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East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte is an edited collection of thirty-one essays that trace the experience of a California community over three centuries. Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, and creative nonfiction, it provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte.

East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte is an edited collection of thirty-one essays that trace the experience of a California community over three centuries. Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, and creative nonfiction, it provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte.

An Athletic Director’s Story is the story of Robert Mulcahy’s transforming decade as Rutgers University athletic director.  His first-hand account describes the challenges awaiting him in 1998: To elevate the athletics program’s assets – coaches and staffs, student athletes, facilities, and school pride – from hardly known to national prominence and achievement in NCAA Division I sports.

Collaborating for Change: A Participatory Action Research Casebook documents the stories of a dozen community-based research projects in the United States. The book is for social justice activists and their research allies that learn best from real stories and real projects that bring insight about how democratizing research supports social change and our understanding of complex social issues.

Featuring essays by scholars of history, literature, television, and sociology, Rebuilding Jewish Life in Germany illuminates important aspects of Jewish life in Germany since 1949, including institution building, the internal dynamics and changing demographics of the Jewish community, and the central role of Jewish writers and public intellectuals.

Across the US immigrants, laborers, domestic workers, low-income tenants, indigenous communities, and people experiencing homelessness are conducting research to fight for justice. Collaborating for Change documents the stories of a dozen community-based research projects.

Featuring essays by scholars of history, literature, television, and sociology, Rebuilding Jewish Life in Germany illuminates important aspects of Jewish life in Germany since 1949, including institution building, the internal dynamics and changing demographics of the Jewish community, and the central role of Jewish writers and public intellectuals.

Bringing together superhero scholars from a range of disciplines, alongside key industry figures, The Superhero Symbol provides fresh perspectives on how characters like Captain America, Iron Man, and Wonder Woman have engaged with media, culture, and politics, to become the "everlasting" symbols to which a young Bruce Wayne once aspired.

Offers a critical analysis of the production of a distinct form of twenty-first century celebrity constructed through the exploding coverage of reality television cast members in Us Weekly magazine.

Bringing together superhero scholars from a range of disciplines, alongside key industry figures, The Superhero Symbol provides fresh perspectives on how characters like Captain America, Iron Man, and Wonder Woman have engaged with media, culture, and politics, to become the "everlasting" symbols to which a young Bruce Wayne once aspired.

Provides an outline of the field of mental health with a particular focus on Latin America and the Spanish-speaking world. The book details evidence-based approaches being implemented globally, highlighting pros and cons of this approach and presents ongoing state of the art research on major mental disorders that is taking place in Latin America.

Offers the first significant attempt to centre media retail as a vital component in the study of popular culture. This book brings together fifteen essays by media scholars that explore both the changes that foreground retail in a digital age and the history that has made retail a fundamental part of the culture industries.

Offers the first significant attempt to centre media retail as a vital component in the study of popular culture. This book brings together fifteen essays by media scholars that explore both the changes that foreground retail in a digital age and the history that has made retail a fundamental part of the culture industries.