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A fresh account of the US presidential rhetoric embodied in Cold War international travel. Crowds swarm when US presidents travel abroad, though many never hear their voices. The …
A history of motivational interviewing and what its rise reveals about how cultural forms emerge and spread.Motivational interviewing (MI) is a professional practice, a behavioral …
An urgent reality check for America's blinkered fixation on STEM education.We live in an era of STEM obsession. Not only do tech companies dominate American enterprise and economic …
Explores the concept of waste from fresh historical, cultural, and geographical perspectives. Garbage is often assumed to be an inevitable part and problem of human existence. But …
The surprising story of how declining marriage rates are driving many of the country's biggest economic problems.In The Two-Parent Privilege, Melissa S. Kearney makes a …
A comparative investigation of Afro-Cuban ritual and Western science that aims to challenge the rationality of Western expert practices. Inspired by the exercises of Father …
How humans became so dependent on things and how this need has grown dangerously out of control. Over three million years ago, our ancient ancestors realized that rocks could be …
A landmark volume about the importance of housing in social life.In 1947, the president of the American Sociological Association, Louis Wirth, argued for the importance of housing …
A history of prestige television through the rise of the "e;black-market melodrama."e; In Second Lives, Michael Szalay defines a new television genre that has driven the …
How artists in the US starting in the 1960s came to use guerrilla tactics in performance and conceptual art, maneuvering policing, racism, and surveillance. As US news covered …