Books published by Rutgers University Press

Stephanie Li argues that American politicians and writers are using a new kind of language to speak about race. Challenging the notion that we have moved into a """"post-racial"""" era, she suggests that we are in an uneasy moment where American public discourse demands that race be seen, but not heard.

Oklahoma has long held the dubious honor of having the highest female incarceration rate in the US, nearly twice the national average. In this compelling new book, sociologist Susan Sharp sets out to discover just what has gone so wrong in the state of Oklahoma-and what that might tell us about trends in female incarceration.

Examines the theme of children in major religions of the world. This volume addresses a range of topics, from the sanctity of birth to a child's relationship to evil, showing that issues regarding children are central to understanding world religions and raising significant questions about our own conceptions of children.

Aristotle's Physics is one of the least studied ""great books""--physics has come to mean something entirely different than Aristotle's inquiry into nature, and stereotyped Medieval interpretations have buried the original text. Sach's translation is really the only one that I know of that attempts to take the reader back to the text itself.