Nyu Press: 1737 books
Selling Words
Free Speech in a Commercial Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1997
All of us grumble, from time to time, about the ever-increasing commercialization of American life. Whether in the form of overt corporate sponsorship--as evidenced by the "branding" of every major sporting event--or the less conspicuous role of commercial interests in the funding of the...
by Colin P. Silverthorne
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
The last two decades have seen an explosive increase in the ethnic diversity of the workforce, growth in international business, and the emergence of many more multinational companies.
The potential for problems as companies operate across borders and managers manage in countries which have different...
by Peter Charles Hoffer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
How do we know what happened in the past? We cannot go back, and no amount of historical data can enable us to understand with absolute certainty what life was like “then.” It is easy to demolish the very idea of historical knowing, but it is impossible to demolish the importance of historical...
Failed Evidence
Why Law Enforcement Resists Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
With the popularity of crime dramas like CSI focusing on forensic science, and increasing numbers of police and prosecutors making wide-spread use of DNA, high-tech science seems to have become the handmaiden of law enforcement. But this is a myth,asserts law professor and nationally known expert...
People at Work
Life, Power, and Social Inclusion in the New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
People at Work is noted sociologist Marjorie L. DeVault’s groundbreaking collection of original essays on the complexities of the modern-day workplace. By focusing on the lived experiences of the worker, not as an automaton on an assembly line, but as an embodied human of flesh and bone, these essays...
The Measure of America, 2010-2011
Mapping Risks and Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The Measure of America, 2010-2011, is the definitive report on the overall well-being of all Americans. How are Americans doing—compared to one another and compared to the rest of the world? This important, easy-to-understand guide will provide all of the essential information on the current state...
Heaven's Gate
America's UFO Religion
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
2015 Best Book Award from the Communal Studies Association
The captivating story of the people of Heaven’s Gate, a religious group focused on transcending humanity and the Earth, and seeking salvation in the literal heavens on board a UFO.
In March 1997, thirty-nine people in Rancho...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
A vital collection for reforming criminal justice.
After five decades of punitive expansion, the entire U.S. criminal justice system— mass incarceration, the War on Drugs, police practices, the treatment of juveniles and the mentally ill, glaring racial disparity, the death penalty and more...
Unmanageable Care
An Ethnography of Health Care Privatization in Puerto Rico
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
In Unmanageable Care, anthropologist Jessica M. Mulligan goes to work at an
HMO and records what it’s really like to manage care. Set at a health insurance
company dubbed Acme, this book chronicles how the privatization of the health
care system in Puerto Rico transformed the experience of accessing...
Artwalks in New York
Delightful Discoveries of Public Art and Gardens in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2004
Completely updated, the new edition of this acclaimed guide brings us 33 tours of public art, covering the length of the island, from the Cloisters and Harlem in northern Manhattan, to Central Park and the museum mile, to Rockefeller Center and Chelsea, and all the way down to the southern tip at...
America's Colony
The Political and Cultural Conflict between the United States and Puerto Rico
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
The precise legal nature of the relationship between the United States and the people of Puerto Rico was not explicitly determined in 1898 when the Treaty of Paris transferred sovereignty over Puerto Rico from Spain to the United States. Since then, many court cases, beginning in 1901, have been instrumental...
Steel Barrio
The Great Mexican Migration to South Chicago, 1915-1940
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Since the early twentieth century, thousands of Mexican Americans have lived, worked, and formed communities in Chicago’s steel mill neighborhoods. Drawing on individual stories and oral histories, Michael Innis-Jiménez tells the story of a vibrant, active community that continues to play a central...
New York Murder Mystery
The True Story Behind the Crime Crash of the 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Andrew Karmen tracks a quarter century of murder in the city Americans have most commonly associated with rampant street crime. Providing both a local and a national context for New York's plunging crime rate, Karmen tests and debunks the many self-serving explanations for the decline. While crediting...
The Rise of Big Data Policing
Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Winner, 2018 Law & Legal Studies PROSE Award
The consequences of big data and algorithm-driven policing and its impact on law enforcement
In a high-tech command center in downtown Los Angeles, a digital map lights up with 911 calls, television monitors track breaking news stories,...