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Georgian social democracy was the most successful social democratic movement in Russia. Despite its size, it produced many of the leading revolutionaries of 1917. In the first of two volumes, Jones writes the history of this movement, which represented one of the earliest examples of European social democracy at the turn of the 20th century.

In Welfare Reform, Jeffrey Grogger and Lynn Karoly assemble evidence from numerous studies to assess how welfare reform has affected behavior. To broaden our understanding of this wide-ranging policy reform, the authors evaluate the evidence in relation to an economic model of behavior.

Engel argues that the "scientist in a crib" view held by many parents and teachers encourages them to expect more logical reasoning and emotional self-control from children than they possess. She provides an overview of what modern developmental psychologists have learned about children's developing powers of perception and capacity for reasoning.

The cultural landscape of the Hudson River Valley is full of ghosts-ghosts of Native Americans and Dutch colonists, of Revolutionary War soldiers and spies, of presidents, slaves, priests, and laborers. This book asks why this region became the locus for so many ghostly tales, and shows how the hauntings came to operate as a form of social memory.

Hollywood and the news media have repeatedly depicted the inner-city retail store as a scene of racial conflict and acrimony. Lee examines the relationships between African American, Jewish, and Korean merchants and their black customers in New York and Philadelphia, and shows that, in fact, social order, routine, and civility are the norm.

"How can such a gentle people as we are be so murderous?" a prominent Indonesian asks. That question-and the mysteries of the archipelago's vast contradictions-haunt Theodore Friend's remarkable work, a narrative of Indonesia during the last half century, from the postwar revolution against Dutch imperialism to the unrest of today.

Making Good explores the choices confronting young workers who join the ranks of three dynamic professions-journalism, science, and acting-and looks at how the novices navigate moral dilemmas posed by a demanding, frequently lonely, professional life.

In this first substantial study of Emily Dickinson's devotion to flowers and gardening, Farr seeks to join both poet and gardener in one creative personality, casting new light on Dickinson's temperament, aesthetic sensibility, and vision of the relationship between art and nature.

This powerful and disturbing book clearly links persistent poverty among blacks in the United States to the unparalleled degree of deliberate segregation they experience in American cities.

The authors challenge the view that restraining government social spending and cutting welfare should be our top domestic priorities. Instead, they propose policies that would reduce poverty by supplementing the earnings of low-wage workers and increasing the employment prospects of the jobless.

Consumer electronics and computers redefined life and work in the twentieth century. In Inventing the Electronic Century, Pulitzer Prize-winning business historian Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., traces their origins and worldwide development. This masterful analysis is essential reading for every manager and student of technology.

Key contemporary discussions of distributive justice have formulated egalitarian approaches in terms of responsibility. But this approach, Hurley contends, has ignored the way our understanding of responsibility constrains the roles it can actually play within distributive justice.

The French-even the most affluent and conservative-have always rejected and maligned bourgeois values and identity. In this new approach to the old question of the bourgeoisie, Sarah Maza focuses on the crucial period before, during, and after the French Revolution, and offers a provocative answer: the French bourgeoisie has never existed.

Saving lives versus taking lives: These are the stark terms in which the public regards human embryo research-a battleground of extremes, a war between science and ethics. Such a simplistic dichotomy, encouraged by vociferous opponents of abortion and proponents of medical research, is precisely what Maienschein seeks to counter with this book.

In 1806 thousands descended on Lenox, Massachusetts, for the hanging of Ephraim Wheeler, condemned for the rape of his 13-year-old daughter, Betsy. Using the trial report to reconstruct the crime and drawing on Wheeler's jailhouse autobiography to unravel his troubled family history, the authors illuminate a rarely seen slice of early America.

This book chronicles the complex interactions between disease and the peoples of America from the pre-Columbian world to the present. In a powerful challenge to our tendency to see disease as unnatural and its virtual elimination as a real possibility, Grob asserts the undeniable biological persistence of disease.

Drawing on ten years of undercover work and research in four major school districts, Segal reveals how systemic waste and fraud siphon millions of dollars from urban classrooms. Calling for renewed powers for principals and a streamlining of oversight, she offers a bold, far-reaching plan to reclaim our schools.

Quality childcare, the authors show, may be more beneficial to children than staying home. Although children who spend many hours in care may be more unruly than children at home, those who attend quality programs tend to be cognitively ahead of their peers. They are just as attached to their mothers and benefit from engaging with other children.

This book offers a panoramic history of our country's ruling elites from the time of the American Revolution to the present. At its heart is the greatest of American paradoxes: How have tiny minorities of the rich and privileged consistently exercised so much power in a nation built on the notion of rule by the people?

Collected here, Vergerio's Paulus, Philodoxeos fabula by Alberti, Philogenia et Epiphebus by Pisani, Chrysis by Piccolomini (later Pope Pius II), and Medio's Epirota span nearly the entire Quattrocento and are a valuable gauge of its changing literary tastes, tastes nourished by the ancient comic drama of Plautus and Terence.

The conventional argument is that China borrowed its economic system and development strategy wholesale from the U.S.S.R. in the 1950s. Bian shows instead that basic state-owned enterprise-bureaucratic governance, management and incentive mechanisms, and provision of social services and welfare-developed in China during the war years 1937-1945.

Constitutional law's central narrative in the 20th century has been one of radical reinterpretation-Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Bush v. Gore. What justifies this phenomenon? How does it work doctrinally? What structures it or limits it? Rubenfeld finds a pattern in constitutional interpretation that answers these questions.

Frege's 1879 Begriffsschrift presented the first truly modern logic in a symbolic language, Begriffsschrift, or concept-script. The first full-length study of this language, offers a new reading of Frege's logic based directly on Frege's own two-dimensional notation and his various writings about logic.

Brown offers a new appraisal of the Reformation and its popular appeal, based on the place of German hymns in the 16th-century press and in the lives of early Lutherans. The Bohemian mining town of Joachimsthal-where pastors, musicians, and laity forged an enduring, influential union of Lutheranism, music, and culture-is at the center of the story.

Deadly Cultures offers an historical analysis of biological weapons since 1945 and addresses three central issues: why states have continued or begun programs for acquiring biological weapons, why states have terminated such programs, and how states have demonstrated that they have truly terminated their biological weapons programs.