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This collection of true stories illuminates the experiences of a young Polish boy before World War II, through the gathering storm of Nazism, into the death camps, to poignant reunions many years later.

By providing an in-depth analysis of the news media's role in the American political system, Uncertain Guardians challenges us to re-evaluate much of what we take for granted as news consumers and to think about how to improve political communication.

He reveals how Vietnam changed American culture today, from the successes and failures of the Washington bureaucracy to the destruction of the traditional military code of honor.

In this text the author provides a history of biomedical research on human subjects in the US from 1890 to 1940. She offers accounts of experiments conducted on both healthy and unhealthy adults and children including the yellow fever experiments and "dental drill" experiments on insane patient.

Based on ten years of research-including extensive interviews with Major Taylor's 91-year old daughter-this is the dramatic story of a young black man who, against prodigious odds, rose to fame and stardom in the tempestuous world of international professional bicycle racing a century ago.

From the author of "Airs of Providence", "The Very Rich Hours", and "The Courage of Girls", this book brings together a dozen new stories.

Awarded the Dexter Prize by the Society for the History of Technology, this book offers a comparative history of the evolution of modern electric power systems. It described large-scale technological change and demonstrates that technology cannot be understood unless placed in a cultural context.

Informative, amusing, and sometimes discomforting, it offers an incomparable look into the city's past and revealing insight into the way it seemed to one informed observer thirty years ago.

This fascinating account reveals the potential force-and the potential limitations-of devotion in people's lives and religious imagination.

This text argues that transnational migrations have affected ideas of citizenship since World War II. The author shows how citizenship has been devalued as governments extend rights to foreign populations and how international human rights law has overshadowed definitions of sovereignty.

How did the vastly outnumbered black Southerners in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s succeed against a white power structure that seemed uniformly hostile? Contrary to widespread belief, argues David Chappell, a crucial role was played by "inside agitators"--white southerners sympathetic to the cause of desegregation.

Thoughtful and persuasive, this book urges the medical profession to improve palliative care and develop a more humane response to the complex issues facing those who are terminally ill.

Like other great moments in human experience, it has given rise to a flowering of art, literature, and science, and to the challenging of previously accepted authorities of text and tradition.

"What does a woman want?" is a male question, originally posed by Freud. This book explores whether this question can engender a woman's voice as its speaking subject. It examines autobiographical texts by Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir and Adrienne Rich, as well as psychoanalytic works.

An introduction and notes by Temkin provide insight into the work's historical and scientific background.

Providing an overview of all facets of the Asclepius phenomenon, this book, first published in two volumes in 1945, comprises a unique collection of the literary references and inscriptions in ancient texts-given in both the original and translation-to the deity, his life, his deeds, his cult, and his temples, as well as an extended analysis of them.

She finds evidence in Iran's experience that even women from "traditionaland working classes do not easily surrender rights or access they have gained to education, career opportunities, and a public role.

Mercator, George Garrett. Truculentus, James Tatum

The final chapter deals with the impact of Western notions of justice, with especial emphasis on the recurrence of fundamentalist movements such as the Islamic Revolution in Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Pakistan, and other Islamic lands.

Jones, Massachusetts General Hospital; Robert L. Martensen, Tulane University School of Medicine; Glenn Mitchell, University of Wollongong; Jenny Stanton, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Gilbert Whittemore, independent scholar/attorney, Boston

"The novels that demand our attention now, as they always will,he writes, "are the ones in which the nation's most tragic and defining historical experience found its appropriately convulsive forms of expression and in which Faulkner became the great writer he has always been recognized to be."

Individual case studies include discussions on security, the environment, economic issues, and non-governmental actors-such as scientists and environmental groups like Greenpeace International-in prenegotiation and negotiation phases.

Cochrane, Venice Triumphant offers a bold new perspective on the world's most beautiful-and remarkable-city.

Throughout, the contributors struggle to reconcile inconsistencies and gaps in our traditional understanding of death and to respond to the public's concern that, in the determination of death under current policies, patients' interests may be compromised by the demand for organ retrieval.

Contributors: Annemarie Weyl Carr, Southern Methodist University; Rebecca W.

"What cultural product,Tuan asks, "is not escape?In his new book, the capstone of a celebrated career, Tuan shows that escapism is an inescapable component of human thought and culture.

Moreover, it explores the impact of globalization trends and international regimes upon the politics of regulation and asks whether a new global regime is on the horizon.