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Secession Winter explores the fact of contingency and reminds readers and students that nothing was foreordained.

Kinship and Cohort in an Aging Society will appeal to scholars working in sociology, psychology, gerontology, family studies, and social work.

By asking questions about authenticity, cultural appropriation, and commodification, Thrill of the Chaste considers Amish fiction's effects on Amish and non-Amish audiences alike.

Free Clinics will be useful to policymakers, students and faculty in public health and health policy programs, and clinicians and students who are embarking on launching new clinics.

The Quick Guide to Wild Edible Plants is a great gift for the beginning naturalist and the perfect addition to every serious forager's library.

How can this field develop in an age of global markets, growing information technology, and diminishing resources? A transnational collaboration between two senior scholars, Reimagining Business History offers direction in forty-four short, pithy essays.

His sharp, bright imagery affirms the unique beauty of our world and explores its invisible mysteries.

Sounding Imperial offers a more nuanced sense of poetry's unseen role in larger historical processes, emphasizing not just appropriation or collusion but the murky middle range in which most British authors operated during their colonial encounters and the voices that they used to make those cross-cultural encounters seem vivid and alive.

Anyone who owns a gecko, has seen them in the wild, or has wondered about them will appreciate this gem of a book.

SynnottJeffrey A. TurnerErica WhittingtonJoy Ann Williamson-Lott

SynnottJeffrey A. TurnerErica WhittingtonJoy Ann Williamson-Lott

She employs Julia Domna as a case study to explore the creation of ideology between the emperor and its subjects.

Backscheider looks to archival materials, literary analysis, biographical evidence, and a configuration of cultural and feminist theories to prove her groundbreaking argument.

Given the long-standing belief that children ought to be shielded from disturbing life events, it is surprising to see how many stories for kids involve killing. This title offers a study of this pervasive theme of murder in children's literature. It adds to the body of inquiry into America's ongoing fascination with violent crime.

This edition includes a new preface and an updated bibliography.

The book includes appendices with translations of German primary sources and discussion questions.

They often lived lives of apparent desperation.

The Poetics of Consent reveals the ways in which consensus and collective decision making determined the authoritative account of the Trojan War that we know as the Iliad.

News and World Report, MSNBC Online, and other international venues, this groundbreaking work will be a landmark in the study of ancient warfare.

O. Wilson

Rather, it is a collection of episodic little histories.

Extensive primary research and a rubric that can be applied to burgeoning democracies offer readers valuable tools and information.

The resulting picture of the emotional agency of criticism opens up a new angle on Blake's literary and visual legacy and offers a vivid interrogation of the practical potential of theoretical discourse.

Cut These Words into My Stone provides an engaging introduction to this corner of classical literature that continues to speak eloquently in our time.

Cut These Words into My Stone provides an engaging introduction to this corner of classical literature that continues to speak eloquently in our time.

Based on extensive reviews of medical literature and archives, this historical perspective on medical decision making and risk highlights personal, professional, and community outcomes.

These "images of the fetus may be produced by machines,the authors write, "but they live vividly in the human imagination."

Yet many of us still like amusement park rides that scare the devil out of us; they dare us to take risks.

Wasson, Stephen A. Watts

Oliver's study is rigorous and detailed but contemplative in its approach, examining the larger meanings of mankind's first adventures in "the heavens."