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The former president of the Shakespeare Association of America provides a play-by-play, poem-by-poem guide to all of Shakespeare's works.

Traces the history of the Palestinians from their uprooting in 1948 to the present. Brand explores the development of the sociopolitical institutions that served as bases for the reemergence of the Palestinian national movement. Institutions among students, women, teachers, and workers in the Palestinian communities of Egypt, Kuwait, and Jordan are explored.

Offers a physical explanation of the Coriolis force. This book is useful for studying the hydrodynamics of the ocean and atmosphere. It also presents many aspects of classical mechanics/dynamics physics. It explains the complexities of this force, about which many scientists have had lingering uncertainties since it was first described in 1831.

Considering dilemmas in medical policy making, Blank contends that there is only one way to improve health policy: by moderating public expectations of biomedical technologies and emphasizing preventive health care. Blank traces four aspects of health care: organ transplantation, the treatment of seriously ill newborns, reproductive technologies, and fetal health.

Challenges the conventional critical reading of the American poetic project as an engagement with or reaction against Emersonian thought. Rowe demonstrates how ideals of individualism, intellectualism, and otherworldiness inevitably undermine any political effectiveness that a writer may seek to achieve.

This volume offers comprehensive analyses and new translations of Kalidasa's three extant plays: "Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection," "Urvasi Won by Valor," and "Malavika and Agnimitra."