American Studies

An Evolving Racial Identity: A Social and Cultural History of Latinos in the United States

Author: 

Hernandez, Ana, Ph.D.

Credentials: 

Drexel University

In this groundbreaking study, Ana Hernandez offers an in-depth analysis of the social and cultural influences in the Latino community and its effect on the development of Latino racial identity from clinical and therapeutic perspectives. Her book addresses what it means to be a “Latino” in the United States, including the origins of the term and its use to describe individuals from Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.

Market: 
Sociology, Latino Studies, Latinx Studies, Ethnicity Studies, Identity Studies, Minority Studies, Therapy, Psychology
Release Date: 
June 15, 2019
ISBN: 
978-1680534924: Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
127
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Washington, DC 20036
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Secrets of Cinema: 100 Movies That Are Not What They Seem

Author: 

Kieckhefer, Daniel

Credentials: 

Professor of Film Studies, Triton College

Book CoverNinety-nine years ago, a new form of storytelling emerged from the ruins of World War I. Different in scope and power from theater or literature, and unlike any film that had come before, Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari addressed a direct challenge to its audience, demanding to be viewed as something other than what was immediately presented. Unfortunately, criticism has not risen to the challenge.

Market: 
Film Studies, American Studies, Art History, Film Criticism, Cultural Studies, Motion Pictures, Performance, Directing
Release Date: 
March 15, 2019
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680534900
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
633
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Inequality in American Education: The Entrenchment of a Two-Tiered System

Author: 

Martinez, Jose, Ph.D.

Credentials: 

Professor of Sociology (ret.), University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

Recent and ongoing issues at all levels of American education are at the forefront of public discussion and political debate. Explored by seasoned sociologist and education researcher Jose Martinez, the issues involved include segregation, tracking, discipline, charter schools, various types of higher education, online education, and faculty matters, among others.

Market: 
American Studies, Education, Primary Education, Secondary Education, K-12 Education, Higher Education, Sociology, Economics, Race & Ethnicity, Social Policy, Minority Studies, Identity Studies
Release Date: 
January 15, 2019
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680534832
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Artificial Intelligence: A Dependent Legal Person – An Evolutionary Step for the United States Patent Law (W.B. Sheridan Law Books)

Author: 

Bac, Jo - University of Aberdeen, School of Law

Credentials: 

Author of "Is Bad-Faith the New Willful Blindness?: The Company Director’s Duty of Good Faith"

Jo Bac’s groundbreaking legal study asks why and how the United States legal system should grant legal personhood to artificial intelligence (AI). This new legal status of AI is visualized as a dependent person. The AI dependent legal person would be determined by an inextricable connection between AI and a new type of corporate body, introduced here as “AI-Human Amalgamation” (AI-HA).

Market: 
Law, Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI), International Law, American Studies, Legal Tradition, Legal Personhood, Patent Law, Law and Science, Political Science, Public Policy, Human Rights
Release Date: 
December 15, 2018
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680534788
Price: 
249.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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America’s First Spy: The Tragic Heroism of Frank Wisner (Paperback)

Author: 

Maior, George Cristian

Credentials: 

Ambassador of Romania to the United States

In this exciting book, distinguished Romanian diplomat and scholar George Cristian Maior - currently serving as Romania’s ambassador in Washington - recounts the thrilling tale of America’s first spy drama – the legendary Frank Wisner’s intelligence operations in Romania as World War II ended and the Cold War dawned. An Office of Strategic Services operative who later rose to become the Central Intelligence Agency’s operations chief before his tragic suicide, Wisner’s mission bestrode two worlds and witnessed profound changes that global politics have grappled with ever since.

Market: 
World History, European History, East European History, Romania, Romanian History, Balkan History, Balkan Studies, World War II, Cold War, Communism, Espionage, CIA, OSS, Frank Wisner
Release Date: 
October 15, 2018
ISBN: 
Paperback: 978-1680530803
Price: 
$26.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
265
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Secrets and Suspense: International Law Stories (Paperback Edition) (W.B. Sheridan Law Books)

Author: 

Kaplan, Jay, Chairman, National Museum of the Jewish People

Credentials: 

Founder and Longtime Senior Partner, Kaplan, Russin, and Vecchi

This uncanny volume is the memoir of Jay Kaplan, an extraordinary American lawyer with a unique ability intuitively to understand and respond positively to the needs of his clients regardless of ethnicity or religion. How else could he represent India and Pakistan, as well as Iran and Israel, all at the same time, while maintaining ideal personal and professional relations with each side? The author, at the beginning of this career, was virtually adopted by the wealthy Persian ("Parsi") business community of India and Pakistan, one of the few Zoroastrian societies still in existence.

Market: 
Law, International Law, American Studies, Jewish Studies, Legal Tradition, Law and Science, Law and Religion, International Relations, Political Science, Public Policy, World History
Release Date: 
October 1, 2018
ISBN: 
Paperback: 978-1680534689
Price: 
$25.00
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
273
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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America’s First Spy: The Tragic Heroism of Frank Wisner

Author: 

Maior, George Cristian

Credentials: 

Ambassador of Romania to the United States

In this exciting book, distinguished Romanian diplomat and scholar George Cristian Maior - currently serving as Romania’s ambassador in Washington - recounts the thrilling tale of America’s first spy drama – the legendary Frank Wisner’s intelligence operations in Romania as World War II ended and the Cold War dawned.

Market: 
World History, European History, East European History, Romania, Romanian History, Balkan History, Balkan Studies, World War II, Cold War, Communism, Espionage, CIA, OSS, Frank Wisner
Release Date: 
September 1, 2018
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530728
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
265
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Between Palette and Pen: Images of Venice in the Work of F. Hopkinson Smith

Author: 

De Marchi, Agnese, Ph.D., Ca' Foscari University, Venice

Credentials: 

Department of Humanities, University of Trieste; Ph.D., Ca' Foscari University, Venice

This book explores images of Venice in the written and visual art of the multitalented American writer, painter, lecturer, and engineer Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838-1915). A successful artist and intrepid traveler, F. Hopkinson Smith spent every summer in Venice for almost twenty years: his stays in the Italian city resulted in a large output of watercolors and writings, including his popular travelogue Venice of To-Day(1895), which featured over 200 illustrations by Smith himself.

Market: 
American Studies, American Art, Art History, American History, Cultural Studies, Travel Literature, Italy, Italian Studies, Venice, Venetian Art History, Fin-de-Siècle Culture, F. Hopkinson Smith, American Painting
Release Date: 
December 15, 2017
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530537
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
252
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Prisoners of War or Unlawful Combatants?: Guantanamo Bay and International Law (St. James's Studies in World Affairs)

Author: 

Jeche, Valerie, Department of International Relations, University of Zimbabwe

In this penetrating study, Zimbabwe international relations scholar Valerie Jeche questions the legality of the detentions at Guantanamo Bay. She emphasizes that Guantanamo is a legal detention camp and evaluates the rights that its detainees have under international humanitarian and human rights law. This study tested the hypothesis that the detentions at Guantanamo represent a violation of international law. Jeche conducted interviews with selected officials from the US and Cuban embassy as well as academics and those from the Red Cross and Amnesty
International.

Market: 
International Relations, International Law, American Studies, Security Studies, Human Rights Law, Human Rights Studies, Terrorism Studies, Constitutional Law, Middle East Studies, Cuba, Latin American Studies, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bush Administration, Obama Administration
Release Date: 
July 15, 2018
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530698
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6 X 9
Pages: 
99
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Language Matters: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Language and Nationalism in Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico

Author: 

Clampitt-Dunlap, Sharon, Ed.D.

Credentials: 

Professor, Inter-American University of Puerto Rico

Taking a sociolinguistics-in-action approach, Language Matters explores the language situations in Guam, the Philippines and Puerto Rico, three geographic areas that experienced the effect of linguistic imperialism in a historically similar timeframe and manner, but with very different results. English has all but replaced the native language of Guam, plays a significant role in the multilingual society of the Philippines, but is barely existent in the daily lives of Puerto Ricans, who are mostly monolingual Spanish speakers. Language Matters is the first book to explain why this is.

Market: 
American Studies, Linguistics, Nationalism, Nationalism Studies, Colonialism, Post-Colonial Studies, Latin American Studies, Pacific Studies, Identity Studies, Pacific Studies, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines
Release Date: 
July 1, 2018
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530681
Price: 
129.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
164
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036
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