Temple University Press: 180 books
The Heidegger Case
On Philosophy and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 1992
"[These] essays together form an extraordinary response, and radical but not self-righteous challenge, to Heidegger's unambiguous complicity with Hitler and Nazism....This book will provoke intense dialogue and controversy about issues which, for too long, too many philosophers have chosen either...
The University Against Itself
The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2008
During the last two decades, many U.S. universities have restructured themselves to operate more like corporations. Nowhere has this process been more dramatic than at New York University, which has often been touted as an exemplar of the "corporate university." Over the same period,...
Cane Fires
The Anti-Japanese Movement in Hawaii, 1865-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2010
Outstanding Book in History and Social Science Award, Association for Asian American Studies, 1992 "Okihiro's account is an important corrective to our understanding of the Japanese American Experience in World War II." --The Hawaiian Journal of History Challenging the prevailing view of...
James Naismith
The Man Who Invented Basketball
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2009
It seems unlikely that James Naismith, who grew up playing “Duck on the Rock” in the rural community of Almonte, Canada, would invent one of America’s most popular sports. But Rob Rains and Hellen Carpenter’s fascinating, in-depth biography James Naismith: The Man Who Invented Basketball shows...
The Vietnamese American 1.5 Generation
Stories of War, Revolution, Flight and New Beginnings
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2006
The conflict that Americans call the "Vietnam War" was only one of many incursions into Vietnam by foreign powers. However, it has had a profound effect on the Vietnamese people who left their homeland in the years following the fall of Saigon in 1975. Collected here are fifteen first-person...
Issei, Nisei, War Bride
Three Generations of Japanese American Women in Domestic Service
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Three Generations of Japanese American Women in Domestic Service Evelyn Nakano Glenn "A richly detailed and sophisticated examination of...how historical and economic forces restricted women's lives and how women devised strategies for dealing with their plight." --Canadian Woman Studies...
by Gary Francione
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
"Pain is pain, irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the victim," states William Kunstler in his foreword. This moral concern for the suffering of animals and their legal status is the basis for Gary L. Francione's profound book, which asks, Why has the law failed to protect animals...
This Fine Place So Far from Home
Voices of Academics from the Working Class
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
These autobiographical and analytical essays by a diverse group of professors and graduate students from working-class families reveal an academic world in which "blue-collar work is invisible." Describing conflict and frustration, the contributors expose a divisive middle-class bias in...
by Marion Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2010
In 1977, at the age of 36, Jeffrey Cohen, a physicist at the University of Pennsylvania, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. But it wasn't until 10 years later that the "dirty details" began, when the disease had progressed to the point where he could not transfer himself out of his wheelchair....
by Elizabeth Hull
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
In the 2004 presidential election, 4,686,539 Americans—a population greater than the city of Los Angeles—were barred from the polls. In a country that has extended suffrage to virtually every other class of citizen, ex-felons are the sole segment of our population deemed unworthy to exercise what...
by William Wei
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
Active for more than two decades, the Asian American movement began a middle-class reform effort to achieve racial equality, social justice, and political empowerment. In this first history and in-depth analysis of the Movement, William Wei traces to the late 1960s, the genesis of an Asian American...
Hybridity
The Cultural Logic Of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2008
The intermingling of people and media from different cultures is a communication-based phenomenon known as hybridity. Drawing on original research from Lebanon to Mexico and analyzing the use of the term in cultural and postcolonial studies (as well as the popular and business media), Marwan Kraidy...
Introduction to Animal Rights
Your Child or the Dog?
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
Two-thirds of Americans polled by the Associated Press agree with the following statement: "An animal's right to live free of suffering should be just as important as a person's right to live free of suffering." More than 50 percent of Americans believe that it is wrong to kill animals...
The Outsider
Albert M. Greenfield and the Fall of the Protestant Establishment
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Albert M. Greenfield (1887-1967), an ambitious immigrant outsider, was courted for his business acumen by mayors, senators, governors, and presidents, including Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. As this feisty Russian Jew built a business empire that encompassed real estate, stores (including Bonwit...