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Aspects of Medical Care Administration: Specifying...
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A systematic presentation of social, economic, and medical information designed to help administrators assess resources and define objectives. Author: Donabedian, Avedis Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674049802 ISBN-13: 9780674049802..
Awakening Islam: The Politics of Religious Dissent...
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Amidst the roil of war and instability across the Middle East, the West is still searching for ways to understand the Islamic world. Stéphane Lacroix has now given us a penetrating look at the political dynamics of Saudi Arabia, one of the most opaque of Muslim countries and the place that gave birt..
Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the Americ...
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Challenging the formidable tradition that places early New England Puritanism at the center of the American religious experience, Yale historian Jon Butler offers a new interpretation of three hundred years of religious and cultural development. Butler stresses the instability of religion in Europe ..
Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the Americ...
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From Library JournalButler's fine scholarly summary of the first three centuries of Christian experience in America is both well researched and very readable. Butler ranges widely, showing how the elitist Christianity of early modern Europe co-existed with belief in magic and the occult and also dis..
Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silen...
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Although cinema was invented in the mid-1890s, it was a decade more before the concept of a “film spectator” emerged. As the cinema began to separate itself from the commercial entertainments in whose context films initially had been shown vaudeville, dime museums, fairgrounds a particular concept o..
Baboon Mothers and Infants
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A researcher on animal behavior explores the social and ecological aspects of nurturing in baboons Author: Altmann, Jeanne Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674058569 ISBN-13: 9780674058569..
Bach and the Patterns of Invention
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In this major new interpretation of the music of J. S. Bach, we gain a striking picture of the composer as a unique critic of his age. By reading Bach's music "against the grain" of contemporaries such as Vivaldi and Telemann, Laurence Dreyfus explains how Bach's approach to musical invention in a v..
Bach: Essays on His Life and Music
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Johann Sebastian Bach holds a singular position in the history of music. A uniquely gifted musician, he combined outstanding performing virtuosity with supreme creative powers and remarkable intellectual discipline. More than two centuries after his lifetime, Bach’s work continues to set musical sta..
Bankers and Pashas: International Finance and Econ...
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Book by Landes, David S. Author: Landes, David S. Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0674061659 ISBN-13: 9780674061651..
Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy ...
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The unique breed of particle physicists constitutes a community of sophisticated mythmakers explicators of the nature of matter who forever alter our views of space and time. But who are these people What is their world really like Sharon Traweek, a bold and original observer of culture, opens the..
Becoming African Americans: Black Public Life in H...
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In 2000, the United States census allowed respondents for the first time to tick a box marked “African American” in the race category. The new option marked official recognition of a term that had been gaining currency for some decades. Africa has always played a role in black identity, but it was i..
Becoming America: The Revolution before 1776
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Winner of the John G. Cawelti Award, Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association“We must congratulate Butler for [bringing] under control [a] profusion of scholarship and [making] sense of it in fewer than 250 pages. His book is a tour de force…Compelling and readable.” Gordon S. Wo..
Beethoven Essays
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Essays discuss Beethoven's personality, dreams, Ninth Symphony, deafness, creativity, and family relationships Author: Solomon, Maynard Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674063775 ISBN-13: 9780674063778..
Before Color Prejudice: The Ancient View of Blacks
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In this richly illustrated account of black-white contacts from the Pharaohs to the Caesars, Frank Snowden demonstrates that the ancients did not discriminate against blacks because of their color. For three thousand years Mediterranean whites intermittently came in contact with African blacks in co..
Being a Buddhist Nun: The Struggle for Enlightenme...
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They may shave their heads, don simple robes, and renounce materialism and worldly desires. But the women seeking enlightenment in a Buddhist nunnery high in the folds of Himalayan Kashmir invariably find themselves subject to the tyrannies of subsistence, subordination, and sexuality. Ultimately, B..
Ben Jonson's Parodic Strategy: Literary Imperialis...
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Traces the life of the English poet and dramatist, describes the background of his times, and discusses Jonson's major works Author: Watson, Robert N. Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674066014 ISBN-13: 9780674066014..
Betrayal Trauma: The Logic of Forgetting Childhood...
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This book lays bare the logic of forgotten abuse. Psychologist Jennifer Freyd's breakthrough theory explaining this phenomenon shows how psychogenic amnesia not only happens but, if the abuse occurred at the hands of a parent or caregiver, is often necessary for survival. Freyd's book will give emba..
Betrayal Trauma: The Logic of Forgetting Childhood...
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This book lays bare the logic of forgotten abuse. Psychologist Jennifer Freyd's breakthrough theory explaining this phenomenon shows how psychogenic amnesia not only happens but, if the abuse occurred at the hands of a parent or caregiver, is often necessary for survival. Freyd's book will give emba..
Beyond Justice: The Auschwitz Trial
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In 1963, West Germany was gripped by a dramatic trial of former guards who had worked at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. It was the largest and most public trial to take place in the country and attracted international attention. Using the pretrial files and extensive trial audiotapes, Rebecca Wittma..
Beyond Moral Judgment
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What is moral thought and what kinds of demands does it impose Alice Crary’s Beyond Moral Judgment claims that even the most perceptive contemporary answers to these questions offer no more than partial illumination, owing to an overly narrow focus on judgments that apply moral concepts (for exampl..
Beyond the Synagogue Gallery: Finding a Place for ...
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Beyond the Synagogue Gallery recounts the emergence of new roles for American Jewish women in public worship and synagogue life. Karla Goldman's study of changing patterns of female religiosity is a story of acculturation, of adjustments made to fit Jewish worship into American society.Goldman focus..
Beyond the Zonules of Zinn: A Fantastic Journey Th...
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In his latest book, David Bainbridge combines an otherworldly journey through the central nervous system with an accessible and entertaining account of how the brain's anatomy has often misled anatomists about its function. Bainbridge uses the structure of the brain to set his book apart from the ma..
Bilingual: Life and Reality
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Whether in family life, social interactions, or business negotiations, half the people in the world speak more than one language every day. Yet many myths persist about bilingualism and bilinguals. In a lively and entertaining book, an international authority on bilingualism explores the many facets..
Black Fiction
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In this illuminating book Roger Rosenblatt offers both sensitive analyses of individual works and a provocative and compelling thesis. He argues that black fiction has a unity deriving not from any chronological sequence, or simply from its black authorship, but from a particular cyclical conception..
Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and...
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The story of West Indian immigrants to the United States is considered a great success. Many of these adoptive citizens have prospered, including General Colin Powell. But Mary Waters tells a very different story about immigrants from the West Indies, especially their children.She finds that when th..