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Twin Studies: Illustrious and Ignoble -- Separated by Design: Policy and People -- Inside the Twin Study: How Did It Work? -- Familiar Strangers: Twin Brothers with Twin Sisters -- Kathy and Betsy: "The Biggest Thing in My Life" -- Media Inquiry: Sixty Minutes -- Anne and Susan: Dancing Solo -- Melanie and Ellen: Identical, but Not the Same -- Doug & Howard: Parallel Lives -- Identical Triplets: Three Versions of the Same Song -- Sharon: Twinless Again -- In Search of the Findings: Unpublished or Unavailable? -- The Book That Never Was: Yale University Press -- Justin: Not Just a Doppelgänger? -- Paula and Elyse: Artists From Afar -- Paula and Marjorie: Opportunities Lost -- Michele and Allison: Fraternal, Almost Identical -- Letters of Protest: Oscars and Emmys -- Professional Standards: Codes of Conduct, Legalities and Moralitie -- Controversies: Over or Unfinished?

"As long as she can remember, Leah Dieterich has had the mysterious feeling that she's been searching for a twin--that she belongs as one of an intimate pair. It begins with friends, dance partners, and her own reflection in the mirror as she studies ballet growing up; continues with physical and emotional attractions to girlfriends in college; and leads her, finally, to Eric, whom she moves across the country for and marries. But her steadfast, monogamous relationship leaves her with questions she can't answer about her sexuality and her identity, so she and her husband decide to try an open marriage. How does a young couple make room for their individual desires, their evolving selfhoods, and their artistic ambitions while building a life together? Can they pursue other sexual partners, even live in separate cities, and keep their original passionate bond alive? Vanishing Twins looks for answers in psychology, science, pop culture, art, architecture, Greek mythology, dance, and language to create a lucid, suspenseful portrait of a woman testing the limits and fluidities of love"--

Introduction : from the sciences of meat to critical animal studies -- Undomesticating the ethical -- Towards a critical bioethics -- Thinking across species in the ethics of "enhancement" -- Animal biotechnology and regulation -- Biopower and the biotechnological framing of the animal body -- Capitalizing on the molecular animal : beyond limits? -- Mobilizing the promise of sustainability -- Searching for the 'win-win'? Animal genomics and 'welfare' -- Conclusion : from the 'livestock' 'revolution' to a revolution in human-animal relations

This dynamic international collection provides a comprehensive overview of twin cities on administrative and international borders across the world. Drawing on contemporary and historical examples, it documents constant and changing features of twinned communities over time. The chapters explore a variety of urban formations including independent cities located side-by-side; cities that have merged over decades or even centuries and those projected to merge; cities partitioned by treaties and cities duplicated in pursuit of better security, intensified trade or both between neighbouring countries. From Europe to Africa, North America to the Middle East, South America to Asia, this book focuses on relationships between cities, citizens and municipal/international borders. A cartographical contents and editorial commentary guide readers through diverse contributions. The authors ask how far cities are changing or remaining constant in the context of conurbanisation, Europeanisation and globalization. The book provides a glimpse into the variety of roles twin cities can play globally: from laboratories of integration and para-diplomatic actors to economic and cultural brokers. This is a valuable, engaging resource for researchers in the fields of geography, urban studies, border studies, international relations and global development. It will be of great use to individuals involved in twin-city initiatives and general readers

"This international collection provides a comprehensive overview of twin cities in different circumstances - from the emergent to the recently amalgamated, on 'soft' and 'hard' borders, with post-colonial heritage, in post-conflict environments and under strain. With examples from Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, South America, North America and the Caribbean, the volume sees twin cities as intense thermometers for developments in the wider urban world globally. It offers interdisciplinary perspectives that bridge history, politics, culture, economy, geography and other fields, applying these lenses to examples of twin cities in remote places. Providing a comparative approach and drawing on a range of methodologies, the book explores where and how twin cities arise; what twin cities can tell us about international borders; and the way in which some twin cities bear the spatial marks of their colonial past. The chapters explore the impact on twin-city relations of contemporary pressures, such as mass migration, the rise of populism, East-West tensions, international crime, climate change, surveillance, rebordering trends and epidemiological risks triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. With case studies across the continents, this volume for the first time extends twin-city debates to fictional imaginings of twin cities. Twin Cities across Five Continents is a valuable resource for researchers in the fields of anthropology, history, geography, urban studies, border studies, international relations and global development as well as for students in these disciplines"--