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Tells the story of German nurses who, directly or indirectly, participated in the Nazis' "euthanasia" measures against patients with mental and physical disabilities, measures that claimed well over 100,000 victims from 1939 to 1945.

Investigates how managed competition became the Bill Clinton's reform framework, but also illuminates how issues and policies emerge. This book follows Clinton's policy ideas from their initial formulation by policy experts through their endorsement by medical industry leaders and politicians to their inclusion in the proposal itself.

Coffee is traded in one of the few international markets ever subject to effective political regulation. This work explores the origins, the operations, and the collapse of the International Coffee Organization, an international "government of coffee" that was formed in the 1960s. It is aimed at those interested in "the new institutionalism".

The description for this book, Complete Poems and Selected Letters of Michelangelo, will be forthcoming.

An anthology which includes the central texts from the acclaimed two-volume compilation "Selected Works of Ramon Llull". This volume contains three prefaces on Llull's life, thought, and reputation. Of Llull's works, it offers "Book of the Gentile and the Three Wise Men"; "The Book of the Lover and the Beloved"; and "Book of the Beasts".

Demonstrates that the creation of a civil defense program produced dilemmas about the degree to which civilian society should be militarized to defend itself against threats. This book uncovers responses to the militarization of daily life and reveals how government planners and ordinary people negotiated their way at the dawn of the atomic age.

A title that opens on 13 November 1802, when the Jefferson is in Washington, and closes on 3 March 1803, the final day of his second year as president. The central issue of these months is the closing of the right of deposit at New Orleans, an act that threatens the economic wellbeing of Westerners.

Documenting Thomas Jefferson's last year's, this title presents 523 documents from 1 September 1815 to 30 April 1816. In this period, Jefferson makes three trips to Poplar Forest.

Traces the growth of a middle class in Kathmandu as urban Nepalis harness the modern cultural resources of mass media and consumer goods to build modern identities and pioneer a new socio-cultural space in one of the world's 'least developed countries'.

Explores the political context and meanings of key works in Western literature. This book covers Virgilian epics of conquest and empire that take the victors' side (the "Aeneid" itself, Camoes's "Lusiadas", Tasso's "Gerusalemme liberata") and the countervailing epic of the defeated and of republican liberty.

Develops a theory of response variability that, by reconciling the strengths and weaknesses of the standard approaches, that helps pollsters and scholars resolve perennial problems. This work offers an analysis of what a respondent is likely to choose, and also how variable those choices would be under differing circumstances.

Offers an investigation into what is known in Tibet as 'secret autobiography', a literary genre that presents an exploration of religious experiences. This book translates and studies the autobiographies by a Tibetan Buddhist visionary, Jigme Lingpa (1730 - 1798).

Argues that economists and sociologists have paid little attention to each other during most of the twentieth century: social problems have been analyzed as if they had no economic dimension and economic problems as if they had no social dimension. This book also describes how they came to challenge the separation between economics and sociology.

Offers an econometric analysis of business cycles. This book addresses five principal questions about the measurement, modeling, and forecasting of business cycles. It asks whether business cycles have become more moderate in the postwar period, concluding that recessions have, in fact, been shorter and shallower.

Presents an analysis of the rise and fall of US inflation after 1960. This book examines two explanations for the behavior of inflation and unemployment in this period: the natural-rate hypothesis joined to the Lucas critique and a more traditional econometric policy evaluation modified to include adaptive expectations and learning.

Offering a comparative history of marketing and campaigning, this book generates a "jukebox model" of participation and shows that expressive choice has become a target for those eliciting mass participation and public support.

How does law transform family, sexuality, and community in the fractured social world characteristic of the colonizing process? This title reveals how, in Hawai'i, indigenous Hawaiian law was displaced by a transplanted Anglo-American law as global movements of capitalism, Christianity, and imperialism swept across the islands.

Offers a guide to the conceptual framework of quantum mechanics. This book presents the Copenhagen interpretation, showing its logical consistency and completeness. The problem of measurement is a major area of inquiry, with the author surveying its history from Planck to Heisenberg before describing the consistent-histories interpretation.

The dream of scientific management was a rationalized machine world where life would approach the perfection of an assembly line. Since its early twentieth-century peak, this dream has come to seem a dehumanizing nightmare. This book tells the story of the emergence of modernist architecture as a romance with the ideas of scientific management.

Accounts for the origins of Social Security as we know it. This book tells the story of the Townsend Plan - a political organization that sought to alleviate poverty and end the Great Depression through a government-provided retirement stipend of $200 a month for every American over the age of sixty.

Contradicts the long-held belief that Aristotle was the first to discuss individuation systematically. This book argues that Plato was concerned with what makes something a something and that he solved the problem in a radically different way than did Aristotle.

Presents an area of mathematical research that combines topology, geometry, and logic. This book seeks to explain and illustrate the implications of the general principle, first emphasized by Alex Nabutovsky, that logical complexity engenders geometric complexity.

Reflects the influence not only of French poets including Verlaine and Rimbaud, but also of Whitman. This title presents the poems, whose English translations appear opposite the French originals, which are accompanied by reproductions of seven woodcuts by Georges Minne that appeared in the original volume.

Introduces readers to the basics of volcanology. This book follows the author as he descends into the steaming crater of the Soufri re Volcano on the island of St Vincent, as he conducts research on lava flows on the desolate south shore of the Island of Hawaii, and as he struggles to understand the explosion at Mount St Helens.

A collection of known eyewitness account of the great Danish thinker Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855). It contains accounts, ranging from the writings of Meir Aron Goldschmidt, editor of "The Corsair", to the recollections of Kierkegaard's fiancee.

Uses the experiences of Asian Americans to reconfigure the ways in which American history can be understood. This book examines a set of binaries - East and West, black and white, man and woman - that have structured the telling of our nation's history and shaped our ideas of citizenship since the late nineteenth century.

Presenting the story of Poincare's work, this book traces the history of attempts to solve the problems of celestial mechanics posed in Isaac Newton's "Principia" in 1686. It introduces the people whose ideas led to the field called nonlinear dynamics.

Challenges the view that the fifteenth century was the 'Drab Age' of English literary history. This book seeks to recover the late-medieval literary system that defined the canon of Chaucer's work and the canonical approaches to its understanding. It shows how the poets, and scribes constructed Chaucer as the 'poet laureate'

Explains the origins and development of modern physical concepts about matter. This book examines two of the earliest known theories about matter - the atomic theory, which attributed all physical phenomena to atoms and their motion in the void, and the theory of the elements, which described matter as consisting of earth, air, fire, and water.