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"A retired U.S. Army colonel and leading infectious disease physician provides an insider's perspective and an expert's insight on the ever-evolving threat of biological pathogens harnessed as a weapon against humankind."

John Calvin Allen, professionally known as J.C., worked as a photographer for Purdue University from 1909-1952, and operated his own photography business until his death in 1976. The J.C. Allen photographs represent a historical account of the transition from pioneer practices to scientific methodologies in agriculture and rural communities. During this major transitional period for agriculture, tractors replaced horses, hybrid corn supplanted open-pollinated corn, and soybeans changed from a novelty crop to regular rotation on most farms. During this time, purebred animals with better genetic pedigrees replaced run-of-the-mill livestock, and systematic disease prevention in cattle, swine, and poultry took place. Allen's photographs also document clothing styles, home furnishings, and the items people thought important as they went about their daily lives. Looking closely at tractors, livestock, wagons, planters, sprayers, harvesting equipment, and crops gives one a sense of the changing and fast-paced world of agriculture at that time. This volume contains over 900 picturesque images, most never-before-seen, of men, women, and children working on the farm, which remain powerful reminders of life in rural America at the turn of the twentieth century. As old farmhouses and barns fall victim to age, Allen photographs are all that remain. While those people and times no longer exist today, they do remain "alive" because of the preservation of that history on film. A camera in his hands and an eye for photography allowed Allen to create indelible visual histories that continue to tell the story of agriculture and rural life from long ago

"In 1961, at the age of nineteen, Jorge J.E. Gracia escaped from the island of Cuba by passing himself off as a Catholic seminarian. He arrived in the United States with just a few spare belongings and his mother's diamond ring secured in a hole in one of his shoes. With a Diamond in My Shoe tells the story of Gracia's quest for identity--from his early years in Cuba and as a refugee in Miami to his formative role in institutionalizing the field of Latin American philosophy in the US academy. Committed to integrating into Anglo America without forgetting his roots, Gracia reflects on his struggles and successes as an immigrant and academic, bringing a philosopher's eye to bear on his personal and professional development as a leading Latinx scholar"--

Historians of the English legal profession have written comparatively little about the lawyers who served in the courts of the Church. This volume fills a gap; it investigates the law by which they were governed and discusses their careers in legal practice. Using sources drawn from the Roman and canon laws and also from manuscripts found in local archives, R. H. Helmholz brings together previously published work and new evidence about the professional careers of these men. His book covers the careers of many lesser known ecclesiastical lawyers, dealing with their education in law, their reaction to the coming of the Reformation, and their relationship with English common lawyers on the eve of the Civil War. Making connections with the European ius commune, this volume will be of special interest to English and Continental legal historians, as well as to students of the relationship between law and religion.

4 THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL YEARS: OCTOBER 1920 TO MARCH 19265 A VIENNESE INTERMEZZO: A LETTER FROM LATE 1928?; 6 CAMBRIDGE: JANUARY 1929 TO FEBRUARY 1938; 7 SECOND WORLD WAR: MARCH 1938 TO MAY 1945; 8 LUDWIG'S LAST LETTERS: JANUARY 1946 TO APRIL 1951; Appendix; Index

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD TO THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION / Taubman, William -- Part one. The October Revolution: Its Sense and Significance -- 1. A Blunder of History, Accident, or Necessity? -- 2. Was Socialism Built in the Soviet Union? -- 3. Let's Not Oversimplify! A Balance Sheet of the Soviet Years -- 4. October and the World -- 5. One More Balance Sheet: Something Worth Thinking About -- 6. October and Perestroika -- 7. Does Socialism Have a Future? -- 8. Summing Up -- Part two. The Union Could Have Been Preserved -- 9. A Tragic Turn of Events -- 10. Tbilisi . . . Baku . . . Vilnius -- 11. Toward a New Union Treaty -- 12. Referendum on the Union -- 13. The Coup: A Stab in the Back-and the Intrigues of Yeltsin -- 14. The Belovezh Accord: Dissolution of the USSR -- 15. What Lies Ahead? -- Part three. The New Thinking: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow -- 16. The Sources of the New Thinking -- 17. The Very First Steps -- 18. The Conception (1985–1991) -- 19. Overcoming the Cold War -- 20. The Transitional World Order -- 21. The New Thinking in the Post-Confrontational World -- 22. The Challenge of Globalization -- 23. The Challenge of Diversity -- 24. The Challenge of Global Problems -- 25. The Challenge of Power Politics -- 26. The Challenge of Democracy -- 27. The Challenge of Universal Human Values -- 28. The Beginning of History? -- Index

"Jack Brooks' career in the U.S. House of Representatives embodied the extraordinary times of the latter half of the 20th century in America, and today serves as an example of how politics and compromise can be effective in governing a nation. A child of the Great Depression and a young Marine in the jungles of the South Pacific in World War II, Brooks turned first to the law and then Texas state politics before setting off on an idealistic run for Congress. During the next 42 years Brooks became one of the longest-serving members of the House and a master of moving legislation into law. A far different atmosphere exists in Washington today, a zero-sum game where one party must lose in order for the other to win. But in Brooks' day, compromise was the governing ethos, Republicans and Democrats ate and drank with each other, families shared celebrations and children attended the same schools. Partisanship was ever-present and hard fought but it didn't prevent legislation from moving forward. Brooks was fiscally conservative and a lifelong member of the NRA, and he was also a liberal advocate for the poor and those seeking justice from the government"--

"Raised on a bankrupt farm along the Mississippi River, Allen E. Paulson would become the owner of the Fortune 500 aerospace empire Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation. Paulson was ambitious and reticent, generous and frugal, confident and dogged by self-doubt. Paulson played by the rules and took each success and setback in stride, always with an unflagging entrepreneurial spirit"--

"Lester B. Pearson a marqué de son empreinte la vie politique canadienne et le développement de la politique étrangère du pays au lendemain de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Diplomate de premier plan, puis secrétaire d'État aux Affaires extérieures, Pearson est aujourd'hui intimement associé au prix Nobel de la paix qu'il reçoit en 1957 pour sa contribution au dénouement de la crise de Suez l'année précédente. Son influence, son style et son succès diplomatique sont à rapprocher du délicat mélange de lucidité politique, de pragmatisme diplomatique et d'éthique de la responsabilité qui l'inspirait. Son entendement diplomatique est bien au fait des rapports de force et des conflits d'intérêts qui divisent le monde, mais il demeure toutefois tempéré par la conviction qui l'animait que la paix et la sécurité internationales devraient un jour être préservées sans avoir besoin de recourir à la force. C'est ce réalisme éclairé qui caractérise la pensée et l'action de Pearson que cet essai biographique se propose d'explorer."--Publisher's description.

An epidemic is a feeling set within time as much as it is a matter of statistics and epidemiology: it is the feeling of many of us in the same desperate place at the same desperate time. Opioid epidemic thus names a present moment - at once historic and historical - centered on the substance of opioids as much as it names the urgency of all of us who are currently in proximity to these substances. What is the relationship between these historic and historical moments, the present moment, the history of pharmacological capitalism, and a set of repeated neurological activities, as well as human loss and desire, that has fueled the exponential rise in the rates of opioid use and abuse between 2000-2018? Opioids: Addiction, Narrative, Freedom is an auto-ethnography written from deep within-biologically within-this opioid epidemic. Tracing opioids around and through the bodies, governmental, and medical structures they are moving and being moved through, Opioids is an examination of what it means to live within an environment saturated with a substance of deep economic, political, neuroscientific, and pharmacological implications. From exploring media coverage of the epidemic and emerging medical narratives of addiction to detailing the legal inscription of differences between "pain patients" and people addicted to drugs, Opioids consistently asks: what is it like to live within an epidemic? What forms of freedom become possible when continually modulated by our physical experiences of the material proximities of an epidemic? How do you live with something for a long time

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Foreword; Prologue; Introduction; 1. Triply Damned; 2. Chicago, Uncle Columbus, and a New Life; 3. The Pride of Dingess; 4. Clothes Make the Boy; 5. Home Again; 6. An Unmade Man; 7. A License to Steal; Gallery; 8. The Ropes; 9. You Can't Win, You Can't Break Even, You Can't Even Leave the Game; 10. Mr. Lucky; 11. A Punk in the Trunk; 12. I'm the Guy; 13. Goodbye Sam, Goodbye Dick; 14. With Fresh Eyes; 15. Old Haunts; 16. A Bag of Bones Can Talk; 17. When You Got a Job to Do, Better Do It Well; 18. The Puzzle Pieces