Salamon: 32 books
The Life and Death of Latisha King
A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
What can the killing of a transgender teen teach us about the violence of misreading gender identity as sexual identity?
The Life and Death of Latisha King examines a single incident, the shooting of 15-year-old Latisha King by 14-year-old Brandon McInerney in their junior high school classroom...
Assuming a Body
Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
We believe we know our bodies intimately-that their material reality is certain and that this certainty leads to an epistemological truth about sex, gender, and identity. By exploring and giving equal weight to transgendered subjectivities, however, Gayle Salamon upends these certainties. Considering...
Singlewide
Chasing the American Dream in a Rural Trailer Park
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
In Singlewide, Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish explore the role of the trailer park as a source of affordable housing. America’s trailer parks, most in rural places, shelter an estimated 12 million people, and the authors show how these parks serve as a private solution to a pressing public...
The Resilient Sector Revisited
The New Challenge to Nonprofit America
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Nonprofit America is one of the least understood segments of national life, yet also one of the most crucial.
Author Lester Salamon, who pioneered the empirical study of the nonprofit sector in the United States, provides a wealth of new data to paint a compelling picture of a set of institutions...
Wendy and the Lost Boys
The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
The authorized biography of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein.
In Wendy and the Lost Boys bestselling author Julie Salamon explores the life of playwright Wendy Wasserstein's most expertly crafted character: herself. The first woman playwright to win a Tony Award, Wendy Wasserstein...
Hospital
Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God, and Diversity on Steroids
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God, and Diversity on Steroids
A warts-and-all exploration of the struggles suffered and triumphs achieved by America's health-care professionals, Hospital follows a year in the life of Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn,...
by Stephen Andrew Salamon
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Weeds Of The Oak Tree is a beautiful collection of prose, essays and poetry that may build through the years. Through the eyes of the writer, it’s bits and pieces of life stemming from the past 16 years.Author, Stephen Andrew Salamon, wrote and assembled this book for a glimpse behind a writer’s...
Israel in the Making
Stickers, Stitches, and Other Critical Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
The brilliant kaleidoscope of everyday creativity in Israel is thrown into relief in this study, which teases out the abiding national tensions and contradictions at work in the expressive acts of ordinary people. Hagar Salamon examines creativity in Israel’s public sphere through the lively discourse...
Il progetto Philanthropication thru Privatization
Come creare patrimoni filantropici per il bene comune
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Con la diminuzione delle risorse e delle possibilità di spesa dei governi e con l’aumento dei problemi di degrado sociale e ambientale, è sempre più urgente indirizzare nuove risorse per contrastare le sfide che minacciano il pianeta. Una soluzione promettente è l’utilizzo di tutti o parte dei...
Explaining Civil Society Development
A Social Origins Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The civil society sector—made up of millions of nonprofit organizations, associations, charitable institutions, and the volunteers and resources they mobilize—has long been the invisible subcontinent on the landscape of contemporary society. For the past twenty years, however, scholars under the...
by Lester M Salamon
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Today, America's nonprofit organizations seem caught in a force field, buffeted by four impulses-voluntarism, professionalism, civic activism, and commercialism. Too little attention, however, has been paid to the significant tensions among these impulses. Understanding this force field and the factors...
by Wendy Brown, Robyn Wiegman, Gayle Salamon
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2008
At many universities, women’s studies programs have achieved department status, establishing tenure-track appointments, graduate programs, and consistent course enrollments. Yet, as Joan Wallach Scott notes in her introduction to this collection, in the wake of its institutional successes, women’s...
by Elsa Abbena, Simon Salamon, Alfred Gray
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Presenting theory while using Mathematica in a complementary way, Modern Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces with Mathematica, the third edition of Alfred Gray’s famous textbook, covers how to define and compute standard geometric functions using Mathematica for constructing new curves...
Abuse in the Jewish Community
Religious and Communal Factors that Undermine the Apprehension of Offenders and the Treatment of Victims
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In this guide, psychologist Michael Salamon offers definitions of abuse and describes signs that should indicate to parents, teachers, and school officials that abuse might be occurring. Basic information about available methods of treatment is provided and the unique cultural conditions in the Orthodox Jewish community that make prevention and treatment so difficult is discussed.