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  • Dual Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Institutionalized Regimes in Chile and Mexico, 1970–2000
    Dual Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Institutionalized Regimes in Chile and Mexico, 1970–2000
    By Francisco E. Gonzlez

    Barahona de Brito, Alexandra, Carmen González-Enríquez, and Paloma Aguilar, eds. The Politics of Memory. Transitional Justice in Democratizing Societies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Baraona, Pablo. “La política económica del ...

  • Cork Wars: Intrigue and Industry in World War II
    Cork Wars: Intrigue and Industry in World War II
    By David A. Taylor

    Ginsburg had created his own quirky domain. “He treated me like a son to be trained,” Blumenthal observed. One of his first assignments involved the delicate art of personnel management. With minimal background, Blumenthal was sent to ...

  • Cosmological Enigmas: Pulsars, Quasars, & Other Deep-Space Questions
    Cosmological Enigmas: Pulsars, Quasars, & Other Deep-Space Questions
    By Mark Kidger

    Bernard Lovell, Out of the Zenith: Jodrell Bank, 1957—70 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973). ... More Advanced Reading W. Baade and R. Minkowski, “Identification of the Radio Sources in Cassiopeia, Cygnus A, and Puppis A,” ...

  • The Rise of the States: Evolution of American State Government
    The Rise of the States: Evolution of American State Government
    By Jon C. Teaford

    David D. Lee, Tennessee in Turmoil: Politics in the Volunteer State, 1920-1932 (Memphis, Tenn.: Memphis State University Press, 1979), p. 58. 26. Frank M. Stewart, Highway Administration in Texas: A Study of Administrative Methods and ...

  • Death in a Small Package: A Short History of Anthrax
    Death in a Small Package: A Short History of Anthrax
    By Susan D. Jones

    Stone and Hodges' Boston Medical and SurgicalJournal articles were cited by Munich professor Otto von Bollinger in his widely read review article (1874), and the Walpole cases were also included in an article written by Arthur Nichols ...

  • Field Guide to the Natural World of Washington D.C.
    Field Guide to the Natural World of Washington D.C.
    By Howard Youth

    Description Resembling a small tarantula, the rabid wolf spider is unjustifiably feared by people. Once thought to hunt in groups (thus, the wolf moniker) these spiders are solitary. The bite contains weak venom that may cause swelling ...

  • Spark from the Deep: How Shocking Experiments with Strongly Electric Fish Powered Scientific Discovery
    Spark from the Deep: How Shocking Experiments with Strongly Electric Fish Powered Scientific Discovery
    By William J. Turkel

    For that strange and insightful observation, this book ought to be widely read and enjoyed.” —Chris Conway, Endeavour “[I]t is refreshing to explore a book which takes seriously ancient encounters with manifestations of natural ...

  • Robots In Space: Technology, Evolution, and Interplanetary Travel
    Robots In Space: Technology, Evolution, and Interplanetary Travel
    By Roger D. Launius, Howard E. McCurdy

    833–36; P. R. Christensen et al., “Initial Results from the Mini-TES Experiment in Gusev Crater from the Spirit Rover,” Science, August 6, 2004, pp. 837–42; H. Y. McSween et al., “Basaltic Rocks Analyzed by the Spirit Rover in Gusev ...

  • The Universities of the Italian Renaissance
    The Universities of the Italian Renaissance
    By Paul F. Grendler

    Lo studio teologico e la biblioteca dei domenicani a Padova nel Tre e Quattrocento. ... “Note in margine all'opera di Filippo Beroaldo il Vecchio,” in Tra latino e volgare: Per Carlo Dionisotti, edited by G. Bernardoni Trezzini et al.

  • Soldiering For Freedom: How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops
    Soldiering For Freedom: How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops
    By John David Smith, Bob Luke

    John Cimprich and Robert C. Mainfort Jr., eds., “Fort Pillow Revisited: New Evidence About an Old Controversy,” Civil War History 28 (Dec. 1982): 294, quoted in John Cimprich, “The Fort Pillow Massacre: Assessing the Evidence,” in Black ...

  • Florida Manatees: Biology, Behavior, and Conservation
    Florida Manatees: Biology, Behavior, and Conservation
    By John E. Reynolds

    Marshall, C. D., G. D. Huth, V. M. Edmonds, D. L. Halin, and R. L. Reep. 1998. Prehensile use of perioral bristles during feeding and associated behaviors of the Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris).

  • Old Dominion Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America
    Old Dominion Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America
    By Sean Patrick Adams

    1989), 50; Julian A. C. Chandler, “Representation in Virginia,” Johns Hopkins Studies in Historical and Political Science 14 (1896): 271–73; F. Thornton Miller, Juries and Judges versus the Law: Virginia's Provincial Legal Perspective, ...

  • Investing in Life: Insurance in Antebellum America
    Investing in Life: Insurance in Antebellum America
    By Sharon Ann Murphy

    Worthington v. Charter Oak Life (1874). 111. New York Life Insurance Company v. Statham, New York Life Insurance Company v. Seyms, Manhattan Life Insurance Company v. Buck, 93 U.S. 24 (1876). 112. New York Life v.

  • Charging Up San Juan Hill: Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of Imperial America
    Charging Up San Juan Hill: Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of Imperial America
    By John R. Van Atta

    Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of Imperial America John R. Van Atta ... Pauline O'Neill to the San Francisco Examiner, quoted in “The Sacrifices of War: A Tribute to 'Buckey' O'Neill,” Sharlot Hall Library and Archives, Prescott, AZ, ...

  • Front Stoops in the Fifties: Baltimore Legends Come of Age
    Front Stoops in the Fifties: Baltimore Legends Come of Age
    By Michael Olesker

    It's 1963 before Jacqueline McCurdy becomes the first female prosecutor in Baltimore County. At the Union Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, all students (female, of course) have to stand at their desks any time a doctor (male, ...

  • Field Guide to the Street Trees of New York City
    Field Guide to the Street Trees of New York City
    By Leslie Day

    Moore. NEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT In 1995, Bette Midler noticed a great decline in the northern Manhattan parks. The areas that people should have been enjoying were full of trash and unfit for use. Bette decided to do something about ...

  • The Origins of the English Novel, 1600–1740
    The Origins of the English Novel, 1600–1740
    By Michael McKeon

    See Jonathan Sumption, Pilgrimage: An Image of Medieval Religion (London: Faber and Faber, 1975), 257–60. ... of the “individual subject,” see Timothy J. Reiss, The Discourse of Modernism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982), chap.

  • Just and Lasting Change: When Communities Own Their Futures
    Just and Lasting Change: When Communities Own Their Futures
    By Daniel C. Taylor, Carl E. Taylor

    39–46 in Scott B. Halstead, Julia A. Walsh, and Kenneth S. Warren (Eds.), Good Health at Low Cost (New York: Rockefeller Foundation, 1985). 2. P. G. K. Panikar, “Health Care System in Kerala and Its Impact on Infant Mortality,” pp.

  • The Afterlife of "Little Women"
    The Afterlife of "Little Women"
    By Beverly Lyon Clark

    See, e.g., Henry Jenkins, Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture (New York: New York Univ. Press, 2006), 135 (ebrary). Lauren Rizzuto has discussed the interpretive communities of fanfiction based on Little Women in ...

  • Benton Mackaye: Conservationist, Planner, and Creator of the Appalachian Trail
    Benton Mackaye: Conservationist, Planner, and Creator of the Appalachian Trail
    By Larry Anderson

    While reading the 1915 annual report of the Department of Labor, MacKaye had taken notice of Labor Secretary William B. Wilson's appeal for a more active federal role in “making new opportunities for employment.” Wilson proposed that ...