How To Prevent Your Stroke

By J David Spense M.D.

Life-saving advice for doctors and patients - both those at risk of a first stroke and those who have already had a mini-stroke, the #1 risk factor facing survivors.

ISBN 0826515371 Paper $24.95 Available Now!

Vanderbilt University Press

J David Spense M.D. David Spence, MD, one of the world's leading experts in stroke prevention, is Professor of Neurology and Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Western Ontario and Director of the Stroke Prevention and Atherosclerosis Research Centre at the Robarts Research Institute. He pioneered ultrasound measurement of carotid plaque, and was one of the researchers on the team that discovered the dangerous drug interactions with grapefruit.

 

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A report on the worldwide status of female circumcision.

ISBN 0-8122-3924-5 Cloth $57.95 February 2006

University of Pennsylvania Press

Audrey Macklin is an associate professor of law at the University of Toronto.

 

Marriage, Sex, and Civic Culture in Late Medieval London

Shannon McSheffrey

A snapshot of marriage in medieval London.

ISBN 0-8122-3938-5 Cloth $79.75 June 2006

University of Pennsylvania Press

Shannon McSheffrey is Associate Professor of History at Concordia University.

 

Barbarian Tides: The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire

Walter Goffart

The barbarian invasion reinvented.

ISBN 0-8122-3939-3 Cloth $101.50 June 2006

University of Pennsylvania Press

Walter Goffart is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Toronto.

 

Thinking About Dementia: Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility

Edited by Annette Liebling and Lawrence Cohen

This volume approaches the subject of dementia from a variety of angles.

ISBN 0-8135-3803-3 Paper $37.50 March 2006

Rutgers University Press

Annete Liebing is a visiting professor in the department of social studies and medicine at McGill University.

 

Law and Order: Images, Meanings, Myths

Mariana Valverde

A volume in the Critical Issues in Crime and Society Series, edited by Raymond J. Michalowski Jr.

ISBN 0-8135-3880-7 Paper $34.50 July 2006

Rutgers University Press

Mariana Valverde is a professor of criminology at the University of Toronto.

 

Cinema and Modernity

Edited by Murray Pomerance

This volume shows us the significant ways that film has both grown in the context of the modern world and played a central role in reflecting and shaping our interactions with it.

ISBN 0-8135-3816-5 Paper $37.50 April 2006

Rutgers University Press

Murray Pomerance is a professor and chair in the sociology department at Ryerson University.

 

Howard Hawks New Edition

Robin Wood

A significant and contemporary study of director Howard Hawks by influential film critic Robin Wood, reprinted with a new introduction.

ISBN 0-8143-3276-5 Paper $37.95 February 2006

Wayne State University Press

Robin Wood is professor emeritus at York University.

 

Personal Views: Explorations in Film, New Edition

Robin Wood

A new edition of a significant and hide-to-find text in film studies with a new introduction and three additional essays.

ISBN 0-8143-3278-1 Paper $41.25 July 2006

Wayne State University Press

Robin Wood is professor emeritus at York University.

 

Representing the Rural: Space, Place, and Identity in Films about the Land

Edited by Catherine Fowler and Gillian Hetfield

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ISBN 0-8143-3305-2 Paper $47.75 October 2006

Wayne State University Press

Gillian Hetfield is a lecturer in film studies at York University.