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Adoption, Identity, and Kinship
The Debate over Sealed Birth Records
Members of adoption triangles—adoptees, birthparents, and adopting parents—must struggle with difficult and sometimes heartrending issues. Should adopted children be enabled to trace their biological parents? Does the...
Walking Toward the Sun
In 1936, twenty-year-old Edward Weismiller became the youngest poet to win the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets prize. Today, more than sixty years later, he retains that distinction. Yale University Press here...
California Dreaming
Reforming Mathematics Education
This compelling book tells the history of the past two decades of efforts to reform mathematics education in California. That history is a contentious one, full of such fervor and heat that participants and observers...
The Good Body
Asceticism in Contemporary Culture
What are the reasons for the current epidemic of eating disorders, the increasing obsession with exercise, diet, and cosmetic surgery, the constant exhortations to look and feel good? This engrossing book examines our concern...
Virtual Rivers
Lessons from the Mountain Rivers of the Colorado Front Range
Sparsely settled mountain areas of the world, such as Colorado’s Front Range, give an impression of wild, untouched, and unchanging nature. Yet in many cases mountain rivers that appear to be pristine natural systems actually...
Quaker Experiences in International Conciliation
As far back as the early 1900s, the Quakers have been engaged in a program of quiet private diplomacy that won them a Nobel Peace Prize in 1947. During the turbulent 1960s, hey acted as unofficial conciliators in several...
Ethnic Power Mobilized
Can South Africa Change?
This study questions conventional wisdom about the nature and outcome of the South African conflict. Avoiding both wishful thinkiong and mere moralizing, Heribert Adam and Hermann Giliomee critically examine the applicability...
Visionary Fictions
Apocalyptic Writing from Blake to the Modern Age
"Visionary" writers, says Edward Ahearn in this original book, seek a personal way to explode the normal experience of the "real," using prophetic visions, fantastic tales, insane rantings, surrealistic dreams, and drug- or...
Counter-Revolution
The Second Civil War and Its Origins, 1646-8
While much has been written on the subject of the English Civil War, the Second Civil War has been largely neglected. Robert Ashton, author of the standard history, The English Civil War, now provides a detailed and...
Culture, Capitalism, and Democracy in the New America
The United States is in transit from an industrial to a postindustrial society, from a modern to postmodern culture, and from a national to a global economy. In this book Richard Harvey Brown asks how we can distinguish the...