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In this groundbreaking book, health-care attorney Daniel E. Dawes explores the secret backstory of the Affordable Care Act, shedding light on the creation and implementation of the greatest and most sweeping equalizer in the history of American health care. An eye-opening and authoritative narrative written from an insider's perspective, 150 Years of ObamaCare debunks contemporary understandings of health reform. It also provides a comprehensi...

Beloved and respected by scholars, preachers, and laity alike, Walter Brueggemann offers penetrating insights on Scripture and prophetic diagnoses of our culture. Instead of maintaining what is safe and routine, A Gospel of Hope encourages readers to embrace the audacity required to live out ones faith. This must-have volume gathers...

Glossary of Dental Implantology provides a comprehensive, consensus-based global platform of dental implant terminology for effective communication among dental professionals, clinicians, clinical and basic science researchers, and scientists. * Offers clear definitions for dental implant-related terms for use by the whole dental team * Fosters a working knowledge of currently used dental implant terminology * Helps team members to communicate...

Examines wounding as a foundational principle of modernism in literature and film. Theorizing the genre of the narrative wound - texts that aim not only to depict but also to inflict injury - Ian Fleishman reveals harm as an essential aesthetic strategy in ten exemplary authors and filmmakers.

To be or not to be - who asks this question today, and how? What does it mean to issue, or respond to, an appeal for the right to die? In A Death of One's Own, the first sustained literary study of the right to die, Jared Stark takes up these timely questions by testing predominant legal understandings of assisted suicide and euthanasia against literary reflections on modern death.

Offers an innovative examination of how supporters of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez engaged in performance practice to build and negotiate the terms of populism. In Angela Marino's analysis populism is the practice of politics by ordinary people, which may include a variety of behaviours and forms of cultural production in live events, media, and the built environment.

The neighbourhoods that make up Chicago's rich cultural landscape have been defined by the restaurants that anchor them. In Local Flavor, the popular food writer Jean Iversen chronicles eight beloved local eateries, from Chinatown on the South Side to Rogers Park in the far North, tracing the story of how they became neighbourhood institutions.

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Global craft brand Tilda present a new set of twelve projects here, with each characterised by a coast or country theme that makes use of the colourful new Tilda fabric ranges. Items now accessible to novice and dedicated stitchers include quilts, soft toys and pillows, enlivened by the more graphic direction taken by Tilda in 2017.

The first book-length analysis of Xenephon's most important work, which Pangle argues presents Socratic thought more accurately than any of Plato's works.

Covering from 1915 to the present, this book deals with the role that artists and intellectuals have played regarding projects of European integration. Consciously or not, they partake of a tradition of Euroskepticism. Because Euroskepticism is often associated with the discourse of political elites, its literary and artistic expressions have gone largely unnoticed. This book addresses that gap.

Tyrannosaurus rex. Homo sapiens. Heteropoda davidbowie. Behind each act of scientific naming is a story. In this entertaining and illuminating book, Michael Ohl considers scientific naming as a joyful and creative act. There are about 1.8 million discovered and named plant and animal species, and millions more still to be discovered. Naming is the necessary next step after discovery, it is through the naming of species that we perceive and und...

The title of this collection is taken from the name of a mythical tree that eats people. Like the branches of that tree, the poems in this book seem to capture and nourish themselves on a diverse cast of would-be passers-by, drawing their life-force from the resulting synthesis of characters.

These poems question the usefulness of wealth and ownership as markers of success. Taking wine fridges and fake flowers as emblems of capitalism's failure to assuage human loneliness, the speakers in these poems find joy in shared meals and glasses of wine, and use moments of mutual attention to challenge notions of class in America.

Exam Board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: Health and Food TechnologyFirst Teaching: 2017, First Exam: 2018 National 5 Health & Food Technology Success Guide provides easy-to-use and value-for-money revision for all abilities and learning styles.

Châteaux, landed estates, family portraits, names, titles and coats of arms are symbols of aristocratic identity and integral to the collective memory of nobility. In this study of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, Elizabeth Macknight explains the significance of nobles' conservationist traditions for public engagement with the history of France. During the French Revolution nobles' property was seized, destroyed, or sold off by the n...

In turn creative thinker and street flâneur, careful planner and adventurer, empathic listener and distant voyeur, recluse writer and active participant: the ethnographer is a multifaceted researcher of social worlds and social life. In this book, sociologists Sarah Daynes and Terry Williams team up to explore the art of ethnographic research and the many complex decisions it requires. Using their extensive fieldwork experience in the United ...

In turn creative thinker and street flâneur, careful planner and adventurer, empathic listener and distant voyeur, recluse writer and active participant: the ethnographer is a multifaceted researcher of social worlds and social life. In this book, sociologists Sarah Daynes and Terry Williams team up to explore the art of ethnographic research and the many complex decisions it requires. Using their extensive fieldwork experience in the United ...

Times Square, Brooklyn Bridge, Freiheitsstatue, MoMA und Central Park, Ellis und Staten Island. In New York ist die Frage nicht »Was soll ich ansehen?«, sondern »Was muss ich weglassen?« Dieser National Geographic Reiseführer lotst Sie mit Tipps und Stadtplan zielsicher durch die Häuserschluchten und bietet für jedes Interesse das passende Programm in New York. Mit praktischen Karten für Ausflüge in die Umgebung.