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Rx for Health Care Reform Best Price: $13.99 If you really want to understand what's wrong with our health care system and how to fix it,...	At Work in the Field of Birth: Midwfery Narratives of Nature, Tradition, and Home Best Price: $19.99 At Work in the Field of Birth is an ethnographic study of midwifery in Canada in the wake of...	With Music and Justice for All: Some Southerners and Their Passions	Japan 1945: A U.S. Marine's Photographs from Ground Zero Best Price: $24.94 JAPAN 1945 is a fascinating and poignant photographic tour of Japan imemdiately after war's...	Healing Invisible Wounds: Paths to Hope and Recovery in a Violent World Best Price: $16.62 I have been an admirer of Richard Mollica ever since I heard him speak in Boston in 1987. His...



Ritual and Trade in the Pasion-Verapaz Region, Guatemala (Vanderbilt Institute of Mesoamerican Archaeology Series) Best Price: $61.35 Ritual space has been shown to be a sensitive barometer to examine population movement and...	Engaging Young People in Civic Life Best Price: $29.94 The myth of generations of disengaged youth has been shattered by increases in youth turnout in...	Building Nineteenth-Century Latin America: Re-Rooted Cultures, Identities, and Nations Best Price: $79.43 How did culture and identity take root as the new nations and state institutions were being...	Reconstituting Whiteness: The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Best Price: $42.00 In Reconstituting Whiteness , sociologist Jenny Irons explores the tactics and legacy of the...	The American Impressionists in the Garden Best Price: $25.95 At the end of the nineteenth century, American artists demonstrated a preference for gardens as...



New Spain, New Literatures (Hispanic Issues) Best Price: $79.89 This volume, which includes essays on Catalonia, the Basque country, Galicia, and literature...	A Life of Control: Stories of Living with Diabetes Best Price: $4.78 This is a unique book on diabetes, revealing the many ways in which the notion of control plays...	Toward Wiser Public Judgment Best Price: $21.48 I have spent eleven years being mentored on the topic of public co-intelligence and citizen...	Some of the People Who Ate My Barbecue Didn't Vote for Me: The Life of Georgia Governor Marvin Griffin Best Price: $49.00 Marvin Griffin was Georgia's seventy-second governor. Apart from that simple fact, virtually...	A Promise in Haiti: A Reporter's Notes on Families and Daily Lives Best Price: $15.77 When a devastating earthquake struck near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on January 12, 2010, the world...

Drugology, 2002 The accessory brain that every busy emergency or primary care physician needs, would highly...	Traditional dancing in Scotland,	Cervantes and the craft of fiction	A Shot in the Dark: Making Records in Nashville 1945-1955	Controversy in the Twenties - Fundamentalism, Modernism, and Evolution This book is an anthology of sixty-eight selections from a variety of sources which deals with...

Hallucinated City translated by Jack E. Tomlins.	Chinese Lyrics, and Other Poems	Correspondence of James K. Polk Volume V (5) 1839-1841	Mathematical Methods for Curves and Surfaces II: Lillehammer, 1997 (Innovations in Applied Mathematics) (v. 2) Best Price: $5.93 Contains more than fifty carefully refereed and edited full-length papers on the theory and...	Approximation Theory IX (Innovations in Applied Mathematics) Best Price: $29.40

Copyright in Historical Perspective Best Price: $24.00 As someone not trained in the discipline of History, I found this book's accessibility and...	A Troubled Dream: The Promise and Failure of School Desegregation in Louisiana Best Price: $57.93 Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education , the United States still has a long way to go to...	Families at Work: Expanding the Bounds Best Price: $21.00 Two years ago, many of us were at a conference in San Francisco that led to the new book,...	Gertrude Stein and the Essence of What Happens Best Price: $36.60 In this provocative study, Dana Cairns Watson traces Gertrude Stein's growing fascination...	Embodied Resistance: Challenging the Norms, Breaking the Rules Best Price: $69.95 Embodied Resistance engages the rich and complex range of society's contemporary "body...

Controversy in the Twenties: Fundamentalism, Modernism, and Evolution	Son of Andalusia: The Lyrical Landscapes of Federico Garcia Lorca Best Price: $3.22 A pathbreaking account of the influence and context of Andalusian life and art in the poetry and...	Tennessee Government and Politics: Democracy in the Volunteer State Best Price: $31.91 This book is an excellent resource for the politico who follows Tennessee politics or is just...	Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography Best Price: $52.33 Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910) was a fiction writer and journalist, best known for her...	Hispanic Baroques: Reading Cultures in Context (Hispanic Issues (Vanderbilt Paperback)) Best Price: $34.94 Essays focus on Baroque as a concept and category of analysis which has been central to an...

Wheeling and Dealing: Living with Spinal Cord Injury Best Price: $25.09 I have read many books on spinal cord injury and this one ranks very high. The discussions of...	We Make Change: Community Organizers Talk About What They Do--and Why Best Price: $40.00 Community organizers work at their jobs because they are passionate, because they believe that...	Treating the Aching Heart: A Guide to Depression, Stress, and Heart Disease Best Price: $43.05 Why is depression bad for heart disease? And how does heart disease contribute to depression? ...	Creating Picturesque America: Monument to the Natural and Cultural Landscape Best Price: $29.29 The first comprehensive study of how this remarkable publication reinforced and promoted the way...	Stravinsky: Chronicle of a Friendship Best Price: $19.59 Life has a funny way of providing punishments to compensate for great fortune. Robert Craft is...

Rorty and Pragmatism: The Philosopher Responds to His Critics (Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy) Best Price: $13.50 This useful set of essays gives a thorough pro/con perspective on the revival of pragmatism and...	The Confession of Dorothy Danner: Telling a Life Story Best Price: $24.95 An intriguing blend of biography, oral history, sociology, and politics that stretches the...	The Future of Germanistik in the USA: Changing Our Prospects Best Price: $24.95	Angels and Absences: Child Deaths in the Nineteenth Century Best Price: $20.00 What is the difference between public and private feeling, and how far can we deduce past...	Enter Rabelais, Laughing Best Price: $24.99 Francois Rabelais (1483?-1553) is a difficult and often misunderstood author, whose reputation...

Creating Interdisciplinarity: Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching among College and University Faculty Best Price: $29.80 Interdisciplinarity, a favorite buzzword of faculty and administrators, has been appropriated to...	Families at Work: Expanding the Bounds Best Price: $59.95 What is the relationship between work and family in a world where employment creates endless...	Cultures of the Erotic in Spain, 1898-1939 Best Price: $95.00 To escape the heat of an August day in Madrid, Maite Zubiaurre ducked into an antique shop and...	Handbook of Medical Sociology, Sixth Edition Best Price: $79.94 Composed entirely of specially commissioned chapters by some of the outstanding scholars in...	Higglers in Kingston: Women's Informal Work in Jamaica Best Price: $50.00 Making a living in the Caribbean requires resourcefulness and even a willingness to circumvent...

Child-Sized History: Fictions of the Past in U.S. Classrooms Best Price: $28.51 For more than three decades, the same children's historical novels have been taught across...	Modernizing Medicine in Zimbabwe: HIV/AIDS and Traditional Healers Best Price: $42.90 As sub-Saharan Africa continues to confront the runaway epidemic of HIV/AIDS, traditional...	Excellence for All: How a New Breed of Reformers Is Transforming America's Public Schools Best Price: $39.95 By the early twenty-first century, a startling consensus had emerged about the overall aim of...	Bibliograpy of Swift Studies, A - 1945-1965	Morality and the law

Crisis in Print: Desegragation and the Press in Tennessee	The Hawk's Done Gone and Other Stories By Mildred Haun	In Recovery: The Making of Mental Health Policy Best Price: $20.97 For hundreds of years, people diagnosed with mental illness were thought to be hopeless cases,...	Dementia Caregivers Share Their Stories: A Support Group in a Book Best Price: $81.82 I find this book to be a very loving and thoughtful account of the stories of caregivers of...	Felon for Peace: The Memoir of a Vietnam-Era Draft Resister Best Price: $19.99 review by david eberhardt-aged 68-poet and member "baltimore 4" (poured blood on draft...

Hispanic Baroques: Reading Cultures in Context (Hispanic Issues (Vanderbilt Hardcover)) Best Price: $79.95 Essays focus on Baroque as a concept and category of analysis which has been central to an...	Professional Identity Crisis: Race, Class, Gender, and Success at Professional Schools Best Price: $44.81 Costello's book records her field observations and interviews about first-year training in...	Old Age in a New Age: The Promise of Transformative Nursing Homes Best Price: $17.50 Notwithstanding my low tolerance for any movement that uses the word "transformative"...	Law Touched Our Hearts: A Generation Remembers Brown v. Board of Education Best Price: $13.14 The essay by Alex J. Hurder concerning the contributions of William P. Hurder is especially...	The People Shall Rule: ACORN, Community Organizing, and the Struggle for Economic Justice Best Price: $69.95 With the election of a community organizer as president of the United States, the time is right...

The Reporter's Handbook on Nuclear Materials, Energy, and Waste Management Best Price: $29.86 As a young marketer working for a company peripherally involved in the nuclear industry, it was...	Willing and Unable: Doctors' Constraints in Abortion Care Best Price: $24.95 Willing and Unable explores the social world where abortion politics and mainstream medicine...	Creating Picturesque America: Monument to the Natural and Cultural Landscape Best Price: $29.29 The first comprehensive study of how this remarkable publication reinforced and promoted the way...	Stravinsky: Chronicle of a Friendship Best Price: $19.59 Life has a funny way of providing punishments to compensate for great fortune. Robert Craft is...	Rorty and Pragmatism: The Philosopher Responds to His Critics (Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy) Best Price: $13.50 This useful set of essays gives a thorough pro/con perspective on the revival of pragmatism and...

The Confession of Dorothy Danner: Telling a Life Story Best Price: $24.95 An intriguing blend of biography, oral history, sociology, and politics that stretches the...	The Future of Germanistik in the USA: Changing Our Prospects Best Price: $24.95	Angels and Absences: Child Deaths in the Nineteenth Century Best Price: $20.00 What is the difference between public and private feeling, and how far can we deduce past...	Enter Rabelais, Laughing Best Price: $24.99 Francois Rabelais (1483?-1553) is a difficult and often misunderstood author, whose reputation...	Creating Interdisciplinarity: Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching among College and University Faculty Best Price: $29.80 Interdisciplinarity, a favorite buzzword of faculty and administrators, has been appropriated to...

Families at Work: Expanding the Bounds Best Price: $59.95 What is the relationship between work and family in a world where employment creates endless...	Can Literature Promote Justice?: Trauma Narrative and Social Action in Latin American Testimonio Best Price: $24.95 As if in direct response to The New Yorker 's question of "The Power of the Pen: Does...	The Human Drama of Abortion: A Global Search for Consensus Best Price: $109.90 Abortion 101, an accessible account of abortion practices and ethical issues around the globe,...	Perversion of Power: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church Best Price: $6.19 For those who still have the stomach for this topic, and those who care about the future of the...	We Boys Together: Teenagers in Love Before Girl-Craziness Best Price: $67.06 Teenage boys are wild about girls.When their hormones kick in at puberty, they can think of...

Generation X Rocks: Contemporary Peninsular Fiction, Film, and Rock Culture (Hispanic Issues (Vanderbilt Paperback)) Best Price: $45.30 Essays in this volume explore the popular cultural effects of rock culture on high literary...	Why Do They Kill?: Men Who Murder Their Intimate Partners Best Price: $21.20 I found this book to be very interesting background reading with great insight into the minds of...	Playing the Changes: Milt Hinton's Life in Stories and Photographs Best Price: $46.01 Milt Hinton's beautiful book "Playing the Changes" is filled with anecdotes and...	The Political Centrist Best Price: $16.50 Today almost half of all Americans decline to define themselves as either "liberal" or...	Anthropology at the Front Lines of Gender-Based Violence Best Price: $27.94 Anthropology at the Front Lines of Gender-Based Violence is a broad and accessible volume, with...

Caldwell and Company: A Southern Financial Empire Best Price: $30.59 A very good read in light of the financial industry's role in the most recent crisis. Fast...	George Peabody, a Biography Great biography of the international merchant and financiers, benefactor of numerous...	The Hawk's Done Gone Best Price: $28.46 Being originally from the same part of the country as Mildred Haun I can attest to the...	The Syntax of Spoken Brazilian Portuguese Best Price: $27.95 Throughout history, many languages have spread from their homeland to become the...	Fateful Shapes of Human Freedom: John William Miller and the Crises of Modernity (The Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy) This is a wonderful book, a truly wise book. I assume that most readers, like me, have never...

On Our Own, Together: Peer Programs for People with Mental Illness Best Price: $78.26 On Our Own, Together describes the inner workings of eight successful peer-run services for...	Can Literature Promote Justice?: Trauma Narrative and Social Action in Latin American Testimonio Best Price: $92.96 As if in direct response to The New Yorker 's question of "The Power of the Pen: Does...	Pioneers of Cardiac Surgery Best Price: $69.52 I expected this book to be a rather dry and technical account of a medical sub-specialty's...	Latin American Jewish Cultural Production (Hispanic Issues) Best Price: $79.95 Latin America is home to roughly half a million Jews, preponderantly Ashkenazic Jews. The...	The Inverted Conquest: The Myth of Modernity and the Transatlantic Onset of Modernism Best Price: $54.71 Modernismo (1880s-1920s) is considered one of the most groundbreaking literary movements in...

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