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Reading the Past

Ancient Writing from Cuneiform to the Alphabet

Contains six previously published titles brought together in a single volume.

Contains six previously published titles brought together in a single volume.

Rattlesnakes: Their Habits, Life Histories, and Influence on Mankind

Focuses on rattlesnake ecology, taxonomy, physiology, reproduction, and behavior.

Focuses on rattlesnake ecology, taxonomy, physiology, reproduction, and behavior.

The Archaeological and Linguistic Reconstruction of African History

Interpreting a Classic

Demosthenes and His Ancient Commentators

This book collects for the first time, translates, and offers explanatory notes on all the substantial fragments of ancient philological and historical commentaries on Demosthenes. Using these texts to illuminate an important aspect of Graeco-Roman antiquity that has hitherto been difficult to glimpse, this book gives a detailed portrait of a scholarly industry that touched generations of ancient readers from the first century B.C. to the fifth century and beyond."--BOOK JACKET.

This book collects for the first time, translates, and offers explanatory notes on all the substantial fragments of ancient philological and historical commentaries on Demosthenes.

Arabs and Young Turks

Ottomanism, Arabism, and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1918

Arabs and Young Turks provides a detailed study of Arab politics in the late Ottoman Empire as viewed from the imperial capital in Istanbul. In an analytical narrative of the Young Turk period (1908-1918) historian Hasan Kayali discusses Arab concerns on the one hand and the policies of the Ottoman government toward the Arabs on the other. Kayali's novel use of documents from the Ottoman archives, as well as Arabic sources and Western and Central European documents, enables him to reassess conventional wisdom on this complex subject and to present an original appraisal of proto-nationalist ideologies as the longest-living Middle Eastern dynasty headed for collapse. He demonstrates the persistence and resilience of the supranational ideology of Islamism which overshadowed Arab and Turkish ethnic nationalism in this crucial transition period. Kayali's study reaches back to the nineteenth century and highlights both continuity and change in Arab-Turkish relations from the reign of Abdulhamid II to the constitutional period ushered in by the revolution of 1908. Arabs and Young Turks is essential for an understanding of contemporary issues such as Islamist politics and the continuing crises of nationalism in the Middle East.

The largest contingents were from Beirut, the Decentralization Party in Cairo, and
the Syrian Arab community in France. The proceedings revolved around the idea
of reform within the Ottoman Empire, with no mention of any separatist aims.101 It
came out, however, that Christian members of the Beirut delegation (Dr. Ayyub
Thabit and Khalil Zainiyyah) had held prior private meetings with French officials
in Beirut.102 When Beirut's Muslim members found out about these links, they felt
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The Great Universe of Kota

Stress, Change, and Mental Disorder in an Indian Village

This book is about the work of two psychiatrists in a village called Kota in the South Kanara District of the Karnataka State in India.

Skin

A Natural History

We expose it, cover it, paint it, tattoo it, scar it, and pierce it. Our intimate connection with the world, skin protects us while advertising our health, our identity, and our individuality. This dazzling synthetic overview is a complete guidebook to the pliable covering that makes us who we are. Skin: A Natural History celebrates the evolution of three unique attributes of human skin: its naked sweatiness, its distinctive sepia rainbow of colors, and its remarkable range of decorations. Jablonski places the rich cultural canvas of skin within its broader biological context for the first time, and the result is a tremendously engaging look at us.

Gravlee, Clarence G, William W. Dressler, and H. Russell Bernard. 200 5. "Skin
Color, Social Classification, and Blood Pressure in Southeastern Puerto Rico."
Americanjournal ofPublic Health 95 (12): 2191—2197. Grevelink, Suzanne ...

The King's Midwife

A History and Mystery of Madame du Coudray

This unorthodox biography explores the life of an extraordinary Enlightenment woman who, by sheer force of character, parlayed a skill in midwifery into a national institution. In 1759, in an effort to end infant mortality, Louis XV commissioned Madame Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray to travel throughout France teaching the art of childbirth to illiterate peasant women. For the next thirty years, this royal emissary taught in nearly forty cities and reached an estimated ten thousand students. She wrote a textbook and invented a life-sized obstetrical mannequin for her demonstrations. She contributed significantly to France's demographic upswing after 1760. Who was the woman, both the private self and the pseudonymous public celebrity? Nina Rattner Gelbart reconstructs Madame du Coudray's astonishing mission through extensive research in the hundreds of letters by, to, and about her in provincial archives throughout France. Tracing her subject's footsteps around the country, Gelbart chronicles du Coudray's battles with finance ministers, village matrons, local administrators, and recalcitrant physicians, her rises in power and falls from grace, and her death at the height of the Reign of Terror. At a deeper level, Gelbart recaptures du Coudray's interior journey as well, by questioning and dismantling the neat paper trail that the great midwife so carefully left behind. Delightfully written, this tale of a fascinating life at the end of the French Old Regime sheds new light on the histories of medicine, gender, society, politics, and culture.

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M. de, 120 Daly, Mary, 12, 281 David, Jacques-Louis, 254, 317ml Daviel (eye
specialist), 51 Davis, Natalie, 14 Dax, 246 Debure (publisher), 201, 205, 208-9,
210 ...

Saving the Prairies

The Life Cycle of the Founding School of American Plant Ecology, 1895-1955