Author: John Harding
Publisher: Temple University Pre
Keywords: mountain, meadow, marsh
Number of Pages: 267
Published: 1986-01-24
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0877224013
ISBN-13: 9780877224013

Stretching from the craggy reaches of the Pocono Mountains to the rolling farmlands of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, sprawling east across the Delaware River basin and New Jersey’s coastal plain Atlantic beaches here is a land of rich historical, cultural, and environmental diversity. Few other locales in the United States have as many varied habitats, each with its own distinctive vegetation and wildlife. The nature lover in the Delaware Valley can travel from ocean, across barrier-beaches, salt-water and fresh-water marshes, pine barrens, deciduous woodlands and fields, to mountains,

Author: Amalia L. Cabeza
Publisher: Temple University Pre
Keywords: dominican, republic, cuba, tourism, desire, sex, economies
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2009-04-28
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1592137504
ISBN-13: 9781592137503

Book Description Is a native-born tour guide who has sex with tourists—in exchange for dinner or gifts or cash—merely a prostitute or gigolo? What if the tourist continues to send gifts or money to the tour guide after returning home? As this original and provocative book demonstrates, when it comes to sex—and the effects of capitalism and globalization—nothing is as simple as it might seem. Based on ten years of research, Economies of Desire is the first ethnographic study to examine the erotic underpinnings of transnational tourism. It offers startling insights into the commingling

Author: J. Hoberma
Publisher: Temple University Pre
Keywords: image, moving, culture, atlantis, red
Number of Pages: 315
Published: 2000-04-04
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1566397677
ISBN-13: 9781566397674

For half a century, the cold war between the democratic, capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union defined world politics. And then, in 1989, everything changed. The Warsaw Pact disintegrated, the USSR collapsed, and the Berlin Wall came down. Soon there was (almost) no communist culture left on the planet, just the cultural detritus of a "Communist utopia which, in fact, never existed." J. Hoberman of the Village Voice sifts through the wreckage of that culture, in a series of illuminating essays that take on everything from the Socialist Realist art movement to the novels of Vi

Author: Jenny Kwok Wah Lau
Publisher: Temple University Pre
Keywords: transcultural, east, asia, media, popular, modernities, cinemas, multiple
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2003-02-01
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1566399866
ISBN-13: 9781566399869

Multiple Modernities explores the cultural terrain of East Asia. Arguing that becoming modern happens differently in different places, the contributors examines popular culture—most notable cinema and television—to see how modernization, as both a response to the West and as a process that is unique in its own right in the region, operates on a mass level. Included in this collection are significant explorations of popular culture in East Asia, including Chinese new cinema and rock music, Korean cinema, Taiwanese television, as well as discussions of alternative arts in general. While each e

Author: Myra Ferree
Publisher: Temple University Pre
Keywords: women, movement, economy, political, new, organizations, harvest, feminist
Number of Pages: 474
Published: 1995-02-22
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 1566392292
ISBN-13: 9781566392297

This collection of twenty-six original essays looks at contemporary feminist organizations, how they’ve survived, the effects of their work, the problems they face, the strategies they develop, and where the women’s movement is headed. The contributors, leading feminist scholars from nine social science disciplines, examine a wide variety of local feminist organizations, past and preset, illuminating the struggles of feminist organizers and activists. Myra Marx Ferree is Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at the University of Connecticut. Patricia Yancey Martin is Dai

Authors:Kuniko Fujita,  Richard Child Hill,
Publisher: Temple University Pre
Keywords: urban, regional, development, conflicts, economy, cities, world, japanese
Number of Pages: 311
Published: 1993-08-01
List price: $55.50
ISBN-10: 1566390346
ISBN-13: 9781566390347

Japan is the world’s second most powerful economy and one of the most urbanized nations on earth. Yet English-language literature contains remarkable little about cities in Japan. This collection of original essays on Japanese urban and industrial development covers a broad spectrum of city experiences. Leading Japanese and Western urbanists analyze Japan’s largest metropolitan areas (Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya); proto-typical industrial cities (Kamaishi, Kitakyushu, Toyota); high technology urban satellites (Kanagawa); and smaller, more traditionally organized industrial districts (Tsub

Author: Edward Alwood
Publisher: Temple University Pre
Keywords: press, aimed, mccarthyism, newsroom, days
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2007-06-28
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1592133428
ISBN-13: 9781592133420

Dark Days in the Newsroom traces how journalists became radicalized during the Depression era, only to become targets of Senator Joseph McCarthy and like-minded anti-Communist crusaders during the 1950s. Edward Alwood, a former news correspondent, describes this remarkable story of conflict, principle, and personal sacrifice with noticeable élan. He shows how McCarthy’s minions pried inside newsrooms thought to be sacrosanct under the First Amendment, and details how some journalists mounted a heroic defense of freedom of the press while others secretly enlisted in the government’