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A narrative history of con artistry in America documents the early twentieth-century efforts of J. Frank Norfleet to track down a gang of confidence men who swindled him out of everything he had.

When non-native species are introduced into a new range, their parasites can also be introduced, with these potentially spilling-over into native hosts. However, in general, evidence suggests that a high proportion of their native parasites are lost during introduction and infections by some new parasites from the native range might occur, potentially resulting in parasite spill-back to native species. These processes were investigated here using parasite surveys and literature review on seven non-native freshwater fishes introduced into England and Wales. Comparison of the mean numbers of parasite species and genera per population for each fish species England and Wales with their native ranges revealed <9 % of the native parasite fauna were present in their populations in England and Wales. There was no evidence suggesting these introduced parasites had spilled over into sympatric native fishes. The non-native fishes did acquire parasites following their introduction, providing potential for parasite spill-back to sympatric fishes, and resulted in non-significant differences in overall mean numbers of parasites per populations between the two ranges. Through this acquisition, the non-native fishes also had mean numbers of parasite species and genera per population that were not significantly different to sympatric native fishes. Thus, the non-native fishes in England and Wales showed evidence of enemy release, acquired new parasites following introduction providing potential for spill-back, but showed no evidence of parasite spill-over.

Dazzled by his word play and linguistic labyrinths, Nabokov's tenured readers have gratefully accepted his invitation to an extended intellectual sparring match, thus reading the novel on the author's own terms and ceding enormous critical terrain.

Duplicity is at the very core of what it means to be an individual. If the hallmark of Renaissance individualism is self-consciousness, the ability to stand adjacent to oneself and observe one's own inner workings, then to be an individual is to play the role of individuality with oneself as audience. What happens when that performance is translated into text in an autobiography? My dissertation watches the performance of the inauthentic self in American autobiography from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. If all the world is a stage, what better place to learn about the formal properties of this literary imposture than the memoirs of professional deceivers? The dissertation begins and ends with serial autobiographers, showman P.T. Barnum and novelist Mary McCarthy, two masters of the genre who ceaselessly wrote and revised their lives, thus providing especially clear examples of the refinement of the autobiographical persona. In between Barnum and McCarthy, two distinct autobiographical subgenres rose and fell with the tenor of the times. Stage magicians and confidence artists each for a time cornered the market on deceptive autobiographies before their professions became eclipsed by other entertainments. This project develops the notion of \"autobiographical masquerade,\" which denotes the way an author impersonates him- or herself in written words, arguing that autobiographical truth arises from the dynamic between deception and exposé. The autobiographer paradoxically secures personal truth by courting inauthenticity and then unmasking the true self hidden behind the illusory one. For the reader, this sense of getting a privileged glimpse behind the curtain at a spectacular deception forms a structure of feeling crucial to American modernity. The project seeks to identify the literary conventions undergirding these acts of revelation and to link them to other facets of cultural life. I hope to illuminate a century-wide arc which traces the ebb and flow of fraud as a useful literary device for describing the self.

This illustrated collection offers fascinating insight on restoring the wolf population to the Southern Rockies. Detailed reports by wildlife biologists, geographers, legal and policy experts, and conservationists provide a comprehensive look at not only the ecological imperatives, but also the history, legal framework, and public attitudes affecting the future of wolves.

Reading reviews Something for Nothing: Luck in America by Jackson Lears.

I have been actively involved within the Jaycee organization, as a past Reading chapter president. I do understand the frustration and the concerns of the York chapter's legal counsel with the controversy of Rev. [Jim Grove]'s anti-abortion float.

Background Atrial fibrillation (AF) patients are routinely prescribed medications to prevent and treat complications, including those from common co-occurring comorbidities. However, adherence to such medications may be suboptimal. Therefore, we sought to identify risk factors for general medication non-adherence in a population of patients with atrial fibrillation. Methods Data were collected from a large, ethnically-diverse cohort of Kaiser Permanente Northern and Southern California adult members with incident diagnosed AF between January 1, 2006 and June 30, 2009. Self-reported questionnaires were completed between May 1, 2010 and September 30, 2010, assessing patient socio-demographics, health behaviors, health status, medical history and medication adherence. Medication adherence was assessed using a previously validated 3-item questionnaire. Medication non-adherence was defined as either taking medication(s) as the doctor prescribed 75% of the time or less, or forgetting or choosing to skip one or more medication(s) once per week or more. Electronic health records were used to obtain additional data on medical history. Multivariable logistic regression analyses examined the associations between patient characteristics and self-reported general medication adherence among patients with complete questionnaire data. Results Among 12,159 patients with complete questionnaire data, 6.3% ( n  = 771) reported medication non-adherence. Minority race/ethnicity versus non-Hispanic white, not married/with partner versus married/with partner, physical inactivity versus physically active, alcohol use versus no alcohol use, any days of self-reported poor physical health, mental health and/or sleep quality in the past 30 days versus 0 days, memory decline versus no memory decline, inadequate versus adequate health literacy, low-dose aspirin use versus no low-dose aspirin use, and diabetes mellitus were associated with higher adjusted odds of non-adherence, whereas, ages 65–84 years versus < 65 years of age, a Charlson Comorbidity Index score ≥ 3 versus 0, and hypertension were associated with lower adjusted odds of non-adherence. Conclusions Several potentially preventable and/or modifiable risk factors related to medication non-adherence and a few non-modifiable risk factors were identified. These risk factors should be considered when assessing medication adherence among patients diagnosed with AF.