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Hell in America from the Revolution to ReconstructionAmong the pressing concerns of Americans in the first century of nationhood were day-to-day survival, political harmony, exploration of the continent, foreign policy, and--fixed deeply in the collective consciousness--hell and eternal damnation. The fear of fire and brimstone and the worm that...

Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender, and SexualityAcross scholarship on gender and sexuality, binaries like female versus male and gay versus straight have been problematized as a symbol of the stigmatization and erasure of non-normative subjects and practices. The chapters in Queer Excursions offer a series of distinct perspectives on these...

A Systematic Approach to Factor InvestingStocks and bonds? Real estate? Hedge funds? Private equity? If you think those are the things to focus on in building an investment portfolio, Andrew Ang has accumulated a body of research that will prove otherwise.   In his new book Asset Management: A Systematic Approach to Factor Investing, Ang upends the...

This handbook presents the first systematic account of corpus phonology - the employment of corpora, especially purpose-built phonological corpora of spoken language, for studying speakers&' and listeners&' acquisition and knowledge of the sound system of their native languages and the principles underlying those systems. The field combines methods...

Renewing a Forgotten VirtueReverence is an ancient virtue that survives among us in half-forgotten patterns of civility and moments of inarticulate awe. Reverence gives meaning to much that we do, yet the word has almost passed out of our vocabulary.   Reverence, says philosopher and classicist Paul Woodruff, begins in an understanding of human...

Volume V: The Perez-Guerrero Trust Fund for South-South Cooperation (PGTF)The Collected Documents of The Group of 77 at the United Nations provides a chronological record of events and documents of the Group of 77 since its creation in 1963. This Fifth Volume assembles a selection of materials pertaining to the Perez-Guerrero Trust Fund for...