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Book SynopsisThis volume of the papers of George Washington covers the period when his attention was devoted to several matters of national significance: the Residence and Funding Acts; Indian affairs; Harmar's expedition in the Northwest Territory; and intrigues of foreign agents on America's frontiers.

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents documents written during the final sessions of the First Congress. Congress passed legislation that established a national bank and federal excise, and increased the size of the army. Washington also gave a lot of time to the new federal city on the Potomac.

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Book SynopsisCatherine Allgor describes the various ways genteel elite women during the first decades of the 19th century used ""social events"" and the ""private sphere"" to establish the national capital and to build the extraofficial structures so sorely needed in the infant federal government.Trade ReviewFor those whose knowledge of early Washington and its politics is in need of repair, Parlor Politics provides a fresh perspective and rich details - history at its most readable. - Washington Post Book World ""Parlor Politics is a stimulating, lively, and subtle book that enlarges our understanding of how, in just half a century, Washington City became an important world capital."" - Wall Street Journal ""In her important and delightfully written book Parlor Politics, Catherine Allgor describes the various ways genteel elite women during the first decades of the nineteenth century used 'social events' and the 'private sphere' to establish the national capital and to build the extraofficial structures so sorely needed in the infant federal government."" - New York Review of Books ""In this scholarly yet animated and thought-provoking analysis, Allgor presents her groundbreaking research on the critical role that women played in the early days of Washington politics."" - Publishers Weekly ""A wonderful, scholarly book that will make historiographical waves for years to come. An alternative to Joseph Ellis's Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, this book is a must for gender, social, cultural, and political historians and their students."" - Choice

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an approach to understanding the connection between martial arts and spirituality in such diverse disciplines as Japanese aikido, Chinese tai chi chuan, Hindu yoga, Christian asceticism, Zen Buddhism and Islamic Jihad.Table of ContentsThe way of spiritual harmony -- Daoist moving meditation -- Yoga/Zen/Jihad -- The spiritual combat -- Toward a moral equivalent of war -- Postlude: on the concept of peace.

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Book SynopsisPart of the ""Revolutionary War Series"", this work documents a period that includes the Continental Army's last weeks at Valley Forge, the British evacuation of Philadelphia, and the Battle of Monmouth Court House. It begins with George Washington's army at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, celebrating the alliance between the United States and France.

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Book SynopsisCovers the period 1 November 1778 through 14 January 1779. This title begins with George Washington at Fredericksburg, New York, watching New York City for signs that the British were about to evacuate North America. The British had different intentions, however, dispatching the first of several amphibious expeditions to invade the Deep South.

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Book SynopsisExploring the central role that electronic technology plays in the editing process, this book provides a treatment of the craft's fundamental issues. It covers locating and collecting sources, transcribing source texts, conventions of textual treatment, dealing with nontextual elements, and preparing editions for publishers.

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Book SynopsisMontgomery Jason, an idealistic African American college student, enlists to fight for freedom and democracy. When he falls in love with a French woman, he learns that freedom and democracy do not apply to black soldiers.

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Book SynopsisAre the United States and China on a collision course? In this timely new work, renowned professor of international relations Amitai Etzioni explains why this would be disastrous and points to the ways the two nations can avoid war.Trade ReviewDrawing on his encyclopedic knowledge of the history and current state of U.S.-China relations, Etzioni sorts out the many myths and common misconceptions and contrasts them with reality. His book outlines the truly essential issues concerning competition and cooperation between the two countries. His proposal for realistic ways to construct a more peaceful relationship is poised to inspire important debates over U.S.-Asia policy.- Ho-fung Hung, Johns Hopkins University, author of The China Boom: Why China Will Not Rule the World;""Etzioni has written a brilliant little book that meticulously examines the issues between the United States and China and the interests and emotions that bear on them. There is no better way to get up to speed on the increasingly tense relations between Washington and Beijing than to read Avoiding War with China.""- Ambassador Chas W. Freeman Jr., former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs;""If the United States and China ever go to war, everybody on this earth stands to lose. And if the United States and China are friends, the entire world stands to gain. Indeed, things that make the United States and China interdependent in this world are much more and far greater than things that divide the two. In this book, Etzioni clearly points out that in this globalized world, relationships between great powers should adopt geoeconomic principles, which often result in a win-win situation, and should shy away from geopolitical considerations, which are always zero-sum games.""- Patrick C. P. Ho, Deputy Chairman and Secretary General of the China Energy Fund Committee;""In a short book pointedly titled Avoiding War with China, Amitai Etzioni has a more concrete idea of how China should be accommodated. Etzioni, a professor at George Washington University, is no softie. Having escaped from Nazi Germany as a child, he served as a commando in the Arab-Israeli war of 1948. Etzioni knows what war is like, in contrast to most armchair warriors in Washington or indeed Beijing.... [E]minently sensible.""- The New Yorker;""In Avoiding War With China, Amitai Etzioni says that even optimists give the U.S. and China only a one-in-four chance of peace. He thinks those odds can be improved.""- The Daily Beast;""Prepare for back-to-school political debates: Avoiding War with China – Amitai Etzioni. Without classes, club meetings and homework assignments taking up your time, summer is the perfect opportunity to catch up on current events around the world, and Avoiding War with China will help you do just that. From the first chapter, readers will begin to learn everything about the U.S. relationship with China and why Etzioni thinks that war between the two countries could be coming sooner than we think.""- The GW Hatchet;""Anyone considering how the United States and China might avoid a devastating war will want to read this timely book. Stimulating and engaging, this elegant work not only offers a fresh look at these two nation's multifaceted relationship, but dissects major issues with precision. This is a must read for today's national debate on America’s China policy.""- Chunjuan Nancy Wei, University of Bridgeport;""The originality of this work is that it addresses numerous policy recommendations to the United States, instead of to China, as is the case with the vast majority of publications, in order to ensure what is called a peaceful ‘transition of power’ between Washington and Peking, while not jeopardizing the fundamental interests of the United States in East Asia.""- Phébé (published by Le Point);""[A]n important contribution to the burgeoning literature on the future of Sino?U.S. relations.... Etzioni's call for a 'vigorous, comprehensive public debate about U.S.?China policy' that can avoid 'a drift to war without compromising any of the core interests of the United States and its allies' is a valuable counterweight to the structural pessimism that infuses much of academic and public discussions of the future of Sino?U.S. relations today.""- Political Science Quarterly

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Book SynopsisAward-winning journalist Thomas Kapsidelis examines the decade after the Virginia Tech massacre through the experiences of survivors and community members who advocated for reforms in gun safety, campus security, trauma recovery, and mental health.

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Book SynopsisThe first thoroughly interdisciplinary study to examine how the transatlantic relationship between the United States and Britain helped shape the conflicts between North and South in the decade before the American Civil War, Twice-Divided Nation addresses that influence primarily as a problem of national memory.

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Book SynopsisSituated in a mid-Victorian moment of frenetic plant collecting from the far reaches of the British empire, Novel Cultivations recognises plants as vital and sentient subjects that serve - often more so than people - as actors and narrative engines in the nineteenth-century novel.

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Book SynopsisResponding to fears of African American and female political agency, this book shows how Democrats in the late 1840s and 1850s reinvented themselves as “conservatives” and repurposed Jacksonian Democracy as a tool for local majorities of white men to police racial and gender boundaries by democratically withholding rights.

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Book SynopsisThe oral poets of the amaXhosa people have long shaped understandings of history and offered a forum for grappling with change. This book examines the role of these poets in South African society and the ways in which they have helped inform responses to apartheid, the injustices of extractive capitalism, and contemporary politics in South Africa.

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Book SynopsisFrom Zora Neale Hurston to Derek Walcott to Toni Morrison, New World black authors have written about African-derived religious traditions and spiritual practices. The Sacred Act of Reading examines religion and sociopolitical power in modern and contemporary texts of a variety of genres from the black Americas.Trade Review"Offering beautiful readings and an innovative interpretative approach, Anne Margaret Castro presents a much-needed discussion of how the preaching tradition and other religious and spiritual practices are incorporated into and transform Afro-diasporic writing."

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Book SynopsisOpens a window into Spanish-Language writing produced by Spanish American exiles, travellers, and immigrants who settled and passed through Philadelphia during the early nineteenth century, when the city's printing presses offered a vehicle for the voices advocating independence in the shadow of Spanish colonialism.

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Book SynopsisTaking its cue from Perry Miller's 1956 classic of American literary criticism, The Raven and the Whale, Caroline Chamberlin Hellman examines ways in which contemporary multi-ethnic American writers of the United States have responded to nineteenth- and early twentieth-century texts historically central to the American literary canon.Trade Review"In Children of the Raven and the Whale, Caroline Chamberlin Hellman makes an effective case for conceiving recent achievements in U.S. fiction and memoir as part of a ‘Third American Renaissance’ inspired by the legacies of the mid-nineteenth century and the modernist period. Drawing judiciously on theories of intertextuality and literary influence, Hellman offers a set of useful case studies in the dynamics of U.S. literary history, while illuminating the connections of recent writing to an American past and a global present."

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Book SynopsisHow have African American writers drawn on bad men and black boys as creative touchstones for their evocative and vibrant art? This is the question posed by Howard Rambsy's new book, which explores bad men as a central, recurring, and understudied figure in African American literature, and music.Trade ReviewIn this highly original study, Howard Rambsy offers cogent and thoughtful analyses of black writing and puts a wide variety of contemporary African American literary and cultural works in conversation with creative theory.

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Book SynopsisExamining three turning points that shaped exceptionalism in both Americas - the late colonial and early Republican period, expansion into the frontier, and the Cold War - John Ochoa pursues literary travellers across landscapes and centuries.Trade ReviewA witty, erudite, and original contribution to hemispheric American studies. " - Lois Parkinson Zamora, University of Houston

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Book SynopsisFollowing the election of Donald Trump, the office of the US president has come under scrutiny like never before. Featuring penetrating insights from high-profile presidential scholars, The Presidency provides the deep historical and constitutional context needed to put the Trump era into its proper perspective.

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Book SynopsisThe first book-length study to engage with the literary construction of whiteness in the francophone Caribbean, Fictions of Whiteness examines the neglected beke figure in the longer history of Antillean literature and culture.Trade ReviewSophisticated, lively, and sharp, this book is a highly original contribution to francophone Caribbean studies." - Martin Munro, Florida State University, author of Writing on the Fault Line: Haitian Literature and the Earthquake of 2010

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Book Synopsis Want to sell your home at a premium price—now? Never mind simply tidying up: an amazing 91% of real estate professionals say professional staging is the way to go. But sure enough, hiring a staging consultant will cost you. Thankfully, you can now get all the secrets and techniques the pros don’t want you to know, from one of America’s most successful staging experts. Home Staging That Works shows you how to turn any home into a showpiece that buyers will be fighting over. With specific recommendations on what to do, keep, chuck, fix, paint, replace, avoid, update, show, hide, highlight, and more, you’ll learn how to: Focus on your potential buyers’ tastes (not your own) • Create curb appeal • Drive Internet interest with photos that flatter your home • De-clutter and pre-pack at the same time • Clean anTable of ContentsFEATURES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE: STAGING FOR THE RIGHT AUDIENCE What Is Staging? Out with the "You": Disengaging from Your Home Saying Good-Bye to Your Home Five Ways to Say Good-Bye In with the New: Figuring Out Your Target Market Looking at the Overall Statistics Asking the Pros: Interviewing Realtors Understanding the Generations Baby Boomers What Boomers Want Generation Jones What Jonesers Want Generation X What Gen Xers Want Generation Y What Gen Yers Want Media Influence on the Generations Deciding on Your Target Generation Determining Your Market by the Time You've Spent in Your Home The Next Step: Creating a Great First Impression CHAPTER TWO: FIRST IMPRESSIONS The First Look: Attracting Internet Shoppers The Drive-By: Making the Most of a Buyer's Second Look Staging the Exterior The Approach: Driveways and Walks The Front Yard Creating a Staged Garden The Facade: Looking Good The Front Door Other Outside Entry Ideas The Inside Entry: Creating a Sense of Welcome Begin with Your Hall Closet Provide Seating if Possible Unclutter the Space Make Use of Mirrors Work with Color Impressing Your Target Buyer If Time and Money Are Short The Next Step: Creating Space CHAPTER THREE: CREATING SPACE Taking the "You" Out of Your Home Prepacking Why Not Show Your Home Empty? If Uncluttering Seems Utterly Overwhelming When Couples Differ in Uncluttering Ability Help Children Unclutter A Silver Lining to the Staging Process Keep Your Eyes on the Prize Everything You Need to Know About Boxes What Boxes to Use Supplies for Packing Out with the Personal and Possibly Contentious Removing Objects with Possibly Contentious Affiliations Removing All Photographs and Portraits Deciding What Furniture and Rugs to Remove Removing Freestanding Bookcases and Entertainment Centers Removing Rugs That Are Too Stained or Too Small for the Space Removing Selected Furniture and Rugs Clearing the Decks and the Depths: Advanced Uncluttering Uncluttering All Lateral Surfaces Tackling Closets and Drawers Clearing Hallways Uncluttering Mudrooms and Vestibules Uncluttering the Kitchen Uncluttering Bathrooms Your Home Office Uncluttering the Dining Room and Living Room Uncluttering Bookcases Uncluttering Bedrooms Uncluttering Guest Rooms, Sewing Rooms, and Multipurpose Rooms Uncluttering the Laundry Area Managing Pets and Their Paraphernalia Uncluttering Porches and Patios Uncluttering Basements, Garages, and Outbuildings Revisiting Your Clutter Hot Spots Double-Checking Your Uncluttering Through a Camera Lens Recognizing What You Have Accomplished If Time and Money Are Short The Next Step: Fixing and Cleaning CHAPTER FOUR: WHAT TO FIX AND HOW TO CLEAN How Do You Know What to Fix? Do a Walk-Through with an Observant Outsider Get a Preinspection Why You Can't Just Ignore What's Broken Commonly Needed Repairs Yards and Gardens Gutters and Downspouts Roofs Air-Conditioning Condensers and Trash Cans Driveways and Walkways Decks, Terraces, and Fences Windows from the Outside terior Wall and Trim Paint Interior Walls and Ceilings Overhead Lighting and Ceiling Fans Windows from the Inside Staircases Wall-to-Wall Carpeting Flooring Doors and Doorways Kitchens Bathrooms Clean Is What Sells Yards and Gardens Roofs and Exterior Walls Windows Interior Walls and Ceilings Overhead Lighting and Ceiling Fans Floors and Carpets Kitchens Bathrooms Laundry Rooms Fireplaces, Radiators, and Other Heat-Related Objects Basements, Attics, Garages, and Outbuildings If Time and Money Are Short The Next Step: Setting the Stage CHAPTER FIVE: SETTING THE STAGE Deciding Each Room's Purpose Targeting Room Usage to Your Most Likely Buyers Creating Vignettes That Charm Your Buyers Avoiding Multipurpose Rooms When Possible Thinking About Flow Finding Each Room's Architectural Focus Using Color Complementary Colors Warm versus Cool Colors Moods Associated with Particular Colors Color as a Generational Cue Generational Preferences for Color and Design Aesthetics Identifying and Remedying Each Room's Hierarchy of Colors Creating Balance Avoiding Heavily Imbalanced Room Usage Balancing the Style Throughout Your Home Balancing the Furniture Within Each Room Choosing Artwork to Suit Your Buyers Using Mirrors to Enhance Spaces Balancing the Light and Dark in Each Room Staging the Key Rooms in Your Home Styling the Kitchen and Dining Room to Sell Styling the Living Room to Sell Styling Bedrooms to Sell Styling Children's Rooms to Sell Styling Guest Rooms to Sell Styling the Home Office to Sell Styling Bathrooms to Sell Going Back over Your Home as a Whole If Time and Money Are Short The Next Step: Presenting Your Home to Buyers CHAPTER SIX: PRESENTING YOUR HOME TO BUYERS Using the Power of the Camera's Eye Taking Another Walk-Through with a Camera Staying Involved if Someone Else Takes Your Photos If You Have Just Two Weeks to Do It All Keeping Your Home Presentable While You're Showing It INDEX

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Book SynopsisFrom divorce court to popular culture, alimony is a dirty word. In short, critics of alimony claim it has no place in contemporary visions of marriage as a partnership of equals. The author argues that alimony is often the only practical tool for ensuring that divorce does not treat today's primary caregivers as if they were suckers.Trade ReviewThe Marriage Buyout is a comprehensive and thorough review of alimony's history, rationale, promises, and pitfalls. To solve the dilemmas of contemporary alimony law, the book advocates a pathbreaking solution that makes 'I do' really matter. Cynthia Lee Starnes is already widely recognized for her profound insights into alimony, and this book provides an even stronger basis for that reputation. Although the book is centered on alimony, Starnes applies her analytical lens to other issues that arise at the end of marriage, providing new insights into our entire system of divorce. -- Naomi Cahn,Harold H. Greene Professor of Law, George Washington University Law SchoolThe Marriage Buyout is an unusual book: it is both entertaining and profound. Professor Starnes has produced a readable and incisive critique of alimony law within the United States and elsewhere as well as a creative framework for reform. Law students and practicing lawyers will surely benefit from her careful exposition of competing approaches to alimony. Her proposed use of a partnership buyout model would take us a long way toward a coherent and fair theory of alimony. The book should be read, and read again, by any groups involved in family law reform. -- Barbara A. Atwood,Mary Anne Richey Professor of Law Emerita, University of ArizonaProfessor Starnes rigorously analyzes our outmoded, gender-imbalanced approach to the financial effects of marital, cohabitant and co-parental relationship dissolution. Her devastating analysis makes it clear that policymakers concerned about the well-being of all family members after divorce or separation should take heed of her courageous, well-grounded and clearsighted proposals to reconceptualize economic justice in the family. -- Theresa Glennon,Temple University Beasley School of LawStarnesprovides a historic overview of alimony, detailing its evolution, justification, and criticism overtime. The first part of the book reviews the history of alimony, grounded in old legal theories that the interests of women merged with their husbands and therefore the latter had a perpetual duty to support them. This section also discusses the decline of alimony with changes in marriage law in the 1970s and the many myths that surround spousal support. Parts 2 and 3 discuss how current alimony law operates and the crisis in theories justifying it. The last part of the book offers a new theory of alimony as a buyout for stay-at-home moms who have been partners in a marriage and who have forgone income in return for raising children. This delightfully written and informative book on an overlooked subject is suited for collections on family law, feminism, and gender politics.Summing Up: Highly Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I. Alimony Reflections 1. Who Cares about Alimony? 2. Alimony's Heritage: The Helpless, the Blameless, and the Clean-Break Losers 3. Alimony and Mother Myths Part II. Alimony Mechanics 4. The Contemporary State of Alimony 5. Alimony in Context: A Comparative Perspective Part III. Alimony Theory6. Reasons Matter: Alimony, Intuition, and the Remarriage Termination Rule7. The Search for a Contemporary RationalePart IV: Alimony Reform8. A Marital Partnership Model: Alimony as Buyout9. Beyond Alimony: Lovers, Parents, and PartnersConclusionNotesIndexAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisAn essential volume for improving understanding of the recovery process for people diagnosed with schizophreniaSchizophrenia is widely considered the most severe and disabling of the mental illnesses. Yet recent research has demonstrated that many people afflicted with the disorder are able to recover to a significant degree.Living Outside Mental Illness demonstrates the importance of listening to what people diagnosed with schizophrenia themselves have to say about their struggle, and shows the dramatic effect this approach can have on clinical practice and social policy. It presents an in-depth investigation, based on a phenomenological perspective, of experiences of illness and recovery as illuminated by compelling first-person descriptions.This volume forcefully makes the case for the utility of qualitative methods in improving our understanding of the reasons for the success or failure of mental health services. The research has important clinicaTrade ReviewDavidson takes an interesting approach to the disorder and makes a compelling case for the use of person centered narratives to find out what is going on with recovery in persons with schizophrenia. Recommended. * Choice *Living Outside Mental Illness is more than a recapitulation of previously published research. * Metapsychology Online Book Reviews *Davidsons book leaves one with an image of the inside of schizophrenia as essentially mysterious but the possibilities of recovery as hopeful if uncertain. * Journal of Mental Health *This volume makes the case for the utility of qualitative methods in improving our understanding of the reasons for the success or failure of mental health services. * Family Therapy *I see this book as an important accomplishment. It contains numerous helpful suggestions about how to go about eliciting narratives as a means of encouraging patients along their recovery journey. * Psychiatric Services *The book provides a window into the experiences of a person with schizophrenia . . . a rich narrative. * The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease *Table of ContentsForeword by John S. Strauss Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Is There an Outside to Mental Illness? (With Maria O'Connell, David Sells, and Martha Staeheli)2. Eliciting Narratives 3. Understanding Narratives 4. Living Inside Schizophrenia 5. Living Outside Schizophrenia Conclusion Epilogue Works Cited Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisFeatures an array of scholars of Jewish history, 1929 surveys the Jewish world in one year offering clear examples of the transnational connections which linked Jews to each other-from politics, diplomacy, and philanthropy to literature, culture, and the fate of Yiddish-regardless of where they lived.Trade ReviewAnthologies are notoriously difficult to evaluate because they are disparate. Withal, the interesting material presented in these articles more than compensates for the inability of some contributors to march under the assigned 1929 banner. -- Henry L. Feingold * The Journal of American History *This wide-ranging and innovative collection of essays presents the distinct features of the interwar period in Jewish history throughout the world. Using the year 1929 as a focal point, the volume's essays depict the transition from the tumultuous, yet often hopeful, 1920s to the dire straits of the 1930s. This is a splendid overview of the demographic, political and cultural ferment of the era. -- Derek Penslar,University of Oxford and University of TorontoThe books greatest success lies not only in elevating the importance of 1929 as a turning point in Jewish history, but also in problematizing the very notion of periodization. Furthermore, the collections focus on this particular year manages to successfully upset several paradigms dominating the study of modern Jewish history and literature. This volume will prove a welcome addition to surveys of modern Jewish history * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction Hasia R. Diner and Gennady EstraikhPart I: Global Ties 1 Living Locally, Organizing Nationally, and Thinking Globally: The View from the United StatesHasia R. Diner 2 Jewish Diplomacy at a Crossroads David Engel 3 The Stalinist "Great Break" in Yiddishland Gennady Estraikh 4 Permanent Transit 5 Polish Jewry, American Jewish Immigrant Philanthropy, and the Crisis of 1929Rebecca Kobrin 6 Jewish American Philanthropy and the Crisis of 1929Rakefet Zalashik 7 Territorialism and the ICOR "American Commission of Scientists and Experts" to the Soviet Far EastHenry SrebrnikPart II: Local Stories 8 From Universal Values to Cultural Representations Avner Ben-Zaken 9 The Struggle over Yiddish in Postimmigrant America Eric L. Goldstein 10 When the Local Trumps the GlobalJeffrey LesserPart III: Literature 11 Patterning a New LifeGabriella Safran 12 David VogelGlenda Abramson 13 Radical Conservatism Joseph Sherman 14 Desire, Destiny, and DeathMikhail KrutikovIndex Contributors

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Book SynopsisWhite by Law was published in 1996 to immense critical acclaim, and established Ian Haney López as one of the most exciting and talented young minds in the legal academy. The first book to fully explore the social and specifically legal construction of race, White by Law inspired a generation of critical race theorists and others interested in the intersection of race and law in American society. Today, it is used and cited widely by not only legal scholars but many others interested in race, ethnicity, culture, politics, gender, and similar socially fabricated facets of American society.In the first edition of White by Law, Haney López traced the reasoning employed by the courts in their efforts to justify the whiteness of some and the non-whiteness of others, and revealed the criteria that were used, often arbitrarily, to determine whiteness, and thus citizenship: skin color, facial features, national origin, language, culture, ancestry, scientific opiniTrade ReviewWhite by Law remains the definitive work on how American law constructed a & white race at the turn of the twentieth century. Haney López has added a chapter to the new edition, a sobering analysis of how, in our own time, 'colorblind' law and policy threaten to perpetuate, not eliminate, racial inequality. A must-read -- Mae M. Ngai, author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern AmericaTen years after its initial publication, White by Law remains the definitive treatment of the naturalization cases, and provides a compelling account of the role of law in constructing race. A wonderful combination of thematic development and historical excavation, one leaves this revised edition with a thoroughgoing understanding of the ways in which citizenship functioned not only to include and exclude but as a process through which people quite literally became white by law. -- Devon W. Carbado, Professor of Law and Associate Dean, UCLA School of LawPraise for the 10th Anniversary Edition White by Law remains one of the most significant and generative entries in the crowded field of & whiteness studies. Ian Haney López has crafted a brilliant study, not merely of how & race figures in the juridical logic of U.S. citizenship, but of the ways in which law fully participates in the wholesale manufacture of those naturalized groupings we know as 'races.' A terribly important work. -- Matthew Frye Jacobson, author of Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights AmericaPraise for the 1st edition: Haney López performs a major service for anyone truly interested in understanding contemporary debates over racial and ethnic politics. . . . A sobering and crucial lesson for a society committed to equality and fairness. -- Martha Minow,Harvard Law SchoolHere is one work that proved challenging to review with a fresh eye, having been widely reviewed and discussed since its original publication more than 10 years ago….While one’s first question upon picking up such a book could easily be & why bother? with the re-release of an older work, in this case, the strategy works….[T]he addition of the author’s personal narrative in the Preface and his intriguing view into the future with the new conclusion will add to the book’s pedagogical value. In sum, Haney Lopez has provided a piece of scholarship worthy of bringing out a curtain call on its 10th anniversary. * Law and Politics Review *Table of ContentsPreface to the Revised and Updated Edition Acknowledgments A Note on Whiteness 1. White Lines 2. Racial Restrictions in the Law of Citizenship 3. The Prerequisite Cases 4. Ozawa and Thind 5. The Legal Construction of Race 6. White Race-Consciousness 7. The Value to Whites of Whiteness 8. Colorblind White Dominance Appendix A. The Racial Prerequisite CasesAppendix B. Excerpts from Selected Prerequisite Cases Notes Bibliography Table of Legal Authorities Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisHenry Jenkins' pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active, creative, critically engaged, and socially connected consumers of popular culture. This title takes readers from Jenkins' early work defending fan culture against those who would marginalize or stigmatize it, through to his work.Trade ReviewJenkins is one of us: a geek, a fan, a popcult packrat. He's also an incisive and unflinching critic. His affection for the subject and sharp eye for 'what it all means' are an unbeatable combination. This is fascinating, engrossing and enlightening reading. -- Cory Doctorow,author of Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town and co-editor of Boing BoingJenkins persuasively argues in favor of taking the fan’s perspective in analyzing television-- and this is the cornerstone of the new turn in Cultural Studies. * Claremont Review of Books *Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Confessions of an Aca/Fan I Inside Fandom1 Excerpts from "Matt Hills Interviews Henry Jenkins" 2 Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing as Textual Poaching 3 "Normal Female Interest in Men Bonking"4 "Out of the Closet and into the Universe": Queers and Star Trek with John CampbellII Going Digital5 "Do You Enjoy Making the Rest of Us Feel Stupid?": alt.tv.twinpeaks, the Trickster Author, and Viewer Mastery 6 Interactive Audiences? The "Collective Intelligence" of Media Fans 7 Pop Cosmopolitanism: Mapping Cultural Flows in an Age of Media Convergence 8 Love Online 9 Blog This! 10 A Safety Net III Columbine and Beyond11 Professor Jenkins Goes to Washington 12 Coming Up Next! Ambushed on Donahue 13 The War between Effects and Meanings: Rethinking the Video Game Violence Debate 14 The Chinese Columbine: How One Tragedy Ignited the Chinese Government's Simmering Fears of Youth Culture and the Internet 15 "The Monsters Next Door": A Father-SonDialogue about Buffy, Moral Panic, and Generational Differenceswith Henry G. Jenkins IVNotes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisProvides a non-technical overview of the research in the areas of genetics, hormones, brain imaging, neuropsychology, environmental influences, and more, focusing on explaining what we currently know about the biological foundations for this disorder and offering insights into prediction, intervention, and prevention.Trade ReviewThis innovative work presents the very latest and best science on the topic of psychopathy and biology. It is a tour de force with its coverage of the primary areas of biological research, explanation of the techniques used in biological research, and its coverage of existing findings on the topic. With this book, Glenn and Raine uncover hints regarding the biological underpinnings of psychopathy and the implications that biology has for the development, nature and treatment of this syndrome. Well informed and incredibly well written this book is a valuable source for those wanting to know more about psychopathy in general but especially those wanting to learn more about its biological roots and the contextual factors that affect its development and consequent variations. This book points to many avenues for future science and is highly relevant to a full range of trainees and professionals working in psychology, psychiatry, and other allied mental health professions. Glenn and Raine hit the mark with this incredibly powerful book that is also relevant to those in the general public who are interested in the biological foundations of psychopathy. -- Randall Salekin,University of AlabamaPsychopathy: An Introduction to Biological Findings and Their Implicationsis an impressive achievement, covering decades-long research on the neurobiology of antisocial behaviour and psychopathy. Frequently authors cannot see the wood for the trees, but the book clearly maps the growing forest that is our understanding of environmental, neurobiological and genetic contributions to psychopathy. * Times Higher Education *InPsychopathy,Andrea L. Glenn and Adrian Raine rigorously and cleverly summarize a multitude of findings from studies of behavior, cognition, and brain functioning. . . . [T]he book can be appreciated by students who want to be introduced to one of the domains of cognitive neuroscience that is rather complex and in the process of restructuring itself into not only a legitimate field of study, but also one that is independent from criminology. The book can also be an interesting and useful read for established researchers who want to assess the strengths and weaknesses of a domain before considering it as a field of study. All in all, the text is a good and valuable read which is difficult to put down. * Metapsychology *Psychopathyis one in a long list of publications designed to provide an overarching summary of a hypothetical neurobiological model of the disorder with the authors goal being to define the disorder in terms of neurobiological deficits, with each of the nine chapters summarizing the presumed influence of a particular factor. * PsycCRITQUES *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Genetics 2. Hormones 3. Psychophysiology 4. Neuropsychology 5. Brain Imaging 6. Biosocial and Environmental Influences 7. Successful Psychopaths 8. Ethical Issues 9. Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment Conclusion Further Reading References Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisSince his conversion from Judaism, Charles Rich has sought to lead a contemplative life while still in world. He has shared the results of his meditations with a few intimate friends. It is these that make up this book-short, pithy reflections on a unique spiritual life.Trade ReviewA brief but fascinating glimpse into the role of women, religion, disability and notions of the self in early 19th-century France. * Publishers Weekly *Both Husson's autobiographical writing and Kudlick's and Weygand's short social history of the blight of the blind in nineteenth-century France will interest anyone whose work or intellectual interests lie in the field of modern disability studies. * H-Net Reviews *Offering insight into the compelling history of people with disabilities, this is one of the earliest accounts written by someone with an actual disability rather than by an observer or educator. * Library Journal *

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Book SynopsisArgues that the church's involvement in filmmaking unintentionally contributed to the spread of secularizationTrade ReviewEnthusiasts of American religion and film will find a treasure trove as the authors catalog with wit and anecdotal flair the movies, producers, and trends that constituted this fledgling & Christian film industry. -- William D. Romanowski,Calvin CollegeLindvall and Quicke's Celluloid Sermonsis a history of the Christian film industry that undertakes the gargantuan task of outlining its unique production, distribution and exhibition practices. Detailing different key contributors, it provides a loosely chronological look at the development of this breakaway cottage industry from the 1930s through to the 1980s. -- Hannah Graves * Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies *This will be a valuable addition to academic collections with strong religious studies and/or communications programs. -- S.B. Plate * CHOICE *Reveals an entirely new area of intersection between Christianity and cinema. Celluloid Sermons provides a foundational study of how Christian groups used film as part of the construction of their own identities. A & must read for any scholar or layperson interested in American history, culture, and religion. -- Anne Moore,University of CalgaryThrough ground breaking research, Lindvall and Quicke uncover forgotten films from Protestant producers like Irwin Moon, Carlos Baptista, and Ken Curtis. The earnest, embarrassing, and energizing are all recounted with respect and rigor. -- Craig Detweiler,Pepperdine Universityhighly informative volume * American Studies *Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations 1 God Talks 2 Evangelical Film Auteurs 3 Methodist and Ecumenical Films 4 Reformed and Dissenting Images 5 The Studio Era of Christian Films 6 The Master Filmmakers 7 Mark IV and Apocalyptic Film 8 Global Film Evangelism 9 Conclusion: A Modest Renaissance before the End Appendix: Chronology of Christian Film History Notes Selected Bibliography Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisRecounts the life story of one of the nineteenth century's most surprising and accomplished advocates for women's rightsTrade Review"Norgren has written an engrossing and insightful book about Belva Lockwood, a woman who, through tenacity, drive and self worth, accomplished more in the 19th century than many modern women accomplish. Because Lockwood was known to few and most of her personal papers were destroyed after her death, Norgren has done an exemplary job of illuminating the life of this varied and accomplished woman." * The Law and Politics Book Review *"Long before Hillary Clinton, there was Belva Lockwood: two-time presidential hopeful, Lockwood campaigned in 1884 and 1888 on a platform of women's suffrage. In the first full-length biography of this feminist pioneer, legal historian Norgren has meticulously researched what little has remained of Lockwoods papers, most of which were destroyed after her death." * Publishers Weekly Annex *"An engaging account of Belva Lockwoods struggles and achievements as one of the first women to enter the legal profession in the United States in the late 19th century." * Canadian Journal of Law and Society *"Highly recommended." * Choice *"Many biographers would balk at the paucity of archival sources, but Norgren persisted. . . . In [Norgrenl;s] credible narrative, Lockwood emerges as a shrewd self-promoter, never hesitating to garner publicity for herself and her causes. . . . In eloquent detail, Norgren shows how Lockwood loved the law." * New York Sun *"Astonishingly, this is the first scholarly biography of 19th-century activist Belva Lockwood. Lawyer, lobbyist, wife, mother, and contemporary of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lockwood was among the most formidable of equal rights advocates. The first female lawyer admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the relentlessly ambitious Lockwood ran for the U.S. presidency in 1884 and 1888 on the Equal Rights Party ticket. Later she concentrated on her work for the Universal Peace Union and her Washington, D.C., legal practice while maintaining a demanding public-speaking schedule. Her life was never easy, as she constantly fought to surmount political and legal barriers and to support her family. Although few of Lockwood's papers have survived, Norgren has delivered an able and long overdue study of Lockwoods life, drawing on newspapers, magazines, organizational records, and the papers of Lockwood's contemporaries. Though the book emphasizes Lockwoods career, the inclusion of information on her family and friends gives added dimension. Highly recommended for both public and academic libraries; essential for womens history collections." * Library Journal, starred review *"For those interested in U.S. womens history or the nineteenth-century practice of law, Norgens work is a must." * Law and History Review *"Jill Norgrens study of Belva Lockwood (which comes with a graceful preface by Ruth Bader Ginsburg) is a very unusual book. . . . Norgren has the great discernment to see Lockwoods life as large and anticipatory rather than eccentric and half-realized. A legal historian of considerable skill, she ploughed through reams of records to construct an account of Lockwoods legal career. . . . The comparison [of Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi to] Belva Lockwood is illuminating, because it was Lockwoods instinct for opportunity that took her out of women's politics, with their intact principles, into the thick of things. . . . The biographies of these women will be composed of the workaday, disenchanted materials of political livesperseverance, competence, canniness, and, yes, a facility for the quick grabthat Belva Lockwood cultivated and prized." -- Christine Stansell * The New Republic *"Exceptionally well-researched. Norgrens contribution is to situate Lockwood among a generation of female activists. Norgren is successful in moving the woman who would be president to her proper standing as a pioneering lawyer who would change America." -- Jean Baker * American Historical Review *"In this thoroughly researched and beautifully written biography, Jill Norgren traces Belva Lockwoods dogged efforts to earn a living as a lawyer in Washington while caring for her daughter and becoming a leading advocate for womans suffrage and the peaceful arbitration of international disputes. Norgrens brilliant study makes clear why Lockwoodthe first woman to argue before the Supreme Court (1879) and run for President (1884 and 1888)belongs in the ranks of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Frances Willard" -- John M. Ferren,author of Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court: The Story of Justice Wiley Rutledge"Jill Norgren beautifully weaves the personal and political ordeals of Belva Lockwoods life into a compelling story that illuminates Lockwood's enduring contributions. This is a dramatic account of a pioneering woman whose life in the law still resonates in contemporary times." -- Joan Biskupic,author of Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most influenti"Jill Norgrens biography of Belva Lockwood is a gem. Not only does she describe the amazingly full life of an important woman now practically forgotten, but she takes us into the politics of the late-nineteenth century women's reform movement in a way few other authors have done. This is a must-read book." -- Melvin I. Urofsky,editor of the Journal of Supreme Court History"Jill Norgrens splendid biography of one of historys most astonishing pioneersfirst woman counsel before the Supreme Court, visionary for equal rights, international peace activist, Indian rights litigator, presidential candidateis provocative, challenging, galvanizing! Brilliantly researched, vividly written, and profoundly discerning. Everybody concerned about justice, human rights, the future of democracy, and womens power will rush to read, and assign, this important book." -- Blanche Wiesen Cook,author of Eleanor Roosevelt"Belva Lockwood lived a life of firsts as a practicing lawyer at a time when women were rare in any profession. She was the first woman admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court and twice ran for President of the United States. Jill Norgren captures the story of this forgotten heroine in a biography as fast paced and interesting as the life Lockwood led." -- Barbara Babcock,Judge John Crown Professor of Law, Emerita, Stanford University, and author of Clara Shortridge Foltz: Constitution Maker"Norgren eloquently and succinctly educates the reader on the story of the first woman to ever be allowed to argue before the United States Supreme Court, as well as the first woman to ever launch two full scale bids for this countrys presidency . . . Norgrens writing is engaging and her narrative is accessible yet rich with fact." * Feminist Review *"Jill Norgren has written a fascinating biography of one of the forgotten icons of nineteenth century feminism. Thanks to Norgren, [Lockwood] will become a role model for current and future women politicians." * Foreword Magazine *Table of ContentsForeword by Justice Ruth Bader GinsburgPrologue and Acknowledgments 1 Early a Widow2 In Search of a New Identity 3 Apprenticeship 4 Becoming a Lawyer 5 Notorious Ladies 6 A Tougher Fight 7 Woman Lawyer 8 The Practice of Law 9 Lady Lobbyist10 Lockwood for President11 Life on the Platform 12 Lay Down Your Arms! 13 The Power of Association 14 Pushing for Place 15 AWorld's Fair and a Million-Dollar Case 16 Aging Soldiers of Cause Epilogue Notes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSylviane A. Diouf has made an enormous contribution to our understanding of enslaved people's lives with her study of the maroons in the American South. Slavery's Exilesdispels the myth that maroon communities only existed in places such as the Caribbean and Brazil, firmly placing the maroons of mainland North America within larger discussions of slave resistance. * The North Carolina Historical Review *In a book that is easily accessible yet rigorously researched, analyzed, and argued, Diouf has made a compelling case that scholars of slavery and of early American history must consider the presence of maroons in the U.S. with a sense of renewed urgency. As she so eloquently and brilliantly shows, maroons exhibited a form of self-determined, autonomy-seeking resistance to slavery that complicates our understanding of fugitivity and freedom as they are generally bound up in a North/South, free/unfree binaristic imaginary. * Journal of the Early Republic *Diouf has scoured archives across the United States, examining accounts of fugitives throughout the Slave South to uncover the hidden history of American maroons, and produced a highly readable, original study that deserves a broad scholarly and popular audience. * Journal of the Civil War Era *The book is clear and easy to read . . . Diouf's book is important because for the first time it really foregrounds marronage in North America . . . Diouf extends the range by demonstrating the ubiquity of marronage in virtually every southern state. It should be required reading for any scholar of North American slavery. * Journal of American Studies *In writing that is deeply informative, with vivid anecdotes when available, including horrors of punishment enacted when maroons were captured, this book is recommended to those wishing to pursue the study of American slavery beyond more general texts. * Library Journal *She tells the story of a few large communities, most notably that of the Great Dismal Swamp, and briefly examines the marronage subgroups of bandits and insurrectionists, but the triumph here is the author's portrait of the day-to-day precariousness of maroon lives, the courage and resourcefulness required for survival, and the terrible price they paid for trying to recover their freedom. A neglected chapter of the American slave experience brought sensitively and vividly to life. * Kirkus *[T]he stories are riveting. Readers will become familiar with colorful characters like Captain Cudjoe of Jamaica or the man nicknamed 'Forest' for his skill at hiding, and they will learn surprising facts about maroons participation in trade and defense, along with horrific details of punishments . . . . [I]ts a notable document for its treatment of the subject. * Publishers Weekly *This extensively and thoroughly researched study brings to light a little-known aspect of slavery in the United States . . . a fascinating read. Diouf has done a brilliant job of illuminating a complicated, multifaceted, important, yet little-known piece of black American history. -- Annette Madden * The Baobab Tree *With impressive research and vivid prose, Diouf directs our attention to maroons within the United States. From the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia to the frontier regions of Louisiana, she shows, fugitive slaves managed to survive without fleeing to the North. An important addition to our understanding of slave society and black resistance. -- Eric Foner,author of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American SlaveryDiouf persuasively captures the quiet heroism of North American maroons. Less dramatic and long-lived than many of the maroon communities in Suriname, Jamaica, or Brazil, those in the southern United States were nonetheless ever present. Diouf demonstrates how much freedom mattered to the enslaved and how, within the limited possibilities open to them, those that set off into the inhospitable swamps and forests managed to forge a new life beyond the authority of whitefolks. -- Richard Price,author of Maroon SocietiesIn contrast to the study of slavery elsewhere, six decades of research in the United States has systematically bypassed the issue of marronage. Sylviane Dioufs exhaustive research has not only brought the subject to center stage, it offers a framework for recasting the study of runaway slaves throughout the Americas. This is one of those rare books that is at once of scholarly significance and will engage a wide readership. -- David Eltis,Robert W. Woodruff Professor of History, Emory UniversityLike other books that Sylviane A. Diouf has written, this one examines a fascinating, though neglected topic in African Diaspora history . . . Diouf advances the discourse by using a landscape perspective to offer an alternative to the grand/petit marronage dichotomy . . . Her attention to borderland (adjacent to plantations) and hinterland (remote from plantations or cities) conditions and logistics reflects an appreciation of the wider context framing relations between enslaved and free people, which stands in contrast to the dated view of plantations as islands with impermeable boundaries . . . Diouf has produces a well-written and balanced account... She backs her arguments with evidence, illuminates trends, and accounts for contradictions. * American Historical Review *This is a very important book that opens a window into an understudied aspect of American slavery. It deserves a wide readership. * American Nineteenth Century History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 The Development of Marronage in the South 2 African Maroons 3 Borderland Maroons 4 Daily Life at the Borderlands 5 Hinterland Maroons 6 The Maroons of Bas du Fleuve, Louisiana: From the Borderlands to the Hinterland 7 The Maroons of Belleisle and Bear Creek 8 The Great Dismal Swamp 9 The Maroon Bandits 10 Maroons, Conspiracies, and Uprisings 11 Out of the Wilds Conclusion Notes Select BibliographyIndex About the Author

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Book SynopsisA complex and subtle portrait of a beautiful and fascinating region, blighted by historical prejudice and conflictTrade ReviewBrilliant. * Time *Admirable, rigorous. De Waal [is] a wise and patient reporter. * The New York Review of Books *This book is a major milestone in the Western scholarship on Karabakh. * Armenian Freedom Network *Never have all the twists and turns, sad carnage, and bullheadedness on all sides been better described-or, indeed, better explained . . . Offers a deeper and more compelling account of the conflict than anyone before. * Foreign Affairs *This book is helpful because in order to craft a final resolution to the conflict, one must understand what events transpired in the first place. De Waal's book significantly contributes to this purpose and establishes itself as one of the standard works for understanding this conflict. * Parameters *Table of ContentsContentsAuthor's Note ixPreface to the Revised Edition xiiiTwo Maps, of the South Caucasus and of Nagorny Karabakh xviii-xixIntroduction: Crossing the Line 11. February 1988: An Armenian Revolt 112. February 1988: Azerbaijan: Puzzlement and Pogroms 303. Shusha: The Neighbors' Tale 464. 1988-1989: An Armenian Crisis 565. Yerevan: Mysteries of the East 746. 1988-1990: An Azerbaijani Tragedy 837. Baku: An Eventful History 968. 1990-1991: A Soviet Civil War 1089. Divisions: A Twentieth-Century Story 13910. Hurekavank: The Unpredictable Past 15811. August 1991-May 1992: War Breaks Out 17212. Shusha: The Last Citadel 1969780814760321_de waal_text.indd 7 4/23/13 9:08 AMviii*CONTENTS13. June 1992-September 1993: Escalation 20714. Sabirabad: The Children's Republic 22915. September 1993-May 1994: Exhaustion 23716. Stepanakert: A State Apart 25217. 1994-2001: No War, No Peace 26218. Sadakhlo: "They Fight, We Don't" 27919. 2001-2012: Deadlock and Estrangement 284Conclusion: Seeking Peace in Karabakh 305Appendix 1: Statistics 325Appendix 2: Chronology 329Notes 341Bibliography 367Index 375About the Author 387All illustrations appear as a group following p

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"By looking at the power structures of the medical, legal, and professional organizations involved, the politics that devalue women, the organizational arrangements and protocols of hospitals, and the professional standards used in medicine and the insurance industry, she discovers a culture that avoids risk and encourages planning to avoid adverse outcomes...A useful addition to health sciences and academic library collections." * Library Journal *"Must Read! Anyone riveted by Rick Lake's documentary The Business of Being Born should snag a copy of Cut It Out." * Fit Pregnancy *"It is thoroughly researched, cogently argued, and elegantly expressed given the level of detail it provides medical professionals, decision makers in the health sector, and of course actual and potential mothers and fathers who could all benefit from the information it provides." * New York Journal of Books *"Birth by Caesarean section is expensive and carries a higher risk of medical complications than vaginal birth. Yet in 2011, 33% of US births were by Caesarean. To investigate why, sociologist Theresa Morris crunched the numbers and interviewed more than 100 medical staff and mothers. The culprit, she concludes in this excellent and detailed study, is a risk-averse US medical culture that favours heavily managed birthssuch as the overzealous use of fetal heart monitors, which restrict the mother's movementand that frowns on women having vaginal births after Caesareans." * Nature *"Perhaps the most important of all is that Theresa Morris provides lists of things we can actually DO to lower the cesarean section rate. Did I cheer when the first thing she mentioned was recommend that women take an independent birth class? Maybe a little. Morris solutions were more than just for women but for their providers, for insurance companies and policy makers. Cut It Out: The C-Section Epidemic in America, is an important book and one I would strongly encourage anyone who seeks change in childbirth to carefully read." * Mama Birth *"In Cut It Out, she refreshingly steers clear of the home-birthing-good, hospitals-bad dogma that tends to dominate this conversation, instead encouraging empathy with all involved...Morriss impressive research, as well as the solutions she offers to women, providers and policy planners, makes the book an important contribution to the C-section debate." * New York Times Book Review *"Morris provides a thorough analysis of how this epidemic developed and suggests ways that this problem might be ameliorated.Her book is the clearest and fullest sociological analysis of the C-section epidemic that I have seen to date." * American Journal of Sociology *"A Trinity College professor, inspired by her own experiences, takes a critical look at Caesarean sections in her new book, Cut It Out: The C-Section Epidemic in America." -- William Weir * The Hartford Courant *"Engagingly written, rigorously researched, and compellingly argued, this book [is] a must-read not only for womens health advocates and scholars of reproduction, but also for those engaged in health care policy." -- Susan Markens,author of Surrogate Motherhood and The Politics of Reproduction"In this thoughtful and engaging study, Morris demonstrates how hospitals, insurers, and professional societies have defined cesarean surgery as best practice, even when it is not in the interest of either the mother or her baby. In doing so, she illustrates the importance of organizational context in understanding contemporary medical procedures underscoring how these processes are not necessarily good for patients." -- Beth Mintz,author of The Power Structure of American Business"Theresa Morris calls the C-section epidemic a paradox: doctors don't like it, women don't like it, and we know it's a danger to our health. Yet like a bad habit, we can't seem to stop doing more and more cesareans. Why? Morris demystifies the paradox in clear, accessible terms: rather than & patient choice or doctors' convenience, it is our systems and institutions driving this addictive behavior. Morris takes you inside those systems and institutions with a critical eye as well as a compassionate ear for the human beings caught in them, and offers concrete solutions to address this major threat to women's and babies' health." -- Jennifer Block,author of Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care"Cut It Outserves as an important resource to understand the complex birthingparadox currently at the root of the increasing C-section rate in the United States." * Sex Roles *"The authors suggestions include changing insurance rules to compensate women and children with poor birth outcomes independent of fault; encouraging the use of doulas, midwives, and out-of-hospital care; counting C-section rate as a hospital quality measure; and loosening policies that reduce physician choice. Morriss powerful book deserves the attention of policymakers." * STARRED Publishers Weekly *"A major strength in this book is that Morris examines an assortment of data sources and thus achieves a multifaceted research approach for analyzing the increasing number of C-sections being performed." * Sociology of Health & Illness *"Cut It Outis a compelling examination of the risks associated with cesarean surgery, the reasons for the rise in the cesarean surgery rate, and solutions to address the problem." * The Family Way Publications *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I. The Root of the Problem1 The Liability Threat in Obstetrics Part II. Control Systems Embedded in Hospitals2 The Tyranny of the Rules 3 Too Much Information: How Technology Raises the Stakes Part III. The Effects of Organizational Constraints4 The Big Kahuna: Repeat C-Sections 5 Women's Lack of Choice in Labor and Birth Conclusion: A Roadmap for Change Methods Appendix NotesReferences Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisUncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century-long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a space of overlapping Cuban and African diasporic experiences.Trade ReviewUnbecoming Blacknessis a stunning tour de force: it serves as a call for those critically engaged in the African diaspora work with a focus on Latin America to return to the archive and to study the wealth of information that remains there, unnoticed....Lopez forces readers to rethink notions of blackness so that these ideas are specific to place, yet also to consider the fluidity of these discourses in relation to physical movement and their reestablishment in new locations. His study also demands fluent interdisciplinarity: Lopez analyzes texts, photographs, sound recordings, and film, all of which challenge readers to expand beyond their comfort zone as scholars. This text is an extraordinary addition to Cuban studies, Cuban American studies, US Latina/o and Latin American studies, American studies, African American studies, and African diasporic studies. -- Vanessa K. Valdes * MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States *Unbecoming Blackness promises to make a transformative impact on Cuban American Literary Studies; it will certainly put López on the map as one of the fields most important and groundbreaking scholars. -- Ricardo Ortiz,author of Cultural Erotics in Cuban AmericaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Alberto O'Farrill: A Negrito in Harlem 2 Re/Citing Eusebia Cosme3 Supplementary Careers, Boricua Identifications4 Around 1979: Mariel, McDuffie, and the Afterlives of Antonio 5 Cosa de Blancos: Cuban American Whiteness and the Afro-Cuban-Occupied House Conclusion: "Write the Word Black Twice"Notes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisWith names like "The East Village Inky", "Mend My Dress", "Dear Stepdad", and "I'm So Fucking Beautiful", zines created by girls and women make feminism's third wave visible. This book argues that these quirky, personalized booklets are tangible examples of the ways that girls and women 'do' feminism.Trade Review"Its thrilling to see zines taken seriously in Piepmeiers Girl Zines, which explores the world of handmade magazines created by women as a kind of social activism." * Bookforum *"I’m grateful to Piepmeier for her attempt to rescue zines from inferiority among older generations of feminists." * Bookforum *"Before you could Tweet your every thought to the world, young women cut, pasted, Xeroxed, and traded their own handmade magazines through the mail. In fact, the gorgeously glossy mag youre holding in your hands right now started off as a zine. Girl Zines analyzes the beginning of the movement and its revolution grrrl style roots, as well as the way zinesters used the medium to explore race, sexuality, and identity." * Bust Magazine *"Piepmeiers careful study of the zine movement in girl culture is a powerful and convincing articulation of the ways womens and girls activism has developed, and the creative forms it has taken." -- Leslie Heywood,editor of The Womens Movement Today"Feminist identities are the central concern of Piepmeier's Girl Zines, the first full-length academic study of young women's zine production to take third-wave politics as a serious subject of inquiry." -- Red Chidgey * Signs *"Piepmeier's work is an insightful and long-overdue engagement with the feminist work in zines, which played a pivotal role not only in Riot Grrrl but also in the development of the Third Wave in general." -- Virginia Corvid * Feminist Collections *"“[Piepmeier is] one of third-wave feminism’s astute voices... As the wealth of examples she brings to her argument reveals, the author has done careful research on the significance of this medium and its use as a tool for making the voices of third-wave feminists heard. The study is important in that it affirms the continuity and relevance of feminism and does so in a way that delights as well as informs... Summing Up: Essential." * CHOICE *"“In , author Alison Piepmeier defends the grrrl ethos with a scholarly take that points to the movement as a key part of feminist history; one that enabled women to gain more presence in a male-dominated world, albeit through flimsy, phantasmagorical photocopies passed around in the 1990s. Here Piepmeier brings forth a local study that, whether you agree with it or not, steadfastly lodges zine culture into the feminist archive." -- Broken Pencil"Overall, [Piepmeiers] analysis about the political role that grrrl zines played is dead on. They were central to the evolution of my own feminist development in college in the early 1990s, speaking directly to my feelings of exclusion, disgust with pop culture, and surliness about the lingering sexism that second-wave feminism had failed to abolish." * The American Prospect *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword by Andi Zeisler Introduction 1 "If I Didn't Write These Things No One Else Would Either": The Feminist Legacy of Grrrl Zines and the Origins of the Third Wave 2 Why Zines Matter: Materiality and the Creation of Embodied Community 3 Playing Dress-Up, Playing Pin-Up, Playing Mom: Zines and Gender 4 "We Are Not All One": Intersectional Identities in Grrrl Zines 5 Doing Third Wave Feminism: Zines as a Public Pedagogy of Hope Conclusion Appendix: Where to Find Zines Notes Index About the Author

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