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Fuel Cycle to Nowhere
For twenty-five years, the Yucca Mountain repository in Nevada was designated as the sole destination for disposal of the nation's accumulated stockpiles of highly radioactive …
Religion and the Cold War
The lines of armed conflict, and the catastrophic perils they portended, were shaped with shocking clarity in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Less clear is the role …
Race, Religion, and Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter, like its predecessor movements, embodies flesh and blood through local organizing, national and global protests, hunger strikes, and numerous acts of civil …
Vaccine Narrative
The Salk vaccine seemed like a miracle to parents whose children were threatened with the scourge of polio. With its protection from polio, came also a story line-there were heroic …
Race, Religion, and Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter, like its predecessor movements, embodies flesh and blood through local organizing, national and global protests, hunger strikes, and numerous acts of civil …
Temptation of the Word
Choice Outstanding Academic Book 1998Temptation of the Word offers an ambitious and careful reading of the creative process--the origin of themes and the development of literary …
Everyday Reading
Winner of the LASA Southern Cone Studies Section Book Prize in the Humanities, 2013Starting in the late nineteenth century, the region of South America known as the Rio de la Plata …
Excellence for All
By the early twentyfirst century, a startling consensus had emerged about the overall aim of American school reform. In an era of political discord, and in a field historically …
Spectacle and Topophilia
This volume explores the intersection between theories of the modern spectaclefrom Jose Antonio Maravall's conceptualization of the spectacular culture of the baroque to the …
Free Market Tuberculosis
The Soviet health care infrastructure and its tuberculosis-control system were anchored in biomedicine, but the dire resurgence of tuberculosis at the end of the twentieth century …
Caring for Red
Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist, 2018Caring for Red is Mindy Frieds moving and colorful account of caring for her ninety-seven-year-old father, Manny--an actor, writer, and labor …
Centenary Subjects
Centenary Subjects examines the ideological debates and didactic exercises in subject formation during the centenary era of independence (the decade of the 1910s)the peak of …