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Interdisciplinarity, a favourite buzzword of faculty and administrators, has been approriated to describe so many academic pursuits that it is virtually meaningless. This work remedies this confusion with an original conceptualization of interdisciplinarity based on interviews with faculty.

This text, written in the spirit of William James, urges an appreciation of the intensely personal character of spiritual transcendence. Jamesian transcendence, according to author Phil Oliver, seeks to reconcile individual growth with social responsibility.

An edited selection of the papers presented at the Saint-Malo Conference on Approximation Theory in June 1999. Topics covered include: bases in function spaces; curvelets; H-bases; inverse multiquadrics; macro-element methods; native spaces; ridgelets; subdivision; wavelets; and more.

An edited selection of the papers presented at the Saint-Malo Conference on Approximation Theory in June 1999. Topics covered include: B-bases; canal surfaces; conics; curvature; discrete fairing; G2-splines; highlight lines; involute curves; multi-sided patches; offsets; ray tracing; and more.

An annotated edition of Rebecca Harding Davis's 1904 autobiography, ""Bits of Gossip"", and a family history written for her children. The memoirs are not traditional autobiography; rather, they present Davis's perspective on the cultural changes that occurred during her lifetime.

Defining an ""emphatic"" as an intrusion that alters the import of what it intrudes on, Weiss sets the stage for an exquisitely systematic, speculative study of the major themes confronting modern metaphysics.

Richard McKeon (1900-1985) is considered by those familiar with his work to be among the most important of all 20th-century philosophers. This work brings McKeon to the attention of contemporary philsosophers and students, whilst also putting his theories into practice.

Ryder makes available to English-speaking readers Russian views of the full range of American philosophical thought, from 17th century Puritanism through the colonial and revolutionary periods, 19th century idealism, pragmatism, naturalism and other 20th century movements and figures.

Volume 2 in a two volume selection of papers from the Ninth International Symposium on Approximation Theory, held in January, 1998. In the INNOVATIONS IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS series, it is aimed at mathematicians, engineers and computer scientists working in approximation theory, wavelets, computer-aided geometric design and numerical analysis.

Volume 1 in a two volume selection of papers from the Ninth International Symposium on Approximation Theory, held in January, 1998. In the INNOVATIONS IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS series, it is aimed at mathematicians, engineers and computer scientists working in approximation theory, wavelets, computer-aided geometric design and numerical analysis.

The book is divided into four sections that cover the state constitution, the three branches of state government, politics in Tennessee, and current issues of public policy.

Infuses the first, highly acclaimed edition with new material that deepens our understanding of this distinguished American philosopher.

This volume contains more than 50 refereed and edited full-length papers on the theory and applications of mathematical methods in computer aided geometric design and related areas.

The book is divided into four sections that cover the state constitution, the three branches of state government, politics in Tennessee, and current issues of public policy.

In the INNOVATIONS IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS series, a collection of research articles on mathematical models in biology and medicine. The articles are derived from a conference entitled Mathematical Models in Medical and Health Sciences and cover subjects such as cardiac tissue, gas-phase bioreactors, schistosomiasis epidemics and HIV pathogenesis.

The war in Vietnam, spanning more than twenty years, was one of the most divisive conflicts ever to envelop the United States, and its complexity and consequences did not end with the fall of Saigon in 1975. As Peter Sills demonstrates in Toxic War, veterans faced a new enemy beyond post-traumatic stress disorder or debilitating battle injuries. Many of them faced a new, more pernicious, slow-killing enemy: the cancerous effects of Agent Orange.Originally introduced by Dow and other chemical companies as a herbicide in the United States and adopted by the military as a method of deforesting the war zone of Vietnam, in order to deny the enemy cover, Agent Orange also found its way into the systems of numerous active-duty soldiers. Sills argues that manufacturers understood the dangers of this compound and did nothing to protect American soldiers.Toxic War takes the reader behind the scenes into the halls of political power and industry, where the debates about the use of Agent Orange and its potential side effects raged. In the end, the only way these veterans could seek justice was in the court of law and public opinion. Unprecedented in its access to legal, medical, and government documentation, as well as to the personal testimonies of veterans, Toxic War endeavors to explore all sides of this epic battle.

Why has the work of writers in eighteenth-century Latin America been forgotten? During the eighteenth century, enlightened thinkers in Spanish territories in the Americas engaged in lively exchanges with their counterparts in Europe and Anglo-America about a wide range of topics of mutual interest, responding in the context of increasing racial and economic diversification. Yet despite recent efforts to broaden our understanding of the global Enlightenment, the Ibero-American eighteenth century has often been overlooked.Through the work of five authors--Jose de Oviedo y Banos, Juan Ignacio Molina, Felix de Azara, Catalina de Jesus Herrera, and Felix de Arrate--Domesticating Empire explores the Ibero-American Enlightenment as a project that reflects both key Enlightenment concerns and the particular preoccupations of Bourbon Spain and its territories in the Americas. At a crucial moment in Spain's imperial trajectory, these authors domesticate topics central to empire--conquest, Indians, nature, God, and gold--by making them familiar and utilitarian. As a result, their works later proved resistant to overarching schemes of Latin American literary history and have been largely forgotten. Nevertheless, eighteenth-century Ibero-American writing complicates narratives about both the Enlightenment and Latin American cultural identity.

Brings together an eclectic group of young scholars to examine the complementary notions of history and nostalgia as they are expressed through video games and in gaming culture. By focusing on specific games, historical periods and media ecologies, this work looks at the related topics of nostalgia for classic gaming.

Too often lost in our understanding of the American Cold War crisis, with its nuclear brinkmanship and global political chess game, is the simultaneous crisis on the nation's racial front. Reckoning Day is the first book to examine the relationship of African Americans to the atom bomb in postwar America. It tells the wide-ranging story of African Americans' response to the atomic threat in the postwar period. It examines the anti-nuclear writing and activism of major figures such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Lorraine Hansberry as well as the placement (or absence) of black characters in white-authored doomsday fiction and nonfiction. Author Jacqueline Foertsch analyzes the work of African American thinkers, activists, writers, journalists, filmmakers, and musical performers in the "e;atomic"e; decades of 1945 to 1965 and beyond. Her book tells the dynamic story of commitment and interdependence, as these major figures spoke with force and eloquence for nuclear disarmament, just as they argued unassailably for racial equality on numerous other occasions. Foertsch also examines the placement of African American characters in white-authored doomsday novels, science fiction, and survivalist nonfiction such as government-sponsored forecasts regarding post-nuclear survival. In these, black characters are often displaced or absented entirely: in doomsday narratives they are excluded from executive decision-making and the stories' often triumphant conclusions; in the nonfiction, they are rarely envisioned amongst the "e;typical American"e; survivors charged with rebuilding US society. Throughout Reckoning Day, issues of placement and positioning provide the conceptual framework: abandoned at "e;ground zero"e; (America's inner cities) during the height of the atomic threat, African Americans were figured in white-authored survival fiction as compliant servants aiding white victory over atomic adversity, while as historical figures they were often perceived as "e;elsewhere"e; (indifferent) to the atomic threat. In fact, African Americans' "e;position"e; on the bomb was rarely one of silence or indifference. Ranging from appreciation to disdain to vigorous opposition, atomic-era African Americans developed diverse and meaningful positions on the bomb and made essential contributions to a remarkably American dialogue.

Constructing and controlling women in Colonial South America

This is an examination of the many facets of laughter and the comic in the writing of Rabelais. It analyses the many sides of Rabelais's humour, focusing on why it was so hilariously funny to 16th-century readers.

Demonstrates that market reforms and standardized treatment programs have both influenced and undermined the management of tuberculosis care in the now independent country of Georgia. The alarming rate of tuberculosis infection in this nation at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Asia cannot be disputed, and yet solutions to attacking the disease are very much debated.

Over the last thirty years, the Federal Society for Law and Public Policy Studies has grown from a small group of disaffected conservative law students into an organization with extraordinary influence over American law and politics. Although the organization is unknown to the average citizen, this group of intellectuals has managed to monopolize the selection of federal judges, take over the Department of Justice, and control legal policy in the White House.Today the Society claims that 45,000 conservative lawyers and law students are involved in its activities. Four Supreme Court Justices--Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, and Samuel Alito--are current or former members. Every single federal judge appointed in the two Bush presidencies was either a Society member or approved by members. During the Bush years, young Federalist Society lawyers dominated the legal staffs of the Justice Department and other important government agencies.The Society has lawyer chapters in every major city in the United States and student chapters in every accredited law school. Its membership includes economic conservatives, social conservatives, Christian conservatives, and libertarians, who differ with each other on significant issues, but who cooperate in advancing a broad conservative agenda. How did this happen? How did this group of conservatives succeed in moving their theories into the mainstream of legal thought? What is the range of positions of those associated with the Federalist Society in areas of legal and political controversy? The authors survey these stances in separate chapters onregulation of business and private property;race and gender discrimination and affirmative action;personal sexual autonomy, including abortion and gay rights; andAmerican exceptionalism and international law.

Illustrates the contribution of ethnographic research methodology in facilitating dialogue between different ways of knowing. As a contemporary perspective on Malinowski's classic accounts of Trobriand sexuality, the book reaffirms the Trobriands' central place in the study of anthropology.