Mano DuraPolicing: Feeding the Cycle of Gang Violence in the Americas Space of Detention: The Making of a Transnational Gang Crisis between Los Angeles and San Salvador. By Elana Zilberg. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2011.
Working the Dead in Cuban Palo Society of the Dead: Quita Manaquita and Palo Praise in Cuba. By Todd Ram'on Ochoa. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
Your Best Professional Judgment: Review Panels at Work How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment. By Michele Lamont. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.
Stefan Muthesius. The Poetic Home: Designing the 19th-Century Domestic Interior. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2009. 352 pp.; 120 color and 276 black-and-white illustrations. $80.00.
Donald Albrecht and Thomas Mellins. The American Style. New York: Monacelli Press, 2011. 224 pp.; 120 color and 100 black-and-white illustrations, preface, notes. $50.00.
