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  • Tales of Times Square

    Expanded Edition

    by Josh Alan Friedman ...
    “Friedman has drawn a vivid picture of the Times Square area and its denizens. He writes about the porn palaces with live sex shows, and the men and women who perform in them, prostitutes and their pimps, the runaways who will likely be the next decade's prostitutes, the clergymen who fight the smut merchants and the cops who feel impotent in the face of the judiciary.”—Publishers WeeklyThis ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Taking Stock

    Cultures of Enumeration in Contemporary Jewish Life

    by Josh Friedman, Carol A. Kidron, Oren Stier, Yael Zerubavel, Mitchell B. Hart, Anat Leibler, Vanessa L. Ochs ...
    Series series The Modern Jewish Experience
    Taking Stock is a collection of lively, original essays that explore the cultures of enumeration that permeate contemporary and modern Jewish life. Speaking to the profound cultural investment in quantified forms of knowledge and representation—whether discussing the Holocaust or counting the numbers of Israeli and American Jews—these essays reveal a social life of Jewish numbers. As they trace ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Now Dig This

    The Unspeakable Writings of Terry Southern, 1950–1995

    by Terry Southern ...
    An unforgettable chronicle of an era by one of America's wildest—and most brilliant—comedic and literary mindsEdited by Nile Southern and Josh Alan FriedmanStarting with his landing at the Battle of the Bulge, Terry Southern showed a knack for winding up in the world's most interesting places. He spent the fifties on the Left Bank of Paris, the sixties in mod London, and the seventies touring with ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • All Roads Lead to Great Neck

    by Josh Alan Friedman ...
    JOSH ALAN FRIEDMAN, the inimitable voice behind BLACK CRACKER, TELL THE TRUTH UNTIL THEY BLEED, and TALES OF TIMES SQUARE, now invites you to tune in, turn on, and drop in on his latest trip: A kaleidoscopic tour of Great Neck, Long Island, at the dawn of a new decade: 1970.This is ALL ROADS LEAD TO GREAT NECK, where you'll witness stoned student freakouts during high school productions of THE ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Tell the Truth Until They Bleed

    by Josh Alan Friedman ...
    "Josh Alan Friedman has chops like a wolf. The French had a phrase for his tropism for the seedy, the gutter, the outcasts: nostalgie de la boue. This book deserves wide attention." --Jerry Wexler, co-founder of Atlantic Records "A can't-put-it-down rock 'n' roll read ... a must for any fan of good music writing and great storytelling." --William Michael Smith, Houston Press "He dances off the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Black Cracker

    by Josh Alan Friedman ...
    South School, 1962: The last segregated school in New York. Their teacher moonlights on "Lawrence Welk," the lady principal wears boxing gloves, and the student body is all-Negro . . . except for first grader Josh Friedman. He's white, but he's working on it. The acclaimed author of TELL THE TRUTH UNTIL THEY BLEED and TALES OF TIMES SQUARE returns with a one-of-a-kind autobiographical novel - "a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Health and Health Care as Social Problems

    by Elizabeth M. Armstrong, Michael Betz, Robert S. Broadhead, Diana Dull, Stephen L. Fielding, Samuel R. Friedman, Josh Gamson, Herb Haines, Karl Hufbauer, Michael P. Johnson, Maren Klawiter, Frances B. McCrea, Carol Klaperman Morrow, Lenahan O'Connell, Stephen J. Pfhol, Deborah Potter, Ernest Quimby, C Amanda Rittenhouse, Joseph W. Schneider, Steven P. Wallace, Candace West ...
    Series series Understanding Social Problems: An SSSP Presidential Series
    This engaging and accessible reader takes a social problems approach to health and medicine, providing a broad and critical lens on contemporary health problems. Designed for courses on social problems and on medical sociology, the volume embraces two fundamental principles: that health and illness are at least partly socially produced, and that health care is not an unfettered good and often ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • Fatal Invention

    How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century

    by Dorothy Roberts ...
    An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes inequality in a supposedly "post-racial" era.Though the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a ... Read more

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  • The Cigarette Century

    The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America

    by Allan M. Brandt ...
    The invention of mass marketing led to cigarettes being emblazoned in advertising and film, deeply tied to modern notions of glamour and sex appeal. It is hard to find a photo of Humphrey Bogart or Lauren Bacall without a cigarette. No product has been so heavily promoted or has become so deeply entrenched in American consciousness. And no product has received such sustained scientific scrutiny. ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Bioethics

    Edited by Helga Kuhse, Peter Singer ...
    Series series Wiley Companions to Philosophy
    This second edition of A Companion to Bioethics, fully revised and updated to reflect the current issues and developments in the field, covers all the material that the reader needs to thoroughly grasp the ideas and debates involved in bioethics.Thematically organized around an unparalleled range of issues, including discussion of the moral status of embryos and fetuses, new genetics, life and ... Read more

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  • Introduction to Bioethics, An: Fourth Edition - Revised and Updated

    by Thomas A. Shannon & Nicholas J. Kockler ...
    This book provides an introductory survey of various bioethical issues facing society from beginning of life issues to end of life issues, and several issues in between. ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Life Itself

    Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century

    by Nikolas Rose ...
    Series series In-Formation
    For centuries, medicine aimed to treat abnormalities. But today normality itself is open to medical modification. Equipped with a new molecular understanding of bodies and minds, and new techniques for manipulating basic life processes at the level of molecules, cells, and genes, medicine now seeks to manage human vital processes. The Politics of Life Itself offers a much-needed examination of ... Read more

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