Promotions - Title Listings - Technical and Reference, February 11, 2008

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the interactions between the major climate oscillations--especially the El Nino, Southern Oscillation, and climate change and agriculture.

This new edition of the popular calendars book broadens the treatment of the previous edition to new calendar variants: generic cyclical calendars and astronomical lunar calendars as well as the Korean, Vietnamese, Aztec, and Tibetan calendars.

This book calls for a new point of departure in the ethnography of war that investigates how the inhabitants of war zones live under trying new conditions and how culture and social relations are transformed as a result.

In Dancing Lives, Karen Eliot closely examines the lives and careers of five popular female dancers: Giovanna Baccelli, Adele Dumilatre, Tamara Karsavina, Moira Shearer, and Catherine Kerr.

This encyclopedia is the first of its kind to take a look at body modifications and body adornments around the world and throughout history. It addresses the major adornments and modifications, their historical and cross-cultural locations, and the major cultural groups and places in which body modification has been central to social and cultural practices.

A fascinating examination of body art, The Grace of Four Moons aims to document the clothing decisions made by ordinary people in their everyday lives.

A Faustian Foreign Policy: From Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush analyzes U.S. foreign policy during this period by showing how moralistic diplomacy has increasingly assumed Faustian overtones, especially during the Cold War and following September 11.

In this daring and sensitive study, Wendy Wall demonstrates convincingly that concepts most Americans now take for granted were created at mid-century to mask deep divisions in American society.

American security and prosperity now depend on Asia. William Overholt offers an iconoclastic analysis of developments in each major Asian country, Asian international relations, and U.S. foreign policy.

This book tells the story of the invasion of France at the twilight of Napoleon's empire.

The phrase 'The Black Legend' was created in 1912 by a Spanish journalist in protest of the characterization of Spain by other Europeans as a backward country defined by ignorance, superstition, and religious fanaticism. Challenging this stereotype, this book contextualizes Spain's uniquely tarnished reputation by exposing the colonial efforts of other nations whose interests were served by propagating the “Black Legend.”

This book provides a revelatory compilation of testimonies from Jews who survived open-air massacres and other atrocities carried out by the Germans and their allies in the occupied Soviet territories during World War II.

The year 2006 marked the centenary of the birth of Nobel-Prize winning playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett. To commemorate the occasion, this collection brings together twenty-three leading international Beckett scholars from ten countries to rethink traditional readings and theories; provide new contests and associations; and reassess his impact on the modern imagination and legacy to future generations.

Here is a collection of essays on the work of one of America's most powerful and original dramatists, August Wilson.

In this book, Gregg Crane tells the story of the American novel from its beginnings in the early republic to the end of the nineteenth century. Treating the famous and many less well-known works, Crane discusses the genre's major figures, themes and developments.

In this collection of original, previously unpublished essays, Philip Goldstein and James L. Machor take stock of American reception study through a broad-based discussion.

The Poem of A Life traces the arc of Louis Zukofsky's career, focusing particularly on the monumental, complex, and formally various epic poem 'A'--Zukofsky's 'poem of a life' on which he labored for almost fifty years.

This book explores a range of writers, from Jane Addams and Willa Cather to Carl Van Vechten and Djuna Barnes, revealing how they fulfilled the conventions of slumming literature but undermined its goals, and in the process, queered the genre itself.

How International Law Works is a comprehensive and current discussion of international law, reflecting its growing importance on the world stage and demonstrating its increasing impact on domestic decision making.

Cost Effectiveness Analysis in Health reviews issues and methods of assessing health care technologies and related programs. It emphasizes methods to perform economic evaluations, such as cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis; methods to assess efficiency, effectiveness, and safety of health care technologies; effectiveness research; and applications to clinical and public policy.

The Oxford American Handbook of Critical Care provides a perfect reference source for medical students, residents, and practicing physicians. It provides rapid access to evidence-based advice on therapeutic and monitoring devices, drugs and fluids, specific organ system disorders and complications, and general management philosophies.

Mozart's enduring popularity, among music lovers as a composer and among music historians as a subject for continued study, lies at the heart of The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia. This book functions both as a starting point for information on specific works, people, places and concepts as well as an overview of current thinking about Mozart.

The Cambridge Companion to the Bible provides in-depth data and analysis of the production and reception of the canonical writings of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, and also of the apocryphal works produced by Jewish and Christian writers.

In the 1930s, C.G. Jung embarked upon a bold investigation into childhood dreams as remembered by adults, to better understand their significance to the lives of the dreamers. Jung presented his findings in a four-year seminar series at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Children's Dreams marks their first publication in English, and fills a critical gap in Jung's collected works.

In this book, Thomas C. Oden explores the core beliefs of the Wesleyan family of churches.

This book provides a persuasive account of how gender and religion came together in the early southern Baptist movement.

Drawing on both survey data and fieldwork in New York City, Michael Owens reveals that African American churches can use newly forged connections with public agencies to influence policy and government responsiveness in a way that reaches beyond traditional electoral or protest politics.

Michael A. Meyer offers this revealing self-portrayal of a provocative and influentical German-American rabbi.

The academic study of religion has recently turned to the investigation of emotion as a crucial aspect of religious life. This volume offers a collection of essays that together add up to the most comprehensive overview of the interplay between religion and emotion.

In this book the author examines the literary interaction between Mark's passion narrative and four Pslams of Individual Lament.

In this book, Ara Barsam provides a new interpretation of Schweitzer's reverence and shows how it emerged from his studies of German philosophy, Indian religions, and his biblical scholarship on Jesus and Paul.

Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498), the religious reformer, preacher, and Florentine civic leader, was burned at the stake as a false prophet by the order of Pope Alexander VI. Tamar Herzig explores the networks of Savonarola's female followers that proliferated in the two generations following his death.

Acclaimed animal behaviorist Marc Bekoff and other experts from around the globe provide more than 350 essays that discuss such topics as animals and ecology; animals and global warming; animals as food; animals as pets; animals and disease; animals in research and in education; animals providing assistance; and the influence of animals in art, religion and philosophy, literature, music, dance, and entertainment.

Nature's Palette is a highly illustrated, immensely entertaining exploration of the science of plant color.

Designing Your Organization is a hands-on guide that provides managers with a set of practical tools to use when making organization design decisions. The book covers the fundamentals of organization design and offers frameworks and tools to help leaders execute their strategy.

Toyin Falola provides an encyclopedia that contains entries relating to the Middle Passages of the slave trade, covering the route from Africa to the Americas during the fifteenth to nineteenth century.

Here is a comprehensive guide on how to strategically use executive coaching to maximize development of talent and link the impact of coaching to bottom-line results.

Fete: The Wedding Experience is filled with practical tips to help anyone at any income level plan the wedding of their dreams.

Appealing to a wide range of audiences, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture gives readers quick access to the most intriguing countries of the world, all while offering critical insight into the influence of regional pop culture on contemporary societies over the past century.

A who's who of scholars, authors, and journalists analyze the contributions of the Jewish people to American culture, from film, food, and fiction to television, music, sports, and humor.

This volume provides an unparalleled account of the lessons from pension reform in the Americas, addressing the most pressing policy issues and highlighting a broad range of country experiences.

One Economics, Many Recipes shows how successful countries craft their own unique strategies and what other countries can learn from them.

This book contains practical techniques and practices that will help readers facilitate meetings more effectively, transforming them into well-planned, well-managed journeys that engage the team while achieving the intended goals.

This is an innovative book that provides step-by-step, playful, and accessible activities that have proven effective and can be used by evaluators, educators, youth workers, researchers, funders, and children's and human rights advocates in their efforts to more effectively engage young people.

This three volume set on the nature, incidence, consequences, and treatment of youth crime and violence will help readers comprehend the true nature of youth crime and violence from a variety of perspectives.