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Participating in the reframing of literary studies, this book identifies, as "cosmopolitan fiction", a genre of global literature that investigates the ethics and politics of complex and multiple belonging.

The former senator and presidential candidate offers a provocative new assessment of the first "national security president"James Monroe is remembered today primarily for two things: for being the last of the "Virginia Dynasty"-following George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison-and for issuing the Monroe Doctrine, his statement of principles in 1823 that the western hemisphere was to be considered closed to European intervention....

Abbott Joseph Liebling was one of the greatest of all New Yorker writers, a colorful figure who helped set the magazine's urbane tone and style. Just Enough Liebling gathers in one volume the vividest and most enjoyable of his pieces. Charles McGrath (in The New York Times Book Review) praised it as "a judicious sampling-a useful window on Liebling's vast body of writing and a reminder, to those lucky enough to have read him the first time aro...

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Race, ethnicity, and the American New Woman

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Devotion to the crucified Christ is one of the most familiar yet disconcerting artifacts of medieval European civilization. How and why did the images of the dying God-man and his grieving mother achieve such prominence, inspiring unparalleled religious creativity and emotional artistry even as they fostered such imitative extremes as celibacy, crusade, and self-flagellation?Magisterial in style and comprehensive in scope, From Judgment to Pas...

Niemand wird gerne alt. Inzwischen altert jedoch die Menschheit in nie gekanntem Ausmaß. Das individuelle Schicksal wird zum politischen und ökonomischen Schicksal fast aller Staaten der Erde. Es ist höchste Zeit zum Umdenken. Die heutigen Jungen müssen - schon aus Überlebensinstinkt - die Diskriminierung des Alters bekämpfen, andernfalls werden sie in dreißig Jahren in die seelische Sklaverei gehen. Denn negative Altervorstellungen führen zur...

Despite increased political and public interest in asylum issues in the UK, little has been written on the topic. This book, written by leading experts in the field, is the first to examine the role of Refugee Community Organizations (RCOs) at a critical point of policy change. The book is distinctive in combining theoretical discussion on the role of networks, resources and social capital with fieldwork evidence and interviews with members of...

As a part of late nineteenth-century Japan's modernizing quest for empire, midwifery was transformed into a new woman's profession, and the Issei midwives who moves to the united States ("sanba) served as cultural brokers as well as birth attendants. Arriving on the mainland, the midwives found an emerging welfare state in which the government assumed some responsibility for welfare, including health and midwifery. The history of Japanese Amer...

Harking back to an era of desperados and lawmen, during the heyday of train robberies, this book chronicles the tale of Captain John Kinney - a detective - and his confrontation with the Dalton gang. It secures for Captain Jack Kinney - great-grandfather of Captain John, his rightful place in the annals of the American West.

Provides therapists with the background knowledge they require before they can safely and accurately treat patients with musculoskeletal disorders of the spine. Illustrated with over 200 diagrams, this book is useful to the student and practitioner physiotherapists, chiropractors and osteopaths, and to those who regularly treat spinal dysfunction.

Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) is a $3.4 trillion industry in which documentation is the basis for the delivery of products and services. Such documentation is the currency of AEC projects and can be a complex mixture of drawings and specifications. Sharing and archiving documents requires a safe, small and smart format, a role for which Adobe’s portable document format (PDF) is ideally suited. PDF has become the de facto sta...

Elizabeth Emma Ferry explores how members of Guanajuato's Santa Fe Cooperative, Mexico's only remaining cooperatively owned silver mine, give meaning to their labor in an era of rampant globalization and neoliberalism. Ferry analyzes the cooperative's practices and the importance of patrimonio (patrimony) in their understanding of work, kinship, and morality. More specifically, she argues that patrimonio, a belief that certain resources are in...

Elizabeth Emma Ferry explores how members of Guanajuato's Santa Fe Cooperative, Mexico's only remaining cooperatively owned silver mine, give meaning to their labor in an era of rampant globalization and neoliberalism. Ferry analyzes the cooperative's practices and the importance of patrimonio (patrimony) in their understanding of work, kinship, and morality. More specifically, she argues that patrimonio, a belief that certain resources are in...

Sprawl creates and contributes to habitat loss, fragmentation, pollution, and a host of other environmental problems. This new collection focuses on the impact of sprawl on biodiversity and the measures that can be taken to alleviate it. With contributions from leading biological and social scientists, conservationists, and land-use professionals, Nature in Fragments examines the genesis of sprawl, its effect on species, and the ways in which ...

Sprawl creates and contributes to habitat loss, fragmentation, pollution, and a host of other environmental problems. This new collection focuses on the impact of sprawl on biodiversity and the measures that can be taken to alleviate it. With contributions from leading biological and social scientists, conservationists, and land-use professionals, Nature in Fragments examines the genesis of sprawl, its effect on species, and the ways in which ...

Im zweiten Teil erörtert Benn sein Verhältnis zu den Nazis in den Jahren 1933 und 1934 und seine Einstellung zur Emigration anhand seiner Entgegnung auf einen vorwurfsvollen und beschwörenden Brief, den Klaus Mann ihm geschrieben hatte, und begründet seinen damaligen Entschluß, sich in die Armee zurückzuziehen - »eine aristokratische Form der Emigration«. Konfessionen, die nichts beschönigen, sondern den Irrtum als solchen verteidigen. Friedri...

Der "Ärztliche Blick ins Sediment" zählt zu den wenig aufwendigen und doch überaus effektiven Untersuchungsmethoden in Klinik und Praxis: Die mikroskopische Harnuntersuchung liefert frühzeitig wertvolle Hinweise für die Erkennung und Verlaufskontrolle von Krankheiten der Nieren und der ableitenden Harnwege, gelegentlich auch von extrarenalen Erkrankungen. Dr. med. Sabine Althof, geboren 1936 in Rostock. 1955-1961 Studium der Medizin in Rostoc...