In Their Own Words

Education Redux: The e-OneRoom Schoolhouse is a timely and incisive work answering the myriad of questions about the America's schools and economy. The U.S. is facing a surfeit of crises--social, political and economic. Education Redux begins by describing the precise origins of these problems. The book proceeds to identify specific remedies to be applied to our educational system that are needed to rectify the flawed assumptions now guiding our school and political leadership.

Mission and Money goes beyond the common focus on elite universities and examines the entire higher-education industry, including the rapidly growing for-profit schools. The sector includes research universities, four-year colleges, two-year schools, and non-degree-granting career academies. Many institutions pursue mission-related activities that are often unprofitable and engage in profitable revenue raising activities to finance them. This book contains a good deal of original research on schools' revenue sources from tuition, donations, research, patents, endowments, and other activities. It considers lobbying, distance education, and the world market, as well as advertising, branding, and reputation. The pursuit of revenue, while essential to achieve the mission of higher learning, is sometimes in conflict with that mission itself. The tension between mission and money is also highlighted in the chapter on the profitability of intercollegiate athletics. The concluding chapter investigates implications of the analysis for public policy.

Notes from a Writer (written with Valija Rose) is resource and activity book for talented writers and their parents. The book provides helpful suggestions for developing writing talent during the middle- and high-school years.

This volume integrates the concept of school culture across major theories of academic motivation. Across chapters contributed by the authors and other scholars, the book spans a broad spectrum of ages from early childhood to early adulthood; examines the role of student perceptions pertaining to school culture and their role in academic motivation; explores the impact of intervention to enhance academic motivation; includes understudied populations as well as the role of ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, peers and family; examines contextual factors such as neighborhood, school, and home environment; and integrates themes and findings across chapters.

A cross-cultural collection of writings that through poetry, narrative, and photos grapple with some of the most pressing issues of the world we live in: war, poverty, health care, environment, family, beauty, and lastly--the ever-present need to connect--love. The book represents the efforts of dedicated artists around the globe, some who have been nominated or awarded literary prizes, to express a personal vision. Many of the writers here have experienced in some way the terrors of war and poverty, the lack of adequate medical care, and oppression. For them, this book represents both the vision of the world as it is and what it can be. It also expresses the belief that no matter our culture or belief, no matter what distance separates us--we are more similar than not. We are all very much human.

Bird Skin Coat, winner of the 2009 Brittingham Prize in Poetry, is brimming with startling moments of beauty found within a rusty and decayed landscape. With wild lyrical images of ascent and descent--doves and dives, sparrows and slugs, attics and cellars--this collection reflects Sorby's keen eye for blending images. As they shuttle between the Upper Midwest and the Pacific Northwest, these poems explore how the radical instability of the world is also the source of its energy.

They're about to save the world; they just don't want to get caught doing it.

Zeke, Milo, and Brandon are struggling to keep their environmental protest group, GreensWord, alive. It impresses chicks and sure beats getting jobs as corporate serfs in the real world. But their chief benefactor, movie star Matthew Barrington, threatens to cut off funding unless they stop global warming before his Malibu beach house slides into the storm-tossed ocean. In their desperate effort to save the beach house and their organization, the GreensWord trio is willing to try almost anything. No scheme is so illegal, so risky, or so outrageous they won't lend it an ear. But nothing is fast enough to stop global warming in time...until they think of the unthinkable solution.

Fortunately, they've watched enough TV to think that they know exactly what to do to foil any investigation of their noble crime. And if their drastic solution to global warming means they also take out the reigning Internet tycoon and his monopolistic Seattle software company, that's just organic frosting on the vegan cake.

Greensword is a dark comedy about the environment, extremism, stupid criminals, and the lengths to which people will go to avoid getting a real job.

One person can make a difference in the world. Of course, three people with a plan to stop global warming overnight can make a big difference.

The calm, contemplative poems of Steven Schroeder's new collection of poetry do not shy away from an engagement with the physical world, reaching through that physicality into a deeper sense of spiritual import. Schroeder revels in the radiance of the natural world, bestowing the seasons with the force of character.

Cats have nine lives. Shouldn't they be lived to the fullest?

"Domesticated" does not mean "docile." The ho-hum routine of sleep, eat, eat, and sleep is no way for any creature who ruled Egypt for a millennium to spend her day.

The Devious Book for Cats offers today's discerning kitties words of wisdom and advice on everything they need to know, including fail-safe tips on waking a human when you want to get fed, choosing the purr-fect gift, and staring like a pro, plus in-depth guides to cardboard boxes, catnip, and a brief history of the Felinism movement.

It's high time felines everywhere woke up from their cat naps and grabbed life's strings with both paws.

Cats: Discover the devious fun you can have when you're the one in charge!

In Some Liked It Hot: Jazz Women in Film and Television, 1928-1959, music scholar Kristin McGee illuminates the tenuous yet persistent relationship between the media and popular female jazz performers during the first half of the 20th century. McGee examines emerging media such as vaudeville, variety shows, radio, film, and television, and how new technologies supported, sustained, or prohibited professional women's performative and musical lives. Further, Some Liked It Hot looks at the underlying tensions surrounding the transformation of gender and race relations from the second industrial revolution to the more conservative and economically prosperous postwar era.
 
Jazz came to be seen as a "true" national culture in the early 20th century. Female jazz instrumentalists and performers were actively and consistently featured in a variety of media, but they are grossly underrepresented in the resulting jazz canon. McGee examines how and why this is the case, and in doing so unearths some important lost performances by talented women like Hazel Scott, Ina Rae Hutton, and Lena Horne, as well as popular all-girl bands.
 
Kristin McGee draws heavily from the disciplines of ethnomusicology, gender studies, and cultural studies in her analyses of mass-mediated female jazz performers. She examines how women, both white and women of color, constructed alternate identities as jazz musicians, defying traditional gender and racial roles of the day.

Eve's portrayal in the Bible as a sinner and a temptress seemed to represent and justify women's inferior position in society for much of history. During the Enlightenment, women challenged these traditional gender roles by joining the public sphere as writers, intellectuals, philanthropists, artists, and patrons of the arts. Some sought to reclaim Eve by recasting her as a positive symbol of women's abilities and intellectual curiosity. In Eve's Enlightenment, leading scholars in the fields of history, art history, literature, and psychology discuss how Enlightenment philosophies compared to women's actual experiences in Spain and Spanish America during the period.

Relying on newspaper accounts, poetry, polemic, paintings, and saints' lives, this diverse group of contributors discuss how evolving legal, social, and medical norms affected Hispanic women and how art and literature portrayed them. Contributors such as historians Mónica Bolufer Peruga and María Victoria López-Cordón Cortezo, art historian Janis A. Tomlinson, and literary critic Rebecca Haidt also examine the contributions these women's experiences make to a transatlantic understanding of the Enlightenment. A common theme unites many of the essays: while Enlightenment reformers demanded rational equality for men and women, society increasingly emphasized sentiment and passion as defining characteristics of the female sex, leading to deepening contradictions. Despite clear gaps between Enlightenment ideals and women's experiences, however, the contributors agree that the women of Spain and Spanish America not only took part in the social and cultural transformations of the time but also exerted their own power and influence to help guide the Spanish-speaking world toward modernity.

The first interdisciplinary collection published in English, Eve's Enlightenment offers a wealth of information for scholars of eighteenth-century Spanish history, literature, art history, and women's studies. An introduction by editors Catherine M. Jaffe and Elizabeth Franklin Lewis provides helpful historical and contextual information.

The 1947 Partition of India resulted in the death of two million people and the displacement of 16 million more. It continues to haunt contemporary life in India--not only for discourses that debate the place of religion in India, but also for the historical interpretation of justice and minority belonging, and for the tension-ridden struggle over the production of secular national culture in the subcontinent.

Violent Belongings is about the relation between culture and violence in the modern world, exploring contemporary ethnic and gendered violence, and the questions about belonging that trouble nations and nationalisms today. Kavita Daiya examines South Asian ethnic violence and related mass migration in and after 1947 through its representation in postcolonial Indian and, more broadly, global South Asian literature and culture. By investigating such texts as Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan with Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown and Jhumpa Lahiri's The Interpreter of Maladies, alongside the writings of Mahatma Gandhi, Bollywood cinema, and diasporic films like Deepa Mehta's Earth, Daiya illuminates the cultural and political negotiation of postcolonial migration, nationality, gender, and violence in transnational public spheres.

This critical study provides a comprehensive history of Cameroonian women's writing in French, using an anthropological approach to literature. Since Western feminism has not always allowed a full understanding of African mores, this book seeks to define what is meant by contemporary "matriarchies" in African culture and to explore a variety of African feminisms as expressed through Cameroonian women's writings. In the introduction, numerous theories of African-defined "matriarchy" are examined; subsequent chapters give concrete examples and explanations of how these contemporary matriarchies manifest themselves in the works of Marie-Claire Matip, Thérèse Kuoh-Moukoury, Werewere Liking, Calixthe Beyala, Philomène Bassek, Léonora Miano, and Jeannette Momo Doughagni. The book is the only critical study that gives a complete history--from its origins in 1954 to the present--of the nation's francophone literature written by its women. Foreword by Thérèse Kuoh-Moukoury, first woman novelist of Cameroon and Francophone Africa.

Bars of Steel chronicles the story of a beautiful, young Filipina, who leaves her home in the Philippines to work as a dancer in Hong Kong's red-light district of Wan Chai.

This book provides a probing first-person account of life in the Asian sex trade. Based in true account, this biography will hold special appeal for readers interested in the Asian bar world and will also serve as a companion guide for students of sociology, gender studies, or spirituality.

The story is simply told but touches on social, moral, and philosophical issues that lend themselves to discussion in a classroom setting: What constitutes exploitation? What duty or obligation does each person have to his or her family? Where does duty or obligation end and sacrifice begin? How does "free will" differ from "freedom"?

This paperback reprint, Religion and Politics in Maryland on the Eve of the Civil War: The Letters of W. Wilkins Davis, is a revised edition (new cover, foreword, and preface/bibliography) of a book that first appeared in hardcover in 1988 under the title A Student's View of the College of St. James.

From the foreword: "In this collection of letters written by members of a prominent Maryland family on the eve of and during the Civil War, David Hein has found gold in the mine of his state's historical society. This book immerses the reader in civilian life as civil war approached, fiercely as a wind-driven wildfire--civilian life personified by the family of Allen Bowie Davis, a prosperous farmer-legislator from Montgomery County, north of Washington, D.C. These letters capture the complexity of the Civil War in a state of abolitionists, pro-slavery unionists, anti-slavery southern sympathizers, and non-slaveholding secessionists. We see a pivotal Maryland through the eyes of adults and children, and we witness the consequences of war for familial relationships, religious values, and educational institutions. David Hein's crisp editorial commentary knits these letters together, enabling the Davis family to tell of life in the tumultuous middle of the 19th century."

China's sense of today and its view of tomorrow are both rooted in the past--and we need to understand that connection, says China scholar and author Charles Horner. In Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate, Horner offers a new interpretation of how China's changed view of its modern historical experience has also changed China's understanding of its long intellectual and cultural tradition. Spirited reevaluations of history, strategy, commerce, and literature are cooperating--and competing--to define the future.

The capstone of modern China was the founding of the People's Republic in 1949 and its rejection of Confucianism, capitalism, and modernity. Yet today's rising China retains few vestiges of what Mao wrought. What then, Horner asks, is post-Mao, postmodern China? Where did it come from? How did it get here? Where is it going?

Contemporary views of the great periods in Chinese history are having a significant influence on the development of rising China's national strategy, says Horner. He looks at the revival of interest in, and changing interpretations of, three dynasties--the Yuan (1280-1368), the Ming (1368-1644), and the Qing (1644-1912)--that, together with the People's Republic of China, provide examples of great power success.

The future of every major country is now connected to China's, and this book explains how China, now seeing itself as the complex and thriving result of the old and the new, is poised to change the world.

(Among many other things, Horner discusses the abiding influence of his teachers at Chicago in the late 1960s, especially William McNeill and Ping-ti Ho (He Bingdi).)

Wu Han, Historian: Son of China's Times spotlights the life of key Chinese intellectual Wu Han, well known in China as a major 20th-century historian and democratic political figure. World attention was drawn to Wu in the mid-1960s as the first of Mao Zedong's targets in the Cultural Revolution. This biography, published in 2008, locates Wu in the rapid changes in the social and political environment of his time, from the early years of the 20th century until his death in prison in 1969. With Wu Han's life as the focus, the narrative deals with the momentous changes in Chinese society and government during the past century. The full life biography is based on extensive interviewing in China and penetrates a great deal deeper than the conventional conception of the shift from nationalist to communist regimes in the People's Republic of China.

Diplomacy Between the Wars is a detailed inside story of diplomacy seen through the careers of five remarkable career diplomats. It is a unique and authentic picture of practical diplomacy and its effect during periods of international crisis that shaped the 20th century. These were not the statesmen and politicians who dominated the international stage but practical diplomats with long experience, linguistic competence, and deep knowledge of the local conditions, history, culture, and the people of the countries where they served. Author George Liebmann brings acute political awareness to the subject.

The achievements of these diplomats--often unsung during their careers and gleaned largely from history books--were considerable and a monument to practical, professional diplomacy. Lewis Einstein was influential in demonstrating the central role--and its control--of finance and credit in modern wars and urging massive U.S. economic assistance to Europe and after World War II, which provided the intellectual underpinnings of the Marshall Plan. Sir Horace Rumbold's work was vital in avoiding war between Great Britain and Turkey and in warnings of the dangers of Hitler. Johann von Bernstorff opposed Germany's "naval militarism" and supported a negotiated end to the First World War and peaceful revision of the Treaty of Versailles. Count Carlo Sforza urged restraint on Italy's territorial ambitions and tolerance for former fascists and communists. Ismet Inonu kept Turkey out of war, preserved her national interest at the Treaty of Lausanne, and maintained friendship with the great powers. He worked for religious toleration and the limitation of dictatorship in Ataturk's secular Turkish Republic.

Stewart: Heather Lost is a genealogy of one family that emigrated from Scotland shortly after 1776. It includes an analysis of the Scots' political and social events that necessitated the move. The book, which contains more than 150 photos, follows the families from their first location in New York to Wisconsin, Illinois, and other parts of the country. It also contains the story of the research and documentation involved to dig out the family information, as well as imagined dialogue about many of the events that are documented, giving a face to people and events long gone. For more information, visit author Bruce M. Stewart's blog.

This book presents a uniform description of the entire Georgian verbal system by taking into account its historical development and contemporary features of every type of conjugation pattern. Part one explains the evolutionary path of the verb from Proto-/Old Georgian to the modern language. Then based on the outcome of this, i.e., its current features, it then proposes that diathesis--the morphosyntactic alignment of a verb and its arguments--is a much better criterion than voice (used in previous analyses) to arrange Georgian verbs into a coherent classification system. Part two then uses diathesis to organize Georgian verbs by paradigmatic realizations. This book contains an extensive glossary, tables, and an index of every known Georgian verb stem, arranged by classification and alphabetically by root. The table of contents is set up to allow the reader to quickly find sections based on a verb's conjugation class.

This is the first of three books: The Georgian Verb: A Paradigmatic Analysis and The Georgian Verb: A Lexicon will be published by the end of the year.

Despite decades of research on the reconstruction of proto-Korean-Japanese (pKJ), some scholars still reject a genetic relationship. This study addresses their doubts in a new way, interpreting comparative linguistic data within a context of material and cultural evidence, much of which has come to light only in recent years.

The weaknesses of the reconstruction are due to the early date at which pKJ split apart and to lexical material that the pre-Korean and pre-Japanese branches later borrowed from different languages to their north and south, respectively. Certain Old Japanese words must have been borrowed from Korean from the fourth century CE, only a few centuries after the completion of the Yayoi migrations, which brought wet-field rice cultivation to Kyushu from southern Korea. That leaves too short an interval for the growth of two distinct languages by the time they resumed active contact. Hence the original separation must have occurred on the peninsula much earlier, prior to reliance on paddy rice and the rise of metallurgy.

Non-Korean elements in ancient peninsular place names were vestiges of pre-Yayoi Japanese language, and Korean did not develop exclusively from the language of Silla. Rather, the rulers of Koguryo, Paekche, and Silla all spoke varieties of Old Korean, which became the common language of the peninsula as their kingdoms overwhelmed its older culture and vied for dominance following the collapse of the Chinese commanderies.

While assuming linguistic non-relationship obviates some difficulties of pKJ reconstruction, it fares worse than the genetic hypothesis in relation to non-linguistic findings, and fails to explain a significant number of grammatical as well as lexical similarities. Though improving the reconstruction of pKJ will be challenging, the theory of genetic relationship is still the better working hypothesis.

Newly expanded edition includes the boat-repairs-and-maintenance vocabulary found in Kathy Parson's highly successful first edition plus 10 new topics essential to cruising the Caribbean, the Americas, and Spain. No other source provides boaters and marine interests with the unique practical, specialized phrases necessary for communicating with port captains, marina and boatyard staff, mechanics, technicians, emergency rescuers, divers, and fishermen. The book is just as useful ashore when provisioning, banking, clearing in or out of a country, traveling inland, or using phone, internet, medical, or dental services. Completely indexed in Spanish and English, with an easy-to-use pronunciation scheme, hundreds of drawings, photos, and diagrams of systems and boat parts, Spanish For Cruisers will be the boater's essential companion throughout any visit in Spanish-speaking waters.

Lexicographer Orin Hargraves has written an ESL lesson book about American slang. He breaks down into fun and digestible bits the essential elements of mastering American slang: grammar, lexicon, and pronunciation. The book provides the vital backstory to classroom instruction in standard English, enabling English learners to understand and use the language of the street.

Containing chapters on ambiguity, hate speech, and logical paradoxes, this book develops a theory of meaning that emphasizes the role played by the mental states of speaker and hearer.

A thorough and mathematically rigorous exposition of single-variable calculus for readers with some previous exposure to calculus techniques but not to methods of proof, Calculus Deconstructed: A Second Course in First Year Calculus is appropriate for a beginning honors calculus course assuming high school calculus or a "bridge course" using basic analysis to motivate and illustrate mathematical rigor. It can serve as a combination textbook and reference book for individual self-study. Standard topics and techniques in single-variable calculus are presented in the context of a coherent logical structure, building on familiar properties of real numbers and teaching methods of proof by example along the way. Numerous examples reinforce both practical and theoretical understanding, and extensive historical notes explore the arguments of the originators of the subject.

No previous experience with mathematical proof is assumed: rhetorical strategies and techniques of proof (reductio ad absurdum, induction, contrapositives, etc.) are introduced by example along the way. Between the text and the exercises, proofs are available for all the basic results of calculus for functions of one real variable.

Need to learn statistics as part of your job, or want some help passing a statistics course? Statistics in a Nutshell is a clear and concise introduction and reference that's perfect for anyone with no previous background in the subject. This book gives you a solid understanding of statistics without being too simple, yet without the numbing complexity of most college texts.

You get a firm grasp of the fundamentals and a hands-on understanding of how to apply them before moving on to the more advanced material that follows. Each chapter presents you with easy-to-follow descriptions illustrated by graphics, formulas, and plenty of solved examples. Before you know it, you'll learn to apply statistical reasoning and statistical techniques, from basic concepts of probability and hypothesis testing to multivariate analysis.

In fictional conversations with Pierre Fermat, the underpinnings and implications of Fermat's Last Theorem are examined using only the mathematical skills and methodology that would be possessed by the accomplished high-school graduate. Although a proof of that theorem is beyond the scope of the book, the objective is to provide sufficient insight so that the reader can appreciate the plausibility of Fermat's Last Theorem.

Mathematical craftwork has become extremely popular, and mathematicians and crafters alike are fascinated by the relationship between their crafts. The focus of this book, written for mathematicians, needleworkers, and teachers of mathematics, is on the relationship between mathematics and the fiber arts (including knitting, crocheting, cross-stitch, and quilting). Each chapter starts with an overview of the mathematics and the needlework at a level understandable to both mathematicians and needleworkers, followed by more technical sections discussing the mathematics, how to introduce the mathematics in the classroom through needlework, and how to make the needlework project, including patterns and instructions.

About this textbook: comprehensive work that covers the vast majority of the material needed for a beginning graduate-level course on complex analysis; wonderfully elegant and economical treatment of complex analysis; provides a real variety of alternative ways of understanding the concept of analyticity.

This book is intended for a graduate course on complex analysis, also known as function theory. The main focus is the theory of complex-valued functions of a single complex variable. This theory is a prerequisite for the study of many current and rapidly developing areas of mathematics including the theory of several and infinitely many complex variables, the theory of groups, hyperbolic geometry and three-manifolds, and number theory. Complex analysis has connections and applications to many other subjects in mathematics and to other sciences. It is an area where the classic and the modern techniques meet and benefit from each other. This material should be part of the education of every practicing mathematician, and it will also be of interest to computer scientists, physicists, and engineers.

The first part of the book is a study of the many equivalent ways of understanding the concept of analyticity. The many ways of formulating the concept of an analytic function are summarized in what is termed the Fundamental Theorem for functions of a complex variable. The organization of these conditions into a single unifying theorem with an emphasis on clarity and elegance is a hallmark of Lipman Bers's mathematical style. Here it provides a conceptual framework for results that are highly technical and often computational. The framework comes from an insight that, once articulated, will drive the subsequent mathematics and lead to new results.

In the second part, the text proceeds to a leisurely exploration of interesting ramifications of the main concepts.

The book covers most, if not all, of the material contained in Bers's courses on first year complex analysis. In addition, topics of current interest such as zeros of holomorphic functions and the connection between hyperbolic geometry and complex analysis are explored.

In nursing homes and assisted-living facilities across America, millions of the Greatest Generation are living out their final days, but no matter how exciting or mundane their lives, they're now occupying a hospital-style room--a public space where they can't lock their door and strangers freely come and go. Life is a succession of pokes and prods, medications, TV, bingo, and, possibly, talking to Ira Rosofsky.

Nasty, Brutish, and Long is a candid, humane, and improbably humorous look at the world of eldercare. With a compassionate eye yet mordant wit, Rosofsky, a psychologist charged with providing mental-health services to his elders, reveals a culture based not on empathy, but on bureaucratic regulation.

In this portrayal of what is increasingly becoming the last slice of life for many, Nasty, Brutish, and Long also presents a baby boomer's poignant meditation on aging and mortality, a reflection on caregiving during his parents' final days, and an examination of the choices that we, as a society, have made about health care for the elderly who are no longer of sound mind or body.

This thoroughly updated two-volume reference delivers cutting-edge information on nearly every aspect of clinical neuroradiology. Expert neuroradiologists, innovative renowned MRI physicists, and experienced leading clinical neurospecialists from all over the world show how to generate state-of-the-art images and define diagnoses from crucial clinical/pathologic MR imaging correlations for neurologic, neurosurgical, and psychiatric diseases spanning fetal CNS anomalies to disorders of the aging brain. Highlights of this edition include over 6,800 images of remarkable quality, hundreds of color images, and new information using advanced techniques, including perfusion and diffusion MRI and functional MRI. A companion Web site will offer the fully searchable text and an image bank.

Spa Living: Ideas, Tips & Recipes for Revitalizing Body-Mind-Spirit features expert advice for rebalancing body and soul. This book captures the healing serenity of spa treats at home. Some benefits of Spa Living include: how radiant beauty and vitality enhance confidence and joy in living life more fully; why proper skin care (for men, too) is vital in maintaining good health, with in-depth advice; tasty plant-based spa cuisine with recipes from top U.S. spas; how meditation enhances daily life, with tips on getting started; and how physical and emotional fitness contribute to harmony in self, others, and nature.

Unimagined Community examines the social-structural and cultural contexts and forces that shape the radical differences between prevalence trends in Uganda and South Africa from the late 1970s to the present. This book is not, however, about statistics, demography, or epidemiology of HIV trends or AIDS, or about the social, cultural, and economic consequences of HIV and AIDS.

Instead, it shifts our focus away from the personal/individual aspects of sexual behavior and risk to the large-scale social-structural issues. In line with this shift in scale of analysis, the principle theoretical innovation is to demonstrate that sexual networks can be understood as social structures, albeit invisible or "unimagined" ones. These, in turn, are part of the social contexts in which they form and are partly determined by them. Kinship, family property and inheritance regimes, population mobility, local-level and "traditional" authority, national-level political structures, and systems of traditional healing are all examined and brought into relation with one another in order to explain the specific differences in the configuration or topology of sexual networks.

This comparative anthropological investigation is focused on explaining how differences between large-scale patterns of sexual networks can advance our knowledge of the large differences that exist between HIV prevalence and trends in different regions.

Although the British film A Matter of Life and Death (1946) has been very popular over the decades, the neurological scholarship embedded within the film has never been made evident for film scholars or those interested in medical humanities. The film represents the frontiers of British neuroscience for 1946, but the traces of that scholarship were hidden by directors Michael Powell and Emereic Pressburger. This book contains new findings concerning the creation of the film and interpretation of the neuroscience on the screen.

Shedding new light on the American campaign to democratize Western Germany after World War II, Capturing the German Eye: American Visual Propaganda in Occupied Germany uncovers the importance of cultural policy and visual propaganda to the U.S. occupation.

Author Cora Sol Goldstein skillfully evokes Germany's political climate between 1945-49, adding an unexpected dimension to the confrontation between the United States and the USSR. During this period, the American occupiers actively vied with their Soviet counterparts for control of Germany's visual culture, deploying film, photography, and the fine arts while censoring images that contradicted their political messages. Goldstein reveals how this U.S. cultural policy in Germany was shaped by three major factors: competition with the USSR, fear of alienating German citizens, and American domestic politics. Explaining how the Americans used images to discredit the Nazis and, later, the Communists, she illuminates the instrumental role of visual culture in the struggle to capture German hearts and minds at the advent of the cold war.

Although millions in China have been advantaged by three decades of reform, impressive gains have also produced social dislocation. Groups that had been winners under socialism find themselves losers in the new order. Based on field research in nine cities across China, The Chinese Worker after Socialism considers the fate of one such group--35 million workers laid off from the state-owned sector. The book explains why these layoffs occurred, how workers are coping with unemployment, what actions the state is taking to provide them with livelihoods and re-employment, and what happens when workers mobilize collectively to pursue redress of their substantial grievances. What happens to these people, the remnants of the socialist working class, will be critical in shaping post-socialist politics and society in China and beyond.

Frauds on Creditors: Fraudulent Conveyances and Preferences provides practitioners and academics with comprehensive narrative coverage of the law to effectively pursue assets that a debtor has attempted to shield from his or her creditors. This service contains in-depth commentary on the federal and provincial legislation and the case law thereunder, including new material on the position of an advising and participating lawyer in the context of fraudulent conveyances and preferences, conflict of laws, the oppression remedy and the derivative action, creditors as beneficiaries of the directors' duty of care, and injunctions and certificates of pending litigation. This treatise on the law also relates to such other contexts as bankruptcy and insolvency law, landlord and tenant law, private company law, and bulk sales law.

Tourism today is recognized as the largest and fastest-growing industry in the world, capable of producing positive social and economic transformations, especially in developing countries. Yet for UNESCO, it works in conjunction with World Heritage sites for a far more ambitious goal: to produce "peace in the minds of men" by creating a new, global identity.

Anthropologist and former tour operator Michael Di Giovine draws on ethnographic fieldwork, close policy analysis, and professional experiences in Southeast Asia and Europe to provide a detailed examination of UNESCO's unusual effort to harness globalization and cultural diversity for the purpose of creating peace. He convincingly argues that UNESCO's designations are not impotent political performances that lead to the commercialization of local monuments, but instead are the building blocks of a new social system he calls the "heritage-scape"--an imaginative re-ordering of the world that knows no geopolitical boundaries but exists in the individual "minds of men."

Written for social scientists and heritage and tourism professionals, The Heritage-scape is an insightful, detailed, and expansive look at UNESCO's World Heritage Program in Vietnam, Cambodia, and across the world.

In the late 17th century, Quakers originated a unique strain of constitutionalism, based on their theology and ecclesiology, that emphasized constitutional perpetuity and radical change through popular peaceful protest. While Whigs could imagine no other means of drastic constitutional reform except revolution, Quakers denied this as a legitimate option to governmental abuse of authority and advocated instead civil disobedience. This theory of a perpetual yet amendable constitution and its concomitant idea of popular sovereignty are things that most scholars believe did not exist until the American founding. The most notable advocate of this theory was Founding Father John Dickinson, champion of American rights but not revolution. His thought and action have been misunderstood until now, when they are placed within the Quaker tradition. This theory of Quaker constitutionalism can be traced in a clear and direct line from early Quakers through Dickinson to Martin Luther King Jr.

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the political thought of John Dickinson, one of the founders of the American Republic; the first exposition of Quaker political theory; and the first exploration of the origins of the theory and practice of civil disobedience.

When we are finally old enough to realize that we have a personality, it's too late to have a hand in fashioning it. The Breckenridge Enneagram is a state-of-the-art, in-depth guide to understanding the key elements of personality and for facilitating deep, sustainable personal and professional growth. Most people writing about or teaching the Enneagram today trace their roots either directly or indirectly to the work of Claudio Naranjo. A number of popular authors have contributed to the evolution of Enneagram theory, but much of this work has been based on a theoretical foundation of spiritual and metaphysical principles. The Breckenridge Enneagram is set apart from other approaches to understanding and utilizing the nine personality types by its unique focus on a naturalistic, scientific view of personality and psychological processes that are linked to modern advances in the neurosciences.

Diving In is a teaching novel about the Enneagram model of personality. Readers are invited to journey along with nine people who are given a chance to experience deep, sustainable change as they participate in a life-altering workshop that's combined with a scuba-diving expedition in the breathtaking azure waters of Indonesia. Over six days, they are challenged by their teacher to closely examine the hows and whys of the lives that they've made for themselves. The book offers manageable formulas for creating healthy, growth-oriented relationships; for enhancing creativity and effectiveness; and for surmounting even the most robust personal problems.

In nursing homes and assisted-living facilities across America, millions of the Greatest Generation are living out their final days, but no matter how exciting or mundane their lives, they're now occupying a hospital-style room--a public space where they can't lock their door and strangers freely come and go. Life is a succession of pokes and prods, medications, TV, bingo, and, possibly, talking to Ira Rosofsky.

Nasty, Brutish, and Long is a candid, humane, and improbably humorous look at the world of eldercare. With a compassionate eye yet mordant wit, Rosofsky, a psychologist charged with providing mental-health services to his elders, reveals a culture based not on empathy, but on bureaucratic regulation.

In this portrayal of what is increasingly becoming the last slice of life for many, Nasty, Brutish, and Long also presents a baby boomer's poignant meditation on aging and mortality, a reflection on caregiving during his parents' final days, and an examination of the choices that we, as a society, have made about health care for the elderly who are no longer of sound mind or body.

Based on scientific evidence and written in commonsense language rather than medical jargon, The Holistic Pediatrician is a resource parents can turn to for authoritative and empowering advice on all aspects of their children's health. Fully updated and revised to reflect the numerous recent advances in this field, Kathi J. Kemper's The Holistic Pediatrician incorporates the best of both mainstream and alternative medicine to aid parents in dealing with the most common childhood health problems. From ear infections to allergies, fevers to diaper rash, colds to bed-wetting, this guide provides factual advice that aims to heal the whole child, rather than espousing one medical philosophy or another. The Holistic Pediatrician is also available as an e-book.

An upbeat and thoroughly readable guide, Mental Wellness in Adults with Down Syndrome provides parents, mental-health professionals, teachers, and caregivers the keys to understand how to promote mental wellness and to resolve psychosocial problems in people with Down syndrome. This groundbreaking book is written by the founding directors of the Adult Down Syndrome Center of Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois. The authors draw on 30 years of combined experience treating more than 3,000 adolescents and adults with Down syndrome, aged 12 to 83. The book clarifies what the common behavioral characteristics are, how some could be mistaken for mental illness, and what bona fide mental-health problems occur more commonly in people with Down syndrome.

Inter-Actions: Relationships of Religion and Drama is an exploration of the linguistic, structural, historical, and thematic relationships of religion and drama. It is not an attempt to sacralize drama so that it becomes a substitute for religion, nor will it reduce religion to its aesthetic dimension. What does religion tell us about drama, and what does drama tell us about religion? What have been their inter-actions in our tradition? These two areas of human experience are inextricably connected and inherently related in their very nature. The book includes chapters on ritual, play, and worship, as well as a close explication of plays from The Bacchae to Angels in America.

The conversation between religion and culture, drama, and Christianity needs to be ongoing. This book is a contribution to the dialogue, asking questions, pointing towards possible answers, and encouraging others to join in the conversation.

In Greek Tragedy and Political Philosophy: Rationalism and Religion in Sophocles' Theban Plays, author Peter Ahrensdorf examines Sophocles' powerful analysis of a central question of political philosophy and a perennial question of political life: should citizens and leaders govern political society by the light of unaided human reason or religious faith? Through a fresh examination of Sophocles' timeless masterpieces--Oedipus the Tyrant, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone--Ahrensdorf offers a sustained challenge to the prevailing view, championed by Nietzsche in his attack on Socratic rationalism, that Sophocles is an opponent of rationalism. Ahrensdorf argues that Sophocles is a genuinely philosophical thinker and a rationalist, albeit one who advocates a cautious political rationalism. Such rationalism constitutes a middle way between an immoderate political rationalism that dismisses religion--exemplified in Oedipus the Tyrant--and a piety that rejects reason--exemplified by Oedipus at Colonus. Ahrensdorf concludes with an incisive analysis of Nietzsche, Socrates, and Aristotle on tragedy and philosophy. He argues against Nietzsche that the rationalism of Socrates and Aristotle incorporates a profound awareness of the tragic dimension of human existence and therefore resembles in fundamental ways the somber and humane rationalism of Sophocles.

The Parting of the Sea: How Volcanoes, Earthquakes, and Plagues Shaped the Story of Exodus looks at how natural phenomena shaped the stories of the biblical Exodus, the Sojourn in the Wilderness, and the Israelite conquest of Canaan. Author Barbara J. Sivertsen demonstrates that the Exodus was in fact two separate exoduses connected with two volcanic eruptions. Over time, Israelite oral tradition combined these events into the Exodus narrative known today.

Divine Action and Natural Selection: Science, Faith and Evolution features 45 chapters with dialogue between the authors and others from 17 countries. It provides the first international pro-con discussion on creationism. Judaism, Islam, and Christianity are all well represented with a broad range of perspectives. Fresh ideas are provided by authors who work in artificial life and industrial use of evolutionary algorithms. Many of the articles are by scientists, religious and not. The basic rule set by the editors was that everyone had to be civil. One creationist and one anti-creationist refused, both of whom were excluded.

In Jonah's World: Social Science and the Reading of Prophetic Story, the biblical book of Jonah is considered through the use of social-science approaches and models: the construct of an imaginary world using the human constructs by which meaning is created of the world in which the scribal author lived, taking into consideration the world of empire, hierarchy, and symbolic understanding of place, flora and fauna. The book perceives Jonah as an exercise in dealing with reality through literary fiction.

Population Genetics, a textbook designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, aims to make population genetics approachable, logical, and easily understood. The book's design emphasizes introductions to key principles and predictions in the field augmented with case studies as illustrations.

The book includes novel pedagogical features such as "interact" boxes that guide readers step-by-step through computer simulations using public domain software, "math" boxes that fully explain mathematical derivations, and "problem" boxes integrated into the text to reinforce concepts as they are encountered. The text also offers a highly accessible introduction to coalescent theory, the major conceptual advance in population genetics of the past two decades.

Trust is used in a variety of ways in computing literature, and social trust is emerging as an important computational problem. In open, distributed systems such as the Web, people and organizations can be anonymous, and trust and reputation become important. Researchers from many subfields of computer science have produced results in this space, with applications such as security, recommender systems, and knowledge management. However, this wide interest also means that research is published in diverse venues, and thus results published in one area can go unnoticed by researchers in a different area. For scientists beginning to work in the area, discovering the relevant literature and developing a comprehensive understanding of the state of the art is difficult for similar reasons.

The goal of Computing with Social Trust is to bring together a collection of important work in computing social trust from computer science and related disciplines and to give readers a full view of the subject. It will be divided into three major sections. The first will address theory, behavior, and trust management. This covers social analyses of how people develop trust, the dynamics of trust relationships, and systems for trust management. The second section describes algorithms and methods for computing trust in social contexts. Social networks, profile similarity, and participation in online communities are all potential sources from which trust can be computed. The final section contains applications that use trust, such as recommender systems, Web site access control, and e-mail filtering.

Divine Action and Natural Selection: Science, Faith and Evolution features 45 chapters with dialogue between the authors and others from 17 countries. It provides the first international pro-con discussion on creationism. Judaism, Islam, and Christianity are all well represented with a broad range of perspectives. Fresh ideas are provided by authors who work in artificial life and industrial use of evolutionary algorithms. Many of the articles are by scientists, religious and not. The basic rule set by the editors was that everyone had to be civil. One creationist and one anti-creationist refused, both of whom were excluded.

This comprehensive volume, written by experts in the field, includes concise and timely reviews of Listeria monocytogenes, one of the most intensively studied bacterial pathogens. L. monocytogenes is the cause of listeriosis, a potentially fatal disease that arises from the consumption of contaminated food. During the past two decades, studies of this organism have uncovered a wealth of information on its virulence factors, its genome organization, and its interactions with host cells and the immune system. This book serves as an important information source for those who are already working in the field, those who teach about infectious agents, and those who are beginning to study this and related bacterial pathogens.

MATLAB has become the de facto standard tool for scientific computing in neuroscience. Yet, to date, there has been no textbook with a specific focus on neuroscience applications, effectively stranding and abandoning entire generations of students, both undergraduate and graduate.

Six University of Chicago neuroscientists--including current students Michael Lusignan and Adam Seth Dickey; assistant professor Nicho Hatsopoulos; Marc Benayoun, SB'04; and Tanya I. Baker, SM'02, PhD'06--took on the challenge to write a "friendly," "gentle" invitation to MATLAB for neuroscientists, empowering them. Because in the 21st century, scientific computing is effectively part of the liberal arts: all the knowledge that a free man should have in order to positively participate in the life of the mind.

For young men in urban Tanzania, barbershops are sites of the struggle to earn a living amid economic crisis. With names like Brooklyn Barber House and Boyz II Men, these workplaces are also nodes in an explosion of popular culture that appropriates images drawn from the global circulation of hip-hop music, fashion, and celebrity. Street Dreams and Hip Hop Barbershops: Global Fantasy in Urban Tanzania grapples with the implications of globalization and neoliberalism for urban youth in Africa today, exploring urban Tanzanians' complex new ways of understanding their place in the world.

Standardization is one of the defining aspects of modern life, its presence so pervasive that it is usually taken for granted. However cumbersome, onerous, or simply puzzling certain standards may be, their fundamental purpose in streamlining procedures, regulating behaviors, and predicting results is rarely questioned. Indeed, the invisibility of infrastructure and the imperative of standardizing processes signify their absolute necessity. Increasingly, however, social scientists are beginning to examine the origins and effects of the standards that underpin the technology and practices of everyday life.

Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life explores how we interact with the network of standards that shape our lives in ways both obvious and invisible. The main chapters analyze standardization in biomedical research, government bureaucracies, the insurance industry, labor markets, and computer technology. They provide detailed accounts of the invention of "standard humans" for medical testing and life-insurance actuarial tables, the imposition of chronological age as a biographical determinant, the accepted means of determining labor productivity, the creation of international standards for the preservation and access of metadata, and the global consequences of "ASCII imperialism" and the use of English as the lingua franca of the Internet.

A Japanese geisha, a Middle Eastern caravan, a Hungarian "Gypsy" fiddler, Carmen flinging a rose at Don José --portrayals of people and places that are considered exotic have been ubiquitous from 1700 to today in opera, Broadway musicals, instrumental music, film scores, or jazz and popular song. Often these portrayals are highly stereotypical but also powerful, indelible, and touching--or troubling. Musical Exoticism: Images and Reflections surveys the vast and varied repertoire of Western musical works that evoke exotic locales. It relates trends in musical exoticism to other trends in music, such as program music and avant-garde experimentation, as well as to broader historical developments such as nationalism and empire. Author Ralph P. Locke outlines major trends in exotic depiction from the Baroque era onward and illustrates these trends through close study of numerous exotic works, including operas by Handel and Rameau, Mozart's "Rondo alla Turca," Madama Butterfly and West Side Story.

Students in special-education programs can have widely divergent experiences. For some, special education amounts to a dumping ground where schools unload their problem students, while for others it provides access to services and accommodations that drastically improve chances of succeeding in school and beyond. Distinguishing Disability: Parents, Privilege, and Special Education argues that this inequity in treatment is directly linked to the disparity in resources possessed by the students' parents.

Since the mid-1970s, federal law has empowered parents of public-school children to intervene in virtually every aspect of the decision making involved in special education. However, author Colin Ong-Dean reveals that this power is generally available only to those parents with the money, educational background, and confidence needed to make effective claims about their children's disabilities and related needs. Ong-Dean documents this class divide by examining a wealth of evidence, including historic rates of learning disability diagnoses, court decisions, and advice literature for parents of disabled children. In an era of expanding special-education enrollment, Distinguishing Disability provides a timely analysis of the way this expansion has created new kinds of inequality. In so doing, it also reveals much about the evolving relationships among science, knowledge, identity, and privilege.

Communist parties lead revolutions in the name of the industrial proletariat. But in the course of China's post-Mao reforms, perhaps no class has experienced downward mobility as steep as the working class. An estimated 30 million state enterprise workers have experienced xiagang (laying-off), a stop-gap measure short of full unemployment, leaving them in a sort of limbo without the technical or psychological skills to adjust successfully to China's new marketized, privatized, and globalized economy. In Laid-off Workers in a Workers' State, an international team of scholars explores not only the politics of xiagang, but also the effect on Chinese workers and their families and the variety of their responses to this unprecedented dislocation in their lives.

An engagingly personal guidebook to more than 80 art museums, Art Museums PLUS: Cultural Excursions in New England brings to light the wealth of small and large art museums in the six New England states. In addition to nuts-and-bolts information, it also offers the reader informed and intimate introductions to the museums and their histories, holdings, traditions, and architecture, as well as the relationship to their town or city. Each entry concludes with a "PLUS" section, which enriches a visit by pointing to other cultural sites nearby, such as historically or aesthetically significant buildings and institutions, historic districts, and parks and gardens; it proposes walks and hikes or mentions relevant books and movies and contains 48 illustrations and six maps.

Tourism today is recognized as the largest and fastest-growing industry in the world, capable of producing positive social and economic transformations, especially in developing countries. Yet for UNESCO, it works in conjunction with World Heritage sites for a far more ambitious goal: to produce "peace in the minds of men" by creating a new, global identity.

Anthropologist and former tour operator Michael Di Giovine draws on ethnographic fieldwork, close policy analysis, and professional experiences in Southeast Asia and Europe to provide a detailed examination of UNESCO's unusual effort to harness globalization and cultural diversity for the purpose of creating peace. He convincingly argues that UNESCO's designations are not impotent political performances that lead to the commercialization of local monuments, but instead are the building blocks of a new social system he calls the "heritage-scape"--an imaginative re-ordering of the world that knows no geopolitical boundaries but exists in the individual "minds of men."

Written for social scientists and heritage and tourism professionals, The Heritage-scape is an insightful, detailed, and expansive look at UNESCO's World Heritage Program in Vietnam, Cambodia, and across the world.

As implied by the title, this is a comprehensive reference book to color knitting techniques. There are complete chapters on stripes, pattern stitches, knitting with multicolor yarns, stranded knitting, and intarsia, covering both the theory and the how-to behind each method. Additional chapters offer insights into less well-known techniques such as mosaic knitting, shadow knitting, twined knitting and entrelac. Projects scattered throughout the book provide the opportunity to test out these techniques, and chapters on color theory for knitters and garment design round out this beautiful, densely illustrated book.

A comprehensive guide to the mysteries of knitting, this book is designed to answer the many questions that frustrate knitters. Broad in its approach, it covers in detail everything from cast ons to bind offs, with chapters on needles; yarn; shaping; color work; circular knitting; patterns, abbreviations and charts; pattern stitches; and finishing techniques. Line drawings clearly illustrate techniques. All of this is packed into a volume small enough to fit easily in any knitting bag. The Knitting Answer Book has been a best-seller in knitting and needlecrafts since it's release in 2005.

Newly expanded edition includes the boat-repairs-and-maintenance vocabulary found in Kathy Parson's highly successful first edition plus 10 new topics essential to cruising the Caribbean, the Americas, and Spain. No other source provides boaters and marine interests with the unique practical, specialized phrases necessary for communicating with port captains, marina and boatyard staff, mechanics, technicians, emergency rescuers, divers, and fishermen. The book is just as useful ashore when provisioning, banking, clearing in or out of a country, traveling inland, or using phone, internet, medical, or dental services. Completely indexed in Spanish and English, with an easy-to-use pronunciation scheme, hundreds of drawings, photos, and diagrams of systems and boat parts, Spanish For Cruisers will be the boater's essential companion throughout any visit in Spanish-speaking waters.