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Deeply touched by the tragedies of botched abortions that they witnessed as medical students and young physicians in Chile in the 1940s and later around the world, the authors have attempted in their professional lives and now in this book to establish a framework for dialogue to replace the polarization that exists today.

It almost goes without saying that the rise in popularity of television has killed the audience for serious" literature. This is such a given that reading Fitzpatrick's challenge to this notion can be very disconcerting, as she traces the ways in which a small cadre of writers of "serious" literature--DeLillo, Pynchon, and Franzen, for instance--have propagated this myth in order to set themselves up as the last bastions of good writing. Fitzp...

This new edition of the first volume in the multi-volume series of The Illustrated Flora of Illinois - which provides a working reference for the identification and classification of these plant forms in the state - includes flowering rushes, arrowheads, pondweeds, naiads, duckweeds, cattails, bur reeds, spiderworts, and rushes.

Liaisons dangereuses examines the local and international repercussions of a notorious episode in eighteenth-century Hamburg. Historian Mary Lindemann recounts the mysterious circumstances surrounding the violent death of a counterfeit Milanese count, Joseph Visconti, at the hands of an erstwhile Prussian lieutenant, the Baron von Kesslitz. Reconstructing the drama from the perspectives of four principal players -- the count, the baron, an Ita...

Provides examples of effective application of decision-based design, theory and practice in decision-based design, insights on handling preferences, handling uncertainty, distributed design, demand modeling, validation, and other issues, and end-of-chapter exercise problems to facilitate learning.

When A.E. van Vogt wove several of his classic stories of The Rull into novel, he created a work of enduring popularity in the science fiction field. Now back in print for the first time in the 1990s, this edition includes "The First Rull, " a story that postdates the novel and makes his book the first complete edition of the saga of the war between humanity and the alien shapechangers.