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Physical Order and Moral Liberty

George Santayana

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Vanderbilt
• This book is a collection of fifty-five essays and fragments by George Santayana, from the Santayana collections of the Columbia University Library an... Lees meer

Delivering Health

Lydia Z Dixon

• Hardcover | Engels | Policy to Practice | nr. 2
• Honorable Mention for the Association for Feminist Anthropology's Rosaldo Book Prize, 2021 Maternal health outcomes are a key focus of global health i... Lees meer

Anti-Drug Policies in Colombia

• Hardcover | Engels | Vanderbilt Center for Latin American Studies
• Forty years after the declaration of the "war on drugs" by President Nixon, the debate on the effectiveness and costs of the ban is red-hot. Several f... Lees meer

New Spain, New Literatures

• Hardcover | Engels | Hispanic Issues
• This volume, which includes essays on Catalonia, the Basque country, Galicia, and literature written by African immigrants, focuses on issues of "diff... Lees meer

Black Bride of Christ

• Paperback | Engels
• Teresa de Santo Domingo, born with the name Chicaba, was a slave captured in the territory known to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Spanish and Po... Lees meer

Engaging Young People in Civic Life

• Hardcover | Engels
• The myth of generations of disengaged youth has been shattered by increases in youth turnout in the 2004, 2006, and 2008 primaries. Young Americans ar... Lees meer

Living on the Edge in Suburbia

Terese Lawinski

• Paperback | Engels
• Westchester County, New York, is thought of as suburban and affluent, but welfare reform hit hard here, too. The radical 1996 legislation created a te... Lees meer

Copyright in Historical Perspective

L Ray Patterson

• Paperback | Engels | Vintage Vanderbilt
• First published in 1968, Copyright in Historical Perspective remains one of the most important histories of early copyright traditions and laws. Start... Lees meer

Sowing Change

Adriana Premat

• Hardcover | Engels
• Following the dissolution of the Soviet bloc, Cuba found itself struggling to find its place in a new geopolitical context, while dealing with an unpr... Lees meer

It Shouldn't Be This Way

Robert L Kane, Joan C West

• Paperback | Engels
• The failure of long-term care is the country's best-kept embarrassing secret. Almost every adult in the United States will either enter a nursing home... Lees meer

In Recovery

Nora Jacobson

• Hardcover | Engels
• For hundreds of years, people diagnosed with mental illness were thought to be hopeless cases, destined to suffer inevitable deterioration. Beginning ... Lees meer

Tennessee Government and Politics

• Hardcover | Engels
• Tennessee Government and Politics offers a timely and comprehensive new survey of the state's political evolution. With its concise historical analysi... Lees meer

Fatefully, Faithfully Feminist

Carlos Monsiváis

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Mexican Studies
• This critical anthology of writings by Carlos Monsiváis represents a foundational set of texts by an exceptional (yet under-translated) Mexican cultu... Lees meer

The Washington Dissensus

Rubens Barbosa

• Paperback | Engels
• During the five years that he represented Brazil in the United States (under both the Cardoso and Lula presidencies), Ambassador Barbosa witnessed pre... Lees meer

Clinton Wars

Ryan C Hendrickson

• Hardcover | Engels
• Today the United States is fighting a "war" against terrorism, a military action whose definition will be a matter of controversy, particularly, if hi... Lees meer

Divided Conversations

Kristin G Esterberg, John Wooding

• Paperback | Engels
• Through their interviews with faculty and administrators (from department chairs and deans to provosts and presidents) from a sample of eight public u... Lees meer

Whitewashing Uncle Tom's Cabin

Joy Jordan-Lake

• Hardcover | Engels
• Joy Jordan-Lake examines the ways in which antebellum women novelists tried to counter Harriet Beecher Stoweís enormously popular Uncle Tom's Cabin by... Lees meer

Living Quixote

Rogelio Minana

• Paperback | Engels | Performing Latin American and Caribbean Identities
• The 400th anniversaries of Don Quixote in 2005 and 2015 sparked worldwide celebrations that brought to the fore its ongoing cultural and ideological r... Lees meer

Iberian Empires and the Roots of Globalization

• Hardcover | Engels | Hispanic Issues
• Through interdisciplinary essays covering the wide geography of the Spanish and Portuguese empires, Iberian Empires and the Roots of Globalization inv... Lees meer

Crossing the Aisle

Keel Hunt

• Hardcover | Engels
• The latter third of the twentieth century was a time of fundamental political transition across the South as increasing numbers of voters began to cho... Lees meer

How to Prevent Your Stroke

J David Spence

• Hardcover | Engels
• An Alternate Selection of These Book Clubs Book-of-the-Month Club Quality Paperback Books One Spirit Nurse's Book Society The Good Cook Life-saving ad... Lees meer

Anthropology at the Front Lines of Gender-Based Violence

Jennifer R. Wies, Hilary J. Haldane

• Paperback | Engels
• Anthropology at the Front Lines of Gender-Based Violence is a broad and accessible volume, with a truly global approach to understanding the lives of ... Lees meer

Bioethics Mediation

Nancy Neveloff Dubler, Carol B Liebman

• Paperback | Engels
• Bioethics Mediation offers stories about patients, families, and health care providers enmeshed in conflict as they wrestle with decisions about life ... Lees meer

Contested Social Orders and International Politics

• Hardcover | Engels
• This is a set of arguments for the view that state behaviour in the international arena is usually a function of interests and purposes generated by t... Lees meer