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He demonstrates a significant point of contact between two writers generally thought to be antagonists-the idea that imperial speech structures reveal the self.

Drawing from archival records, patient files, and oral histories, Stern presents the fascinating story of the growth of genetic counseling practices, principles, and professionals.

President Jimmy Carter, this edition features a new foreword by Lachlan Forrow, president of The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship.

Schmitter, Amartya Sen, Alfred Stepan, Palle Svensson, Nicolas van de Walle, Lucan A. Way

case is a unique reference point for students of American political development and comparative democratization.

Roessler, Andreas Schedler, Jan Teorell, Nicolas van de Walle, Sharon L. Wolchik

In rich detail Cassidy places this personal story of public disgrace within the larger narrative of the rise of science in America.

A fascinating look into Koch's personality and his experimental work in medical bacteriology, Laboratory Disease reveals both the biographical and the historical roots of our modern understanding of infectious diseases.

So, and Lu Zhang.

The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals is a highly readable and informative guide to the people whose names are immortalized in mammal nomenclature.

It will be essential in setting research agendas and policy discussions for a broad range of scholars and practitioners.

The volume editors conclude with an assessment of the current state of realism and suggest ways for the debate to progress.

politics, and national security policy.

On balance we may think of Paine as a secular preacher for the rule of reason.

All historians of mathematics and students of the field will want a copy of this remarkable resource on their bookshelves.

Chiozza clearly demonstrates that what is reported as undisputed fact-that various groups abhor American values-is in reality a complex story.

The Row House Reborn will interest architectural and urban historians, as well as general readers curious about New York City architecture and neighborhood development.

The book addresses basic issues in the history of labor and industry and makes an original contribution to the discussion of how technology and people interact.

A resource for students and scholars alike, this volume provides information about Spark's oeuvre while featuring current, theoretically informed interpretations of individual texts.

Art collecting in America's Gilded Age was fraught with uncertainty and dubious business practices. In no other partnership is this more evident than that of Henry Walters, and Bernard Berenson, the era's preeminent connoisseur of Italian Renaissance painting. This title tells the story of this close yet contentious relationship.

He addresses the importance of the event in the national crisis and shows why such actions are not quite as alien to today's politics as they might at first seem.

The Neural Sublime features an array of cognitive and neuroscientific approaches, providing an engaging and readable introduction to the emergent field of cognitive literary studies.

In providing empirical comparisons of access to care in these three health systems, the authors refute inaccurate claims about health care outside of the United States.

This comprehensive guide works at the nexus of the humanities and health professions to provide the intellectual rationale, history, and a substantive overview of humanistic gerontology as it has emerged in the United States and Europe.

Comic Book Nation is at once a serious study of popular culture and an entertaining look at an enduring American art form.

In their dependence on late-Victorian models, the cultural narratives of 1990s America imply a crisis of "storylessnessdeeply implicated in the sense of injury that haunts the close of the twentieth century.

These officers, he explains, were operating within a command structure unwilling to grant them the autonomy necessary to effect significant reform, which proved disastrous for the army and-ultimately-the empire.

The Fiction of Narrative traces the arc and evolution of White's field-defining thought and will become standard reading for students and scholars of historiography, the theory of history, and literary studies.

Financing Higher Education Worldwide combines sophisticated economic explanations with sensitive political and cultural analyses of the financial pressures facing higher education throughout the world.

Physics of the Human Body will help curious high school students, undergraduates with medical aspirations, and practicing medical professionals understand more about the underlying physics principles of the human body.