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Out of Many, One
Obama and the Third American Political Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Feared by conservatives and embraced by liberals when he entered the White House, Barack Obama has since been battered by criticism from both sides. In Out of Many, One, Ruth O’Brien explains why. We are accustomed to seeing politicians supporting either a minimalist state characterized by unfettered...
by Paul T. Hill, Ashley E. Jochim
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
America’s education system faces a stark dilemma: it needs governmental oversight, rules and regulations, but it also needs to be adaptable enough to address student needs and the many different problems that can arise at any given school—something that large educational bureaucracies are notoriously...
What's Fair on the Air?
Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
The rise of right-wing broadcasting during the Cold War has been mostly forgotten today. But in the 1950s and ’60s you could turn on your radio any time of the day and listen to diatribes against communism, civil rights, the United Nations, fluoridation, federal income tax, Social Security, or JFK,...
Building the American Republic, Volume 2
A Narrative History from 1877
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Building the American Republic combines centuries of perspectives and voices into a fluid narrative of the United States. Throughout their respective volumes, Harry L. Watson and Jane Dailey take care to integrate varied scholarly perspectives and work to engage a diverse readership by addressing...
Ku Klux Kulture
America and the Klan in the 1920s
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
In popular understanding, the Ku Klux Klan is a hateful white supremacist organization. In Ku Klux Kulture, Felix Harcourt argues that in the 1920s the self-proclaimed Invisible Empire had an even wider significance as a cultural movement.
Ku Klux Kulture reveals the extent to which the KKK...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
What are the conditions that foster true novelty and allow visionaries to set their eyes on unknown horizons? What have been the challenges that have spawned new innovations, and how have they shaped modern biology? In Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences, editors Oren Harman...
by Charles Bardes
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
This moving prose poem tells the story of an aged man who suffers a prolonged and ultimately fatal illness. From initial diagnosis to remission to relapse to death, the experience is narrated by the man’s son, a practicing doctor. Charles Bardes, a physician and poet, draws on years of experience...
American Sunshine
Diseases of Darkness and the Quest for Natural Light
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
In the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark. Hulking new buildings overspread blocks, pollution obscured the skies, and glass and smog screened out the health-giving rays of the sun. Doctors fed anxities about these new conditions with claims about a rising tide...
The Beautiful Cure
The Revolution in Immunology and What It Means for Your Health
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
**“Visceral.”—Wall Street Journal * “Illuminating.”—Publishers Weekly * “Heroic.”—Science
The immune system holds the key to human health. In The Beautiful Cure, leading immunologist Daniel M. Davis describes how the scientific quest to understand how the immune...
Operation Fly Trap
L. A. Gangs, Drugs, and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
In 2003, an FBI-led task force known as Operation Fly Trap attempted to dismantle a significant drug network in two Bloods-controlled, African American neighborhoods in Los Angeles. The operation would soon be considered an enormous success, noted for the precision with which the task force targeted...
The People's Peking Man
Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
In the 1920s an international team of scientists and miners unearthed the richest evidence of human evolution the world had ever seen: Peking Man. After the communist revolution of 1949, Peking Man became a prominent figure in the movement to bring science to the people. In a new state with twin goals...
Science in the Marketplace
Nineteenth-Century Sites and Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2007
The nineteenth century was an age of transformation in science, when scientists were rewarded for their startling new discoveries with increased social status and authority. But it was also a time when ordinary people from across the social spectrum were given the opportunity to participate in science,...
Show Me the Bone
Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Nineteenth-century paleontologists boasted that, shown a single bone, they could identify or even reconstruct the extinct creature it came from with infallible certainty—“Show me the bone, and I will describe the animal!” Paleontologists such as Georges Cuvier and Richard Owen were heralded...
Fighting Like a Community
Andean Civil Society in an Era of Indian Uprisings
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
The indigenous population of the Ecuadorian Andes made substantial political gains during the 1990s in the wake of a dynamic wave of local activism. The movement renegotiated land development laws, elected indigenous candidates to national office, and successfully fought for the constitutional redefinition...