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Kennedy argues that American radicalism is possible and desirable. One base for radical politics is the institutional workplace; another is popular culture (hence, sexy dressing). Kennedy's aim is to wed the rebelliousness, irony, and irrationalism of cultural modernism and postmodernism to the earnestness of political correctness.

The spectacle presented in Russett's book, of nineteenth-century white male scientists and thinkers earnestly trying to prove women inferior to men-thereby providing, along with "savages" and "idiots," an evolutionary buffer between men and animals-is by turns appalling, amusing, and saddening.

As judge and legal scholar Posner shows, we make quite rational choices about sex, based on costs and benefits perceived. Drawing on the fields of biology, law, history, religion, and economics, this study examines societies from ancient Greece to today's Sweden and issues from masturbation, incest taboos, date rape, and gay marriage to Baby M.

Focuses on the interplay between sexual science and legal decision-making, giving insights into such controversial social and sexual topics as rape, pornography, lesbian motherhood, and sex discrimination. Green examines how the law weighs the desires of the individual against social standards.

Casper offers a clear portrait of the issues of separation of power along functional lines-legislative, executive, and judicial-in the founding period, as well as a suggestion that in modern times we should be reluctant to tie separation of powers notions to their own procrustean bed.

With huge jackpots and heartwarming rags-to-riches stories, the lottery has become the hope and dream of millions of Americans-and the fastest-growing source of state revenue. Despite its popularity, there remains much controversy over whether this is an appropriate business for state government and, if so, how the business should be conducted.

Frye finds in romantic narratives of Western tradition an imaginative universe stretching from an idyllic world to a demonic one, and a pattern of cyclical descent into and ascent out of the demonic realm. Romance thus forms an integrated vision of the world, a "secular scripture" whose hero is man, paralleling sacred scripture whose hero is God.

First published in 1981, this book is eerily prescient and timely. Warning the women's movement against dissolving into factionalism, male-bashing, and preoccupation with sexual and identity politics rather than bottom-line political and economic inequalities, the problem Friedan identifies is as real now as it was years ago

Though centered on a single Jamaican sugar estate, and dealing largely with the period of formal slavery, this book is firmly placed in far wider contexts of place and time. The "Invisible Man" of the title is found, in the end, to be not just the formal slave but the ordinary black worker throughout the history of the plantation system.

This book makes Moore's wisdom available to students in a lively, richly illustrated account of the history and workings of life. Employing rhetoric strategies including case histories, hypotheses and deductions, and chronological narrative, it provides both a cultural history of biology and an introduction to the procedures and values of science.

Taking advantage of documents never before available from the archives of the East German Communist Party and the Ministry for State Security, and drawing on interviews with, among others, legendary spy chief Markus Wolf and members of the East German Politburo, this is the first book to examine the role of science and technology in the former GDR.

Drawing selectively from reform movements of the past and relating them to the unique needs of today's parents and children, Jane Martin presents a philosophy of education that is responsive to America's changed and changing realities.

Kugel's The Bible As It Was has been universally praised. Here is the full scholarly edition, expanding the author's findings into an incomparable reference. Focusing on 24 core stories in the Pentateuch, Kugel shows us how the earliest interpreters of the scriptures radically transformed the Bible and made it into the book we know today.

Scheming for the Poor is the first comparative analysis of redistributive policymaking in Latin America. Ascher examines the success or failure of progressive policies launched by nine governments grouped into three regime types-populist, reformist, and radical-over the course of the postwar history of Argentina, Chile, and Peru.

What, precisely, is the clash over race in the 1990s, and does it support the charge of a "new racism"? Here is a brilliant articulation of what has happened, of how racial issues have become entangled with politics-the process of negotiating who gets what through government action. We now have to understand and cope with a "politics of race."

In a country founded on the principle of religious freedom, with no medieval past, no legal nobility, and no national church, how did anti-Semitism become a presence here? Jaher considers this question this book, the first history of American anti-Semitism from its origins in the ancient world to its first widespread outbreak during the Civil War.

A detailed discussion by the editor complements this critical edition and translation of the phonetical treatise (Pratisakhya) of the Saunaka Samhita, one of two versions of the second oldest Indian text, the Saunaka Atharvaveda. This contemporary reevaluation helps to re-establish the textual tradition of the Atharvaveda.

North Sea oil, garden suburbs, socialized medicine, ombudsmen, economic diversification, party politics, relations with the US and the USSR--these are some of the exciting and controversial aspects of Scandinavian life in the 1970s that Scott explores in this revised and enlarged edition of The United States and Scandinavia.

This book is a search for Sappho through the poetry she wrote, the culture she inhabited, and the myths that have arisen around her. It is an expert and thoroughly engaging introduction to one of the most enduring and enigmatic figures of antiquity.

Long recognized as the best and most comprehensive work on its subject, Brown's fine book is now thoroughly revised and updated. It provides a comprehensive treatment of Russian literature, including underground and emigre writings, from 1917 to the early 1980s.

Barth believes that there is a way to create a school which, instead of insisting upon uniformity, builds upon diversity among students, teachers, and teaching styles. Run School Run is the chronicle of his theory in action, a nuts-and-bolts study of one school rocky but ultimately quite successful transition toward pluralist education.

Lane offers a historical explanation for rising levels of black urban crime and family instability during a paradoxical era. Modern crime rates and patterns are shown to be products of a historical culture traceable from its formative years. The author charts Philadelphia's story but also makes suggestions about national and international patterns.

This book examines the historical contrasts between East and West and elucidates the Russian enigma. It springs from the thesis that Russia's national character and its international relations can be understood only in light of the traumas and triumphs, privation and privileges that the country weathered under the tsars and the Soviets.

To a culture speaking with barely masked hysteria, this book brings a voice of reason and a reminder of the decency that is missing from so much of our public debate. Patricia J. Williams addresses the wounds in America's public soul, and uncovers the shifting, often covert rules of conversation that determine who "we" are as a nation.