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  Mothers Who Kill Their Children: Understanding the Acts of Moms from Susan Smith to the "Prom Mom"

  Cheryl L. Meyer, Michelle Oberman, Kelly White, Michelle Rone, Priya Batra, and Tara C. Proano

  There is every reason to believe that infanticide is as old as human society itself, and that no culture has been immune. Throughout history, the crime of infanticide has reflected specific cultural norms and imperatives. For instance, infanticide was legal throughout the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome, and was justified on grounds ranging from population control to eugenics to illegitimacy. Archeological evidence suggests that infant sacrifice was commonplace among early peoples, including the Vikings, Irish Celts, Gauls, and Phoenicians.

  Historians of infanticide cite a host of factors associated with the incidence of this crime: poverty, overpopulation, laws governing inheritance, customs relating to nonmarital children, religious and/or superstitious beliefs regarding disability, eugenics, and maternal madness. This broad range of explanations for the act of a mother killing her child suggests that infanticide takes quite different forms in different cultures. Indeed, there is no intuitively obvious link between the exposure of disabled or otherwise ill-fated newborns in ancient Greece, for example, and the practice of female infanticide in modern-day India.

  Nonetheless, a close examination of the circumstances surrounding infanticide reveals a profound commonality linking these seemingly unrelated crimes. Specifically, infanticide may be seen as a response to the societal construction of and constraints upon mothering. Factors such as poverty, stigma, dowry, and disability are significant because they foretell the impact that an additional baby will have upon a mother, as well as upon her existing family.

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  Microstructure Modeling and Prediction During Thermomechanical Processing

  Raghavan Srinivasan, S. L. Semiatin, Armand Beaudoin, Steven Fox, and Zhe Jin

  This proceedings volume includes papers on recent developments in the modelling and prediction of microstructure during thermomechanical processing of titanium, superalloys, aluminium, and ferrous alloys. It covers both physical and computer modelling.

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  Guided Imagery and Other Approaches to Healing

  Rubin Battino

  Guided imagery involves thoughts which have a positive effect on health. This book demystifies the how, the why and the wherefor of the technique, and includes sections on preparing people for surgery, nutrition and the native American traditions.

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  Information Brokering Across Heterogeneous Digital Data: A Metadata-Based Approach

  Vipul Kashyap and Amit P. Sheth

  Information intermediation is the foundation stone of some of the Internet companies, and is perhaps second only to the Internet Infrastructure companies. This book on information brokering discusses next step in information interoperability and integration. It is useful for researchers, software architects, CTOs, and product developers.

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  The Research Process: A Complete Guide and Reference for Writers

  Martin Maner

  The Research Process explains, models, and analyzes the recursive process of conducting research and writing research papers. The text - along with the dedicated website and free student CD-ROM - provides exceptional guidance on writing substantive research papers using print and electronic sources and emphasizes the enjoyment and rewards that research writing offers.

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  The Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting Contribution to the Continuing Care of People with Mental Health Problems: A Review and Action Plan

  Martin F. Ward, John R. Cutcliffe, and Kevin Gournay

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  Ericksonian Approaches: A Comprehensive Manual

  Rubin Battino and Thomas L. South

  Set against a clinical background and assuming no previous knowledge, this text covers essential subjects such as advanced metaphor and examines Ericksonian approaches in medicine, dentistry, substance abuse and life-threatening diseases.

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  Sexual Medicine In Primary Care

  William L. Maurice and Marjorie A. Bowman

  A practical guide to interviewing patients about sexual matters with suggested questions, guidelines for the assessment and treatment of common sexual problems, and guidelines for referral. It incorporates sample questions and case histories for a more clinical focus.

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  Solving Patient Problems: Ambulatory Care

  Marjorie A. Bowman and Judith A. Fisher

  This new series assists students at all levels in developing their clinical problem-solving or reasoning skills by leading them through the "clinical reasoning process around common presenting complaints" in the various clinical rotations. The most common diseases that the students are likely to encounter are the foundation upon which the student may begin to build a more extensive diagnosis.

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  Socialism and Christianity in Early Twentieth-Century America

  Jacob H. Dorn

  Despite an anti-religious reputation and the anti-religious worldview of many members, the American Socialist movement held a primarily religious and moral attraction for a small but highly articulate group of American Christians of diverse religious tradition. This study explores the dramatic and at times dangerous lives of individuals who found in the vibrant, growing socialist movement before World War I the grounds for hope that the biblical ideals of human worth and economic justice would at last be fulfilled. Its subjects are male and female, black and white, native- and foreign-born, clergy and lay people, and products of Christian traditions ranging from African-American Baptist to Episcopalian. Readers will find not Milquetoasts standing hesitantly on the sidelines, but Christians with an unequivocal commitment to the complete socialist program who made major contributions to socialist work as authors, political candidates, and party leaders.

  Biographical chapters examine the interaction between their subjects' experiences amidst the suffering of an urban-industrial society and their religious commitments, the perspectives on the meaning of socialism they brought to their work for the Socialist Party of America, and their careers after war and the rise of communism shattered the socialist movement. These biographies and an introductory chapter on the wider relationships between religion and socialism in Progressive-era America demonstrate that Christians made quite substantial contributions to the party, and that, far from being a monolithic group, they spread out across the spectrum of socialist ideology and tactics. Other issues include attempts to spread socialism within the churches, the Socialist Party's debates over religion, Roman Catholic efforts to prevent Catholic workers' acceptance of socialism, and the ethical qualities that made socialism appealing to Christians.

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  Youth and Competition

  Ronald R. Geibert

  YOUTH AND COMPETITION features a photographic artist and children of Okayama, Japan and Dayton, Ohio responding and reacting to their culture's competitive events and traditions through photographs, drawings, and paintings. Narrator leads viewer through a personal examination of competition in their life.

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  Marxism and Ideology

  Hee-Young Shin

  Korean translation of Jorge Larrain, Marxism and Ideology (London: Macmillan, 1983).

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  Melancholy Duty: The Hume-Gibbon Attack on Christianity

  Stephen Paul Foster Ph.D.

  This book studies the complementary features of the thought of David Hume and Edward Gibbon in the complete range of its confrontation with eighteenth-century Christianity. The ten chapters explore the iconoclasm of these two philosophical historians - Hume as the premier philosopher, Gibbon as the consummate historian - as they labored to 'naturalize' the study of Christianity, particularly with attention to its social and political dimensions. No other work deals as comprehensively or thoroughly with the attempt of philosophical history's challenge to Christianity. Belief in miracles and the afterlife, the dimensions of fanaticism and superstition, and the nature of religious persecution were the themes that occupied Hume and Gibbon in the making of their critique of Christianity. This book makes a valuable contribution to scholarship in a number of fields including the history of ideas, religious studies, and philosophy. It will be of interest to philosophers of religion, historians of ideas, eighteenth-century intellectual historians, scholars of the Scottish Enlightenment, and Hume and Gibbon scholars.

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  The Celebrative Spirit: 1937-1943 Additional Excerpts

  Ronald R. Geibert

  Additional excerpts from the 1997 CD-ROM and 1986 exhibition The Celebrative Spirit: 1937-1943

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  Three Orwellian Kiosks 1997-2001

  Ronald R. Geibert

  THREE ORWELLIAN KIOSKS contains images of artworks dealing with "Big Brother" issues.

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  Six Generations Here: A Farm Family Remembers

  Marjorie L. McLellan

  Six Generations Here is a unique collection of words and photographs taken across the first half of the 20th century by Wisconsin dairy farmer Alexander Krueger and his descendants. The Kruegers turned the camera lens on their Dodge County farm, its environs, their family, and the networks of kin that framed their lives. Their photographs and family stories comprise a unique record not only of who the Kruegers were but also of how they sought to be remembered.

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  The Wandering Uterus: Politics and the Reproductive Rights of Women

  Cheryl L. Meyer

  From the FDA review of RU-486 to the recent growth of fertility clinics to the rights of lesbian parents, women's reproductive lives are aggressively regulated by law and medicine. While a great deal has been written on such issues as abortion and postpartum depression, no single volume has offered a broad discussion of the interface between the legal, medical, and political aspects of women's reproduction in a manner accessible and informative to non-specialists. The Wandering Uterus fills that gap. Taking her title from an ancient Greek belief that women's health problems were caused by a wandering uterus that needed to be confined and controlled, Meyer exposes the way in which myths and prejudice about female sexuality continue to influence the practice of law and medicine today.

  This book offers new insights and provides a wealth of up-to-date information on a subject that changes every day. The text is divided into three main parts: political issues of pre- conception, the politics of pregnancy, and the politics of motherhood. Throughout, Meyer argues passionately that while technology and medicine must progress, they should not be allowed to do so at women's expense.

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  Advances in the Science and Technology of Titanium Alloy Processing: Proceedings of an International Symposium Sponsored by the TMS Titanium and Shaping and Forming Held at the 125th TMS Annual Meeting and Exhibition in Anaheim, California, February 5-8, 1996

  Isaac Weiss, Raghavan Srinivasan, P. J. Bania, D. Eylon, and S. L. Semiatin

  The purpose of this proceedings volume is to provide the reader with a thorough update of the latest scientific and technological advances in titanium alloy processing. It addresses all aspects of processing, including process development, modeling, and scale up for the hot working, cold working, heat treatment, and joining of titanium alloys and aluminides.

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  Hot-Working of Titanium Alloys--An Overview

  Solute Strengthening in Beta Titanium--Hydrogen Alloys

  Cold Forming of Titanium Rounds and Flats

  Selection of Heat Treatment Optimum Technologies for Intricately Shaped Titanium Alloy Articles

  A Study of Diffusion Bonding of Dissimilar Titanium Alloys

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  Denmark in the Thirty Years’ War, 1618-1648: King Christian IV and the Decline of the Oldenburg State

  Paul D. Lockhart

  This book examines the involvement of Denmark in the Thirty Years' War, a watershed in the history of early modern Europe. Not only did the war permanently alter the European balance of power, but the pressures and demands created by such a prolonged and intensive conflict could not help but have a tremendous impact on the governments, societies, and economies of each of the major participants.

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  The Spiral Guide to Research Writing

  Martin Maner

  This comprehensive guide to writing research papers presents the research process not only as information gathering but also as an opportunity to generate new knowledge and challenge established opinions. Throughout, it advocates the use of technology (including word processing, computerized information services, on-line searches) as it guides students through the process of constructing a research paper.

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  New Immigrant Literatures in the United States: A Sourcebook to Our Multicultural Literary Heritage

  Alpana Sharma

  During the last 50 years, writers from immigrant groups have greatly enriched American literature. This reference overviews immigrant literatures in the United States since World War II. Previously underrepresented immigrant literatures, such as Pakistani-American, Korean-American, and Mexican-American literatures, are given special attention, and contributors discuss women's writing whenever possible. Each chapter provides a thorough historical and critical discussion and extensive bibliographical information.

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  Case Management and Substance Abuse Treatment: Practice and Experience

  Harvey A. Siegal and Richard C. Rapp

  Case managers are in a unique position that enables them to help their clients achieve their drug treatment goals. Based on a special issue of the Journal of Case Management, this important book reviews the use and adaptations of case management for the treatment of special populations, such as substance-abusing women, prisoners, and HIV-positive drug users. The chapters provide a well-balanced treatment of the subject, including descriptions of innovations in the field, the impact of case management on health care costs, and the challenges faced in the implementation of case management.

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  Fractals in Petroleum Geology and Earth Processes

  Christopher C. Barton and Paul R. La Pointe

  In this unique volume, renowned experts discuss the applications of fractals in petroleum research-offering an excellent introduction to the subject. Contributions cover a broad spectrum of applications from petroleum exploration to production. Papers also illustrate how fractal geometry can quantify the spatial heterogeneity of different aspects of geology and how this information can be used to improve exploration and production results.

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  Fractals in the Earth Sciences

  Christopher C. Barton and Paul R. La Pointe

  This well-illustrated volume reviews the many applications of fractal geometry used to study earth science patterns and processes. Designed as an introduction to this new area of study, the papers represent a broad spectrum of earth science disciplines where patterns have proven to be fractal over many orders of magnitude in time or space. This volume features an exhaustive list of published fractal dimensions measured for earth science patterns.