A groundbreaking history that illuminates the foundations of the multibillion-dollar human growth hormone (HGH) industry.... Læs mere
Offers an expansive and incisive examination of the patterns of connectedness in contemporary art and poetry. In... Læs mere
Immersive Words traces how innovations in visual practices and aesthetics in the nineteenth century changed the aesthetics of American literature with profound consequences for America's evolving national identity.
The position of the pharmacist in the structure of health care in the US evolved during the middle half of the 19th century.... Læs mere
Two cultures collided in Tipu, Belize in the 1600s: that of the native Maya and of the Spanish missionaries. Combining historical... Læs mere
Explores the influence of domesticity on the writing and career of Samuel Clemens, reframing with rich biographical detail and historical context Twain's major late-nineteenth century work
Miles of Stare explores the problem of nineteenth-century American literary vision: the strange conflation of visible reality and poetic language that emerges repeatedly in the metaphors and literary creations of American transcendentalists.
Reconstructing Tascalusa's Chiefdom is an archaeological study of political collapse in the Alabama River Valley following the Hernando de Soto expedition.
Recounts the history and development of Jesuit higher education in the American South. R. Eric Platt hypothesises... Læs mere
Completing a comprehensive history of America's land-grant universities begun in Science as Service, the thirteen original essays in Service as Mandate examine how these great institutions both changed and were changed by the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
This revised and expanded third edition includes new musical examples and dictations covering the entire continuum of musical... Læs mere