In the White House, among journalists, and for many political practitioners, the idea of a major “political realignment” that might dramatically reshape the face of American politics remains as tantalizing as ever. But among historians and political scientists, no one needs a weatherman to tell which way the wind is blowing. The long-venerated “realignment” approach to election analysis develop...

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The stark observation of the coexistence of undernourishment, nutrient deficiencies, and overweight and obesity – the triple burden of malnutrition – is inviting us to reconsider health and nutrition as the primary goal and final endpoint of food systems. Agriculture and the food industry have made remarkable advances in the past decades. However, their development hasn’t entirely fulfilled hea...

Thomas Reid offers a powerful challenge to Hume and his skeptical system. In “Thomas Reid on Epistemic Principles,” William Alston gives an explanation of that challenge and concludes in favor of a Reidian-inspired thesis. I argue, however, that Alston’s thesis is a diluted version of Reid’s radical position, one that Reid’s principles cannot accommodate. Thus, I conclude that, because Alston’s...

Dr. Willmer's second edition of this little book fulfills his stated purpose ... to correlate some of the numerous fragments of scattered data which have so far been obtained and to orientate them in such a way as to illustrate the more fundamental contributions which the method has made to physiological knowledge, and to show the manner in which a change of outlook has already been brought abo...

1916), believed that whitening of hair was related to pigment absorbed and carried away by phagocytes he observed in the vicinity of dystrophic hair follicles and called ‘pigmentophages’ [9] . In 1981, Guin et al. [10] reported a lady whose hair turned white over 3 months with hair thinning but no patches of alopecia. Immunofluorescence studies demonstrated immune deposits along the follicular ...

Dr. Earl Bond has earned the gratitude of a large number of readers on both sides of the Atlantic by producing this biography of Dr. Salmon. It is an unusually good book, as readable as a novel, dealing with well-selected material and in a very realistic xvay. It is perhaps natural that Dr. Bond should regard his task almost as the writing of a case history, and that makes it more interesting b...

With the beginning of the 19th century, England entered into a transitional period. Sociologists believe that in each era of transformation, the ruling class tries to establish its own values, but some resistance to these new values is inevitable. Thomas Hardy's novels in general, and Under the Greenwood Tree specifically, are no exception. Based on these notions, this paper tries to interpret ...