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By placing the history of science and medicine at the very center of the story of early English colonization, Chaplin shows how contemporary European theories of nature and science dramatically influenced relations between the English and Indians within the formation of the British Empire.

Traveling back over the past century to trace the emergence of the "sexual adolescent" in America and the evolution of schools' efforts to teach sex to this captive pupil, Moran shows us how the political and moral anxieties of each era found their way into sex education curricula, reflecting adult priorities more than the concerns of the young.

From the time the first tracks were laid in the early nineteenth century, the railroad has occupied a crucial place in America's historical imagination. Now, for the first time, Arnesen gives us an untold piece of that vital American institution-the story of African Americans on the railroad.

Affirmative Discrimination will enable citizens as well as scholars to better understand and evaluate public policies for achieving social justice in a multiethnic society.

In a comprehensive study of the legal doctrines and social policies involved, Martha Field and Valerie Sanchez argue persuasively that persons with mental retardation should have legal authority to make their own decisions.

It wouldn't be Christmas without the "things." How they came to mean so much, and to play such a prominent role in America's central holiday, is the tale told in this delightful and edifying book. In a style characteristically engaging and erudite, Marling describes the outsize spectacle that Christmas has become.

The American Constitution has a dual nature. The first aspect is the degree to which it acts as a binding set of rules that can be neutrally interpreted and enforced by the courts. But according to Whittington, the Constitution also permeates politics itself, to guide and constrain political actors in the very process of making public policy.

Drawing on rich archival sources and her own extensive interviews with women physicians, Ellen More shows how the Victorian ideal of balance informed and influenced the practice of healing for women doctors in America over the past 150 years.

Only in recent years have biologists and ethologists begun to apply careful evolutionary thinking to the study of animal societies--and with spectacular results. This book presents the choicest of these findings, illustrated with both photographs and explanatory diagrams.

Through detailed criticism of standard interpretations of key arguments in analytical philosophy over the last 60 years, Ebbs arrives at a new conception of the task of the philosophy of language. Reexamining and extending arguments by Kripke, Quine, Carnap, Putnam, and Burge, Ebbs presents systematic redescriptions of our linguistic practices.

Integrating a wealth of perspectives and research-biological, sociocultural, developmental-Brody's work explores the nature and extent of gender differences in emotional expression, and the complex question of how such differences come about. Nurture, far more than nature, emerges here as the stronger force.

Distinguished evolutionary geneticist John Avise reviews recent discoveries in molecular biology, evolutionary genetics, and human genetic engineering, and explains how they relate to our development-not just our metabolism and physiology, but also our emotional disposition, personality, ethical leanings, and, indeed, religiosity.

At the core of this book is the case of an analysis patient who began to recall childhood sexual abuse. Later, she came to believe that the trauma she remembered might have been an emotional violation. Prager explores the nature of memory and its relation to the interpersonal, therapeutic, and cultural worlds in which remembering occurs.

Pillemer draws on a variety of evidence and methods-cognitive and developmental psychology, cross-cultural study, psychotherapy case studies, autobiographies and diaries-to extend the current study of narrative and specific memory.

This provocative new way of accounting for the spirit of American literary tradition argues against the reduction of literature to identity questions of race, gender, and ethnicity. Ranging from roughly 1850 to 1940 the book reconsiders key works in the American canon-from Emerson, Whitman, and Melville, to Twain, Dos Passos, and Nathanael West.

Surgery is the most martial and masculine of medical specialties. What, then, if the surgeon is a woman? An anthropologist enters this closely guarded arena to explore the work and lives of women practicing their craft in what is largely a man's world. Cassell observed 33 surgeons in five North American cities over the course of three years.

A searing critique of definitions of black masculinity at work in American culture, Race Men shows how these defining images play out socially, culturally, and politically for black and white society-and how they exclude women altogether.

Posner presents a balanced and scholarly understanding of President Clinton's year of crisis which began when his affair with Monica Lewinsky was revealed in January 1998, clarifying the issues involved, assessing the conduct of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, and examining the pros and cons of impeachment.

Television technology is now changing at the same pace as computer software. What this means-for TV, for computers, and for popular culture where video media reign supreme-is the subject of this timely book. Owen looks at the economic history of the television industry and at the effects of technology and government regulation on its organization.

Pleck examines two centuries of family traditions and finds a complicated process of change in the way Americans celebrate holidays, as well as the rituals of birth, coming of age, marriage, and death. This comparative history offers insight into the impact of ethnicity and consumer culture in shaping the most memorable moments of family life.

Despite three decades of scrutiny and repeated attempts at reform, our laws against rape and sexual harassment still fail to protect women from sexual abuse. What went wrong? In this bold work, Schulhofer, a distinguished scholar in criminal law, shows the need to create a new system of legal safeguards against interference with sexual autonomy.

Family Matters cuts through the sealed records, changing policies, and conflicting agendas that have obscured the history of adoption in America and reveals how the practice and attitudes about it have evolved from colonial days to the present.

Professionals trusted with our well-being are at least as likely as anyone else to abuse alcohol and other drugs-a well-kept secret finally aired and fully examined in this powerful book. Coombs draws on more than 120 personal interviews with addicted physicians, dentists, nurses, pharmacists, attorneys, and airline pilots and those who treat them.

Practical reasoning is not just a matter of determining how to get what you want, but of working out what to want in the first place. Millgram argues that experience plays a central role in this process. He defends "practical induction," a method of reasoning from experience similar to theoretical induction.

Waldinger examines why African-Americans have fared so poorly in securing unskilled jobs in the postwar era and why new immigrants have done so well. Using New York to look at the relationships among race, immigration, and social mobility, Waldinger offers a new understanding of a serious social problem and fresh approaches to attacking it.

This book is a systematic interpretation of the most important national and state tendencies in southern politics since 1920. The authors contend that, notable improvements in race relations aside, the central tendencies in southern politics are primarily established by the values, beliefs, and objectives of the expanding white urban middle class.

This text on the history of Galilee between the 1st and 7th centuries contains 20 essays examining such issues as the first Christians, social and economic conditions, Roman rule and military presence, rabbis and Jewish law, languages and the archaeological remains of ancient synagogues.

Gerald Brock develops a new theory of decentralized public decisionmaking and uses it to clarify the dramatic changes that have transformed the telecommunication industry from a heavily regulated monopoly to a set of market-oriented firms.

Dr. Linda Emanuel--one of America's most influential medical ethicists--has assembled leading experts to provide not only a clear account of the arguments for and against physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia but also historical, empirical, and legal perspectives on this complicated issue.