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Introduction: The Transitional Election -- The Big Five -- Electioneering without Electioneering -- One-Party Politics -- The Perpetual Campaign -- The Final Battles -- The War within the States -- Kingmaking behind Closed Doors -- Epilogue: Winners and Losers.

Introduction to Theme: Genre, Gender, Transition and Translation -- Rotting, Blistered, Staggering Bodies and The Last of Ethnicity -- Assuming Direct Control: Transformation and Identity in the Mass Effect Series -- Scarlett Johansson: Into the Flesh and Out of the Flesh -- The Tattooed Body as a Vehicle of the Self and Memory -- Flying Bodies: Skywalker and Rooftopper Youth Communities in Interaction with the Contemporary Megalopolis -- Who Comes After the Woman: Becoming Plant in Han Kang's The Vegetarian -- Stitching, Weaving, Recreating: Frankenstein and Young Adult Fiction -- Noah Hawley's Fargo: How Far can you get from the Coen Brothers? -- From Animation to Live-action: Reconstructing Maleficent -- On Botched Cinematic Transformations of Video Games -- Transmedia Storytelling: The many Faces of Videogames, Fluid Narratives and Winding Seriality

Laying the foundations: 1930-1961 -- My own 1960s: a decade of transformation -- Giving birth to a center: 1969-1979 -- Coping with success: 1980-1986 -- The routinization of charisma: 1986-1996 -- Opening the flood gates: 1996-2010 -- The future of bioethics -- Unraveling the puzzle of ethics -- Reaching the finish line

Abstract Background Current asthma prevalence among adults in the United States has reached historically high levels. Although national-level estimates indicate that asthma prevalence among adults increased by 33% from 2000 to 2009, state-specific temporal trends of current asthma prevalence and their contributing risk factors have not been explored. Methods We used 2000–2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data from all 50 states and the District of Columbia (D.C.) to estimate state-specific current asthma prevalence by 2-year periods (2000–2001, 2002–2003, 2004–2005, 2006–2007, 2008–2009). We fitted a series of four logistic-regression models for each state to evaluate whether there was a statistically significant linear change in the current asthma prevalence over time, accounting for sociodemographic factors, smoking status, and weight status (using body mass index as the indicator). Results During 2000–2009, current asthma prevalence increased in all 50 states and D.C., with significant increases in 46/50 (92%) states and D.C. After accounting for weight status in the model series with sociodemographic factors, and smoking status, 10 states (AR, AZ, IA, IL, KS, ME, MT, UT, WV, and WY) that had previously shown a significant increase did not show a significant increase in current asthma prevalence. Conclusions There was a significant increasing trend in state-specific current asthma prevalence among adults from 2000 to 2009 in most states in the United States. Obesity prevalence appears to contribute to increased current asthma prevalence in some states.

AN ACCIDENTAL UTOPIA? SOCIAL MOBILITY AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF AN EGALITARIAN SOCIETY, 1880–1940,ERIK OLSSEN, CLYDE GRIFFEN AND FRANK JONES (2009) Dunedin: Otago University Press, 472 pp., ISBN 978 1 877372 64 3 (pbk), NZ$49.95
BEYOND THE SCENE: LANDSCAPE AND IDENTITY
IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND, JANET STEPHENSON, MICK ABBOTT AND JACINTA RURU (EDS) (2010) Dunedin: Otago University Press, 224 pp., ISBN 978 1 877372 81 0 (pbk), £18.50
MAKING OUR PLACE: EXPLORING LAND-USE TENSIONS IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND, JACINTA RURU, JANET STEPHENSON AND MICK ABBOTT
(EDS) (2011) Dunedin: Otago University Press, 240 pp., ISBN 978 1 877372 88 9 (pbk), £18.50
SEEDS OF EMPIRE: THE ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSFORMATION OF NEW ZEALAND, TOM BROOKING AND ERIC PAWSON (2011) London: I.B. Tauris, 296 pp., ISBN 978 184511797 9 (hbk), £59.50
A GREAT NEW ZEALAND
PRIME MINISTER? REAPPRAISING WILLIAM FERGUSON MASSEY, JAMES WATSON, LACHY PATERSON (ED.) (2011) Dunedin: Otago University Press, 176 pp., ISBN 978 1 877578 07 6 (pbk), NZ$40
INDIA IN NEW ZEALAND: LOCAL IDENTITIES, GLOBAL RELATIONS, SEKHAR BANDYOPADHYAY (ED.) (2010) Dunedin: Otago
University Press, 269 pp., ISBN 978 1 877372 85 8 (pbk), NZ$49.95
CHANGING CONTEXTS – SHIFTING MEANINGS: TRANSFORMATIONS OF CULTURAL TRADITIONS IN OCEANIA, ELFRIEDE HERMANN (ED.) (2011) Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 384 pp., ISBN 978 0 8248 3366 4 (hbk), US$58.00
INTERPRETING
CORRUPTION: CULTURE AND POLITICS IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS, PETER LARMOUR (2012) Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 208 pp., ISBN 978 0 8248 3514 9 (pbk), US$49.00
FROM KAI TO KIWI KITCHEN: NEW ZEALAND CULINARY TRADITIONS AND COOKBOOKS, HELEN LEACH (ED.) (2010) Dunedin: Otago
University Press, 208 pp., ISBN 978 1 877372 75 9 (pbk), NZ$40
DIRECTORY OF WORLD CINEMA: AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND, BEN GOLDSMITH AND GEOFF LEALAND (EDS) (2010) Bristol: Intellect Books, 320 pp., ISBN 978 1 84150 373 8 (pbk), £15.95
MAKING FILM AND TELEVISION HISTORIES:
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND, JAMES E. BENNETT AND REBECCA BEIRNE (EDS) (2012) London: I.B. Tauris and Co. Ltd, 320 pp., ISBN 978 1 84885 944 9 (pbk), £19.99
HOME, LAND AND SEA: SITUATING MUSIC IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND, GLENDA KEAM AND TONY MITCHELL (EDS) (2011) North Shore: Pearson,
292 pp., ISBN 978 1 442516328 (pbk), NZ$78.99
THE FRAME FUNCTION: AN INSIDE-OUT GUIDE TO THE NOVELS OF JANET FRAME, JAN CRONIN (2011) Auckland: Auckland University Press, 222 pp., ISBN 978 1 86940 486 4 (pbk), £23.95
SWEET AS: JOURNEYS IN A NEW ZEALAND SUMMER, GARTH CARTWRIGHT
(2011) Auckland: Allen & Unwin, 306 pp., ISBN 978 1 87750508 9 (pbk), NZ$39.99