Education & Social Sciences

The Adjunct Underclass

How America’s Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission

Herb Childress

“A heartbreaking indictment of American higher education.” —Wall Street Journal

“The Adjunct Underclass is a competent guide to academia, deconstructing and unpacking confusing jargon, interrogating the problems of faculty contingency, and urging us to center values that will guide us toward fairer treatment of faculty. The book drives the conversation about the exploitation of academic labor forward in a meaningful and accessible way.”—Science

2019 208 p. 6 x 9 1 halftone, 23 tables 453 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-49666-5 $24.00

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American Academic Cultures

A History of Higher Education

Paul H. Mattingly

“[Mattingly’s] history extends beyond developments at individual institutions to examine the wider intellectual, political, and social milieu that shaped academic cultures at various times in U.S. history. . . . A comprehensive analysis of the academic cultures that shaped American higher education from the colonial period to the present.” —Journal of American History

2017 464 p. 6 x 9 2 tables 454 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-50526-8 $35.00

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The Chicago Handbook of University Technology Transfer and Academic Entrepreneurship

Edited by Albert N. Link, Donald S. Siegel, and Mike Wright

“This is an important, timely volume—the definitive resource for research university leaders and staff, whose institutions are stepping up and pushing academic entrepreneurship to ever greater heights in service of our citizenry.”—Nancy L. Zimpher, chancellor, The State University of New York

How Family Matters for College Women’s Success

Laura T. Hamilton

“Parenting beyond the age of eighteen matters more than ever because how parents approach their children’s undergraduate years shapes the life chances of young adults, and can set them on markedly different trajectories. But what this study also reveals is the extent to which universities depend, in part, on the availability of parental support and labour to ensure that students successfully complete their degrees.” —Times Higher Education

2016 224 p. 6 x 9 1 figure, 10 tables 456 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-18336-7 $25.00

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The Testing Charade

Pretending to Make Schools Better

Daniel Koretz

“Combining the latest data and moving stories of people caught up in the accountability frenzy, Koretz demonstrates that high-stakes testing has corrupted instruction, led educators to cut corners and even cheat, and produced sham increases in scores, while yielding precious little in the way of real improvements in student learning.”—John Merrow, author of Addicted to Reform

2017 288 p. 6 x 9 9 halftones, 4 line drawings, 1 table 457 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-40871-2 $25.00

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We

Reviving Social Hope

Ronald Aronson

“By pointing out again and again that hope and social progress reside in collective action, Aronson calls on us to leave our lonely planets of hyper-individualism behind to join others in common struggles for a better world. Because only when we become active in concert with others, a sense of we and hope can materialize.”—Tikkun

2017 208 p. 6 x 9 458 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-33466-0 $25.00

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Obsession

A History

Lennard J. Davis

“From romantic obsessions to artistic obsessions to the neural underpinnings of obsessive-compulsive disorder, no aspect of the word or concept is left unexplored. Davis does not neglect the important question of why we medicate clinically obsessive people, yet laud those who are obsessed by their music, art, sports or other vocational calling. Beautifully written and impeccably—perhaps obsessively— researched: important reading for anyone interested in inescapable fascinations.”—Kirkus

Italian America at Its African American Edge

John Gennari

“In this thought-provoking, academic, yet often lively study, Gennari explores the intersections between African-American and Italian-American culture. . . . Whether he’s discussing the relationship between Italian-American basketball coaches and Black players or the importance of food to both cultures, Gennari shows that despite tensions between them, Black and Italian-Americans have much in common and understand one another better than many outsiders realize.”—Publishers Weekly

2017 296 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones 460 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-42832-1 $30.00

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Get Out of My Room!

A History of Teen Bedrooms in America

Jason Reid

“A concise and well-researched history of the rooms in which kids carry out the hideous process of becoming grown-ups.” —Wall Street Journal

2016 320 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones 461 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-40921-4 $45.00

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The American Game

Capitalism, Decolonization, World Domination, and Baseball

John D. Kelly

As John D. Kelly explains in this thought-provoking read, the American approach to global relations is best understood as a competition—one in which the United States, through the reshaping of economic theory and the global economy itself, imposes its own rules on a game played to win. Kelly cleverly uses the quintessential American game of baseball to show how the United States maintains and advances its dominance over other nations.

Distributed for Prickly Paradigm Press

2006 115 p. 41/2 x 7 462 Paper ISBN: 978-0-9761475-5-8 $12.95

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Becoming a Marihuana User

Howard S. Becker

“A Beckerian analysis of a social ‘world’ asks how, in any culture or subculture, someone comes to be called an insider while someone else gets pushed outside. Simple as it is, this approach has proved immensely influential in the study of everything from drug addiction to queer theory. . . . The influence of Becker’s early work remains profound.”—New Yorker