Health care costs represent a nearly 18% of U. S. gross domestic product and 20% of government spending. While there is detailed information on where these health care dollars are spent, there is much less evidence on how this spending affects health...

Law relies on a conception of human agency, the idea that humans are capable of making their own choices and are morally responsible for the consequences. But what if that is not the case? Over the past half century, the story of the law has been one...

The "Metropolitan Museum Journal", issued annually by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, publishes original research on works in the Museum's collection. Volume 50 includes articles on a possible Cypriot origin for an Assyrian stone mixing bowl in the C...

In "Magic's Reason", Graham M. Jones tells the entwined stories of anthropology and entertainment magic. The two areas are not as separate as they may at first seem. As Jones shows, the endeavors not only matured around the same time, but they also s...

As both the bedrock of human survival and an unchallenged part of the "normal" female life, motherhood expects and even compels women to be mothers – both symbolic and corporeal. Motherhood – and non-motherhood – is not just physiological. As the piv...

Trust occupies a unique place in contemporary discourse. Seen as both necessary and virtuous, it is variously depicted as enhancing the social fabric, lowering crime rates, increasing happiness, and generating prosperity. It allows for complex politi...

Dave Kehr's writing about film has garnered high praise from both readers and fellow critics. Among his admirers are some of his most influential contemporaries. Roger Ebert called Kehr "one of the most gifted film critics in America". James Naremore...

Elegant prose and imaginative ironies bring these compelling short stories to life in this first English-language collection from Mexican author Roberto Ransom. Each of the ten stories is filled with fascinating, yet enigmatic and sometimes elusive c...

What is time made of? We might balk at such a question, and reply that time is not made of anything – it is an abstract and universal phenomenon. In "Making Time", Yulia Frumer upends this assumption, using changes in the conceptualization of time in...

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic Across the whole of modern Czech history – from 1918, through World War II, and into the postwar years – ethnic and minority issues have been of the utmost prominence. Moreover, Czechoslova...