Bøger udgivet af Temple University Press,U.S.

Demonstrates that solutions emerge once we assume that both faculty and students still possess a mutual potential for learning when they meet in the college classroom. This title documents a process of pedagogical transformation. It is of use to people interested in making higher education more truly democratic, inclusive, and challenging.

Portrays the many-sided legacies of exclusion and discrimination. The stories, columns, essays, and commentaries in this title tackle such problems as media racism, criminality, inter-ethnic tensions, and political marginalization. As a group, they make a case for the centrality of the Asian American historical experiences in US race relations.

A biography of Florence Luscomb, it presents her story against the backdrop of Boston politics and struggles for social justice. It suggests that although women were excluded from the activities and sites associated with conventional politics, they did political work that gave purpose to their lives and affected political thinking.

Looks at Philadelphia government and politics, and the trials of a journalist trying to cover them. This book answers some nagging questions: why did the author leave for New York and why did he come back? What's the story behind the Bill Green lawsuit? Does he apply his own makeup? It talks about the strain of living life in the spotlight.

The Polo Grounds was the home of the New York Giants from John McGraw and Christy Mathewson to Carl Hubbell and Mel Ott to Willie Mays and Leo Durocher. This title tells the legendary events of the park and its legendary personalities.

In their day, from 1830 to 1930, members of the Sartain family of Philadelphia were widely known as printmakers, painters, art administrators, and educators. Since then, the accomplishments of three generations of Sartains have become obscure. This wide-ranging collection of essays aims to rectify that situation.

Tells the story of how a few thousand very talented young men obtain their extraordinary riches. This author illustrates salary negotiation with an imaginary case based on Roy Hobbs, star of The Natural. He leads the reader through the successes of agent Scott Boras to explain the intricacies of free agent negotiating.

Includes profiles for the top 200 players and a synopsis of the careers of every team player, stories, statistics, and game-by-game accounts of every season (from the teams true beginning in 1882 as the St Louis Browns), and information on every manager. Employing photos and memorabilia, this book captures the history behind the team.

Tells the life story of Dora Yum Kim. In this title, the author reflects on how Dora's story relates to her own experience as a Korean-American who immigrated to this country as an adult - she carves around Dora's compelling and courageous life story, a story of her own and one of all Korean-Americans.

Including interviews with students, teachers, parents, and community leaders, as well as her own observations of exchanges among them inside and outside the classroom, the author explores the social positions, diverging constructions of history, and polarized understandings of contemporary racial/ethnic dynamics in Arnhem.

In the summer of 1966, in the middle of the Vietnam War, eighty young volunteers arrived at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot on Parris Island, South Carolina, from all over the Eastern United States. For the next eight weeks, as Platoon 1005, they endured one of the most intense basic training programs ever devised.

Features a biography of the Hall of Famer who pitched no-hitters against the sluggers of both leagues, took on sportswriters and baseball leaders, and started a second career as a politician. With an assist from his wife, Mary, the mother of their nine children, he waged an unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign, and became a six-term congressman.

Argues that the fragmentation and instability are more likely to occur only when the differences are ignored and nonethnic strategies are employed. This title illustrates this claim by focusing on one group of Puerto Ricans and how they mobilized to demand accountability from political leaders in Hartford, Connecticut.

Americans have been raised with the mantra that we can grow up to be anything we want to be, achieve anything we can imagine. How many of us believe the message? This work does more than outline this problem of American selfishness; it proposes a solution that is nothing less than a massive reconception of the way we relate to one another.

The Delaware River is the last major free-flowing river in the eastern United States. Drawing on their angling experience, the authors range through the 14,000 square miles of the Delaware River watershed. Besides giving directions to their favorite spots, they also mention nearby tackle shops, historical and scenic attractions, and more.

Presents accounts of drug addicts on the streets of New York, and demonstrates how addicts are structurally vulnerable to the larger sociocultural system within which they live. This book describes the economic, political, and ideological forces that shape the nature of street-addict life.

Presents a photo essay of four families and their process of coping with Alzheimer's Disease, a process of coming to terms with the practical and emotional consequences of a disease that changes the entire family dynamic.

Presents the story of the New York Yankees, captured in more than 450 photographs and entertaining anecdotes about your favorite players. This work provides statistics and game highlights through the 1996 season and World Championship, hitting streaks, ERA's, box scores, trades, and American League championship and World Series rosters.

Presents the history from 1960 of how policies allegedly designed to promote the welfare of the urban poor have been half-hearted. This book shows how little the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the War on Poverty provided for the urban poor, and demonstrates the weakness of job-training programs devised at the federal level.

Presents the story of Bill Conlin, anchored one of America's best sports sections. This book reveals Conlin's playfulness with language and ideas led to creative nicknames - like "The Jowly Grim Giant" for Georgetown basketball coach John Thompson - and to entire stories based on outrageous premises.

Gathers together eleven plays that speak in the "hybridized American voices of Asian descent - and often dissent." This title brings forth vibrant work that challenges producers and audiences to broaden their expectations, to attend to the unfamiliar voices that express the universal and particular vision of Asian-American playwrights.

Wallace Shawn usually appears in our mind's eye as the consummate eccentric actor: the shy literature teacher in Clueless, the diabolically rational villain in "The Princess Bride", or as the eponymous protagonist of Vanya on 42nd Street. This title offers a personal look into the life and literary work of this man.

Traces the history of workers' theater from its grassroots origins to the Federal Theater Project of the WPA under Roosevelt and into unions' recreational programs. This book shows that the significance of workers' theater lies not only in the plays produced but also in the audiences' experience.

Women who grow up in poor families begin childbearing at a younger age than nonpoor women, attain less education, work less, earn less, are dependent on federal aid, have less support from a husband, have more children, and spend more time as single mothers. This book reveals the relationship between Black teenage mothers and the welfare system.

By chronicling the everyday experiences of women in a rural Head Start program, this book examines the processes of underprivileged women working to make a better life for themselves and their families. It explains that in order to empower its participants, the Head Start program allows many women to work as aides or on advisory boards.

Journeys to the Maya Lowlands of Chiapas on a quest for the author's Indio heritage and a vision of the multicultured identity emerging in America. This book attempts to shed the trappings and privileges of his life in California in order to reduce his distance from the dispersed and shrinking Mayan population.