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Between Bench and Bedside is a compelling account of the clinical trials of interleukin-2 at a major French cancer hospital. Loewy's book offers a remarkable insider's view of the culture of clinical experimentation in oncology.

The authors show that, despite free market platitudes, neoliberalism was a planned effort by financial interests against the postwar Keynesian compromise, and the cluster of neoliberal policies is an expression of the power of finance in the world economy. The authors call for stabilizing the world economy to avert economic disaster.

Halfin exposes the inner struggles of Soviet Communists to identify themselves with the Bolshevik Party in the 1920s and 1930s. Combining the analysis of autobiography with the study of Communist psychology and sociology and the politics of Bolshevik self-fashioning, Halfin provides new insight into the preconditions of the Great Purge.

Harry Austryn Wolfson, world-renowned scholar and most lucid of scholarly writers, here presents in ordered detail his long-awaited study of the philosophic principles I and reasoning by which the Fathers of the Church sought to explain the mysteries of the Trinity and the Incarnation.

Traces the Perry family of Devon (1615-1753) who created Perry and Lane, the most important London firm trading to the Chesapeake and North America in the 17th century. In doing so, the story reveals the interrelatedness of social, commericial and political history.

This book draws a richly detailed picture of women in early modern Europe, considering them in the contexts of work, marriage, and family.

Despite their importance during the French Revolution, the Paris middle classes are little known. This book focuses on the family organization and the political role of the Paris commercial middle classes, using as a case study the Faubourg St. Marcel and particularly the parish of St. Medard.

Lurid depictions of sex and impotence, themes of emperor worship and violence, the use of realism and myth-these characterize the fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo. Napier discovers surprising similarities as well as provocative dissimilarities in the work of two writers of radically different political orientations.

Kent examines the structure of Restoration elections and the politics of the later Bourbon monarchy: why King Charles X and Prime Minister de Villele called the 1827 general election; reasons for their defeat; election of a chamber of deputies to sustain the reactionary leanings of the king; and efforts of both left and extreme right opposition.

Like no other nation on earth, Americans eagerly blend their religion and sports. This book traces this dynamic relationship from the Puritan condemnation of games as sinful in the seventeenth century to the near deification of athletic contests in our own day.

In Edge of Empires, Carroll situates Hong Kong squarely within the framework of both Chinese and British colonial history, while exploring larger questions about the meaning and implications of colonialism in modern history.

This book chronicles how America's most glorious and historically significant harbor was rescued from decades of pollution and neglect by caring citizens, an environmentally committed judge, and his special harbor master. This dynamic public-private team shaped novel legal and political procedures for governing and restoring the harbor.

Why do men and women sometimes risk everything to defend their liberties? What motivates principled opposition to the abuse of power? This text explores honour as a motive for risky and difficult forms of political action.

Private long-term psychotherapy is increasingly a thing of the past, but the corporatization of mental health care often puts therapists in professional quandaries. Unflinchingly honest, this guide offers both compelling stories and practical advice on maintaining one's therapeutic integrity in the managed care era.

What was life like for Jews settled throughout the Mediterranean world of Classical antiquity-and what place did Jewish communities have in Greco-Roman civilization? This account of the Jewish diaspora from Alexander the Great's conquest of the Near East to the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple offers some surprising conclusions.

This book offers a rich philosophical and historical perspective on the mechanics, moral dilemmas, and rippling implications of psychoanalysis. Original, witty, incisive, these essays provide a new understanding of the uses and abuses and the ultimate significance of truth telling and lying, trust and confidence as they operate in psychoanalysis

Elaborate icons and murals of the Last Judgment adorned many Eastern-rite churches in medieval and early modern Ukraine. The largest compilation of its kind, The World to Come includes more than eighty such images from present-day Ukraine, eastern Slovakia, and southeastern Poland, with most printed in full color.

Brian Skyrms constructs a theory of "dynamic deliberation" and uses it to investigate rational decision-making in cases of strategic interaction. This illuminating book will be of great interest to all those in many disciplines who use decision theory and game theory to study human behavior and thought.

In the first comprehensive study of Johnson's policy toward Europe-the most important theater of the Cold War-Schwartz shows a president who guided the United States with a policy that balanced the solidarity of the Western alliance with the need to stabilize the Cold War and reduce the nuclear danger.

In this sweeping history of U.S. policy toward Latin America, Schoultz shows that the U.S. has always perceived Latin America as a fundamentally inferior neighbor. Drawing on extraordinarily rich archival sources, Schoultz, one of America's foremost Latin America scholars, shows how these core beliefs have not changed for two centuries.

How to determine the theme of a text-can a focus on form be the theme? Can the motif be a formal category? What operations permit us to say that texts are variants of the same theme? The contributors challenge the dismissal of "merely" thematic approaches and offer different ways to tackle the issue of what a piece of writing is "about."

The fifteen essays in this volume apply the methods of the new economic history to the history of the Latin American economies since 1800. The authors combine the historian's sensitivity to context and contingency with modern or "neoclassical" economic theory and quantitative methods.

No previous work on Eliot's mission to the Indians has told such a comprehensive and engaging story. Cogley takes a dual approach: he delves into both Eliot's theological writings and the historical development of Eliot's missionary work, thereby presenting perspectives that challenge widely accepted assessments of the Puritan mission.

Since 1892, Harvard University, like many distinguished academic institutions, has compiled a hymnal for use in its own worship services. The fourth edition of The Harvard University Hymn Book represents the culmination of a ten-year process of revision and re-creation based on the 1964 third edition.

Vernon Mountcastle has devoted his career to studying the neurophysiology of sensation in the hand. In The Sensory Hand he provides an astonishingly comprehensive account of the neural underpinnings of the rich and complex tactile experiences evoked by stimulation of the hand.