Books published by New York University Press

""Adverse Events" explores the connections between race, inequality, and the testing of new pharmaceuticals"--

A collection of essays on the complexities of the modern-day workplace. It offers insight on the realities of the workplace, and their effects on life at home and in communities. It addresses issues from disability rights to immigrant labor, welfare reforms to budget cuts, competition to personal motivations.

"Organizing While Undocumented explores immigrant youth's political activism and its legal consequences"--

A comprehensive edition and commentary of a late antique codexMathematics, Metrology, and Model Contracts is a comprehensive edition and commentary of a late antique codex. The codex contains mathematical problems, metrological tables, and model contracts. Given the nature of the contents, the format, and quality of the Greek, the editors conclude that the codex most likely belonged to a student in a school devoted to training business agents and similar professionals. The editors present here the first full scholarly edition of the text, with complete discussions of the provenance, codicology, and philology of the surviving manuscript. They also provide extensive notes and illustrations for the mathematical problems and model contracts, as well as historical commentary on what this text reveals about late antique numeracy, literacy, education, and vocational training in what we would now see as business, law, and administration.The book will be of interest to papyrologists and scholars who are interested in the history and culture of late antiquity, the history of education, literacy, the ancient economy, and the history of science and mathematics.

"Essential Legal English in Context" is a resource for foreign-trained law students to provide them with understanding of legal terminology.

With contributions by musicians, music critics, scholars and people in the music industry, this book discusses popular music and the process by which it has been mythologized by its audience, its chroniclers and its analysts.

Explores who controls money, what governs how it is handled, and its role in the modern economic system. Begins with the first major of victory of credit over cash in the 16th century, then narrates such landmarks as John Morgan establishing the primacy of finance over industry, the failure of the

Includes essays that focus on Ireland, with the first section attending to questions of nationalism and the second addressing pivotal moments in the history and historiography of the isle. This work contends that Ireland represents a striking example of the power of nationalism, which provides a case study for students of the modern world.

This multi-disciplinary anthology explores the topic of violence from a wide variety of perspectives. It looks at state violence, dealing with nationalism, warmaking and the Nazi genocide; anti-state violence with essays on the IRA; and criminal violence such as armed robbery.

The eight-decade story of a New York neighborhood In 1940, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company opened a planned community in the East Bronx, New York. A model of what the neighborhood would become was first displayed to an excited public at the 1939 World¿s Fair. Parkchester was celebrated as a ¿city within a city,¿ offering many of the attractions and comforts of suburbia, but without the transportation issues that plagued commuters who trekked into New York City every day. This new neighborhood initially constituted a desirable alternative to inner city neighborhoods for white ethnic groups with the means to leave their Depression-era homes. In this bucolic environment within Gotham, the Irish and Italian Catholics, white Protestants and Jews lived together rather harmoniously. In Parkchester, Jeffrey S. Gurock explains how and why a ¿get along¿ spirit prevailed in Parkchester and marked a turning point in ethnic relations in the city.Gurock is also attuned to, and documents fully, the egregious side to the neighborhood¿s early history. Until the late 1960s, Parkchester was off-limits to African Americans and Latinos. He is also sensitive to the processes of integration that took place once the community was opened to all and explains why transition was made without significant turmoil and violence that marked integration in other parts of the city. This eight decade history takes Parkchester¿s tale up to the present day and indicates that while the neighborhood is today predominantly African American and Latino, and home to immigrants from all over the world, the spirit of conviviality still prevails on its East Bronx streets.As a child of Parkchester himself, Gurock couples his critical expertise as leading scholar of New York City¿s history with an insider¿s insight in producing a thoughtful, nuanced understanding of ethnic and race relations in the city.

Taft gives an inside look at this groundbreaking, intergenerational social movement, showing that kids can--and should be--respected as equal partners in economic, social, and political life.ical life.

The essential guide to understanding how racism works and how racial inequality shapes black lives, this edition ultimately offers a roadmap for resistance for racial justice advocates and antiracists.

"Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC explores the racial politics of everyday life in DC."

How the United States can provide equal educational opportunity to every child The United States Supreme Court closed the courthouse door to federal litigation to narrow educational funding and opportunity gaps in schools when it ruled in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez in 1973 that the Constitution does not guarantee a right to education. Rodriguez pushed reformers back to the state courts where they have had some success in securing reforms to school funding systems through education and equal protection clauses in state constitutions, but far less success in changing the basic structure of school funding in ways that would ensure access to equitable and adequate funding for schools. Given the limitations of state school funding litigation, education reformers continue to seek new avenues to remedy inequitable disparities in educational opportunity and achievement, including recently returning to federal court. This book is the first comprehensive examination of three issues regarding a federal right to education: why federal intervention is needed to close educational opportunity and achievement gaps; the constitutional and statutory legal avenues that could be employed to guarantee a federal right to education; and, the scope of what a federal right to education should guarantee. A Federal Right to Education provides a timely and thoughtful analysis of how the United States could fulfill its unmet promise to provide equal educational opportunity and the American Dream to every child, regardless of race, class, language proficiency, or neighborhood.

Explores the surprising diversity of fathers and fatherhood throughout American history and society The nuclear family has been endlessly praised as the bedrock of American society, even though there has rarely been a time in history when a majority of Americans lived in such families. This book deconstructs the myth of the nuclear family by presenting the rich diversity of family lives in American history from the American Revolution to the twenty-first century. To tell this story, Jürgen Martschukat focuses on fathers and their relations to families and American society. Using biographical close-ups of twelve different characters, each embedded in historical context, American Fatherhood provides a much more realistic picture of how fatherhood has been performed within different kinds of families. Each protagonist covers a crucial period or event in American history, presents a different family constellation, and makes a different argument with regard to how American society is governed through the family.

""Vegas Brews" explores craft beer scene in Vegas"--

"War and Health" explores medical consequences of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi (d. 414/1023) was a prominent litterateur and philosopher inBaghdad.Abu 'Ali Miskawayh (ca. 320/932-421/1030) was a philosopher and historian born in Rayy.

""Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination" examines case studies of creative social change"--