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Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories
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Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English HistoriesPublished simultaneously with Roman Shakespeare: Warriors, Wounds and Women in the "Feminist Readings of Shakespeare" series, Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories is the first full-length feminist study of Shakespeare's historical plays.
 
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Making Citizens: Rousseau's Political Theory of Culture
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Making Citizens: Rousseau's Political Theory of CultureMaking Citizens: Rousseau's Political Theory of CultureRousseau's theory of the effect of culture on politics is critical to his philosophy. In Making Citizens, Zev M. Trachtenberg takes Rousseau's theory as a model of how considerations of culture can be incorporated into a wider account of political life. He critically evaluates Rousseau's account and finds it inadequate. Using techniques from the theory of collective action to devise a new interpretation of Rousseau's concept of the general will, Trachtenberg identifies the ways culture conditions politics and examines the attitudes individuals can adopt that facilitate or impede social cooperation.


 
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You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up: A Love Story
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You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up: A Love StoryYou Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up: A Love Story

After thirteen years of being married, Annabelle and Jeff have found “We’re just not that into us.” Instead of giving up, they’ve held their relationship together by ignoring conventional wisdom and fostering a lack of intimacy, by using parenting as a competitive sport, and by dropping out of couples therapy. The he-said/she-said chronicle of their intense but loving marriage includes an unsentimental account of the medical odyssey that their family embarked upon after their infant son was diagnosed with VACTERL, a very rare series of birth defects.
 
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History of American Literature, Vol. 3: Prose Writing, 1860-1920
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History of American Literature, Vol. 3: Prose Writing, 1860-1920History of American Literature, Vol. 3: Prose Writing, 1860-1920

Volume 3 covers a pivotal era in the formation of American identity as well as a permanent multi-faceted literary culture in the United States. Four leading scholars connect the literature with the massive expansive historical changes then underway. The narratives of Richard Brodhead, Nancy Bentley, Walter Benn Michaels and Susan L. Mizruchi constitute a rich and detailed account of American literature and culture that began to embrace a wide spectrum of cultural outsiders as well as high literature through William Dean Howells and Henry James.
 
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Emerging Infectious Diseases Respiratory system
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Emerging Infectious Diseases Respiratory systemEmerging Infectious Diseases Respiratory system

'A meticulous dissection of the threats from infectious disease, and our responses to them. The book offers an unusually clear account of how perception of biological reality is shaped by society and culture. Essential reading for plotting the territory between panic and pandemic.' - Jon Turney, Author of The Rough Guide to the Future 'Emerging Infectious Diseases and Society is an engrossing account of the historical underpinnings of the idea of emerging disease, and a trenchant dissection of the ways in which it is put to social and political use today.
 
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