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The Geologic Story of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National ParksMillions of years ago, the North American continent was dragged over the world&'s largest continental hotspot, a huge column of hot and molten rock rising from the Earth&'s interior that traced a 50-mile wide, 500-mile-long path northeastward across Idaho. Generating cataclysmic...

Surdas is unarguably the best known poet in Vrajbhasha, the most widely understood of the medieval Hindi literary dialects. In this volume, Jack Hawley offers a selection of his charming translations of the most appealing of these poems, arranged according to such themes as "e;Krishna growing up,"e; "e;the pangs and politics of...

Strategic alliances are increasingly common, as many organizations look towards various partnering arrangements. This second edition of   Strategies of Cooperation extends the first edition's clear and comprehensive survey of strategic alliances. Presenting different disciplinary perspectives (economics, strategy, organization theory) and numerous...

What Everyone Needs to KnowThe Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March 2010 is a landmark in U.S. social legislation. The new law extends health insurance to nearly all Americans, fulfilling a century-long quest and bringing the United States to parity with other industrial nations. Affordable Care aims to...

How Movie Stars Shaped American PoliticsEver since the film industry relocated to Hollywood early in the twentieth        century, it has had an outsized influence on American politics. Through a series of        gripping chapters on larger-than-life figures in American cinema--Charlie Chaplin,        Louis Mayer, Edward G. Robinson, Harry...

This work draws upon Camp's forty years of original sources and data to test major interpretations about the composition of Mexican national leadership while undergoing democratic change. It looks at the role of female politicians, the future of governors as presidential candidates, the increase in partisanship, the dramatic increase in party-based...