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The Bertrand Russell Archive has as before, yielded some interesting unpublished material ... this volume lavishly footnoted, elegantly produced and a pleasure to read, is a real treat for anyone interested in Russell or in that strange remote country, Edwardian England." -- London Times Higher Education Supplement

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Known principally as the father of Wolfgang Amadeus, Leopold Mozart was a distinguished musician in his own right. An excellent violinist and composer, his greatest contribution to music was his Treatise on Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing. Published at Ausburg in 1756 it was the major work of its time on the violin and it contains much that is of considerable interest and value to musicians today: notes on performance, practice, a glo...

?A balanced, intelligent study, this history examines the events leading to the massive pogroms against Russian Jewry between 1881-82, crystallizes the Russian and Jewish responses to them, and assesses the impact pogroms had on the course of Russian and American Jewish history and on the Jewish national movement. Berk carefully evaluates the varying shades of Jewish reaction to Russian liberalization and Russification during the 1860s and 187...

This bibliography will facilitate research in the history of American Presbyterianism in particular and American history in general. Among the major areas covered are: autobiographies and biographies, Presbyterian denominations, states, institutions of learning, including academies, colleges, universities, and theological seminaries, institutionalized forms of church work, i.e., home and foreign missions, publications, Christian education, urb...

?Tracing novelists' treatment of miscegenation in its historical context, from Brackenridge's Modern Chivalry (1792-1815) to novels of Cable and Glasgow, this excellent study shows how the development in fiction of the related themes of violence, interracial sex, and racism reflects changing attitudes in 19th-century America. Kinney goes beyond earlier studies of the literary portrayal of blacks in at least two ways: he relates the works of fi...

Originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1977, this provocative study is based on the idea that current Third World problems of modernization may be able to shed light on the period of European history from roughly 1770 to 1870. Includes extensive charts and maps.

Will treating the conduct of local governments the same as the conduct of private enterprises pose serious threats to government, industry, or the antitrust laws? Mark Lee argues that the nation will be better off as a result because efficient forms of economic organization, previouly prohibited by the judiciary, will be permitted to flower and antitrust's policy war with itself will be put to an end. Lee reviews the powerful implications of t...

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The issues confronting the Securities and Exchange Commission, the courts, Congress, and securities and corporate lawyers regarding tender offers are examined in this timely collection of commentaries. New data is introduced on how to regulate tender offers and proxy contests for control of publicly held companies. In addition, the constitutional dimensions of state anti-takeover statutes, target managements's conduct in fending off hostile bi...

for soprano and baritone soloists, SATB chorus, and the composer's original chamber instrumentationOrchestral and vocal material is available on hire. Organ plays from the vocal score.

Jay Mendell explores the profound implications and consequences of the forecaster's new and changing role in an economy based on high-technology entrepreneurship. This incisive text explains the principles of nonextrapolative forecasting/planning and compares them with conventional forecasting/planning methods. Case studies of nonextrapolative forecasting and planning in Sears, AT&T, , a large hotel chain, an electric power company, and the Se...

?Interpretations of the [Whiskey Rebellion] have been many and varied over the years. Boyd presents an anthology composed of both old and recent scholarship that highlights the conflicting interpretations. Although the work is not meant to be definitive, it will certainly add to an understanding of this event and assist scholars in future research. Contributors are all published authorities in the field. The collection is well organized, conta...

?Occasionally a book of significance unexpectedly arrives on the scene. Such is Au's work. Anyone who wishes to understand the contemporary debate within the American Catholic Church on the morality of nuclear war must go no further than this superb book. Au distinguishes four positions in the American Catholic debate on war and peace according to their perspective on American society and the Church's relationship to that society. He contends ...

This bio-bibliography, devoted to the life and career of a United States Senator, is one of a few works of its kind. The book is divided into two sections. It begins with a biographical sketch, the first complete study to be published. The second section is an annotated bibliography of works by and about Morse and citations for his more significant Congressional speeches.

?Collins addresses a subject that has been the object of much research and controversy in the past decade: the internment of tens of thousands of Japanese-Americans during WW II. More specifically, he focuses on the mass renunciation of citizenship by these persons of Japanese ancestry. The author contends that the renunciations were based on misinformation rather than on disloyalty... The book is well written, presenting some new data rather ...

This book is timely, and it provides a well-researched, compactentry to this literature." -- Animal BehaviourCommunicationin the Chiroptera reviews the available information about communication inchiroptera including brilliant suggestions on the relationship of bat communicationto the general subject of communication.

Moynihan's book is not merely an attractive and readabledescriptive synthesis, but an acute commentary on the development of current theory, opening new areas and refreshingly examining cherished models." -- W. JohnSmith, University of PennsylvaniaThis book summarizes the stateof our knowledge about communication in cephalopods, including squids, cuttlefishes, octopuses, and related forms, and assesses the comparative and theoreticalimplicatio...