In Their Own Words

From the Pen of Paul: The Fantastic Images of Frank R. Paul is the first and only book on the life and art of the grandfather of science-fiction illustration. The book is edited with an introduction by Stephen D. Korshak and a preface by Arthur C. Clarke.

Restoring the Balance: War Powers in an Age of Terror challenges the conventional arguments on both sides of the debate over war powers, especially in the context of the ongoing war on terror. Advocates of a strong Congress focus on the need for legislative control over the power to deploy troops into combat; supporters of vigorous presidential power argue that the president's constitutional role as commander in chief of the armed forces means that the president can take any action deemed vital to the war effort. Using constitutional theory, case law, and political precedent, Restoring the Balance advances a novel understanding of the power to declare war, arguing that although the president has broad inherent constitutional powers to deploy U.S. armed forces into combat abroad without specific authorization from Congress, absent such authorization the president is more limited when trying to take actions that affect the legal status of persons within the United States itself.

Contrary to 20th-century criticism that cast them as misguided dabblers, English virtuosi in the 17th and early 18th centuries were erudite individuals with solid grounding in the classics, deep appreciation for the arts, and sincere curiosity about the natural world. Reestablishing their broad historical significance, The English Virtuoso situates this polymathic group at the rich intersection of the period's art, medicine, and antiquarianism.

At the heart of this wide-ranging study lies the Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, which from its founding in 1660 served as the major professional organization for London's leading physicians, many of them prominent virtuosi. Author Craig Ashley Hanson reveals that a vital art audience emerged from the Royal Society--whose members assembled many of the period's most important nonaristocratic collections--a century before most accounts date the establishment of an institutional base for the arts in England. Unearthing the fascinating stories of an impressive cast of characters, Hanson establishes a new foundation for understanding both the relationship between British art and science and the artistic accomplishments of the late 18th and 19th centuries.

This is the first book to introduce young people, ages 10 to 100, to author and activist Jane Jacobs. Her now-classic 1961 book helped people value their cities, called for an end to the wrecking ball of "urban renewal," and ultimately changed the world. In words, vintage photos, and illustrations, Genius of Common Sense follows Jacobs from her childhood in Scranton, Pennsylvania, through her groundbreaking work, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and her involvement in battles to save the very New York City neighborhoods she wrote about.

This young-adult book serves as a valuable introduction for readers of all ages to the life and work of Jane Jacobs. Even those familiar with this remarkable woman will find information and images never published before.

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.

In his memoir, Alvin Ziontz reflects on his more than 30 years representing Indian tribes, from a time when Indian law was little known through landmark battles that upheld tribal sovereignty. He discusses the growth and maturation of tribal government and the underlying tensions between Indian society and the non-Indian world. A Lawyer in Indian Country presents vignettes of reservation life and recounts some of the memorable legal cases that illustrate the challenges faced by individual Indians and tribes.

As the senior attorney arguing U.S. v. Washington, Ziontz was a party to the historic 1974 Boldt decision that affirmed the Pacific Northwest tribes' treaty fishing rights, with ramifications for tribal rights nationwide. His work took him to reservations in Montana, Wyoming, and Minnesota, as well as Washington and Alaska, and he describes not only the work of a tribal attorney but also his personal entry into the life of Indian country.

This is the first book to introduce young people, ages 10 to 100, to author and activist Jane Jacobs. Her now-classic 1961 book helped people value their cities, called for an end to the wrecking ball of "urban renewal," and ultimately changed the world. In words, vintage photos, and illustrations, Genius of Common Sense follows Jacobs from her childhood in Scranton, Pennsylvania, through her groundbreaking work, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and her involvement in battles to save the very New York City neighborhoods she wrote about.

This young-adult book serves as a valuable introduction for readers of all ages to the life and work of Jane Jacobs. Even those familiar with this remarkable woman will find information and images never published before.

Anna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet is the first major biography of the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. Born in 1889, Akhmatova came of age just as the Tsarist regime was collapsing. Famous for her haunting poetry and austere beauty, she was so lionized in communist Russia that Stalin feared to kill her, but attacked her family and closest friends. A poet of prophetic power who witnessed her beloved homeland suffer under oppression, Akhmatova wrote from her intensely personal experience as a woman, mother, lover, and artist. Her poems are among the most influential works of the 20th century. This biography has recently been revised and expanded, based on new material, interviews, and archival research. It includes revelations and new interpretations of Akhmatova's relationship to Pasternak, Mandelstam, and Isaiah Berlin, as well as an updated bibliography.

Written as he spoke it, Wilson tells of his early life in Louisiana and his adult years in Galveston and San Francisco in vivid colloquial language that gives the reader the feeling of sitting across the kitchen table, listening to him talk. His storytelling provides an illuminating and accessible historical account of the lives of blacks in the South and their migration north during World War II. Details about routine living skills add important details to his story, as does the importance of Negro League baseball. Life was not always simple or pleasant for Wilson, but hard lessons he learned at an early age molded him into a man able to overcome obstacles placed in his path by time, place and racism, without losing his innate decency.

To Be a Man: Johnnie Wilson Jr. is an inspiration to anyone who is looking for basic goodness in today´s world. The book grew from a chance encounter with Mr. Wilson´s grandson, Lorrel Anderson, who drove for a car service that took the author to the airport. The two got into a conversation about family and soon, with love and pride, he began telling her about his 93-year-old grandfather. As a result of that car ride, she began recording Mr. Wilson´s story for his family, believing it spoke to more people than just his family.

To Be a Man: Johnnie Wilson Jr. is the first book by Susan Gluck Rothenberg, a San Francisco-based oral historian. Susan's work has previously been published in the Oral History Review.

Go behind the scenes for a firsthand look at the corporate culture, values, management styles, challenges, and opportunities that cause organizations to succeed or fail. In this straight-talking account of his life and career as an international business executive, Maurice Marwood guides the reader through the corridors of corporate power and offers down-to-earth strategies for succeeding in a globalized economy. Throughout his 40-year career, Marwood fought to defend the virtues of capitalism and free enterprise against a constant onslaught of socialism and anti-business elements. Working in more than 85 countries, he was often on the cutting edge of international business developments. He first visited China, for example, shortly after the death of Chairman Mao--at the very beginning of the country's period of phenomenal growth. Later, while living in Taiwan, he devoted several years studying the history and culture of the ethnic Chinese, analyzing the complex, antagonistic relationship between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China on Taiwan--as well as the reluctant role played by the United States. Marwood's candid memoir of his on-the-job successes, failures, and frustrations intertwines with recollections of personal adventures alongside reflections on ethics, morality, spirituality, and the epidemic of mysticism that destroys the lives of so many. Professional Nomad is not only a reference for those aspiring to a successful career in international business, but it is also a blueprint for a flourishing life, one lived with passion, determination, and ultimate satisfaction.

Security hassles, delays, and passenger abuse have made commercial flying a nightmare, and interstate highway travel means dodging trucks, crawling through construction zones, and subsisting on interchange junk food. There's a better way: UNterstate highways, the best of our older roads. Intended primarily for small towns seeking economic development, this specialty manual enumerates ways these highways can be sold to long-distance travelers with marketing programs.

Merger Arbitrage: How To Profit From Event-Driven Arbitrage explains everything you need to know about merger arbitrage.

Few books have ever been published about merger arbitrage. Although other areas of finance are covered by more titles than anyone can read, merger arbitrage has been the poor stepchild of the investment literature. This book fills the void as the first in a decade to cover this strategy. It takes a deep look into the strategy and its use in a portfolio with numerous illustrative examples of actual merger-arbitrage transactions.

Merger Arbitrage has been written for a wide range of investment and M&A professionals, including investors, who will learn the benefits of merger arbitrage and how to integrate it into their asset allocation strategy. Deal makers who look to structure their deals to get the support of the arbitrage community will get an understanding of what arbitrageurs look for in mergers, and arbitrageurs can find a road map for executing arbitrage strategies successfully.

Merger Arbitrage is the definitive book on one of the most effective forms of arbitrage. Organized into three comprehensive parts, this reliable resource introduces you to the basics of the arbitrage process in part one, discusses the possible pitfalls of the approach in part two, and deals with some practical questions of investing in merger arbitrage in part three.

Filled with in-depth insights and expert advice, this timely guide goes beyond the description of the arbitrage process to examine the benefits of adding merger arbitrage to your portfolio, while introducing you to the vehicles that can be used to incorporate this strategy into your everyday investment endeavors.

One of the most original and prolific economists of the 20th century, Joan Robinson (1903-83) is widely regarded as the most important woman in the history of economic thought. In The Provocative Joan Robinson, authors Nahid Aslanbeigui and Guy Oakes trace the strategies and tactics Robinson used to create her professional identity as a Cambridge economist in the 1930s, examining how she recruited mentors and advocates, carefully defined her objectives, and deftly pursued and exploited opportunities.

Most managers struggle against the flow of overly complex systems and are frustrated by an invisible force that undermines their attempts to affect positive change. Their instincts tell them that the organization's structures, systems, and culture are preventing them from getting the results they want, but "culture" has remained one of the least understood aspects of organizational life--until now. This book reveals how organizational culture can act like an Invisible Bureaucracy™ that frustrates and undermines organizational performance. Author Mark Bodnarczuk argues that assessing and changing organizational culture is of little value unless it is focused on real business challenges. Understanding how the forces of Invisible Bureaucracy actually work begins to transform "culture" into a reliable resource that can be intentionally used to achieve an organization's goals and objectives. Like a pair of infrared glasses that allows you to see things at night, the material in this book will make Invisible Bureaucracy visible. Once you've learned to "see" differently, you'll never view organizations (or the people in them) the same way again.

Primal Management is based upon a simple premise--how employees feel determines how they function, and how employees function determines organizational performance. Despite the obvious fact that feelings drive the show, companies often default to using wages and benefits as their primary motivators. The attitude in the executive suite is often, "I don't care how my employees feel. I pay them so they should do their work regardless of how they feel." This disrespectful, feelings-don't-matter attitude, Paul Herr argues, has created a disengaged populace where only 29 percent of employees care about their work (Gallup), and where half of us suffer from a form of mental illness in our lifetimes.

Emotions and feelings do matter, and Herr draws on the latest findings in neuroeconomics and neurobiology to prove it. Herr shows that companies could literally double productivity if only they would design the workplace harmoniously around human nature rather than brutally on top of it.

This is a CD entitled New Music from Bowling Green Vol. IV, upon which my orchestra work "Xylem" appears, played by the Bowling Green Philharmonia, conducted by Emily Freeman Brown

This is a CD of chamber music featuring guitar, including a work by Webb called Sustenance Variations.

This is the first book to introduce young people, ages 10 to 100, to author and activist Jane Jacobs. Her now-classic 1961 book helped people value their cities, called for an end to the wrecking ball of "urban renewal," and ultimately changed the world. In words, vintage photos, and illustrations, Genius of Common Sense follows Jacobs from her childhood in Scranton, Pennsylvania, through her groundbreaking work, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and her involvement in battles to save the very New York City neighborhoods she wrote about.

This young-adult book serves as a valuable introduction for readers of all ages to the life and work of Jane Jacobs. Even those familiar with this remarkable woman will find information and images never published before.

The Prometheus Project: Trapped is a fast-paced science-fiction adventure novel for children 9-13, written to be mentally engaging and highly entertaining to boys and girls alike. Accurate science is presented in the book to further the plot, to stimulate interest in science and technology, and above all else, to fascinate and delight. The book is filled with humor, discovery, adventure, and suspense, and since many chapters end in cliffhangers, the reader will find it difficult to put down.

The stand-alone sequel, The Prometheus Project: Captured, is also crammed with cliffhangers, nonstop action, and unexpected twists and turns, this novel introduces scientific topics--sound and hearing, ultrasonic sound, experimental methodologies, flashpowder, human memory, and superconductivity--to children while engaging their imaginations.

These six study guides in the William and Mary Navigator collection can be used by teachers and students in schools. The series includes the following novels:

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
Sounder by William H. Armstrong
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
Yolanda's Genius by Carol Fenner
The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman

Following the death of an old bird, a little bird hears beautiful music. The little bird asks, "Where does that beautiful music come from?" And through the answer the little bird learns how each generation leaves something of itself behind for the generations that follow.

This William and Mary Navigator is a study guide for middle-school students who enjoy reading Katherine Paterson's novel, Jacob Have I Loved.

"There is another loneliness," wrote the American poet Emily Dickinson. "Not want of friend occasions it, but nature sometimes, sometimes thought." For author Kevin Lewis, that "other loneliness" is uniquely expressive of a rich and resonant state of being that is distinctive to the American psyche as well as central to the mythology of America itself. He calls this state of being "lonesomeness." It evokes the luminous landscapes of the West and the cathedral-like space of the Great Plains. It lies at the root of personal identity and is inseparable from notions of personal discovery and of communion with the varied topography of the United States, whether it be rural hinterland or industrial urban Rust Belt.

In this continuously stimulating reflection, Kevin Lewis explores--in religion, poetry, fiction, country songwriting and art--the multiple meanings of that peculiarly American notion of solitariness. Discussing quintessential American writers like Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Jack Kerouac, and Ernest Hemingway--creative artists who have all embraced positive conceptions of solitude and wilderness--Lewis finds the visual signature of American lonesomeness in the melancholic and reflective paintings of Edward Hopper.

Censorship profoundly affected early modern writing. Censorship and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England offers a detailed portrait of early modern censorship and investigates the pressures that censorship exerted on 17th-century authors, printers, and publishers. In the 1600s, Britain witnessed a civil war, the judicial execution of a king, the restoration of his son, and an unremitting struggle among crown, parliament, and people for sovereignty and the right to define "liberty and property." This battle, sometimes subtle, sometimes bloody, entailed a struggle for the control of language and representation. Robertson offers a richly detailed study of this "censorship contest" and of the craft that writers employed to outflank the licensers. He argues that for most parties, victory, not diplomacy or consensus, was the ultimate goal. This book differs from most recent works in analyzing both the mechanics of early modern censorship and the poetics that the licensing system produced--the forms and pressures of self-censorship. Among the issues that Robertson addresses in this book are the workings of the licensing machinery, the designs of art and obliquity under a regime of censorship, and the involutions of authorship attendant on anonymity.

This collection of essays provides an international perspective on ways to incorporate black British writing and culture in the study of English literature and presents imaginative, theoretically sophisticated, and practical strategies for doing so. Black British Writing offers a pedagogical, pragmatic, and ideological introduction to the field for those without background, and an integrated body of current and stimulating essays for those who are already knowledgeable.

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.

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.

We exercise our power as citizens by asking questions. Inquiry is less valued today, however, as our society demands quick and dirty answers. We see this play out all around us: in the increased ideological segregation that divides us, the outsize role of Google, a news industry that opines rather than investigates, and the decline in value of a civics education in which young people are taught to question their democracy. In The Death of "Why?" Andrea Batista Schlesinger offers a passionate defense of the role of questioning in fulfilling the promise of democracy. And she profiles those individuals and institutions renewing the practice of inquiry--particularly in America's youth--at a time when our society demands such activity from us all.

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.

The scariest aliens in the galaxy follow a simple rule: destroy all opposition.

Destroyer of Worlds, Edward M. Lerner's latest collaboration with New York Times best-selling author Larry Niven, is now available (also in audio formats, for those who prefer to listen to books).

The brilliant, xenophobic Pak are fleeing the chain reaction of supernovae at the galaxy's core. Nothing and no one is going to impede their migration. Devastated worlds--any civilization that could possibly have interfered--lie shattered in their wake. And now the Fleet of Worlds is in their sights....

The trillion Puppeteers who inhabit the Fleet might have the resources to confront the threat--but Puppeteers are philosophical cowards. They don't confront anyone. They need allies to investigate the situation and then take action. Who better than the Puppeteers' newly independent one-time slave world, New Terra?

Sigmund Ausfaller, former Earth intelligence agent and current paranoid, finds himself leading the war against the Pak. With his own allies, the enigmatic, aquatic Gw'oth, Sigmund prepares to face everyone's mutual enemy. And neither humans nor Gw'oth have any intention of becoming cannon fodder....

Edith Rignaldi clearly understands that she and husband Joe remain together for the sake of their children. It is why they married in the first place. But she never foresaw the lifeless emotional landscape they both now occupy after 18 years together.

Teachers in a small, God-fearing Tennessee town, they cannot insulate themselves entirely from the cultural encroachment of the late '80s: the inexorable march of the feminist and gay-rights movements, the spread of the AIDS epidemic. When the faithful, steadfast Joe is finally overwhelmed by his desire for men, the lives of all four Rignaldis explode.

With the town turned against the disgraced family, the teenage children Dana and Jeremy repudiate their parents to seek their own answers. And as for Edith--a woman named Linda enters her life. A woman unlike any Edith has ever known.

The journey of Edith and Linda lands them in an African town named Arusha, on a godly mission to witness the Rwanda peace talks. It is a place where Edith will face the ultimate challenge to her emotionally and sexually shut-down life and to everything she has ever believed in.

Arusha is the compelling story of four achingly real people--and you will not soon forget any of them.

Bill Evans's gentle ballad reminds Greta and Sunday of all they shared and all they couldn't share when they first met in 1964 and fell in love. Sunday Morgan was the first Negro in Greta's otherwise white high school in Milwaukee. Both serious students from troubled families, they had everything in common but their color. Their relationship fell apart when Sunday returned from Mississippi after Freedom Summer.

Thirty-two years later, Sunday and Greta meet again by apparent coincidence after a life-threatening incident forces Sunday to confront the meaning of courage. Their second meeting marks the time in their lives that they begin to live their lives forward, rather than remain haunted by past fears.

During a deadly Chicago heat wave that's claiming hundreds of lives, Robert, who's stuck in his apartment alone, fears he's going to be the next victim. In the apartment above him lives a shell-shocked Vietnam veter­an who talks obsessively about the corpses of his war experience while alternately listening to Die Meistersinger and Madama Butterfly.

One day, Robert ventures forth into the searing heat to gas up his car. Immediately he encounters enigmatic Lucy who is trying to escape her brutal fiancé, Matthew Gliss. On a whim, Lucy invites Robert to her apartment where she shows him her mysterious tattoo and tells him of her dangerous life with Matthew Gliss. She warns Robert that if Matthew ever catches them together he should run, not walk, because Matthew won't think twice of killing him.

So begins the risky, short-lived relationship that leads to a chilling climax. Each of Robert's increasingly hallucinatory recollections of what happened during the heat wave leads him to profoundly question his own culpability. This carefully crafted, gritty psychological tale offers a distinct urban flavor rich in metaphor and wordplay.

When the gas pipeline exploded, it took a small miracle--or rather myriad miracles--to save Brent Cleary's life. Only now the small miracles have a mind of their own. And an agenda.

Doing research for his latest novel, techno-thriller author Edward M. Lerner consulted extensively with university experts from across the life sciences, from biology to biophysics, from neurology to psychology, and with practicing MDs. The result is a fast-paced, near-future thriller taut with technological and medical suspense. Nanotech is the really tiny, next big thing--and it's the stuff of Small Miracles.

This is Not How I Thought It Would Be is an important look at motherhood and family dynamics in the 21st century--by the past president of Mothers & More.

Author Kristin Maschka shines a spotlight on the complex issues mothers face--at work, in their homes, their lives, and with their partners--and shows how the hidden assumptions that society, the media, public policy, and women themselves hold about motherhood can keep mothers from having the lives they want.

Maschka weaves together her own story, anecdotes from mothers all over the country, and a deep knowledge of history and society to offer mothers a comforting, often funny read that helps them see themselves and the world around them in a whole new way. At the same time she provides specific actions women can take today to remodel motherhood to live the lives they always thought they would.

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.

Alyssa Ayres's study examines Pakistan's troubled history by exploring the importance of culture to political legitimacy. Early leaders selected Urdu as the natural symbol of the nation's great cultural past, but due to its limited base, great efforts would be required to make it truly national. This paradox underscores the importance of cultural policies for national identity formation. By comparing Pakistan's experience with those of India and Indonesia, the author analyzes how their national language policies led to very different outcomes. The lessons of these large multiethnic states offer insights for the understanding of culture, identity, and nationalism throughout the world. The book is aimed at scholars in the fields of history, political theory, and South Asian studies, as well as those interested in the history of culture and nationalism in one of the world's most complex and challenging countries.

In recent years the justices of the Supreme Court have ruled definitively on such issues as abortion, bans on school prayer and on guns, gay and lesbian equality, campaign financing, and the administration's use of military tribunals in the war on terror. They decided one of American history's most contested presidential elections. Yet, for all their power, the justices never face election and hold their offices for life. This combination of influence and apparent unaccountability has led many to complain that there is something illegitimate--even undemocratic--about judicial authority.

The Will of the People challenges that claim by showing that the court has always been subject to a higher power: the American public. Judicial positions have been abolished, the justices' jurisdiction has been stripped, the court has been packed, and unpopular decisions have been defied. Contrary to popular wisdom, the justices aren't Olympian. Americans have always managed to make them aware of their political vulnerability. And for at least the past 60 years, the justices have made sure that their decisions do not stray too far from public opinion.

This sweeping historical account of the relationship between popular opinion and the Supreme Court--from the Declaration of Independence to the end of Rehnquist court in 2005--details how the American people came to accept their most controversial institution. Marshaling countless sources--including newspaper editorials, diaries, public debates, and private letters, as well as countless court cases--The Will of the People shows how the American public came to embrace judicial power, and in so doing, helped shape the meaning of the Constitution itself.

Barbara Lesko and her husband Leonard (PhD'69) have authored many books and articles on Egyptology but now have written their personal story of owning a lighthouse in Narragansett Bay and living in its 1828 keeper's cottage for 18 years, facing many challenges such as tower restoration, seawall maintenance, and hurricanes. Their adventures and research instilled in the Leskos a deep appreciation for the dedicated men and women who serviced America's vital navigational aids prior to automation.

The Third Way was a phenomenon of the early mid-1990s and was considered to be at the heart of the New Labour strategy that brought the party to power in 1997.

As the party's popularity wanes--albeit after three historic victories--several questions can now be asked: What was the Third Way, and where did it come from in terms of its wider historical context? How did it develop as both a political ideology and an electoral strategy? Perhaps most importantly--where did it go, and what are the current prospects for any progressive political movement?

Armed with only a liberal-arts education, a vague sense of wanting to make the world a better place, and a pen, Obie C. Porteous spent five years in the world's most dangerous hot spots developing a hopeful vision of how even the most complicated problems can be solved from the bottom up.

In Search of Humanity: Blogs of an International Aid Worker traces the life of its author from the time of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 to the election of Barack Obama in 2008. Following his graduation from the University of Chicago, Porteous embarks on a series of assignments for the international humanitarian organization Action Against Hunger in Tajikistan, Northern Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pakistan, and Eastern Indonesia, interspersed with his own independent travel and research. His story is told through the biweekly postings on his private blog, which include surprising observations of the local context, illustrations of what works and what doesn't in the world of international aid, and personal anecdotes about life in the remotest corners of the globe.

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.

How the Other Half Thinks: Adventures in Mathematical Reasoning gives the layperson a chance to see what it is to think mathematically. Each of its eight chapters presents an excerpt of advanced mathematics that happens not to use anything beyond sixth-grade arithmetic: no algebra, no trigonometry, no calculus. Each chapter begins by offering the reader a chance to experiment, to get a feel for the problem, and to make a conjecture. Each chapter concludes with a leisurely analysis that settles the problem.

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.

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.

The Executive Guide draws from behavioral research and economic theory to explain why the high cost of litigation is systemic, rather than the fault of supposedly greedy lawyers. Indeed, litigation is both a perfect storm of circumstances that leads to poor settlement decisions and an economically unsound process for deciding and allocating business liabilities.

Although litigation is sometimes unavoidable, the Executive Guide shows how alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and often inexpensive dispute management programs can contain costs, while renewing or cultivating positive business, workplace, and health-care relationships.

Pioneers of nuclear-age policy analysis, Albert Wohlstetter (1913-97) and Roberta Wohlstetter (1912-2007) emerged as two of America's most controversial, innovative and consequential strategists. Through the clarity of their thinking, the rigor of their research, and the persistence of their personalities, they were able to shape the views and aid the decisions of Democratic and Republican policy makers both during and after the Cold War. Although the Wohlstetters' strategic concepts and analytical methods continue to be highly influential, no book has brought together their most important essays until now.

Edited by Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) research fellow Robert Zarate and NPEC executive director Henry Sokolski, Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter demonstrates not only the historical importance but also the continuing relevance of the Wohlstetters' work in national-security strategy and nuclear policy. It is the first book to make widely available more than 20 of Albert's and Roberta's most influential published--and unpublished--writings.

In addition, Nuclear Heuristics provides readers with an introduction to the Wohlstetters' work by coeditor Robert Zarate and short commentaries on Wohlstetter writings by Henry S. Rowen (2005 WMD commissioner and former assistant secretary of defense), Alain C. Enthoven (former assistant secretary of defense), Henry Sokolski (2008 WMD Proliferation and Terrorism commissioner and former Pentagon official), Richard Perle (former assistant secretary of defense and Defense Policy Board chairman emeritus), Stephen J. Lukasik (former director of the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency, now DARPA), and Andrew W. Marshall (director of the Office of Net Assessment).

Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter is an indispensable resource for policy makers, military planners, and strategic analysts, as well as for students who aspire to these positions.

In recent years the justices of the Supreme Court have ruled definitively on such issues as abortion, bans on school prayer and on guns, gay and lesbian equality, campaign financing, and the administration's use of military tribunals in the war on terror. They decided one of American history's most contested presidential elections. Yet, for all their power, the justices never face election and hold their offices for life. This combination of influence and apparent unaccountability has led many to complain that there is something illegitimate--even undemocratic--about judicial authority.

The Will of the People challenges that claim by showing that the court has always been subject to a higher power: the American public. Judicial positions have been abolished, the justices' jurisdiction has been stripped, the court has been packed, and unpopular decisions have been defied. Contrary to popular wisdom, the justices aren't Olympian. Americans have always managed to make them aware of their political vulnerability. And for at least the past 60 years, the justices have made sure that their decisions do not stray too far from public opinion.

This sweeping historical account of the relationship between popular opinion and the Supreme Court--from the Declaration of Independence to the end of Rehnquist court in 2005--details how the American people came to accept their most controversial institution. Marshaling countless sources--including newspaper editorials, diaries, public debates, and private letters, as well as countless court cases--The Will of the People shows how the American public came to embrace judicial power, and in so doing, helped shape the meaning of the Constitution itself.

Restoring the Balance: War Powers in an Age of Terror challenges the conventional arguments on both sides of the debate over war powers, especially in the context of the ongoing war on terror. Advocates of a strong Congress focus on the need for legislative control over the power to deploy troops into combat; supporters of vigorous presidential power argue that the president's constitutional role as commander in chief of the armed forces means that the president can take any action deemed vital to the war effort. Using constitutional theory, case law, and political precedent, Restoring the Balance advances a novel understanding of the power to declare war, arguing that although the president has broad inherent constitutional powers to deploy U.S. armed forces into combat abroad without specific authorization from Congress, absent such authorization the president is more limited when trying to take actions that affect the legal status of persons within the United States itself.

Moderation and immoderation can be defined and explored from three vantage points: political life, moral psychology, and philosophy. What does moderation amount to in our public and our
personal affairs, and why should we want it?

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.

Mae Elise Cannon, author and ordained pastor in the Evangelical Covenant Church, provides a comprehensive resource for Christians who are committed to social justice. She presents biblical rationale for justice and explains a variety of Christian approaches to doing justice. Tracing the history of Christians in social engagement, she lifts out role models and examples from the Great Awakenings to the civil-rights movement. A wide-ranging catalog of topics and issues give background info about justice issues at home and abroad, including sex trafficking, domestic violence, living-wage initiatives, debt relief, environmental stewardship, bioethics, and more.

This handbook includes a foreword by Dr. John Perkins and dozens of practical exercises for taking action, as well as profiles of key figures and movements such as William Wilberforce, the Salvation Army, and Bono and highlights how Christians and churches can make a difference. Also included are spiritual practices and resources to help the move from apathy to advocacy.

Why, after 40 years in the wilderness, were the people able to enter the Promised Land under Joshua when they could not do so under Moses? Joshua's leadership was the necessary ingredient. Joshua generated the nation's transformation from wanderers to conquerors because he was oriented in his purpose. In part one of the book, author Jonathan B. Krogh explores the principles of change, integrity, and discipline. In part two, he studies eight principles found in Joshua's last lecture. Expectations of miraculous manna inhibit disciplined growth and claims of what God has given, but Joshua leaders push beyond the present stagnation into the promised future.

Moderation and immoderation can be defined and explored from three vantage points: political life, moral psychology, and philosophy. What does moderation amount to in our public and our
personal affairs, and why should we want it?

The essays contained in The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss provide a comprehensive and nonpartisan survey of the major themes and problems of the political philosophy of Leo Strauss (1899-1973). These include his revival of the great "quarrel between the ancients and the moderns," the tension between Jerusalem and Athens, and his controversial views on the tradition of esoteric writing. The volume also examines Strauss's relation to a range of contemporary thinkers, including Husserl, Heidegger, Weber, Schmitt, and Scholem, as well as the creation of a distinctive school of "Straussian" political philosophy.

Partly Cloudy explores a number of wrenching ethical issues and challenges faced by our military and intelligence personnel. Topics include an introduction to ethical reasoning; comparative religious views on killing and war; anticipating and preventing atrocities in war; just-war themes in Shakespeare's "Henry V"; secrecy and democratic accountability in intelligence operations; a short history of Russian intelligence and its impact on the development of the CIA; employing espionage to penetrate hostile regimes and terrorist cells; covert political influence, coups, and targeted killings; the question of torture in interrogating detainees; and practical peacemaking strategies. David L. Perry is director of the Vann Center for Ethics and professor of applied ethics at Davidson College in North Carolina. From 2003 to 2009, he was professor of ethics at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Informal science is a burgeoning field that operates across a broad range of venues and envisages learning outcomes for individuals, schools, families, and society. The evidence base that describes informal science, its promise, and effects is informed by a range of disciplines and perspectives, including field-based research, visitor studies, and psychological and anthropological studies of learning.

Learning Science in Informal Environments: People, Places, and Pursuits draws together disparate literatures, synthesizes the state of knowledge, and articulates a common framework for the next generation of research on learning science in informal environments across a life span. Contributors include recognized experts in a range of disciplines--research and evaluation, exhibit designers, program developers, and educators. They also have experience in a range of settings--museums, after-school programs, science and technology centers, media enterprises, aquariums, zoos, state parks, and botanical gardens.

This book is an invaluable guide for program and exhibit designers, evaluators, staff of science-rich informal learning institutions and community-based organizations, scientists interested in educational outreach, federal science agency education staff, and K-12 science educators.

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.

From the birth of the gay liberation through the rise of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) in 1987, the global justice movement in 1994, the largest day of antiwar protest in world history in February 2003, the Republican National Convention protests in August 2004, and the massive immigrant-rights rallies in the spring of 2006, the streets of cities around the world have been filled with a new theatrical model of protest. Elements of fun, creativity, pleasure, and play are cornerstones of this new approach toward protest and community building. No movement has had a larger influence on the emergence of play in social-movement activity than the gay liberation and queer activism of the past 30 years. This book examines the role of play in gay liberation and queer activism and the ways in which queer notions of play have influenced a broad range of social movements.

What can we learn when we follow people over the years and across the course of their professional lives? Author Joseph C. Hermanowicz asks this question specifically about scientists and answers it here by tracking 55 physicists through different stages of their careers at a variety of universities across the country. He explores these scientists' shifting perceptions of their jobs to uncover the meanings they invest in their work, when and where they find satisfaction, how they succeed and fail, and how the rhythms of their work change as they age. His candid interviews with his subjects, meanwhile, shed light on the ways career goals are and are not met, on the frustrations of the academic profession, and on how one deals with the boredom and stagnation that can set in once one is established.

An in-depth study of American higher education professionals eloquently told through their own words, Hermanowicz's keen analysis of how institutions shape careers will appeal to anyone interested in life in academia.

River of Tears is the first ethnography of Brazilian country music, one of the most popular genres in Brazil yet least-known outside it. Beginning in the mid-1980s, commercial musical duos practicing música sertaneja reached beyond their home in Brazil's central-southern region to become national best-sellers. Rodeo events revolving around country music came to rival soccer matches in attendance. A revival of folkloric rural music called música caipira, heralded as música sertaneja's ancestor, also took shape. And all the while, large numbers of Brazilians in the central-south were moving to cities, using music to support the claim that their Brazil was first and foremost a rural nation.

Since 1998, author Alexander Sebastian Dent has analyzed rural music in the state of São Paulo, interviewing and spending time with listeners, musicians, songwriters, journalists, record-company owners, and radio hosts. Dent not only describes the production and reception of this music, but also he explains why the genre experienced such tremendous growth as Brazil transitioned from an era of dictatorship to a period of intense neoliberal reform. Dent argues that rural genres reflect a widespread anxiety that change has been too radical and has come too fast. In defining their music as rural, Brazil's country musicians--whose work circulates largely in cities--are criticizing an increasingly inescapable urban life characterized by suppressed emotions and an inattentiveness to the past. Their performances evoke a river of tears flowing through a landscape of loss--of love, of life in the countryside, and of man's connections to the natural world.

Award-winning physician and teacher Steven Feldman changes the way his students see the world. His thought-provoking book, Compartments, takes readers on a journey into conflicts in health care and other groups and organizations, uncovering strange behaviors and hidden truths. These stories explain how separations and borders cause conflict among groups of people: first, there are things in other groups that we don't see; second, there are things we do see that we shouldn't trust; and third, our perceptions are controlled by the context in which we make observations.

Learn why effective medical treatments suddenly stop working and why some doctors appear clueless and uncaring to their peers. Explore why different groups of very caring people clash over how to improve health care. These stories reveal the underlying structure that causes conflict among different factions in medicine, business, government, and even religion. The stories of common misjudgments show how even the brightest, best trained, and most caring people can make judgments that are completely and utterly wrong.

The modern world is thoroughly compartmentalized, causing conflicts in daily life. Learning to recognize the principles elucidated in Compartments helps people avoid needless disputes and end intractable quarrels. What causes these conflicts? Are there good and bad sides? Compartments will give you new insights and perspectives.

Families are inundated with information, and no family can attend to it all; families must set attentional priorities and remain oblivious to much. But why are families oblivious to what they are oblivious to, and how is shared obliviousness maintained? What costs are there in that obliviousness, and how can shared obliviousness be overcome when that is in the best interests of an individual or family? This speculative theoretical work explores the hidden undersides of families and the links of family obliviousness to important matters in the family and in society. Drawing on work in family systems, family therapy, whiteness and privilege, and social construction, among other areas of scholarship, this book offers insights for all who work with, study, or care about families.

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.