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The twelfth edition of this classic reference work includes: More than 2,000 new entries A total of more than 9,000 entries New features and enhancement of the familiar old features Mapping information on more than 4,000 genes of known function Information on specific point mutations responsible for more than 700 genetic disorders or ......
Is there poetry in the Bible? Does it have rhyme or meter? How did ancient Hebrew writers compose their works? James Kugel's provocative study provides surprising new answers to these age-old questions. Biblical ''poetry'' is not a concept native to the Bible itself, he proposes, and the idea that the Bible is divided into prose and verse is ......
A richly detailed and valuable portrait of an American community in the making . . . Few historians have been more diligent than Paul Bourke and Donald DeBats in reconstructing an American community by linking together a mass of data on its citizens, mapping its neighborhoods, and analyzing political life.
A History of How American Culture Led Us into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did
''The first full-length and scholarly account of why we got into Vietnam in the first place, why we fought as barbarously as the Japanese in Manchuria or the Germans in Poland, and why we deserved to lose itindeed why we did have to lose it if we were to find any kind of ultimate peace.''Henry Steele Commager, Amherst College ''A provocative and ......
In 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural and economic power. Never again would the city possess the unique mixture of innocence and sophistication, romance and formality, generosity and confidence which characterized it in this moment of triumph. In Manhattan '45, acclaimed travel writer and historian Jan Morris ......
Despite remarkable progress, much remains unknown about the risks and benefits of genetic testing. No effective interventions are yet available to improve the outcome of most inherited diseases; negative test results might not rule out future occurrence of disease, and positive test results do not necessarily mean the disease will inevitably ......
Among the world's authoritarian governments have always been those based not on ideology, a leader's personal mission, or even charisma, but simply on raw power sustained by fear of punishment and hope of reward. Such regimes are described by the authors of the present volume as ''sultanistic.'' Common to all of them is the leader's freedom to ......
The U.S. House of Representatives in the Postreform Era
''Perhaps the leading scholar of the postreform Congress, Barbara Sinclair has produced a superb combination of description and analysis that captures the Democratic-dominated House of the 1980s and early 1990s. Weaving together principal-agent theory, solid behavioral techniques, and bushels of insider observations, Sinclair's depiction of the ......
Among the most dramatic problems faced on the Italian peninsula in the fourteenth century were the raids of marauding mercenary companies. These companies, known locally as Companies of Adventure and more generally as Free Companies, were private armies, composed of professional soldiers and adventurers from throughout Europe. They sold their ......
