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A Spy in the House of the Thought Police
Kenneth Rosen
Walter E. Russell Endowed Chair in Philosophy and Education Lecture 1994-1996
Cover and inside art by Richard Wilson, Running Man.
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Maria Irene Fornes and Her Critics
Assunta B. Kent
This first book dedicated to US-Cuban playwright/director Maria Irene Fornes is a lucid theoretical, historical, and production-oriented study of her published works and their critical legacy.
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The Translations of Foy: Bodies, Texts and Places
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD, René Tixier, and Pamela Sheingorn
Chapter in The Medieval Translator.
Avec ses concepts et sa terminologie, la traduction fournit aux auteurs médiévaux tout un registre de métaphores leur permettant de passer d'un environnement culturel à un autre. Le culte de Sainte Foy en est un exemple: à travers la dévotion qu'elle suscite sont mises en relation la traduction des textes relatant son histoire, la translatio de ses reliques d'Agena Conques, ainsi que la dissémination de son culte à travers l'Europe médiévale. A l'occasion de chacune de ces "translations" s'opère une "reformulation culture He" du culte voué à la jeune martyre. Ceci illustre l'analyse de Rita Copeland, pour qui la traduction est "la production active d'un texte nouveau, qui a conservé sa charge affective originelle et s'est adapté aux conditions historiques particulières de sa réception" (voir note 11 ).
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The Greeks and Us: Essays in Honor of Arthur W. H. Adkins
Robert B. Louden PhD and Paul Schollmeier
Arthur W. H. Adkins’s writings have sparked debates among a wide range of scholars over the nature of ancient Greek ethics and its relevance to modern times. Demonstrating the breadth of his influence, the essays in this volume reveal how leading classicists, philosophers, legal theorists, and scholars of religion have incorporated Adkins’s thought into their own diverse research.
The timely subjects addressed by the contributors include the relation between literature and moral understanding, moral and nonmoral values, and the contemporary meaning of ancient Greek ethics. The volume also includes an essay from the late Adkins himself illustrating his methodology in an analysis of the “Speech of Lysias” in Plato’s Phaedrus. The Greeks and Us will interest all those concerned with how ancient moral values do or do not differ from our own.
Contributors include Arthur W. H. Adkins, Stephanie Nelson, Martha C. Nussbaum, Paul Schollmeier, James Boyd White, Bernard Williams, and Lee Yearley. Commentaries by Wendy Doniger, Charles M. Gray, David Grene, Robert B. Louden, Richard Posner, and Candace Vogler.
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End Results and Starting Points: Expanding the Field of Disability Studies
Elaine Makas PhD and Lynn Schlesinger PhD
The chapters in this book are extended abstracts of some of the presentations given during the June 23-25, 1994, annual meeting of the Society for Disability Studies held in Rockville, MD.
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The Condition of K-12 public education in Maine 1996
Terry McCabe, Jeffrey Beaudry PhD, and David L. Silvernail
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Jonathan Edwards, Religious Tradition and American Culture
Joseph A. Conforti
As the charismatic leader of the wave of religious revivals known as the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) is one of the most important figures in American religious history. However, by the end of the eighteenth century, his writings were generally dismissed as remnants of a moribund Puritan tradition. Focusing on the publishing history and appropriation of Edwards's works by succeeding generations, Joseph Conforti explores the construction and manipulation of the Edwards legacy and demonstrates its central place in American cultural and religious history. Most of Edwards's writings were not regularly republished or widely read until the early nineteenth century, when he emerged as a prominent thinker both in academic circles and in the new popular religious culture of the Second Great Awakening. Even after the Civil War, Edwards remained a popular figure from the Puritan past for colonial revivalists. But by the early twentieth century, scholars had again reinvented Edwards, this time deemphasizing his influence. These contrasting constructions of the one man, Conforti says, reveal the dynamic process of cultural change.
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The Gift of Stories
Robert Atkinson
The stories we tell about ourselves are guided by cultural patterns and enduring elements. The current interest in mythology has made evident how the classic hero's journey represents a theme not only common to all the world's myths, but also our own lives today. The Gift of Stories offers a clear concise basis for understanding the nature and potential of sharing our stories. It provides specific, practical, instructional details for telling our own stories and gives the necessary guidelines for assisting others in telling their life stories. Its basic framework enables individuals with little experience to begin writing about the really important aspects of their lives and understanding how and why the universal elements of the stories we tell contribute to our continuing growt
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Radicals of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts
Ardis Cameron
Focusing on the textile workers' strikes of 1882 and 1912, Ardis Cameron examines class and gender formation as drawn from the experiences of working-class women in the textile manufacturing town of Lawrence, Massachusetts. She explores the role of women in worker militancy from the perspective of the neighborhood and argues for the importance of female networks and associational life in working-class culture and politics. Radicals of the Worst Sort is a study of domination and power, constructed not only at the level of economics and politics but also at the level of social perception and conceptualization. It thus provides the basis for a new set of generalizations about the lives of nineteenth-century factory women in their jobs and communities. This exciting history illuminates ongoing debates about the dynamic role of gender and challenges shifting perceptions and definitions of what a "woman" should be. Cameron shows that unionized women who fought for equality were "radicals of the worst sort" (as one mill officer tagged them) because they rebelled against traditional economic and sexual hierarchies, providing alternative models for turn-of-the-century women. Radicals of the Worst Sort includes oral histories of former strikers in the famous Bread and Roses strike of 1912. Four full-color maps show Cameron's meticulous documentation of the nationalities of every Lawrence family living in the multicultural neighborhoods featured in her book.
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Inside the Mouse : Work and Play at Disney World
Jane Kuenz PhD, Shelton Waldrep PhD, Susan Willis, and Karen Klugman
This entertaining and playful book views Disney World as much more than the site of an ideal family vacation. Blending personal meditations, interviews, photographs, and cultural analysis, Inside the Mouse looks at Disney World’s architecture and design, its consumer practices, and its use of Disney characters and themes. This book takes the reader on an alternative ride through "the happiest place on earth" while asking "What makes this forty-three-square-mile theme park the quintessential embodiment of American leisure?"
Turning away from the programmed entertainment that Disney presents, the authors take a peek behind the scenes of everyday experience at Disney World. In their consideration of the park as both private corporate enterprise and public urban environment, the authors focus on questions concerning the production and consumption of leisure. Featuring over fifty photographs and interviews with workers that strip "cast members" of their cartoon costumes, this captivating work illustrates the high-pressure dynamics of the typical family vacation as well as a tour of Disney World that looks beyond the controlled facade of themed attractions.
As projects like EuroDisney and the proposed Disney America test the strength of the Disney cultural monolith, Inside the Mouse provides a timely assessment of the serious business of supplying pleasure in contemporary U.S. culture. Written for the general reader interested in the many worlds of Disney, this engrossing volume will also find fans among students and scholars of cultural studies.
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![Execution Driven Simulation of Shared Memory Multiprocessors [Book Chapter] by Bob Boothe PhD](https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/facbooks/1483/thumbnail.jpg "Execution Driven Simulation of Shared Memory Multiprocessors [Book Chapter] by Bob Boothe PhD")
Execution Driven Simulation of Shared Memory Multiprocessors [Book Chapter]
Bob Boothe PhD
Chapter from Fast Simulation of Computer Architectures, eds. Thomas M. Conte and Charles E. Gimarc.
More about this chapter:
Execution driven simulation [7] is a technique for building fast instruction level computer simulators. It is applicable when the instruction set of the simulation host machine is the same as, or very similar to, that of the machine being simulated. In this chapter we examine three execution driven simulators designed to study shared memory multiprocessors using a uniprocessor as the simulation host machine.
[7] R. C. Covington et al. The Rice Parallel Processing Testbed. In Proc. 1988 ACM SIGMETRICS, pages 4–11, 1988.
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Exercise Programming: Muscular Strength and Endurance
C X. Bryant, J A. Peterson, and James Graves PhD
Chapter in American College of Sports Medicine Resource Manual for Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription (3rd Edition).
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Health and Fitness Assessment: Muscular Strength and Endurance
James Graves PhD, M L. Pollock, and C X. Bryant
Chapter in American College of Sports Medicine Resource Manual for Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription (3rd Edition).
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Improving Student Learning
Walter Kimball PhD, Susan Swap, Patricia A. LaRosa, and Thomas Howick
Chapter 2 in Partner Schools: Centers for Educational Renewal, edited by Russell T. Osguthorpe, R. Carl Harris, Melanie Fox Harris, Sharon Black.
Book description:
Diverse contributors offer an inside look at promising school-university partnerships across the country and discuss the principles and benefits of such programs in promoting educational innovation.
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![Simone de Beauvoir and the Algerian War: Toward a Post-Colonial Ethics [Book Chapter] by Julien Murphy PhD](https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/facbooks/1280/thumbnail.jpg "Simone de Beauvoir and the Algerian War: Toward a Post-Colonial Ethics [Book Chapter] by Julien Murphy PhD")
Simone de Beauvoir and the Algerian War: Toward a Post-Colonial Ethics [Book Chapter]
Julien Murphy PhD
Chapter from Feminist Interpretations of Jean-Paul Sartre, edited by Julien S. Murphy.
More about this title:
While Sartre was committed to liberation struggles around the globe, his writing never directly addressed the oppression of women. Yet there is compatibility between his central ideas and feminist beliefs. In this first feminist collection on Sartre, philosophers reassess the merits of Sartre's radical philosophy of freedom for feminist theory.
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The Constructed Body: AIDS, Reproductive Technology and Ethics
Julien Murphy PhD
This book contributes to new directions in medical ethics by using recent philosophical theories, such as phenomenological, deconstruction, and post-structuralism, and extends philosophical analysis to allow for the influences of politics, cultural difference, and history on ethics. The author views AIDS from several different perspectives over a period of years and addresses questions often given little attention: what are the ethical issues for women with AIDS? How has AIDS phobia become a public health issue? What ought to be society's responsibility toward children with AIDS? New ground is broken in reproductive technology by examining unusual issues in ways that illuminate current debates on women's reproductive rights, such as should brain-dead pregnant women be sustained on life-support, and should pregnancy require women's bodies or would artificial uteri be acceptable?
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![The Philosophy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman [Book Chapter] by Julien Murphy PhD](https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/facbooks/1283/thumbnail.jpg "The Philosophy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman [Book Chapter] by Julien Murphy PhD")
The Philosophy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman [Book Chapter]
Julien Murphy PhD
Chapter from Contemporary women philosophers : 1900-today, edited by Mary Ellen Waithe.
More about this title:
Like their predecessors, and like their male counterparts, most women philosophers of the 20th century have significant expertise in several specialities. Moreover, their work represents the gamut of 20th century philosophy's interests in moral pragmatism, logical positivism, philosophy of mathematics, of psychology, and of mind. Their writings include feminist philosophy, classical moral theory reevaluated in light of Kant, Mill, and the 19th century feminist and abolitionist movements, and issues in logic and perception. Included in the fourth volume of the series are discussions of L. Susan Stebbing, Edith Stein, Hedwig Conrad Martius, Simone de Beauvoir, Simone Weil, Mary Whiton Calkins, Gerda Walther, and others. While pre-20th century women philosophers were usually self-educated, those of the 20th century had greater access to academic preparation in philosophy. Yet, for all the advances made by women philosophers over two and a half millennia, the philosophers discussed in this volume were sometimes excluded from full participation in academic life, and sometimes denied full professional academic status.
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The Constructed Body: AIDS, Reproductive Technology, and Ethics
Julien S. Murphy Ph.D.
This book takes a phenomenological approach to feminist issues in medical ethics: AIDS and reproductive technology.
This book contributes to new directions in medical ethics by using recent philosophical theories, such as phenomenological, deconstruction, and post-structuralism, and extends philosophical analysis to allow for the influences of politics, cultural difference, and history on ethics. The author views AIDS from several different perspectives over a period of years and addresses questions often given little attention: what are the ethical issues for women with AIDS? How has AIDS phobia become a public health issue? What ought to be society's responsibility toward children with AIDS? New ground is broken in reproductive technology by examining unusual issues in ways that illuminate current debates on women's reproductive rights, such as should brain-dead pregnant women be sustained on life-support, and should pregnancy require women's bodies or would artificial uteri be acceptable?
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Assessment of Body Composition
Michael L. Pollock, James Graves PhD, and L Garzarella
Chapter in Physiological Assessment of Human Fitness.
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Exercise Prescription for Rehabilitation of the Cardiac Patient
Michael L. Pollock, M A. Welsch, and James Graves PhD
Chapter in Heart Disease and Rehabilitation.
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Chou Ju-teng (1547-1629) at Nanking: Reassessing a Confucian scholar in the late Ming intellectual world
Jie Zhao PhD
Chou Ju-teng, an influential Confucian thinker of the late Ming, has remained a neglected and marginal figure in Ming studies. Knowledge of him is mainly drawn from the brief description in Huang Tsung-hsi's (1610-1695) Ming-ju hsueh-an (Intellectual biography of the Ming thinkers). This dissertation is an attempt to reassess Chou Ju-teng's position in the late Ming intellectual world, and then to use it as a means to re-evaluate Huang Tsung-hsi's characterization of late Ming thought.
My dissertation deals with two different intellectual settings that are ultimately interconnected. One is the early Ch'ing period, where I have investigated why and how Huang Tsung-hsi came to choose Chou Ju-teng to carry out his agenda; the other is the late Ming, where I have investigated the intellectual growth of Chou Ju-teng and the people with whom he was associated. I try to explore the connections between their education, their social background and their official careers, and to identify their teachers, their associates and the literati circles they frequented. I seek to analyze the tensions and contentions that created divisions among them, and that sometimes led to heated debates. I also pay close attention to where they and their colleagues stood in relation to the power struggles going on in the central bureaucracy. This revisit to the late Ming intellectual world provides me with a basis upon which I am able to offer my critical assessment of Huang Tsung-hsi's views of late Ming thought.
In this dissertation, Chou Ju-teng serves as a key figure who connects the intellectual setting of his day with that of Huang Tsung-hsi's. Reassessing his place in the late Ming intellectual world requires me to carefully examine the strategies Huang used to justify his interpretation of late Ming thought. My study shows that Huang's treatment of Chou reveals his attempt to remap late Ming thought in such a way as to spare Wang Yang-ming's (1472-1528) teachings from the harsh criticism by Huang's own early Ch'ing intellectual rivals.
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Second Generation Curriculum : Changing What and How We Teach Early Adolescents
Jody Capellluti and Edward N. Brazee
By working with teachers who use curriculum integration daily, Ed Brazee and Jody Capelluti have spent years studying this important way of working with young adolescents. A rationale for curriculum integration is offered, followed by definitions and an explanation of the curriculum continuum. Strategies for change are then suggested. The authors move beyond "getting started" to help middle level educators develop a total integrative curriculum.
From the Forward by Robert Spear
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Hematology
Laurie Caton-Lemos MS, FNP-C
Chapter in American Nursing Review for Medical-Surgical Nursing Certification. Also contributed sections on Pain, Infection, Inflammation, Stress Response.
Book description:
An ever-popular study guide now thoroughly updated to better prepare nurses for a difficult exam. Organized by major disorders and grouped by body system, appropriate nursing actions are given along with insightful rationales. Contents include certification examination guidelines; foundations of nursing; legal and ethical aspects of nursing; principles of medical-surgical nursing; principles of wound care; principles of home health care; disruptions in homeostasis; cardiovascular disorders; hematologic disorders; respiratory disorders; neurologic disorders; musculoskeletal disorders; gastrointestinal disorders; skin disorders; endocrine disorders; renal and urinary tract disorders; reproductive system disorders; immune system disorders; ear, nose, and throat disorders; eye disorders; perioperative nursing; appendices: NANDA taxonomy and nursing implications of diagnostic tests, oncology care, and clinical pharmacology; and posttest.
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Imagist Movement
Jane Kuenz PhD
Chapter in The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States.
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Insights and Outlooks: Current Trends in Disability Studies
Elaine Makas PhD and Lynn Schlesinger PhD
The chapters in this book are extended abstracts of some of the presentations given during the June 17-19, 1993, annual meeting of the Society for Disability Studies held in Seattle, Washington.
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Autobiography & Postmodernism
Gerald Peters PhD, Kathleen Ashley, and Leigh Gilmore
Edited by Kathleen Ashley, Leigh Gilmore, Gerald Peters.
These essays set out to explore the connections between autobiography and postmodernism. They examine the response of various writers to the culturally specific pressures of genre; how these constraints are negotiated; and what self-representation reveals about the politics of identity,
Contributors are Betty Bergland, Andrei Codrescu, Michael M. J. Fischer, Leigh Gilmore, David P. Haney, Paul Jay, Shirley Neuman, Christopher Ortiz, Sidonie Smith, Kirsten Wasson, and Hertha D. Wong.
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A Nurse Speaks
Carla Randall PhD, RN, CNE
Chapter in Foundations of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing (2nd Edition), edited by Elizabeth M. Vacarolis.
Book description:
Teaches undergraduate nursing students to care for clients with the full range of psychiatric disorders and psychosocial problems. Features a popular anxiety continuum framework and nursing process format. Chapters on group communication and aggressive behaviors teach students to work with groups and to diffuse potentially dangerous situations. Learning objectives, self-study questions, bold-faced key terms and concepts, tear-out pocket-sized medication cards, and sample care plans simplify learning. An instructor's manual and examaster are also available.
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'Why Should I Wish for Words?': Literacy, Articulation, and the Borders of Literary Culture
Richard G. Swartz PhD and Lucinda Cole
Chapter in At the Limits of Romanticism.
The essays in this collection question romanticism's suppression of the feminine, the material, and the collective, and its opposition to readings centering on these concerns.
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Gender Differences in Communication: Possible Consequences for the Learning Process
R Bruce Thompson PhD
Chapter in Group and Interactive Learning.
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Using the Exercise Test to Develop the Exercise Prescription in Health and Disease
M A. Welsch, M L. Pollock, W F. Brechue, and James Graves PhD
Chapter in Exercise Testing: Current Applications for Patient Management.
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In Our Backyard: A guide to understanding pollution and its effects
Travis Wagner PhD
Most attempts to control pollution have been piecemeal, focusing on one environmental component at a time, such as air or water, and have not addressed the big picture. Such efforts have not fully accounted for the Earth's fundamental interconnectedness and unity; as a result, pollution control has often lagged behind pollution-related problems. This book puts all the pieces together as it explains how pollution affects all components of the environment. Using layperson's language and an easy-to-use question and answer format, it describes: how the components of the environment operate together; major sources of pollution; and what we can do to clean up our surface water, groundwater, and air. Care has been taken to avoid bias and to present only the most sound, objective data available.
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Mapping the Invisible Landscape: Folklore, Writing, and the Sense of Place
Kent C. Ryden
This book is about the mystery, dimension and depth of any place people live, listen,and remember, talk and write.
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Toward A Sustainable Maine : The Politics, Economics, and Ethics of Sustainability
Richard Barringer (ed.)
Toward A Sustainable Maine : The Politics, Economics, and Ethics of Sustainability
Richard Barringer, editor, Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Maine
Edmund S. Muskie Institute of Public Affairs, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, 1993.
The proceedings of a conference presented at Bowdoin College on March 19 and 20, 1993, by the Edmund S. Muskie Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Southern Maine, and by the Natural Resources Council of Maine. Ellen Baum, conference organizer.
Contents; Foreword by Richard Barringer / Welcome by Everett Carson / Global, Canadian, and Maine Perspectives / Sustaining Our Natural and Human-made Capital / Sustaining Our Community Resources / Sustaining Our Human Resources / Concluding Remarks / Appendices
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Lesbian Stereotypes
M Eliason; C Donelan; and Carla Randall PhD, RN, CNE
Chapter 9 in Lesbian Health: What Are The Issues?, edited by Phyllis N. Stern.
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The lumbar musculature: testing and conditioning for rehabilitation
James Graves PhD
Chapter in Rehabilitation of the Spine: Science and Practice.
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Exercise testing in cardiac rehabilitation: role in prescribing exercise
James Graves PhD and Michael L. Pollock
Chapter in Cardiology Clinics Exercise Testing and Cardiac Rehabilitation.
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Dollars and Sense: Maine State Budgeting at a Crossroads
Josephine M. LaPlante and Robert G. Devlin
Dollars and Sense: Maine State Budgeting at a Crossroads provides a "bird's eye" view and analysis. The value of this approach is the capacity to take an "arm's length" look at state finances. We hope that the broader perspective will promote viewing expenditure and tax policy issues comprehensively, not as isolated slices of the state budget pie, but rather, as interdependent building blocks of a healthy fiscal system. There is an important limitation to an "outside" study, however, which is actually the same as its strength: distance from the "whys" and "whens." We do not pretend to understand every policy area as fully as specialists within government, nor to be privy to the same information. Thus, this report will be best used as a working document, to encourage and facilitate directed inquiry, open and thoughtful discussion of issues, and hopefully, decisions that can place Maine on a sound fiscal footing for the 1990's.
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![Should Pregnancy be Sustained in Brain-Dead Women: A Philosophical Discussion of Postmortem Pregnancy [Book Chapter] by Julien Murphy PhD](https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/facbooks/1282/thumbnail.jpg "Should Pregnancy be Sustained in Brain-Dead Women: A Philosophical Discussion of Postmortem Pregnancy [Book Chapter] by Julien Murphy PhD")
Should Pregnancy be Sustained in Brain-Dead Women: A Philosophical Discussion of Postmortem Pregnancy [Book Chapter]
Julien Murphy PhD
Chapter from Moral controversies : race, class, and gender in applied ethics, edited by Steven Jay Gold.
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Sephardim in the Americas : Studies in Culture and History
Abraham J. Peck PhD and Martin A. Cohen
Multidisciplinary essays examining the historical and cultural history of the Sephardic experience in the Americas, from pre-expulsion Spain to the modern era, as recounted by some of the most outstanding interpreters of the field.
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Archives of the Holocaust : an International Collection of Selected Documents v. 8-9
Abraham J. Peck PhD, Henry Friedlander, and Sybil Milton
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The Mutilating God : Authorship and Authority in the Narrative of Conversion
Gerald Peters PhD
This theoretically sophisticated yet highly readable study presents a genealogy of the uses of conversion narratives in linking individual identity to various forms of social authority. In The Mutilating God, Gerald Peters shows how these narratives have been used in different ways to negotiate between private motivation and social authority in the production of an identity.
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"Being Bridges": Cleaver/Baldwin/Lorde and African-American Sexism and Sexuality
Shelton Waldrep PhD
American sexism and sexuality from Critical Essays: Gay and Lesbian Writers of Color (Harrington Park Press, 1993)
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The complete book of everlastings : growing, drying, and designing with dried flowers
Mark Silber and Terry Silber
Now in paperback, the most comprehensive guide to every aspect of working with everlastings--those flowers, foliage, plants and herbs that retain their color and shape long after they have been picked. The Silbers discuss 145 varieties of everlastings--each illustrated with full-color photos--and provide detailed instructions for handling each. 382 full-color illustrations.
