Author: Robert Wray
Publisher: Rutgers University Pre
Keywords: profit, pleasure, trees, christmas
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2009-01-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0813544173
ISBN-13: 9780813544175

Christmas Trees for Pleasure and Profit is for anyone who enjoys being and working outdoors and is seeking a profitable hobby or small business venture. Robert Wray has updated this fourth edition to include the latest techniques and tools for harvesting trees, new methods of transport, the most recent data on herbicides, and advice on how to run a Christmas-tree business today. A perennial bestseller, this illustrated guide covers selecting land, choosing species, planting, harvesting, and managing a plantation. Wray provides guidance for choosing species suitable for the grower’s situa

Author: Kavita Phili
Publisher: Rutgers University Pre
Keywords: colonial, south, india, modernity, resources, natures, race, civilizing
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2003-12-01
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0813533600
ISBN-13: 9780813533605

Kavita Philip unravels unexpected relationships between science, technology, and administrative systems in colonial India from the 1850s to the 1930s, deepening our perspective on continuing conflicts over race, resources, and empire. This is a story about the construction of nature in southern India that is deeply local and irreducibly global. Through detailed case studies, Kavita Philip shows how race and nature are fundamental to understanding colonial modernities. Through its insightful combination of methodologies from both the humanities and the social sciences, Civilizing Natures casts

Authors:Shari Benstock, Suzanne Ferri,
Publisher: Rutgers University Pre
Keywords: fashion
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1994-02-01
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0813520339
ISBN-13: 9780813520339

Until recently, fashion was considered the "F-word" in intellectual circles, dismissed as unworthy of serious attention. Yet no area of life, no individual moment, stands outside fashion’s discourses. Intuitively, we all know that clothing is a language, incessesantly communicating messages about its wearer. But who speaks this language, to whom it is addressed, what does it mean, and how are its meanings established and tranformed? On Fashion explores the ways our material, political, psychological, sexual, even intellectual lives are woven into fashion’s fabric. This stimulating

Author: Martin Bernal
Publisher: Rutgers University Pre
Keywords: linguistic, evidence, vol, civilization, classical, athena, afroasiatic, roots, black
Number of Pages: 848
Published: 2006-11-03
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0813536553
ISBN-13: 9780813536552

Could Greek philosophy be rooted in Egyptian thought? Is it possible that the Pythagorean theory was conceived on the shores of the Nile and the Euphrates rather than in ancient Greece? Could it be that much of Western civilization was formed on the "Dark Continent"? For almost two centuries, Western scholars have given little credence to the possibility of such scenarios. In Black Athena, an audacious three-volume series that strikes at the heart of today’s most heated culture wars, Martin Bernal challenges Eurocentric attitudes by calling into question two of the longest-established ex

Authors:Winkler G., M.D. Weinberg,
Publisher: Rutgers University Pre
Keywords: diseases, infectious, avoid, allowed, germs
Number of Pages: 848
Published: 2004-09-29
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0813535328
ISBN-13: 9780813535326

Praise for previous edition"A useful, well-written guide to avoiding infection."??Library Journal"An enjoyable, well-written, very clear book, which provides a great deal of information for the lay public."??Edward C. Oldfield III, M.D., F.A.C.P., professor of medicine, microbiology, and immunology; director, Division of Infectious Diseases, Eastern Virginia Medical SchoolAIDS, tuberculosis, hepatitis, chickenpox, malaria, Lyme disease, salmonella, strep throat?no matter where you go or where you live, you are at risk from infectious disease. But there are ways you can protect yourself and you

Authors:Linda Dittmar, Gene Michaud,
Publisher: Rutgers University Pre
Keywords: american, film, war, vietnam, hollywood, hanoi
Number of Pages: 418
Published: 1990-12-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0813515874
ISBN-13: 9780813515878

Examines American films dealing with the Vietnam War and era, and the power these films possess in delivering political messages.

Author: Robert W. Snyder
Publisher: Rutgers University Pre
Keywords: workers, stories, subway, bus, new, york, transit
Number of Pages: 198
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0813525772
ISBN-13: 9780813525778

This testimony to working life illuminates the stories, adventures, and wisdom of New York transit workers. More than 100 transit workers were interviewed to discover just what goes on behind the scenes of public transportation. The challenges are legion: the danger of working next to high-voltage power lines in a system that operates 24 hours a day for 7 days a week; workers risking their own lives to save others, an act that often leaves them as witnesses to pain and death. In their testimonies, workers express the importance of bonding with their colleagues for protection as well as compani