Fragment of the Head of a Queen
poems by Cate Marvin

In her highly anticipated second volume, Fragment of the Head of a Queen, Cate Marvin fulfills the promise of her prize-winning first, World's Tallest Disaster. Mythic without the need to lean on a myth, the book operates according to the principle that if there is to be resurrection, it must be preceded by destruction. The speakers in these poems are bound by a need to know what has happened. What they find is by turns beautiful, frightening, and darkly, wildly humorous. Fans of the first volume will find plenty of Marvin's wrought music, unblinking focus, and hard-edged sensuality, but here the poems are wreathed with an entirely different silence. The brokenness and loss of the fragmented queen—seeming to rise up through centuries—is their tutelary spirit. What are we to do when experience hands our idealism back to us in pieces? Her answer: Let the pieces sing.

Cate Marvin teaches in the low-residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University, and is an Associate Professor in English at The City University of New York, College of Staten Island.

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Sarabande Books

The Blessed Human Race
Essays on Reconsideration
by George Jochnowitz

George Jochnowitz and his daughter Miriam were teaching in China at the time of the Tiananmen Massacre in 1989. The experience drastically changed the author's way of thinking about Marxism. He saw that the rulers of China were acting in the spirit of Karl Marx, whose writing logically led to dictatorship and famine. Many people have expressed negative views about communism. Some have harsh words for Marxism as well. Almost nobody, however, will take the next step and relate the cruelty of Marxism to the words of Marx.

Living and teaching in China led Jochnowitz to cross this line and examine his experience and new outlook in The Blessed Human Race.

George Jochnowitz is a professor emeritus of linguistics at The City University of New York, College of Staten Island  He was an exchange professor at Hebei University in Baoding, China, during the spring semesters of 1984 and 1989.

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University Press of America

The Child
by Sarah Schulman

Acclaimed author Sarah Schulman /(Rat Bohemia, Shimmer)/ returns with an absorbing novel about a teenager convicted of murder after seeing his online lover charged with pedophilia.

Sarah Schulman is associate professor of English at The City University of New York, College of Staten Island.

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Carroll and Graf

Social Dancing in America [Two Volumes]
A History and Reference
by Ralph G. Giordano

This two-volume set relates the history of the most popular social dances, where they began, which dances survived the test of time and why, and what attracted American men and women to social dancing in these periods. Unlike other books on social dancing that taught people "How to Dance," this set not only describes the dances, but also how and why Americans danced.

This two-volume set is the most comprehensive examination of American social dance from the first settlements in 1607 through the birth of the nation in 1776 and into the beginning of the 21st century. The set is also a celebration of the American spirit embodied among everyday individuals as they danced for fun, recreation, and family celebrations such as weddings.

Ralph Giordano is an adjunct lecturer of history at the College of Staten Island, The City University of New York.  He holds a license as a professional Registered Architect in the state of New York. 

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Greenwood Publishing Group

Intelligent Internet Knowledge Networks
Processing of Concepts and Wisdom
by Syed V. Ahamed

This revolutionary book introduces wisdom, virtue, values, and ethics within the context of processing data, information, knowledge, and intelligence. The author sets forth a new approach for designing information systems that emphasizes the interaction of modern computers and communication systems with human beings.

In the past, computer system designers and network planners have ignored the knowledge, wisdom, and values that are an essential part of society. This book introduces "wisdom machine," which scans large amounts of Internet data and applies artificial intelligence strategies to filter the data and derive initial knowledge bases. These knowledge bases are reprocessed with human oversight to discover underlying axioms of wisdom and then evaluated to identify a value structure that leads to the greatest benefits to society.

Syed V. Ahamed is Professor of Computer Science at the City University of New York's College of Staten Island, USA.

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Wiley Interscience

Playing with My Dog, Katie
An Ethnomethodological Study of Dog-Human Interaction
by David Goode

The relationship between dogs and humans has been contemplated since the beginning of human culture, with lasting expressions found in art, philosophy, literature, and science. At present, there is a large body of scientific literature about this relationship based primarily upon biological, genetic, and psychological approaches. It is only within the past decade that sociologists have shown a concerted interest in the social organization of dog-human interaction, and Playing with My Dog Katie is an example of this movement. A special DVD is also included with the book.

David Goode is Professor of Sociology at the College of Staten Island, The City University of New York.

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Purdue University Press

Ancient Greek Costume
An Annotated Bibliography, 1784-2005
by Linda Jones Roccos

Costume production distinguishes early civilization from the Paleolithic era as much as architectural production. Costume transcends boundaries, as it first unites and then divides mankind. The mode of dress differentiates friend from foe and peasant from prince. Changes in the appearance and types of garments through the ages are a significant indicator of social, economic and chronological changes.

This subject is of increasing interest to scholars in many fields, including archaeology and anthropology, art and art history, classics, drama, history, ancient literature, even modern literature. The references in this bibliography range from the encyclopedia entry to the monograph, and show a variety of themes: women’s dress, men’s dress, foreign dress, accessories, jewelry, headdresses, theater dress, textile production and literary evidence.

Linda Jones Roccos is a reference and instruction librarian and the coordinator of electronic resources at the College of Staten Island Library, City University of New York.

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McFarland

Female Mourning and Tragedy in Medieval and Renaissance English Drama
by Katharine Goodland

Grieving women in early modern English drama, this study argues, recall not only those of Classical tragedy, but also, and more significantly, the lamenting women of medieval English drama, especially the Virgin Mary.

Looking at the plays of Shakespeare, Kyd, and Webster, this book presents a new perspective on early modern drama grounded upon three original interrelated points. First, it explores how the motif of the mourning woman on the early modern stage embodies the cultural trauma of the Reformation in England. Second, the author here brings to light the extent to which the figures of early modern drama recall those of the recent medieval past. Finally, Goodland addresses how these representations embody actual mourning practices that were viewed as increasingly disturbing after the Reformation.

Katharine Goodland is Assistant Professor of English at the City University of New York's College of Staten Island, USA.

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Ashgate

Markov Processes, Gaussian Processes, and Local Times
by Michael Marcus and Jay Rosen

Written by two foremost researchers in the field, this book studies the local times of Markov processes by employing isomorphism theorems that relate them to certain associated Gaussian processes. It builds to this material through self-contained but harmonized ‘mini-courses’ on the relevant ingredients, which assume only knowledge of measure-theoretic probability. The streamlined selection of topics creates an easy entrance for students and for experts in related fields. The book starts by developing the fundamentals of Markov process theory and then of Gaussian process theory, including sample path properties. It then proceeds to more advanced results, bringing the reader to the heart of contemporary research. It presents the remarkable isomorphism theorems of Dynkin and Eisenbaum, then shows how they can be applied to obtain new properties of Markov processes by using well-established techniques in Gaussian process theory. This original, readable book will appeal to both researchers and advanced graduate students.

Jay Rosen is Professor of Mathematics at The City University of New York, College of Staten Island.

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Cambridge University Press

Teaching Cultural Competence in Nursing and Health Care
by Marianne R. Jeffreys

Preparing nurses and other health professionals to provide quality health care amid the increasingly multicultural and global society of the 21st century requires a new, comprehensive approach that emphasizes cultural competence education throughout professional education and professional practice.

It is the only book that presents a research-supported conceptual model and a valid, reliable corresponding questionnaire to guide educational strategy design, implementation, and evaluation. Teaching Cultural Competence in Nursing and Health Care provides readers with valuable tools and strategies for cultural competence education that can easily be adapted by educators at all levels.

Marianne R. Jeffreys, EdD, RN, is a professor of nursing at The City University of New York College of Staten Island. Her research interests include nontraditional nursing students, student retention and achievement, self-efficacy, curriculum, psychometrics, and transcultural nursing.

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Springer Publishing Company

Scientists and Storytellers: Feminist Anthropologists and the Construction of the American Southwest
by Catherine Lavender

Author Catherine Lavender examines the work of a community of Columbia University-trained ethnographers--Elsie Clews Parsons, Ruth Benedict, Gladys Reichard, and Ruth Underhill--who represent four generations of feminist scholarship about the region. In their analysis of Indian gender, sexuality, and supposed "primitiveness," these anthropologists created a feminist ethnography that emphasized women's roles in Southwestern Indian cultures. In doing so, they provided examples of Indian women who functioned as leaders in their communities, as economic forces in their own right, as negotiators of cross-gendered identities, and as matriarchs in matrilineal societies--examples they intended as models for American feminism.

From these views, the ethnographers constructed an identity for Southwestern Indian women that sometimes differed sharply from the stories that their native informants told them about themselves.

Catherine J. Lavender is Director of the American Studies Program and Associate Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies at The City University of New York's College of Staten Island.

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University of New Mexico Press

The Washington D.C. of Fiction: A Research Guide
by James Kaser

Although this book was written to assist researchers in locating works of fiction for analysis, the plot summaries have enough detail for the general reader—who may never actually look at the novels themselves—that he or she can develop an understanding of the way attitudes toward Washington, and what the city has symbolized, have changed over the years. Similarly, the biographical section, aside from its main purpose in helping find useful information on obscure writers, demonstrates the wide range of people who were motivated to write about the city: journalists, politicians, society women, and freelance writers.

James A. Kaser is Associate Professor and Archivist at The City University of New York's College of Staten Island.

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Scarecrow Press

Performing Consumers: Global Capital and its Theatrical Seductions
by Maurya Wickstrom

Performing Consumers is an exploration of the way in which brands insinuate themselves into the lives of ordinary people who encounter them at branded superstores.

Looking at our performative desire to ‘try on’ otherness, Maurya Wickstrom employs five American brandscapes to serve as case studies: Ralph Lauren; Niketown; American Girl Place; Disney store and The Lion King; and The Forum Shops at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. In this post-product era, each builds for the performer/consumer an intensely pleasurable, somatic experience of merging into the brand and reappearing as the brand, or the brand’s fictional meanings.

An adventurous study of theatrical indeterminancy and material culture, Performing Consumers brilliantly takes corporate culture to task.

Maurya Wickstrom is Associate Professor of Dramatic Arts at The City University of New York's College of Staten Island.

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Routledge

Empathy
by Sarah Schulman

Provocative, observant, and daring, this 1992 novel by one of America's preeminent lesbian writers and thinkers is being reissued for the Little Sister's Classics series.

Anna O. is a loner in New York, an office temp obsessed with a mysterious woman in white leather; Doc is a post-Freudian psychiatrist who hands out business cards to likely neurotics on street corners, and is looking for his own personal fulfillment. They befriend each other in the netherworld of the Lower East Side, two unlikely people drawn together by their confusion about and empathy for the world around them and each other. This beautifully written novel is about the fluidity of desire, and how those of us damaged by love can still be transformed by it..

Sarah Schulman is Associate Professor of English at The City University of New York's College of Staten Island.

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Arsenal Pulp Press

Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim
Creating Counterculture Community
by Timothy Gray

Author Timothy Gray draws upon previously unpublished journals and letters as well as his own close readings of Gary Snyder’s well-crafted poetry and prose to track the early career of a maverick intellectual whose writings powered the San Francisco Renaissance of the 1950s and 1960s. Exploring various aspects of cultural geography, Gray asserts that this west coast literary community seized upon the idea of a Pacific Rim regional structure in part to recognize their Orientalist desires and in part to consolidate their opposition to America’s cold war ideology, which tended to divide East from West. The geographical consciousness of Snyder’s writing was particularly influential, Gray argues, because it gave San Francisco’s Beat and hippie cultures a set of physical coordinates by which they could chart their utopian visions of peace and love.

This book will fascinate literary and Asian studies scholars as well as the general reader interested in the Beat movement and multicultural influences on poetry.

Timothy Gray is an assistant professor of English at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York.

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University of Iowa Press

Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture
edited by David A. Gerstner

The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture covers gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer (GLBTQ) life and culture post-1945, with a strong international approach to the subject.

The scope of the work is extremely comprehensive, with entries falling into the broad categories of Dance, Education, Film, Health, Homophobia, the Internet, Literature, Music, Performance, and Politics. Slang is also covered. There are important appendices covering international sodomy laws and archival institutions, which will be of great value to researchers.

The combination of its wide scope, determined international coverage and appendices make the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture a uniquely ambitious work and an extremely rich source of information.

David A. Gerstner is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island.

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Routledge

Manly Arts
Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema
by David A. Gerstner

In this innovative analysis of the interconnections between nation and aesthetics in the United States during the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth, David A. Gerstner reveals the crucial role of early cinema in consolidating a masculine ideal under American capitalism.

Gerstner describes how cinema came to be considered the art form of the New World and how its experimental qualities infused other artistic traditions (many associated with Europe—painting, literature, and even photography) with new life: brash, virile, American life.

David A. Gerstner is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island.

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Duke University Press

Global Hong Kong
by Cindy Wong

Global Hong Kong locates Hong Kong in the contemporary globalizing world. Hong Kong, as the authors argue, is an archetypal place, sitting at the intersection of East and West. It is also a major center for global capital flows and world trade. Moreover, in recent years, the island's global cultural power has become increasingly evident, as Hong Kong popular culture has spread to the West via a booming film industry. While looking at issues of postcoloniality, transnationalism and economic globalization, Wong and McDonogh focus on the new cultures and social formations of contemporary Hong Kong, as well as the transformation of the physical city itself. They also trace the new interconnections - economic, demographic, social and cultural - between Hong Kong and other parts of the worldthat have benn fostered by globalization.

Cindy Wong is Associate Professor of Communications at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island.

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Routledge

Building Effective Learning Communities
Strategies for Leadership, Learning, and Collaboration
by Susan Sullivan and Jeffrey Glanze

Today’s school leaders face a difficult reality: the pressure to meet national standards often eclipses the pursuit of additional academic goals. This groundbreaking text seeks to remedy this conflict by enabling practicing and prospective school leaders to build collaborative, constructive environments that not only help schools achieve national standards, but also help the school community realize high academic standards.

Susan Sullivan is Associate Professor of Education at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island.

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Corwin Press

The Function of Function Words and Functional categories
edited by Marcel den Dikken and Christina M. Tortora
 

This volume brings together papers which address a range of issues regarding the syntax of function words and functional categories in the Germanic languages. The works offered in this volume derive specifically from comparative studies of Germanic; at the same time they all bear directly on long-standing problems in syntactic theory and universal grammar. The contributions include novel theoretical and empirical approaches to infinitives, the syntax and acquisition of Verb Second, the structure and interpretation of present tense, the syntax and semantics of reflexives, the relationship between expletive syntax and the EPP, the syntax of possession, and the DP-internal syntax of pronouns. Some contributions present the results of experimental research which provide an entirely fresh perspective on previously unchallenged claims.

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John Benjamins Publishing Group

Shifting Priorities
Gender and Genre in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting
by Nanette Salomon

This ground-breaking book offers the first sustained examination of Dutch seventeenth-century genre painting from a theoretically informed feminist perspective. Other recent works that deal with images of women in this field maintain the paradoxical combination of seeing the images as positivist reflections of “life as it was” and as emblems of virtue and vice. These reductionist practices deprive the works of their complex nature and of their place in visual culture, important frameworks that the book attempts to restore to them.

Salomon expands the possibilities for understanding both familiar and unfamiliar paintings from this period by submitting them to a wide range of new and provocative questions. Paintings and prints from the first half of the century through to the second are analyzed to understand the changing social roles and values attributed to the sexes as they were introduced and reflected in the visual arts.

Nanette Salomon Professor of Art at the College of Staten Island, The City University of New York.

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Stanford University Press

Mayors and the Challenge of Urban Leadership
by Richard M. Flanagan

Big city mayors rank among the most powerful and colorful politicians in America. Yet few books focus on the leadership challenges the occupants of the office face. Mayors and the Challenge of Urban Leadership examines twelve case studies of mayoral leadership in seven cities, from the New Deal era to the beginning of the 21st century.

The new breed mayors of the 1990s-- among them Rudy Giuliani of New York, Dennis Archer of Detroit, and Ed Rendell of Philadelphia-- used modern campaign and governing techniques and scored surprising policy and political victories as a result.

Mayors and the Challenge of Urban Leadership concludes with a discussion of Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York, elected in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, as an exemplar of the modern style of governing big cities in the 21st century.

Richard M. Flanagan is Associate Professor of Political Science at the College of Staten Island, The City University of New York. Professor Flanagan holds a doctorate in Political Science from Rutgers University.

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University Press of America

Broken: The Troubled Past and
Uncertain Future of the FBI
by Richard Gid Powers

"The FBI that failed on 9/11 is the creation and captive of its spectacular and controversial past. Its original mission - the investigation and prosecution of only the most serious crimes against the United States - was forsaken almost from the beginning. This abandonment of purpose has been accompanied by a long history of political pressure, both from within and without. This sorry and scandal-ridden path culminated in a twenty-five-year run-up to 9/11 in which predictable and preventable lapses became hopelessly entrenched."

"In Broken, Richard Gid Powers, one of the country's leading historians of national security and law enforcement, offers a study of the Bureau from its origins to the present. Combing through the archives, and interviewing more than 100 past and current agents, he unearths stories behind some of the most famous cases and characters in our history. Powers, who attended new-agent training classes at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, was granted access to restricted FBI facilities. His research included visits to the scenes of controversial FBI cases across the country, including Ruby Ridge, Waco, and the Indian reservation at Pine Ridge."

Powers did not set out to write a muckraking attack, and he gives the Bureau its due for many triumphs. Nonetheless, his story features an astonishing range of political abuses, misdirected investigations, skewed priorities, and sheer intelligence failures.

Listen to the WNYC interview (requires RealOne Player)

Richard Gid Powers is professor of history at the College of Staten Island and the Graduate School and University Center, The City University of New York.

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Simon & Schuster

Supervision that Improves Teaching
Strategies and Techniques
by Susan Sullivan/Jeffrey Glanz

Sullivan and Glanz have addressed the dilemmas of preserving meaningful supervision in an era of high-stakes testing and local, state, and national standards. The authors’ reflective clinical supervision model encourages and prepares educators to be thoughtful collaborators in improving classroom instruction.

This bestselling approach continues to offer interpersonal tools for initiating and providing feedback on classroom observations, alternative approaches to common supervision practices, and the tools necessary for present and future educational leaders to develop dynamic conversations about learning between and among educators-the essence of what effective supervision is really about.

Susan Sullivan is associate professor of education at the College of Staten Island, The City University of New York.

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Sage Publications

The Art of Scientific Innovation
Cases of Classical Creativity
by Syed V. Ahamed and Victor B. Lawrence

Creativity, invention, and the requisite research environment essential for paving the way for new inventions and innovations are the subject matter of this work.

It speaks to the need for restoring a climate of creativity and the thrill of in-depth research that inspired so many well-known inventors, engineers, and scientists in the past. The book illuminates the scientific process, with emphasis on inventions as disclosed in patents, providing the reader with insights into the realm of innovation and creativity.

Syed Ahamed is professor of computer science at the College of Staten Island and the Graduate School and University Center, The City University of New York.

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Prentice Hall

Nursing Student Retention
Understanding the Process and Making a Difference
by Marianne R. Jeffreys

In the current nursing shortage, nursing student retention is a priority concern for nurse educators, health care institutions, and the patients they serve. This book presents an organizing framework for understanding student retention, identifying at-risk students, developing diagnostic-prescriptive strategies to facilitate success, and innovations in teaching and educational research.

The author's conceptual model for student retention, "Nursing Undergraduate Retention and Success," is interwoven throughout, along with essential information for developing, implementing, and evaluating retention strategies. An entire chapter is devoted to how to set up a Student Resource Center. Most chapters conclude with "Educator-in-Action" vignettes, which help illustrate practical application of strategies discussed. Nurse educators at all levels will find this an important resource.

Marianne Jeffreys is professor of nursing at the College of Staten Island, The City University of New York.

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Springer Publishing Company

Living Indian Histories
Lumbee and Tuscarora People in North Carolina
by Gerald Sider

With more than 40,000 registered members, the Lumbee Indians are the ninth largest tribe in the country and the largest east of the Mississippi River. Despite the tribe's size, the Lumbee lack full federal recognition and their history has been marked by a struggle to articulate an Indian identity against the imposition of non-native definitions of Indianness.

Gerald Sider explores the complexities of Lumbee tribal identity, focusing on the tribe's socioeconomic and political history from the 1960s through the 1980s and working back to the colonial roots of present issues and questions, including the relationship between the Lumbee and Tuscarora people of Robeson County, North Carolina.

Gerald Sider is professor of anthropology at the College of Staten Island and the Graduate School and University Center, The City University of New York. He has worked with and for the Indians of Robeson County for thirty-five years.

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University of North Carolina Press

Music's Modern Muse
A Life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac
by Sylvia Kahn

The American-born Winnaretta Singer (1865-1943) was a millionaire at the age of eighteen, due to her inheriting a substantial part of the Singer Sewing Machine fortune. Her 1893 marriage to Prince Edmond de Polignac, an amateur composer, brought her into contact with the most elite strata of French society. After Edmond's death in 1901, she used her fortune to benefit the arts, science, and letters. Her most significant contribution was in the musical domain: in addition to subsidizing individual artists (Boulanger, Haskil, Rubinstein, Horowitz) and organizations (the Ballets Russes, l'Opéra de Paris, l'Orchestre Symphonique de Paris), she made a lifelong project of commissioning new musical works from composers, many of them unknown and struggling, to be performed in her Paris salon.

Sylvia Kahan brings to life this eccentric and extravagant lover of the arts, whose influence on the 20th Century world of music and literature remains incalculable.

Sylvia Kahan, a pianist and scholar, is chair of the performing and creative arts department at the College of Staten Island, and on faculty with The Graduate Center of The City University of New York.

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University of Rochester Press

Fun and Games in Twentieth Century America: A Historical Guide to Leisure
by Ralph Giordano

Throughout the 20th century, America underwent rapid change, from horses and buggies, through two world wars, and finally to the arrival of the Internet.

This book describes how political, economic, and cultural events influenced the history and development of the leisure pursuits of Americans.

Organized chronologically with over 51 photos, it identifies the most popular games, sports, and hobbies of social groups ranging from the working class to the wealthy, along with their importance in American history.

Ralph Giordano is an adjunct lecturer of history at the College of Staten Island, The City University of New York.  His previous published works include three entries on the architecture of the Gilded Age, and biographical entries on John Deere and Levi Strauss.  Giordano holds a license as a professional Registered Architect in the state of New York. 

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 Greenwood Publishing Group

The Syntax of Italian Dialects
edited by Christina Tortora

Collecting original theoretical work on the syntax and morphology of Italian and a wide range of Italian dialects (including several Rhaeto-Romance varieties, Paduan, Sicilian, Bellunese, Piedmontese, and Calabrian), this volume introduces novel analyses of familiar data as well as analyses of data that are themselves altogether novel.

This latest addition to the Comparative Syntax series will be of interest not only to researchers in Italian dialects and Romance syntax, but to scholars and advanced students interested in syntactic theory.

Christina Tortora is assistant professor of linguistics at The City University of New York's (CUNY) College of Staten Island and the CUNY Graduate Center. She was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for research on Borgomanerese (an Italian dialect) in 2001.

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Oxford University Press

Confronting the War Machine:
Draft Resistance during the Vietnam War
by Michael S. Foley

Shedding light on a misunderstood form of opposition to the Vietnam War, Foley tells the story of draft resistance, the cutting edge of the antiwar movement at the height of the war's escalation.

Examining the day-to-day struggle of antiwar organizing carried out by ordinary Americans at the local level in Boston Massachusetts, Foley argues for a more complex view of citizenship and patriotism during a time of war.

Michael S. Foley is an assistant professor of history at The City University of New York's College of Staten Island.

Gramsci, Culture and Anthropology
by Kate Crehan

In the last twenty years Antonio Gramsci has become a major presence in British and American anthropology, especially for anthropologists working on issues of culture and power. This book explores Gramsci's understanding of culture and the links between culture and power.

Kate Crehan is assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at The City University of New York's College of Staten Island. She is the author of The Fractured Community: Landscapes of Power and Gender in Rural Zambia (California, 1997).

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University of California Press

Emergency Broadcasting
and 1930s American Radio
by Edward D. Miller

Emergency Broadcasting focuses on key moments in the history of early radio in order to come to an understanding of the role voice played in radio to describe national crises, a fictional invasion from outer space, and general entertainment.

Theoretically sophisticated, yet grounded in historical detail, Emergency Broadcasting offers a unique examination of radio and at the same time develops a complex understanding of the media whose birth is owed to the innovations—and disembodied power—established by it.

Edward D. Miller is the acting chair of the recently formed department of Media Culture at The City University of New York's College of Staten Island.

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Temple University Press

Authorship and Film
edited by David A. Gerstner, Janet Staiger

Authorship in film has been a persistent theme in the field of cinema studies. This volume of new work revitalizes the question of authorship by connecting it to larger issues of identity--in film, in the marketplace, in society, in culture. Essays range from the auteur theory and Casablanca to Oscar Micheaux, from the American avant-garde to community video, all illuminating how "authorship" is a complex idea with far-reaching implications.

This ambitious and wide-ranging book will be essential reading for anyone concerned with film studies and the concept of the author.

David Gerstner is Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator of Cinema Studies at CUNY, College of Staten Island. Janet Staiger is a William P. Hobby Centennial Professor of Communications at the University of Texas, Austin, where she also directs the Center for Women's Studies.

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Routledge

New York Year by Year:
A Chronology of the Great Metropolis
by Jeffrey A. Kroessler

Voted Best of Reference 2003
by The New York Public Library

If any city deserves a complete chronology, it is surely New York. New York, Year by Year is a cornucopia of the familiar and the forgotten, the historic and the ephemeral, the heroic and the banal.

In this handy reference work, Jeffrey A. Kroessler takes us from Verrazano's arrival in 1524 into the new millennium, highlighting the strikes and strikeouts, tunnels and towers, personalities and parades which not only made history in New York, but also proved to be defining moments for the nation.

Jeffrey A. Kroessler is the historian at the Archives and Special Collections in the Library of the College of Staten Island.

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NYU Press