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Phantom Billing, Fake Prescriptions, and the High Cost of Medicine: Health Care Fraud and What to Do about It
(Cornell University Press, 2011-04-15)U.S. health care is a 2.5 trillion dollar system that accounts for more than 17 percent of the nation’s GDP. It is also highly susceptible to fraud. Estimates vary, but some observers believe that as much as 10 percent of ... -
Phantom Formations: Aesthetic Ideology and the "Bildungsroman"
(Cornell University Press, 1996)Marc Redfield maintains that the literary genre of the Bildungsroman brings into sharp focus the contradictions of aesthetics, and also that aesthetics exemplifies what is called ideology. He combines a wide-ranging account ... -
Poetry in Speech: Orality and Homeric Discourse
(Cornell University Press, 1996)Applying linguistic theory to the study of Homeric style, Egbert J. Bakker offers a highly innovative approach to oral poetry, particularly the poetry of Homer. By situating formulas and other features of oral style within ... -
Poets, Patrons, and Printers: Crisis of Authority in Late Medieval France
(Cornell University Press, 1995)Cynthia J. Brown explains why the advent of print in the late medieval period brought about changes in relationships among poets, patrons, and printers which led to a new conception of authorship. Examining such paratextual ... -
Police Matters: The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900–1975
(Cornell University Press, 2021)Police Matters moves beyond the city to examine the intertwined nature of police and caste in the Tamil countryside. Radha Kumar argues that the colonial police acted as tools of the state in deploying rigid notions of ... -
Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place
(Cornell University Press, 2018)Pop City examines the use of Korean television dramas and K-pop music to promote urban and rural places in South Korea. Building on the phenomenon of Korean pop culture, Youjeong Oh argues that pop culture–featured place ... -
Possessed: A Cultural History of Hoarding
(Cornell University Press, 2021)In Possessed, Rebecca R. Falkoff asks how hoarding—once a paradigm of economic rationality—came to be defined as a mental illness. Hoarding is unique among the disorders included in the American Psychiatric Association's ... -
Power and Principle: The Politics of International Criminal Courts
(Cornell University Press, 2017)On August 21, 2013, chemical weapons were unleashed on the civilian population in Syria, killing another 1,400 people in a civil war that had already claimed the lives of more than 140,000. As is all too often the case, ... -
Power, Protection, and Free Trade: International Sources of U.S. Commercial Strategy, 1887–1939
(Cornell University Press, 1988)Why do nations so frequently abandon unrestricted international commerce in favor of trade protectionism? David A. Lake contends that the dominant explanation, interest group theory, does not adequately explain American ... -
Pranksters vs. Autocrats: Why Dilemma Actions Advance Nonviolent Activism
(Cornell University Press, 2020)The Lawrence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal, presented by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State, recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce innovations to further democracy ... -
Prescription for the People: An Activist’s Guide to Making Medicine Affordable for All
(Cornell University Press, 2017)In Prescription for the People, Fran Quigley diagnoses our inability to get medicines to the people who need them and then prescribes the cure. He delivers a clear and convincing argument for a complete shift in the global ... -
Private Papers of Johnny Robins IV, as cited in Chapter 4 of "Show Time: The Logic and Power of Violent Display" by Lee Ann Fujii (Cornell University Press, 2021)
(1933)John B. Robins IV was the Somerset County, Maryland, States Attorney at the time that George Armwood was lynched on Maryland's Eastern Shore in October 1933. These papers, in a single PDF file, are documents exchanged ... -
Proletarian Peasants: The Revolution of 1905 in Russia's Southwest
(Cornell University Press, 1987)In this book, conceived and written for the general reader as well as the specialist, Robert Edelman uses a case study of peasant behavior during a particular revolutionary situation to make an important contribution to ... -
Pursuing Truth: How Gender Shaped Catholic Education at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland
(Cornell University Press, 2021)In Pursuing Truth, Mary J. Oates explores the roles that religious women played in teaching generations of college and university students amid slow societal change that brought the grudging acceptance of Catholics in ... -
Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes
(Cornell University Press, 2017)Rare Earth Frontiers is a work of human geography that serves to demystify the powerful elements that make possible the miniaturization of electronics, green energy and medical technologies, and essential telecommunications ... -
Reappraisals: Shifting Alignments in Postwar Critical Theory
(Cornell University Press, 1991)Reappraisals is a provocative account of the development of modern critical theory in Germany and the United States. Focusing on the period since World War II, Peter Uwe Hohendahl explores key debates on the function of ... -
Reasons of State: Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government
(Cornell University Press, 1988)In this lucid and theoretically sophisticated book, G. John Ikenberry focuses on the oil price shocks of 1973–74 and 1979, which placed extraordinary new burdens on governments worldwide and particularly on that of the ... -
Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making
(Cornell University Press, 2021)By examining the intersection of Islamic law, state law, religion, and culture in the Egyptian nation-building process, Recasting Islamic Law highlights how the sharia, when attached to constitutional commitments, is ... -
Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882–1955
(Cornell University Press, 2021)In Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882–1955, Ying Jia Tan explores the fascinating politics of Chinese power consumption as electrical industries developed during seven decades of revolution and warfare. Tan traces ... -
Red Dynamite: Creationism, Culture Wars, and Anticommunism in America
(Cornell University Press, 2021-10-15)In Red Dynamite, Carl R. Weinberg argues that creationism's tenacious hold on American public life depended on culture-war politics inextricably embedded in religion. Many Christian conservatives were convinced that ...
