Winner, John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize, Association of American Geographers, 1997Shadowed Ground explores how and why Americans have memorialized—or not—the sites of tragic and violent events spanning three centuries of history and every region of the country. For this revised edition, Kenneth Foote has written a new concluding chapter that looks at the evolving responses to recent acts of violence and terror, including the destruction of the Branch David...

Contested Places, Contested Pasts focuses on how the First and Second World Wars, Holocaust, Cold War communist period, and 1956 Uprising have been memorialized and marked in the Hungarian landscape. The book explores the difficult debates surrounding the remembrance and commemoration of these events.This is the first comprehensive, book-length study of Hungary’s commemorative landscapes from the First World War to the present. By stressing the spatiality and materiality o...

Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall: Displaced and Ephemeral Public Memories vividly illustrates that a nation’s history is more complicated than the simple binary of remembered/forgotten. Some parts of history, while not formally recognized within a commemorative landscape, haunt those landscapes by virtue of their ephemeral or displaced presence. Rather than being discretely contained within a formal sites, these memories remain public by lingering along the edges and within the crevice...

A practical and compassionate approach for helping your loved one change.If you have a loved one who is struggling with alcohol or other drugs, you may have feelings of frustration, anger, fear, or sadness. You may also feel powerless and unsure of how to help them, and how best to support them over time. You don’t have to try a “tough love” approach or wait for your loved one to “hit rock bottom” before taking action. You can be a force for positive change in your...

The authorised – but not uncritical – life of one of the great parliamentarians and orators of our times, the former Labour Party leader, who was also an eminent man of letters.Michael Foot was a controversial and charismatic figure in British public life, political and literary, for over sixty years.Emerging from a famous west-country Liberal dynasty, he rose as a crusading left-wing journalist in the late 1930s: ‘The Guilty Men’ (his book on the pre-war appeasers of Nazi ...

Foot drop is a medical disorder with muscular weakness or paralysis that makes it difficult to lift the front part of the foot and toes.Foot drop is a sign of an underlying disorder rather than a condition itself.This could be muscular, produced by nerve damage in the leg, or the result of a brain or spinal injury.Foot drop normally only involves one foot, but both feet may be involved depending on the cause.It can be temporary or permanent.Muscular dystr...

This issue of Foot and Ankle Clinics, guest edited by Dr. Kenneth Hunt, will cover concepts surrounding Avascular Necrosis of the Foot and Ankle. Under the guidance of long-time series Consulting Editor Dr. Mark Myerson, Dr. Hunt and his contributing authors will explore topics of interest for practitioners in the field. Articles include, but are not limited to: Diagnostic Imaging for Avascular Necrosis of the Foot and Ankle; Natural History of AVN in the talus; Prevention of AVN in the ta...

Narrating Space / Spatializing Narrative: Where Narrative Theory and Geography Meet by Marie-Laure Ryan, Kenneth Foote, and Maoz Azaryahu offers a groundbreaking approach to understanding how space works in narrative and narrative theory and how narratives work in real space. Thus far, space has traditionally been viewed by narratologists as a backdrop to plot. This study argues that space serves important but under-explored narrative roles: It can be a focus of attention, a beare...

This book describes Lisfranc Foot Injury, Diagnosis and Treatment and Related DiseasesA Lisfranc injury happens when there are either torn ligaments or broken bones in the mid-foot region of one or both feet.The mid-foot is the region of the foot that forms the arch, where the forefoot (bones of the toes) and hind-foot (bones including the ankle and heel bone) connect.The Lisfranc joint complex involves the bones and ligaments that attach the mid-foot and forefoot.

This book describes Hand Mouth and Foot Disease, Diagnosis and Treatment and Related DiseasesHand-mouth-foot disease (HMFD) is a frequent viral infection that most often begins in the throat.Hand-mouth-foot disease is highly contagious and a notifiable disease under the Infections Act.It is caused by viruses from the Enterovirus genus, most often the coxsackievirus.These viruses can spread from person-to-person through direct contact with unwashed hands or s...

Flat Foot (pes planus) is a common disorder of the foot characterized by the depression or loss of the medial longitudinal arch of the foot.It is usually associated with valgus of the foot or eversion of the heel and abduction of the forefoot.It is also associated with a tight Achilles tendon.Flat foot is hereditary and associated with hyper mobility of the other jointsSymptoms:Pain in the foot especially when standing for a prolonged period

With its dignified courthouse set among shade trees and lawns dotted with monuments to prominent citizens and fallen veterans, the courthouse square remains the civic center in a majority of the county seats of Texas. Yet the squares themselves vary in form and layout, reflecting the different town-planning traditions that settlers brought from Europe, Mexico, and the United States. In fact, one way to trace settlement patterns and ethnic dispersion in Texas is by mapping the different typ...