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32 writers discuss how to eat ethically--Author: Jennifer Cognard-Black, Melissa A. GoldthwaitePublisher: NYU PressPublication Date: Jan 09, 2024Number of Pages: 374 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Good Guys, Bad Guys: The Perils of Men's Gender Activism explores questions of masculinity, privilege, and identity to explain why some men become feminists while others become men's rights activists...

Good Intentions in Global Health is an engaging ethnography of the world of DIY global health. It argues that the intent to do good shapes people's everyday understandings of their own actions taken...

Through careful analysis of the best empirical data, this book helps make sense of one of the most important questions regarding social change in the United States in recent decades-how and why are...

Author: Joseph AlexiouPublisher: NYU PressPublication Date: Sep 01, 2020Number of Pages: 400 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1479806056ISBN-13: 9781479806058

In one of the first scholarly examples of Christian premarital counseling, the book explores how religious communities attempt to intervene to emotionally socialize couples into a vision of a...

How women and men involved in a grassroots abolitionist project of cultural healing counter the carceral state and build otherwise in a Chicanx community in California--Author: Megan S...

Explores how concerns about poverty-induced Black crime cultivated by police, journalists, and city officials sparked a rise in tough-on-crime policing in Philadelphia During the Great Migration of...

Impostures (Library of Arabic Literature, 65)Author: al-?aririPublisher: NYU PressPublication Date: Sep 07, 2021Number of Pages: 542 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People (Library of Arabic Literature, 70)Author: Mu?ammad al-TunisiPublisher: NYU PressPublication Date: Sep 01, 2020Number of Pages: 430 pagesLanguage:...

A powerful critique of mass incarceration by the people who have experienced it Inside Knowledge is the first book to examine the American prison system through the eyes of those who are trapped...

Inzuzo is a classic collection of poems, first published in 1943, about religion, nature, life and historical events and prominent figures in the history of Africans. It has five sections: Izabelo...

Isidlamlilo / The Fire Eateris a one-woman play inspired by the true story of a woman who served as a political assassin in the build-up to South Africa's first democratic elections. Zenzile Maseko,...

Author: Cecelia TichiPublisher: NYU PressPublication Date: Nov 16, 2021Number of Pages: 168 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 1479810126ISBN-13: 9781479810123

Interrupting our political orthodoxies and engaging an alternative origin story of the modern carceral state, Jump attends to the disruptions of confinement that constitute the racial and gendered...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023 The author of the bestselling Just Medicine reveals how racial inequality undermines public health and how we can change it With the rise of the Movement for...

A collection of stories designed for the moral instruction and entertainment of readers--Author: Ibn Al-Muqaffa?Publisher: Nyu PressPublication Date: Apr 04, 2023Number of Pages: 293 pagesLanguage:...

The story of a political prisoner?s coming of age as a student activist in India Keeping Up the Good Fight is the story of a young man?s political coming of age and his experience as a student...

A powerful contribution to the debate on intellectual property Knowledge as Commons traces the historical path towards the privatization of knowledge, situating science, technology and the emergence...

Drawing on contemporary events, fictional accounts of fossil fuel apocalypse, and ethnographic work on the fracking and pipeline boom in West Virginia, this book explores how private property, a...

Millions of Americans do not recognize their problems can be solved through legal tools. Law democratized offers a blueprint for expanding access to legal help for all regardless of resources...

Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of ?the Fariyaq,? alter ego of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a pivotal figure in the intellectual and literary history of the modern Arab world...

A time-worn classic recounting of a unionists' struggle against exploitation and dictatorship?from within the mines of Bolivia Let Me Speak! is a moving testimony from inside the Bolivian tin mines...

Humanitarian lessons and practical insights from the prophet of Islam The words of Muhammad, messenger of God and prophet of Islam, have a special place in the hearts of his followers. Wielding an...

A history of childhood that revises the story of manhood, race, and human hierarchy in America--Author: Camille OwensPublisher: NYU PressPublication Date: Jul 30, 2024Number of Pages: 340...

Poems and tales of a literary forefather of the United Arab Emirates--Author: Al-Mayidi Ibn ?AhirPublisher: Nyu PressPublication Date: Aug 01, 2023Number of Pages: 300 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Examines the racial content and effects of Black Americans' suspicion regarding the potential political harassment of Black Elected Officials--Author: Nyron N. CrawfordPublisher: NYU PressPublication...

Matters of Inscription: Reading Figures of Latinidad argues that Latinx inscriptions require us to read at the edge of materiality and semiosis, charting a nimble method for reading" various forms of...

Midcentury America was on the move when powerful autos sped along the new interstate highways while suburbs sprouted, and a baby-booming middle class enjoyed TV favorites, passenger jet travel,...

Highlights how millennial Jewish stars symbolize national politics in US media Jewish stars have longed faced pressure to downplay Jewish identity for fear of alienating wider audiences. But...