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    Choices Under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II

    Michael Bess

    World War II was the quintessential good war. It was not, however, a conflict free of moral ambiguity, painful dilemmas, and unavoidable compromises. Was the bombing of civilian populations in…

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    Our Grandchildren Redesigned: Life in the Bioengineered Society of the Near Future

    Michael Bess

    A panoramic overview of biotechnologies that can endlessly boost human capabilities and the drastic changes these superhuman traits could trigger

    Biotechnology is moving fast. In the coming decades, advanced pharmaceuticals…

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    Realism, Utopia and the Mushroom Cloud: Four Activist Intellectuals and Their Strategies for Peace, 1945-89 - Louise Weiss (France), Leo Szilard (USA), E.P.Thompson (England), Danilo Dolci (Italy)

    Michael Bess

    A comparison of four dissident intellectuals who grappled with questions about international politics in a nuclear age and co-operation instead of coercion throughout their careers - Louise Weiss, Leo Szilard…

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    Realism, Utopia and the Mushroom Cloud: Four Activist Intellectuals and Their Strategies for Peace, 1945-89 - Louise Weiss (France), Leo Szilard (USA), E.P.Thompson (England), Danilo Dolci (Italy)

    Michael Bess

    A comparison of four dissident intellectuals who grappled with questions about international politics in a nuclear age and co-operation instead of coercion throughout their careers - Louise Weiss, Leo Szilard…

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    Routes of Compromise: Building Roads and Shaping the Nation in Mexico, 1917-1952

    Michael K. Bess

    Michael K. Bess studies the social, economic, and political implications of road building and state formation in Mexico through a comparative analysis of Nuevo Leon and Veracruz from the 1920s…

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    Routes of Compromise: Building Roads and Shaping the Nation in Mexico, 1917-1952

    Michael K. Bess

    Michael K. Bess studies the social, economic, and political implications of road building and state formation in Mexico through a comparative analysis of Nuevo Leon and Veracruz from the 1920s…

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    The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000

    Michael Bess (Associate Professor of History, Vanderbilt University, USA)

    Bess traces the technological transformations that shook post-war France, and shows how they led, in turn, to the rise of environmentalist ideas. As technological modernity merged with environmentalism, he contends…

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    New Criticism and Pedagogical Directions for Contemporary Black Women Writers

    New Criticism and Pedagogical Directions for Contemporary Black Women Writers spans the contemporary era into the AfroFuture. It begins with Ann Petry, who has been forcibly mashed into masculinized critical…

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    The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000

    Michael Bess (Associate Professor of History, Vanderbilt University, USA)

    Bess traces the technological transformations that shook post-war France, and shows how they led, in turn, to the rise of environmentalist ideas. As technological modernity merged with environmentalism, he contends…

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    Planet in Peril: Humanity’s Four Greatest Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them

    Michael D. Bess (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee)

    Award-winning historian Michael D. Bess writes in vivid prose, drawing on illustrative historical examples. Eleven fictional vignettes describe concrete scenarios for future approaches to confronting the top four mega-dangers facing…

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    Posthumanism: An Introductory Handbook

    Diana Walsh Pasulka,Michael Bess

    Provides an introduction to a vast array of scholarly perspectives on emergent technologies and biotechnologies used to modify or augment the capabilities of human beings –

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    Manual of Inpatient Psychiatry

    A practical guide to the diagnoses found on inpatient psychiatric units, covering topics such as schizophrenia, dementia, and borderline personality disorder. Discusses new advances in treatment such as ketamine and…

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    Manual of Inpatient Psychiatry

    Michael I. Casher (Medical School, University of Michigan),Joshua D. Bess (Medical School, University of Michigan)

    Inpatient units treat some of the most difficult psychiatric patients. This handy compact clinical manual is convenient for use on the ward and serves as a practical guide for treatment…

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    New Criticism and Pedagogical Directions for Contemporary Black Women Writers

    New Criticism and Pedagogical Directions for Contemporary Black Women Writers spans the contemporary era into the AfroFuture. It begins with Ann Petry, who has been forcibly mashed into masculinized critical…

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    Scarlet Hour, The | Imprint Collection #152

    She’d Do Anything for a Thrill…Including Kill!

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    Tell It To The Judge

    Marsha Meredith (Rosalind Russell), an attorney-at-law, is nominated for a Federal judgeship but her nomination is opposed by a Good-Government group who think her divorce makes her unfit for the…

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