Temple University Press: 180 books
The Forest and the Trees
Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
New Third Edition!
If sociology could teach everyone just one thing, what would it be? The Forest and the Trees is one sociologist's response to the hypothetical-the core insight with the greatest potential to change how people see the world and themselves in relation to it.
This Third...
Across The Red Line
Stories From The Surgical Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Richard Karl, a doctor and teacher, takes the reader closer than any writer before into the corridors of the hospital, on the surgical table, and into the world of medicine. In these pages we see the tragedies and triumphs of modern medicine: the beauty of surgery done well, and the aftermath of operations...
by Stefan Timmermans
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Sudden Death and the Myth of CPR is for anyone who has taken a CPR course or who believes the images from television dramas. It is also for families of victims and survivors of CPR. It will engage emergency personnel, others in the medical field, and anyone concerned with ethical issues of death and...
Afterimage
Film, Trauma And The Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
The appearance of Alain Resnais' 1955 French documentary Night and Fog heralded the beginning of a new form of cinema, one that used the narrative techniques of modernism to provoke a new historical consciousness. Afterimage presents a theory of posttraumatic film based on the encounter between...
Rubble Films
German Cinema In Shadow Of 3Rd Reich
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
At the end of World War II, Germany was a broken nation. Split in two and occupied by the victorious Allies, it would have to be rebuilt, literally, from the rubble of its own defeat. Volumes of books have been published chronicling its structural and economic rebirth; this unique study reveals how...
Wheelchair Warrior
Gangs, Disability, and Basketball
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2008
Melvin Juette has said that becoming paralyzed in a gang-related shooting was “both the worst and best thing that happened” to him. The incident, he believes, surely spared the then sixteen year-old African American from prison and/or an early death. It transformed him in other ways, too. He attended...
The Smoke of the Gods
A Social History of Tobacco
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2006
"Fox News Watch" host Eric Burns, who chronicled the social history of alcohol in The Spirits of America turns to tobacco in The Smoke of the Gods. Ranging from ancient times to the present day, The Smoke of the Gods is a lively history of tobacco, especially in the United States. Although...
Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China
Fostering Talent
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
In the post-Maoist era, China adopted a strategy for investing in the “quality” of its people—through education and training opportunities—that created talented labor. In her significant ethnographic study, Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China, Lisa Hoffman explains why the development...
Biz Mackey, a Giant behind the Plate
The Story of the Negro League Star and Hall of Fame Catcher
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
*“The best all-around catcher in black baseball history”—*Cumberland Posey, Owner of the Homestead Grays
National Baseball Hall of Fame catcher James Raleigh “Biz” Mackey’s professional career spanned nearly three decades in the Negro Leagues and elsewhere. He distinguished himself...
Suicide Squeeze
Taylor Hooton, Rob Garibaldi, and the Fight against Teenage Steroid Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Appearance- and performance-enhancing drugs—specifically, anabolic steroids (APEDs)—provide a tempting competitive advantage for amateur baseball players. But this shortcut can exact a fatal cost on talented athletes. In his urgent book Suicide Squeeze, William Kashatus chronicles the experiences...
Just a Dog
Animal Cruelty, Self, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2006
Psychiatrists define cruelty to animals as a psychological problem or personality disorder. Legally, animal cruelty is described by a list of behaviors. In Just a Dog, Arnold Arluke argues that our current constructs of animal cruelty are decontextualized—imposed without regard to the experience...
Soccer in a Football World
The Story of America's Forgotten Game
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2009
David Beckham’s arrival in Los Angeles represents the latest attempt to jump-start soccer in the United States where, David Wangerin says, it “remains a minority sport.” With the rest of the globe so resolutely attached to the game, why is soccer still mostly dismissed by Americans?
Calling...
The Unheard Voices
Community Organizations and Service Learning
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
Service learning has become an institutionalized practice in higher education. Students are sent out to disadvantaged communities to paint, tutor, feed, and help organize communities. But while the students gain from their experiences, the contributors to The Unheard Voices ask, "Does the community?"
This...
Filling the Ark
Animal Welfare in Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
When disasters strike, people are not the only victims. Hurricane Katrina raised public attention about how disasters affect dogs, cats, and other animals considered members of the human family. In this short but powerful book, noted sociologist Leslie Irvine goes beyond Katrina to examine how disasters...