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The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960sIn Roadshow! The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s, film historian Matthew Kennedy explores the downfall of a beloved genre caught in the hands of misguided creators who glutted the American film market with a spate of expensive and financially unrewarding musicals between 1967 and 1972. In doing so, it offers...

Understanding and Managing Pain in Diverse PopulationsIn this state-of-theart volume, culture is placed in the forefront of studying pain in an integrative manner. The authors put forth that a patient&'s culture should be studied with the purpose of unveiling its effects upon biological systems and the pain neuromatrix....

Phenomenological Perspectives on the Historical WorldDavid Carr outlines a distinctively phenomenological approach to history. Rather than asking what history is or how we know history, a phenomenology of history inquires into history as a phenomenon and into the experience of the historical. How does history present itself to us, how does it enter...

The law of torts is concerned with the obligations that are created by the infringement of rights. This work seeks to show that this apparently simple proposition provides the groundwork for a new theoretical model for conceiving the law of torts, and a new way of understanding the subject....

The Crafting of a WriterRousseau&'s Hand explores Rousseau&'s involvement in and promotion of craft in the context of the technological developments of the Enlightenment and his own European celebrity as a writer....

In The Utah State Constitution, Jean Bickmore White offers a comprehensive review of the unique historical background and the 100-year development of the Utah State Constitution. First drafted in 1896, at the beginning of Utah&'s statehood, the original constitution survived until the early 1970s with little change. Since that time there has been a...