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    • Red Dynamite: Creationism, Culture Wars, and Anticommunism in America 

      Weinberg, Carl R. (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 ...

    • Phantom Billing, Fake Prescriptions, and the High Cost of Medicine: Health Care Fraud and What to Do about It 

      Leap, Terry L. (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 ...

    • America's Disenfranchised: Why Restoring Their Vote Can Save the Soul of Our Democracy 

      Meade, Desmond (Cornell University Press, 2021-10-15)
      Voting is foundational in a democracy, yet over six million American citizens remain stripped of their ability to participate in elections. Once convicted of a felony, people who complete their sentences reenter society, ...

    • Thomas Mann's War: Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters 

      Boes, Tobias (Cornell University Press, 2019-10-15)
      In Thomas Mann's War, Tobias Boes traces how the acclaimed and bestselling author became one of America's most prominent anti-fascists and the spokesperson for a German cultural ideal that Nazism had perverted. Thomas Mann, ...

    • Repentance for the Holocaust: Lessons from Jewish Thought for Confronting the German Past 

      Chung, C. K. Martin (Cornell University Press, 2017-08-15)
      In Repentance for the Holocaust, C. K. Martin Chung develops the biblical idea of “turning” (tshuvah) into a conceptual framework to analyze a particular area of contemporary German history, commonly referred to as ...

    • Substantial Relations: Making Global Reproductive Medicine in Postcolonial India 

      Bärnreuther, Sandra (Cornell University Press, 2021-12-15)
      Substantial Relations examines global reproductive medicine in India, focusing on in vitro fertilization. Since the 1970s, India has played a central but changable role in shaping global reproductive medicine: from a ...

    • Modeling and Evaluating Multimodal Urban Air Mobility 

      Zhang, Yu; Wu, Zhiqiang (2021-10-10)
      Traffic congestion has been one of the leading issues around the world. The emerging concept urban air mobility (UAM) is expected to provide a new solution by making use of the three-dimensional airspace to transport ...

    • Vehicle-based Sensing for Energy and Emission Reduction 

      Li, Xiaopeng (2021-09-30)
      Vehicle technologies have undergone drastic improvements in recent years, in particular sensing technologies that report a variety of vehicle and environmental conditions and control technologies that automate vehicle ...

    • Regional Wildlife Disease Hazard Software 

      Hanley, Brenda; Mitchell, Corey I.; Abbott, Rachel C.; Hollingshead, Nicholas; Carstensen, Michelle; Walsh, Daniel; Christensen, Sonja; Storm, Daniel; Kelly, James; Them, Cara; Ahmed, Md Sohel; Miller, Lauren; Schuler, Krysten (2022-01-12)
      The Regional Wildlife Disease Hazard Software displays the hazards associated with the introduction and spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in free ranging white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in select states ...

    • Wildlife Disease Hazard Software 

      Hanley, Brenda; Mitchell, Corey I.; Abbott, Rachel C.; Hollingshead, Nicholas; Carstensen, Michelle; Walsh, Daniel; Christensen, Sonja; Storm, Daniel; Kelly, James; Miller, Lauren; Schuler, Krysten (2022-01-12)
      The Wildlife Disease Hazard Software displays the hazards associated with the introduction and spread of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in wild white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in the eastern United States (US) ...