Nyu Press imprint: 1731 books
'Ain el-Gedida
2006-2008 Excavations of a Late Antique Site in Egypt's Western Desert
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
The fourth volume in the Amheida series, ‘Ain el-Gedida: 2006-2008 Excavations of a Late Antique Site in Egypt's Western Desert presents the systematic record and interpretation of the archaeological evidence from the excavations at ‘Ain el-Gedida, a fourth-century rural settlement in Egypt's...
The Guantánamo Lawyers
Inside a Prison Outside the Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009
Read free excerpts from the book at http://www.theguantanamolawyers.com and explore the complete archive of narratives at http://dlib.nyu.edu/guantanamoFollowing the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the United States imprisoned more than seven hundred and fifty men at its naval base at Guantánamo...
Gallatin
America’s Swiss Founding Father
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010
You won’t find his portrait on our currency anymore and his signature isn’t penned on the Constitution, but former statesman Albert Gallatin (1761-1849) contributed immeasurably to the formation of America. Gallatin was the first president of the council of New York University and his name lives...
The Spectacular Few
Prisoner Radicalization and the Evolving Terrorist Threat
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
“Mark Hamm is, without doubt, the world’s leading expert on prison radicalization. Based on decades of research, this book presents a nuanced and sophisticated picture,. Beautifully written, it is the most complete, and the most empirically rigorous, account of this phenomenon to date. A must...
Within the Veil
Black Journalists, White Media
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2000
Winner of the National Press Club Prize for Media Criticism.
Companion website: http://www.nyupress.nyu.edu/authors/veil.html
Thirty years ago, the Kerner Commission Report made national headlines by exposing the consistently biased coverage afforded African Americans in the mainstream media. While...
The Good Fight Continues
World War II Letters From the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Written with passion and intelligence, the letters of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in World War II express the raw idealism of anti-fascist soldiers who experienced the war in boot camps, cockpits, and foxholes, but never lost sight of the great global issues at stake.
When the United States entered...
by Norman Dorsen
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
"An indispensable and provocative guide through the thicket of today's most challenging constitutional controversies by some of the most eminent judges of their time. It offers an invaluable peek behind the curtain of judicial decision making."
—David Cole, Professor of Law, Georgetown...
Amheida III
Ostraka from Trimithis, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
This archaeological report provides a comprehensive study of the excavations carried out at Amheida House B2 in Egypt's Dakhleh Oasis between 2005 and 2007, followed by three study seasons between 2008 and 2010. The excavations at Amheida in Egypt's western desert, begun in 2001 under the aegis of...
Aksum and Nubia
Warfare, Commerce, and Political Fictions in Ancient Northeast Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Aksum and Nubia assembles and analyzes the textual and archaeological
evidence of interaction between Nubia and the Ethiopian
kingdom of Aksum, focusing primarily on the fourth century
CE. Although ancient Nubia and Ethiopia have been the subject
of a growing number of studies in recent years, little...
Amheida I
Ostraka from Trimithis, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
This volume presents 455 inscribed pottery fragments, or ostraka, found during NYU’s excavations at Amheida in the western desert of Egypt. The majority date to the Late Roman period (3rd to 4th century AD), a time of rapid social change in Egypt and the ancient Mediterranean generally. Amheida...
Amheida II
A Late Romano-Egyptian House in Dakleh Oasis: Amheida House B2
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
This archaeological report provides a comprehensive study of the excavations carried out at Amheida House B2 in Egypt's Dakhleh Oasis between 2005 and 2007, followed by three study seasons between 2008 and 2010.
The excavations at Amheida in Egypt's western desert, begun in 2001 under the aegis...
The Free and Open Press
The Founding of American Democratic Press Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
The current, heated debates over hate speech and pornography were preceded by the equally contentious debates over the "free and open press" in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Thus far little scholarly attention has been focused on the development of the concept of political press...
A Great Conspiracy against Our Race
Italian Immigrant Newspapers and the Construction of Whiteness in the Early 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Racial history has always been the thorn in America’s side, with a swath of injustices—slavery, lynching, segregation, and many other ills—perpetrated against black people. This very history is complicated by, and also dependent on, what constitutes a white person in this country. Many of the...
Death Makes the News
How the Media Censor and Display the Dead
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Winner of the 2018 Media Ecology Association's Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction
Winner of the Eastern Communication Association's Everett Lee Hunt Award
A behind-the-scenes account of how death is presented in the media
Death...