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As medical and surgical skills improve, innovative procedures can bring back patients who have travelled farther on the path to death than at any other time in history. Hagan and the contributors to this volume engage in evidence-based research on near-death experiences and include physicians who themselves have undergone a near-death experience.

A challenge of the 21st century is the danger of conflict between peoples and cultures, among and within societies. This study explores the nature of this problem and sets forth a theory about what is necessary for peaceful relations to be possible.

Three weeks prior to the bombing of Pear Harbor, Japanese Special Envoy Saburo Kurusu visited Washington in an attempt to further peace talks. For more than seventy years, many have viewed Kurusu's visit as part of the Pearl Harbor plot. Garry Clifford and Masako Okura seek to dispel this myth with this edition of Kurusu's memoir.

Mark Twain, American Humorist examines the ways that Mark Twain's reputation developed at home and abroad in the period between 1865 and 1882, years in which he went from a regional humorist to national and international fame. In the late 1860s, Mark Twain became the exemplar of a school of humor that was thought to be uniquely American. As he moved into more respectable venues in the 1870s, especially through the promotion of William Dean Howells in the Atlantic Monthly, Mark Twain muddied the hierarchical distinctions between class-appropriate leisure and burgeoning forms of mass entertainment, between uplifting humor and debased laughter, and between the literature of high culture and the passing whim of the merely popular.

The purpose of this edited and abridged edition of Truman's memoirs is to find the essentially important story, told in the authentic voice of Harry S. Truman. Raymond Geselbracht's aim is for a new generation of readers to find this edition of Truman's memoirs readily approachable and enjoyable to read.

Tells the story of the first nation-wide economic collapse to strike the US. The Panic introduced Americans to the new phenomenon of boom and bust, changed the country's attitudes towards wealth and poverty, spurred the political movement that became Jacksonian Democracy, and helped create the sectional divide that would lead to the Civil War.

Chronicles the experience of raising a severely autistic child. In a powerful, deeply personal narrative, the author recounts the struggles he and his wife endured in diagnosing, treating, and understanding their son's disability. It is a story that takes the reader into the life of a child who exists in his own world, and describes the hardships faced by those who love and care for him.

The second volume of this critically acclaimed autobiography chronicles events in Samuel Langhorne Clemens's life between his departure with his family from Buffalo for Elmira and Hartford in spring 1871 and his departure with his family from Hartford for Europe in mid-1891.

Glimmerings of ecofeminist theory that would emerge a century later can be detected in women's poetry of the later Victorian period. Patricia Murphy examines the work of six ""proto-ecofeminist"" poets who contested the exploitation of the natural world.

From 1971 to 1976, (MORE) addressed newsroom diversity, the relationship between the press and politicians, and other issues essential to ensuring the institution's vitality. In telling the story of (MORE), Kevin Lerner explores the power of criticism to reform and guide the institutions of the press that, in turn, influence public discourse.

Why do images of entertainers abound in European literature and art since Romanticism? Naomi Ritter investigates this phenomenon and her analysis implies much about the triangle of creator, work and audience that inevitably controls all art.

The author argues that the victory of the Democratic party in the 1992 presidential election marks not only the end of the Reagan-Bush era, but also the failure of American conservatism.

Mary McLeod Bethune was a significant figure in American political history, who devoted her life to advancing equal social, economic, and political rights for blacks. This volume seeks to remedy the misconceptions surrounding Bethune, showing that she was a transitional figure with one foot in the nineteenth century and the other in the twentieth.

"Colonization after Emancipation reveals an unexplored chapter of the Emancipation story. A valuable contribution to Lincoln studies and Civil War history, this book unearths the facts about an ill-fated project and illuminates just how complex, even convoluted, Abraham Lincoln's ideas about the end of slavery really were."--Jacket flap.

This anthology grew out of the first two National Conferences on Music of the Civil War Era. Those conferences established an academic setting solely devoted to exploring the effects of the Civil War on music and musicians. Bridging musicology and history, these essays represent the forefront of scholarship in music of the Civil War era.

Provides the first book-length study of the fictional autobiography, a subgenre that is at once widely recognizable and rarely examined. Heidi L. Pennington shows that the narrative form and genre expectations associated with the fictional autobiography in the Victorian period engages readers in a sustained meditation on the fictional processes that construct selfhood both in and beyond the text.

A comprehensive study of Clemens's love affair with Bermuda, a depiction of a celebrated author on recurring vacations. This book sheds light on both Clemens's complex character and the topography and history of the islands. He offers insight into Bermuda's natural environment, traditional stone houses, and romantic past.

Refutes certain misconceptions about the current European Left and its relation to Marxist and Marxist-Leninist parties that existed in the recent past. Among the misconceptions that the book treats critically is that the Post-Marxist Left springs from a Marxist tradition of thought and represents a rejection of American values and practices.

Reviews the Wilson administration's attitudes toward Russia before, during, and after the Bolshevik seizure of power. The authors argue that before the Russian Revolution, Woodrow Wilson had little understanding of Russia and made poor appointments that cost the United States Russian goodwill.

Takes a humanistic approach to the Civil War, revealing the more personal aspects of the struggle that focuses on the soldiers themselves. This book also looks at soldiers' racial views, illuminating their deepest worries about the war, and at community politics and problems of discipline surrounding this ideologically divided unit.

Offers a full-length biography of Louisa S. McCord, one of the most intriguing intellectuals in antebellum America. The daughter of South Carolina planter and politician Langdon Cheves, McCord supported unregulated free trade, the perpetuation of slavery, and opposed the advancement of women's rights. This book examines the origins of her ideas.

The idea that the three branches of US government are equal in power is taught in classrooms, proclaimed by politicians, and referenced in the media. David Siemers shows that idea is a myth, neither intended by the Founders nor true in practice. He explains how adherence to this myth normalizes a politics of gridlock.

Offers an examination of working-class activism, broadly defined as that of farmers' organisations, labour unions, and political movements, in Arkansas during the Gilded Age. On one level, Hild argues for the significance of this activism in its own time. He also argues that the significance of these movements lasted beyond their own time.

Examines television's rural comedy boom in the 1960s and the political, social, and economic factors that made these shows a perfect fit for CBS. With discussions of The Andy Griffith Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, and others, Sara Eskridge reveals how the southern image was used to both entertain and reassure Americans in the '60s.