Roger Davidson

Much of this nation’s political life and public policy have been shaped by a handful of powerful people—the leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives. Masters of the House identifies enduring patterns of House leadership, explaining the effects of such factors as party strength, White House-congressional relations, leaders’ formal prerogatives, members’ expectations, public attitudes, shifts in the policy agenda, and leaders’ personal attributes and style. Ten chapters cover such colorful and diverse personalities as Henry Clay, Joe Cannon, Hale Boggs, and Tip O’Neill. Coeditors Roger Davidson, Susan Hammond, and Raymond Smock have blended essays by political scientists, historians, and journalists into an integrated treatment of House leadership over time, including an analysis of emerging trends in the 1990s.

Congressional Leadership Over Two Centuries

Masters Of The House

Lesley A. Hall

This volume brings together for the first time a series of studies on the social history of venereal disease in modern Europe and its former colonies. It explores, from a comparative perspective, the responses of legal, medical and political authorities to the 'Great Scourge'. In particular, how such responses reflected and shaped social attitudes towards sexuality and social relationships of class, gender, generation and race.

Venereal Disease and European Society since 1870

Sex, Sin and Suffering

Lutz Sauerteig

The history of sex education enables us to gain valuable insights into the cultural constructions of what different societies have defined as 'normal' sexuality and sexual health. Yet, the history of sex education has only recently attracted the full attention of historians of modern sexuality. Shaping Sexual Knowledge: A Cultural History of Sex Education in Twentieth Century Europe makes a considerable contribution not only to the cultural history of sexual enlightenment and identity in modern Europe, but also to the history of childhood and adolescence. The essays collected in this volume treat sex education in the broadest sense, incorporating all aspects of the formal and informal shaping of sexual knowledge and awareness of the young. The volume, therefore, not only addresses officially-sanctioned and regulated sex education delivered within the school system and regulated by the State and in some cases the Church, but also the content, iconography and experience of sexual enlightenment within the private sphere of the family and as portrayed through the media.

A Cultural History of Sex Education in Twentieth Century Europe

Shaping Sexual Knowledge

BAKERS AND BANKERS: Pun Jokes For All! is unique among pun joke books: All jokes contain perfect homonyms. No approximate puns here! This book is a barrel of laughs not only for anyone who appreciates really clever humor, but is also a great resource for students of English to learn about the intrinsic humor in our language. It is an entertaining teaching book for students of English as a second language, as it shows not only how different spellings of words with identical pronunciation completely change the meaning, but that the one word can mean different things even if the spelling remains unchanged! There are single, double, triple and quadruple puns here, an enthralling collection of wordplay humor -- and ample evidence of the author's sharp wit! Coupled with the hysterical cartoons by Simon Goodway, the jokes in this book are certain to be a hit at gatherings and parties everywhere -- or they can simply be enjoyed on a rainy day to make the sun shine through the clouds. This book is suitable for both children and adults, so the whole family can have fun together. Happy reading!

A Book of Pun Jokes for All!

Bakers and Bankers

This book explores the role of Venereal Disease in shaping perceptions of sexuality in twentieth-century Scotland, and in defining the response of the Modern State to patterns of sexual behaviour. It examines how civic, medical and political authorities reacted to the 'Hideous Scourge' in times of peace and war and how far policy was informed by anxieties surrounding social change and public morality as much as by the incidence of disease and developments in medical knowledge. It focuses in particular on the moral assumptions underpinning epidemiological debate, and the various dimensions of stigmatisation and control within VD discourse, including gender, generation and class. This study also highlights the protracted campaign in Scotland for legal controls over those suffering from VD, and the enduring problem, resurrected by the threat of HIV and AIDS, of balancing the demands of public health against those of civil liberties in the regulation of 'dangerous sexualities'.

Roger Davidson

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