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 | | Nature Cures: The History of Alternative Medicine in AmericaThorough, enjoyable, and rigorous, this study documents the major "unconventional" healing movements of 19th- and 20th-century America. Whorton (history of medicine, Univ. of Washington) traces the origins and influences of Thomsonianism, homeopathy, mesmerism, Christian Science, osteopathy, chiropractic, naturopathy, and acupuncture,... | | Holy War, Holy Peace: How Religion Can Bring Peace to the Middle EastPart I: Analysis 1. The Interaction between Religion and Culture in Peace and Conflict 2. Family Myths and Cultural Conflict 3. Political and Mythic Interdependencies 4. Patterns of Abrahamic Incrimination 5. Conflict, Injury, and Transformation Part II: Practical Applications 6. Patterns of Abrahamic Reconciliation: Act, Ritual, and Symbol as... |
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The Microeconomics of Income Distribution Dynamics in East Asia and Latin AmericaEconomists have had much to say about what causes aggregate economic growth, but they have been more reticent about the distributional dimension of that growth. Understanding development and the process of poverty reduction requires understanding not only how total income grows but also how its distribution behaves over time. This book is a major... | | Domesday: The Inquest and the BookDomesday Book is the oldest and most precious of the public records, but historians still disagree on its purpose. In arguing that the writing of Domesday Book was no part of the Domesday survey, this book proposed a solution to a riddle that will change our perception of the Norman Conquest and Norman kingship.
EVERYONE HAS HEARD of... | | Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon Harkins, assistant professor of history at Western Kentucky University, means to examine the "cultural and ideological construct `the hillbilly'... rather than the actual people of the southern mountains." To this end, he examines some obscure early American printed material, Paul Webb's Esquire magazine cartoons from... |
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Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American CultureAlvin Ailey (1931–89) is arguably the most important black American choreographer
in the short history of modern dance. He created a body of dance works
that shaped African American participation in American modern dance during
the thirty-year period before his death. The company he founded in 1958, the
Alvin Ailey... | | Cryptography: A Very Short IntroductionWe are surrounded by cryptography, from the ATM, where we withdraw cash, mobile phones, and the Internet, to workplace security systems that protect business secrets, and the civil and military codes that protect the skies above us.
In this fascinating introduction to how cryptography actually works, Fred Piper and Sean Murphy highlight... | | Networks of Innovation : Change and Meaning in the Age of the InternetIntegrating concepts from multiple theoretical disciplines and detailed analyses of the evolution of Internet-related innovations (including computer networking, the World Wide Web and the Linux open source operating system), this book develops foundations for a new theoretical and practical
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