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Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium        DisastersWhile many transnational histories of the nuclear arms race have        been written, Kate Brown provides the first definitive account of the great        plutonium disasters of the United States and the Soviet Union. She draws on official        records...

South African Writers and the Politics of PlaceApartheid and Beyond explores a wide range of South African writings to demonstrate the way apartheid functioned in its day-to-day operations as a geographical system of control, exerting its power through such spatial mechanisms as residential segregation, bantustans, passes, and prisons....

Becoming A Better Children&'s Choir ConductorSound Advice is a valuable resource for college students, beginning teachers, and experienced conductors of children&'s choirs. It covers the vast array of skills needed by today&'s conductor and will benefit all choir directors who want their choirs to reach a higher level of artistry. The author sees...

What if you woke up tomorrow and everything had changed? Money is worthless. Your friends are gone. Armed robbers roam the streets. No one is safe. For Matt and his little brother, Taco, that nightmare is a reality. Their only hope of survival is to escape through the Channel Tunnel. But danger waits on the other side...Stay or go. What would you...

Hollywood Stars and Historical VisionsHow do perceptions of the past--not just of particular events, but of the trajectory of history as a whole--shape our experience of the world? Sensing the Past tackles this question with an unlikely source of historical insight--the work of six major Hollywood stars: Clint Eastwood, Daniel Day-Lewis, Denzel...

Institutions for Promoting Development in the Twenty-First CenturyThis volume examines the role of law in economic development. It focuses on China and analyzes how the development policies and institutional characteristics of the emerging Chinese market economy might aid policymakers, in developed and developing countries, to create and reform...