Books from Northeastern University Press
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A Halfway House for Women: Oppression and Resistance
By Gail A. CaputoSmith–McLallen, A.,Johnson, B.T., Dovidio, J.F.,and Pearson,A. R. (2006). Blackand white: The role ofcolorbias inimplicit race bias.Social Cognition,24(1),46–73. Smyth, K.,and Yarandi, H. N.(1996). Factor analysisofthe waysofcoping ...
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Gypsy Music in European Culture: From the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries
By Anna G. PiotrowskaBradford Robinson. Berkeley: University of California Press. Daniłowicz, Ignacy. 1824. O Cyganach wiadomość historyczna czytana na posiedzeniu publicznem cesarskiego Uniwersytetu Wileńskiego dnia 30 czerwca 1824 roku [On the Gypsies' ...
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Women Pioneers For The Environment
By Mary Joy BretonAustin: University of Texas Press, 1980. Merchant, Carolyn. The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution. San Francisco: Harper, 1989. Montagu, Ashley. The Natural Superiority of Women. New York: Macmillan, 1953.
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The Seeking
By Will ThomasIntroduction by John Edgar Wideman. (New York: Vintage Books/Library ofAmerica, 1990), 8–9. 23. James Weldon Johnson, “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man,” In Writings, Notes by William L. Andrews (New York: Library ofAmerica, ...
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Buried from the World: Inside the Massachusetts State Prison, 1829-1831 : the Memorandum Books of the Rev. Jared Curtis
By Jared CurtisJune 27 , 1829 GARDNER FOX – AGE 33 Born & Brot up in R.I. Has been married . Wife dead , no children . Says he has been a hard labouring man . No property . Has been intemperate , & has a plenty of rum blossoms now on his face .
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Battered Women In The Courtroom: The Power of Judicial Responses
By James PtacekHorton , Anne L. , Kyriacos M. Simonidis , and Lucy L. Simonidis . “ Legal Remedies for Spousal Abuse : Victim ... Isaac , Nancy E. , Donald Cochran , Marjorie E. Brown , and Sandra L. Adams . “ Men Who Batter : Profile from a ...
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The Seeking
By Will Thomas54 The most notable negative review was Owen Dodson's in the New Republic. He praised Thomas for his “camera eye” and allowed that his Vermont sojourn was a story “well worth telling.” Dodson faulted Thomas, though, for using clichés ...
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Neither Angels nor Demons: Women, Crime, and Victimization
By Kathleen FerraroDobash, R. Emerson, Russell P. Dobash, Katherine Cavanagh, and Ruth Lewis. 2004. “Not an Ordinary Killer—Just an Ordinary Guy: When Men Murder an Intimate Woman Partner.” Violence Against Women 10, no. 6:577–605.
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Kiss of Death: America's Love Affair with the Death Penalty
By John D. BesslerFew issues provoke such intense feelings and strongly held views as does capital punishment. In this text, John D. Bessler skillfully interweaves the powerful life stories of death row prisoners,...
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Ethnography At The Edge: Crime, Deviance, and Field Research
By Mark S. Hamm, Jeff FerrellAlthough field research is seldom safe, convenient, or above professional criticism, this volume demonstrates that it is vital for providing a fuller understanding of deviant and criminal populations.
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Crimes Of The Century: From Leopold and Loeb to O.J. Simpson
By Gilbert Geis, Leigh B. BienenA second-guessing review of eight of the major books is found in George Fisher, “The O. J. Simpson Corpus,” Stanford Law ... The Private Diary of an Oj juror: Behind the Scenes of the Trial of the Century (New York: Dove Books, 1995), ...
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The Boston Tea Party
By Benjamin Woods Labaree" A brilliant and scholarly demonstration of the way a single act of violence can affect the course of history. ... The reasons for the resort to war ... have...
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Beyond the Rodney King Story: An Investigation of Police Conduct in Minority Communities
By William Monroe Trotter InstituteA study based on public forums conducted by the National Association for Colored People (NAACP) in six American cities, incorporating the perspectives of police representatives, criminal justice experts, community leaders,...
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The Family Nobody Wanted
By Helen DossNow this edition will introduce the classic to a new generation of readers. An epilogue by Helen Doss that updates the family's progress since 1954 will delight the book's loyal legion of fans around the world.
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Saving Bernice: Battered Women, Welfare, and Poverty
By Jody RaphaelAbove all, it is Bernice's life story and, through her voice, the story of countless other battered women who are isolated in poverty and welfare by the power and control of their abusers.
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Kennedy Versus Lodge: The 1952 Massachusetts Senate Race
By Thomas J. WhalenWhalen details how the candidates' different backgrounds influenced their attitudes toward public service and electoral politics, examines the structure and effectiveness of their campaign organizations, and discusses the intra-party squabbles...
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The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony Reader: Correspondence, Writings, Speeches
By Elizabeth Cady StantonThe documents delineate the progress of American reform politics from Stanton's speech at Seneca Falls in 1848 into the early twentieth century, when a conflict developed between the two feminists...
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Middlebrow Moderns: Popular American Women Writers of the 1920s
By Lisa Botshon, Meredith GoldsmithCritics often define the modernist period as the dichotomy between the high culture of edgy literary experimentation and the low culture of dime store novels, gritty detective stories, and other...
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A Century of Boston Sports
By Dick JohnsonAMERICA'S GREATEST SPORTS town, Boston boasts many of the nation's most honored traditions in professional and amateur athletics as well as many of the most memorable and significant games in...
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Malevolent Muse: The Life of Alma Mahler
By Oliver HilmesFirst published in German in 2004, the book was hailed as a rare combination of meticulously researched scholarship and entertaining writing, making it a runaway bestseller and advancing Oliver Hilmes to his position as a household name in ...