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Medical Work in America
Essays on Health Care
Present-day health care policies in the United States are moving toward a system in which patients will be treated like industrial objects by doctors forced to work mechanically, says the distinguished medical sociologist...
English Travelers Abroad, 1604-1667
Their Influence on English Society and Politics, Revised Edition
What were the experiences of English travelers who toured Western Europe in the seventeenth century? What influence did Continental travel have on English society and politics? This delightful book by John Stoye allows...
Child Support in America
Practical Advice on Negotiating and Collecting a Fair Settlement
“Child support in America is a national disgrace. There is no more widespread and profoundly consequential example of lawlessness in our society today than fathers’ refusal to care for their children after divorce.”...
Common Decency
Domestic Policies after Reagan
Planner, educator, and activist Alvin Schorr presents an incisive critique of America's social policies under the Reagan administration and offers clear, reasonable, and workable proposals for improving our policies...
Freud in Exile
Psychoanalysis and Its Vicissitudes
This book, featuring contributions from some of the world’s most eminent Freud scholars, marks the fiftieth anniversary of Freud’s arrival in London as an exile from occupied Austria—an event regarded by many as a decisive...
European Revolutions and the American Literary Renaissance
Political issues and events have always acted as a catalyst on thought and art. In this pioneering study, Larry J. Reynolds argues that the European revolutions of 1848-49 quickened the American literary imagination and...
The Yale Edition of the Shorter Poems of Edmund Spenser
This is the first comprehensive edition of Spenser’s shorter poems since the Variorum Minor Poems published in the 1940s. In the interval our understanding of Renaissance culture of Spenser’s work has changed...
Loosening the Bonds
Mid-Atlantic Farm Women, 1750-1850
The first book to investigate the rich and complex lives of rural women during the late colonial and early national periods. Jensen focuses on women in the Philadelphia hinterland and shows how they became an essential...
Ts`ao Yin and the K`ang-hsi Emperor
Bondservant and Master, Second edition
In this highly praised book, Jonathan D. Spence recounts the story of Ts'ao Yin, hereditary bondservant to the Manchu emperors. Ts'ao Yin, whose great-grandfather was captured and enslaved by the Manchus and whose descendent...
Robert Harley
Speaker, Secretary of State and Premier Minister
Robert Harley (1661-1724) dominated English politics in the late seventeenth century and throughout the reign of Queen Anne, and his long parliamentary career spanned years during which British political institutions...