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Through case studies, this book makes sense of the profound revolution that historical biogeography has undergone in the last two decades, and of the resulting confusion over its foundations, basic concepts, methods, and relationships to other disciplines of comparative biology.

Michal Gal's thorough analysis shows the effects of market size on competition policy, ranging from rules of thumb to more general policy prescriptions, such as goals and remedial tools. Competition policy in small economies is becoming increasingly important, since the number of small jurisdictions adopting such policy is rapidly growing.

This is the story of how rural black people struggled against the oppressive sharecropping system of the Arkansas and Mississippi Delta during the first half of the twentieth century.

This is the first book to give an analysis of Descartes's pivotal concept dealing with all the functions of the mind-cognitive as well as volitional, theoretical as well as practical and moral. Alanen shows how Descartes's emphasis on the embodiment of the mind has implications more complex and interesting than the usual dualist account suggests.

The authors find that smokers tend to be overly optimistic about longevity and future health if they quit later in life. Smokers over 50 revise their perceptions only after a major health shock. If smokers are informed of long-term consequences and are told that quitting can come too late, they are able to evaluate the risks more accurately.

One of the most controversial questions in Italy today concerns the origins of the political terror that ravaged the country from 1969 to 1984. In this study of how an ideology of terror becomes rooted in society, Richard Drake explains the historical character of the revolutionary tradition to which so many ordinary Italians professed allegiance.

Abel offers a groundbreaking study of caregiving in America across class and ethnic divides and over the course of ninety years.

How, asks James E. Strick, could spontaneous generation-the idea that living things can suddenly arise from nonliving materials-come to take root for a time (even a brief one) in so thoroughly unsuitable a field as British natural theology?

When Sarah Bernhardt made her first American tour in 1880, the term "feminism" had yet to enter our national vocabulary. But over the next half-century, a rising generation of actresses and comics brought a new kind of woman to center stage. Glenn reveals the theater to have been a powerful new source of cultural authority and visibility for women.

Building on Dawkins's classic, The Extended Phenotype, physiological ecologist Turner shows why drawing the boundary of an organism's physiology at the skin is arbitrary. He argues that the structures animals build are better regarded not as frozen behaviors but as external organs of physiology and even extensions of the animal's phenotype.

From an inauspicious beginning New England went on to lead the U.S. in its transformation from an agrarian to an industrial economy. In the mid-20th century, New England reinvented itself as a leader in the complex economy of the information society. The dramatic story is told in a sequence of essays written by preeminent historians and economists.

Western history is split into two discontinuous eras, Aldo Schiavone tells us: the ancient world was fundamentally different from the modern one. He locates the essential difference in a series of economic factors: a slave-based economy, relative lack of mechanization and technology, the dominance of agriculture over urban industry.

This is the first book in English devoted entirely to Kant's Opus postumum and its place in the Kantian oeuvre. Foerster provides detailed analyses of the key problems of the Opus and provides unique insights into the extraordinary continuity and inner dynamics of Kant's transcendental philosophy as it progresses toward its final synthesis.

Gordon explores the main venues of constitutional practice in ancient Athens, Republican Rome, Renaissance Venice, the Dutch Republic, seventeenth-century England, and eighteenth-century America-and describes how constitutionalism has developed since then into the modern concept of constitutional democracy.

This is the story of the sexual revolution in a small university town in the quintessential heartland state of Kansas. Bypassing oft-told tales of radicals and revolutionaries on the coasts, Bailey argues that the revolution was forged in towns and cities alike, as "ordinary" people struggled over boundaries of sexual behavior in postwar America.

Epilepsy and the Family updates Richard Lechtenberg's classic handbook for people with seizure disorders and those closest to them. It offers coping strategies for the wide range of practical and emotional challenges that epilepsy can introduce into the family.

Lawrence poses the question: Should bias crimes be punished more harshly than similar crimes not motivated by bias? He answers strongly in the affirmative, as do many scholars and citizens, but he is the first to provide a solid theoretical grounding for this intuitive agreement, and a detailed model for a bias crimes statute based on the theory.

In this book, which distills a lifetime of study, Foulkes shows that dreaming as we normally understand it-active stories in which the dreamer is an actor-appears relatively late in childhood, between the ages of 7 and 9. He argues that this late development suggests an equally late development of waking reflective self-awareness.

This book analyzes the different ways in which mathematics is applicable to the physical sciences. Mark Steiner distinguishes among the semantic problems that arise from the use of mathematics in a variety of philosophical applications.

Rozemond explicates Descartes's aim to provide a metaphysics that would accommodate mechanistic science and supplant scholasticism. Her approach includes discussion of differences from and similarities to the scholastics and how these discriminations affected Descartes's defense of incorporeity of the mind and the mechanistic conception of body.

In recent years, colleges have successfully increased the racial diversity of their student bodies. They have been less successful in diversifying their faculties. This book identifies the ways in which minority students make occupational choices, what their attitudes are toward a career in academia, and why so few become college professors.

A deep question in economics is why wages and salaries don't fall during recessions. This is not true of other prices, which adjust relatively quickly to reflect changes in demand and supply. Bewley's findings contradict most theories of wage rigidity and provide fascinating insights into the problems that prevent labor markets from clearing.

This is a critical edition of the Kramapatha and Jatapatha forms of recitational permutations of sections of the Saunakiya Atharvaveda available in six rare manuscripts found in Pune, India. As these variations are no longer available in the surviving oral tradition in India, the texts provide rare access.

In this timely book, Martin Wattenberg confronts the question of what low participation rates mean for democracy. At the individual level, turnout decline has been highest among the types of people who most need to have electoral decisions simplified for them through a strong party system--those with the least education, political knowledge, and life experience.

Hulliung argues that the standard American account of a continuous Jacobin republican tradition--"illiberal to the core"--is fatally misleading. In reality it was the nineteenth-century French liberals who undermined the cause of liberalism, and it was French republicans who eventually saved liberal ideals.

This fascinating view of the impact of regulating sexuality from the late Victorian Age to our own time demonstrates the centrality of blackmail to sexual practices, deviance, and the law.

This unique blend of political, intellectual, and cultural history reveals how German nationalists at Frankfurt interwove cultural and political strands of the national ideal so finely as to sanction equal citizenship status in the proposed state for both the German-Jewish minority and the non-German-speaking nationalities within its boundaries.

Lawrence Vale explores the rise, fall, and redevelopment of three public housing projects in Boston. Vale looks at these projects from the perspectives of their low-income residents and assesses the contributions of the design professionals who helped to transform these once devastated places during the 1980s and 1990s.

The look of the American landscape has changed since the 19th century; so has our idea of landscape. Costello reads six 20th-century American poets who have reflected and shaped this transformation and in the process renovated landscape with new images from the natural world and new forms for imagining the earth and our relation to it.

How do mothers reconcile conflicting loyalties-to their religious traditions, and to the daughters whose freedoms are also constrained by those traditions? Searching for answers, Halbertal interviewed mothers of teenage daughters in religious communities: Catholics in the United States and Orthodox Jews in Israel.