In this newest volume in the Medical Humanities Series, T. Doby and G. Alker trace the development of our ability to visualize the inside of the human body. For thousands of years, horror of the dead, superstition, and oppressive decrees prevented our ancestors from looking inside the human body; in ancient civilizations, diagnostics were ......
The first edition of The Giant Canada Goose summarized the history and rediscovery of a supposedly extinct subspecies of Canada goose--the locally nesting goose familiar to the early farmers and naturalists of the Midwest and eastern plains. In this edition, Harold C. Hanson brings us up-to-date. Goose expert Hanson recounted in the first edition ......
Stage Rigging Handbook is written in an at-a-glance outline form, yet contains in-depth information available nowhere else. This second edition includes two new parts: the first, an expanded discussion of the forces and loads on stage rigging components and the structure supporting them; the second, an examination of block and tackle rigging. The ......
Dialogic Subjectivity in Woolf, Pym, and Brooke-Rose
Acknowledging the importance of Bakhtin's concept of the dialogic, Judy Little utilizes the insights of Bakhtin and theorists such as Derrida, Foucault, and Lyotard as strategies for examining the political complexity of the "self" as Virginia Woolf, Barbara Pym, and Christine Brooke-Rose construct it in their fiction. Little demonstrates that ......
Steamboats and Shipyards Along the Lower Ohio River
This volume chronicles the history of 280 steamboats built between 1810 and 1936 along a 60-mile stretch of the lower Ohio River, highlighting their vital role in regional development and the growth of the young United States.
The Sartorial Arts, Related Crafts, and the Commercial Paper Pattern
Containing 2,729 entries, Kevin L. Seligman's bibliography concentrates on books, manuals, journals, and catalogs covering a wide range of sartorial approaches over nearly five hundred years. After a historical overview, Seligman approaches his subject chronologically, listing items by century through 1799, then by decade. In this section, he ......
Basing this memoir on his original World War II diary, Pfc. Richard D. Courtney tells what it was like to be a combat infantryman in America's biggest war. In a day-to-day account of what he experienced in combat, Courtney gives the history of his antitank platoon - part of the 104th Infantry Regiment of the 16th Infantry Division - as it fought ......
When a young black soldier at home on leave was found hanged in a Cairo, Illinois, police station in 1967, the black and white populations of this southern Illinois river city clashed violently, and the fury, once ignited, raged on for seven years. Jan Peterson Roddy has brought together the photographs of Preston Ewing Jr. with a wealth of ......
Few contemporary issues question the nature of life and death, families and communities, altruism and self-interest, and individual rights and public good as dramatically as does organ donation and transplantation. Transplantation raises profound and intriguing concerns about the interplay of medical needs, state authority, and bodily integrity. ......
