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Focusing on a few key moments in the transformation of medical care, the author reveals the way that new discoveries and new approaches led doctors and patients alike to discard fatalism and their traditional religious acceptance of suffering in favor of a new faith in health care and in the capacity of doctors to treat disease.

Donald E. Westlake, writing as Richard Stark, offers the third Alan Grofield novel of suspense. Grofield is a part-time actor, but the rest of the time he's a thief. But in this advernture, no one is giving Grofield the privilege of being asked if he'd like to heroically die for his country.

Alan Grofield has a knack for attracting damsels in distress. When Ellen Marie Fitzgerald comes in through his window, he dismisses the tale she tells him, until hoods come to find her, and their escape route from political intrigue may well be their last!

This study offers an interpretation of the political battles that paved the way for reform in Iran. The author argues that the struggle for a more democratic Iran can be traced back to the revolution itself, and to the contradictory agendas of the revolution's founding father, Ayatollah Khomeini.

Liberace's career follows the trajectory of the classic American dream. This volume reveals Liberace as a complicated man whose political, social and religious conservatism existed side-by-side with a lifetime of secretive homosexuality.

Using the explosion in the use of chaos theory, this book examines the relationship between science and other disciplines as well as the place of scientific knowledge within our broader culture.

During the performances of fashionable operas, the musicians tell tales, read stories and exchange gossip to relieve the tedium of the bad music they are paid to perform. We are privy to 25 entertaining evenings with a fascinating group of distracted performers.

Keith Moxey examines woodcut images from the Nuremburg area, arguing that far from being crude representations of popular culture, they in fact represent the means by which the middle and upper classes could disseminate reformed attitudes to a broader audience.

Presents a synthesis/review of research methods and studies of cetaceans in their natural habitats. The book covers the history of cetacean behavioural research and methodology; state-of-the-art reviews of information on four of the most-studied species; and summaries of major topics.

Explores the connections between cognitive science, language, and meaning that first begun in the classic "Metaphors We Live By". This work concludes that the arts are the culmination of human attempts to find meaning and that studying the aesthetic dimensions of our experience is crucial to unlocking meaning's bodily sources.

This text explores the complex relations between "enlightened" values and the making of scientific knowledge. Here monsters and automata, barometers and botanical gardens, polite academies and boisterous clubs are all given their due place in the landscape of enlightened Europe.

One of the most significant political philosophers of the twentieth century, Carl Schmitt is a deeply controversial figure who has been labeled both a Nazi sympathizer and a modern-day Thomas Hobbes. This work uses the Enlightenment philosopher's enduring symbol of the protective Leviathan to address the nature of modern statehood.

Franchises have become an ever-present feature of American life, both in our landscapes and our economics. Peter M. Birkeland worked for three years in the front-line operations of franchise units for three companies, met with CEOs and executives, and attended countless trade shows, seminars, and expositions.

Presents the key findings from the survey, "Midlife in the US" (MIDUS) conducted by the MacArthur Foundation, on physical health, quality of life and psychological well-being, and the contexts of midlife. This study measures not only health - the absence of illness - but also reports on the presence of wellness in middle-aged Americans.

Explores the world of education in Islam since the medieval era, illuminating the struggle among Islamic scholars and educators over whether to reform or resist as a way of preserving identity. This title also offers an overview of the great diversity in forms of Islamic education.

An account of the author's life with the atomic scientist Enrico Fermi, that covers Fermi's early childhood interest in science, and his rise in the Italian university system concurrent with the rise of fascism, his receipt of the Nobel Prize, their emigration to the United States in the 1930s, their experiences in America.

This text presents eight Nigerian women writers and proposes a vernacular theory based on their work. Flora Nwapa, Adaora Lily Ulasi, Buchi Emecheta are some of the writers included. The importance of children and community in the literary tradition of African womanism is assessed.

Looking at the human impact of World War I, this text examines how the French remembered their war dead after the armistice. It argues that memory is more than just a record of experience and offers a perspective on how commemoration of WWI helped to shape post-war French society and politics.

This anthology places the works of such well-known figures as Captain James Cook and Robert Louis Stevenson alongside the writings of lesser-known explorers, missionaries, beachcombers, and literary travellers who roamed the South Seas from the late 17th through the late 19th centuries.

This study in the sociology of science explores the way scientists conduct, and draw conclusions from, their experiments. The book is organized around three case studies: replication of the TEA-laser, detecting gravitational rotation, and some experiments in the paranormal.

Demonstrates that ethnography is uniquely suited for illuminating the study of politics. This book addresses the central ontological and epistemological issues raised by ethnographic work. It also grapples with the reality that all research is conducted from a first-person perspective.

Informed by fossil discoveries, scientists and artists collaborated during the years before Darwin's "Origin of Species" was published to produce images of a prehistoric world based on sources other than the Bible. This book explores the implications of reconstructing a past humans have never seen.

A personal history of 50 years in photo-journalism by one of the top journalists of the 20th century. John Morris tells the inside stories from the field, ranging from photos of the D-Day landing to the assassination of Robert Kennedy.

This text is a discussion of issues that have been raised by the "Science Wars" (science versus the arts and humanities). The book presents papers for discussion, and then commentaries on those papers, drawing out discussions on central themes, and finally the participants respond to these issues.

In this final volume of his biographical trilogy, Maurice Cranston traces the last tempestuous years of Rousseau's life.