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?Exceptionally coherent and readable. A layperson or student seeking to understand the shifting political, social, economic, and philosophical issues which make up the history of proposals and programs for financing medical costs in the United States will be well informed by the sum of the thought-provoking chapters. Copious bibliographic notes, a bibliographic essay, and an index contribute to the high quality of this work.?-Library Journal

?Mary Aickin Rothschild has written a valuable and informative study of the volunteers who went south both that summer and next. Relying on her own interviews with former volunteers, letters the volunteers wrote at the time, and the initial applications many of them submitted to the sponsoring organizations, Rothschild presents a comprehensive and empathic account of who the volunteers were, what motivated them to go south, and what they did a...

?The application of formula analysis to science fiction may not be as unusual as the author suggests, but his thesis is sound and his arguments persuasive.... The choice of material from Astounding Stories/Science Fiction is a good beginning. It should be most representative since it was the first magazine to take science fiction seriously and it had the widest circulation.... For all collections with an emphasis on popular culture.?-Choice

Inspired by her own contact with Africa, Caroline Oliver has written biographies of five intrepid women who traveled through the interior of Africa during colonial times. Two were explorers. Alexine Tinne led her own expedition up the Bahr el Ghazal tributary of the Nile. The second sketch traces the expeditions of Florence Baker who accompanied her husband on two hazardous journeys to the lake regions of Central Africa. Oliver portrays Mary K...

?Fastidiously researched and interestingly written history....By demonstrating that the reformers had more complicated motives than historical sentimentality has hitherto credited them with, Hoogenboom imparts to the civil service reform story some long needed correctives.?-Saturday Review

?Three things must be said at the outset about this book: first, that it is far more than its explanatory subtitle implies, secondly, that it is likely to be for a long time one of the standard works on the parts of the Pacific with which it deals, thirdly, that it is written by an anthropologist who is at the same time an economist, a discerning analyst of politicosocial institutions and, what is perhaps equally important, a humanist.?-Times ...

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?The ongoing surge of academic interest in minority literatures makes Mohr's endeavor particularly timely. Specific attention continues to be drawn to the New York Puerto Rican (Nuyorican) and Mohr's practical criticism and subsequent exposure of this literature will make readers better equipped to study and research Puerto Rican literature written on this continent and in English. ...this book is a welcome contribution to the Puerto Rican exp...