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

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

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

An endlessly entertaining and informative look at how musicals have both reflected and adapted to...

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

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

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectio...

An engaging look at Boston's golden era of Irish traditional music.

Divided into four sections, the volume deals with the definition and theory of white-collar crime...

Readers of Cheaper by the Dozen remember Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972) as the working mom w...

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

Exotic in Western Music

The continuing story of Peyton Place is once again available in paperback

An accessible guide to sports law highlighting landmark cases and personalities

Reading and Writing Nature: The Poetry of Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, and Eliz...

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...

A powerful expose of the family court system's prejudice against mothers trying to protect their ...

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

Samuel Eliot Morison's Historical World: Pre-Twentieth-Century American and European Painting and...

The Rhine as Musical Metaphor

'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...

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...

The Intermediate Sanctions in Overcrowded Times: Law, Justice, and Policing

A Sin Against the Future: Susan Hathorn's Year Under Sail

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: Susan Hathorn's Year Under Sail