An in-depth examination of the New York Police Department and its striking success in fighting cr...

The first full-length study of the last great era of Italian opera

Fuses biographical and musical analysis to provide a multi-layered portrait of one of the most in...

The critical role of Europe in the music, personalities, and analysis of jazz

' A brilliant and scholarly demonstration of the way a single act of violence can affect the cour...

A unique analysis of hate crime law through the lens of gender

Exoticism has flourished in western music since the 17th century. A blend of familiar and unfamil...

In 1956 Grace Metalious published Peyton Place, the novel that unbuttoned the straitlaced New Eng...

An accessible guide to sports law highlighting landmark cases and personalities

Reading and Writing Nature

The first comprehensive assessment of the experience of violence among homeless women

In their own words, a look inside the silent and hidden world of the men and women incarcerated i...

This beautifully written biographical work depicts the lives of four extraordinary women to paint...

In this astonishing book, sociologist Amy Neustein and attorney Michael Lesher examine the seriou...

An examination of the clergy sexual abuse crisis from diverse scholarly perspectives

Samuel Eliot Morison's Historical World

In her study of nearly 400 Rheinlieder published during the 1840s -- including the works of Schum...

'Here are, as Alice Rossi claims in her well-written preface, 'the essential works of feminism, '...

Drawing on extensive interviews with 105 active burglars in St. Louis, Missouri, Burglars on the ...

The fast-paced, linear poems in this volume draw 'from speech, thoroughly and endearingly contami...

The first critical anthology of an important and singular contemporary composer

A playful, irreverent look at the African-American literary community.

An eye-opening anthology of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century African American primary writ...

A fascinating look at the people, politics, and technology behind the massive landfill project th...

In this collection of essays, sociologist Dorothy E. Smith develops a method for analyzing how wo...

Examining the religious debates and dimensions of the death penalty in America

A provocative investigation of how fathers' rights groups are trying to erode the gains of the ba...

The crime and punishment of a juvenile offender

A pioneering collection of personal accounts from criminal justice scholars, practitioners, and a...

'Originally published as Witwe im Wahn: Das Leben der Alma Mahler-Werfel. Munich, Germany: Siedle...

Selected Letters of Charles Sumner

This indispensable history of the Eighth Amendment and the founders' views of capital punishment ...

Experts in a variety of disciplines explore women's new roles in sport, politics, corporate Ameri...

An important and timely reassessment of a crucial theory in male violence against women

On to Victory

The remarkable and inspiring true story of a couple who adopted twelve children, ten of them cons...

Overcrowded prisons and the high cost of incarceration are among the most complex issues surround...

Vivien Stern contends that prisons, a mainstay of punishment, are an anachronistic and probably c...

This complex and inventive novel by one of the most significant African American writers of the t...

The groundbreaking study of graffiti artists and their complex system of stylistic meanings, stat...

A pioneering, diverse collection that provides insight into the powerful motive of self-expressio...

New in paperback. An in-depth collection of key writings on the Supreme Court's controversial 196...

A history of the interplay of sports and politics around the world

The engaging diary of a working girl in Victorian times.

The Historical Eye

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The Origins of American Capitalism

Provocative collection of essays designed to give students an understanding of media representati...