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Revealing the extent to which some of yesterday's fathers were involved with their children, this text recounts how fatherhood was reshaped during the "Machine Age" into the configuration we know today.

The fragmentation of the tropical rain forests is the subject of this study, which looks at the devastating damage caused to these sensitive areas. Covering geographic areas from Southeast Asia and Australia to Madagascar and the New World, the book summarizes contemporary knowledge and research.

Combining literary biography with reporting and moral insight, in this text David Laskin shows how sex, politics, and art affected relationships among the "Partisan Review" writers.

Examines art music by Haitian and African American composers who were inspired by Haiti's history as a nation created by slave revolt. This title also highlights the contributions of many Haitian and African American composers who wrote music that brought rhythms and melodies of the Vodou ceremony to local and international audiences.

Leo Strauss left a strongly negative assessment of Nietzsche as the modern philosopher most at odds with the traditions of political philosophy, and most responsible for the sins of 20th-century culture. This book offers a reassessment of the Strauss-Nietzsche connection.

An account of the search over the past 100 years or so, to try and discover how educational research might provide reliable prescriptions for the improvement of education.

Presents history of the evolution of popular science in the first decades of the broadcasting era. This title transports readers to the early days of radio, when the new medium allowed innovative and optimistic scientists the opportunity to broadcast serious and dignified presentations over the airwaves.

The research Alexander von Humboldt amassed during his five-year trek through the Americas in the early 19th century proved foundational to the fields of botany and geology. But his visit to Cuba during this time yielded observations that extended far beyond the natural world. This title presents a physical and cultural study of the island nation.

This text disputes the laissez-faire direction of both economic theory and practice that has gained prominence since the mid-1970s. Dissenting voices, the author argues, have been drowned out by a sea of circular arguments and complex mathematical models that ignore real-world conditions.

In the 1960s, University of Cincinnati radiologist Eugene Saenger infamously conducted human experiments on patients with advanced cancer to examine how total body radiation could treat the disease. Using the Saenger case as a means to reconsider cold war medical trials, this book examines the tensions at the heart of clinical studies of the time.

The 1968 Democratic National Convention is known for police brutality against demonstrators. This book ventures beyond the stereotypical image of rioting protestors and violent cops to reevaluate how - and why - the police attacked antiwar activists at the convention.

Following the lives of a group of transgendered prostitutes in Salvador, this text analyzes the ways that they modify their bodies, explores their motivations, examines their complex relationships and discovers how prostitution for most travestis is a positive and affirmative experience.

"The road since structure", assembled with Kuhn's input before his death in 1996, follows the development of his thought through the later years of his life. Collected here are several essays and an extensive autobiographical interview discussing his life and philosophy

Brings together fifteen leading scholars at the intersection of religious and sexuality studies to comment on this book's immense impact, the endless debates it generated, and the many contributions it has made to our culture. This book also includes discussions of John Boswell's career, including his influence among gay and lesbian Christians.

Rejects the stereotypes of a conformist and conflict-free suburbia. This work argues that suburbia must be understood as a central factor in the modern American experience. It includes ten essays that challenge our understanding of suburbia. It reveals the role suburbs have played in the transformation of American liberalism and conservatism.

An analysis of the challenges and opportunities facing the World Trade Organization. Papers address the WTO's institutional capacity, the resources available to the secretariat, policy issues facing the WTO, and the WTO's relationship with transition and developing countries.

This anthology collects descriptions, poems, narratives, satires and essays written in and about the British West Indies between 1657 and 1777. It offers period commentaries on slavery, colonialism, gender relations, African and European history, natural history, agriculture and medicine.