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Between Reason and History

Habermas and the Idea of Progress

By: David S. Owen

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Between Reason and History

Habermas and the Idea of Progress

By: David S. Owen

Between Reason and History examines the role of the idea of progress both in Ju¬rgen Habermas's critical social theory and in critical social theory in general. The reception to Habermas's magnum opus, The Theory of Communicative Action, has tended to downplay the theory of social evolution it contains, but there are no in-depth examinations of this aspect of Habermas's critical theory. This book fills this gap by providing a comprehensive and detailed examination of Habermas's theory of social evolution, its significance within the wider scope of his critical social theory, and the importance of a theoretical understanding of history for any adequate critical social theory.

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State University of New York Press

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0791488470

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Beneath the American Renaissance

The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville

By: David S. Reynolds

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Beneath the American Renaissance

The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville

By: David S. Reynolds

The award-winning Beneath the American Renaissance is a classic work on American literature. It immeasurably broadens our knowledge of our most important literary period, as first identified by F.O. Matthiessen's American Renaissance. With its combination of sharp critical insight, engaging observation, and narrative drive, it represents the kind of masterful cultural history for which David Reynolds is known. Here the major works of Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Dickinson receive striking, original readings set against the rich backdrop of contemporary popular writing. Now back in print, the volume includes a new foreword by historian Sean Wilentz that reveals the book's impact and influence. A magisterial work of criticism and cultural history, Beneath the American Renaissance will fascinate anyone interested in the genesis of America's most significant literary epoch and the iconic figures who defined it.

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0199782849

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9780199782840

The International Handbook of School Effectiveness Research

By: David Reynolds,Charles Teddlie

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The International Handbook of School Effectiveness Research

By: David Reynolds,Charles Teddlie

What constitutes quality schooling? What are the implications for educational practice and administration? The text looks at these questions and examines international research evidence and reform initiatives with particular emphasis on North America, UK, Australasia and the Third World. It offers a synopsis of the Third World School Effects Research (SER). The authors claim that the challenges now facing educational leaders is to find a balance between SER and the other school movements and to ask more demanding questions of our educational systems.

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Routledge

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1135715270

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Walt Whitman's America

A Cultural Biography

By: David S. Reynolds

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Walt Whitman's America

A Cultural Biography

By: David S. Reynolds

Winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Ambassador Book Award and Finalist for the National for the Book Critics Circle Award In his poetry Walt Whitman set out to encompass all of America and in so doing heal its deepening divisions. This magisterial biography demonstrates the epic scale of his achievement, as well as the dreams and anxieties that impelled it, for it places the poet securely within the political and cultural context of his age. Combing through the full range of Whitman's writing, David Reynolds shows how Whitman gathered inspiration from every stratum of nineteenth-century American life: the convulsions of slavery and depression; the raffish dandyism of the Bowery "b'hoys"; the exuberant rhetoric of actors, orators, and divines. We see how Whitman reconciled his own sexuality with contemporary social mores and how his energetic courtship of the public presaged the vogues of advertising and celebrity. Brilliantly researched, captivatingly told, Walt Whitman's America is a triumphant work of scholarship that breathes new life into the biographical genre.

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Vintage

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0679767096

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Middleton & Rowley

Forms of Collaboration in the Jacobean Playhouse

By: David Nicol

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Middleton & Rowley

Forms of Collaboration in the Jacobean Playhouse

By: David Nicol

Can the inadvertent clashes between collaborators produce more powerful effects than their concordances? For Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, the playwriting team best known for their tragedy The Changeling, disagreements and friction proved quite beneficial for their work. This first full-length study of Middleton and Rowley uses their plays to propose a new model for the study of collaborative authorship in early modern English drama. David Nicol highlights the diverse forms of collaborative relationships that factor into a play’s meaning, including playwrights, actors, companies, playhouses, and patrons. This kaleidoscopic approach, which views the plays from all these perspectives, throws new light on the Middleton-Rowley oeuvre and on early modern dramatic collaboration as a whole.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442696753

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Late Romance

Anthony Hecht—A Poet's Life

By: David Yezzi

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Late Romance

Anthony Hecht—A Poet's Life

By: David Yezzi

Anthony Hecht (1923-2004) was one of America’s greatest poets, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and widely recognized as a master of formal verse that drew on wide-ranging cultural and literary sources, as well as Hecht’s experiences as a soldier during World War II, during which he fought in Germany and Czechoslovakia and helped to liberate the Flossenburg concentration camp. In Late Romance, David Yezzi—himself a renowned poet and critic—reveals the depths that informed the meticulous surfaces of Hecht’s poems. Born to a wealthy German-Jewish family in Manhattan, Hecht saw his father lose nearly everything during the stock market crash of 1929. He grew into an accomplished athlete, actor, writer, and eventually a soldier in the crucible that consumed the world. Returning from the war, Hecht struggled to reconcile what he had witnessed and experienced, suffering from mental illness that required hospitalization. But he found the means to channel his emotions into poetry of lasting meaning, control, and depth; along with Robert Lowell, James Merrill, Theodore Roethke, and Elizabeth Bishop, Hecht remains a vital presence in letters. Published to celebrate the 100th year of his birth, and to coincide with an edition of his collected poems (to be published by Knopf), Late Romance is the definitive, dramatic biography of a uniquely-gifted writer.

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St. Martin's Press

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1250016592

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Reason, History, and Politics

The Communitarian Grounds of Legitimation in the Modern Age

By: David Ingram

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Reason, History, and Politics

The Communitarian Grounds of Legitimation in the Modern Age

By: David Ingram

The author shows that conceptions of rationality in current theories of science and law can account for neither the legitimacy of paradigm shifts nor the communitarian integrity internal to paradigms generally. He proposes an alternative conception of rationality that does.

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SUNY Press

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0791423492

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The Literary History of Saskatchewan

Volume 2 ~ Progressions

By: David Carpenter

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The Literary History of Saskatchewan

Volume 2 ~ Progressions

By: David Carpenter

Progressions presents another batch of erudite and entertainingessays on a variety of topics covering Saskatchewan’s literarydevelopment, as well as tributes to some of the major con-tributors to that history, and a pictorial glimpse into the past.Writers stopped using typewriters, and even moved beyond theKaypro computer box for their compositions. The SaskatchewanSchool of the Arts was shut down, ending the Fort San writingexperience. But the Sage Hill Writing Experience quickly rose toreplace it. Saskatchewan literary presses really found their feet andpublished important and lasting books. A wave of new writersjoined the founders of the province’s literary tradition. Respondingto this growth in the community, the Saskatchewan Book Awards,and the Saskatchewan Festival of Words in Moose Jaw came intobeing. The Saskatchewan writing community stormed out of the20th Century in a frenzy of creativity and accomplishment.Essay contributors to Volume 2 include Dave Margoshes, JeanetteLynes, Aritha Van Herk, Alison Calder and seven more. The elevenessays include such topics as “To House or House Not: The NewSaskatchewan Women Poets”, “Contemporary Nature Writing inSaskatchewan”, “Fort San/Sage Hill” and “Brave and FoolishNonconformists”. In addition, literary tributes are offered for:Caroline Heath, Pat Krause, Martha Blum and Max Braithwaite.

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Coteau Books

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1550505688

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Biological Control by Natural Enemies

By: Paul DeBach,David Rosen

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Biological Control by Natural Enemies

By: Paul DeBach,David Rosen

A concise account examining the historical background of biological control.

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CUP Archive

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0521391911

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Harlequin Empire

Race, Ethnicity and the Drama of the Popular Enlightenment

By: David Worrall

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Harlequin Empire

Race, Ethnicity and the Drama of the Popular Enlightenment

By: David Worrall

Under the 1737 Licensing Act, Covent Garden, Dury Lane and regional Theatres Royal held a monopoly on the dramatic canon. This work explores the presentation of foreign cultures and ethnicities on the popular British stage from 1750 to 1840. It argues that this illegitimate stage was the site for a plebeian Enlightenment.

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Routledge

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1317315499

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Communications in Africa, 1880–1939 (set)

By: David Sunderland

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Communications in Africa, 1880–1939 (set)

By: David Sunderland

This collection presents rare documents relating to the development of various forms of communication across Africa by the British, as part of their economic investment in Africa. Railways and waterways are examined.

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1351112252

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Spanish Made High School Simple

By: David S. Luton

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Spanish Made High School Simple

By: David S. Luton

This book was written by an experienced high school Spanish teacher who believes that the best way to teach a foreign language is in a simple, well-organized fashion. He believes that this approach works as well for adults as it does for teenagers, and thus the book you have before you now! This book is suitable for beginners as well as students at the intermediate to advanced levels. It contains basic to advanced grammar and basic vocabulary as well as useful conversational phrases. It also presents verb forms in more than one visual format which makes it more accomodating to different learning styles, especially to visual learners. All of the grammar is explained in English and there are English definitions and equivalents for all the Spanish words and phrases.

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Lulu.com

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0557254450

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9780557254453

Elizabethan Naval Administration

By: C.S. Knighton,David Loades

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Elizabethan Naval Administration

By: C.S. Knighton,David Loades

This is the first general selection from the substantial body of surviving documents about Elizabeth’s navy. It is a companion to The Navy of Edward VI and Mary I (Vol.157 in the NRS Series), where the apparatus serving both volumes was printed, and it complements the other NRS volumes that deal specifically with the Spanish Armada. This collection concentrates (though not exclusively so) on the early years of Elizabeth’s reign when there was no formal war. From 1558-1585 the navy was involved in a number of small-scale campaigns, pursuit of pirates and occasional shows of force. The documents selected emphasize the financial and administrative processes that supported these operations, such as mustering, victualing, demobilisation, and ship maintenance and repair. The fleet varied in size from about 30 to 45 ships during the period and a vast amount of maintenance and repair was required. The main component of the volume is the massively detailed Navy Treasurer's account for 1562-3 which is followed by and collated with the corresponding Exchequer Account. The documents illustrate just how efficiently the dockyards functioned. They were one of the great early Elizabethan achievements.

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Routledge

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1317145038

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9781317145035

My Name is Mina

By: David Almond

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My Name is Mina

By: David Almond

There's an empty notebook lying on the table in the moonlight. It's been there for an age. I keep on saying that I'll write a journal. So I'll start right here, right now. I open the book and write the very first words: My name is Mina and I love the night. Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll let my journal grow just like the mind does, just like a tree or a beast does, just like life does. Why should a book tell a tale in a dull straight line? And so Mina writes and writes in her notebook, and here is her journal, Mina's life in Mina's own words: her stories and dreams, experiences and thoughts, her scribblings and nonsense, poems and songs. Her vivid account of her vivid life. In this stunning book, David Almond revisits Mina before she has met Michael, before she has met Skellig. Shortlisted for the 2012 Carnegie Medal.

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Hodder Children's Books

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1444910647

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Latin American Liberation Theology

By: David Tombs

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Latin American Liberation Theology

By: David Tombs

David Tombs offers an accessible introduction to the theological challenges raised by Latin American Liberation and a new contribution to how these challenges might be understood as a chronological sequence. Liberation theology emerged in the 1960s in Latin America and thrived until it reached a crisis in the 1990s. This work traces the distinct developments in thought through the decades, thus presenting a contextual theology. The book is divided into five main sections: the historical role of the church from Columbus’s arrival in 1492 until the Cuban revolution of 1959; the reform and renewal decade of the 1960s; the transitional decade of the 1970s; the revision and redirection of liberation theology in the 1980s; and a crisis of relevance in the 1990s. This book offers insights into liberation theology’s profound contributions for any socially engaged theology of the future and is crucial to understanding liberation theology and its legacies. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

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BRILL

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9004496467

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9789004496460

The Mason County "Hoo Doo" War, 1874-1902

By: David D. Johnson

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The Mason County "Hoo Doo" War, 1874-1902

By: David D. Johnson

A haunting story of ethnic strife, human frailty, betrayal, vengeance, and the harrowing repercussions of mob justice.

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University of North Texas Press

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1574412043

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9781574412048

24_The Wedding Day_65

(The Final Chapter)

By: David Castillo Dorsalez

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24_The Wedding Day_65

(The Final Chapter)

By: David Castillo Dorsalez

This is the final prophetic message, the beginning of the Hebrew calendar and the end of all creation. Here in this little book open, thee will find the open books of the Holy Scriptures. The ultimate plan of God is given to all of us, so we can be prepared. Here are twelve levels, each level has a single prophecy of all that has been written by the ancient prophets of God Almighty. The year 2017 and 2018 in the Gregorian calendar. The year Shevat 5778 in the Hebrew calendar. The question is: would you be able to be sit and reading, at the twelfth level of this book? Este es el mensaje proftico final, el principio del calendario hebreo y el fin de toda creacin. Aqu en este libro abierto usted encontraras los libros abiertos de las sagradas escrituras. El ultimado plan de Dios es dado a todos nosotros, para que pudiramos estar preparados. Aqu hay doce niveles, cada captulo tiene una singular profeca de todo lo que se ha escrito por los profetas antiguos de Dios Todo Poderoso. El ao 2017 y 2018 en el calendario gregoriano. El ao Shevat 5778 en el calendario hebreo. La pregunta es: seras capas de estar sentado leyendo, al doceavo nivel de este libro?

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Palibrio

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1506518532

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A Fellowship of Men and Women

By: David Earl Thomson

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A Fellowship of Men and Women

By: David Earl Thomson

A Fellowship of Men and Women expertly reveals the depth, variability and scope of alcoholism and recovery. Not a self-help book, it concentrates on understanding the complexities and pain of the disease and the struggle for recovery and a healthy life. A Fellowship of Men and Women speaks poignantly to the ways alcoholism affects lives and relationships, while bringing a new understanding for lives have been bruised by alcoholics. A window into Alcoholics Anonymous, this must-read will keep you engaged until the end. "In A Fellowship of Men and Women, Thomson explores the lives of a group of recovering alcoholics-and some who will never recover. The interlocking stories give the reader a wonderful insiders view" -Kit Reed Catholic Girls, Weird Women, Wired Women, Seven for the Apocalypse.

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iUniverse

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158348325X

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Foundations of Organic Chemistry

Unity and Diversity of Structures, Pathways, and Reactions

By: David R. Dalton

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Foundations of Organic Chemistry

Unity and Diversity of Structures, Pathways, and Reactions

By: David R. Dalton

Learn the fundamentals and foundations of modern organic chemistry with this comprehensive guide Foundations of Organic Chemistry: Unity and Diversity of Structures, Pathways, and Reactions, 2nd Edition, is a substantive guide for students beginning their study of organic chemistry and instructors, as well as senior undergraduates and graduate students seeking to further their understanding of the subject. Foundations of Organic Chemistry is a serious attempt to show students who want to learn organic chemistry how we know what we know about the subject and to guide them to learn. In this work, the emphasis of the discussion of structures, pathways, and reactions is placed on the original literature and the fundamentals and use of spectroscopic and kinetic tools. Application of the resulting working knowledge of the substance of organic chemistry will lead the serious student to ask additional questions and, ultimately, to solve problems we face. The book also includes solutions guides for instructors and lecturers, as well as access to a companion website for furthering the reader’s knowledge of organic chemistry.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119656427

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9781119656425

Indianapolis Jazz

The Masters, Legends and Legacy of Indiana Avenue

By: David Leander Williams

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Indianapolis Jazz

The Masters, Legends and Legacy of Indiana Avenue

By: David Leander Williams

Get into the music with David Leander Williams as he charts the rise and fall of Indiana Avenue, the Majestic Entertainment Boulevard of Indianapolis, which produced some of the nation's most influential jazz artists. The performance venues that once lined the vibrant thoroughfare were an important stop on the Chitlin' Circuit and provided platforms for greats like Freddie Hubbard and Jimmy Coe. Through this biography of the bustling street, meet scores of the other musicians who came to prominence in the avenue's heyday, including trombonist J.J. Johnson and guitarist Wes Montgomery, as well as songwriters like Noble Sissle and Leroy Carr.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625849346

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9781625849342

Violent Peace

Militarized Interstate Bargaining in Latin America

By: David R. Mares

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Violent Peace

Militarized Interstate Bargaining in Latin America

By: David R. Mares

David R. Mares argues that the key factors influencing political leaders in all types of polities are the costs to their constituencies of using force and whether the leader can survive their displeasure if the costs exceed what they are willing to pay. Violent Peace proposes a conceptual scheme for analyzing militarized conflict and supports this framework with evidence from the history of Latin America.

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Columbia University Press

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023111186X

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9780231111867

Medicine on the Periphery

Public Health in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870–1960

By: David Sowell

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Medicine on the Periphery

Public Health in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870–1960

By: David Sowell

Medicine on the Periphery examines the history of the public health of Yucatán, Mexico, from the 1870s through 1960. This book includes chapters on institutions, healers, changing patterns of disease, the biomedicalization of Yucatán, and the relationship between Yucatán and the Mexican Revolutionary government. Sowell analyzes Yucatec officials’ establishment of public health programs as a strategy for the modernization of the region, using wealth from the production of henequen to create Mexico’s most extensive public health system and subsequent tensions with the Revolutionary government. Public health programs situated the Yucatán into a complex position in the nexus of knowledge, power, and technologies of the Atlantic medical community. Medicine on the Periphery provides a comprehensive look at how Yucatán became a medical periphery, a status that made it increasingly dependent upon knowledge and technologies produced in the productive core of the North Atlantic and subject to the authority of the Mexican state. This book will be of interest to scholars in Mexican studies, history of medicine and public health in Latin America and in the Atlantic world.

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Lexington Books

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1498517358

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Calderon: the Schism in England: la Cisma de Inglaterra

By: David Johnston

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Calderon: the Schism in England: la Cisma de Inglaterra

By: David Johnston

Admired by Shelley for 'its satisfying completeness', this thought-provoking and skilfully constructed play, which dramatizes the same subject as Shakespeare's Henry VIII, is one of its creator's most outstanding achievements.

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0856683329

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The Lost Chronicles of the Maya Kings

By: David Drew

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The Lost Chronicles of the Maya Kings

By: David Drew

An in-depth discussion of the latest archeological findings about the Mayan civilization explores the sophistication of this long-misunderstood culture and addressing such issues as why the civilization disappeared, why they built cities in jungles, and more.

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Univ of California Press

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0520234588

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Desperate Men

The James Gang and the Wild Bunch

By: James David Horan

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Desperate Men

The James Gang and the Wild Bunch

By: James David Horan

True histories of western outlaws Jesse James and Butch Cassidy are paired in the classic Desperate Men. James D. Horan, the first researcher to be granted access to the long-sealed files of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, was able to show in graphic and unsentimental detail the bloody desperation of the James-Younger gang and the Wild Bunch. Horan reveals the insecure, bitter Jesse James behind the bandit’s mask. His death ended a sixteen-year reign of terror in the Middle Border, but farther to the west Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, and their cohorts soon loomed on the outlaw trail. Their criminal careers and intimate lives are tracked in this revised, enlarged edition of Desperate Men.

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U of Nebraska Press

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080327307X

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Mites: Ecology, Evolution & Behaviour

Life at a Microscale

By: David Evans Walter,Heather C. Proctor

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Mites: Ecology, Evolution & Behaviour

Life at a Microscale

By: David Evans Walter,Heather C. Proctor

More than 40,000 species of mites have been described, and up to 1 million may exist on earth. These tiny arachnids play many ecological roles including acting as vectors of disease, vital players in soil formation, and important agents of biological control. But despite the grand diversity of mites, even trained biologists are often unaware of their significance. Mites: Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour (2nd edition) aims to fill the gaps in our understanding of these intriguing creatures. It surveys life cycles, feeding behaviour, reproductive biology and host-associations of mites without requiring prior knowledge of their morphology or taxonomy. Topics covered include evolution of mites and other arachnids, mites in soil and water, mites on plants and animals, sperm transfer and reproduction, mites and human disease, and mites as models for ecological and evolutionary theories.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9400771649

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9789400771642

Walt Whitman

By: David S. Reynolds

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Walt Whitman

By: David S. Reynolds

From the great events of the day to the patient workings of a spider, few poets responded to the life around them as powerfully as Walt Whitman. Now, in this brief but bountiful volume, David S. Reynolds offers a wealth of insight into the life and work of Whitman, examining the author through the lens of nineteenth-century America. Reynolds shows how Whitman responded to contemporary theater, music, painting, photography, science, religion, and sex. But perhaps nothing influenced Whitman more than the political events of his lifetime, as the struggle over slavery threatened to rip apart the national fabric. America, he believed, desperately needed a poet to hold together a society that was on the verge of unraveling. He created his powerful, all-absorbing poetic "I" to heal a fragmented nation that, he hoped, would find in his poetry new possibilities for inspiration and togetherness. Reynolds also examines the influence of theater, describing how Whitman's favorite actor, the tragedian Junius Brutus Booth--"one of the grandest revelations of my life"--developed a powerfully emotive stage style that influenced Leaves of Grass, which took passionate poetic expression to new heights. Readers will also discover how from the new medium of photography Whitman learned democratic realism and offered in his poetry "photographs" of common people engaged in everyday activities. Reynolds concludes with an appraisal of Whitman's impact on American letters, an influence that remains strong today. Solidly grounded in historical and biographical facts, and exceptionally wide-ranging in the themes it treats, Walt Whitman packs a dazzling amount of insight into a compact volume.

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Oxford University Press

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019992399X

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The Birds of the Thai-Malay Peninsula Vol. 2

By: David R. Wells

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The Birds of the Thai-Malay Peninsula Vol. 2

By: David R. Wells

This well-illustrated volume covers the passerines of Singapore, peninsular Malaysia, southern Thailand and the tip of Tenasserim (Burma) with their associated island archipelagos. David Wells' historically complete accounts draw on a full range of recent field and museum research. Over 380 species are described, including topics such as systematics, distribution, plumage, biometrics, status, habitat, food and foraging, voice, behaviour, breeding biology, moult and conservation. Along with an accompanying volume, on nonpasserine species, it brings together the most complete modern summery of field survey work and other research on all the birds found in the peninsula.

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A&C Black

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1408108933

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Among the Lowest of the Dead

The Culture of Capital Punishment

By: David Von Drehle

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Among the Lowest of the Dead

The Culture of Capital Punishment

By: David Von Drehle

Thorough and unbiased, Among the Lowest of the Dead is a gripping narrative that provides an unprecedented journalistic look into the actual workings of the capital punishment system. "Has all the tension of the best true crime stories . . . This is journalism at its best." --Library Journal "A compelling argument against capital punishment. . . . Examining politicians, judges (including Supreme Court Justices), prosecutors, defense attorneys and the condemned themselves, the author makes an effective case that, despite new laws, execution is no less a lottery than it has always been." --Publishers Weekly "In a fine and important book, Von Drehle writes elegantly and powerfully. . . . Anyone certain of their opinion about the death penalty ought to read this book." -- Booklist "An extremely well-informed and richly insightful book of great value to students of the death penalty as well as intelligent general readers with a serious interest in the subject, Among the Lowest of the Dead is also exciting reading. The book is an ideal guide for new generations of readers who want to form knowledgeable judgments in the continuing--and recently accelerating--controversies about capital punishment." --Anthony Amsterdam, New York University "Among the Lowest of the Dead is a powerfully written and meticulously researched book that makes an invaluable contribution to the growing public dialogue about capital punishment in America. It's one of those rare books that bridges the gap between mass audiences and scholarly disciplines, the latter including sociology, political science, criminology and journalism. The book is required reading in my Investigative Journalism classes--and my students love it!" --David Protess, Northwestern University "Among The Lowest of the Dead deserves a permanent place in the literature as literature, and is most relevant to today's death penalty debate as we moderate advocates and abolitionists search for common ground." --Robert Blecker, New York Law School David Von Drehle is Senior Writer, The Washington Post and author of Triangle: The Fire that Changed America.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472026984

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Universal Terrors, 1951-1955

Eight Classic Horror and Science Fiction Films

By: Tom Weaver,David Schecter,Robert J. Kiss

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Universal Terrors, 1951-1955

Eight Classic Horror and Science Fiction Films

By: Tom Weaver,David Schecter,Robert J. Kiss

Universal Studios created the first cinematic universe of monsters--Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy and others became household names during the 1930s and 1940s. During the 1950s, more modern monsters were created for the Atomic Age, including one-eyed globs from outer space, mutants from the planet Metaluna, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and the 100-foot high horror known as Tarantula. This over-the-top history is the definitive retrospective on Universal's horror and science fiction movies of 1951-1955. Standing as a sequel to Tom Weaver, Michael Brunas and John Brunas's Universal Horrors (Second Edition, 2007), it covers eight films: The Strange Door, The Black Castle, It Came from Outer Space, Creature from the Black Lagoon, This Island Earth, Revenge of the Creature, Cult of the Cobra and Tarantula. Each receives a richly detailed critical analysis, day-by-day production history, interviews with filmmakers, release information, an essay on the score, and many photographs, including rare behind-the-scenes shots.

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McFarland

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078643614X

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Century of the Leisured Masses

Entertainment and the Transformation of Twentieth-century America

By: David George Surdam

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Century of the Leisured Masses

Entertainment and the Transformation of Twentieth-century America

By: David George Surdam

American living standards improved considerably between 1900 and 2000. While most observers focus on gains in per-capita income as a measure of economic well-being, economists have used other measures of well-being: height, weight, and longevity. The increased amount of leisure time per week and across people's lifetimes, however, has been an unsung aspect of the improved standard of living in America. In Century of the Leisured Masses, David George Surdam explores the growing presence of leisure activities in Americans' lives and how this development came out throughout the twentieth century. Most Americans have gone from working fifty-five or more hours per week to working fewer than forty, although many Americans at the top rungs of the economic ladder continue to work long hours. Not only do more Americans have more time to devote to other activities, they are able to enjoy higher-quality leisure. New forms of leisure have given Americans more choices, better quality, and greater convenience. For instance, in addition to producing music themselves, they can now listen to the most talented musicians when and where they want. Television began as black and white on small screens; within fifty years, Americans had a cast of dozens of channels to choose from. They could also purchase favorite shows and movies to watch at their convenience. Even Americans with low incomes enjoyed television and other new forms of leisure. This growth of leisure resulted from a combination of growing productivity, better health, and technology. American workers became more productive and chose to spend their improved productivity and higher wages by consuming more, taking more time off, and enjoying better working conditions. By century's end, relatively few Americans were engaged in arduous, dangerous, and stultifying occupations. The reign of tyranny on the shop floor, in retail shops, and in offices was mitigated; many Americans could even enjoy leisure activities during work hours. Failure to consider the gains in leisure time and leisure consumption understates the gains in American living standards. With Century of the Leisured Masses, Surdam has comprehensively documented and examined the developments in this important marker of well-being throughout the past century.

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Oxford University Press

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0190211563

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The Mexican Border Cities

Landscape Anatomy and Place Personality

By: Daniel David Arreola

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The Mexican Border Cities

Landscape Anatomy and Place Personality

By: Daniel David Arreola

Considers border cities, as "Mexican places modified by American influences," from the perspectives of urban morphology, and the urban built environment. Examines 18 settlements from towns of less than 10,000 to cities of nearly a million people. The authors contend that despite their proximity to the US, these cities remain essentially Mexican. More than 75 maps and b&w photos.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816512876

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