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Paying for the Party
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 345

Paying for the Party

In an era of skyrocketing tuition and concern over whether college is “worth it,” Paying for the Party is an indispensable contribution to the dialogue assessing the state of American higher education. A powerful exposé of unmet obligations and misplaced priorities, it explains in detail why so many leave college with so little to show for it.

Forging Gay Identities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Forging Gay Identities

Unlike many social movements, the gay and lesbian struggle for visibility and rights has succeeded in combining a unified group identity with the celebration of individual differences. Forging Gay Identities explores how this happened, tracing the evolution of gay life and organizations in San Francisco from the 1950s to the mid-1990s.

Conceiving Risk, Bearing Responsibility
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

Conceiving Risk, Bearing Responsibility

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003-11-14
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

"A welcome and long overdue critique of the knowledge production in the United States surrounding alcohol use by pregnant women and the diagnostic category of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)." -- Social History

Robert Estienne, Royal Printer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

Robert Estienne, Royal Printer

This book was originally published in 1954. Mrs Armstrong gives a full-length historical study of an important and admirable figure of Robert Estienne. Through his scholarly work and his ideals of artistry and craftsmanship of printing, he also brought understanding to the dissemination of a culture.

Before Copyright
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 340

Before Copyright

Details the development of the privilege system, a precursor to copyright, in early sixteenth-century French publishing.

Crystals and Light
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 188

Crystals and Light

A concise yet comprehensive study of the behavior of light in crystals, this volume's topics range from space lattices and point groups to polarization and dispersion. "A clear, concise, and carefully illustrated study..." — American Mathematical Monthly. With 175 figures and 8 plates, including 18 color photographs.

More Real?
  • Language: en

More Real?

This is a companion volume to an exhibition which examines how today's most promising artists are exploring our shifting experience of reality. The book explores our constantly changing sense of what is real, and the consequences of not understanding the difference.

Global Health
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 231

Global Health

Global Health Lecture Notes: Issues, Challenges and Global Action provides a thorough introduction to a wide range of important global health issues and explores the resources and skills needed for this rapidly expanding area. Global Health is a growing area that reflects the increasing interconnectedness of health and its determinants. Major socio-economic, environmental and technological changes have produced new challenges, and exacerbated existing health inequalities experienced in both developed and developing countries. This textbook focuses on managing and preventing these challenges, as well as analysing critical links between health, disease, and socio-economic development through a multi-disciplinary approach. Featuring learning objectives and discussion points, Global Health Lecture Notes is an indispensable resource for global health students, faculty and practitioners who are looking to build on their understanding of global health issues.

Performing Worlds Into Being
  • Language: en

Performing Worlds Into Being

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Accompanying CD-ROM contains video clips and photographs.

Appeasement and the Road to War
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 136

Appeasement and the Road to War

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Appeasement and the Road to War covers all the main issues in the appropriate part of the Higher syllabus, including: The Roots of Appeasement The Rise of Fascism Hitler's Foreign Policy 1933-35 Abyssinia and the Failure of the League of Nations The Rhineland The Spanish Civil War Anschluss Crisis over Czechoslovakia Munich - Triumph or Tragedy? The Consequences of Munich The Polish Crisis and the outbreak of war Overview - Appeasement - Right or Wrong? The book will cover the specified syllabus comprehensively, and will be highly illustrated in full colour. There will be pupil-based activities to enhance learning and encourage individual research.