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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, The Social Transformation of American Medicine is a landmark history of the American health care system, examining how the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs has evolved over the last two centuries. Beginning in 1730 and coming up to the present day, renowned sociologist Paul Starr traces the transformation of our national health care syste...

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The best team in baseball statistics takes on one of the great unanswered questions: Why do teams win pennant races?

Two hundred years after Washington Irving became a household name in America, it is time to rediscover him

Here, at last, are the war plans of America's own religious extremists. "The Baptizing of America" exposes the systematic campaign by Christian fundamentalists to co-opt and take over every "room" of American society from the bedroom to the school room, hospital room, operating room, courtroom, work room, reading room and newsroom. This book focuses on the aggressive and well-funded war currently being led by fundamentalist Christians to "bap...

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Examining rap history's most memorable lyricists and their inimitable techniques, literary scholar Adam Bradley argues that we must understand rap as poetry or miss the vanguard of poetry today. Book of Rhymes explores America's least understood poets, unpacking their surprisingly complex craft, and according rap poetry the respect it deserves.

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From an award-winning scholar comes this definitive, single-volume history that illuminates the tensions and transformations of the Russian Revolution.In The Russian Revolution, acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin traces the events which ended Romanov rule, ushered the Bolsheviks into power, and introduced Communism to the world. Between 1917 and 1922, Russia underwent a complete and irreversible transformation. Taking advantage of the collapse ...

A young activist reveals that the Pro-Life Movement's real agenda is a war on contraception, family planning, and sexual freedom

This second edition, or Version 2.0, of "Code" has been prepared through the author's wiki, a web site that allows readers to edit the text, making this the first reader-edited revision of a popular book

Drawing upon untouched archives of documents and photographs and more than 200 new interviews, the authors chart L.A.Us unique gay history, and show how geography, economic opportunity, and a constant influx of new people created a city that was more compatible to gay life than any other in America.

<, div>, Why does the journey to a new location always take longer than the trip home? What is the science behind the theory of "six degrees of separation?" Why doesn't honey flow out in all directions?<, br>, <, br>, In this delightful and amusing text, Jay Ingram explores the extraordinary science behind ordinary happenings. Ingram, host of the Discovery Channel Canada's "Daily Planet" and best-selling author of <, i>, The Sc...

From the best-selling author of "In God's Name, " the gripping true story of the papacy of John Paul II

The respect for religious difference has formed the bedrock of our nation and made equality possible. Yet today we are told that moral values", code for a government shaped by religious concerns, must be the keystone of our social compact. A rich and compelling chronicle of an essential idea, Liberty of Conscience tells the story of America's great tradition of religious freedom. Philosopher Martha Nussbaum's ambitious book is both a work of h...

The Bancroft Prize-winning classic, now completely revised and updated

Tse parses the ever-growing Chinese economic landscape, walking the reader through the Chinese business environment, the effects of Chinese economic power on worldwide business, and the ways in which the two mesh and interact.

Newsweek" contributing editor Clift tackles one of the most important--and divisive--issues facing the nation: how Americans deal, or fail to deal, with dying. Clift provides a very personal narrative as she alternates between the much-publicized death of Terri Schiavo and that of her own husband.