Book Reviews : Union Women: Forging Feminism in the United Steelworkers of America. By Mary Margaret Fonow. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. 250 pp. $59.95 hardback, $19.95 paper. Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case that Changed Sexual Harassment Law. By Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler. New York, NY: Doubleday, 2002. 390pp. $27.50 hardback

2004 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 103-105
Author(s):  
Bill Barry
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Class Action ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Sexual Harassment Law

Book Reviews

Projections ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-135
Author(s):  
Jeffrey M. Zacks ◽  
Trevor Ponech ◽  
Jane Stadler ◽  
Malcolm Turvey
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Oxford University Press

Gallese, Vittorio, and Michele Guerra. The Empathic Screen: Cinema and Neuroscience. Trans. Frances Anderson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, 272 pp., $45.00, ISBN: 9780198793533.Rawls, Christina, Diana Neiva, and Steven S. Gouveia, eds. Philosophy and Film: Bridging Divides. New York: Routledge, 2019, 389 pp., $160 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-138-35169-1.Moss-Wellington, Wyatt. Narrative Humanism: Kindness and Complexity in Fiction and Film. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019, 256 pp., $29.95 (paperback), ISBN: 9781474454322.Perez, Gilberto. The Eloquent Screen. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019, 448 pp., $29.95, ISBN: 978-0-8166-4133-8.

Book Reviews

2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-182
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Urban Economy ◽  
Urban Community ◽  
New Haven ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Yale University ◽  
University Of Chicago Press

New Money, Nice Town: How Capital Works in the New Urban Economy, by Leonard Nevarez. New York: Routledge, 2003. National Performances: The Politics of Class, Race, and Space in Puerto Rican Chicago, by Ana Y. Ramos‐Zayas. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2003. x + 245 pages. Maps, illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 0‐226‐70359‐2 (paper). Remaking New York: Primitive Globalization and the Politics of Urban Community, by William Sites. University of Minnesota Press, 2003. 260 pp. City: Urbanism and Its End, by Douglas W. Rae. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. xix + 516 pp. ISBN 0‐300‐09577‐5.

Book Reviews

2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-94 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Future Perspectives ◽  
Brookings Institution ◽  
Temple University ◽  
City Space ◽  
Census 2000 ◽  
The City

The Urban Revolution, by Henri Lefebvre, translated by Robert Bononno with a Forward by Neil Smith. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. Metromarxism: A Marxist Tale of the City, by Andy Merrifield. New York: Routledge, 2002. The Promise of the City: Space, Identity and Politics in Contemporary Social Thought, by Kian Tajbakhsh. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001. Organizing Access to Capital: Advocacy and the Democratization of Financial Institutions, by Gregory Squires (ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press Redefining Urban and Suburban America: Evidence from Census 2000, by Bruce Katz and Robert E. Lang (eds.). Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2003. Understanding the City, Contemporary and Future Perspectives, by John Eade and Christopher Mele (eds.). Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2002.

Book Reviews

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 152-180
Author(s):  
Tair Karazi-Presler ◽  
Moti Gigi ◽  
Luis Roniger ◽  
Yossi Harpaz ◽  
Oded Adomi Leshem ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Women Soldiers ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Tel Aviv ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Peace Research ◽  
New Strategy ◽  
New Feature ◽  
Israel Studies

Edna Lomsky-Feder and Orna Sasson-Levy, Women Soldiers and Citizenship in Israel: Gendered Encounters with the State (New York: Routledge, 2017), 178 pp. Hardback, $149.95.Aviva Halamish, Kibbutz: Utopia and Politics. The Life and Times of Meir Yaari, 1897–1987 (Brighton, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2017), 496 pp. Hardback, $119. Paperback, $45.Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Julius H. Schoeps, Yitzhak Sternberg, and Olaf Glöckner, eds., Handbook of Israel: Major Debates (Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2016), 1,304 pp. Hardback, $165.00. Paperback, $81.00.Uri Ram, Israeli Sociology: Text in Context (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), 174 pp. e-Book: $54.99.Herbert C. Kelman, Transforming the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: From Mutual Negation to Reconciliation (London: Routledge, 2018), 248 pp. Hardback, $112.00. eBook, $27.48.Charles D. Freilich, Israeli National Security: A New Strategy for an Era of Change (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018), 496 pp. Hardback, $39.95. Kindle, $14.57.David Rosenberg, Israel’s Technology Economy: Origins and Impact (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), 275 pp. Hardback, $84.95. eBook, $64.95.Lee Perlman, But Abu Ibrahim, We’re Family! (Tel Aviv: Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, 2017), 198 pp. Paperback, $20.00. Shapiro Prize WinnersThis new feature of ISR will present the report of the committee choosing the recipient of the Yonathan Shapiro Prize for the best book in Israel Studies, to be awarded at the annual meeting of the Association for Israel Studies. In 2018, there was a tie, and two books received the prize. The committee members were Raphael Cohen-Almagor, Mikhal Dekel, Tamar Hermann, Sam Lehman-Wilzig, and Ruvi Ziegler.Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Seizing Jerusalem: The Architecture of Unilateral Unification (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017), 376 pp. Hardback, $160.00. Paperback, $39.95.Kimmy Caplan, Amram Blau [in Hebrew] (Jerusalem: Yad Ben Zvi and the Ben-Gurion Institute, 2017), 588 pp. Paperback, NIS116.

Book Reviews

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-136
Author(s):  
Pierre Du Plessis ◽  
Sanal Mohan
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Plant Biodiversity ◽  
University Of Minnesota

John Hartigan Jr., Care of the Species: Races of Corn and the Science of Plant Biodiversity. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 376, 2017.Luisa Steur, Indigenist Mobilization: Confronting Electoral Communism and Precarious Livelihoods in Post-Reform Kerala. New York: Berghahn, pp. 302, 2017.

Book Reviews

Transfers ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Stoffers ◽  
Blake Morris ◽  
Alan Meyer ◽  
Younes Saramifar ◽  
Andrew Cobbing ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Underground Railroad ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
History Of ◽  
Highway Planning

Bruce D. Epperson, Bicycles in American Highway Planning: The Critical Years of Policy-Making 1969–1991 (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2014), 248 pp., $45Carlton Reid, Roads Were Not Built for Cars: How Cyclists Were the First to Push for Good Roads & Became the Pioneers of Motoring (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2015), 360 pp., $30Karen O’Rourke, Walking and Mapping: Artists as Cartographers (London: MIT Press, 2016), 328 pp., £22.95Jason Weems, Barnstorming the Prairies: How Aerial Vision Shaped the Midwest (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015), 368 pp., 116 b&w photos, 16 color plates, $122.50 (hardback), $35 (paperback)Christopher Schaberg and Mark Yakich, eds., Airplane Reading (Alresford, UK: Zero Books, 2016), 213 pp., $22.95 (paperback)Catherine L. Phipps, Empires on the Waterfront: Japan’s Ports and Power, 1858–1899 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015), 308 pp., 6 maps, 3 tables, $39.95James Longhurst, Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015), 294 pp., $34.95David N. Lucsko, Junkyards, Gearheads, and Rust: Salvaging the Automotive Past (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), 283 + xii pp., 10 illustrations, $44.95Steven E. Alford and Suzanne Ferris, An Alternative History of Bicycles and Motorcycles: Two-Wheeled Transportation and Material Culture (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016), 189 pp., $80Harald Fischer-Tiné, Pidgin-Knowledge: Wissen und Kolonialismus (Zurich and Berlin: Diaphanes, 2013), 104 pp., €10Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad (New York: Doubleday, 2016), 320 pp., $26.95

Book Reviews

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-296
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Allen ◽  
Evinc Dogan ◽  
Anna Hjalm ◽  
Ibrahim Sirkeci ◽  
Bradley Saunders
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Migration Studies ◽  
Ashgate Publishing

Helen Vella Bonavita (ed.), Negotiating Identities: Constructed Selves and Oth-ers, Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2011, 217 pp., (ISBN: 978-90-420-3400-6) (pa-per).Theodoros Iosifides, Qualitative Methods in Migration Studies, A Critical Real-ist Perspective, Oxford: Ashgate Publishing, 2011, 278 pp., (ISBN13: 978-1-4094-0222-0), (paper).Puschmann, Paul, Casablanca. A Demographic Miracle on Moroccan Soil?, Leuven: Acco Academic, 2011, 170 pp., (ISBN13: 9789033480683), (paper).Myna German and Padmini Banerjee (eds.), Migration, Technology, and Transculturation: a Global Perspective, St Charles, MO, USA: Lindenwood University Press, 2011, 288 pp., (ISBN13: 978-0984630745), (paper).  Reza Hasmath, The Ethnic Penalty: Immigration, Education and the Labour Market, Burlington, VT and Surrey, UK: Ashgate (2012) 130pp. (ISBN 978-1-4094-0211-4).   

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