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Kyle Stevens
With iconic movies like Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Graduate, and Carnal Knowledge, Mike Nichols was the most prominent American director during the cultural upheavals of the 1960s. Mike Nichols: Sex, Language, and the Reinvention of Psychol
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Ronald J. Herring
Food has, for most of our species history, been intensely political: who gets to eat what, how often, and through what means? The scale of polity in question has shifted over time, from very local institutions dividing up grain piles to an internatio
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Jens Forssbaeck, Lars Oxelheim
In recent years, the term'transparency'has emerged as one of the most popular and keenly-touted concepts around. In the economic-political debate, the principle of transparency is often advocated as a prerequisite for accountability, legitimacy, poli
Autor:
M. Cherif Bassiouni
This comprehensive guide covers all aspects of extradition to and from the United States, while making critical, theoretical, and practical evaluations of these aspects, and proposing alternatives. The rights of individuals, balancing of states inter
Autor:
David O. Kennedy
We're all familiar with the idea that plant-derived chemicals can have an impact on the functioning of the human brain. Most of us reach for a cup of coffee or tea in the morning, many of us occasionally eat some chocolate, some smoke a cigarette or
Autor:
Daniel P. Todes
Winner of the Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society'Contrary to legend, Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936) never trained a dog to salivate to the sound of a bell.'So begins this definitive, deeply researched biography of Ivan Pavlov. Daniel P. Todes
Autor:
Veronica Benet-Martinez, Ying-Yi Hong
Multiculturalism is a prevalent worldwide societal phenomenon. Aspects of our modern life, such as migration, economic globalization, multicultural policies, and cross-border travel and communication have made intercultural contacts inevitable. High
Autor:
James Anderson Winn
As the last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne (1665-1714) received the education thought proper for a princess, reading plays and poetry in English and French while learning dancing, singing, acting, drawing, and instrumental music. As an adult, she played
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Rosemary Gartner, Bill McCarthy
Research on gender, sex, and crime today remains focused on topics that have been a mainstay of the field for several decades, but it has also recently expanded to include studies from a variety of disciplines, a growing number of countries, and on a
Autor:
Michael Fontaine, Adele C. Scafuro
In recent decades literary approaches to drama have multiplied: new historical, intertextual, political, performative and metatheatrical, socio-linguistic, gender-driven, transgenre-driven. New information has been amassed, sometimes by re-examinatio