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Explores the processes and works that laid the foundations of a new literary modernity in the wake of the Mexican Revolution. This book focuses on a period that goes from the signing of the Constitution in 1917 to the death of Alfonso Reyes in 1959.

A wide variety of disciplines are embracing Tablet PC's and similar pen-based devices as tools for the radical enhancement of teaching and learning. This work stems from the Third Workshop on the Impact of Pen-based Technology on Education (WIPTE).

Shows readers how ideas of Asia operate in Shakespeare performances and how Asian and Anglo-European forms of cultural production combine to transcend the mode of inquiry that focuses on fidelity. This book shows how the history of how Shakespeare became a signifier against which Asian and Western cultures defined themselves.

Explores important questions in the field of critical animal studies and education by examining a wide range of educational situations and classroom activities. This book makes human-animal relations a crucial issue for pedagogical theory and practice.

Constance Studer uses her family's story to illustrate larger ethical dilemmas in which modem medical professionals find themselves. The history of why prefrontal lobotomies were performed on patients is explored, as is why only a few physicians raised dissenting voices to this mutilating surgery.

Addresses the challenges faced by value-added networking and innovation both for firms' strategies and public policies in a context influenced by dynamics of interacting networks that underlie knowledge creation, diffusion, and utilization. This book deals with national institutions and policies to support science, and networking.

Chronicles media's role in shaping American life during the tumultuous nineteenth century by focusing specifically on the presentation of race and gender in the newspapers and magazines of the time. This book examines the ways in which American women were portrayed in the national media as they assumed a greater role in public and private life.

In 1991, Lawrence Grossman wrote that 'a new political system is taking shape in the United States. As we approach the twenty-first century, America is turning into an electronic republic, a democratic system that is vastly increasing the people's day-to-day influence on decisions of state.'

A how-to book that tells how to plan for a happy, meaningful retirement. It develops six central themes that include: freedom and leisure; financial independence; separation from work; family and friends; and health and helping others.

Reveals the real heart and soul of the eldest Henry Wallace in his open letters to America's farm families and their children. This work features homespun tails that show that Wallace never lost sight of his roots even as he hobnobbed with US Presidents from Teddy Roosevelt to Woodrow Wilson, and anchored the prestigious Country Life Commission.

Chronicles the integration of dog owners, a much-maligned subculture, into mainstream society by tracing the history of the legislation. This book shows how a combination of science and politics, fact and fear, altruism and self-interest led to the adoption and enforcement of legislation that became a shining success.

Storyteller Sidney Homan tells tales of growing up in Philadelphia in the 1940s and 50s accounts of Bruzzy the Bully; of John Crapp, the television salesman; of Leslie Doober and his rotten banana; of drunken Uncle Eddie, and of the Queen of the mushrooms. Sometimes comic, sometimes bittersweet, A Fish in the Moonlight illuminates the growth of both storyteller and listener.

Covers more than the conventional 'food-only' role of the agriculture. This book details how the solution to agricultural problems can lead to the general socioeconomic and political development of impoverished countries.

Analyzes contemporary texts that bond together two seemingly antithetical sensibilities: the sentimental and the postmodern. This book presents case studies of audience responses to ""The Piano"", ""Kiss of the Spider Woman"", and ""Northern Exposure"". It argues that sentimental postmodernism deepened leftist political engagement.

Tackles the thorny issue of the disappearance of Montenegro as a sovereign state in the course of and as a result of the First World War. This book investigates the ambiguous and often troubled relationship between two ""Serb states,"" Montenegro and Serbia. It examines the politics and power plays of Serbs, Montenegrins, and others.

Examines questions of identity and self-understanding in six life-careers in the Austrian intellectual and political elite. This title also presents fresh perspective on the six examined individuals, whose scholarly, artistic, and bureaucratic careers are placed in a political context.

Deployments of Tablet PCs have spanned the K-12, undergraduate, and graduate levels and have dealt with a diverse range of subject areas including nursing, veterinary science, geology, ethno-musicology, anthropology, and, landscape architecture. This work aims to identify various practices in the educational use of pen-based computing.

A multidisciplinary approach exploring the historical antecedents and the dynamic process of Yugoslavia's violent dissolution. This volume examines issues broadening our understanding of the Yugoslav case, and also sheds light on how to deal with state fragility and failure.

Describes Purdue's travels to diverse places where she lived in order to learn about the mysterious relative known in her family as Uncle. This book examines her beginning among illiterate, immigrant, Pennsylvania mountain-hollow folks. It describes the destitute family's journey into Ohio and her ascent from local entrepreneur to national figure.

Maps the presence, position and use in the narrative of a variety of material objects in Marguerite de Navarre's ""Heptameron"". This work includes a selection of objects, ranging from tapestries with scripture passages woven into the borders, fine arts paintings, chalices incised with proverbs, emblems, table linens, and more.

The challenge of connecting people, ideas, and resources across communities stems from the quest for competition in a global world, at the same time that the basic infrastructure to foster wealth creation is asymmetrically distributed across regions of the globe.

Covers gene regulation to enzyme mechanisms and protein structure.

Presents a comparative analysis of the theoretical prose by two major Latin American vanguardist contemporaries, Mario de Andrade (Brazil, 1893-1945) and Vicente Huidobro (Chile, 1893-1948). This title offers a comparative study of two allegorical texts, Huidobro's ""Non serviam"" and Mario's ""Parabola d'A escrava que nao e Isaura"".

Exposes the flaws of Mel Gibson's cinematic Christ, and lays out assertively the rationale of Jews and Christians, in how to grasp and comprehend the passion and execution of the Christian savior known scripturally as the ""King of the Jews.

Examines how one of imperial Austria's principal ethnic conflicts, that between Czechs and Germans, developed in one of the major cities during the era of industrialization and urban growth. This book shows how the inhabitants of Prague, constructed ethnic group loyalties and social solidarities over the course of the nineteenth century.

The ""Boy Hunter"" Series takes its heroes through various adventures while searching for big and little game in the woods and in the mountains. Written in the early 1900s, by Edward Stratemeyer (of Hardy Boys fame) under the pseudonym Captain Ralph Bonehill, the three titles provide clean and respectful fun and adventure.