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Serving as both a standard against which to examine the effectiveness of proposed reforms and as a methodological "how tofor the evaluation of system changes, the book will be of interest to professionals and students of health policy as well as to HMO administrators and practitioners.

A fresh and searching study of the hard questions that divided Americans in these critical years and still do today, Redeeming the Republic shows how local failures led to federalist resolve and ultimately to a totally new frame of central government.

Leslie examine every aspect of academic work unexplored: undergraduate and graduate education, teaching and research, student aid policies, and federal research policies.

He shows how Webb's performance reflected important changes in twentieth century public life, including the concentration of political power in Washington; expansion of the federal bureaucracy; the rise of big science; and visions of cooperation among government, industry, and higher education.

As a result, their fine education and superb reputations as scholars and critics may in some cased actually subvert their ability to understand knowledge as a social construct, learinng as an adult social process, and teaching as a role of leadership among adults.

Like the physicist who works within the bounds of an unfathomable universe, Elsasser argues, the biologist must seek answers within a system that is no less unfathomable.

She presents a detailed view of the gendered development of management and male-female job segmentation, while examining the role of gender in such areas as architectural space, office clothing, and office workers' leisure activities.

The third volume covers Jackson's reelection to the presidency and the weighty issues with which he was faced: the nullification crisis, the tragic removal of the Indians beyond the Mississippi River, the mounting violence throughout the country over slavery, and the tortuous efforts to win the annexation of Texas.

The third volume covers Jackson's reelection to the presidency and the weighty issues with which he was faced: the nullification crisis, the tragic removal of the Indians beyond the Mississippi River, the mounting violence throughout the country over slavery, and the tortuous efforts to win the annexation of Texas.

In his new preface, Minter locates his biography in relation to the changes in the literary critical landscape during the 1980s and discusses its departures from New Critical tenets about the relationship between authors' lives and their works.

It includes two indexes, one by subject and one by author.

Written in the aftermath of Prohibition, this is an idiosyncratic account of the people and places that defined New York's night life during the era of "the great American madness". Readers meet murderers and millionaires, gangsters, bartenders, celebrities and a host of other characters.

Lowenthal, The United States and Latin American Democracy: Learning from History.

If literary critics and reviewers at the time responded with varying degrees of skepticism to the "theory of the two Moby-Dicks,it was the experimental style and organization of the book that generated the most controversy.

Anyone who wants to learn how to write, how to think, and how thinking and writing are related will want to read this book.

Ample notes, beautiful illustrations and amps, and a lengthy bibliography make this book a lasting treasure.

Webb's The Garies and Their Friends."-from the 1997 introduction by Robert Reid-Pharr

Then a mulatto named Friday appears and teaches Robinson that there are, after all, better things in life than civilization.

Kerrigan's approach reflects his interests in literary formalism, historical scholarship, intellectual history, and psychoanalysis.

The accusations, denials, and confessions of this legal story eventually resurrect the tangled internal tensions that lay at the bottom of the Salem witch hunts.

Jeffrey Bolster, Laura Tabili, Lillian Nayder, and Melody Graulich, in addition to Margaret Creighton and Lisa Norling.

He explores the ways in which their writing presents "alternative spacesthat exist alongside of, and often counter to, the visible configurations of the dominant culture.

A history of the American hospital system, from the time of Jefferson's administration when they were largely charitable institutions working for the poor, through to the 20th century when hospitals became centres of learning and the primary care site for most citizens.

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In this text, Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner bring together a group of contributors to examine the tensions between new hopes for democratic reform and the ancient rivalries that threaten to extinguish them.

A guide to the locations, habitats and blooming periods of the many species of wildflower that grow in and around the Washington and Baltimore area. The book focuses on the more showy native and naturalized herbaceous plants of woods, fields, wetlands and parks.

They blend imaginistic detail and reflection and bring to contemporary subjects what Steele calls "the preservative virtues of formal care".

In a new foreword to this edition, he discusses developments in the study of the Eisenhower presidency in the dozen years since publication of the first edition and examines the continuing significance of Eisenhower's legacy for the larger understanding of presidential leadership in modern America.

George Steiner is a central figure on the contemporary intellectual scene. In this book, a group of eminent American and European critics offer an assessment of Steiner's work.

He analyzes the distribution of decision-making authority in Congress and offers a broader understanding of how the United States will develop a new foreign policy for the post-Cold War world.