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Do You Really Need Surgery: A Sensible Guide to Hysterectomy and Other Procedures for Women8 reviews
Michele C., M.D. Moore, Caroline M., M.D. De Costa

Rutgers University Press, 2004

Explains what to expect and how to make the recovery easier
In Do You Really Need Surgery?: A Sensible Guide To Hysterectomy And Other Procedures For Women, Michele Moore (a family physician specializing in women's health) and Caroline de Costa (a gynecologist and obstetrician, and a mother of seven who has herself undergone a hysterectomy) combine their more than fifty years of experience to provide accurate and clear information to the reader about the ... 		  
  







  
  
Newark's Little Italy: The Vanished First Ward7 reviews
Michael Immerso

Rutgers University Press, 1997

A keepsake of Italian culture in New Jersey
I thank Michael Immerso for putting this book together. He puts together a history of the Italian-American culture that flourished in Newark. This culture that was so strong that despite the fact that the First Ward is vanished (as the title points out), its legacy still lingers in New Jersey (anyone remember 'Nicky Newark'?) For fans of this book, there was an New Jersey Network documentary ... 		  
  







  
  
The Greatest Ballpark Ever: Ebbets Field And The Story Of The Brooklyn Dodgers9 reviews
Bob McGee

Rutgers University Press, 2005

Brooklyn As It Once Was-The Greatest Place to Grow Up
What differentiated this book from the countless others witten about the Brooklyn Dodgers was the author's attention to small detail. Now being from Brooklyn myself I appreciated this. The references to Steeplechase and the clown with paddles, Jim McElroy bring the Torre brothers to games at Ebbets field, the old Washington Park, Jack Kaiser, etc. For the average baseball fan outside of ... 		  
  







  
  
The Newark Teacher Strikes: Hopes on the Line7 reviews
Steve Golin

Rutgers University Press, 2002

Great Book!
The Newark Teacher Strike was an exhilarating book and it actually made me feel the emotions that the teachers were going through. It astonished me to see that over 200 people were imprisoned due to this strike; although after reading further other actions were more astounding. This book should be read by every teacher and soon-to-be teacher to truly understand the command these ... 		  
  







  
  
Incantations and Other Stories9 reviews
Anjana Appachana

Rutgers University Press, 1992

Speaks To My Hearts
There are not enough words to express the excellence of this book. I have read many books by Indian authors, but not one of them has depicted life as vidvidly and honestly as this author. Her stories speak of the lives of the common person, the hypocracies, the trajedies, the compromises made just to continue living. She even gets the dialect right when portraying different characters and ... 		  
  







  
  
Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey6 reviews
Henry Charlton Beck

Rutgers University Press, 1983

A classic on the local history of southern NJ
Henry Charton Beck spent much of his spare time in the 1930s traipsing around the rural areas of New Jersey searching out local history and lore. He wrote about what he learned in newspaper articles and then in full-length books. This book is the first in a series, published in 1936 (always in print since then, but never revised). Beck is concerned with the tiny settlements that grew and died ... 		  
  







  
  
The Last Days of St. Pierre: The Volcanic Disaster That Claimed 30,000 Lives15 reviews

Rutgers University Press, 2002

A comparative review of two (very good) books about the same event
This review is unusual in that it compares two books that were published nearly at the same time and both deal with the same event: the devastating 1902 eruption of Montagne Pelée volcano on the Caribbean island of Martinique. The first of these books is Alwyn Scarth's "LA Catastrophe: The Eruption of Mount Pelée, the Worst Volcanic Disaster of the 20th Century", the second is Ernest ... 		  
  







  
  
The New American Ghetto12 reviews
Camilo Jose Vergara

Rutgers University Press, 1997

A moving pictorial of America's abandoned cities
Vergara looks at some major American industrial cities that suffered some horrible disinvestment after World War II. He takes an honest look at the people and buildings in some of America's poorest cities (Camden, Newark, Detroit) and how ugly, cheap, security-conscious and modernistic buildings to serve the ghetto's poor residents have replaced fantastic movie palaces, upscale housing and fading ... 		  
  







  
  
Bagpipe Brothers: The Fdny Band's True Story of Tragedy, Mourning, and Recovery8 reviews

Rutgers University Press, 2004

A profound and powerful tribute
Bagpipe Brothers: The FDNY Band's True Story Of Tragedy, Mourning, And Recovery is the true story New York City's Emerald Society Bagpipe Band, who used their instruments to mourn in the and show their respect at the funerals for the victims of the 9/11 attacks, including the 343 firefighters who died and those who were unearthed from the rubble at ground zero. The band itself lost one of its own ... 		  
  







  
  
Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany11 reviews
Nathan Stoltzfus

Rutgers University Press, 2001

A MUST MUST READ
Resistance of the Heart : Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany by Nathan Stoltzfus is a well written book about the unsuccessful attempt by the Nazi's to exterminate Jews who married Germans of the Christian faith. The fact that the attempt was unsuccessful and that the overwhelming majority of the intermarried Jews were never sent to the death camps and survived the war ... 		  
  







  
  
The Emergence of Life on Earth: A Historical and Scientific Overview5 reviews
Iris Fry

Rutgers University Press, 2000

Not spontaneously generated
From the ancient Greek philosophers through Enlightenment science to today's high-tech world, how life originated has been a compelling question. Fry presents the thinkers and their ideas about this enigma with penetrating skill. Her recapitulation of the philosophical questions set in their historical perspective demonstrates the persistence of many concepts regarding life's history. ... 		  
  







  
  
The Invisible Plague: The Rise of Mental Illness from 1750 to the Present5 reviews
E. Fuller Torrey, Judy Miller

Rutgers University Press, 2007

The Insanity Plague!
_The Invisible Plague_ is written by psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey and examines the issue of the increase in worldwide cases of insanity since the eighteenth century. The book is at once both a scientific study which attempts to explain certain statistical data from different parts of the world, including Europe, the United States, and Canada, as well as a history of the mental asylum. Torrey ... 		  
  







  
  
The Second Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics6 reviews
Robert P. Crease, Charles C. Mann

Rutgers University Press, 1996

The best popular science book yet written
This book has proved beyond any reasonable doubt that the telling of the story of 20th century fundamental physics is a task that should not be entrusted to physicists. No, it appears a journalist and a philosopher are not only able to bring the story to life in a way that almost all physics text books fail to do, but at the same time to never lose sight of the important scientific issues. I ... 		  
  







  
  
A Guide to Bird Finding in New Jersey5 reviews
William J., Jr. Boyle

Rutgers University Press, 2002

Absolutely indispensable for birding in New Jersey
Despite its small size and large population, New Jersey is one of the prime locations in North America for spotting birds. First, it holds a strategic position along the Atlantic flyway, which insures that a wide variety of migrating species pass through in both the spring and fall. Second, it has a wide variety of habitats within rather short distances of each other: seacoast, salt marshes, ... 		  
  







  
  
The study of Fugue5 reviews
Alfred Mann

Rutgers University Press, 1958

Unique!
It's not very simple to find books about musical forms and composition. This is an excelent title. The text is very rich and complete and it's possible for the reader to do your own fugues. Of course is not for begginers, it's necessary that you have a good knowledge in music, including counterpoint. Counterpoint is aborded, of course, but if you'd never seen the subject, the read may be a little ... 		  
  







  
  
Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories6 reviews
Hisaye Yamamoto

Rutgers University Press, 1998

Stories of Asian-American life
"Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories," by Hisaye Yamamoto, was first published in 1988. The revised and expanded edition adds 4 more stories, for a total of 19. Yamamoto was born in 1921 in California to parents who were immigrants from Japan, and hers is one of the most remarkable voices in 20th century United States literature. These stories originally were written or published between 1942 ... 		  
  







  
  
Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube, and the Future of American Politics6 reviews
Morley Winograd, Michael D. Hais

Rutgers University Press, 2008

Must Read
It is impossible to understand the race for the presidency and the phenomenal rise of Barack Obama without understanding the new generation of voters which has been drawn to him in numbers and in ways scarcely anyone had anticipated, and some, especially those in the Clinton campaign, still can not believe. In their remarkable new book, Millenial Makeover, Winograd and Hais tell us more about ... 		  
  







  
  
The Lamplighter (American Women Writers)5 reviews
Maria S. Cummins, Nina Baym

Rutgers University Press, 1988

Moving, well written, beautiful period piece.
This book was a surprise. As my mother told me often of a book her mother read to her as a child and longed to have a copy of this book, I used a search company to locate this book. Having found this on the Amazon search I have ordered copies for all my aunts as well as my daughter and nieces. My mother was a very poor child and their books were extremely limited, the last book her mother read ... 		  
  







  
  
Einstein Simplified: Cartoons on Science5 reviews
Sidney Harris

Rutgers University Press, 1989

good laughs
This one's hard to write a review on -- you kinda have to see the cartoons yourself, and you'll either laugh or you won't. My bet is if you're even considering buying the book, you'll laugh at 'em. And you'll find at least a few worth passing around or pasting on your office door. They cover the gamut of science and engineering topics. 		  
  







  
  
New Jersey: The Natural State (Nature Photography)5 reviews

Rutgers University Press, 2000

We should feel grateful...
that a person like Mr. Hiscano is out there documenting the last few wild places in New Jersey. He's a modern day Thoreau using the lens instead of pen and paper to capture something more than just pretty images. Instead of producing just another coffee-table paperweight, Mr. Hiscano's startling photographs display the few remaining natural treasures of this State and seem to ask the viewer ... 		  
  







  




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