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A fictionalized case of medical ethics in Northern Michigan

Drawing on public opinion surveys conducted in 30 nations, this book documents an anti-American sentiment. It suggests that the war in Iraq, human rights violations, and unpopular international policies are largely responsible.

'Preference Pollution' is an assessment of what we know about the free market that focuses on desires people have about their desires.

Informed by contemporary theories of colonial photography and the history of US imperialism, Dean Worcester's Fantasy Islands is narrative in its approach, tracing Worcester's emergence both as a colonial administrator and a photographer and analysing the intersections between his personal desires and his political agenda as they shaped his photography in the Philippines.

New wave emerged at the turn of the 1980s as a pop music movement cast in the image of punk rock's sneering demeanor, yet rendered more accessible and sophisticated. Artists such as the Cars, Devo, the Talking Heads, and the Human League broke with the staid rock cliches of the 1970s and pointed the way to a more modern style.

Reveals the crucial role that spectacle played in American activism and reform movements in the 1800s

The first philosophical study devoted solely to acting, offering a meditation on the spillover from acting to life

An engaging exploration of the legal and policy questions surrounding U.S. national security and international travel

Economic integration fosters regional peace

The U.S. Supreme Court and the Congressional Black Caucus disagree over how best to protect minority voting rights

The first book-length study of one of the most essential elements of hip-hop: musical borrowing

American history as theater, and theater as the heart of American life

An exploration of the conflict between traditional Chinese ideology and modern Chinese business practice

A new critical perspective on Kerouac's work and his textual practices.

Tracks adherence to and defiance of presidential term limits in all types of regimes around the world since 1960. Drawing on original data collection and fieldwork to investigate the factors that encourage playing by or manipulating the rules, he asks what is at stake for the chief executive if he relinquishes office.

The 1000-page book covers theoretical models, system design and operation, and geoscientific applications of active and passive microwave remote sensing systems. It is designed as a textbook for a postgraduate course, as well as a reference for the practicing professional. To facilitate understanding and use of the material, the book includes 50 MATLAB-based computer codes and the book's website includes interactive modules based on theoretical and empirical models. The book is a must-have for every scientist and engineer with interest in microwave remote sensing.

Surveying writing about breast, uterine, and ovarian cancer, this book includes works by Marilyn Hacker, Margaret Edson, Carole Maso, Audre Lorde, Eve Sedgwick, Mahasweta Devi, Lucille Clifton, Alicia Ostriker, Jayne Anne Phillips, Terry Tempest Williams and Jeanette Winterson, among many others. It brings insights from several theories.

The Micase Corpus tracked spoken English in a variety of university settings - lectures, language labs, advising sessions, department meetings, and others. This work contains a set of abstracts of each of the 152 speech events in the original MICASE database. The abstracts provide contextual background on each of the speech events of the corpus.

Timely critical insights into today's growing initiative in publicly engaged scholarship

Focuses on the building blocks of successful fiction, including dialogue, characters, dramatic events, openings and closings, and the issue of sentiment versus sentimentality. This edition incorporates three chapters, which discuss the prose sentence, narrative context, and implicit narrative.

In Nathaniel Hawthorne's own time, other New England writers harshly condemned his views on abolitionism and slavery. This title takes a look at the historical and biographical record and offers readings of Hawthorne that reveal striking evidence of his true political values and beliefs.

A unique and beautifully illustrated field and reference guide to the true butterflies of the Great Lakes watershed

Clarifies the state of knowledge about the effects of foreign commerce on political-military relations and identifies the avenues of new research needed to improve our understanding of this relationship. Contributors offer insights into the political economy of national security, the causes of war, and the politics of global economic relations.