Open Access

Rutgers University Press is dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge to scholars, students, and the general reading public. Some of our ebooks are free to the public and are available as part of our open access program. Below is a list of titles that are included in this program. Each title below has a handy link to the title’s book page where you will find more information about the book (as well as a direct link to the ebook in the book description). Below that link is a handy link to a PDF version of that book.

Ambivalent Encounters
Childhood, Tourism, and Social Change in Banaras, India
Jenny Huberman

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Aspiring in Later Life
Movements across Time, Space, and Generations

Edited by Megha Amrith, Victoria K. Sakti, Dora Sampaio

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Awesome Families
The Promise of Healing Relationships in the International Churches of Christ

Kathleen E. Jenkins

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Belonging and Becoming in a Multicultural World
Refugee Youth and the Pursuit of Identity
Laura Moran

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Children and Drug Safety
Balancing Risk and Protection in Twentieth-Century America
Cynthia A Connolly

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Children as Caregivers
The Global Fight against Tuberculosis and HIV in Zambia
Jean Hunleth

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Children as Social Butterflies
Navigating Belonging in a Diverse Swiss Kindergarten
Ursina Jaeger

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Chinese Marriages in Transition
From Patriarchy to New Familism
Xiaoling Shu, Jingjing Chen

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This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)— a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the University of California, Davis. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: openmonographs.org.

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Clinical Trials in Ovarian Cancer
Christine S. Walsh

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The Complexity of Evil
Perpetration and Genocide
Timothy Williams

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Electronic Iran
The Cultural Politics of an Online Evolution
Niki Akhavan

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Embracing Age
How Catholic Nuns Became Models of Aging Well
Anna I Corwin

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Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 

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Exhibiting Atrocity
Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence
Amy Sodaro

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Finding God in All the Black Places
Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture
Beretta E. Smith-Shomade

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Genocide as Social Practice
Reorganizing Society under the Nazis and Argentina’s Military Juntas
Daniel Feierstein

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The Insecure City
Space, Power, and Mobility in Beirut
Kristin V. Monroe

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Intoxication
An Ethnography of Effervescent Revelry
Sébastien Tutenges

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Japanese and Chinese Immigrant Activists
Organizing in American and International Communist Movements, 1919–1933
Josephine Fowler

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Life after Guns
Reciprocity and Respect among Young Men in Liberia
Abby Hardgrove

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Nursing with a Message
Public Health Demonstration Projects in New York City
Patricia D’Antonio

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The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom
Tison Pugh

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Scarlet and Black
Volume 1
Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History
Edited by Marisa J. Fuentes and Deborah Gray White

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Scarlet and Black
Volume 2
Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History
Edited by Marisa J. Fuentes and Deborah Gray White

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Scarlet and Black
Volume 3
Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History
Edited by Marisa J. Fuentes and Deborah Gray White

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Shipwrecked Identities
Navigating Race on Nicaragua’s Mosquito Coast
Edited by Baron Pineda

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Soviet-Born
The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction
Karolina Krasuska

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Thinking About Dementia
Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility
Annette Leibing and Lawrence Cohen

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Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor
Douglas Kammen

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Veins of Devotion
Blood Donation and Religious Experience in North India
Jacob Copeman

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