sweeping interdisciplinary engagement with oceans, genres, and timeEmergent Worlds re-locates ninete...

A scathing and original look at the racist origins of psychiatry, through the story of the largest mental institution in the world Today, 90 percen...

An explanation of the digital practices of the black Internet From BlackPlanet to #BlackGirlMagic, Distributed Blackness places blackness at the ve...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. What makes it so difficult to enact and sustain comprehensive social welfare policy that would aid the disadvantaged in the United States? Addressi...

A critical companion to the most celebrated music documentaries of the twentieth century

An examination of Latino/a immigrant farmers as they transition from farmworkers to farm owners that offers a new perspective on racial inequity an...

Reducere. DescriptionOn the eve of the financial crisis, Jacob S. Hacker wrote "the policy book of the year" (E.J. Dionne, Jr., Washington Post), demonstrati...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom a peace ceremony conducted by Chitimacha diplomats before Governor Bienville's makeshift cabin in 1718 to a stickball match played ...

Reducere. Description A new vocabulary for African American Studies As the longest-standing interdisciplinary field, African American Studies has laid the fo...