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Viking Pirates and Christian Princes
Authors: Hudson Benjamin
Published: October 2023

This book studies two Viking families who appear in the records of the Atlantic littoral as pagan raiders and reinvent themselves as established Christian rulers. Their rise and transformation from the 10th to the 12th centuries highlights a period and people important for understanding the political, religious, and culture development of Europe in the High Middle Ages.
Dying Poor: An Invisible World
Authors: Moller David Wendell
Published: October 2023

I begin with a description of some of the life issues that affect particular individuals in order to bring the human experience of dying poor into focus. As you come to know them, you will notice that in their unique ways they suffered deeply. They lived within an inescapable complex of terrors: the nagging fear of death, the pain of bodily deterioration, and the eerie isolation that comes from realizing that “finally their time had arrived.” These terrors were often compounded by a sense of alienation, medical uncertainty, poverty, family fragmentation, and mistrust. To a person, however, despite individual variations, these individuals displayed a surprising strength in getting used to the idea of dying. Their lifetime experiences with poverty blended together ironically with their newly found encounter with mortality. From the onset I was struck by their absence of bitterness about having lived their lives in poverty. This is not to suggest that these individuals did not feel the sting of poverty and its life-limiting impositions. Instead, they understood poverty as a cross to bear. As a result, they did not obsess about its deleterious consequences for the quality of their lives.
Triumph And Faith Tl-I Rough Harsh Reality And Personal Tragedy: Lucille Angel
Authors: Moller David Wendell
Published: October 2023

Lucille Angel was a beautiful sixty-two-year-old African-American woman who was dying of lung cancer. Like so many indigent and dying persons, Mrs. Angel rarely complained about her life. The cancer that ravaged her body left her mind intact and her spirit strong. Rather than lament her sufferings, she spent much of the time during her final months being thankful for where her life was and reflecting on what she had done in the past. “It ‘s taken me back over my life, you know. I ‘ve thought about things that I probably should have done, and all the things I could ‘ve done better, or differently, or something like that. It ‘s taken me back over my life.” In her contemplations and remembrances she fondly recalled her childhood in Kentucky. “We were poor-dirt poor-but we had a big family, and we had love in that house, food to eat, and a roof over our head. Nine of us. We were poor folk, but there was love in the house.
Evolutionary Processes
Authors: Tattersall Ian
Published: October 2023

It is impossible for human beings fully to understand either themselves or their long prehuman history without knowing something of the process (or, rather, processes) by which our remarkable species be- came what it is. This is, as (almost) everybody knows, evolution. And although most of us have a vague idea of what evolution is all about, few realize quite how many factors have typically been involved in the evolutionary histories that gave rise to the diversity of today’ s living world. For evolution is not, as we often believe, a simple, linear process; rather, it is an untidy affair involving many different causes and influences.
Islamic Empires from Temür to the “Gunpowder Era”
Authors: Findley Carter Vaughn
Published: October 2023

Between about 1400 and 1800, another great age of indigenous empire building occurred across most of Asia. Although not all these empires proved equally durable, among Islamic states this period marks the culmination of the reintegration begun by the Seljuks. These empires have been variously characterized. Compared to the earlier “dual administration empires,” states of the period 1260–1796 have been called “direct taxation” empires, in that they extracted all their resources from the territories they had conquered, without continuing the old steppe empires’ pattern of exacting tributes from neighboring sedentary societies.
The Endangered Human
Authors: Annas George J
Published: October 2023

We humans tend to worry first about ourselves, then about our families, then about our communities. In times of great stress, such as war or natural disaster, we may focus temporarily on our country, but we almost never think about our planet as a whole or our species as a whole. This constricted perspective, perhaps best exemplified by the American consumer, has led to the environmental degradation of Earth, a gross and widening gap in living standards between rich and poor nations and people, and a scientific research agenda that focuses almost exclusively on the needs and desires of the wealthy West. Reversing worldwide trends toward market-based atomization and increasing indifference to the suffering of others will require a human rights focus forged by the development of what Vaclav Havel has termed a “species consciousness.” In this chapter I explore the blurring of boundaries between bioethics and human rights by discussing human cloning and inheritable genetic alterations from the human species perspective. In this context I also suggest language for a proposed international “Convention on the Preservation of the Human Species” that would outlaw all efforts to initiate a pregnancy using either intentionally modified genetic material or human.
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Authors: Traboulsi Elias I
Published: October 2023

The prevalence in Newfoundland is about 10 times greater than in Switzerland (1 in 160,000) and is similar to the prevalence among the Bedouin of Kuwait (1 in 13,500). The modified diagnostic criteria according to Beales et al. (1999) require the presence of 4 of 6 major criteria or 3 of 6 major criteria plus 2 of 11 minor criteria. The Laurence-Moon syndrome (OMIM 245800) is not characterized by obesity or polydactyly. Patients do, however, have spastic paraplegia or ataxia.
Opioids
Authors: Winger Gail , Woods James H , Hofmann Frederick G
Published: October 2023

Opium was used for its medicinal and perhaps for its sensory-altering effects long before records of such use could be made. Opium was and continues to be obtained from the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum), which may have been domesticated thousands of years ago in what is now Turkey (Asia Minor). The cultivation and use of opium moved readily to the ancient civilizations of Greece and Egypt, and Arabian traders eventually carried it to India and China. The opium poppy is depicted in the most ancient written language, Sumerian, in approximately 3100 B.c. in southern Iraq (Mesopotamia). In the Ebers Papyri Egyptian physicians recommended the use of opium for a number of disorders in 1550 B.c. (Davenport-Hines, 2002; Terry and Pellens, 1928). Apparent references to opium were made by, among others of the ancient world, Homer, Hippocrates, Theophrastus-a pupil of Aristotle-Virgil, Pliny, and Galen. Until fairly recently, the primary sources of both legal and illicit opium were Afghanistan and Myanmar, with reduced amounts grown in Turkey and Pakistan as their standards of living and outside pressure increased. In the past decade, countries that previously specialized in cocaine production, such as Columbia and Mexico, were growing large amounts of opium for illegal export to the United States and Europe (Brzezinski, 2002; Karch, 2002).
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s
Authors: Peace Richard
Published: October 2023

This Casebook is a collection of interpretations of Crime and Punishment. The selection not only reflects earlier work by major critics in the field, but also more recent studies. At the same time the choice of critical approaches has been made on the basis of covering the novel’s various aspects: Dostoevsky’s debt to other novelists in the European tradition; his roots as a writer in the so-called “Natural School” of the 1840s with its emphasis on the theme of the city; the thematic and symbolic structure of the novel itself; the psychology of the hero; the philosophical content of the novel and its relationship to contemporary thought; the novel’s religious dimension. This latter approach has long been established in western criticism, but the two essays with which the Casebook concludes are by modern Russian scholars, who examine the novel in the light of their own Orthodox tradition.
Raskolnikov’s City and the Napoleonic Plan
Authors: Lindenmeyr Adele
Published: October 2023

Having lived in Petersburg’s Haymarket area in the 1840s and 1860s, Dostoevsky observed at close hand the strains and dislocation created by unplanned urban growth. In a little-noted passage in Crime and Punishment recounting Raskolnikov’s thoughts just before the murder (I, 6), Dostoevsky connects these urban problems to Raskolnikov’s thoughts and subsequent actions. Raskolnikov imagines a reconstruction of Petersburg aimed especially at improving the crowded, wretched conditions of Haymarket. This passage yields insights into the character of Raskolnikov and the thematics of the novel. In it, the city takes two forms, both of which have a powerful psychological influence on Raskolnikov: the squalid reality of Haymarket and the ideal of his imagining, modeled after Napoleon III’s reconstruction of Paris. Both cities, real and ideal, support Raskolnikov’s motive and justification for the murder. For Dostoevsky, however, the reality of Haymarket undermines Raskolnikov’s utilitarian, Napoleonic scheme of re- construction and, by extension, his intellectual rationale for the murder.
“The Other World” in Crime and Punishment
Authors: Vetlovskaya V E
Published: October 2023

Having committed the c rime and killed the old money-lender, Raskolnikov, as we know, not only killed her, but himself. Talking to Sonya, the hero himself stresses this last circumstance, giving it prominence: “Did I murder the old woman? I killed myself, not that old creature! There and then I did for myself at one blow, for ever!... But it was the devil who killed the old hag, not I. .” [402].1 Sonya reacts to Raskolnikov’s admission in the same sense: Suddenly, as if she had been stabbed, she started, cried out, and flung herself, without knowing why, on her knees in front of him.
The Epilogue of Crime and Punishment
Authors: Kasatkina Tatyana
Published: October 2023

Some time ago , concerning the chief idea of Crime and Punishment, I wrote: “Only by the one, only through the one, can the other be saved. There is no other way.”1 The one embodies salvation for the other through the possibility of union with him—a possibility too infrequent and far from obvious, at all events, for that “other” in question—Raskolnikov. But for Dos- toevsky there is only one salvation, which opens anew to the soul paths of union with the Living God. And Sonya not only embodies salvation, but presents an image visually perceived by Ras- kolnikov—an icon.
Double Trouble
Authors: Thompson J Phillip
Published: October 2023

J. Phillip Thompson III, an insider in the Dinkins administration, provides the first in-depth look at how the black mayors of America's major cities achieve social change. Black constituents naturally look to black mayors to effect great change for the poor, but the reality of the situation is complicated. Thompson argues that African-American mayors, legislators, and political activists need to more effectively challenge opinions and public policies supported by the white public and encourage greater political inclusion and open political discourse within black communities. Only by unveiling painful internal oppresssions and exclusions within black politics will the black community's power increase, and compel similar unveilings in the broader interracial conversation about the problems of the urban poor. Tracing the historical development and contemporary practice of black mayoral politics, this is a fascinating study of the motivations of black politicians, competing ideologies in the black community and the inner dynamics of urban social change.
“The Dirty Little Secret” of Black Politics
Authors: Thompson J Phillip
Published: October 2023

Harold Washington, Chicago’s first African American mayor, elected in 1983, was asked the following question by a reporter for Crain’s Chicago Weekly: “I hear from some business leaders ... [that] they lament the divisiveness of the city and they worry about the image that projects beyond our borders, and they wish that Harold Washington would do more to overcome that kind of divisiveness You’re down there in the gutter with these guys and they wish that we had the kind of mayor that could somehow bring the city together again:’ Washington replied, “They can wish unto hell. Let me tell you something very bluntly.
“Cursed by Factions and Feuds” Black Factionalism and the Structure of New York City Government
Authors: Thompson J Phillip
Published: October 2023

On September 12, 1989, thousands crowded into the ballroom at the Penta Hotel to hear from the declared winner of New York’s Democratic primary election for mayor of New York City. The Reverend Jesse Jackson, at the microphone, linked Dinkins’s victory to the city’s reaction to a recent killing of a black teenager by a gang of young white men.Voters had decided “to turn pain into power;’ Jackson declared with the clear implication that Dinkins’s victory was for blacks (Bohlen 1989). Dinkins himself seemed perplexed. That was not the message he wanted televised across New York as he prepared for the general election. For many among Dinkins’s political staff, Jackson’s comments seemed out of place for a different reason. Heimplied that blacks were politically cohesive in New York, yet the black elected officials on the podium did not represent a unified group. The Harvard political scientist Martin Kilson once described New York City’s black politics as “cursed with factions and feuds:’ Although overwhelming black voter support for Dinkins suggested shared grass-roots sentiment among blacks, it seemed overly optimistic to suggest that a cohesive long-term coalition among black elected leaders and activists in New York had emerged.
Specialization and Its Opponents in London
Authors: Weisz George
Published: October 2023

London was the largest city in Europe. It possessed medical resources that were certainly as extensive as those of Paris. Among the many practitioners in the city, specialists were clearly visible. And yet, specialization as a compelling social category did not first emerge in London; and once it did appear on the scene, it faced a unique degree of hostility. In fact, almost none of the conditions that pertained in Paris applied in the British metropolis. London provides an almost exact negative image of the situation that allowed specialization to flourish in the French capital.
The French Style of Regulating Specialists
Authors: Weisz George
Published: October 2023

We saw in chapter 1 that specialties were admitted to the Paris Medical Faculty during the 1860s. By the first decades of the twentieth century, all French medical schools had specialist chairs; in 1919, there were nine in Paris, eight in Bordeaux, and six in both Lille and Lyons. The nation’s seven medical schools combined had eight chairs in clinical obstetrics, seven in ophthalmology, six in dermatology-venereology, and five in both psychiatry and pediatric orthopedics (an unusual chair by international standards). Specialized medical practice spread as well.
The Politics of Judicial Selection
Authors: Davis Richard
Published: October 2023

On July 1, 1795, President George Washington wrote a fateful letter to John Rutledge, a former associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Jay had just resigned after being elected governor of New York, and Washington was writing to tell Rutledge he was nominating him to be Jay’s successor. Rutledge had wanted the appointment since Jay had been appointed six years earlier. In fact, once he heard of Jay’s election, Rutledge had written to the president offering his services.
Today’s Nomination Process The Battle over Image
Authors: Davis Richard
Published: October 2023

The new roles of external players have transformed the Supreme Court nomination process from an insider game dominated by the political interplay among the administration, senators, and, often, the legal community into one with a broader array of players, including interest groups (outside the legal community), the press, and the public. With this change, judicial selection has become a public process prone to the same emphases as other public selection processes such as elections and executive branch appointments—that is, image making to shape mass perceptions. As presidential campaigns seek to shape voters’ images of a candidate, so Supreme Court nominations have become an attempt by the White House to secure certain perceptions of the nominee in the minds of elites and the public.
Reforming the Process
Authors: Davis Richard
Published: October 2023

Clearly, these external players will not go away. For groups or the media or the public to lose interest, the judicial branch would have to be stripped of policy-making power, an unlikely occurrence since it has become a useful branch of last resort for various stripes of issue activists—not to mention the fact that the Court itself is not inclined to divest itself of political power.
Famine that Kills Darfur, Sudan
Authors: de Waal Alex
Published: October 2023

When news of the Darfur famine in the ’80s broke in the West, relief experts predicted that, without massive food aid, millions of people would starve to death. Food aid on this scale did not arrive, but millions did not starve to death. Analyzing the famine from the perspective of the rural people in the region who suffered it, Alex de Waal uncovers a number of new and important insights into the dynamics of famine and famine relief. The author argues that deaths during the famine were not due to starvation, but instead were caused by disease, which ensued in the aftermath of the social disruption caused by the famine. In addition, the priority for rural people during the crisis was not to try to save every possible life, but to preserve their way of life for the future. Consequently, he concludes, the huge international relief effort was largely irrelevant to their survival. De Waal’s findings have profound implications, not just for famine relief, but for our very conception of ‘famine’ itself. Already a classic in the field, this revised edition Famine that Kills provides critical background and lessons of past intervention for a region that finds itself in another moment of humanitarian crisis.
‘Famine’ in English
Authors: de Waal Alex
Published: October 2023

There is clearly a major problem here. What is famine? The tension between conflicting understandings of famine is a central theme of this book. The Sahelian herder’s concept of famine-hinted at here-is similar to those held by the people of Darfur, the subjects of this book. This concept strikes Europeans as strange, at odds with intuition. Yet I am going to argue that the herder’s concept is fundamentally more accurate when it comes to analyzing the nature of famine in this part of Africa.
Hunger
Authors: de Waal Alex
Published: October 2023

‘Hunger: tie your stomach tightly and wait, it will leave you’. !shag Mohammedin, from Furawiya, was stoical about the pains of hunger. There is little to say about hunger per se. Hunger was something that people had just to put up with. Families rationed the food they ate. Following the harvest failure that became apparent in August 1984, people began to eat fewer, smaller, and less pleasant meals. They ate less millet and sorghum (known as ‘esh) and more wild foods. Some had already been doing this for some time, after the failure of the harvest of 1983 in north Darfur. The meagre harvest of 1984 was gathered in during October and November. People ate some, and stored some. They anticipated being hungry until the first post-famine harvest was gathered in: this, they hoped, would be during October 1985, unless the rains failed again.
Jumping the Gun
Authors: Rettig Richard A , Jacobson Peter D , Farquhar Cynthia M , Aubry Wade M
Published: October 2023

The high-dose chemotherapy with autologous bone marrow transplantation (HDC/ABMT) procedure, a promising but toxic new treatment for breast cancer, began diffusing rapidly into clinical practice just as randomized clinical trials were beginning, thereby “jumping the gun.” Clark and colleagues in 2003 described a historical example of this phenomenon in a study of the early clinical use of apheresis, an experimental treatment. Use increased as the treatment was being evaluated in three randomized clinical trials, most of it outside the trials. Jumping the gun also characterizes the case of HDC/ABMT for breast cancer.
Government Mandates
Authors: Rettig Richard A , Jacobson Peter D , Farquhar Cynthia M , Aubry Wade M
Published: October 2023

Widespread clinical use of high-dose chemotherapy with autologous bone marrow transplantation (HDC/ABMT) was partly driven in the mid-1990s by administrative and legislative mandates that required health plans to cover the procedure for breast cancer. In this chapter, we examine a mandate in 1994 from the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that required all health plans participating in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) to provide HDC/ABMT for breast cancer as a covered benefit. We also examine the enactment in 1995 by the Minnesota legislature of a mandate that all plans in the state cover the procedure. We introduce these cases with a discussion of the context.

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Technology Assessments
Authors: Rettig Richard A , Jacobson Peter D , Farquhar Cynthia M , Aubry Wade M
Published: October 2023

Technology assessment (TA) emerged in the late 1960s, concerned mainly with anticipating and mitigating the secondary effects of major technological innovations, such as supersonic transport and nuclear power stations. In medicine, TA focused on the clinical and cost-effectiveness of new medical innovations, a result largely of the rapid diffusion of expensive new technologies before the evaluation of their benefit, cost, or cost-effectiveness (Institute of Medicine 1985; Rettig 1991). The “big ticket” items of dialysis and kidney transplantation in the early 1970s, computed tomography in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and magnetic resonance imaging later in the 1980s highlighted the need for such evaluation.
Fitting Out the Squadrons
Authors: Leiner Frederick C
Published: October 2023

Susan Decatur was no blowsy sailor’s wife. Slim, fashionable, and vivacious, a coquette in her earlier days as a belle in Tidewater, Virginia, she was a drawing-room sophisticate, a woman who hosted James and Dolley Madison in the Decaturs’ rented townhouse west of the White House in the muddy, primitive national capital. At her parties, Susan Decatur played the harp and sang, and engaged in polite conversation with foreign ambassadors and famous statesmen. She was well educated and well read—her library contained books in Italian and French—and she had a particular interest in religion. Born Susan Wheeler, the daughter of Luke Wheeler, a merchant and mayor of Norfolk, she had married her sailor husband in Norfolk in March 1806 after a whirlwind courtship.
Benefit-Cost Analysis: Do The Benefits Exceed The Costs?
Authors: Lave Lester B
Published: October 2023

Many economists see benefit-cost analysis as a rational, analytic tool that is neutral in its values. They assert that benefit-cost analysis is essential for complicated social issues. Our eloquence about the value of this framework has enabled us to convince Congress to write benefit­ cost analysis into various laws and convinced President Reagan to embrace it. President Clinton has reaffirmed the Reagan order with minor changes. Despite the objections of “unenlightened” environmentalists, political scientists, ethicists, and others, we economists believe that social decisions should be subject to benefit-cost analysis and that the analysis identifies, at least approximately, the social optimum. During the beginning of the Reagan administration, economists at the Office of Management and Budget terrorized those who could not produce analyses with positive net benefits (Clark, Kosters, and Miller 1980).But from the outset environmental, labor, and other “public interest” groups objected to cost-benefit tests of regulations. Their view­ point was partly emotional, but they had some valid points, including the contention that while costs can be measured fairly accurately, benefits are often difficult to quantify, particularly in dollar terms.
The Roots of Southern Populism
Authors: Hahn Steven
Published: October 2023

Despite the vast changes in plantation agriculture following the Civil War and Reconstruction, the lot of small farmers was little improved. Examining the nonplantation region of upcountry Georgia as a microcosm of the South, Steven Hahn showed how farmers were buffeted by such forces as the unravelling of antebellum household economy, the development of market forces, the growth of a new class of merchants-landlords, and rising tensions between town and countryside--and how their resentments fueld the Populist movement at the end of the 19th century. For this updated edition, Hahn will add new material to discuss how the book has stood up since it was published over twenty years ago, how the arguments and questions were received, and what influence they may have had on scholarship. He will also consider what has happened to historical interest in Populism, poor white people and populist politics, as well as why he thinks it likely that interest may revive and what sort of questions and arguments may drive it.
“Society in the up Country”
Authors: Hahn Steven
Published: October 2023

Shortly before his marriage to Eugenia DuBignon, the daughter of a Sea Island planter, the young slaveowning lawyer Archibald T. Burke journeyed to Carroll County in northwestern Georgia, where he planned to settle with his new bride. Surveying the area, Burke wondered whether she would feel comfortable in one of Georgia’s last frontiers. “I am sometimes fearful that you will not be pleased with the Society in the up Country,” he wrote her in 1853. “You will think it strange ... to see white people living in Log Cabins ... [and] you will find all sorts of Society here except Aristocracy.”1 Burke’s misgivings, to be sure, reflected the class attitudes of wealthy slaveholders, yet his point was never lost on the planting elite.
The Politics of Independence
Authors: Hahn Steven
Published: October 2023

“Slavery,” Georgia Governor Joseph E. Brown proclaimed, “is the poor man’s best Government.” Trumpeting familiar refrains from the score of proslavery doctrine, Brown argued that, despite the inequalities of wealth in Southern society, black bondage served as the foundation of white social and political democracy: “Among us the poor white laborer is respected as an equal. His family is treated with kindness, consideration, and respect. He does not belong to the menial class. The negro is in no sense his equal. ... He belongs to the only true aristocracy, the race of white men.” With special reference to Upcountry yeomen, Brown acknowledged that “some contemptible demagogues have attempted to deceive [them] by appealing to their prejudices and asking them what interest they have in maintaining the rights of wealthy slaveholders.” But he felt that such efforts were to little effect. “They [the yeomen] know that the Government of our State protects their lives, their families, and their property,” he announced, “that every dollar the wealthy slaveholder has may be taken by the Government of the State, if need be, to protect the rights and liberties of all.
Transnational Litigation in Comparative Perspective
Authors: Mccaffrey Stephen C , Main Thomas O
Published: October 2023

Transnational Litigation in Comparative Perspective: Theory and Application is the only casebook that examines the principal issues in transnational litigation from a comparative perspective. Each chapter focuses on a particular core problem that all legal systems must address. The first half of each chapter is devoted to exploring the theoretical context of the issue, thereby enabling students to appreciate the complexity of the problem and to see how achieving a resolution requires balancing competing interests. The second part of each chapter then focuses on how different systems deal with these challenges. Topics covered include protective measures, personal jurisdiction, forum non conveniens, forum selection clauses, state immunity, state doctrine, service of process, gathering evidence abroad, choice of law, and recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments. Distinctive Features *Uses a comparative approach that better prepares future lawyers for international litigation that may be initiated in countries other than the U.S. *Offers a hypothetical at the beginning of each chapter to introduce the fundamental issue; the hypotheticals raise questions that are diagnostic rather than prescriptive, leading to many “right” answers *Accommodates different types of courses--professors who employ a less theoretical approach can use the hypotheticals to ground class discussions *Considers issues unique to arbitration as they arise in connection with the various topics studied
Traveling and Planning for Emergencies while on Dialysis Taking a Leap of Faith
Authors: Offer Daniel , Offer Marjorie Kaiz , Szafir Susan Offer
Published: October 2023

Whether you intend to read one page or twenty, you may feel that your world has suddenly shrunk now that you or a family member has gone on dialysis. You may even feel that you cannot travel beyond a thirty-mile radius of your dialysis clinic or your home. Whatever boundaries you’ve created in your mind, in most cases they are just that—boundaries of the mind. With some courage, planning, smarts, and a general belief in the kindness of others you can take your show on the road. In this chapter we will present a great deal of practical information that we’ve learned over the years about traveling while on dialysis. We’ll also address common fears dialysis patients may have about travel and uncover some realities that will help to assuage these fears. Generally speaking we’ve found travel to be liberating and exhilarating. Above all, a trip away, an adventure, serves as a powerful reminder that life is meant to be lived.
Chapter Four
Authors: Parsons Lynn Hudson
Published: October 2023

At first Andrew Jackson did not hunger for the presidency. The strategy behind his nomination by the Tennessee legislature in 1822 and his election to the U.S. Senate a year later was to bar two men whom he distrusted from the office, rather than advance himself. Even after his candidacy caught fire beyond Tennessee, he was still prepared to see any outcome, favorable or not, provided there was no unrepublican “corruption” or “intrigue.” The election of his former ally Adams with the help of his hated enemy Clay convinced him that the will of the people had been set aside through conspiracy. Many Americans were ready to agree.
First-Term Blues
Authors: Gillon Steven M
Published: October 2023

Although they were clearly rising stars in their respective parties, Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich had little direct contact before 1992. They met casually at public events in the 1980s when Clinton was in Washington lobbying on behalf of the nation’s governors, but for the most part they observed each other from a distance. “We had a distant awareness of each other,” recalled Gingrich, who remembered a brief encounter with Clinton during a national governor’s convention in 1988. The first official meeting between the two men took place on January 26, 1993, shortly after Clinton assumed office, when Gingrich attended a congressional leadership meeting at the White House.

The Clinton presidency was already off to a rough start. The press praised Clinton for his touching and uncharacteristically brief (fourteen minute) inaugural address. “Let us give this capital back to the people to whom it belongs,” Clinton said, reinforcing the populist theme of the campaign. Within days of taking the oath of office, however, the president found his new administration engulfed in controversy. Clinton had promised during the campaign to focus “like a laser beam” on the economy, but he created a political firestorm during his first week in office by proposing to lift the longstanding ban on homosexuals in the military.
“To Everything There Is a Season”
Authors: Winkler Allan M
Published: October 2023

Folk music has long played a vital role in supporting reform movements in the United States. Radical activists, seeking to counter a variety of abuses in mid-to-late 20th century America, often used music to express their hopes, aims, and goals. In “To Everything There Is a Season”: Pete Seeger and the Power of Song, Allan Winkler describes how folk singer Pete Seeger applied his musical talents to improve conditions for less fortunate people everywhere. This book uses Seeger’s long life and wonderful songs to reflect on the important role folk music played in various protest movements and to answer such fundamental questions as: What was the source of Seeger’s appeal? How did he capture the attention and affection of people around the world? And why is song such a powerful medium? For over half of a century, Pete Seeger’s life and music cut across the major issues of the day. A tireless supporter of union organization in the 1930s and 1940s, he joined the Communist Party, performing his songs with banjo and guitar accompaniment to promote worker solidarity. He sang out against American involvement in World War II in the early 1940s, only to change his tune after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. He enlisted in the Army and, still singing, served overseas in the South Pacific. In the 1950s, he found himself under attack during the Red Scare for his radical past. He narrowly escaped a long jail term for refusing to cooperate with the House Committee on Un-American Activities, when his contempt conviction was thrown out on a technicality. In the 1960s, he became the minstrel of the civil rights movement, focusing its energy with songs that inspired protestors and challenged the nation’s patterns of racial discrimination. Toward the end of the decade, he turned his musical talents to resisting the war in Vietnam, and again drew fire from those who attacked his dissent as treason. Finally, in the 1970s, he lent his voice to the growing environmental movement by leading the drive to clean up the Hudson River, which flowed almost literally through his backyard in New York State. His life reflected the turbulence of his times as his songs sounded the spirit of the issues that he felt mattered most. A sample of Seeger’s music accompanies this book. Songs include “If I Had a Hammer,” with its call to confront injustice; “Where Have all the Flowers Gone?” and its lyrical appeal to stop the cycle of war; and “We Shall Overcome,” the standard hymn of the struggle for freedom. Richly researched and crisply written, Allan Winkler provides a gripping account of the power of Pete Seeger’s songs in promoting a better world for us all.
Mill and Mine
Authors: Ayers Edward L
Published: October 2023

To Many People. Southern industry seemed more of a charade than an actuality. After enduring twenty years of exaggerated claims in the Manufacturer’s Record, even a Southern trade paper could stand the puffery no longer: “If all the saw mills. cotton mills. tobacco factories. new towns. and other enterprises and undertakings which it has heralded to its advertisers and ‘subscribers’ as having been started up in the various states of the South. had really been erected and put into operation.” the Sowhern Lumberman sneered in 1908, “there wouldn’t be surface room for them to stand on. water enough under the earth to supply their boilers, nor room enough in the sky for the smoke from their chimneys.” Reality looked nothing like this.
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Authors: Schachter Steven C , Krishnamurthy Kaarkuzhali Babu , Cantrell Deborah T Combs
Published: October 2023

After 20 years of being free of seizures, they came back with a vengeance. Here I was—beginning the empty nest syndrome, showing signs of menopause, and starting a new job. The immediate effect of the return of seizures was the loss of my independence. Since I can’t drive now, I have to inconvenience my family or friends for rides.
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Authors: Schachter Steven C , Krishnamurthy Kaarkuzhali Babu , Cantrell Deborah T Combs
Published: October 2023

In the beginning, seizures for me were something of a mystery. I never knew that I was having them. I wasn’t alone—it took doctors over 10 years to actually figure out that my ‘‘dream states’’ were seizures, not just something I was imagining. My seizures were like dreams that happened while I was awake. Staring off at something became a ‘‘normal’’ thing for me. Shaking my head to come back to reality was like waking myself up from the dream. The only problem was that when the ‘‘dream’’ ended, I felt lost, as if time had gone by and I was stuck somewhere back a few minutes.
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Authors: Schachter Steven C , Krishnamurthy Kaarkuzhali Babu , Cantrell Deborah T Combs
Published: October 2023

I have had seizures for the past 21 years, and I’m sure that this has had a big impact on my life. I’m always afraid that I’ll have a grand mal, even though I have only had one (about 17 years ago, when my youngest son was born).I’ve always kept most of this information about myself private. I didn’t want anyone else to know this about me, since I thought they’d think ‘‘less’’ of me. When I went to see the local neurologist, I’d pray I wouldn’t meet anyone I knew, because then I’d have to explain where I was going and why.
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Authors: Schachter Steven C , Krishnamurthy Kaarkuzhali Babu , Cantrell Deborah T Combs
Published: October 2023

Epilepsy was like a veil through which I saw myself, life, and even the God for whom I sought to live. People who loved me always surrounded me, but I felt less than acceptable, unable to truly appreciate their love, and certainly unable to fathom why I was loved. For years I had felt that seizures put up the barriers of fear and shame. I recognized, finally, that something within me was a blockage to inner peace, and sought help in therapy.
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Authors: Schachter Steven C , Krishnamurthy Kaarkuzhali Babu , Cantrell Deborah T Combs
Published: October 2023

How have seizures affected my day-to-day life over the past 30 years? First of all, I was unable to function as a mother when my children were born because my seizures got worse and all wanted to do was sleep. My sister-in-law and husband did everything for me. When the children started needing rides everywhere, I always had to ask other people, and I was stuck in the house and lonely. Seizures affected our finances. I can’t work a good paying job since I can’t remember anything. Because of all the medication I take, I only have the energy to work 15 hours a week because it is tiring work, packing bags in a supermarket. I feel like a real loser because I can’t make $30,000 a year like everyone else’s wives. I can only make $3,000. When we are out with other people, I can’t participate in any discussions because they are always talking about computers and topics of which I have no knowledge.
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Authors: Schachter Steven C , Krishnamurthy Kaarkuzhali Babu , Cantrell Deborah T Combs
Published: October 2023

Discovering that I had epilepsy affected my life in many ways, on many levels. The first shock of it had its impact on my self-esteem and self-image. So little appeared to be known about temporal lobe epilepsy at that time, and what was known was profoundly negative. One medical research book I consulted claimed that it led to retardation. Adding to that, my mother (born in 1913) forbade me from telling anyone in the family about my illness; so shame was blended with fear.
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Authors: Schachter Steven C , Krishnamurthy Kaarkuzhali Babu , Cantrell Deborah T Combs
Published: October 2023

My grand mal seizures started when I was 15. Looking back, that was probably the worst age for me to begin having seizures. High school can be a scary place—even without epilepsy— and I was shy to begin with. I withdrew further into myself, never once dating. I was terrified that a seizure would happen in school, or that someone would discover my terrible secret. Luckily, that didn’t happen. Still, I missed proms and all the other exciting events that go with being a teenager. In my 20s, I started dating. One relationship became serious, and I became concerned about having a seizure in front of my unsuspecting boyfriend. I was also unsure how to tell a potential husband that I could not have children, since I was too scared of the effect my medication would have on the baby.
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Authors: Schachter Steven C , Krishnamurthy Kaarkuzhali Babu , Cantrell Deborah T Combs
Published: October 2023

I have had seizures for the past 7 years that cause disorientation. The seizures have absolutely no effect on my ability to function as a woman, wife, mother, and grandmother on a day-today basis. They do, however, have a great effect on my memory. Many things that have happened more than 3 months ago are almost completely erased from my mind. This proves to be most embarrassing when interacting with friends and family. I do, however, have a husband who is both understanding and compassionate and do manage to get through the most important situations without much embarrassment.
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Authors: Schachter Steven C , Krishnamurthy Kaarkuzhali Babu , Cantrell Deborah T Combs
Published: October 2023

I began having seizures as a complication of viral encephalitis when I was 30 years old. This is something I do not remember, because along with the seizures came memory loss.
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Authors: Schachter Steven C , Krishnamurthy Kaarkuzhali Babu , Cantrell Deborah T Combs
Published: October 2023

The sun rises, as do I. With milk in one hand and my morning medication in the other, I watch the world go to work. How I dream to be part of that world again! But my seizures say ‘‘no.’’ Seizures have affected many parts of my life. And sometimes they seem to dominate it. They began 21 years ago, when I was 18 and in college. It was not easy to keep roommates or find the ability to study, but I did it.
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Authors: Schachter Steven C , Krishnamurthy Kaarkuzhali Babu , Cantrell Deborah T Combs
Published: October 2023

I have only had three grand mal seizures and don’t feel like my life has gone through major changes. However, during the 6-month period that I had these three seizures, my family did have several issues to deal with. My husband and I are close and supportive of one another. The only thing that we are wrestling with at this moment is the decision about whether I should go off antiseizure medicine. He wants me to take it for the rest of our lives. He only saw one seizure, but he never wants to see me go through that again. And there’s a puzzle . . . because I don’t ‘‘go through it,’’ I don’t even remember it—I don’t even get an aura—so really, he is the one who ‘‘goes through it.’’ And I don’t want him to.
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Authors: Schachter Steven C , Krishnamurthy Kaarkuzhali Babu , Cantrell Deborah T Combs
Published: October 2023

Like so many others, my epilepsy began in adolescence. I was approximately 13 years old when I had my first seizure, though I was not diagnosed until the age of 15. In fact, the reason I was not diagnosed was because I was unaware I was having seizures. I was having a type of seizure called myoclonic seizures. What I experienced were small jerks of my limbs that occasionally would ‘‘trip me up.’’ I just thought I was a klutz, and so didn’t report these incidents to anyone. Furthermore, at that time in my life, I had only known one other person to have a seizure, my oldest brother. He had grand mal seizures, which is the type of seizure people typically think about when they hear the term epilepsy, and I was no exception to that rule.
Overview of Epilepsy and Seizures
Authors: Schachter Steven C
Published: October 2023

A seizure is usually defined as a sudden alteration of behavior due to a temporary change in the electrical functioning of the brain, in particular the outer layer of the brain called the cortex. Epilepsy is a neurological condition affecting the brain that causes seizures to occur. Seizures can take many different forms in different people with epilepsy, as the descriptions in this book illustrate. However, any individual person with epilepsy usually has a limited number of different types of seizures that they experience.
Living with Epilepsy
Authors: Schachter Steven C
Published: October 2023

The worst part of having seizures is knowing that they can happen anytime and even though drugs control mine most of the time they occasionally break through. Just realizing that can happen has been a difficult fact to accept as for many years I tried to hide it from anyone else, thinking they would judge me in a way that would cross me off their list as a friend for sure. Gradually I have learned that people are n’t like that and I don’t have to fear their judgment and it has opened a lot of doors which I had previously closed on myself.
D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation
Authors: Stokes Melvyn
Published: October 2023

In this deeply researched and vividly written volume, Melvyn Stokes illuminates the origins, production, reception and continuing history of this ground-breaking, aesthetically brilliant, and yet highly controversial movie landmark. By going back to the original archives, particularly the NAACP and D. W. Griffith Papers, Stokes explodes many of the myths surrounding The Birth of a Nation (1915). Yet the story that remains is fascinating: the longest American film of its time, Griffith’s film incorporated many new features, including the first full musical score compiled for an American film. It was distributed and advertised by pioneering methods that would quickly become standard. Through the high prices charged for admission and the fact that it was shown, at first, only in “live” theaters with orchestral accompaniment, Birth played a major role in reconfiguring the American movie audience by attracting more middle-class patrons. But if the film was a milestone in the history of cinema, it was also undeniably racist. Stokes shows that the darker side of this classic movie has its origins in the racist ideas of Thomas Dixon, Jr. and Griffith’s own Kentuckian background and earlier film career. The book reveals how, as the years went by, the campaign against the film became increasingly successful. In the 1920s, for example, the NAACP exploited the fact that the new Ku Klux Klan, which used Griffith’s film as a recruiting and retention tool, was not just anti-black, but also anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish, as a way to mobilize new allies in opposition to the film. This crisply written book sheds light on both the film’s racism and the aesthetic brilliance of Griffith’s filmmaking. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the cinema.
Medical Overview of the Worldwide Diabetes Epidemic
Authors: Leonard Robert e. , Parke David W
Published: October 2023

In recent decades, diabetes mellitus has progressed from a disease affecting primarily people in developed countries into a true worldwide epidemic. The World Health Organization (WHO) in 1999 deEned diabetes mellitus as “a state of absolute or relative insulin defciency, characterized by hyperglycemia and the risk of microvascular and macrovascular complications.” The purpose of this chapter is to emphasize the magnitude and impact of diabetes on developing nations and its implications for global health. The association of diabetes, pre-diabetes, and the metabolic syndrome will be discussed. By the end of this chapter, the reader should have a clear understanding of the demands that will be placed on health care providers around the world to cope with this looming healthcare crisis.