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HeraklesIn   Herakles, Euripides reveals with great subtlety and complexity the often brutal underpinnings of our social arrangements. The play enacts a thoroughly contemporary dilemma about the relationship between personal and state violence to civic order . Of all of Euripides' plays, this is his most skeptically subversive examination of myth,...

Ankylosing Spondylitis is an inflammatory arthritis that affects the spine and        sacroiliac joints as well as other parts of the body, and that can eventually lead,        in some patients, to complete fusion of the vertebrae and total rigidity. AS is not        a rare health problem, but is in fact found in almost one percent of the...

Shapiro argues that both realist and anti-realist accounts of mathematics are problematic. To resolve this dilemma, he articulates a 'structuralist' approach, arguing that the subject matter of a mathematical theory is not a fixed domain of numbers that exist independent of each other, but rather is the natural structure, the pattern common to any...

Although cultural presumptions suggest that American teenagers and young adults turn away from religion, this volume demonstrates that religion is in fact an influential force in the lives of most American adolescents. Gathering together a complicated set of storylines, Pearce and Denton demonstrate a wide variety of youth religious activity, from...

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This is a linguistic analysis of the discourse between therapist and client in psychotherapy sessions. Ferrara emphasizes the interactive nature of the discourse, and shows how language is mutually constructed as the participants interweave bits and pieces of their own and others' sentences, metaphors, and narratives into the discussion....