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The Social Medicine Reader, Second Edition
Volume 3: Health Policy, Markets, and Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2005
Duke University Press is pleased to announce the second edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader. The Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today’s health care providers, patients, and caregivers by bringing together moving narratives of illness, commentaries by physicians,...
The Constitution Besieged
The Rise & Demise of Lochner Era Police Powers Jurisprudence
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 1995
The Constitution Besieged offers a compelling reinterpretation of one of the most notorious periods in American constitutional history. In the decades following the Civil War, federal and state judges struck down as unconstitutional a great deal of innovative social and economic legislation. Scholars...
by Victoria Hesford
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
The term women's liberation remains charged and divisive decades after it first entered political and cultural discourse around 1970. In Feeling Women's Liberation, Victoria Hesford mines the archive of that highly contested era to reassess how it has been represented and remembered. Hesford refocuses...
Speculation, Now
Essays and Artwork
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Interdisciplinary in design and concept, Speculation, Now illuminates unexpected convergences between images, concepts, and language. Artwork is interspersed among essays that approach speculation and progressive change from surprising perspectives. A radical cartographer asks whether "the speculative"...
Cultural Sutures
Medicine and Media
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2004
Medicine and the media exist in a unique symbiosis. Increasingly, health-care consumers turn to media sources—from news reports to Web sites to tv shows—for information about diseases, treatments, pharmacology, and important health issues. And just as the media scour the medical terrain for news...
Landing Zones
Southern Veterans Remember Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Landing Zones brings to life the dramatic, gripping, and often painful stories of twenty-four Vietnam Veterans from the American South. The men and women interviewed here represent a remarkable range of experience, including a marine rifleman, a helicopter pilot, an army nurse, a prisoner of war,...
Seeking Rights from the Left
Gender, Sexuality, and the Latin American Pink Tide
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
Seeking Rights from the Left offers a unique comparative assessment of left-leaning Latin American governments by examining their engagement with feminist, women's, and LGBT movements and issues. Focusing on the “Pink Tide” in eight national cases—Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador,...
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Biographical Writings
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 1995
Marking the centenary of the birth of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946), this book offers a new approach to the Bauhaus artist and theorist’s multifaceted life and work—an approach that redefines the very idea of biographical writing.
In Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Louis Kaplan applies the Derridean deconstructivist...
Pop Out
Queer Warhol
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 1996
Andy Warhol was queer in more ways than one. A fabulous queen, a fan of prurience and pornography, a great admirer of the male body, he was well known as such to the gay audiences who enjoyed his films, the police who censored them, the gallery owners who refused to show his male nudes, and the artists...
Songs of the Unsung
The Musical and Social Journey of Horace Tapscott
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2001
Despite his importance and influence, jazz musician, educator, and community leader Horace Tapscott remains relatively unknown to most Americans. In Songs of the Unsung Tapscott shares his life story, recalling his childhood in Houston, moving with his family to Los Angeles in 1943, learning music,...
African Rhythms
The Autobiography of Randy Weston
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
African Rhythms is the autobiography of the important jazz pianist, composer and band leader Randy Weston. He tells of his childhood in Brooklyn, his six decades long musical career, his time living in Morocco, and his lifelong quest to learn about the musical and cultural traditions of Africa.
by Robert F. Durden
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 1987
This is the history of Washington Duke and two of his sons, Benjamin Newton Duke and James Buchanan Duke. Although numerous other members of the family play their parts in the story it focuses primarily on the three men who were at the center of the economic and philanthropic activities which made...
Sandinista
Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2001
“A must-read for anyone interested in Nicaragua—or in the overall issue of social change.”—Margaret Randall, author of SANDINO'S DAUGHTERS and SANDINO'S DAUGHTERS REVISITED
Sandinista is the first English-language biography of Carlos Fonseca Amador, the legendary leader of the Sandinista...
A Mother's Cry
A Memoir of Politics, Prison, and Torture under the Brazilian Military Dictatorship
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Brazil’s dictatorship arrested, tortured, and interrogated many people it suspected of subversion; hundreds of those arrested were killed in prison. In May 1970, Marcos P. S. Arruda, a young political activist, was seized in São Paulo, imprisoned, and tortured....