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A collection of more than 125 letters written by Private 1st Class Raymond W. Maker, to his sister, Eva, a county nurse living in Framingham, Massachusetts, describing his everyday service in combat during World War 1. The lettersare accompanied by 365 pocket-diary entries that Raymond kept throughout 1918.

In Diversity, Funding, and Standardized Testing in American Education, noted education expert Jose Martinez's examines current aspects of inequality in American education, examining the complex nexus of funding, diversity, and the increasingly contentious role of standardized testing. A readable narrative format assesses the extensive documentation, which demonstrates that inequality is becoming entrenched throughout the education system, in no small measure due to biases in standardized testing systems. Students from kindergarten through university face the arising challenges while their environments are becoming more diverse. Funding levels in education are also posited as causes of inequality. This complements the view that standardized testing at all levels of education mirrors and exacerbates entrenched economic inequality. Education funding and standardized testing at all levels have thus become basic mechanisms that purposefully reproduce and maintain a two-tiered society. The solutions are not difficult to discern, as other societies can attest, but Martinez's thought-provoking new book moves toward engaging them.

Considers the logical and eschatological consequences of the pivotal union of ""perspectives"" in the Christian concept of Incarnation. The systematic approach proceeds as ""according to a whole,"" or both theologically and scientifically relevant.

Explores such apparent polarities as justice and forgiveness, belief and scepticism, the ascetic and the sensuous. When we unpack these concepts, we discover that in some cases the two sides align and a compromise is possible. In other cases, they repel each other, like identical poles of magnets.

Presenting a highly original chronological case study of the role of sports in the making of Taiwan's foreign policy, Catherine Kai-Ping Lin enriches our understanding of Taiwan's unique position in the world by arguing that nationalist forces within the Taiwanese government used athletic competition to promote Taiwanese nationalism and nationhood.

Explores fashion to understand how the mediated image of gender equality in the twenty-first century relates to reality by examining cross-dressing and transvestism through the construction of personal style. The book uncovers the motivations for those who cross dress and analyses the construction of gendered personal styles in relation to fashion.

Highlights, analyses, and contrasts, from a "human rights law" perspective, the situation in Tunisia - the success model of the Arab Spring - before and after the "Jasmine Revolution," and in Egypt, the Arab Spring's most notable failure - before the 2011 revolution and after the subsequent "counter-revolution" led by the military establishment.

Using both realist and critical theories in a comparative framework, China Moves South states that while realism may offer a reasonable approach to explaining China's geopolitical behaviour, critical theory is a more appropriate lens to challenge China's occupations.

Makes an eye-opening global exploration of human organisation in a tumultuous world. It suggests needed innovation for America's educational system, dissects the evolution of political and economic systems up to modern times as influenced by the world's diversity of cultures and religions, and projects these challenging processes of change into a turbulent twenty-first century.

Explores images of Venice in the written and visual art of the multi-talented American writer, painter, lecturer, and engineer Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838-1915). This is the first scholarly work to examine the life and work of this unique American artist, whose legacy spans two centuries and was grounded in the enduringly popular fin-de-siecle.

This ground breaking study is the first biography in any language of the Russian industrialist, entrepreneur, and political leader Nikolai Fedorovich von Ditmar (1865-1919). Von Ditmar's life presents a kaleidoscopic view of Russia at a time of immense transition and transformation.

Primarily based on a wide array of Ottoman administrative sources, this monograph builds on earlier studies of Sarajevo and other Ottoman cities to analyze the critical factors behind the conversion to Islam and the development in social and economic growth, which unified both the city and its hinterland.

Experiences of twentieth century history and major literary trends are reflected in the excellent but little-known writings of the Austrian-Czech physician and novelist Ernst Weiss (1882-1940). This book assesses the life and legacy of this important voice from mid twentieth century Central Europe.