Nyu Press: 1737 books
What Works for Women at Work
Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Up-beat, pragmatic, and chock full of advice, What Works for Women at Work is an indispensable guide for working women.
An essential resource for any working woman, What Works for Women at Work is a comprehensive and insightful guide for mastering office politics as a woman. Authored by Joan...
Gülen
The Ambiguous Politics of Market Islam in Turkey and the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
The "Hizmet" ("Service")
Movement of Fethullah Gülen is Turkey’s most influential Islamic identity
community. Widely praised throughout the early 2000s as a mild and moderate
variation on Islamic political identity, the Gülen Movement has long been a
topic of both adulation...
Spreadable Media
Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Spreadable Media maps fundamental changes taking place in our contemporary media environment, a space where corporations no longer tightly control media distribution and many of us are directly involved in the circulation of content. It contrasts “stickiness”—aggregating attention in centralized...
Chained to the Desk (Third Edition)
A Guidebook for Workaholics, Their Partners and Children, and the Clinicians Who Treat Them
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Draws on hundreds of case studies to provide a step by step guide to spot workaholism, understand it, and recover
Americans love a hard worker. The worker who toils eighteen-hour days and eats meals on the run between appointments is usually viewed with a combination of respect and awe. But...
The Global Flow of Information
Legal, Social, and Cultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
The Internet has been integral to the globalization of a range of goods and production, from intellectual property and scientific research to political discourse and cultural symbols. Yet the ease with which it allows information to flow at a global level presents enormous regulatory challenges. Understanding...
by Rachel Dempsey, Joan C. Williams, Marina Multhaup
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
A workbook for women with practical tips, tricks, and strategies for succeeding in the workplace.
A companion to the highly successful What Works for Women at Work, this workbook offers women a hands-on guide filled with interactive exercises, self-diagnostic quizzes, and action-oriented strategies...
Parenting Out of Control
Anxious Parents in Uncertain Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2010
They go by many names: helicopter parents, hovercrafts, PFHs (Parents from Hell). The news media is filled with stories of well-intentioned parents going to ridiculous extremes to remove all obstacles from their child’s path to greatness . . . or at least to an ivy league school. From cradle...
Our Schools Suck
Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
"Our schools suck." This is how many young people of color call attention to the kind of public education they are receiving. In cities across the nation, many students are trapped in under-funded, mismanaged and unsafe schools. Yet, a number of scholars and of public figures like Bill Cosby have...
Clean Streets
Controlling Crime, Maintaining Order, and Building Community Activism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
With the close proximity of gangs and the easy access to drugs, keeping urban neighborhoods safe from crime has long been a central concern for residents. In Clean Streets, Patrick Carr draws on five years of research in a white, working-class community on Chicago’s South side to see how they tried...
The Social Anxieties of Progressive Reform
Atlantic City, 1854-1920
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1994
Tracing the evolution of Atlantic City from a miserable hamlet of fishermen's huts in 1854 to the nation's premier seaside resort in 1910, The Social Anxieties of Progressive Reform chronicles a bizarre political conflict that reaches to the very heart of Progressivism.
Operating outside of the traditional...
Clean and White
A History of Environmental Racism in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
When Joe Biden attempted to compliment Barack Obama by calling him “clean and articulate,” he unwittingly tapped into one of the most destructive racial stereotypes in American history. This book tells the history of the corrosive idea that whites are clean and those who are not white are dirty....
Reduce Inequality, Increase Economic Growth
A Conversation with Joseph Stiglitz
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics, discusses the state of the world’s economy in this interview, offering policy interventions to better serve society’s economic needs. Pointing to a grave failure of modern macroeconomic theory to predict the financial crisis, Stiglitz calls...
The Deepening Crisis
Governance Challenges after Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Response to financial meltdown is entangled with basic challenges to global governance. Environment, global security and ethnicity and nationalism are all global issues today. Focusing on the political and social dimensions of the crisis, contributors examine changes in relationships between the world’s...
Poverty and the Underclass
Changing Perceptions of the Poor in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1994
The much-heralded War on Poverty has failed. The number of children living in poverty is steadily on the rise and an increasingly destructive underclass brutalizes urban neighborhoods. America's patience with the poor seems to have run out: even cities that have traditionally been havens for the homeless...