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The Telephone in Old Order Mennonite and Amish Life
Among the Old Order Mennonite and Amish communities of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the coming of the telephone posed a serious challenge to the longstanding traditions of work, worship, silence, and visiting. In 1907, Mennonites crafted a compromise in order to avoid a church split and grudgingly allowed telephones for lay people while ......
Puritan Providentialism in the Restoration and Early Enlightenment
Observing that intellectual changes within late-seventeenth-century Massachusetts Puritan culture closely paralleled changes within Puritan culture in England, Michael Winship re-examines one of the more nettlesome issues in the intellectual history of early New England. How did the logic Puritanism square itself with the increasingly hostile ......
Alopecia areata is an unpredictable disorder that affects more than two and a half million men, women, and children in the United States and Canada. Causing patchy hair loss on the scalp and sometimes elsewhere on the body, this mysterious, noncontagious condition can be treated but it cannot yet be cured. Alopecia Areata: Understanding and Coping ......
French Intellectuals in Wartime Manhattan, 1940-1944
Consider the oddly juxtaposed eminence of those in attendance: Wartime New York was the city where French Symbolism, in the person of Maurice Maeterlinck, came to live out its last productive years; where French surrealism, in the person of André Breton, came to survive; and where French structuralism, in the person of Claude Lévi-Strauss, came to ......
Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986
Over the course of several decades, the Pentagon's Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) helped transform computing from a cumbersome enterprise based on batch processing to the instantly interactive, graphically rich, highly intelligent computing of today. With the purpose of improving command and control systems for the military, IPTO ......
In Women and Men in Renaissance Venice Stanley Chojnacki explores the central role played by women in holding Venetian patrician society together. Family relations, marriages, and dowries were the areas in which women interacted dynamically with men. The three parts of the book discuss the involvement of the state in those interactions; the social ......
Findings and Policy Implications from The Commonwealth Fund Minority Health Survey
This book assembles timely evidence from a major national survey regarding the different experiences of health care as it is being delivered to various minority members of our society--Hispanics, African Americans, Asian Americans, and minority women. It provides the documentation needed to assess the successes and failures of our present system ......
A milestone in literary scholarship, the publication of the Johns Hopkins edition of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley makes available for the first time critically edited clear texts of all poems and translations that Shelley published or circulated among friends, as well as diplomatic texts of his significant incomplete poetic drafts ......
From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States, 1884-1920
Challenging ''traditional thinking about both the 'rise' and 'fall' of drug problems'' (which makes legal prohibition the pivotal point in the story), Cocaine: From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States, 1884-1920 examines phenomena that have eluded earlier students of drug history. Joseph Spillane explores the role of American ......
