Northeastern University 2010 Press New and Backlist TitlesA Typology of Domestic Violence Intimate Terrorism, Violent Resistance, and Situational Couple Violence Michael P. Johnson

2010 New and Backlist Titles

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Women, Violence, and the MediaReadings in Feminist Criminology

Edited by Drew Humphries“This book offers a much needed documentation of the variety of ways that women and violence are framed in a broad range of both fictional and non-fictional media accounts. Women are analyzed as both the victims and perpetrators of violence through a gendered, raced, classed and global lens.”

—Joanne Belknap, sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder

Paper, 296 pp., 13 tables, 6 x 9" • 978-1-55553-703-6 • $24.95

Out in the StormDrug-Addicted Women Living as Shoplifters and Sex WorkersGail A. Caputo

“Gail Caputo has helped fill a major research gap and provides us with rich, new insight into one of society’s most compelling social problems. I am also deeply impressed by her methodology. Her qualitative approach is unique and it generated data that cannot possibly be uncovered by mainstream survey research. The voices of the women she interviewed need to be heard.”

—Walter DeKeseredy, professor of criminology, justice, and policy studies, University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Paper, 240 pp., 6 x 9" • 978-1-55553-696-1 • $24.95

A Typology of Domestic ViolenceIntimate Terrorism, Violent Resistance, and Situational Couple Violence

Michael P. Johnson“This excellent book brings so much to the discourse on intimate partner violence and paves the way for more nuanced, theoretically-driven research, practice, and advocacy. The book is a must read for researchers in the field, and it also can serve as an essential guide for beginning scholars and graduate students on how to be critical consumers of domestic violence research. Overall, the book makes a significant contribution

to the violence field.” —Journal of Marriage and Family

Paper, 168 pp., 6 figs., 6 x 9" • 978-1-55553-694-7 • $22.95

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Neither Angels nor DemonsWomen, Crime, and Victimization

Kathleen Ferraro“A more complete picture of intimate partner violence, helping to shed light on not only the private or the public, but also on how the two are so deeply interconnected. If you want a good analysis and discussion of the contextual, structural, and social forces that underlie domestic violence, then this book is an important one to read.”

—The Law and Politics Book Review

Paper, 344 pp., 6 x 9" • 978-1-55553-696-1 • $24.95

Listening to OliviaViolence, Poverty, and Prostitution

Jody Raphael“Raphael's accounts of women in lower levels and exploited forms of prostitution complements what researchers conducting street-level prostitution research have been saying for more than a decade. To her credit, Raphael is able to put a human face on what has been a hidden tragedy in the country and abroad. I applaud her efforts and hope that many more books and articles will be written on this subject. In order to intimately understand the tragedy of prostituted women, this book is well worth reading for anyone.”

—National Women’s Studies Association Journal

Paper, 312 pp., 6 x 9" • 978-1-55553-596-4 • $25.95

Criminal Justice Research and PracticeDiverse Voices from the Field

Edited by Susan L. MillerForeword by Claire M. Renzetti

“Susan L. Miller's edited volume is a well-written text that could be used at both the undergraduate and graduate level of instruction. The author, Susan Miller, provided a candid view of the field of criminal justice

essential to adequately prepare students for future employment . . . ”

—Teaching Sociology

Paper, 248 pp., 2 illus., 6 x 9" • 978-1-55553-685-5 • $26.00



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Anatomy of an ExecutionThe Life and Death of Douglas Christopher Thomas

Todd C. Peppers, Laura Trevvett Anderson“This is truly extraordinary work. Anatomy of an Execution combines excellent scholarship and legal analysis with a compelling and tragic life story. As such, it is accessible to lay readers and true crime buffs, as well as instructive to criminologists and lawyers. Very few if any books of this genre are its match.”

—Victor Streib, professor of law and former dean, Ohio Northern University of Law

Cloth, 288 pp., 17 illus., 6 x 9" • 978-1-55553-713-5 • $29.95

Execution’s DoorstepTrue Stories of the Innocent and Near Damned

Leslie Lytle“Journalist Lytle brings the capital punishment debate into sharp focus with her account of five men wrongly convicted and sentenced to death but later freed. The men, Lytle shows, were victims of false testimony and police coercion, among other ills of the justice system, and served up to 17 years in prison—much of it on death row. ”

— Publishers Weekly

Cloth, 300 pp., 26 illus., 6 x 9" • 978-1-55553-678-7 • $29.95

AbolitionOne Man’s Battle Against the Death PenaltyRobert BadinterTranslated by Jeremy MercerForeword by Kenneth Roth

Part legal drama, part political procedural, Abolition is above all a passionate argument against the death penalty and the rare story of politicians’ willingness to fight for their principles, even against the popular will.

Cloth, 244 pp., 6 x 9" • 978-1-55553-692-3 • $29.95


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Check It While I Wreck ItBlack Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere

Gwendolyn D. Pough

Examines how young black women who came of age during the hip-hop era are grappling with the gender politics of a predominately masculine space

“Pough has written an important and inspiring book. It is important because Pough takes hip-hop seriously and offers a framework for considering its various roles in the lives of those who hear it. It is inspiring because Pough blends the best of both academic and popular writing in a book that not only points out problems but also offers answers and ways of seeing (and hearing) that push past simple denouncements and move toward understanding and depth

. . . Check It While I Wreck It is a must read for anyone who hopes to assist young black women as they traverse the rocky terrain from youth to adulthood.” —Women & Music

Paper, 256 pp., 8 illus., 6 x 9" • 978-1-55553-607-7 • $22.95

Women and Sports in the United StatesA Documentary ReaderEdited by Jean O’Reilly and Susan K. Cahn

The only anthology available documenting 100 years of women in American sports

“O’Reilly and Cahn have compiled an extrordinary historical anthology of women’s sports in the U.S. Their inclusion of original documents from each era and careful selection of knowledgeable writers make this book an absorbing and authoritative read for anyone interested in women’s journey toward sports equality.”

—Pat Griffin, professor emerita, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Paper, 406 pp., 6 x 9"• 978-1-55553-671-8 • $27.00

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At the Dusk of DawnSelected Poetry and Prose of Albery Allson Whitman

Albery Allson Whitman; Edited by Ivy G. Wilson“In addition to offering an expert introduction to Whitman’s life and work, Wilson also presents a compelling case for attending to the aesthetic conflicts and aspirations so central to a neglected period in African American literary, cultural, and political history.”

—John Ernest, Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of American Literature, West Virginia University

Cloth, 368 pp., 6¹/8 x 9¼" • 978-1-55553-707-4 • $55.00

Love and Marriage in Early African AmericaEdited by Frances Smith Foster

“The volume’s breadth provides ample evidence that African Americans imagined and discussed love, marriage, and family in a variety of genres and mediums. The texts that address power relations between men and women are especially fascinating . . . . Foster’s project is a moving testament to the importance of historical recovery.”

—Legacy

“Unique and unprecedented, this anthology will change the way readers and critics understand courtship, marriage, and family in African American literature and culture. The range, both historical and emotional, of the

selections in this volume is extraordinarily revealing. Based on decades of research by a leading scholar, Love and Marriage in Early African America will open our minds and hearts in ways that will engage general and professional readers alike. —William L. Andrews, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Paper, 360 pp., 6 x 9" • 978-1-55553-677-0 • $27.95

Alien LandWillard SavoyIntroduction by Robert Burns Stepto

Action-packed and absorbing, a grim but sensitive picture of race and identity in AmericaRobert Burns Stepto’s keen introduction firmly situates Alien Land in the line of African American novels that treat the issue of identity through the motif of passing. Originally published in cloth in 1949 to national acclaim, the full text of this remarkable novel is finally available in paperback.

Paper, 336 pp., 1 illus., 5½ x 8" • 978-1-55553-657-2 • $19.95


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Trumbull ParkFrank London Brown

"How, in the end, determination and decency seem about to triumph, is the theme of this story, unfolded in terms of characters terribly alive and real." —Langston Hughes, New York Herald Tribune Book Review

“Brown has probed the psychology of people under fire . . . The real drama in this novel is not found in what white people tried to do to their Negro neighbors; it comes from the self-restraining heroism in the Negroes.”

—R. L. Duffus, New York Times Book Review

Paper, 456 pp., 5½ x 8¼" • 978-1-55553-628-2 • $19.95

Home To HarlemClaude McKayForeword by Wayne F. CooperA novel that gives voice to the alienation and frustration of urban blacks during an era when Harlem was in vogue

With sensual, often brutal accuracy, Claude McKay traces the parallel paths of two very different young men struggling to find their way through the suspicion and prejudice of American society. At the same time, this stark but moving story touches on the central themes of the Harlem Renaissance, including the urgent need for unity and identity among blacks.

Paper, 360 pp., 5 x 8" • 978-1-55553-024-2 • $19.95

OreoFran RossForeword by Harryette MullenThis uproariously funny satire about relations between African Americans and Jews is as fresh and outrageous today as when it was first published in 1974

“Fran Ross has a witty way with words-Yiddish, black dialect, puns-and she strews them exuberantly throughout her episodic story, along with lists, tables, drawings, equations, menus (‘Gefüllte Melonen’) and Q-and-A exams.”

—Publishers Weekly

Paper, 224 pp., 6 figs., 6 x 9" • 978-1-55553-464-6 • $22.95




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La NilssonMy Life in OperaBirgit NilssonTranslated by Doris Jung Popper,

Foreword by Georg Solti; Afterword by Peggy Tuller

“This is an engaging book. We come to know this formidable but warm-hearted woman so well that on next playing a record of hers we are sure to be ‘on her side’ as never before . . . it may not be reading for the objective professional critic, but it can be highly recommended to everyone else.”

—John Stearne, Gramophone

Cloth, 356 pp., 56 illus., disc, 6 x 9" • 978-1-55553-707-4 • $35.00

Hans HotterMemoirsHans HotterTranslated by Donald Arthur Foreword by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Zubin Mehta

“ . . . [J]ust the kind of thing we want to find in a singer’s autobiography . . .These are the memoirs, and the memories are vivid.”

—Gramophone

Cloth, 324 pp.,75 illus., 6 x 9" • 978-1-55553-661-9 • $35.00

The Autumn of Italian OperaFrom Verismo to Modernism, 1890-1915

Alan Mallach“The most valuable aspect of this book is the way Mallach brings to life a group of once-popular composers who—Puccini excepted—have been consigned to the fringes of today’s repertory.”

—Opera News

“This carefully researched and well-organized study sheds light on a critical transition period in the history of Italian opera.” —Mary Jane Phillips-Matz, author of Puccini: A Biography (NUP, 2002)

Cloth, 508 pp., 35 illus., 3 tables, 6 x 9" • 978-1-55553-683-1 • $55.00

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Jon VickersA Hero’s LifeJeannie WilliamsForeword by Birgit Nilsson

The first biography of a legendary tenor

“. . . Jon Vickers: A Hero's Life paints a fascinating, comprehensive, and colorful picture of a spellbinding and irreplaceable artist.” —The Opera Quarterly

Paper, 424 pp., 31 illus., 6 x 9¼" • 978-1-55553-674-9 • $29.95

55 Years In Five ActsMy Life in Opera

Astrid Varnay and Donald ArthurOne of the world’s greatest Wagnerian sopranos talks about an illustrious career that flourished for over five decades

“Varnay had less of an American career than Nilsson, and Varnay’s relation-ship with Metropolitan Opera director Rudolf Bing was often less than cordial. Both singers were strong-willed, but Varnay comes off as the tougher, more intense of the two.” —American Record Guide

Paper, 392 pp., 23 illus., 6 x 9¼" • 978-1-55553-675-6 • $29.95

On Playing the FluteJohann Joachim QuantzTranslated by Edward R. Reilly

Second editionOriginally published in 1752, this is a new paperback edition of the classic treatise on 18th-century musical thought, performance practice, and style

Johann Joachim Quantz’s On Playing the Flute has long been recognized as one of the most significant and in-depth treatises on eighteenth-century musical thought, performance practice, and style. This classic text of Ba-roque music instruction goes far beyond an introduction to flute methods by offering a comprehensive program of studies that is equally applicable to other instruments and singers.

Paper, 423 pp., 4 illus., 6 x 9" • 978-1-55553-473-8 • $33.00


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No Vivaldi in the GarageA Requiem for Classical Music in North AmericaSheldon MorgensternA memoir of a lifetime in the performing arts—and a forthright commentary on the rapidly deteriorating state of the performing arts in North America

“Whether or not you agree with his words, Sheldon Morgenstern offers an entertaining view of his professional experience in classical music. He is not afraid to offer his provocative, seldom-heard perspective on the music world today.”

—Wynton Marsalis

Paper, 208 pp., 6 x 9¼" • 978-1-55553-641-1 • $22.95

The Rise and Fall of the Broadway MusicalMark GrantA highly original, incisive, and spirited examination of the rise, heyday, and decline of American musical theatre

“In scholarly yet readable prose, studded with revealing examples, Grant treats changes in singing, lyrics, music, and dance, and the introduction of microphones and sound enhancement. Grant’s documentation demonstrates a find command of the literature, and he furnishes an excellent bibliography. Essential.”

—Choice

Paper, 380 pp., 23 illus., 6¹/8 x 9¼" • 978-1-55553-206-2 • $25.95

The Sounds of PlaceMusic and the American Cultural LandscapeDenise Von GlahnLooks at the ways in which America’s places have inspired American composers from the nation’s beginnings to the present

“The Sounds of Place teaches us extraordinary new things about pieces that we thought we knew (or perhaps thought we knew all that was important to know about them). The chapter on Ives above all is a must-read for anyone with a serious interest in this composer. For these and for many other reasons, The Sounds of Place is an enlightening and enriching book.”

—Journal of Musicological Research

Paper, 376 pp., 6 illus., 6 x 9¼" • 978-1-55553-709-8 • $45.00


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Boston’s Back BayThe Story of America’s Greatest Nineteenth-Century Landfill Project

William Newman, Wilfred E. HoltonA fascinating look at the people, politics, and technology behind the massive landfill project that filled Boston’s Back Bay

Paper, 252 pp., 71 illus., 6 x 9" • 978-1-55553-680-0 • $19.95

Hot Shots and Heavy HitsTales of an Undercover Drug Agent

Paul Doyle“[A] great read. The story is full of cinematic action, but is also filled with the heart and soul that most action movies can't come close to capturing on celluloid. And for a guy who never thought of himself as a writer, Doyle has a style that is clear and concise—and as honestly lyrical—as Hemingway’s best prose.” —The Boston Irish Emigrant

Paper, 240 pp., 6 x 9" • 978-1-55553-649-7 • $22.95

The Olmsted National Historic Site and the Growth of Historic Landscape PreservationDavid Grayson Allen

“Allen’s conclusions are insightful, and the appendices, notes, bibliography, and index testify to the depth of the research and attention given to the book. Allen’s style is accessible and engaging, ensuring that this well-written book will have a place among the canon of historic preservation philosophy as a valuable, in-depth look . . . ” —Preservation Education and Research

Cloth, 332 pp., 38 illus., 6 x 9" • 978-1-55553-679-4 • $50.00

When in BostonA Time Line & Almanac

Jim Vrabel, Bostonian SocietyForeword by Thomas H. O’Connor

A long overdue, single-volume chronicle of Boston over the centuries provides a unique descriptive history of the city organized as a time line

Paper, 320 pp., 75 illus., 6 x 9" • 978-1-55553-620-6 • $29.95


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Return to Peyton PlaceGrace MetaliousIntroduction by Ardis Cameron

The continuing story of Peyton Place is once again available in paperback

This sizzling sequel picks up where Peyton Place left off: Allison MacKenzie, now the author of America’s #1 bestseller, is thrown into the glamorous whirl of the smart set of New York and Hollywood. At home, the rest of the most controversial characters in 1950s American fiction continue to create a stir in this ongoing exposé of sex, hypocrisy, social inequity, and class privilege in contemporary America.

Paper, 272 pp., 5V x 8V" • 978-1-55553-669-5 • $15.95

Peyton PlaceGrace MetaliousIntroduction by Ardis Cameron

A new paperback edition of the infamous novel that shocked the nation

“[A] rip-roaring good yarn. If the term ‘page turner’ has any complimentary meaning, it applies here . . . [Grace] Metalious has lasted as a force in American life.”

—Washington Times

Paper, 384 pp., 5V x 8V" • 978-1-55553-400-4 • $17.95

Russians in Hollywood, Hollywood’s RussiansBiography of an ImageHarlow Robinson

“Robinson fell in love with Russia watching ‘Doctor Zhivago’ at the little theater in Elmwood, Conn., in 1965. For him, Russia would be forever after associated with ‘waltzes, wars, gigantic hydroelectric dams, endless train trips, ice palaces, flowering Siberian fields and humorless revolutionaries equipped with dramatic facial scars.’ Affectionately and in great detail, Robinson describes the careers of several Russian filmmakers, as well as Hollywood’s changing portrayal of Russians, in all their poorly accented, grossly caricatured glory. . . ”

—New York Times Book Review

Cloth, 304 pp., 28 illus., 6 x 9" • 978-1-55553-686-2 • $29.95

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The First World Series and the Baseball Fanatics of 1903Roger I. Abrams

“A fascinating portrait of an era when baseball fever first gripped the U.S. and the World Series became an American obsession . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice

Paper, 208 pp., 19 b&w illus., 5¾ x 8½" 978-1-55553-644-2 • $16.95

Boston’s Ballparks and ArenasAlan E. Foulds

“Foulds looks at the grounds and edifices, past and present, whose histories make up a crucial part of the stories of the Boston teams who tenanted them . . . In addition to a wealth of local and sports history, the book is supplied with terrific photographs.”

—Boston Globe

Cloth, 244 pp., 62 illus., 6³/8 x 9½" • 978-1-58465-409-4 • $18.95

Dynasty’s EndBill Russell and the 1968-69 World Champion Boston Celtics

Thomas J. Whalen“A complete portrait of one of the great success stories in team sports . . . compelling portraits of both the players and the era that brim with colorful detail.”

—Sports Illustrated

“[Whalen] scores big in his examination of the pride, determination, and mutual respect that propelled these nearly middle-age men to one more title.” —Booklist

Paper, 304 pp., 24 illus., 55/8 x 9" • 978-1-55553-643-5 • $19.95


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African Americans in Global AffairsContemporary PerspectivesEdited by Michael L. ClemonsCloth, 384 pp., 6¹/8 x 9¼"

978-1-55553-719-7 • $85.00

Lotfi MansouriAn Operatic JourneyLotfi Mansouri with Donald ArthurCloth, 320 pp., 40 illus., 6 x 9"

978-1-55553-706-7 • $39.95

Nest of ThistlesAnnie Boutelle

“Line by line, her ‘articulate relishing and mastery of phenomena in general’ make a corporeal and tangible world out of the strata of yesterdays . . .”

—From the introduction by Eric Pankey

Paper, 96 pp.,6 x 8¼" • 978-1-55553-648-0 • $14.95

Tulips, Water, AshLisa Gluskin Stonestreet

“Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet’s poems move with a wonderfully alive, actively thinking attentiveness. Her language is eager and inquisitive, darting this way and that toward meaning, opening our eyes and ears, our minds, to continual change—personal, communal and cosmic. Keenly aware of the potential ‘heat in the flint, light in the twig,’ she shows us how to see the very flux of life.”

—Reginald Gibbons, author of Creatures of a Day

Paper, 88 pp., 6 x 8W" • 978-1-55553-708-1 • $16.95

A Form of OptimismRoy JacobsteinIntroduction by Lucia Perillo

“ . . . He shows himself capable of some truly fresh and vivid writing.”

—New York Times Book Review

Paper, 80 pp., 6 x 9" • 978-1-55553-665-7 • $15.95

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Hard Lives, Mean StreetsViolence in the Lives of Homeless WomenJana L. Jasinski, Jennifer K. Wesely, James D. Wright, and Elizabeth E. WrightPaper, 256 pp., 6 x 9"

978-1-55553-721-0 • $24.95

Sviatoslav RichterPianistKarl Aage RasmussenPaper, 312 pp., 44 illus.,

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978-1-55553-710-4 • $39.95

Women on Probation and ParoleA Feminist Critique of Community Programs and ServicesMerry MorashPaper, 208 pp., 6 x 9"

978-1-55553-720-3 • $24.95

SchumannThe Inner Voices of a Musical Genius (Expanded Edition)Peter Ostwald and Lise Deschamps Ostwald

Paper, 416 pp., 6 x 9"

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Northeastern University 2010 Press New and Backlist TitlesA Typology of Domestic Violence Intimate Terrorism, Violent Resistance, and Situational Couple Violence Michael P. Johnson