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The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974
This study of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) explains in detail how public officials in the executive branch and Congress overcame strong opposition …
Forty Years a Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri
The son of French immigrants who settled in Maryland, Charles Larpenteur was so eager to see the real American West that he talked himself into a job with the Rocky Mountain Fur …
Envisioning a Transformed Clinical Trials Enterprise in the United States
There is growing recognition that the United States' clinical trials enterprise (CTE) faces great challenges. There is a gap between what is desired - where medical care is …
Asian American Fiction, History and Life Writing
The last ten years have witnessed an enormous growth in American interest in Asia and Asian/American history. In particular, a set of key Asian historical moments have recently …
Commodified and Criminalized
Commodified and Criminalized examines the centrality of sport to discussions of racial ideologies and racist practices in the 21st century. It disputes familiar refrains of racial …
She's So Fine: Reflections on Whiteness, Femininity, Adolescence and Class in 1960s Music
She's So Fine explores the music, reception and cultural significance of 1960s girl singers and girl groups in the US and the UK. Using approaches from the fields of musicology, …
Chicano Narrative
An examination of representative aspects of Mexican-American narrative forms including the novel, short story, narrative verse and autobiography. It includes studies of works from …
Technology Transfer Between the US, China and Taiwan
Examining the flow of technical knowledge between the US, Taiwan and Mainland China over the last sixty-five years, this book shows that the technical knowledge that has moved …
David Halberstam on Sports
Four New York Times bestsellers by the "e;remarkable"e; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist capture and celebrate America's passion for sports (The Seattle Times). Pulitzer …
On Jean Amery
On Jean Amery provides a comprehensive discussion of one of the most challenging and complex post-Holocaust thinkers, Jean Amery (1912-1978), a Jewish-Austrian-Belgian essayist, …
On The Trail of Delusion