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Cruising the Library examines the ways in which library classifications have organized sexuality and sexual perversion. The author studies the Library of Congress Subject Headings and Classification, as well as the Library of Congress's Delta Collection, a restricted collection of obscenity until 1964.

Why have American policies failed to reduce the racial inequalities still pervasive throughout the nation? Has President Barack Obama defined new political approaches to race that might spur unity and progress? Still a House Divided examines the enduring divisions of American racial politics and how these conflicts have been shaped by distinct political alliances and their competing race policies. Combining deep historical knowledge with a detailed exploration of such issues as housing, employment, criminal justice, multiracial census categories, immigration, voting in majority-minority districts, and school vouchers, Desmond King and Rogers Smith assess the significance of President Obama's election to the White House and the prospects for achieving constructive racial policies for America's future.

With Inclusion, Steven Epstein argues that strategies to achieve diversity in medical research mask deeper problems, ones that might require a different approach and different solutions. Formal concern with this issue, Epstein shows, is a fairly recent phenomenon. Until the mid-1980s, scientists often studied groups of white, middle-aged men—and assumed that conclusions drawn from studying them would apply to the rest of the population. But struggles involving advocacy groups, experts, and Congress led to reforms that forced researchers to diversify the population from which they drew for clinical research. While the prominence of these inclusive practices has offered hope to traditionally underserved groups, Epstein argues that it has drawn attention away from the tremendous inequalities in health that are rooted not in biology but in society.

Neighborhood Technologies expands upon sociologist Thomas Schelling's well-known study of segregation in major American cities, using this classic work as the basis for a new way of researching social networks across many different disciplines.

'All will delight in the extensive linguistic buffet presented in The Languages of the World' . Times Literary Supplement review of the first edition This, the Third Edition of Kenneth Katzner's best-selling guide to the world's languages, is essential reading for linguists and language students. It will also fascinate anyone interested in the origin and interrelationship of languages, in alphabets, writing systems, small ethnic groups, or linguistic minorities. It has been thoroughly revised and updated to include more languages, more countries, new extracts, and up-to-date information on populations and the numbers of people speaking each language. Features include: nearly 600 languages identified as to where they are spoken and the family to which they belong over 200 languages individually described, with sample passages and English translation fascinating insights into the history and development of individual languages and useful information about the alphabet, pronunciation, and vocabulary a listing of every country in the world, showing its principal languages and the number of speakers of each a description of each of the world's language families Written specifically for the non-specialist and avoiding technical linguistic terms, The Languages of the World is an indispensable handbook on the subject of languages, peoples, and language families. Its user-friendly style and layout, delightful original passages, and exotic scripts will now delight a new generation. Prior to his recent retirement, Kenneth Katzner worked for the US government and also served as an editor on a number of international encyclopedias and English dictionaries. He has authored a large English-Russian/Russian-English dictionary.