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Naming New York: Manhattan Places and How They Got Their Names9 reviews
Sanna Feirstein

NYU Press, 2001

Cool Book for New York-Philes
Ever wondered how Hell's Kitchen got it's name or why Bowling Green is called that? Well, finally there is a book that can answer these and many other place name questions. "Naming New York: Manhattan Places and How They Got Their Names" by Sanna Feirstein, and published by the respectable folks at New York University Press is a great, well organized book that discusses how most places in the ... 		  
  







  
  
Expecting Trouble: What Expectant Parents Should Know about Prenatal Care in America8 reviews
Jr., Thomas H. Strong

NYU Press, 2000

Shocking and Good
It's such a no brainer that prenatal care is really wonderful, helpful and good. Strong, second generation in the medical care of pregnant women, has a lot of reservations and a lot of data to back those reservations up. He also has some suggestions for how things could be improved: involve certified nurse midwives in prenatal care to avoid the temptation to complicate a normal pregnancy and ... 		  
  







  
  
Words of Fire: Independent Journalists who Challenge Dictators, Drug Lords, and Other Enemies of a Free Press8 reviews
Anthony Collings

NYU Press, 2001

The Heroism of Bearing Witness in the Press
At a time when print journalism has often been justly criticized in the U.S. as medium of entertainment, without independent moral backbone, Tony Collings has written a moving, brilliant record of the deadly struggle between a free press and totalitarian goverments around the globe. Collings is an experienced broadcast journalist and an eye-witness to much of the corruption and terror hidden and ... 		  
  







  
  
Liars! Cheaters! Evildoers!: Demonization and the End of Civil Debate in American Politics10 reviews
Tom De Luca, John Buell

NYU Press, 2005

Must be read by everyone who feels strongly that our politcal discourse much match our best ideals.
In "Liars! Cheaters! Evildoers!" authors Tom De Luca and John Buell admirably examine the corrosive phenomena of "demonization" in American politics and the harm it has done to our civic discourse and democratic institutions. The scope of their work is breathtaking as they trace the trajectory of "political demonology" in America from its infancy as a clash between puritan conservatism and ... 		  
  







  
  
The Balkans Since 14536 reviews
L.S. Stavrianos, Traian Stoianovich

NYU Press, 2000

Still the standard
Even though this book was first published over 40 years ago, it is still the seminal text on general Balkan history. L.S. Stavrianos provided a detailed, comprehensive yet immensely readable survey of events and developments in the Balkans since the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453. He deals with each country/region individually, but also maintains an overall perspective and analysis. ... 		  
  







  
  
Tugboats of New York: An Illustrated History14 reviews
George Matteson

NYU Press, 2007

Canal Work
The chapter on the New York State Barge (Erie) Canal is excellent. There are a few pictures of Tugs and an Oil barge locking through and a fair amount of the authors experience working the canal. This is a piece of American that has been captured by the author. I highly recommend this book for this chapter alone. I grew up on the barge canal in Fairport and I have seen the authors tug and tow ... 		  
  







  
  
American Freemasons: Three Centuries of Building Communities24 reviews
Mark A. Tabbert

NYU Press, 2005

Review from Non-Mason
I read the book cover to cover on the plane ride back to California. I must commend the author on a wonderful book. His writing style is very, very readable and smooth and makes for a great read. This book is a foundational reference that all Masons should own and read, and provides a clear concise explanation of the history of the Lodge in America that is at once a good meal for a historian ... 		  
  







  
  
Chained to the Desk (Second Edition): A Guidebook for Workaholics, Their Partners and Children, and the ...7 reviews
Bryan Robinson

NYU Press, 2007

Eye Opener about Workaholism
"Chained to the Desk" is an excellent book for both the layperson and the clinician on workaholism. It provides an informative and clearly articulated discussion of the symptoms of workaholism, the possible causes, and how to fight it. The book's discussion of the addiction's impact on spouses and partners, children, friends, and work colleagues is particularly instructive. The author also ... 		  
  







  
  
Bird-Self Accumulated8 reviews
Don Judson

NYU Press, 1996

Hard, brutal, intense, provocative
Judson's minimalist poetic prose leads the reader to a sucking black sinkhole in which we find our common selves exposed. His characters repulse, yet we recognize ourselves in them. A brilliant read. What's next from this author? 		  
  







  
  
The History of Saudi Arabia8 reviews
Alexei Vassiliev

NYU Press, 2000

The true story of Saudi Arabia
If you want one authoritative work about Saudi Arabia and its history, this is the book that you should buy and read. Vasiliev not only thoroughly documents the history of the kingdom since ancient times and through the rise of preaching radical Wahhabi Islam in 1745, he couples this puritan movement with the socioeconomic trends of the Arabian peninsula resultant of its unfriendly desert ... 		  
  







  
  
The Complete Poetry of John Milton5 reviews
John (Shawcross, ed.) Milton

NYU Press, 1963

great book, great price
I recently sat in on a faculty seminar, where we're talking Paradise Lost and what to do with it in a humanities class, and was a bit surprised to find professors from all over the humanities department--a medieval prof, one who specializes in gender studies and 20th century lit, a classicist--who all still liked and read Milton, when I always thought I was a freak for really digging him. And ... 		  
  







  
  
The Guantanamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law5 reviews
Jonathan Hafetz

NYU Press, 2009

Well worth reading
This book is an excellent collection of brief statements (a few pages each) by lawyers and others such as interpreters who have been involved in the litigation process at Guantanamo. It is not an in depth analysis, but rather a series of reflections on various aspects of the process. It helps define the problems of United States with respect to the Guantanamo Detainees and the Judicial process ... 		  
  







  
  
My Future Is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants5 reviews
Daniel Soyer

NYU Press, 2005

Immediate, poignant and fills gaps in my knowledge very nicely
The older brother of Minnie Goldstein, who wrote the first of the autobiographies that appear in the book, is my great-grandfather and what seems to have been passed down through the generations is a somewhat sanitised version of the truth ... I really had no idea about their dreadful poverty, or the fact that a contributing factor to Hershl Malinberg's emigration from Warsaw to the U.S. was ... 		  
  







  
  
Electric Dreams: Computers in American Culture5 reviews
Ted Friedman

NYU Press, 2005

How Computers Can or Have Changed Our Lives
Electric Dreams by Ted Friedman succeeds in illuminating what computers could have been and what they are in our lives. Friedman manages to inspire us to think about a better world --- more creative, more just, more fun --- aided by computers. It's a fun book to read and inspires the mind to wonder about what might have been and still could be. It should be read by any one who communicates by ... 		  
  







  
  
Sorcerers' Apprentices: 100 Years of Law Clerks at the United States Supreme Court5 reviews
Artemus Ward, David Weiden

NYU Press, 2006

The Role of Supreme Court Law Clerks
The role of Supreme Court law clerks became somewhat controversial when former clerk William Rehnquist, then in private practice, wrote a highly influential magazine article in 1957 alleging that clerks asserted undue influence over their Justices which impacted on the Court's decisions. Since then, the issue has popped up every so often, usually generating much more heat than light in ... 		  
  







  
  
The Unfinished City: New York and the Metropolitan Idea5 reviews
Thomas Bender

NYU Press, 2007

Reading New York
What most interested me in this brilliant collection is Bender's periodization of New York cultural authority. In line with other works on New York, but more cleanly and clearly articulated and supported with well chosen facts, Bender identifies three cultural authorities loosely suceeding one another after the Revolution. First, The Patrician as exemplified by De Witt Clinton as both a ... 		  
  







  
  
On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine5 reviews
Nicolas Rasmussen

NYU Press, 2009

Fascinating Look at a Drug That Changed History
This thoroughly researched and very well written book is the history of the amphetamine class of drugs that were first created in the early part of the 20th century and are still causing problems for society for today. In addition to the history of the drug, there is an allegorical story running parallel to the drug that is a detailed and scary look at practices in the pharmaceutical industry ... 		  
  







  
  
The Bobbed Haired Bandit: A True Story of Crime and Celebrity in 1920s New York6 reviews
Stephen Duncombe, Andrew Mattson

NYU Press, 2006

Awesome woman - awesome book
This book is a historically accurate, compassionate and insightful look at a fascinating couple who committed robberies in 1923-24. She was pregnant and fashionable and he was the mastermind. Together, they set both the Police Department and the population of NYC on their ears. They were fast, gutsy and a little desperate. The real story to me is one of triumph over adversity. Not only did ... 		  
  







  
  
On Foot: A History of Walking5 reviews
Joseph Amato

NYU Press, 2004

On Foot: A History of Walking
On Foot: A History of Walking is an enlightening compelling read. As the title suggests, this book describes the history of walking. Thus, as one would expect, this book looks at how human upright mobility changed the way our ancestors traveled, lived, and thought. Though well explored, this topic is only one small aspect of the myriad of topics contained in this fascinating book. The author ... 		  
  







  
  
Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle5 reviews
Richard Altick

NYU Press, 2000

Salvation for the Western World
A review of Carlyle's Past and Present written in Carlylese (he's much better at it than I am...) This book could change the whole Western world, if only men would read it, and believe it! -We could have several Utopias springing up in North American and throughout Europe within the space of five years! So here you are. In this work, Carlyle criticizes the social, economic, and political ... 		  
  







  




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