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The Changing Face of Medicine: Women Doctors and the Evolution of Health Care in America (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work) מאת Ann K. Boulis The number of women practicing medicine in the United States has grown steadily since the late 1960s, with women now roughly at parity with men among entering medical students. Why did so many women enter American medicine? How are women faring, professionally and personally, once they become physic...

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Family Likeness: Sex, Marriage, and Incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf מאת Mary Jean Corbett In nineteenth-century England, marriage between first cousins was both legally permitted and perfectly acceptable. After mid-century, laws did not explicitly penalize sexual relationships between parents and children, between siblings, or between grandparents and grandchildren. But for a widower to ...

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Making Virtual Worlds: Linden Lab and Second Life מאת Thomas Malaby The past decade has seen phenomenal growth in the development and use of virtual worlds. In one of the most notable, Second Life, millions of people have created online avatars in order to play games, take classes, socialize, and conduct business transactions. Second Life offers a gathering point an...

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Antiques: The History of an Idea מאת Leon Rosenstein The notion of retrieving a bit of the past-by owning a material piece of it-has always appealed to humans. Often our most prized possessions are those that have had a long history before they came into our hands. Part of the pleasure we gain from the encounter with antiques stems from the palpable a...

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My Word!: Plagiarism and College Culture מאת Susan D. Blum "Classroom Cheats Turn to Computers." "Student Essays on Internet Offer Challenge to Teachers." "Faking the Grade." Headlines such as these have been blaring the alarming news of an epidemic of plagiarism and cheating in American colleges: more than 75 percent of students admit to having cheated; 68...

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Choose and Focus: Japanese Business Strategies for the 21st Century מאת Ulrike Schaede Between 2002 and 2008, Japan's economy saw constant expansion, a record among the world's advanced economies and Japan's longest period of economic growth since World War II. This remarkable achievement came about because of a transformation of Japanese business practices. This transformation was gu...

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An Outsider in the White House: Jimmy Carter, His Advisors, and the Making of American Foreign Policy מאת Betty Glad Jimmy Carter entered the White House with a desire for a collegial staff that would aid his foreign-policy decision making. He wound up with a "team of rivals" who contended for influence and who fought over his every move regarding relations with the USSR, the Peoples' Republic of China, arms contr...

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War on Sacred Grounds מאת Ron E. Hassner Sacred sites offer believers the possibility of communing with the divine and achieving deeper insight into their faith. Yet their spiritual and cultural importance can lead to competition as religious groups seek to exclude rivals from practicing potentially sacrilegious rituals in the hallowed spa...

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The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France מאת Todd Shepard In this account of the Algerian War's effect on French political structures and notions of national identity, Todd Shepard asserts that the separation of Algeria from France was truly a revolutionary event with lasting consequences for French social and political life. For more than a centur...

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Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography מאת Stephen Knight The only figure in the Dictionary of National Biography who is said never to have existed, Robin Hood has taken on an air of reality few historical figures achieve. His image in various guises has been put to use as a subject of ballads, nationalist rallying point, Disney cartoon fox, greenclad figu...

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Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters מאת Dena Goodman Over the course of the eighteenth century in France, increasing numbers of women, from the wives and daughters of artisans and merchants to countesses and queens, became writers-not authors, and not mere signers of names, but writers of letters. Taking as her inspiration a portrait of an unknown wom...

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The Political Unconscious מאת Fredric Jameson ‘Every now and then a book appears which is literally ahead of its time ... The Political Unconscious is such a book ... it sets new standards of what a classic work is.’ – Slavoj Zizek In this ground-breaking and influential study, Fredric Jameson explores t...

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Lyrical Ballads and Other Poems, 1797-1800 (Cornell Wordsworth) מאת William Wordsworth For information about the Cornell Wordsworth series, please visit the series website at http://CornellWordsworth.BookPub.net...

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Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages מאת Alex Wright "Alex Wright delivers a fascinating tour of the many ways that humans have collected, organized, and shared information to show how the information age started long before microchips or movable type."-Publishers Weekly "This stimulating book offers much opportunity to reflect on the nature and...

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Stories of the Soviet Experience: Memoirs, Diaries, Dreams מאת Irina Paperno Beginning with glasnost in the late 1980s and continuing into the present, scores of personal accounts of life under Soviet rule, written throughout its history, have been published in Russia, marking the end of an epoch. In a major new work on private life and personal writings, Irina Paperno explo...

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Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics מאת Margaret E. Keck "A masterful combination of emerging theory and empirical comparison of one of the most intriguing areas of transnational politics. Keck and Sikkink access a broad range of theory from social movements, international relations, and comparative politics research to glean from a wealth of their own re...

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Diseases of Trees and Shrubs, Second Edition (Comstock Book) מאת Wayne Sinclair Praise for the First Edition-- Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Division Award Winner (Life Sciences) "One of the ten best horticultural books of the century."--The Washington Post "Diseases of Trees and Shrubs is by far the best book currently avai...

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Fortifying China: The Struggle to Build a Modern Defense Economy מאת Tai Ming Cheung Fortifying China explores the titanic struggle to turn China into an aspiring world-class military technological power. The defense economy is leveraging the country's vibrant civilian economy and gaining access to foreign sources of technology and know-how. Drawing on extensive Chinese-language sou...

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To the Tashkent Station: Evacuation and Survival in the Soviet Union at War מאת Rebecca Manley In summer and fall 1941, as German armies advanced with shocking speed across the Soviet Union, the Soviet leadership embarked on a desperate attempt to safeguard the country's industrial and human resources. Their success helped determine the outcome of the war in Europe. To the Tashkent Statio...

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Ariadne's Thread: A Guide to International Tales Found in Classical Literature (Myth and Poetics) מאת William Hansen From Cinderella to The Boy Who Cried Wolf to The Dragon Slayer to the Judgment of Solomon, certain legends, myths, and folktales are part of the oral tradition in countries around the world. In addition to their pervasiveness, these stories show an astonishing longevity; many such tales are found in...

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Four Texts on Socrates: Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito and Aristophanes' Clouds מאת Thomas G. West Widely adopted for classroom use, this book offers translations of four major works of ancient Greek literature which treat the life and thought of Socrates, focusing particularly on his trial and defense (the platonic dialogues Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates, and Crito) and on the charges a...

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A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections (Distributed for the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornel) מאת Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, Dartmouth College Nancy E. Green, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University Benjamin Harvey, Mississippi State University Mark Hussey, Pace University Christopher Reed, The Pennsylvania State University Although of another place and time, the Bloomsbury ...

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History and Its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence מאת Dominick Lacapra Dominick LaCapra's History and Its Limits articulates the relations among intellectual history, cultural history, and critical theory, examining the recent rise of "Practice Theory" and probing the limitations of prevalent forms of humanism. LaCapra focuses on the problem of understanding ext...

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In the Shadow of FDR: From Harry Truman to Barack Obama מאת William E. Leuchtenburg A ghost has inhabited the Oval Office since 1945-the ghost of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR's formidable presence has cast a large shadow on the occupants of that office in the years since his death, and an appreciation of his continuing influence remains essential to understanding the contemporary...

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After the Peace: Loyalist Paramilitaries in Post-Accord Northern Ireland מאת Carolyn Gallaher The 1998 Belfast Agreement promised to release citizens of Northern Ireland from the grip of paramilitarism. However, almost a decade later, Loyalist paramilitaries were still on the battlefield. After the Peace examines the delayed business of Loyalist demilitarization and explains why it in...

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Killed Strangely: The Death of Rebecca Cornell מאת Elaine Forman Crane "It was Rebecca's son, Thomas, who first realized the victim's identity. His eyes were drawn to the victim's head, and aided by the flickering light of a candle, he `clapt his hands and cryed out, Oh Lord, it is my mother.' James Moills, a servant of Cornell . . . described Rebecca `lying on the flo...

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Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages (Cornell Paperbacks) מאת Jeffrey Burton Russell

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Leaders and Their Followers in a Dangerous World: The Psychology of Political Behavior (Psychoanalysis and Social Theory) מאת Jerrold M. Post "Policy specialists and academic scholars have long agreed that for U.S. leaders to deal effectively with other actors in the international arena, they need images of their adversaries. Leaders must try to see events, and, indeed, their own behavior, from the perspective of opponents. . . . Faul...

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Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition מאת Glenn Alexander Magee Glenn Alexander Magee's pathbreaking book argues that Hegel was decisively influenced by the Hermetic tradition, a body of thought with roots in Greco-Roman Egypt. Magee traces the influence on Hegel of such Hermetic thinkers as Baader, Böhme, Bruno, and Paracelsus, and fascination with occult and ...

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Heresy and the Politics of Community: The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate (Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past) מאת Marina Rustow In a book with a bold new view of medieval Jewish history, written in a style accessible to nonspecialists and students as well as to scholars in the field, Marina Rustow changes our understanding of the origins and nature of heresy itself. Scholars have long believed that the Rabbanites and Qaraite...

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American Abyss: Savagery and Civilization in the Age of Industry מאת Daniel E. Bender At the beginning of the twentieth century, industrialization both dramatically altered everyday experiences and shaped debates about the effects of immigration, empire, and urbanization. In American Abyss, Daniel E. Bender examines an array of sources-eugenics theories, scientific studies of climate...

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The Birds of Ecuador, Vol. 1: Status, Distribution, and Taxonomy מאת Robert S. Ridgely

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Thinking Through the Mothers: Reimagining Women's Biographies מאת Janet Beizer

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Spartak Moscow: A History of the People's Team in the Workers' State מאת Robert Edelman In the informative, entertaining, and generously illustrated Spartak Moscow, a book that will be cheered by soccer fans worldwide, Robert Edelman finds in the stands and on the pitch keys to understanding everyday life under Stalin, Khrushchev, and their successors. Millions attended matches ...

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Christianizing Death: The Creation of a Ritual Process in Early Medieval Europe מאת Frederick S. Paxton

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Guide to Methods for Students of Political Science מאת Stephen Van Evera "Stephen Van Evera's Guide to Methods makes an important contribution toward improving the use of case studies for theory development and testing in the social sciences. His trenchant and concise views on issues ranging from epistemology to specific research techniques manage to convey not only the ...

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Beggars, Iconoclasts, and Civic Patriots: The Political Culture of the Dutch Revolt מאת Peter Arnade The Dutch Revolt has long been hailed as the triumph of political freedom over monarchical tyranny. In 1781, John Adams observed that the American Revolution was its "transcript." Known for its many protagonists--King Philip II, the Duke of Alba, the counts of Egmont and Hornes, radical Calvinists, ...

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The Old Faith and the Russian Land: A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals (Culture and Society After Socialism) מאת Douglas Rogers The Old Faith and the Russian Land is a historical ethnography that charts the ebbs and flows of ethical practice in a small Russian town over three centuries. The town of Sepych was settled in the late seventeenth century by religious dissenters who fled to the forests of the Urals to escape...

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The Will to Imagine: A Justification of Skeptical Religion מאת J. L. Schellenberg The Will to Imagine completes J. L. Schellenberg's trilogy in the philosophy of religion, following his acclaimed Prolegomena to a Philosophy of Religion and The Wisdom to Doubt. This book marks a striking reversal in our understanding of the possibility of religious faith. Wher...

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To Live Upon Hope: Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-century Northeast מאת Rachel Wheeler Two Northeast Indian communities with similar histories of colonization accepted Congregational and Moravian missionaries, respectively, within five years of one another: the Mohicans of Stockbridge, Massachusetts (1735), and Shekomeko, in Dutchess County, New York (1740). In To Live upon Hope

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Becoming American Under Fire: Irish Americans, African Americans, and the Politics of Citizenship During the Civil War Era מאת Christian G. Samito In Becoming American under Fire, Christian G. Samito provides a rich account of how African American and Irish American soldiers influenced the modern vision of national citizenship that developed during the Civil War era. By bearing arms for the Union, African Americans and Irish Americans exhibite...

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Nature of the Rainforest: Costa Rica and Beyond מאת Adrian Forsyth "The words 'tropical rainforest' may conjure up vistas populated by jaguars, brilliant macaws, and flowers amid the grandeur of towering buttressed trees. But the eager, expectant visitor is not regaled with the sight of charismatic vertebrates, gaudy birds, and luminous orchids. In the rainforest, ...

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The Beekeeper's Handbook, Third Edition מאת Alphonse Avitabile Diana Sammataro and Alphonse Avitabile have revised and expanded their clear and comprehensive guide to cover changes in beekeeping. They discuss the crisis created by the parasitic bee mites. In less than a decade, for example, Varroa mites have saturated the North American honeybee populat...

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The fiction of s.y.agnon S.y Agnon

The fiction of s.y.agnon מאת S.y Agnon

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Failure to Protect: America's Sexual Predator Laws and the Rise of the Preventive State מאת Eric S. Janus Most crimes of sexual violence are committed by people known to the victim-acquaintances and family members. Yet politicians and the media overemphasize predatory strangers when legislating against and reporting on sexual violence. In this book, Eric S. Janus goes far beyond sensational headlines to...

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Wild Yankees: The Struggle for Independence Along Pennsylvania's Revolutionary Frontier מאת Paul B. Moyer Northeast Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley was truly a dark and bloody ground, the site of murders, massacres, and pitched battles. The valley's turbulent history was the product of a bitter contest over property and power known as the Wyoming controversy. This dispute, which raged between the ...

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Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile מאת Lewis H. Siegelbaum The automobile and Soviet communism made an odd couple. The quintessential symbol of American economic might and consumerism never achieved iconic status as an engine of Communist progress, in part because it posed an awkward challenge to some basic assumptions of Soviet ideology and practice. In th...

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The Eccentric Realist: Henry Kissinger and the Shaping of American Foreign Policy מאת Mario Del Pero During the 2008 election season, the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates both aspired to be understood as foreign policy "realists" in the mold of Henry Kissinger. Kissinger, who is distrusted on the neoconservative right for his skepticism about American exceptionalism and on the libe...

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Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters מאת Dena Goodman Over the course of the eighteenth century in France, increasing numbers of women, from the wives and daughters of artisans and merchants to countesses and queens, became writers-not authors, and not mere signers of names, but writers of letters. Taking as her inspiration a portrait of an unknown wom...

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In the Shadow of FDR: From Harry Truman to Barack Obama מאת William E. Leuchtenburg A ghost has inhabited the Oval Office since 1945-the ghost of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR's formidable presence has cast a large shadow on the occupants of that office in the years since his death, and an appreciation of his continuing influence remains essential to understanding the contemporary...

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Reading Appalachia from Left to Right: Conservatives and the 1974 Kanawha County Textbook Controversy מאת Carol Mason In Reading Appalachia from Left to Right, Carol Mason examines the legacies of a pivotal 1974 curriculum dispute in West Virginia that heralded the rightward shift in American culture and politics. At a time when black nationalists and white conservatives were both maligned as extremists for ...

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Surrealism and the Art of Crime מאת Jonathan P. Eburne Corpses mark surrealism's path through the twentieth century, providing material evidence of the violence in modern life. Though the shifting group of poets, artists, and critics who made up the surrealist movement were witness to total war, revolutionary violence, and mass killing, it was the tawdr...

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Norms and Practices מאת James D. Wallace We spend a great deal of time learning our vocations and avocations as we work at jobs, participate in home life, and take part in civic activities and politics. In doing so, we engage in practices that consist of complex bodies of norms. These practices themselves are bodies of knowledge-often acqu...

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This Could Be the Start of Something Big: How Social Movements for Regional Equity Are Reshaping Metropolitan America מאת Manuel, Jr. Pastor For nearly two decades, progressives have been dismayed by the steady rise of the right in U.S. politics. Often lost in the gloom and doom about American politics is a striking and sometimes underanalyzed phenomenon: the resurgence of progressive politics and movements at a local level. Across the c...

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Needed by Nobody: Homelessness and Humanness in Post-Socialist Russia (Culture and Society After Socialism) מאת Tova Höjdestrand Homelessness became a conspicuous facet of Russian cityscapes only in the 1990s, when the Soviet criminalization of vagrancy and similar offenses was abolished. In spite of the host of social and economic problems confronting Russia in the demise of Soviet power, the social dislocation endured by in...

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China 2020: How Western Business Can - and Should - Influence Social and Political Change in the Coming Decade מאת Michael A. Santoro Chinese society is plagued by many problems that have a direct impact on its current and future business and political environment-worker rights, product safety, Internet freedom, and the rule of law. Drawing on knowledge gained through personal interviews, documentary sources, and almost two decade...

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Differential Diagnoses: A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States and France (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work) מאת Paul V. Dutton Although the United States spends 16 percent of its gross domestic product on health care, more than 46 million people have no insurance coverage, while one in four Americans report difficulty paying for medical care. Indeed, the U.S. health care system, despite being the most expensive health care ...

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City Bound: How States Stifle Urban Innovation מאת Gerald E. Frug Many major American cities are defying the conventional wisdom that suburbs are the communities of the future. But as these urban centers prosper, they increasingly confront significant constraints. In City Bound, Gerald E. Frug and David J. Barron address these limits in a new way. Based on ...

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Hierarchy in International Relations (Cornell Studies in Political Economy) מאת David A. Lake

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On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York (Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America) מאת James T. Fisher Site of the world's busiest and most lucrative harbor throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the Port of New York was also the historic preserve of Irish American gangsters, politicians, longshoremen's union leaders, and powerful Roman Catholic pastors. This is the demimonde depicted to...

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War and Shadows: The Haunting of Vietnam מאת Mai Lan Gustafsson Vietnamese culture and religious traditions place the utmost importance on dying well: in old age, body unblemished, with surviving children, and properly buried and mourned. More than five million people were killed in the Vietnam War, many of them young, many of them dying far from home. Another 3...

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Slavophile Empire: Imperial Russia's Illiberal Path מאת Laura Engelstein Twentieth-century Russia, in all its political incarnations, lacked the basic features of the Western liberal model: the rule of law, civil society, and an uncensored public sphere. In Slavophile Empire, the leading historian Laura Engelstein pays particular attention to the Slavophiles and t...

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Stylin': African American Expressive Culture - from Its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit מאת Shane White Shane White and Graham White consider the deeper significance of the ways in which African Americans have dressed, walked, danced, arranged their hair, and communicated in silent gestures. They ask what elaborate hair styles, bright colors, bandanas, long watch chains, and zoot suits, for example, have really meant, and discuss style itself as an expression of deep-seated cultural imperatives. Their wide-ranging exploration of black style from its African origins to the 1940s reveals a culture that differed from that of the dominant racial group in ways that were often subtle and e...

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You Don't Always Get What You Pay for: The Economics of Privatization (Century Foundation Books (Cornell Paperback)) מאת Elliott D. Sclar ...offers a balanced look at the pitfalls & promises of public sector privatization in the United States...

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Holland on the Hudson: An Economic and Social History of Dutch New York מאת Oliver A. Rink Holland on the Hudson traces the history of New Netherland from Henry Hudson's exploration of the region in 1609 to the surrender of the Dutch colony to an English fleet in 1664. Oliver A. Rink's approach is both narrative an analytic as he describes in detail the colony's commercial origins,...

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Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation מאת Susan A. Glenn

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Future Tense: The Culture of Anticipation in France Between the Wars מאת Roxanne Panchasi

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Never Good Enough: Health Care Workers and the False Promise of Job Training (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work) מאת Ariel Ducey Frontline health care workers have always been especially vulnerable to the perpetual tides of health care "reform," but in the mid-1990s in New York City, they bore the brunt of change in a new way. They were obliged to take on additional work, take lessons in recalibrating their attitudes, and, wh...

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The fiction of s. y. agnon Baruch Hochman

The fiction of s. y. agnon מאת Baruch Hochman

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War and Shadows: The Haunting of Vietnam מאת Mai Lan Gustafsson Vietnamese culture and religious traditions place the utmost importance on dying well: in old age, body unblemished, with surviving children, and properly buried and mourned. More than five million people were killed in the Vietnam War, many of them young, many of them dying far from home. Another 3...

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Living Autobiographically: How We Create Identity in Narrative מאת Paul John Eakin Autobiography is naturally regarded as an art of retrospect, but making autobiography is equally part of the fabric of our ongoing experience. We tell the stories of our lives piecemeal, and these stories are not merely about our selves but also an integral part of them. In this way we "live autobio...

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Frege in Perspective מאת Joan Weiner "Joan Weiner reads Frege without assuming that his problems and concepts anticipate ours or that he is reacting to his historical context. This leads her to conclude that Frege's notion of reference differs importantly from that of today's philosophy of language and that his supposed Platonist decla...

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China's Longest Campaign: Birth Planning in the People's Republic, 1949-2005 מאת Tyrene White In the late 1970s, just as China was embarking on a sweeping program of post-Mao reforms, it also launched a one-child campaign. This campaign, which cut against the grain of rural reforms and childbearing preferences, was the culmination of a decade-long effort to subject reproduction to state plan...

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Undermining the Kremlin: America's Strategy to Subvert the Soviet Bloc, 1947–1956 (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) מאת Gregory Mitrovich Following the Allied victory in World War II, the United States turned its efforts to preventing the spread of Communism beyond Eastern Europe. Gregory Mitrovich argues, however, that the policy of containment was only the first step in a clandestine campaign to destroy Soviet power. Drawing o...

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Alliance Politics (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) מאת Glenn Herald Snyder Glenn H. Snyder creates a theory of alliances by deductive reasoning about the international system, by integrating ideas from neorealism, coalition formation, bargaining, and game theory, and by empirical generalization from international history. Using cases from 1879 to 1914 to present a ...

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Slavophile Empire: Imperial Russia's Illiberal Path מאת Laura Engelstein Twentieth-century Russia, in all its political incarnations, lacked the basic features of the Western liberal model: the rule of law, civil society, and an uncensored public sphere. In Slavophile Empire, the leading historian Laura Engelstein pays particular attention to the Slavophiles and t...

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Eurasia's New Frontiers: Young States, Old Societies, Open Futures מאת Thomas W., Jr. Simons "As a global power, the United States will always be interested in Eurasia and engaged with its peoples and nations. Eurasia is too large and important a part of the world to be ignored. It casts a shadow of the old Soviet threat forward in time, and its axis-the Russian Federation-is nuclear-armed....

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Darfur: A 21st Century Genocide, Third Edition (Crises in World Politics) מאת Gerard Prunier Praise for the 2005 Edition-- "A passionate and highly readable account of the current tragedy that combines intimate knowledge of the region's history, politics, and sociology with a telling cynicism about the polite but ineffectual diplomatic efforts to end it. It is the best account availab...

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Clandestine Crossings: Migrants and Coyotes on the Texas-Mexico Border מאת David Spener Clandestine Crossings delivers an in-depth description and analysis of the experiences of working-class Mexican migrants at the beginning of the twenty-first century as they enter the United States surreptitiously with the help of paid guides known as coyotes. Drawing on ethnographic observat...

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The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge To China's Future (Council on Foreign Relations Book) מאת Elizabeth C. Economy China’s spectacular economic growth over the past two decades has dramatically depleted the country’s natural resources and produced skyrocketing rates of pollution. Environmental degradation in China has also contributed to significant public health problems, mass migration, economic loss, and ...

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Federations: The Political Dynamics of Cooperation מאת Chad Rector

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The Making of Minjung: Democracy and the Politics of Representation in South Korea מאת Namhee Lee In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history of the minjung ("common people's") movement in South Korea, Namhee Lee shows how the movement arose in the 1970s and 1980s in response to the repressive authoritarian regime and grew out of a widespread sense that the nation's "failed history" left ...

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Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush (The United States in the World) מאת Aims McGuinness Most people in the United States have forgotten that tens of thousands of U.S. citizens migrated westward to California by way of Panama during the California Gold Rush. Decades before the completion of the Panama Canal in 1914, this slender spit of land abruptly became the linchpin of the f...

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Clandestine Crossings: Migrants and Coyotes on the Texas-Mexico Border מאת David Spener Clandestine Crossings delivers an in-depth description and analysis of the experiences of working-class Mexican migrants at the beginning of the twenty-first century as they enter the United States surreptitiously with the help of paid guides known as coyotes. Drawing on ethnographic observat...

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The Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America מאת Jaap Jacobs The Dutch involvement in North America started after Henry Hudson, sailing under a Dutch flag in 1609, traveled up the river that would later bear his name. The Dutch control of the region was short-lived, but had profound effects on the Hudson Valley region. In The Colony of New Netherland, ...

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Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq מאת Ahmed S. Hashim More than two years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a loosely organized insurgency continues to target American and Coalition soldiers, as well as Iraqi security forces and civilians, with devastating results. In this sobering account of the ongoing violence, Ahmed Hashim, a specialist on Middle Ea...

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Laboratories of Faith: Mesmerism, Spiritism, and Occultism in Modern France מאת John Warne Monroe At a fascinating moment in French intellectual history, an interest in matters occult was not equivalent to a rejection of scientific thought; participants in séances and magic rituals were seekers after experimental data as well as spiritual truth. A young astronomy student wrote of his quest: "I ...

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Seedlings of Barro Colorado Island and the Neotropics מאת Nancy C. Garwood

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Consuming Visions: Mass Culture and the Lourdes Shrine מאת Suzanne K. Kaufman Plastic Madonnas, packaged holy tours, and biblical theme parks can arouse discomfort, laughter, and even revulsion in religious believers and nonbelievers alike. Scholars, too, often see the intermingling of religion and commerce as a corruption of true spirituality. Suzanne K. Kaufman challenges t...

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Independent Diplomat: Dispatches from an Unaccountable Elite (Crises in World Politics) מאת Carne Ross Although diplomats negotiate more and more aspects of world affairs--from trade and security issues to health, human rights, and the environment--we have little idea of, and even less control over, what they are doing in our name. In Independent Diplomat, Carne Ross provides a compelling accou...

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Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture מאת Shari M. Huhndorf In Mapping the Americas, Shari M. Huhndorf tracks changing conceptions of Native culture as it increasingly transcends national boundaries and takes up vital concerns such as patriarchy, labor and environmental exploitation, the emergence of pan-Native urban communities, global imperialism, a...

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Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) מאת Richard J. Samuels For the past sixty years, the U.S. government has assumed that Japan's security policies would reinforce American interests in Asia. The political and military profile of Asia is changing rapidly, however. Korea's nuclear program, China's rise, and the relative decline of U.S. power have commanded s...

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Time and Eternity (Cornell Studies in the Philosophy of Religion) מאת Brian Leftow Brian Leftow makes an important contribution to the longstanding debate among philosophers and theologians about the nature of God's eternity. The author develops a powerful and original defense of the notion that God is eternal in that he exists timelessly; that is, that though God exists, he does ...

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The Mirror of Antiquity: American Women and the Classical Tradition, 1750–1900 מאת Caroline Winterer In The Mirror of Antiquity, Caroline Winterer uncovers the lost world of American women's classicism during its glory days from the eighteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Overturning the widely held belief that classical learning and political ideals were relevant only to men, she foll...

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The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda מאת Scott Straus The Rwandan genocide has become a touchstone for debates about the causes of mass violence and the responsibilities of the international community. Yet a number of key questions about this tragedy remain unanswered: How did the violence spread from community to community and so rapidly engulf the na...

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The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Illustrated Dictionary of Orchid Genera (Comstock Book) מאת Peggy Alrich "The hundreds of orchid genera and thousands of species can seem unbelievably complex, but they are beautiful, mysterious, and alluring. Therefore we want reliable ways in which to refer to them--ways that will be understood by those who hear us or read our written communications about these plants....

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Kant's Rational Theology מאת Allen W. Wood

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Speak Useful Words or Say Nothing: Old Norse Studies (Islandica/Distributed By Cornell University Press for the Cornell University Library) מאת Joseph Harris

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The Healer's Calling: Women and Medicine in Early New England מאת Rebecca J. Tannenbaum This book, the first to describe women medical practitioners other than midwives in the colonial period, emphasizes that medical care was part of every woman's work. The Healer's Calling uses memorable anecdotes, engaging characters, and medical oddities to tell the fascinating story of the practice...

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Fictions of Embassy: Literature and Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe מאת Timothy Hampton