Author: Sucheng Chan
Publisher: Temple University Press
Keywords: american, history, amp, cultu, asian, people, transnationalism, flow, chinese, resources
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2005-12-28
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1592134351
ISBN-13: 9781592134359

"Chinese American Transnationalism" considers the many ways in which Chinese living in the United States during the exclusion era maintained ties with China through a constant flow of people, economic resources, as well as political and cultural ideas. Continuing the exploration of the exclusion era begun in two previous volumes (Entry Denied and Claiming America), editor Sucheng Chan and the contributors underscore the complexities of the Chinese immigrant experience and the ways in which its contexts changed over the sixty-one year period. The collection’s topics (and contributors) in

Author: John Gilderbloom
Publisher: Temple University Press
Keywords: housing, rental, rethinking
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1987-12-30
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 0877225389
ISBN-13: 9780877225386

In recent years, almost daily media attention has been focused on the plight of the homeless in cities across the United States. Drawing upon experiences in the U.S. and Europe, John Gilderbloom and Richard Appelbaum challenge conventional assumptions concerning the operation of housing markets and provide policy alternatives directed at the needs of low- and moderate-income families. Rethinking Rental Housing is a ground-breaking analysis that shows the value of applying a broad sociological approach to urban problems, one that takes into account the basic economic, social, and political dime

Author: Dennis Riley
Publisher: Temple University Press
Keywords: bureaucracy, federal, controlling
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 1987-02-11
List price: $53.50
ISBN-10: 0877224552
ISBN-13: 9780877224556

How do we fit bureaucracy into a democratic political system? No other question has received—or deserved—more attention from those who study public administration. While this question might receive slightly different responses, there is one common thread, the notion that bureaucrats must be subject to external controls. Who possesses the ability to influence the government from the outside? How do these people use their influence? Is their influence used to promote democratic values? Dennis Riley assesses the effect congressional committees and subcommittees have on government agencies

Author: Brian Mcdonough
Publisher: Temple University Press
Keywords: health, policy, society, talking
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 1994-09-28
List price: $48.95
ISBN-10: 1566392071
ISBN-13: 9781566392075

Does fibrocystic breast disease put you at greater risk for breast cancer? When is the best age to talk to your child about sex? Why is exercise so good at relieving stress? Should you automatically accept the doctor assigned by a hospital? Does aspirin help reduce your risk of heart disease? Should you take vitamin supplements as part of a healthy diet? As a family practitioner, Dr. Brian McDonough believes that everyone should have a general understanding of how their bodies work, what they can do to develop healthy lifestyles, when to consult a health care provider, a

Authors:Susan Tucker, Katherine Ott, Patricia Buckler,
Publisher: Temple University Press
Keywords: life, american, scrapbook
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2006-04-19
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1592134785
ISBN-13: 9781592134786

This book explores the history of scrapbook-making, its origins, uses, changing forms and purposes as well as the human agents behind the books themselves. Scrapbooks bring pleasure in both the making and consuming - and are one of the most enduring yet simultaneously changing cultural forms of the last two centuries. Despite the popularity of scrapbooks, no one has placed them within historical traditions until now. This volume considers the makers, their artefacts, and the viewers within the context of American culture. The volume’s contributors do not show the reader how to make scrap

Author: Gary Caruso
Publisher: Temple University Press
Keywords: nort, encyclopedias, baseball, encyclopedia, braves
Number of Pages: 642
Published: 1995-10-25
List price: $78.50
ISBN-10: 1566393841
ISBN-13: 9781566393843

1996 marked the 125th season of the oldest continuously operating professional sports franchise in America: the Atlanta Braves. This comprehensive reference begins with the team’s birth in 1871 as the Boston Red Stockings, and follows them to Milwaukee in 1953 and to Atlanta in 1966, playing under such a variety of names as Beaneaters, Doves, Rustlers, Braves, Bees, and back to the Braves. Because of this transient past, much of the franchise’s history has been misplaced over the years—until now. Beloved not only by their tomahawk-chopping local fans but by baseball fans everywhe

Author: Leslie Savan
Publisher: Temple University Press
Keywords: culture, moving, image, american, life, ads, sponsored
Number of Pages: 354
Published: 1994-11-09
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 1566392454
ISBN-13: 9781566392457

How does a blatant lying in TV commercials like Joe Isuzu’s manic claims create public trust in a product or a company? How does a company associated with a disaster, Exxon or Du Pont for example, restore its reputation? What is the real story behind the rendering of the now infamous Joe Camel? And what is the deeper meaning of living in an ad, ad, ad world?For a decade, journalist Leslie Savan has been exposing the techniques used by advertisers to push products and pump up corporate images. In the lively essays in this collection, Savan penetrates beneath the slick surfaces of specific