Oxford University Press

The British state and war machine struggled to produce a fully modernized and persuasive war culture in two world wars by freely cannibalizing art and literature. Deer explores writers' attempts to find their perspectives on the action in the face of the shattering violence and alienation of total war and an overpowering official war culture....

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In the United States alone, roughly 300,000 children suffer from some form of arthritis or rheumatic disease, such as juvenile arthritis, fibromyalgia, scleroderma, or Kawasaki disease, and millions more are at risk of developing one of these diseases. But so often pain in children is dismissed by primary care professionals as "e;growing...

Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New YorkAn original and captivating history of gentrification, this book challenges the conventional wisdom that New York City began a comeback in the 1990s, locating the roots of Brooklyn's revival in the social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s. Osman examines the emergence of a progressive...

The advent of modern neurobiological methods over the last three decades has        provided overwhelming evidence that it is the interaction of genetic factors and the        experience of the individual that guides and supports brain development. Brains do        not develop normally in the absence of critical genetic signaling, and they do...