Author: Eric Burns
Publisher: Temple University Press
Keywords: alcohol, history, social, america, spirits
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2003-09
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 1592132146
ISBN-13: 9781592132140

’Thousands of years ago, before Christ or Buddha or Muhammad...before the Roman Empire rose or the Colossus of Rhodes fell’, Eric Burns writes, ’people in Asia Minor were drinking beer’. So begins an account as entertaining as it is extensive, of alcohol’s journey through world and, more important, American history. In "The Spirits of America", Burns relates that drinking was ’the first national pastime’, and shows how it shaped American politics and culture from the earliest colonial days. He details the transformation of alcohol from virtue to vice a

Authors:Roberta Rehner Iversen, Annie Laurie Armstrong,
Publisher: Temple University Press
Keywords: low, income, families, mobility, economic, aren, new, jobs
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2006-07-28
List price: $76.50
ISBN-10: 159213355X
ISBN-13: 9781592133550

This unflinching examination of the obstacles to economic mobility for low-income families exposes the ugly reality that lies beneath the shining surface of the American Dream. The fact is that nearly 25% of employed adults have difficulty supporting their families today. In eye-opening interviews, twenty-five workers and nearly a thousand people who are linked to them children, teachers, job trainers, and employers tell wrenching stories about "trying to get ahead." Spanning five cities over five years, this study convincingly demonstrates that prevailing ideas about opportunity, merit, and "

Author: Michael Anderegg
Publisher: Temple University Press
Keywords: image, moving, culture, vietnam, inventing
Number of Pages: 315
Published: 1991-10-11
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 0877228620
ISBN-13: 9780877228622

The Vietnam War has been depicted by every available medium, each presenting a message, an agenda, of what the filmmakers and producers choose to project about America’s involvement in Southeast Asia. This collection of essays, most of which are previously unpublished, analyzes the themes, modes, and stylistic strategies seen in a broad range of films and television programs. From diverse perspectives, the contributors comprehensively examine early documentary and fiction films, postwar films of the 1970s such as "The Deer Hunter" and "Apocalypse Now", and the reformulated postwar films

Author: Mindy Fried
Publisher: Temple University Press
Keywords: economy, political, women, time, taking
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1998-11-09
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 1566396476
ISBN-13: 9781566396479

There is a growing movement among corporations to provide family benefits in order to attract and retain women workers. They recognize that these benefits have become a cost of doing business. Many of these benefits, like child-care and elder care, are aimed at supporting employees’ ability to stay on the job. Parental leave policies are an exception, because they involve taking time away from the job. This timely book provides an inside look at life in a major U.S. corporation, focusing on the impact of workplace culture on the use of parental leave and those who use it. Fried begins by

Authors:Paul Carter Harrison, Victor Leo Walker Ii, Gus Edwa
Publisher: Temple University Press
Keywords: african, diaspora, performance, ritual, theatre, black
Number of Pages: 418
Published: 2002-12
List price: $78.50
ISBN-10: 1566399432
ISBN-13: 9781566399432

Generating a new understanding of the past as well as a vision for the future this path-breaking volume contains essays written by playwrights, scholars, and critics that analyze African American theatre as it is practiced today. Even as they acknowledge that Black experience is not monolithic, these contributors argue provocatively and persuasively for a Black consciousness that creates a culturally specific theatre. This theatre, rooted in an African mythos, offers ritual rather than realism; it transcends the specifics of social relations, reaching toward revelation. The ritual performance

Author: William Vitek
Publisher: Temple University Press
Keywords: promising
Number of Pages: 270
Published: 1993-10-02
List price: $86.50
ISBN-10: 1566390524
ISBN-13: 9781566390521

William Vitek enlarges our understanding by treating the act of promising as a social practice and complex human experience. Citing engaging examples of promises made in everyday life, in extraordinary circumstances, and in literary works, Vitek grapples with the central paradox of promising: that human beings can intend a future to which they are largely blind. "Promising" evaluates contemporary approaches to the topic by such philosophers as John Rawls, John Searle, Henry Sidgwick, P.S. Atiyah, and Michael Robbins but transcend their more limited focus on promissory obligation. Vitek’s

Author: Eileen Crist
Publisher: Temple University Press
Keywords: animals, society, culture, images
Number of Pages: 245
Published: 2000-04-19
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 156639788X
ISBN-13: 9781566397889

Seeing a cat rubbing against a person, Charles Darwin described her as i??in an affectionate frame of mindi??’; for Samuel Barnett, a behavioralist, the mental realm is beyond the grasp of scientists and behavior must be described technically, as a physical action only. What difference does this difference make? In Eileen Crist’s analysis of the language used to portray animal behavior, the difference i??is that in the reader’s mind the very image of the cat’s ’body’ is transfigured from an experiencing subject into a vacant objecti??’. i??Images of An