Epidemics and Isolation in San Francisco's House of Pestilence
From the late nineteenth century until the 1920s, authorities required San Francisco's Pesthouse to segregate the diseased from the rest of the city. Although the Pesthouse stood out of sight and largely out of mind, it existed at a vital nexus of civic life where issues of medicine, race, class, environment, morality, and citizenship entwined and ......
Epidemics and Isolation in San Francisco's House of Pestilence
From the late nineteenth century until the 1920s, authorities required San Francisco's Pesthouse to segregate the diseased from the rest of the city. Although the Pesthouse stood out of sight and largely out of mind, it existed at a vital nexus of civic life where issues of medicine, race, class, environment, morality, and citizenship entwined and ......
What the East Asian Experience Tells Us about Raising Students Who Exc
The Drive to Learn helps American parents learn from how Chinese, Japanese, and Korean parents think about and carry out child-rearing and how it translates into education.
What the East Asian Experience Tells Us about Raising Students Who Exc
The Drive to Learn helps American parents learn from how Chinese, Japanese, and Korean parents think about and carry out child-rearing and how it translates into education.
All scientists possess curiosity and a certain level of drive to pursue their work. But what impels those few scientists who rise above their peers to achieve breakthrough discoveries? Filled with insights, this title examines the careers of fifteen eminent scientists who made some of the most notable discoveries of the twentieth-century.
What is the connection between autism and addiction? Why are individuals with autism more likely to develop a substance use disorder than the general population?
Until recently, substance use disorder (SUD) was considered rare among those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This book brings together current ......
From the revolutionary camaraderie of the Colonial taverns to the saloons of the turn of the century; from Prohibition--a period rife with class politics, social reform, and opportunism--to a trail of nightclub neon so vast, it was called the "Conga Belt," Drinking Boston is a tribute to the fascinating role alcohol has played throughout the ......
Whether you are a fly fisherman who enjoys the gentle lapping of water on wood or a boat builder who wants to recreate a piece of history, this book is for you. This fascinating history of the river pioneers who designed, built, and used the early river dories and their successors collects stories, diaries, photographs and plans of the early ......
In 1894, French army captain Alfred Dreyfus, an Alsatian Jew, was wrongly accused of passing military secrets to the Germans. The ensuing scandal has often been studied for what it reveals about French anti-Semitism and tensions between republicanism and conservatism under the Third Republic. But because treason was considered a cowardly--and ......
