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Between 1776 and 1783, Britain hired an estimated 30,000 German soldiers to fight in its war against the Americans. Collectively known as Hessians, they actually came from six German territories within the Holy Roman Empire. Over the course of the war, members of the German corps, including women and children, spent extended periods of time in locations as dispersed and varied as Canada in the North to West Florida and Cuba in the South. They shared in everysignificant British military triumph and defeat. Thousands died of disease, were killed in battle, were captured by the enemy, or deserted. Collectively, they recorded their experiences and observations of the war they fought in, the land they traversed, and the people they encountered in a large body of letters, diaries, and similar private and official records. Friederike Baer presents a study of Britain''s war against the American rebels from the perspective of the German soldiers, a people uniquely positioned both in the midst of the war and at its margins. The book offers a ground-breaking reimagining of this watershed event inworld history.

Afflicting one in 83 Americans, Sj├╢gren''s is a serious and systemic autoimmune disease that, along with symptoms of extensive oral and ocular dryness, can lead to other serious complications including profound fatigue, chronic pain, major organ involvement, neuropathies and lymphoma. While there is no cure for Sj├╢gren''s, approaches exist to help manage and treat aspects of the disease, and this revised handbook offers everything readers need to understandand cope with their diagnosis.The Sj├╢gren''s Book, Fifth Edition is a comprehensive and authoritative guide, produced by the Sj├╢gren''s Foundation and its medical advisors and edited by a leading authority on autoimmune disorders. This expanded edition provides readers with the best medical and practical information on this disease, bringing together current thinking about Sj├╢gren''s in an easily readable and understandable book and providing important new content on areas not covered in previouseditions. With more than fifty chapters written by leading experts, this handbook illuminates the major clinical aspects of the disease and is loaded with practical tips and advice as well as scientific advancements in the field. Indeed, it offers a wide-ranging look at the many faces of Sj├╢gren''s, covering diagnosis, the manyorgan systems that can be affected, emotional burden and management, treatment options, and hope for the future. Recognized as the bible for Sj├╢gren''s sufferers, this reliable and informative guide is the first place for patients to look when they have questions about this disabling disease. It is a valuable aid that patients can use while discussing their illness with their physician and an excellent resource for family members. Because Sj├╢gren''s is greatly underdiagnosed, this handbook is a particularly valuable resource for healthcare professionals.

Thunder and Lament is the first book-length study of Lucan's engagement with the Homeric poems and the works of early Latin epic.

In A Modernist Cinema, sixteen distinguished scholars in the field of the New Modernist Studies explore the interrelationships among modernism, cinema, and modernity. Focusing on several culturally influential films from Europe, America, and Asia produced between 1914 and 1941, this collection of essays contends that cinema was always a modernist enterprise. Examining the dialectical relationship between a modernist cinema and modernity itself, these essays reveal how the movies represented and altered our notions and practices of modern life, as well as how the so-called crises of modernity shaped the evolution of filmmaking. Attending to the technical achievements and formal qualities of the works of several prominent directors - Giovanni Pastrone, D. W. Griffith, Sergei Eisenstein, Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, F. W. Murnau, Carl TheodoreDreyer, Dziga Vertov, Luis Bu├▒uel, Yasujiro Ozu, John Ford, Jean Renoir, Charlie Chaplin, Leni Riefenstahl, and Orson Welles - these essays investigate several interrelated topics: how a modernist cinema represented and intervened in the political and social struggles of the era; the ambivalentrelationship between cinema and the other modernist arts; the controversial interconnection between modern technology and the new art of filmmaking; the significance of representing the mobile human body in a new medium; the gendered history of modernity; and the transformative effects of cinema on modern conceptions of temporality, spatial relations, and political geography.

"Over the course of its first seven editions, Principles of Biomedical Ethics has proved to be, globally, the most widely used, authored work in biomedical ethics. It is unique in being a book in bioethics used in numerous disciplines for purposes of instruction in bioethics. Its framework of moral principles is authoritative for many professional associations and biomedical institutions-for instruction in both clinical ethics and research ethics. It has been widely used in several disciplines for purposes of teaching in the classroom, during conferences, etc"--

Collaborative Insights provides new, interdisciplinary perspectives on the relationship between music and well-being at every point in life.

In 1834, a Chinese woman named Afong Moy arrived in America as both a prized guest and an advertisement for a merchant firm-a promotional curiosity with bound feet and a celebrity used to peddle exotic wares from the East. This first biography of Afong Moy explores how she shaped Americans' impressions of China, while living as a stranger in a foreign land.

One of the most fiercely debated issues of this era is what to do about "bad" speech-hate speech, disinformation and propaganda campaigns, and incitement of violence-on the Internet, primarily speech on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. In Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of our Democracy, Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone have gathered an eminent cast of contributors to explore the various dimensions of this problemin the American context. They stress how difficult it is to develop remedies given that some of these forms of "bad" speech are ordinarily protected by the First Amendment. Bollinger and Stone argue that it is important to remember that the last time we encountered a major new communications technology weestablished a federal agency to provide oversight and to issue regulations to protect and promote "the public interest."

Since Harold Garfinkel's Studies in Ethnomethodology was first published over 50 years ago, there has been a substantial amount of ethnomethodological (EM) research in many different areas from Conversation Analysis to legal studies. This book covers the wide range of EM influences, with chapters from experts in these theoretical and empirical fields. In doing so, it not only draws attention to past accomplishments in EM research, but also suggests how theseaccomplishments set the table for future endeavors in the human sciences.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Public Administration uniquely addresses public administration as a sprawling, diverse field that contains some elements of political science, economics, law, sociology, ethics and many other disciplines, while also comprising issues and approaches that are distinctive to public administration itself.

A brief, affordable text that combines theory, applications, and current research on small group communication through humor and a conversational style.

The Sixties occupy a prominent place in popular culture and scholarship as an era of global upheavals, including the Civil Rights Movement, de-colonization, radical social movements, student and youth protests, and the Vietnam War. This pioneering book explores the seemingly isolated Eastern bloc and a non-capitalist context, demonstrating the impact of those global upheavals on young people in Poland in the form of international youth culture, protest movements,and counterculture.

Recent decades have witnessed environmental, social, and economic upheaval, with major corporations contributing to a host of interconnected crises. This book examines the dynamics of corporate form that incentivize harmful excesses and presents an alternative vision to help secure an environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable future.

The second edition of Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society includes updates on the initiatives laid out in the first edition and sets new goals for the next five years. It also includes new information on the Grand Challenge to Eliminate Racism, expanding the social work pipeline, commentaries from leading social work organizations, and how interdisciplinary science can best provide a platform to tackle society's most urgent problems.

In The Dharma in DNA, Dee Denver offers a scientific approach to spirituality that focuses on explaining the natural links between Buddhism and biology.

Conversations about liberty in the U.S. often focus on freedom from - such as freedom from government. This focus can sometimes come at the expense of the freedom to - such as the freedom for all Americans to live the lives they imagine for themselves, and the conditions that might be necessary for this to be realized. In On Inequality and Freedom, a divesre groupd of authors explore how Americans might benefit from this expanded notion of what freedom trulyentails.

Dangerous Ground examines how white squatters in the American West came to occupy a central and destabilizing position in US political culture in the decades culminating in the Civil War.

In Hollywood Sports Movies and the American Dream, author Grant Wiedenfeld argues that sports films are a progressive critique of anti-democratic tendencies in the post-Civil Rights era and a site of multiculturalism's origin.

Gains and Losses looks at the details of politics, where individuals make decisions, negotiate with allies and opponents, suffer trade-offs and struggle with dilemmas, and often take to the streets as part of a broad strategic effort. In entertaining detail, the book presents six important, recent cases from three continents.