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The Accidental Diarist
A History of the Daily Planner in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
In this era of tweets and blogs, it is easy to assume that the self-obsessive recording of daily minutiae is a recent phenomenon. But Americans have been navel-gazing since nearly the beginning of the republic. The daily planner—variously called the daily diary, commercial diary, and portable account...
Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities
Who Wins and Who Loses When Schools Become Urban Amenities
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Discuss real estate with any young family and the subject of schools is certain to come up—in fact, it will likely be a crucial factor in determining where that family lives. Not merely institutions of learning, schools have increasingly become a sign of a neighborhood’s vitality, and city planners...
Fuckology
Critical Essays on John Money's Diagnostic Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
One of the twentieth century’s most controversial sexologists—or “fuckologists,” to use his own memorable term—John Money was considered a trailblazing scientist and sexual libertarian by some, but damned by others as a fraud and a pervert. Money invented the concept of gender in the 1950s,...
Back to the Breast
Natural Motherhood and Breastfeeding in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
After decades of decline during the twentieth century, breastfeeding rates began to rise again in the 1970s, a rebound that has continued to the present. While it would be easy to see this reemergence as simply part of the naturalism movement of the ’70s, Jessica Martucci reveals here that the true...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Over the past quarter century, researchers have successfully explored the inner workings of the physical and biological sciences using a variety of social and historical lenses. Inspired by these advances, the contributors to Social Knowledge in the Making turn their attention to the social sciences,...
Reason in Law
Ninth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Over the nearly four decades it has been in print, Reason in Law has established itself as the place to start for understanding legal reasoning, a critical component of the rule of law. This ninth edition brings the book’s analyses and examples up to date, adding new cases while retaining old ones...
In Hock
Pawning in America from Independence through the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
The definitive history of pawnbroking in the United States from the nation’s founding through the Great Depression, In Hock demonstrates that the pawnshop was essential to the rise of capitalism. The class of working poor created by this economic tide could make ends meet only, Wendy Woloson argues,...
From Notes to Narrative
Writing Ethnographies That Everyone Can Read
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Ethnography centers on the culture of everyday life. So it is ironic that most scholars who do research on the intimate experiences of ordinary people write their books in a style that those people cannot understand. In recent years, the ethnographic method has spread from its original home in cultural...
Expecting
A Brief History of Pregnancy Advice
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
As long as there have been pregnancies, there have been suggestions for how best to bring a child into the world: from tips for homeopathic care and natural childbirth to the circulation of old wives’ tales, those who deliver advice to pregnant women are often influenced as much by their own agendas...
The PhDictionary
A Glossary of Things You Don't Know (but Should) about Doctoral and Faculty Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Navigating academia can seem like a voyage through a foreign land: strange cultural rules dictate everyday interactions, new vocabulary awaits at every turn, and the feeling of being an outsider is unshakable. For students considering doctoral programs and doctoral students considering faculty life,...
Insurgent Democracy
The Nonpartisan League in North American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
In 1915, western farmers mounted one of the most significant challenges to party politics America has seen: the Nonpartisan League, which sought to empower citizens and restrain corporate influence. Before its collapse in the 1920s, the League counted over 250,000 paying members, spread to thirteen...
Living Faith
Everyday Religion and Mothers in Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Scholars have made urban mothers living in poverty a focus of their research for decades. These women’s lives can be difficult as they go about searching for housing and decent jobs and struggling to care for their children while surviving on welfare or working at low-wage service jobs and sometimes...
That's the Way It Is
A History of Television News in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
When critics decry the current state of our public discourse, one reliably easy target is television news. It’s too dumbed-down, they say; it’s no longer news but entertainment, celebrity-obsessed and vapid.
The critics may be right. But, as Charles L. Ponce de Leon explains in That’s the...
The Spirit of Religion and the Spirit of Liberty
The Tocqueville Thesis Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Tocqueville’s thesis on the relation between religion and liberty could hardly be timelier. From events in the Middle East and the spread of Islamist violence in the name of religion to the mandated coverage under the Affordable Care Act, the interaction between religion and politics has once again...