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The heroic story of the invention of trauma care, from battlefield triage to level 1 trauma centers

Formulates a framework for the development of Jewish rituals for newborn girls

An election-year guide to understanding the language of the electeds, spin-meisters, and flacks of American politics

In Why the Grateful Dead Matter, veteran writer and lifelong Deadhead Michael Benson argues that the Grateful Dead are not simply a successful rock-and-roll band but a phenomenon central to American culture.

A distinctive American subculture responds to the forces of social change.

A timely story of whistleblowing in wartime

Now in paperback, the New York Times best-selling biography of the legendary Revolutionary War patriot and America's first spy

The updated edition of a classic contemporary account of Vermont's environmental history, told through the interaction of natural and human components

A leading Frost critic guides the reader through some of the poet's most challenging verse.

Short stories explore cultural change and class conflict in contemporary West Virginia.

Keith Thomas's earlier studies in the ethnography of early modern England, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Ends of Life, were all attempts to explore beliefs, values, and social practices in the centuries from 1500 to 1800. In Pursuit of Civility continues this quest by examining what English people thought it meant to be "civilized" and how that condition differed from being "barbarous" or "savage." Thomas shows that the upper ranks of society sought to distinguish themselves from their social inferiors by distinctive ways of moving, speaking, and comporting themselves, and that the common people developed their own form of civility. The belief of the English in their superior civility shaped their relations with the Welsh, the Scots, and the Irish, and was fundamental to their dealings with the native peoples of North America, India, and Australia. Yet not everyone shared this belief in the superiority of Western civilization; the book sheds light on the origins of both anticolonialism and cultural relativism. Thomas has written an accessible history based on wide reading, abounding in fresh insights, and illustrated by many striking quotations and anecdotes from contemporary sources.

A dramatic story of the interplay between environment and economy in New England.

How turning writing into a habit is the best tool an author can possess.

A book for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the natural world

Using the teachings of such influential men as Vico to Aries to Foucault, Patrick H. Hutton surveys the ways in which the art of memory has become integrated into historical thinking.

A clear and detailed study of Latin American women's history from the late nineteenth century to the present.

A revolutionary reconceptualization of capital and perception during the twentieth century.

Essays forging a new definition of Romanticism that includes the wide range of women's artistic expression.

Provokes a public debate about heightism, its detrimental effects, and how to reshape society's view and treatment of short people

Thirty-six artists, scientists, and renowned writers go wild about the virtues, pleasure, and importance of dirt!

Intriguing biography of Eliezer Grynbaum, the communist Jewish Kapo whose controversy-ridden story spans Europe and Israel

A comprehensive reinterpretation of the development of Hebrew and Israeli literature against the backdrop of the Zionist ideal

Wang Wei was one of the most celebrated poets of China's Tang Dynasty (618-907). An influential painter and practitioner of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, many of his poems contain concise and evocative descriptions of nature whose elegant minimalism offers subtle expression of a transcendence from everyday life. While this purity of poetic expression is what Wang Wei's reputation is built upon, he lived a courtly life of highs and lows in a tumultuous era, suffering demotions and exile, imprisonment and rehabilitation, all of which are evidenced in his verse. Wang Wei's poems grapple with the trappings of worldly life and the quest for enlightenment, painting a complex picture of both his psyche and his Chan discipline. Laughing Lost in the Mountains includes translations of poems running the spectrum of Wang Wei's subjects, as well as an extensive introduction that sheds light on Wang Wei's craft, spirituality, and historical context.

A new set of stories about the fabled Fort William Henry, based on forensics and archeological finds

A diverse range of essays, new discoveries and book reviews on the latest research for interest to ceramic scholars.

A transatlantic examination of a celebrated American author

Sarah M. Ross brings together scholarship on Jewish liturgy, U.S. history, and musical ethnology to describe its roots and development, focusing on the work of songwriters such as Debbie Friedman and Linda Hirschhorn.