Ideas in Chemistry
A History of the Science
In this unconventional history of chemistry, David Knight takes the refreshing view that the science has "its glorious future behind it." Today, chemistry is primarily a service science. In its very long history, though, chemistry has taken on very different roles. It has been the esoteric preoccupation of alchemists, the source of mechanist views of matter, the cornerstone of all other sciences and medicine, an archetype of experimental science, a science of revolutions, a science that imposed order on the material world, and a partner for physics, biology, and technology.
Dirt and Disease
Polio Before FDR
Bio/Pics
How Hollywood Constructed Public History
The Gang as an American Enterprise
Nameless Diseases
Nameless Diseases is compelling reading for anyone who has ever suffered from a medical mystery or seeks to understand the limitations of medical progress. The book includes a list of organizations devoted to education the public about commonly overlooked, unrecognized, rare, or misdiagnosed diseases.
First Find Your Child a Good Mother
The Construction of Self in Two African Communities
"Incantations" and Other Stories
An Important New Young Voice From India
The Anthropology of Self and Behavior
Framing Disease
Studies in Cultural History
Cape May County, New Jersey
The Making of an American Resort Community
Women, Health, and Medicine in America
A Historical Handbook
Harder than War
Catholic Peacemaking in Twentieth-Century America
Calculating Visions
Kennedy, Johnson, and Civil Rights
The Justice Juggernaut
Fighting Street Crime, Controlling Citizens
Green Cane and Juicy Flotsam
Short Stories by Caribbean Women
The Life and Times of Grandfather Alonso
Culture and History in the Upper Amazon
Time and the Town
A Provincetown Chronicle
Dharma's Daughters
Contemporary Indian Women and Hindu Culture
A Cinema Without Walls
Movies and Culture after Vietnam
Javanese Lives
Women and Men in Modern Indonesian Society
Imitation of Life
Douglas Sirk, Director
Eskimo Essays
Yup'ik Lives and How We See Them
This examination of the ideology and practice of the Yup'ik Eskimos of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta of southwestern Alaska includes traditions, ideology, relations with Christianity, warfare, use of animals, law and order, and the non-native perception of the Yup'ik way of life.
Not Yet Pregnant
Infertile Couples in Contemporary America
Greil explores the effect that infertility has on men and women, and why men seem to accept infertility more easily than women. Women see infertility as failure, they see themselves as incomplete. Men, seeing infertility more frequently as something they cannot change, ask why worry about it? Greil also explores what effect these attitudes have on the couple's marriage, on relationships with their relatives, and with their fertile friends. Infertility is not just a medical problem, it is a personal and emotional problem that affects all other aspects of the couple's life. This is a thorough investigation of what fertility means to contemporary American couples.
The American Development of Biology
By the Rivers of Babylon and Other Stories
Science, American Style
What is distinctive about American science?
For thirty years, Nathan Reingold has been exploring the character of science in the United States. His lively and influential essays look at the ways American science reflects our culture, history, politics, geography, and myths. He meditates on the growth of a scientific community and institutions in this country, American attitudes toward the uses of science, and the behavior of scientists and their chroniclers.
Rachel's Daughters
Newly Orthodox Jewish Women
A History Of Geology
A Life of Her Own
A Countrywoman in Twentieth-Century France
The The Communist Party of the United States
From the Depression to World War II
Fraser M. Ottanelli examines the history of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) from the stock market crash to the reconstitution of the Party in 1945. He explains the appeal of the CPUSA and its emergence as the foremost vehicle of left-wing radicalism during these years. Ottanelli looks at the Party's domestic policies and activities concerning labor, race, youth, the unemployed, as well as the Party's changing attitude toward FDR and the New Deal, its policies in foreign affairs, and war-time activities.
The Idea of Spatial Form
Moods
American Suicide
Revising Memory
Women's Fictions and Memoirs in 17th-Century France
Revising Memory resurrects a particularly dynamic moment in French history when women acted on the political stage and inscribed these often subversive actions in writing.
God's Schools
Choice and Compromise in American Society
From Hanoi to Hollywood
The Vietnam War in American Film
The essays in this volume deal with representations of the Vietnam war in documentary film and television reporting, examining the ways the power of film is used to deliver political messages. There are surprises here, new readings, and important insights on the ways we as a society have attempted to come to terms with the experiences of the Vietnam era. The book also contains two appendixes-a detailed chronology charting the relationship between major historical events and the release of American war films from 1954 through 1988, and a filmography listing information on over four hundred American and foreign films about the Vietnam War.
The Black Student Protest Movement at Rutgers
Olive Schreiner
Women's Movements in the United States
Woman Suffrage, Equal Rights, and Beyond
Buecheler explains why women’s movements arise, the forms of organization they adopt, the diversity of ideologies they espouse, and the class and racial composition of women’s movements. He also helps us to understand the roots of countermovements, as well as the mixture of successes and failures that has characterized both past and present women’s movements. While recognizing both the setbacks and the victories of the contemporary movement, Buecheler identifies grounds for relative optimism about the lasting consequences of this ongoing mobilization.