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The Supreme Court&'s Decision and Its ImplicationsThe Supreme Court&'s decision in the Health Care Case, NFIB v. Sebelius, gripped the nation&'s attention during the spring of 2012. Like the legislative battle leading to adoption of "e;Obamacare"e;, the litigation took many unexpected twists and turns, culminating in a surprising, fractured...

(Dora)A Case of Hysteria reveals how Freud dealt with patients and interpreted their statements. A crucial text in the development of his theories, it is famous for its literary qualities, and the story of &'Dora&' and her unhappy family is as dramatic as a modern novel. This new translation includes a fascinating introduction to the work....

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The two &'Alice&' books are masterpieces of carefree nonsense for children and also embody layers of satire and allusion and mathematical, linguistic, and philosophical jokes. This new edition explores their complex status and the many interpretations of them, taking account of the most recent research and critical opinion....

La B--ecirc--;te humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion, and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. This new translation captures Zola's fast-paced...

Sound and Music in Hip CultureHipsters have always used clothing, hairstyle, gesture, and slang to mark their distance from consensus culture, yet it is music that has always been the privileged means of cultural disaffiliation, the royal road to hip. Dig argues that in hip culture it is sound itself, and the faculty of hearing, that is the...