Books published by Temple University Press,U.S.

Features a biography of the Hall of Famer who pitched no-hitters against the sluggers of both leagues, took on sportswriters and baseball leaders, and started a second career as a politician. With an assist from his wife, Mary, the mother of their nine children, he waged an unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign, and became a six-term congressman.

Argues that the fragmentation and instability are more likely to occur only when the differences are ignored and nonethnic strategies are employed. This title illustrates this claim by focusing on one group of Puerto Ricans and how they mobilized to demand accountability from political leaders in Hartford, Connecticut.

Americans have been raised with the mantra that we can grow up to be anything we want to be, achieve anything we can imagine. How many of us believe the message? This work does more than outline this problem of American selfishness; it proposes a solution that is nothing less than a massive reconception of the way we relate to one another.

The Delaware River is the last major free-flowing river in the eastern United States. Drawing on their angling experience, the authors range through the 14,000 square miles of the Delaware River watershed. Besides giving directions to their favorite spots, they also mention nearby tackle shops, historical and scenic attractions, and more.

Presents accounts of drug addicts on the streets of New York, and demonstrates how addicts are structurally vulnerable to the larger sociocultural system within which they live. This book describes the economic, political, and ideological forces that shape the nature of street-addict life.

Presents a photo essay of four families and their process of coping with Alzheimer's Disease, a process of coming to terms with the practical and emotional consequences of a disease that changes the entire family dynamic.

Presents the story of the New York Yankees, captured in more than 450 photographs and entertaining anecdotes about your favorite players. This work provides statistics and game highlights through the 1996 season and World Championship, hitting streaks, ERA's, box scores, trades, and American League championship and World Series rosters.

Presents the history from 1960 of how policies allegedly designed to promote the welfare of the urban poor have been half-hearted. This book shows how little the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the War on Poverty provided for the urban poor, and demonstrates the weakness of job-training programs devised at the federal level.

Presents the story of Bill Conlin, anchored one of America's best sports sections. This book reveals Conlin's playfulness with language and ideas led to creative nicknames - like "The Jowly Grim Giant" for Georgetown basketball coach John Thompson - and to entire stories based on outrageous premises.

Gathers together eleven plays that speak in the "hybridized American voices of Asian descent - and often dissent." This title brings forth vibrant work that challenges producers and audiences to broaden their expectations, to attend to the unfamiliar voices that express the universal and particular vision of Asian-American playwrights.

Wallace Shawn usually appears in our mind's eye as the consummate eccentric actor: the shy literature teacher in Clueless, the diabolically rational villain in "The Princess Bride", or as the eponymous protagonist of Vanya on 42nd Street. This title offers a personal look into the life and literary work of this man.

Traces the history of workers' theater from its grassroots origins to the Federal Theater Project of the WPA under Roosevelt and into unions' recreational programs. This book shows that the significance of workers' theater lies not only in the plays produced but also in the audiences' experience.

Women who grow up in poor families begin childbearing at a younger age than nonpoor women, attain less education, work less, earn less, are dependent on federal aid, have less support from a husband, have more children, and spend more time as single mothers. This book reveals the relationship between Black teenage mothers and the welfare system.

By chronicling the everyday experiences of women in a rural Head Start program, this book examines the processes of underprivileged women working to make a better life for themselves and their families. It explains that in order to empower its participants, the Head Start program allows many women to work as aides or on advisory boards.

Journeys to the Maya Lowlands of Chiapas on a quest for the author's Indio heritage and a vision of the multicultured identity emerging in America. This book attempts to shed the trappings and privileges of his life in California in order to reduce his distance from the dispersed and shrinking Mayan population.

This study explains the theory, research methodology, research results in the area of attachment, and discusses both health and pathological development in infancy, childhood, adolescence and adulthood. Personality, relationships and marriage are some of the issues assessed in attachment patterns.

Provides detailed descriptions of all of the old professional parks and the many teams that played in them, including Baker Bowl, with its right field wall so close to home plate, it prompted sportswriter Red Smith to quip, "It might be exaggerating to say the outfield wall casts a shadow across the infield.

Offers a study of the role of Puerto Rican women workers in the evolution of a transnational labor force in the twentieth century. This book examines Puerto Rican women workers, both in Puerto Rico and on the US mainland. It contains a range of information - historical, ethnographic, and statistical.

Depicting a stage of Salvadoran history that began in 1979, this book offers analysis of the transformation of El Salvador during the 1980's under the impact of revolution and counterinsurgency. It traces the historical roots of the Salvadoran insurgency.

Whether temp life is a preferred choice or grudgingly accepted as the last option when 'real' or permanent work is unavailable, all temps must confront issues of gender, identity, and self-esteem. This book examines these issues, documenting the concerns and interpretations of temp workers about their own work lives.

Law reform struggles have always been a part of the grassroots lesbian and gay agenda. This work examines the politics of these engagements, of lesbians, gay men, and the law in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. It combines fresh conceptual insights with a concern for the practicalities of political engagements.

Most history books paint Philadelphia as a place of revolutionary greatness, but there exists a forgotten, alternative history of the City of Brotherly Love. For example, did you know that when Ben Franklin was Deputy Postmaster General for the American colonies, he ignored rival printers' requests for mailing priveleges.

Uncovers the innovations in writing that accompanied the market society - the penny newspapers' grandiose boastings, the poetic catalogues of Walt Whitman, the sentimental realism of charity workers, the sensationalism of slum visitors, and the complex urban encounters of Herman Melville's fiction.

As new jails fill up almost as soon as they open, conflict continues to grow among public officials, who, in turn, create policies that do little more than avoid blame and temporarily control the crisis. This book proposes that we can understand this crisis by tracing the interdependence of the jail system with local agencies of criminal justice.

The American Association of University Women (AAUW) is one of the nation's oldest and most influential voices for equality in education, the professions, and public life. Tracing the history of the AAUW, this title provides a perspective on the meaning of feminism for women in mainstream liberal organizations.

Filipino Americans are the second largest group of Asian Americans as well as the second largest immigrant group in the United States. This collection reflects on their lives, which represent the diversity of the immigrant experience and their narratives are a way to understand ethnic identity and Filipino American history.