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Top researchers, scholars and policymakers compare what it is like to grow older in New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo, with respect to health and quality of life, living arrangements and housing, and the provision of long-term care to older persons when they eventually become frail.

At the height of the Vietnam War, Jerry Elmer committed his first felony by refusing to register for the draft. Over the next 20 years, using nonviolent tactics, Jerry worked for peace, justice, and the environment. Here, he gives us his lifetime of lessons in nonviolent protest as an example for all who wish to make a positive difference today.

Using Jesuit archival material, takes up the historical Civil Rights Movement right from the time when small groups of Black and White Catholics began efforts to desegregate the New Orleans archdiocese, and the Society of Jesus began, in fits and starts, to integrate quietly the New Orleans Province.

Recovering voices long relegated to silence, this work deciphers the responses of women to the culture of control in seventeenth-century Spain. It incorporates convent texts, Inquisition cases, biographies, and women's literature to reveal a previously unrecognized boom in women's writing between 1580 and 1700.

Few books have had more impact on US history than ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"". Slavery apologists from North and South responded with their own fiction, a key portion written by women. Joy Jordan-Lake examines those women-authored novels to produce insights into both antebellum American culture and a proslavery ideology rife with internal tensions.

Looks in depth at eight successful peer-run programs for adults with serious mental illnesses. The book grew out of a 1998 meeting that led off a nationwide study to assess not only the effectiveness of consumer-operated services programs (COSPs) but also their implications for the future of mental health care in the United States.

Combining powerful personal stories with astute analysis and recommendations, ""Always on Call"" reveals the hidden struggles of the more than 25 million family caregivers in the United States.

The Plan of Nashville is a community-based vision of how the urban core of Nashville should look and work in the 21st century. The purpose is to help the central city hold its place in civic life.

Fourteen original essays examine the fascinating world of music scenes, those largely inconspicous sites where clusters of musicians, producers, and fans explore their common musical tastes and distinctive lifestyle choices.

While more than 80 percent of the world's commercial music is controlled by four multinational firms, most music is made and enjoyed in diverse situations divorced from such corporate behemoths. These 14 essays examine the world of ""music scenes,"".

In this volume Hildebrand asks two questions: first, how faithful are the neopragmatists' reformulations of classical pragmatism (particularly Deweyan pragmatism); and, second, and more significantly, can their neopragmatism work?

Today George Peabody College is a part of Vanderbilt University, as it has been since its merger in 1979. Its prior history was rich and complex. In this book, Paul Conkin, author of the award-winning history of Vanderbilt, Gone with the Ivy, tells the story of Peabody's many lives, of its successes and failures, and of its many colorful leaders and professors.It all began as a small frontier academy in 1785. The institution that would become Peabody experienced its first reinvention two decades later as it became Cumberland College, and then, in 1826, the University of Nashville. The University maintained an elite undergraduate college until 1850, and, despite the success of its medical school and a military institute, it failed in three subsequent efforts to restart its undergraduate program.In 1875 the University offered its campus and degree-granting authority to the first normal school in the state of Tennessee, a school funded by the Peabody Education Fund. The Peabody Normal College was the best in the South, and, as such, exerted an enormous influence on education in the region.A new era began in 1909. The trustees of the Peabody Fund, at its liquidation, provided an eventual $1.5 million to establish a graduate-level George Peabody College for Teachers. It opened for classes in 1914, on its present campus, where it quickly became the premier teachers' college in the South. As was the case with many private, independent institutions, Peabody faced intermittent financial struggles, which finally ended with its union with Vanderbilt. Today Peabody is, by almost any criteria, one of the five or six strongest colleges of education in the United States.

Placing the ideological evolution of the exiles from Spain to Mexico between 1939 and 1975 in a broad historical context, this book takes into account developments in both Spanish and Mexican politics from the early 1930s through the 1970s.

This volume contains surveys written by leading experts, along with research papers on the developments in approximation theory and in the theory and application of curves and surfaces. Topics include: approximation of eigenvalues, nonlinear approximation and uni-modular polynomials.

This volume examines the behaviour of the Clinton administration and Congress in dealing with the range of American military operations that occurred during the Clinton presidency.

A study of John William Miller's radical revision of the idealistic tradition. Vincent Colapietro situates Miller's powerful but neglected corpus not only in reference to Continental European philosophy but also to paradigmatic figures in American culture like Lincoln, Emerson, Thoreau and James.

The Nazi genocide of the Jews, while unique in some ways, was not the only genocide of the 20th century. This text, the product of a collaboration of scholars from many disciplines, ties the teaching of the Holocaust to an analysis of the genocides in Armenia, Bosnia and Kosovo, and Rwanda.

What is the relationship between work and family in a world where employment creates tensions for families and families create tensions for the workplace? This collection of articles broadens this discussion by addressing issues from the perspectives of often neglected populations.

A piece of practical criticism, this text is a comprehensive "poetics" of a genre that has not attracted a great deal of attention. It is a reader's and student's guide that reaches beyond issues of individual texts and historical traditions to essential features of the form of the novel.

What is the relationship between work and family in a world where employment creates tensions for families and families create tensions for the workplace? This collection of articles broadens this discussion by addressing issues from the perspectives of often neglected populations.

Peirce's Scientific Metaphysics is the first book devoted to understanding Charles Sanders Peirce's (1839-1914) metaphysics from the perspective of the scientific questions that motivated his thinking. While offering a detailed account of the scientific ideas and theories essential for understanding Peirce's metaphysical system, this book is written in a manner accessible to the non-specialist.

An exploration of Latino-Caribbean literature written in the United States. Writers whose works are examined include: Julia Alvarez; Judith Ortiz Cofer; Victor Hernandez Cruz; Franklin Gutierrez; Cristina Garcia; Oscar Hijuelos; Carolina Hospital; Rosario Morales; and others.

The essays in this collection, all written by Dewey scholars, pay tribute to Dewey's logical theories, ranging from his work at the beginning of the 20th century to the culmination of his logical thought in the 1938 volume, ""Logic: The Theory of Inquiry"".

This text poses and answers questions surrounding how and why under-educated and impoverished children who successfully went to college did so and seeks to provide recommendations for mentoring disadvantaged children to enable them to get to college also.

This text poses and answers questions surrounding how and why under-educated and impoverished children who successfully went to college did so and seeks to provide recommendations for mentoring disadvantaged children to enable them to get to college also.

The US struggle between the public interest and corporate interests is well illustrated in the struggle between the tobacco industry and advocates for public health. In this text Pertschuk describes the forces brought to bear in the failure of the ""global settlement"" legislation.

The attempt to improve academic performance by African American students in the US by rearranging the racial mix through desegregation has proven simplistic and inadequate. This text examines Louisiana as a case study of how desegregation has followed the same unsuccessful pattern across the US.

This volume is taken from the Oslo Conference on Mathematical Methods for Curves and Surfaces, held in July 2000. Topics include: animation; beta continuity; bivariate splines; blossoming; conic sections; data reduction; flow surfaces; implicit curves; NURPS; offsets; wavelets; and more.

During the early 20th century, William Ernest Hocking (1873-1966) stood at the forefront of American philosophy and yet is now a forgotten figure. This volume, combining a rich selection of his work with incisive essays, seeks to recover Hocking's valuable contributions to philsophical thought.

The essays in this collection, all written by Dewey scholars, pay tribute to Dewey's logical theories, ranging from his work at the beginning of the 20th century to the culmination of his logical thought in the 1938 volume, ""Logic: The Theory of Inquiry"".