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Beginning with a survey of the contemporary landscape of copyright law, Aufderheide and Jaszi drew on their years of experience advising documentary filmmakers, English teachers, performing arts scholars, and other creative professionals to lay out in detail how the principles of fair use can be employed to avoid copyright violation.

This text tells the stories of Brookhaven National Laboratory's scientists and their research, which has included detailed descriptions of the structure of the nucleus, early attempts at radiotherapy for inoperable tumours, and studies of strange particles.

By engaging with thinkers such as Mill, Nietzsche, Arendt, and others, reading Job with inmates at local prisons, and showing how musical genres like jazz and blues harness the beauty and agony of suffering, Samuelson invites us to see how philosophy can help us understand suffering.

Hayek used arguments from evolution to build his view of capitalism; Beck analyzes them and finds them wanting-incomplete, inaccurate, and failing to understand the science.

Gieryn argues that place matters, and that understanding the role of place in the making of historical events can tell us a lot about those events and why they unfolded the way they did.

How to reconcile our idea of the traditional conservatism of Catholicism with the many modernist churches built in the middle of the twentieth century? Osborne shows how, finding links between postwar theology and architectural ambition.

A look at a major longitudinal study of Harvard graduates that builds a case for rethinking how we define success and happiness.

A look at bankruptcy laws in international perspective, highlighting the difficulties presented by global multinational corporations.

A look at what it takes for animals to live at the edges of existence. Each chapter of this book takes readers on a different journey to remote environs and in chase of an understanding of the species that live there.

Ground Truth is a guide to living in this condition of changing nature, to paying attention instead of turning away, and to gathering facts from which a fuller understanding of the natural world can emerge over time.

Before Voltaire traces how the development of mathematical physics in the eighteenth-century, following the publication of Newton's Principia, was part and parcel of French culture generally. It offers, for the first time, a cultural history of how Newton's ideas were first read and received in France and how their reception influenced French science and society.

Prisoners of Shangri-La is a provocative analysis of how the West cultivated the "romance" of Tibet, and how that romance gradually came to imprison those who sought Tibetan independence from China.

Before Western clocks came to Japan, hours shifted in length with the length of the day through the seasons; this book looks at how standard hours arrived and how Japanese life adapted to them.

A history of municipal public finance in Brazil in the last half of the nineteenth century and first part of the twentieth.

Is the Cemetery Dead? gets to the heart of the tragedy of death, chronicling how Americans are inventing new or adapting old traditions, burial places, and memorials.

In Secrets of the Snout, Frank Rosell blends storytelling and science as he sniffs out the myriad ways in which dogs have been trained to employ their incredible olfactory skills, from sussing out cancer and narcotics to locating endangered and invasive species, as well as missing persons (and golf balls).

Ferdowsian combines compelling stories of survivors with the latest science on resilience to help us understand the link between violence against people and animals and the biological foundations of recovery, peace, and hope.

David Rapp's engaging history resets the story and brings these men to life again, enabling us to marvel anew at their feats on the diamond. It's a rare look at one of baseball's first dynasties in action.

In a series of place based chapters, he channels readers through the changing dynamics of small-scale fisheries, and the issues of sustainability they face--fiscal and ecological.

Guided by a moral vision to document human experience, this unique collection takes raw historical materials--newspaper articles, autobiography and letters, court testimony, a convict ledger, and even a menu--and shapes them into sonnets, ballads, free verse, and prose poems.

What obsesses Halliday in Losers Dream On is how to recognize reality without relinquishing the pleasure and creativity and courage of our dreaming. Halliday's poetry exploits the vast array of dictions, idioms, rhetorical maneuvers, and tones available to real-life speakers (including speakers talking to themselves).

An analysis of the early writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes that shows how he developed a theory of legal logic that took into account factors from outside the courtroom.