Temple University Press: 180 books
Managing the Infosphere
Governance, Technology, and Cultural Practice in Motion
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2008
Managing the Infosphere examines the global world of communications as a mobile space that overlaps uneasily with the world of sovereign, territorial nation-states. Drawing on their expertise in geography, political science, international relations, and communication studies, the authors investigate...
Cultural Citizenship
Cosmopolitanism, Consumerism, and Television in a Neoliberal Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2008
What does it mean to be a "citizen" today, in an age of unbridled consumerism, terrorism, militarism, and multinationalism? In this passionate and dazzling book, Toby Miller dares to answer this question with the depth of thought it deserves. Fast-moving and far-ranging, Cultural Citizenship...
The Bottom Line
Observations and Arguments on the Sports Business
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
In The Bottom Line, one of the foremost sports economists writing today, Andrew Zimbalist (National Pastime), analyzes the "net value" of sports. He examines motives for why owners buy franchises, the worth of the players and the profitability of teams, and the importance of publicly funded...
Technocapitalism
A Critical Perspective on Technological Innovation and Corporatism
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
A new version of capitalism, grounded in technology and science, is spawning new forms of corporate power and organization that will have major implications for the twenty-first century. Technological creativity is thereby turned into a commodity in new corporate regimes that are primarily oriented...
by Eric H Mielants
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2008
In this study, Eric Mielants provides a novel interdisciplinary interpretation of the origins of modernity and capitalism in particular. He argues that contrary to popular thinking, the Rise of the West should not be analyzed in terms of the Industrial Revolution or the colonization of the New World,...
Separate Societies
Poverty and Inequality in U.S. Cities
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
“Economic and political forces no longer combat poverty—they generate poverty!" exclaim William Goldsmith and Edward Blakely in their report on the plight of American's urban poor. In this revised and updated edition of their 1992 book Separate Societies,the authors present a compelling examination...
by Maxine Baca Zinn
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 1993
The theme of race, class, and gender as interlocking systems of oppression unites these original essays about the experience of women of color—African Americans, Latinas, Native Americans, and Asian Americans. The contributing scholars discuss the social conditions that simultaneously oppress women...
The Gold Standard
The Challenge Of Evidence-Based Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
Few things make people react more strongly to the changes going on in health care than the word standardization. Critics shudder at the mindless sameness of standards, while supporters dream of a world in which standardized "best practices" open up a world of efficient health care delivery....
Engineering Culture
Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
Engineering Culture is an award-winning ethnography of the engineering division of a large American high-tech corporation. Now, this influential book—which has been translated into Japanese, Italian, and Hebrew—has been revised to bring it up to date. In Engineering Culture, Gideon Kunda offers...
Reverse Engineering Social Media
Software, Culture, and Political Economy in New Media Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Robert Gehl's timely critique, Reverse Engineering Social Media, rigorously analyzes the ideas of social media and software engineers, using these ideas to find contradictions and fissures beneath the surfaces of glossy sites such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter.
Gehl adeptly uses...
Framing Blackness
The African American Image in Film
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
From D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation to Spike Lee's Malcolm X, Ed Guerrero argues, the commercial film industry reflects white domination of American society. Written with the energy and conviction generated by the new black film wave, Framing Blackness traces an ongoing epic—African Americans...
Choices and Changes
Interest Groups in the Electoral Process
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2008
Choices and Changes is the most comprehensive examination to date of the impact of interest groups on recent American electoral politics. Richly informed, theoretically and empirically, it is the first book to explain the emergence of aggressive interest group electioneering tactics in the mid-1990s—including...
From Black Power to Hip Hop
Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2006
Despite legislation designed to eliminate unfair racial practices, the United States continues to struggle with a race problem. Some thinkers label this a "new" racism and call for new political responses to it. Using the experiences of African American women and men as a touchstone for...
Animal Passions and Beastly Virtues
Reflections on Redecorating Nature
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2005
What is it really like to be a dog? Do animals experience emotions like pleasure, joy, and grief? Marc Bekoff's work draws world-wide attention for its originality and its probing into what animals think about and know as well as what they feel, what physical and mental skills they use to live successfully...