Nyu Press: 1737 books
Faces of America
How 12 Extraordinary People Discovered their Pasts
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
As a nation of immigrants, the American experience is vibrantly defined by the diverse racial, ethnic, cultural, and religious heritage of its people. Perhaps because so many of their ancestors migrated to this country relatively recently, Americans are especially concerned with their family trees,...
Reframing Randolph
Labor, Black Freedom, and the Legacies of A. Philip Randolph
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
At
one time, Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979) was a household name. As president of
the all-black Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), he was an embodiment
of America’s multifaceted radical tradition, a leading spokesman for Black
America, and a potent symbol of trade unionism and civil rights...
Desi Hoop Dreams
Pickup Basketball and the Making of Asian American Masculinity
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
South Asian American men are not usually depicted as ideal American men. They struggle against popular representations as either threatening terrorists or geeky, effeminate computer geniuses. To combat such stereotypes, some use sports as a means of performing a distinctly American masculinity. Desi...
Crimes of Dissent
Civil Disobedience, Criminal Justice, and the Politics of Conscience
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
From animal rights to anti-abortion, from tax resistance to anti-poverty, activists from across the political spectrum often deliberately break the law to further their causes. While not behaviors common to hardened or self-seeking criminals, the staging of civil disobedience, non-violent resistance,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1997
In Russia, as the confrontation over the constitutional distribution of authority raged, Boris Yeltsin's economic program regularly wended its way in and out of the Constitutional Court until Yeltsin finally suspended that court in the aftermath of his clash with the hard-line parliament. In Europe,...
Hellenic Temples and Christian Churches
A Concise History of the Religious Cultures of Greece from Antiquity to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Covering an expanse of more than three thousand years,Hellenic Temples and Christian Churches charts, in one concise volume, the history of Greece’s religious cultures from antiquity all the way through to present, post-independence Greece.
Focusing on the encounter and interaction between Hellenism...
The Truth About Freud's Technique
The Encounter With the Real
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1994
In this unusual and much-needed reappraisal of Freud's clinical technique, M. Guy Thompson challenges the conventional notion that psychoanalysis promotes relief from suffering and replaces it with a more radical assertion, that psychoanalysis seeks to mend our relationship with the real that has...
Self and Other
Object Relations in Psychoanalysis and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1991
In Self and Other, Robert Rogers presents a powerful argument for the adoption of a theory of object relations, combining the best features of traditional psychoanalytic theory with contemporary views on attachment behavior and intersubjectivity. Rogers discusses theory in relation both to actual...
The Freudian Mystique
Freud, Women, and Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1993
"Lucid and convincing...Makes clear that [Freud's] vision was limited both by the social climate in which he worked and the personal experiences he preferred, subconsciously, not to deal with."
-Los Angeles Times
Sigmund Freud was quite arguably one of the most influential thinkers of the...
The Constitution of Interests
Beyond the Politics of Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1996
Many of America's most important social and political movements--abolition, women's suffragette, civil rights, women's liberation, gay and lesbian rights--have organized in the shadow of the law. All are based in their theoretical opposition to the law. Yet at the same time, they are dependent on...
In the Beginning
A Short History of the Hebrew Language
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
Hebrew as a language is just over 3,000 years old, and the story of its alphabet is unique among the languages of the world. Hebrew set the stage for almost every modern alphabet, and was arguably the first written language simple enough for everyone, not just scribes, to learn, making it possible...
Heroic Efforts
The Emotional Culture of Search and Rescue Volunteers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Winner of the 2006 Outstanding Recent Contribution Award from the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Emotions Section
Many search and rescue workers voluntarily interrupt their lives when they are called upon to help strangers. They awake in the middle of the night to cover miles of terrain...
The End of the World As We Know It
Faith, Fatalism, and Apocalypse in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
From religious tomes to current folk prophesies, recorded history reveals a plethora of narratives predicting or showcasing the end of the world. The incident at Waco, the subway bombing by the Japanese cult Aum Supreme Truth, and the tragedy at Jonestown are just a few examples of such apocalyptic...
Visualizing Atrocity
Arendt, Evil, and the Optics of Thoughtlessness
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Visualizing Atrocity takes Hannah Arendt’s provocative and polarizing account of the 1961 trial of Nazi official Adolf Eichmann as its point of departure for reassessing some of the serviceable myths that have come to shape and limit our understanding both of the Nazi genocide and totalitarianism’s...