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Bartók and His World. Edited by Peter Laki. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995) 314 pp. $55.00, £45.00 cloth $19.95 paper. Winston Churchill: Resolution, Defiance, Magnamity, Good Will. Edited by R. Crosby Kemper, III (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996) 244 pp. $24.95 cloth. Listening in Paris: A Cultural History. By James H. Johnson. (Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995) xvi + 384 pp. $35.00. Economic Analysis and Moral Theory. By Daniel Hausman and Michael McPherson. Cambridge Surveys of Economic Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) 249 + xii pp. £12.95/$16.95 paper £35.00/$49.95 cloth. Blood Ties and Fictive Ties: Adoption and Family Life in Early Modern France. By Kristin E. Gager. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996) 197 pp. $39.50 cloth. Fragile Lives: Violence, Power and Solidarity in Eighteenth‐Century Paris. By Ariette Farge (translated by Carol Shelton), (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993) 314 pp. $49.95 cloth $17.95 paper. Physiologia: Natural Philosophy in Late Aristotelian and Cartesian Thought. By Dennis Des Chene (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996) xiii + 426 pp. $32.95 paper. East Central European Politics Today: From Chaos to Stability? By Keith Crawford (Manchester / New York: Manchester University Press, 1996) 360 pp. £60.00 cloth £11.95 paper. Donne and the Politics of Conscience in Early Modern Britain. By Meg Lota Brown (Leiden: Brill, 1995) ix + 159 pp. $57.25/NLg 100.00 cloth. Language and Human Behavior: The Jessie and John Danz Lectures. By Derek Bickerton (University of Washington Press, 1996) 180 pp. $14.95 paper. Thinking through Technology: The Path between Engineering and Philosophy. By Carl Mitcham (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994) 394 pp. The European Union and the Nordic Countries. Edited by Lee Miles (London: Routledge, 1996) 310 pp. £13.99 paper. A History of International Relations Theory. By Torbjørn L. Knutsen (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1997) xi + 354 pp. £45.00 cloth £13.99 paper. The Death of Adam: Evolution and Its Impact on Western Thought. By John C. Greene (Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1995) (first edition 1959). Hypatia of Alexandria. By Maria Dzielska, translated by F. Lyra. Revealing Antiquity 8. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995) viii + 157 pp. index, $29.95 cloth. Discourse on History, Law and Governance in the Public Career of John Seldon, 1610–1635. By Paul Christiansen (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997) xiii + 451 pp. £48. cloth. Becoming a Revolutionary: The Deputies of the French National Assembly and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Culture (1789–1790). By Timothy Tackett (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996) xvi + 355 pp. $39.95/£29.95 cloth. The French Revolution and the Russian Anti‐Democratic Tradition: A Case of False Consciousness. By Dmitry Shlapentokh (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1997) xviii + 324 pp. $32.95 cloth. Russian Politics and Society. By Richard Sakwa (2d ed.; London: Routledge, 1996), xvii + 501 pp. £14.99 paper. Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Transition to Postmodernity. By Gregory Bruce Smith (Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 1996) 366 pp. $42.00/ £33.50 cloth. Face Value: Physiognomical Thought and the Legible Body in Marivaux, Lavater, Balzac, Gautier, and Zola. By Christopher Rivers (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994) 275 pp. n.p.g. Representative Democracy in Britain Today. By Colin Pilkington (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997) xi + 286 pp. £40.00 cloth £11.99 paper. The World on Paper: The Conceptual and Cognitive Implications of Writing and Reading. By David R. Olson (Cambridge University Press, 1994) xix + 318 pp. $18.95/£25.95 cloth £12.95 paper. Paysans en Révolution: Terre, pouvoir et jacquerie 1789–1794. By Anatoli Ado (Paris: Société des Etudes Robespierristes, 1996), 474 pp. 200 ff. Invention by Design: How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing. By Henry Petroski (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996) 288 pp. $24.95. British Military Spectacle from the Napoleonic Wars through the Crimea. By Scott Hughes Myerly (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996) x + 293 pp. $35.00 cloth. L'Europe en quête de ses symboles. By Carole lager (Berne: Peter Lang, 1995) 125 pp. $29.95/ £19.00/FF148.00 paper. The Victorian Music Hall: Culture, Class and Conflict. By Dagmar Kift. Translated by Roy Kift (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) x + 244 pp. $54.95/£35.00 doth. Kiev: A Portrait, 1800–1917. By Michael F. Hamm (Princeton: Princeton University Press) 304 pp. $16.95 paper. Feudalism. By F. L. Ganshof (Toronto/Buffalo/ London: University of Toronto Press in association with the Medieval Academy of America, 1996) xviii + 176 pp. $13.95/£10.50 paper. American Academia and the Survival of Marxist Ideas. By Darío Fernández‐Morera (Westport, CT/London: Praeger, 1996) 216 pp. $59.95 cloth. Women in the Classical World: Image and Text. By Elaine Fantham, Helene Peet Foley, Natalie Boymel Kampen, Sarah B. Pomeroy, and H. A. Cheaper (New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press 1994) xii + 430 pp. £25.00. Nietzsche's Women: Beyond the Whip. By Carol Diethe (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1996) xiv + 177 pp. DM120.00 cloth. Language and Reason: A Study of Habermas's Pragmatics. By Maeve Cooke (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1997) xiii +207 pp. $15.00 paper. The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies. By Roland Barthes, trans, by Richard Howard (Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997) 152 pp. $10.95/£8.95 paper. Culture and Agency: The Place of Culture in Social Theory. By Margaret S. Archer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) 351 pp.£17.95 paper $50.00 cloth. The Agony of the Russian Idea. By Tim McDaniel, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996 ) :c + 201 pp. $24.95. The Ladies of Zamora. By Peter Linehan. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997) 192 pp. £25.00 cloth. Democratic Theory: The Philosophical Foundations. By James L. Hyland (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995) 280 pp., £40.00 cloth/ £14.99 paper. Dante's Interpretive Journey. By William Franke (Chicago/London: Chicago University Press, 1996) xi + 250 pp. $45.00/£35.95 cloth $16.95/ £13.50 paper. The Prosecution of International Crimes: A Critical Study of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Edited by Roger S. Clark and Madeleine Sann (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, Transaction Books, 1996) xi + 502 pp. $49.95 cloth. Hope is the Last to Die: A Coming of Age under Nazi Terror. By Halina Birenbaum (London/ Armonk, NY: Sharpé, 1996) xi + 227 pp. $44.95 cloth $12.95 paper. The New Police in Nineteenth‐Century England: Crime, Conflict and Control. By David Taylor (Manchester/New York: Manchester University Press, 1997) xi + 180 pp. £35.00 cloth, £12.99 paper. The Stuart Court and Europe: Essays in Politics and Political Culture. Edited by R. Malcolm Smuts (Cambridge University Press, 1996) xiii + 288 pp. £35.00/$54.95 cloth. The Frankfurt School Critique of Capitalist Culture. By Ronald J. Schindler (Aldershot, England/ Brookfield, VT: Avebury Ashgate Publishing 1996) 263 pp. £42.50 cloth. Inside the Vatican: The Politics and Organization of the Catholic Church. By Thomas J. Reese (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996) ix + 317 pp. $24.95 hardcover. Eleanor of Castile: Queen and Society in Thirteenth‐Century England. By John Carmi Parsons (New York: St. Martin's, 1995) 364 pp. $49.95 cloth. Beyond the Swastika. By Peter O'Brien (London/New York: Routledge, 1996) ix + 138 pp. £10.99 paper. The Republican Moment: Struggles for Democracy in Nineteenth‐Century France. By Philip Nord (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995) 321 pp. $49.95 cloth. What Was Socialism, And What Comes Next? By Katherine Verdery (Princeton University Press, 1996) 298 pp. n.p.g. paper. Progress: Fact or Illusion? Edited by Leo Marx and Bruce Mazlish (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996) 232 pp. $42.50 doth. Shame and Necessity. Sather Classical Lectures, Vol. 57. By Bernard Williams (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994) xii + 254 pp. $15.00 paper.