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How the Culture Wars Change the Way Citizens Speak and Politicians ListenIn Representing Red and Blue, Barker and Carman observe that culturally traditionalist Republicans tend to demand -- and get -- less policy responsiveness from their elected representatives than do culturally progressive Democrats. Cultural traditionalists prefer...

The Nez Perce StoryThis newest volume in Oxford&'s acclaimed Pivotal Moments series offers an unforgettable portrait of the Nez Perce War of 1877, the last great Indian conflict in American history. It was, as Elliott West shows, a tale of courage and ingenuity, of desperate struggle and shattered hope, of short-sighted government action and a...

The BiographyObesity is an important medical concern in today's society. In this fascinating account, Sander L. Gilman examines the perceptions and attitudes to obesity from classical times to the present day. Considering changing attitudes to the body and debates about whether obesity is a physiological or psychological problem, he explores its...

In ways no guide book can achieve, these twenty absorbing tales by Italian authors including Boccaccio, Giacomo Casanova, and Pier-Paolo Pasolini offer the delight of exploring one of the world's most unique cities thorough a wide variety of individual lives and epochs. Essential reading for anyone who has been to Rome or dreams of going there....

Conversational Style presents a linguistic approach on how to analyze conversational style. Looking at six speakers over the course of a two-and-a-half hour Thanksgiving dinner, she analyzes the features that make up their conversational style, and in particular how these styles function in a positive manner when those style are similar to one...