Nyu Press: 1737 books
Holy Mavericks
Evangelical Innovators and the Spiritual Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Joel Osteen, Paula White, T. D. Jakes, Rick Warren, and Brian McLaren pastor some the largest churches in the nation, lead vast spiritual networks, write best-selling books, and are among the most influential preachers in American Protestantism today. Spurred by the phenomenal appeal of these religious...
by Yoichi Funabashi
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1995
What is Japan's political role in the world? Over the past decade, Japan has been increasingly pressured to assume more financial and political burdens globally. Its foreign policy has thus evolved in a piecemeal manner, around the question of managing foreign pressures. To date, policy has been largely...
The Public Professor
How to Use Your Research to Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
The work of academics can matter and be influential on a public level, but the path to becoming a public intellectual, influential policy advisor, valued community resource or go-to person on an issue is not one that most scholars are trained for. The Public Professor offers scholars ways to use their...
The Hebrew Bible
New Insights and Scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
In April of 2001, the headline in the Los Angeles Times read, “Doubting the Story of the Exodus.” It covered a sermon that had been delivered by the rabbi of a prominent local congregation over the holiday of Passover. In it, he said, “The truth is that virtually every modern archeologist who...
Market Cities, People Cities
The Shape of Our Urban Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
An in-depth look at the urban environments of Houston and Copenhagen
How are modern cities changing, and what implications do those changes have for city inhabitants? What kinds of cities do people want to live in, and what cities do people want to create in the future? Michael Oluf Emerson...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
In the decades after the Civil War, urbanization, industrialization, and immigration marked the start of the Gilded Age, a period of rapid economic growth but also social upheaval. Reformers responded to the social and economic chaos with a “search for order,” as famously described by historian...
Children and War
A Historical Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2002
"This anthology is breathtaking in its geographic and temporal sweep."-Canadian Journal of History
The American media has recently "discovered" children's experiences in present-day wars. A week-long series on the plight of child soldiers in Africa and Latin America was published...
When Boys Become Boys
Development, Relationships, and Masculinity
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Based on a two-year study that followed boys from pre-kindergarten through first grade, When Boys Become Boys offers a new way of thinking about boys’ development. Through focusing on a critical moment of transition in boys’ lives, Judy Y. Chu reveals boys’ early ability to be emotionally perceptive,...
Chicana/o Remix
Art and Errata Since the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Rewrites our understanding of the last 50 years of Chicana/o cultural production.
Chicana/o Remix casts new light not only on artists—such as Sandra de la Loza, Judy Baca, and David Botello, among others—but on the exhibitions that feature their work, and the collectors, curators, critics,...
Meeting Once More
The Korean Side of Transnational Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
A great
mobilization began in South Korea in the 1990s: adult transnational adoptees
began to return to their birth country and meet for the first time with their
birth parents—sometimes in televised encounters which garnered high ratings. What makes the case of South Korea remarkable is the sheer
scale...
Of Little Comfort
War Widows, Fallen Soldiers, and the Remaking of the Nation after the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
During and especially after World War I, the millions of black-clad widows on the streets of Europe’s cities were a constant reminder that war caused carnage on a vast scale. But widows were far more than just a reminder of the war’s fallen soldiers; they were literal and figurative actresses...
Homelessness in New York City
Policymaking from Koch to de Blasio
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Can American cities respond effectively to pressing social problems? Or, as many scholars have claimed, are urban politics so mired in stasis, gridlock and bureaucratic paralysis that dramatic policy change is impossible? Homelessness in New York City tells the remarkable story of how America’s...
Tea Party Women
Mama Grizzlies, Grassroots Leaders, and the Changing Face of the American Right
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Notable for its radical conservative views, the Tea Party is progressive in one way that much of mainstream US politics is not: it has among its most vocal members not spokesmen but spokeswomen. Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Governor Nikki Haley, US Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers, and many...
An Interracial Movement of the Poor
Community Organizing and the New Left in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2002
Community organizing became an integral part of the activist repertoire of the New Left in the 1960s. Students for a Democratic Society, the organization that came to be seen as synonymous with the white New Left, began community organizing in 1963, hoping to...