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1936-, Fine I. Howard, ed. Clear corneal lens surgery. Thorofare, NJ: SLACK Inc., 1999.
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Rouwen, A. J. P. Corneal alterations with contact lens wear. Amsterdam: Kugler Publications, 1992.
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Nathan, Efron, ed. The cornea: Its examination in contact lens practice. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001.
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A, Silbert Joel, ed. Anterior segment complications of contact lens wear. New York: Churchill Livingstone, 1994.
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Babizhayev, Mark A., David Wan-Cheng Li, Anne Kasus-Jacobi, Lepša Žorić, and Jorge L. Alió, eds. Studies on the Cornea and Lens. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1935-2.
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S, Binder Perry, and New Orleans Academy of Ophthalmology. Session, eds. Cornea, refractive surgery, and contact lens. New York: Raven Press, 1987.
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D, Tomlinson Alan Ph, ed. Complications of contact lens wear. St. Louis: Mosby-Year Book, 1992.
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Hamano, Hikaru. The physiology of the cornea and contact lens applications. New York: Churchill Livingstone, 1987.
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Tantisira, Jivin Gerard. Comparison of precorneal tear film stability and basal tear secretion rates in contact lens wearers versus non-wearers. [s.n: s.l.], 1992.
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Anterior Segment Complications of Contact Lens Wear. 2nd ed. Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000.
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DeAugustinas, M., and A. Kiely. Infectious Keratitis. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199976805.003.0016.
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Keratitis is an inflammation of the cornea, which can lead to corneal opacification or ulceration. The most common cause of infectious keratitis is herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1). Noninfectious corneal infiltrates related to trauma, collagen vascular disease, autoimmune inflammation, vasculitis, or atopy (which predisposes to HSV keratitis) must be considered. HSV-associated stromal keratitis is the most common cause of infectious corneal blindness in the United States, yet its presentation can be fairly subtle. For this reason, symptoms out of proportion to exam findings or a history concerning for viral infection is an indication for prompt referral to ophthalmology. Topical antibiotic drops achieve high tissue concentrations and are the treatment of choice. Empiric coverage should be prescribed and tailored later under the care of an ophthalmologist. Other keys to effective treatment include discontinuing contact lens use and protecting the eye with a rigid shield without a patch, as patching provides a reservoir for infection.
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Lens Surgery After Previous Refractive Surgery. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, 2011.
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Babizhayev, Mark A., Jorge L. Alió, David Wan-Cheng Li, Anne Kasus-Jacobi, and Lepša Žorić. Studies on the Cornea and Lens. Humana, 2016.
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Babizhayev, Mark A., Jorge L. Alió, David Wan-Cheng Li, Anne Kasus-Jacobi, and Lepsa Zorić. Studies on the Cornea and Lens. Springer, 2014.
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Babizhayev, Mark A., Jorge L. Alió, David Wan-Cheng Li, Anne Kasus-Jacobi, and Lepša Žorić. Studies on the Cornea and Lens. Humana, 2014.
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Waring, G. Femtosecond Lasers in Cornea and Lens Surgery. SLACK, Incorporated, 2020.
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Cleary, Georgia, Allon Barsam, and Eric Donnenfeld. Refractive surgery. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199672516.003.0004.
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In a perfect optical system, a point source of light is focused onto a single point on the image plane; in the eye, light is focused on the retina. Optical aberrations are caused by imaging system imperfections which cause deviations in the transmission of light, preventing the convergence of light to a single point of focus. In recent years an increased understanding of higher-order wavefront aberrations has allowed improvements in both the measurement and treatment of refractive error. This chapter discusses refractive surgery. It details refractive error, aberrations, and presbyopia, along with preoperative evaluation for refractive surgery, laser refractive surgery, other corneal refractive procedures, refractive lens surgery, intraocular lenses, phakic intraocular lenses, and presbyopia correction.
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(Editor), I. Howard Fine, Mark Packer (Editor), and Richard S. Hoffman (Editor), eds. Refractive Lens Surgery. Springer, 2005.
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Atlas Of Ophthalmic Surgery V2: CORNEA, GLAUCOMA, LENS. THIEME, 1987.
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Efron, Nathan. The Cornea: It's Examination in Contact Lens Practice. BH/BCLA, 2001.
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Presbyopia: A surgical textbook. Thorofare, NJ: Slack, 2002.
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Presbyopia: A Surgical Textbook. Slack Incorporated, 2002.
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Agarwal, Amar, and Priya Narang. Video Atlas of Anterior Segment Repair and Reconstruction: Managing Challenges in Cornea, Glaucoma, and Lens Surgery. Thieme Medical Publishers, Incorporated, 2019.
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Vergara, José. All Future Plunges to the Past. Cornell University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501759901.001.0001.
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This book explores how Russian writers from the mid-1920s on have read and responded to Joyce's work. The book uncovers the many roles Joyce has occupied in Russia over the last century, demonstrating how the writers Yury Olesha, Vladimir Nabokov, Andrei Bitov, Sasha Sokolov, and Mikhail Shishkin draw from Joyce's texts, particularly Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, to address the volatile questions of lineages in their respective Soviet, émigré, and post-Soviet contexts. Interviews with contemporary Russian writers, critics, and readers of Joyce extend the conversation to the present day, showing how the debates regarding the Irish writer's place in the Russian pantheon are no less settled one hundred years after Ulysses. The creative reworkings, or “translations,” of Joycean themes, ideas, characters, plots, and styles made by the five writers that the book examines speak to shifting cultural norms, understandings of intertextuality, and the polarity between Russia and the West. The book illuminates how Russian writers have used Joyce's ideas as a critical lens to shape, prod, and constantly redefine their own place in literary history. The book offers one overarching approach to the general narrative of Joyce's reception in Russian literature. While each of the writers examined responded to Joyce in an individual manner, the sum of their methods reveals common concerns. This subject raises the issue of cultural values and, more importantly, how they changed throughout the twentieth century in the Soviet Union, Russian emigration, and the post-Soviet Russian environment.
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Tous les Matins du Monde (A. Corneau, 1991) Analyse d'une Uvre. Vrin, Librairie Philosophique J., 2010.
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Christensen, Joel P. The Many-Minded Man. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501752346.001.0001.
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This book explores the content, character, and structure of the Homeric Odyssey through a modern psychological lens, focusing on how the epic both represents the workings of the human mind and provides for its audiences — both ancient and modern — a therapeutic model for coping with the exigencies of chance and fate. By reading the Odyssey as an exploration of the constitutive elements of human identity, the function of narrative in defining the self, and the interaction between the individual and their social context, the book addresses enduring questions about the poem, such as the importance of Telemachus's role, why Odysseus must tell his own tale, and the epic's sudden and unexpected closure. Through these dynamics, the book reasons, the Odyssey not only instructs readers about how narrative shapes a sense of agency but also offers solutions for avoiding dangerous stories and destructive patterns of thought.
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Donovan, Victoria. Chronicles in Stone. Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501747878.001.0001.
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This book is a study of the powerful and pervasive myth of the Russian Northwest, its role in forming Soviet and Russian identities, and its impact on local communities. The book explores the transformation of three northwestern Russian towns from provincial backwaters into the symbolic homelands of the Soviet and Russian nations. The book's central argument is that the Soviet state exploited the cultural heritage of the Northwest to craft patriotic narratives of the people's genius, heroism, and strength that could bind the nation together after 1945. Through sustained engagement with local voices, it reveals the ways these narratives were internalized, revised, and resisted by the communities living in the region. The book provides an alternative lens through which to view the rise of Russian patriotic consciousness in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, adding a valuable regional dimension to our knowledge of Russian nation building and identity politics.
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Mong, Sherry N. Taking Care of Our Own. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501751448.001.0001.
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Mixing personal history, interviewee voices, and academic theory from the fields of care work, the sociology of work, medical sociology, and nursing, this book introduces us to the hidden world of family caregivers. Using a multidimensional approach, the book seeks to understand and analyze the types of skilled work that family caregivers do, the processes through which they learn and negotiate new skills, and the meanings that both caregivers and nurses attach to their care work. The book is based on sixty-two in-depth interviews with family caregivers, home and community health-care nurses, and other expert observers to provide a lens through which in-home care processes are analyzed, while also exploring how caregivers learn necessary procedures. Further, the book examines the emotional labor of caregiving, as well as the identities of caregivers and nurses who are key players in the labor process, and gives attention to the ways in which the labor is transferred from medical professionals to family caregivers.
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Bailey, Anna L. Politics under the Influence. Cornell University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501724374.001.0001.
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In 2009, the Russian government launched a much-publicized new initiative to tackle excessive alcohol consumption. This has subsequently been presented in simplistic terms as a top–down implementation of policy, imposed in the national interest to preserve the nation’s health in face of the ravages inflicted by widespread alcohol abuse. The book challenges this widely accepted narrative, by showing how policy more commonly results from the competitive interactions of stakeholders with vested interests – with the state itself divided. Rather than a benevolent public health agenda, the interests in vodka production of some of Putin’s closest cronies provides a hidden explanatory factor behind increasingly harsh regulation of beer in Russia. The book uses the lens of alcohol policy to examine the complex kleptocracy in the Russian political economy, and to show how informal power networks can undermine formal state priorities. The analysis reveals the many ambivalences, informal practices and paradoxes that abound in contemporary Russian politics.
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McCargo, Duncan. Fighting for Virtue. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9780801449994.001.0001.
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This book investigates how Thailand's judges were tasked by the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) in 2006 with helping to solve the country's intractable political problems—and what happened next. Across the last decade of Rama IX's rule, the book examines the world of Thai judges: how they were recruited, trained, and promoted, and how they were socialized into a conservative world view that emphasized the proximity between the judiciary and the monarchy. The book delves into three pivotal freedom of expression cases that illuminate Thai legal and cultural understandings of sedition and treason, before examining the ways in which accusations of disloyalty made against controversial former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra came to occupy a central place in the political life of a deeply polarized nation. The book navigates the highly contentious role of the Constitutional Court as a key player in overseeing and regulating Thailand's political order before concluding with reflections on the significance of the Bhumibol era of “judicialization” in Thailand. In the end, under a new king, who appears far less reluctant to assert his own power and authority, the Thai courts may now assume somewhat less significance as a tool of the monarchical network.
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Rutenberg, Amy. Rough Draft. Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501739361.001.0001.
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This book argues that policy makers’ idealized conceptions of middle-class masculinity directly affected who they targeted for conscription during the Cold War. Along with much of the American population, federal officials, including those within the Selective Service System, believed college educated men could better protect the nation from the threat of communism as civilians than as soldiers. The availability of deferments for these men grew rapidly between 1945 and 1965, militarizing their occupations and making it less and less likely that middle-class white men would serve in the Cold War military. Meanwhile, officials used the War on Poverty to target poorer men for conscription in the hopes that military service would offer them skills they could use in civilian life. Therefore, while some men resisted military service in Vietnam for reasons of political conscience, most of those who avoided military service did so because manpower polices made it possible. By protecting middle-class breadwinners in the name of national security, policy planners militarized certain civilian roles, a move that, ironically, separated military service from the obligations of masculine citizenship and, ultimately, helped kill the draft in the United States.
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Lutz, Amy S. F. We Walk. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501751394.001.0001.
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In this collection of essays, the author writes openly about her experience as a mother of a now twenty-one-year-old son with severe autism. The author's human emotion drives through each page and challenges commonly held ideas that define autism either as a disease or as neurodiversity. The book is inspired by the author's own questions: What is the place of intellectually and developmentally disabled people in society? What responsibilities do we, as citizens and human beings, have to one another? Who should decide for those who cannot decide for themselves? What is the meaning of religion to someone with no abstract language? Exploring these questions, the book examines social issues such as inclusion, religion, therapeutics, and friendship through the lens of severe autism. In a world where public perception of autism is largely shaped by the “quirky geniuses” featured on television shows like The Big Bang Theory and The Good Doctor, this book demands that we center our debates about this disorder on those who are most affected by its impacts.
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Farrier, Jasmine. Constitutional Dysfunction on Trial. Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501702501.001.0001.
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In an original assessment of all three branches, this book reveals a new way in which the American federal system is broken. Turning away from the partisan narratives of everyday politics, the book diagnoses the deeper and bipartisan nature of imbalance of power that undermines public deliberation and accountability, especially on war powers. By focusing on the lawsuits brought by Congressional members that challenge presidential unilateralism, the book provides a new diagnostic lens on the permanent institutional problems that have undermined the separation of powers system in the last five decades, across a diverse array of partisan and policy landscapes. As each chapter demonstrates, member lawsuits are an outlet for frustrated members of both parties who cannot get their House and Senate colleagues to confront overweening presidential action through normal legislative processes. But these lawsuits often backfire—leaving Congress as an institution even more disadvantaged. The book argues these suits are more symptoms of constitutional dysfunction than the cure. It shows federal judges will not and cannot restore the separation of powers system alone. Fifty years of congressional atrophy cannot be reversed in court.
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Lee, Melissa M. Crippling Leviathan. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501748363.001.0001.
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Policymakers worry that “ungoverned spaces” pose dangers to security and development. Why do such spaces exist beyond the authority of the state? Earlier scholarship—which addressed this question with a list of domestic failures—overlooked the crucial role that international politics play. This book argues that foreign subversion undermines state authority and promotes ungoverned space. Enemy governments empower insurgents to destabilize the state and create ungoverned territory. This kind of foreign subversion is a powerful instrument of modern statecraft. But though subversion is less visible and less costly than conventional force, it has insidious effects on governance in the target state. To demonstrate the harmful consequences of foreign subversion for state authority, the book marshals a wealth of evidence and presents in-depth studies of Russia’s relations with the post-Soviet states, Malaysian subversion of the Philippines in the 1970s, and Thai subversion of Vietnamese-occupied Cambodia in the 1980s. The evidence presented is persuasive: foreign subversion weakens the state. The book challenges the conventional wisdom on statebuilding, which has long held that conflict promotes the development of strong, territorially consolidated states. The book argues instead that conflictual international politics prevents state development and degrades state authority. In addition, the book illuminates the use of subversion as an underappreciated and important feature of modern statecraft. Rather than resort to war, states resort to subversion. Policymakers interested in ameliorating the consequences of ungoverned space must recognize the international roots that sustain weak statehood.
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Mitchell, Arthur M. Disruptions of Daily Life. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501752919.001.0001.
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This book explores the mass-media landscape of the early twentieth cspecific authorsentury to uncover the subversive societal impact of four major Japanese authors: Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, Yokomitsu Riichi, Kawabata Yasunari, and Hirabayashi Taiko. The book examines the literature against global realities through a modernist lens, studying an alternative modernism that challenges the Western European model. Through broad surveys of discussions surrounding Japanese life in the 1920s, the book locates and examines flourishing divergent ideologies of the early twentieth century, such as gender, ethnicity, and nationalism. It unravels how the narrative and linguistic strategies of modernist texts interrogated the innocence of this language, disrupting their hold on people's imagined relationship to daily life. These modernist works often discursively displaced the authority of their own claims by inadvertently exposing the global epistemology of East versus West. The book expands modernism studies into a more translational dialogue by locating subversions within the local historical culture and allowing readers to make connections to the time and place in which the texts were written. In highlighting the unbreakable link between literature and society, it reaffirms the value of modernist fiction and its ability to make us aware of how realities are constructed — and how those realities can be changed.
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Krasas, Jackie. Still a Mother. Cornell University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501754296.001.0001.
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This book traces the trajectories of mothers who have lost or ceded custody to an ex-partner. The book argues that these noncustodial mothers' experiences should be understood within a greater web of gendered social institutions such as employment, education, health care, and legal systems that shapes the meanings of contemporary motherhood in the United States. If motherhood means “being there,” then noncustodial mothers, through their absence, are seen as nonmothers. They are anti-mothers to be reviled. At the very least, these mothers serve as cautionary tales. The book questions the existence of an objective method for determining custody of children and challenges the “best-interests standard” through a feminist, reproductive justice lens. The stories of noncustodial mothers that the book relates shed light on marriage and divorce, caregiving, gender violence, and family court. Unfortunately, much of the contemporary discussion of child-custody determination is dominated either by gender-neutral discussions or, at the opposite end of the spectrum, by the idea that fathers are severely disadvantaged in custody disputes. As a result, the idea that mothers always receive custody has taken on the status of common sense. If this was true, as the book's author affirms, there would be no book to write.
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Hull, Sarah, and Andrew R. Webster. Ophthalmic Manifestations of Inherited Metabolic Diseases. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199972135.003.0075.
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Systemic metabolic disorders can manifest in the cornea, lens, or retina with or without affecting vision. In some conditions findings are present from birth, and in others ophthalmic complications develop as the disease progresses. In some conditions in adults (for instance pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE), Wilson disease, Fabry and gyrate atrophy) ocular findings are pathognomic and should lead to targeted investigations such as sequencing of ABCC6 in PXE and serum ornithine levels in gyrate atrophy. Early diagnosis and treatment may improve visual outcomes. This chapter will focus on the key conditions in adults that have distinct presentations in the eye.
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Firpo, Christina Elizabeth. Black Market Business. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501752650.001.0001.
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This book is a grassroots social history of the clandestine market for sex in colonial Tonkin. It explores the ways in which sex workers, managers, and clients evaded the colonial regulation system in the turbulent economy of the interwar years. The book argues that the confluence of economic, demographic, and cultural changes sweeping late colonial Tonkin created spaces of tension in which the interwar black-market sex industry thrived. The clandestine sex industry flourished in sites of legal inconsistency, cultural changes, economic disparity, rural–urban division, and demographic shifts. As a nexus of the many tensions besetting late colonial Tonkin, the black-market sex industry serves as a useful lens through which to examine these tensions and the ways they affected marginalized populations. More specifically, an investigation of this black market shows how a particular population of impoverished women — a group regrettably understudied by historians — experienced the tensions. Drawing on an astonishingly diverse and multilingual source base, the book includes detailed cases of juvenile prostitution, human trafficking, and debt-bondage arrangements in sex work, as well as cases in Tonkin's bars, hotels, singing houses, and dance clubs. Using GIS technology and big data sets to track individual actors in history, it serves as a model for teaching new methodological approaches to conducting social histories of women and marginalized people.
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Johnson-Weiner, Karen. From Lancaster County to Lowville. Cornell University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501707605.003.0004.
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This chapter traces the arrival of four Old Order Amish families from the Path Valley in Pennsylvania to Lowville in Lewis County. More progressive than Swartzentruber and less progressive than Clymer-area Amish, the Amish in Lowville brought to New York's North Country traditions that have their origins in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the oldest Amish settlement in North America. Descendants of the first Amish to make their homes in the New World, the Lowville settlers left Lancaster County to escape conflict with state and local authorities over their children's education. For the first half of the twentieth century, the Amish struggled with local school boards in several states, and these conflicts have historically been one of the major forces driving the Amish to establish new settlements.
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Thies, Wallace J. Why Containment Works. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501749483.001.0001.
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This book examines the conduct of American foreign policy during and after the Cold War through the lens of applied policy analysis. The book argues that the Bush Doctrine after 2002 was a theory of victory. The book contrasts prescriptions derived from the Bush Doctrine with an alternative theory of victory, one based on containment and deterrence, which US presidents employed for much of the Cold War period. There are, the book suggests, multiple reasons for believing that containment was working well against Saddam Hussein's Iraq after the first Gulf War and that there was no need to invade Iraq in 2003. The book reexamines five cases of containment drawn from the Cold War and the post-Cold War world. Each example, it suggests, offered US officials a choice between reliance on traditional notions of containment and reliance on a more forceful approach. To what extent did reliance on rival theories of victory — containment versus first strike — contribute to a successful outcome? Might these cases have been resolved more quickly, at lower cost, and more favorably to American interests if US officials had chosen a different mix of the coercive and deterrent tools available to them? The book suggests that the conventional wisdom about containment was often wrong: a superpower like the United States has such vast resources at its disposal that it could easily thwart Libya, Iraq, and Iran by means other than open war.
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Nam, Hwasook. Women in the Sky. Cornell University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501758263.001.0001.
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This book examines Korean women factory workers' century-long activism, from the 1920s to the present, with a focus on gender politics both in the labor movement and in the larger society. It highlights several key moments in colonial and postcolonial Korean history when factory women commanded the attention of the wider public, including the early-1930s rubber shoe workers' general strike in Pyongyang, the early-1950s textile workers' struggle in South Korea, the 1970s democratic union movement led by female factory workers, and women workers' activism against neoliberal restructuring in recent decades. The book asks why women workers in South Korea have been relegated to the periphery in activist and mainstream narratives despite a century of persistent militant struggle and indisputable contributions to the labor movement and successful democracy movement. The book opens and closes with stories of high-altitude sit-ins — a phenomenon unique to South Korea — beginning with the rubber shoe worker Kang Churyong's sit-in in 1931 and ending with numerous others in today's South Korean labor movement, including that of Kim Jin-Sook. The book seeks to understand and rectify the vast gap between the crucial roles women industrial workers played in the process of Korea's modernization and their relative invisibility as key players in social and historical narratives. By using gender and class as analytical categories, the book presents a comprehensive study and rethinking of the twentieth-century nation-building history of Korea through the lens of female industrial worker activism.
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Martin, Benjamin Franklin. Roger Martin du Gard and Maumort. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501747830.001.0001.
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In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Roger Martin du Gard was one of the most famous writers in the Western world. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1937, and his works, especially Les Thibault, a multivolume novel, were translated into English and read widely. Today, this close friend of André Gide, Albert Camus, and André Malraux is almost unknown, largely because he left unfinished the long project he began in the 1940s, Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort. This book creates a blend of intellectual history, family drama, and biography.
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Sobol, Valeria. Haunted Empire. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501750571.001.0001.
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This book shows that Gothic elements in Russian literature frequently expressed deep-set anxieties about the Russian imperial and national identity. The book argues that the persistent Gothic tropes in the literature of the Russian Empire enact deep historical and cultural tensions arising from Russia's idiosyncratic imperial experience. It brings together theories of empire and colonialism with close readings of canonical and less-studied literary texts as the book explores how Gothic horror arises from the threatening ambiguity of Russia's own past and present, producing the effect Sobol terms “the imperial uncanny.” Focusing on two spaces of “the imperial uncanny” — the Baltic “North”/Finland and the Ukrainian “South” — the book reconstructs a powerful discursive tradition that reveals the mechanisms of the Russian imperial imagination that are still at work today.
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Pelkmans, Mathijs. Pentecostal Miracle Truth on the Frontier. Cornell University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501705137.003.0006.
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This chapter examines how the truth of miracles becomes simultaneously more pertinent and less stable as we move into the frontier. Miracles occupy a central place in Pentecostal churches, but they have been seldom addressed as an analytical theme in studies of Pentecostalism due in part to the awkwardness of the truth question. With its emphasis on prayer and divine intervention, Pentecostalism gained a significant foothold in Kyrgyzstan. This chapter first provides an overview of Pentecostal frontier in the post-Soviet era before discussing the effervescent as well as fragile qualities of the Pentecostal conviction. It argues that a focus on miracles is intellectually productive because their mysterious and unstable qualities resonate with the unstable nature of conviction. This resonance can be illustrated with reference to the term “charisma.”
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Kelz, Robert. Competing Germanies. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501739859.001.0001.
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Following World War II, German antifascists and nationalists in Buenos Aires believed theater was crucial to their efforts at community-building, and each population devoted considerable resources to competing against its rival onstage. This book tracks the paths of several stage actors from European theaters to Buenos Aires and explores how two of Argentina's most influential immigrant groups, German nationalists and antifascists (Jewish and non-Jewish), clashed. Theatrical performances articulated strident Nazi, antifascist, and Zionist platforms. Meanwhile, as their thespian representatives grappled onstage for political leverage among emigrants and Argentines, behind the curtain, conflicts simmered within partisan institutions and among theatergoers. Publicly they projected unity, but offstage nationalist, antifascist, and Zionist populations were rife with infighting on issues of political allegiance, cultural identity and, especially, integration with their Argentine hosts. The book reveals interchange and even mimicry between antifascist and nationalist German cultural institutions. Furthermore, performances at both theaters also fit into contemporary invocations of diasporas, including taboos and postponements of return to the native country, connections among multiple communities, and forms of longing, memory, and (dis)identification. Sharply divergent at first glance, their shared condition as cultural institutions of emigrant populations caused the antifascist Free German Stage and the nationalist German Theater to adopt parallel tactics in community-building, intercultural relationships, and dramatic performance. Its cross-cultural, polyglot blend of German, Jewish, and Latin American studies gives the book a wide, interdisciplinary academic appeal and offers a novel intervention in Exile studies through the lens of theater, in which both victims of Nazism and its adherents remain in focus.
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Ward, Roger A. Conversion in American Philosophy. Fordham University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823223138.001.0001.
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This fresh, provocative account of the American philosophical tradition explores the work of key thinkers through an innovative and counterintuitive lens: religious conversion. From Jonathan Edwards to Cornel West, the book threads the history of American thought into an extended, multivalent encounter with the religious experience. Looking at John Dewey, William James, Charles Sanders Peirce, Richard Rorty, Robert S. Corrington, and other thinkers, the book demonstrates that religious themes have deeply influenced the development of American philosophy. This innovative reading of the American philosophical tradition will be welcomed not only by philosophers, but also by historians and other students of America’s religious, intellectual, and cultural legacy.
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Lanoszka, Alexander. Atomic Assurance. Cornell University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501729188.001.0001.
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How do alliances curb potential or actual cases of nuclear proliferation, if at all? Many scholars assert that alliances are effective tools for bridling the nuclear ambitions of states and that the United States can especially take credit for suppressing nuclear proliferation among its allies around the world. This book challenges this widely-held view by arguing that alliances can be most useful for preventing potential nuclear proliferation but much less useful for curbing actual nuclear proliferation. Drawing on deep archival research it shows how allied decision-makers often evaluate American security guarantees with reference to in-theater conventional military deployments. It also demonstrates the significant difficulties in mounting alliance coercion in order to extract non-proliferation commitments. The book mainly explores the three cases of supposed alliance non-proliferation success--West Germany, Japan, and South Korea—while examining in lesser detail the case of Great Britain, France, Norway, Australia, and Taiwan.
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Farnsworth, John Seibert, and Thomas Lowe Fleischner. Nature beyond Solitude. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501747281.001.0001.
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The field notes taken for this book are not only about nature, but from nature as well. The book lets the reader peer over the author'shoulder as he takes his notes. The reader follows him to a series of field stations where he teams up with scientists, citizen scientists, rangers, stewards, and graduate students engaged in long-term ecological study, all the while scribbling down what he sees, hears, and feels in the moment. The field stations are located at Hastings Natural History Reservation, studying acorn woodpeckers; Santa Cruz Island Reserve, studying island foxes; Golden Gate Raptor Observatory, hawkwatching; H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, recording a forest log for two weeks through the Spring Creek Project; and North Cascades Environmental Learning Center, which was built as mitigation for the environmental harm caused by the hydroelectric dam. The book explores how communal experiences of nature might ultimately provide greater depths of appreciation for the natural world.
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DuLong, Jessica, and Mitchell Zuckoff. Saved at the Seawall. Cornell University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501759123.001.0001.
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This book is the definitive history of the largest ever waterborne evacuation. The book reveals the dramatic story of how the New York Harbor maritime community heroically delivered stranded commuters, residents, and visitors out of harm's way. Even before the US Coast Guard called for “all available boats,” tugs, ferries, dinner boats, and other vessels had sped to the rescue from points all across New York Harbor. In less than nine hours, captains and crews transported nearly half a million people from Manhattan. Anchored in eyewitness accounts, the book weaves together the personal stories of people rescued that day with those of the mariners who saved them. The book describes the inner workings of New York Harbor and reveals the collaborative power of its close-knit community. This chronicle of those crucial hours, when hundreds of thousands of lives were at risk, highlights how resourcefulness and basic human goodness triumphed over turmoil on one of America's darkest days.
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Dutton, Paul V. Beyond Medicine. Cornell University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501754555.001.0001.
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This book provides a penetrating historical analysis of why countless studies show that Americans are far less healthy than their European counterparts. The book argues that Europeans are healthier than Americans because beginning in the late nineteenth century, European nations began construction of health systems that focused not only on medical care but the broad social determinants of health: where and how we live, work, play, and age. European leaders also created social safety nets that became integral to national economic policy. In contrast, US leaders often viewed investments to improve the social determinants of health and safety-net programs as a competing priority to economic growth. This book compares the United States to three European social democracies — France, Germany, and Sweden — in order to explain how, in differing ways, each protects the health of infants and children, working-age adults, and the elderly. Unlike most comparative health system analyses, the book draws on history to find answers to our most nettlesome health policy questions.