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The War Come Home
University of California Press 2001; US$ 15.95Disabled veterans were the First World War's most conspicuous legacy. Nearly eight million men in Europe returned from the First World War permanently disabled by injury or disease. In The War Come Home, Deborah Cohen offers a comparative analysis of the very different ways in which two belligerent nations--Germany and Britain--cared for their disabled. more...
Braceros
The University of North Carolina Press 2011; US$ 39.95At the beginning of World War II, the United States and Mexico launched the bracero program, a series of labor agreements that brought Mexican men to work temporarily in U.S. agricultural fields. In Braceros , historian Deborah Cohen asks why these temporary migrants provoked so much concern and anxiety in the United States and what the Mexican government... more...
Family Secrets
Penguin Books Ltd 2013; Not AvailableA Sunday Telegraph and Times Higher Education 'Book of the Week', Deborah Cohen's Family Secrets is a gripping book about what families - Victorian and modern - try to hide, and why. In an Edinburgh town house, a genteel maiden lady frets with her brother over their niece's downy upper lip. Would the darkening shadow betray the girl's... more...
Family Secrets
Oxford University Press, USA 2013; US$ 24.99We live today in a culture of full disclosure, where tell-all memoirs top the best-seller lists, transparency is lauded, and privacy seems imperiled. But how did we get here? Exploring scores of previously sealed records, Family Secrets offers a sweeping account of how shame--and the relationship between secrecy and openness--has changed over the last... more...
Gender and Sexuality in 1968
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2009; US$ 90.00This unique volume brings together literary critics, historians, and anthropologists from around the world to offer new understandings of gender and sexuality as they were redefined during the upheaval of 1968. more...
Prenatal Alcohol Use and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Bentham Science Publishers 2011; US$ 79.00This eBook addresses the impact of prenatal exposure to alcohol, and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD). It presents a compilation of current research by leading experts in the field and serves as a guide to future directions in FASD research, interventions and treatment. The book includes a comprehensive compendium of our knowledge of the dangers... more...
Just Get Me Through This!
Kensington Publishing Corp. 2012; US$ 12.99You Can Get Through This. Your doctor told you it was breast cancer. So now what?! You'll need plenty of essential advicethe kind that only comes from someone who's been there. In Just Get Me Through This! Deborah A. Cohen and Robert M. Gelfand, M.D. help you deal with all the ups and downs of the breast cancer experience. From the shock... more...
Comparison and History
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 39.95This volume assesses the gains, but also the perils and obstacles, of research that traverses national boundaries. more...
Just Marriage
Oxford University Press 2005; US$ 22.99As the national debate intensifies over what marriage is and who may marry, Mary Lyndon Shanley argues that although the state should continue to play a role in regulating personal relations, the law must be fundamentally reformed if marriage is to become a more just institution. more...
'You Should See Yourself'
Rutgers University Press 2006; US$ 24.95Bringing together fourteen new essays by leading scholars, You Should See Yourself examines the fluctuating representations of Jewishness in a variety of areas of popular culture and high art, including literature, the media, film, theater, music, dance, painting, photography, and comedy. Contributors explore the evolution that has taken place... more...
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