Award Winning Books: 2018

Boathouse Row

Waves of Change in the Birthplace of American Rowing

Dotty Brown

The Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia 2018 Preservation Education Award

A magisterial history of Philadelphia's iconic Boathouse Row

288 pages | 10 x 8 | 63 color photos, 3 line drawings, 110 halftones

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Consuming Catastrophe

Mass Culture in America's Decade of Disaster

Timothy Recuber

American Sociological Association's Sociology of Emotions Section award for Recent Contribution Award, 2018

Examines the media’s coverage of four American disasters, arguing that media attention directs our concern for the suffering of others toward efforts to soothe our own emotional turmoil

228 pages | 5.5 x 8.25 | 5 tables

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Contemporary Social Constructionism

Key Themes

Darin Weinberg

Melvin Pollner Prize in Ethnomethodology by the American Sociological Association's section on Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis, 2018

A critical overview of scholarship in social constructionism

214 pages | 5.5 x 8.25

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The Cost of Being a Girl

Working Teens and the Origins of the Gender Wage Gap

Yasemin Besen-Cassino

Honorable Mention from the National Women's Studies Association for the Sara A. Whaley Book Prize, 2018

Traces the origins of the gender wage gap to part-time teenage work, which sets up a dynamic that persists into adulthood

208 pages | 6 x 9 | 11 tables, 8 line drawings

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The Eternal Present of Sport

Rethinking Sport and Religion

Daniel A. Grano

2018 Outstanding Book of the Year Award, National Communication Association's Communication and Sport Division

Rethinking the changes surrounding religion and elite sport cultures

282 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 halftone

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Healing Our Divided Society

Investing in America Fifty Years after the Kerner Report

Edited by Fred Harris and Alan Curtis

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2018

Examining inequality in America fifty years after the Kerner Report

488 pages | 6 x 9 | 9 tables, 54 figures

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The Man-Not

Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood

Tommy J. Curry

The Before Columbus Foundation 2018 Winner of the Thirty-Ninth Annual AMERICAN BOOK AWARD

Introduces the conceptual foundations for Black Male Studies, going beyond gender theories that cast the Black Male as a pathological aspiring patriarch

298 pages | 6 x 9

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On the Stump

Campaign Oratory and Democracy in the United States, Britain, and Australia

Sean Scalmer

New South Wales Premier's History Award in General History, 2018

The story of how the “stump speech” was created, diffused, and helped to shape the modern democracies of the Anglo-American world

232 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 halftones

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Shaming the Constitution

The Detrimental Results of Sexual Violent Predator Legislation

Michael L. Perlin and Heather Ellis Cucolo

Heather Cucolo, recipient of the 2018 New York Law School Otto L. Walter Distinguished Writing Award

A new approach to the complex area of sex offender laws and policies

324 pages | 6 x 9

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The Struggling State

Nationalism, Mass Militarization, and the Education of Eritrea

Jennifer Riggan

Honorable Mention for the 2018 Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Award from The Comparative and International Education Society

Examining Eritrean teachers’ paradoxical role of educating students forced into the military

258 pages | 6 x 9

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