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Xunzi A Translation and Study of the Complete Works Volume II Books 7-16 $29.40 John Knoblock and Xunzi Book This was originally published in 1990. Writing at the end of the great flowering of philosophical inquiry in Warring States, China, when the foundations for traditional Chinese thought were laid, Xunzi occupies in the East a place analogous to that of Aristotle in the West. The collection of works bearing his name contains not only the most systematic philosophical exposition by any early Confusian thinker but also accounts for virtually every aspect of the intellectual, cultural, and political life of his time. This is the second of three volumes that will constitute the first complete translation of Xunzi into English and published in 1990. The first volume, covering Books 1-6 and dealing with self-cultivation, learning, and education, was published in 1988. The present volume consists of Books 7-16 and deals with political theory, ethics, and ideal man, and the lessons to be drawn from history. In the third volume, published in 1994, books 17-24, discusses problems of knowledge and logic; the fundamental nature of the world; the significance of music and ritual; and the nature of man. Books 25-32 contain Xunzi’s poetry, a miscellany of short passages collected together in one book, and several collections of sayings, comments, and exemplary anecdotes about events, personages, and ideas important to early Confusians. The translation is accompanied by substantial explanatory material identifying technical terms, persons, and events; detailed introductions to each book; and extensive annotation, with characters when desirable, indicating the basis of the translations. At the time of publication, John Knoblock was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original edition: Title Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works Volume II, Books 7-16 Authors Xunzi, John Knoblock Editor John Knoblock Translated by John Knoblock Compiled by John Knoblock Publisher Stanford University Press, 1990 ISBN 0804717710, 9780804717717 Length 400 pages Economic Anthropology $25.95 Edited by Stuart Plattner Book ECONOMIC ANTHROPOLOGY Edited, with an Introduction, by Stuart Plattner Originally published in 1989, this volume was the first comprehensive text in economic anthropology since the 1970’s. Written by twelve leading scholars, the book covers the traditional topics of economic behavior and institutions in foraging bands, horticultural tribes, pre-capitalist states, agrarian or peasant societies and industrialized states, as well as issues such as sex roles, common property resources, the informal sector, and mass marketing in developing urban areas. It included more in-depth coverage of some subjects than does any other text in the field, subjects like the central place theory of markets and marketplaces and the fundamentals of economic behavior in markets. The approach is empirical and, though not ignoring controversy, aims to tell the reader what we know about the world rather than recording how we came to know it or disputing alternative views of the finer points of what we know. The work presented here is more analytic than descriptive. The historical context of the observed social reality is given due consideration, and important parameters (such as the development of social infrastructure or the degree of risk in a transaction) are distinguished from enduring institutional constraints, such as kinship obligations. Individuals are seen as full “rational,” in that their solutions to their economic problems make sense once one understands the many constraints (social, cultural, cognitive, and political, as well as economic) that they must take into account. This does not mean that their actions are optimal – merely that the analysis will make the behavior, or for that matter the institutions, understandable as a reasoned human response to a complex situation. The contributors are James M. Acheson, Peggy F. Barlett, Frances Berdan, Laurel Bossen, Frank Cancian, Elizabeth Cashdan, Norbert Dannhaeuser, Christina H. Gladwin, Allen Johnson, Stuart Plattner, William Roseberry, and M. Estellie Smith. At the time of publication, Stuart Plattner was Program Director for Cultural Anthropology at the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., and the editor of, Markets and Marketing, and Formal Methods in Economic Anthropology. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the 1989 publication by Stanford University Press (ISBN 0804716455). Please review the preview file to see some of the imperfections that will appear in the print edition. Table of Contents: Preface 1. Introduction 1 Stuart Plattner 2. Hunters and Gatherers: Economic Behavior in Bands 21 Elizabeth Cashdan 3. Horticulturalists: Economic Behavior in Tribes 49 Allen Johnson 4. Trade and Markets in Precapitalist States 78 Frances F. Berdan 5. Peasants and the World 108 William Roseberry 6. Economic Behavior in Peasant Communities 127 Frank Cancian 7. Markets and Marketplaces 171 Stuart Plattner 8. Economic Behavior in Markets 209 Stuart Plattner 9. Marketing in Developing Urban Areas 222 Norbert Dannhaeuser 10. Industrial Agriculture 253 Peggy F. Barlett 11. The Informal Economy 292 M. Estellie Smith 12. Women and Economic Institutions 318 Laurel Bossen 13. Management of Common-Property Resources 351 James M. Acheson 14. Marxism 379 Stuart Plattner 15. On the Division of Labor Between Economics And Economic Anthropology 397 Christina H. Gladwin References Cited 429 Index 483 Lincoln in Text and Context : Collected Essays $21.28 Don E. Fehrenbacher Book Lincoln in Text and Context Collected Essays DON E. FEHRENBACHER A well-known Lincoln scholar presents a collection of nineteen essays on Lincoln and the Civil War era that constitutes one of the most significant contributions to Lincoln literature in recent years. Part I, "Years of Crisis," contains essays on such subjects as the Mexican War, Lincoln's Galena speech, the political uses of the post office, Lincoln's relations with the mayor of Chicago, his nomination and election as president, and how treatment of the causes of the Civil War has been affected by the quantitative methods of the "new political history." Part 11, "The War Years," includes essays on Lincoln and the question of race, his attitude toward the Constitution, how he fits into the history of freedom, his reconstruction strategy and purpose as exemplified in Arkansas, how he coped emotionally with his great responsibilities, and the broad historical meaning of his death. Part 111, "Images of Lincoln," considers his changing image in American historiography, the anti-Lincoln strain in American thought, how he is treated by practitioners of psychohistory and historical fiction, the most famous of all Lincoln forgeries, and the difficulties of determining what Lincoln actually said and what he meant by what he said. Don E. Fehrenbacher is Coe Professor of History and American Studies Emeritus at Stanford University, and the author of several books on American history, including the Pulitzer Prize winning, The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the 1987 original publication from Stanford University Press (ISBN 0804713294). The Voice of the Dolphins and Other Stories $16.95 Leo Szilard Book THE VOICE OF THE DOLPHINS And Other Stores – Expanded Edition LEO SZILARD First published in 1961, this is a collection of stories by the eminent physicist Leo Szilard (1898-1964). The 1989 edition includes a previously uncollected story that was the origin of the idea for the Moscow-Washington hot line and a new Introduction by Barton J. Bernstein. From the Introduction by Barton Bernstein: ADMIRING Leo Szilard's provocative plot, his earnest plea for peace, and his spirited playfulness in "The Voice of the Dolphins," the main science fiction fable in this 1961 volume, a longtime admirer and sometime protector told him, this story is "your political testament, . . . it is the pure milk, or cream, of the Szilardian word." Penning that praise, Robert Hutchins, former president of the University of Chicago, where Szilard had been a professor of physics and was still a professor of biophysics, went on to say, "I laughed and cried at the same time. I laughed because it [the story] was funny, and I cried because it was true.” This "political testament," as Szilard himself called it, was written toward the end of his long career as a scientist, critic of the arms race, crusader for peace, and occasional science fiction writer and satirist. The "Dolphins" tale, crafted four years before Szilard's death, was one of his many efforts to guide the world through an uneasy period of nuclear stalemate, to propose rules for learning to live with the bomb, and to sketch a way out of a perilous situation and toward peace. So concerned was Szilard that his message reach important people that he sent copies to American officials, presented the analysis underlying the story at international meetings, and even arranged, shortly before publication, to have a lengthy extract of "Dolphins" translated into Russian and given to Premier Nikita Khruschev, with whom he had privately discussed its ideas a few months before. To this fable of future history, Szilard attached four shorter tales, all written in the late 1940s, to put together his small volume, The Voice of the Dolphins and Other Stories. The five tales raised fundamental questions about the uses of science, the meaning of scientific progress, the menace of nuclear war, and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The book, though technically classified as science fiction and often mixing in heavy doses of satire, was devised to promote Szilard's criticisms of the international system, his general hopes for rational analysis, and his ways toward arms control and ultimately disarmament. The stories are ironic, imaginative, clever, and rich with both warning and hope. The book was published in 1961. In the next few years, it sold over 35,000 copies within the United States. It was translated into six other languages, and published in seven foreign countries, often with an additional story or two by Szilard. Winning attention for its bold thinking about nuclear issues and its clever mixture of science fiction and satire, the book became a minor classic of the nuclear age. Comments about the 1989 Edition: “This book is fiction, but it is a fiction of a Swiftian nature, addressed to major issues, including those of geopolitics, the arms race, disarmament, population control, the morality of war, and the mismatch between modern man’s enormous technical capabilities and his limited moral capacities. There is a continuing vitality in much of the material, which is instructive about apprehensions manifest not only in Szilard’s day but in our own concerning the social role of science and technology. I know of no other modern book like it.” - Daniel J. Kevles, California Institute of Technology Original reviews of the 1961 Publication: “These stories could more appropriately be labeled ‘parables for the nuclear age.’…This makes the book sound dour, which it most certainly is not. No, it is imaginative and witty – thoroughgoing entertainment spiced with thought-provoking overtones.” – The Christian Science Monitor “An extraordinarily well-written book…extremely satisfying as a work of art. In each story, Szilard conveys a feeling, an atmosphere that goes far beyond its overt ‘meaning.’…What he says about the eternal political situation cannot fail to move us.” – Saturday Review This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original 1989 edition from Stanford University Press publication (ISBN: 0804717540). INTRODUCTION by Barton J Bernstein 3 THE VOICE OF THE DOLPHINS 47 MY TRIAL AS A WAR CRIMINAL 103 THE MARK GABLE FOUNDATION 117 CALLING ALL STARS 133 THE MINED CITIES 153 AFTERWORD by Helen Weiss 175 Copyright American Social Problems $22.09 Walter Greenwood Beach and Edward Everett Walker Book This is a fantastic reproduction edition of the 1934 classic on American Social Problems. It's worth a read to compare with present day issues, student views, and teachings about social problems today... PREFACE TO AMERICAN SOCIAL PROBLEMS (originally published in 1934) This book is intended to be a first survey of social problems characteristic of American life today (1934). It is planned to stimulate the interest of young students in their own social world, to lead them to observe and to discuss the facts and conditions which they meet, and to search for satisfactory explanations. While there is no attempt at completeness of description, the essential facts of each problem studied are presented, together with suggested lines of interpretation. Moreover, the particular problems discussed are considered, not in isolation, but in relation both to each other and to the background of American life. In spite of apparent diversity of problems, there is an underlying unity in social life. It is the hope of the authors that this book may help students not only to remember isolated facts about particular problems, but to become clearly conscious of this unity and of its significance in understanding the separate facts described. Because of the definite purpose of the authors to make the book really suited to the needs of students, many teachers have been consulted, their suggestions in regard to methods of presentation have been weighed, and their criticism of varied plans of arrangement and treatment of subject-matter have been carefully considered. To these many teachers we owe a debt of gratitude which we hereby gratefully acknowledge. In 1934, at the time of original publication, Walter Greenwood Beach was Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. Edward Everett Walker previously worked at Southwest Missouri State Teachers College and Stanford University. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original Stanford University Press publication (ISBN 080470158X). Cover image courtesy the Library of Congress Photo Collection, Migrant Mother, by Dorothea Lange 1936. CONTENTS THE AUTHORS TO THE STUDENTS 1 GROUP LIFE Chapter One. The Geographical Setting of Group Life 9 Chapter Two. Human Nature and Group Life 25 Chapter Three. Cultural Factors in Group Life 41 Chapter Four. The Rise of American Culture 56 PROBLEMS OF SOCIAL CHANGE AND ADJUSTMENT Chapter Five. Challenges of Population Growth 75 Chapter Six. Rural and Urban Groups and Problems 93 Chapter Seven. Social Adjustments Involving the Immigrant 122 Chapter Eight. The Negro in American Society 152 Chapter Nine. Problems of Health and Physical Well-Being 176 Chapter Ten. The Welfare of the Wage-Earner 202 Chapter Eleven. The Family 224 Chapter Twelve. The Welfare of Children 246 Chapter Thirteen. Poverty and the Welfare of Dependents 279 Chapter Fourteen. Crime and Its Treatment 301 LOOKING TOWARD THE FUTURE Chapter Fifteen. Planning the Society of the Future 331 Chapter Sixteen. The Role of Education 344 Chapter Seventeen. The Role of Science 361 THE AUTHORS TO THE TEACHERS 378 INDEX 385

The Papaloapan Project : Agricultural Development in the Mexican Tropics $15.43 Thomas T. Poleman Book Originally published in 1964 by Stanford University Press and the Food Research Institute. The Papaloapan Project Agricultural Development in the Mexican Tropics Thomas T. Poleman Many of Latin America's most pressing economic problems stem from the juxtaposition of rapid population growth and limited agricultural capabilities. In Mexico, Central America, and the Andean countries, these problems are compounded by the fact that most of the potential cropland is situated not in the highlands, where the population is concentrated, but in underdeveloped, low-lying tropical areas. The Papaloapan Project is the first major governmental attempt to stimulate development in Mexico's humid tropical regions, which constitute about 20 percent of the country's land area and its greatest reserves of potentially arable land. Because of isolation, disease, and unpleasant climate, these regions have historically supported only a small population and a very limited agriculture. The purpose of this book is to describe and evaluate the sixteen-year experience of this regional development scheme, and to point up lessons of interest to the many countries now planning similar projects. The first part of the study outlines the importance of the Papaloapan Project against a backdrop of Mexico's relatively meager agricultural resources and rapidly increasing population. In the second part, the physical and human resources of the Papaloapan River basin are described, its economy at the outset of the project is discussed, and events leading up to the creation of “Mexico’s TVA,” are reviewed. The final and major part of the study deals in detail with the project itself: the problems and difficulties encountered in getting it under way, and the results, both favorable and disappointing, thus far achieved. Particularly emphasized are the agricultural schemes carried out under the project, and the reasons for their lack of success. From this analysis are drawn general conclusions regarding the problems of agricultural development in pioneer tropical areas and government’s role in helping to overcome them. In 1964, Mr. Poleman was Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics at Cornell University. A publication of the FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE, STUDIES IN TROPICAL DEVELOPMENT. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original Stanford University Press edition (ISBN 0804702071) published in 1964. Byron A Critical Study $18.01 Andrew Rutherford Book BYRON A Critical Study Andrew Rutherford Byron's poetry has only recently begun to receive the critical attention that is its due. His adventurous life and complex personality have nearly always tended to distract attention from his literary works, and most of the books so far written about him have been largely or wholly biographical in intention. The object of this study, on the other hand, is "to offer an account of Byron's career and achievement as a poet" and it presents no biographical material that is not strictly relevant to a critical assessment. Mr. Rutherford, however, combines the methods of traditional scholarship with those of modern criticism to show how the strengths and weaknesses of Byron the man are mirrored in his works, and how our understanding of his poetry is increased if we see it in the context of his other interests and ambitions. The book gives an authoritative survey of Byron's poetic development, a searching critique of the romantic works that made him famous in his own day, and a sustained analysis of the great verse satires of hi's maturity- Beppo, Don luan, and The Vision of Judgment. In the course of this discussion Mr. Rutherford examines Byron's claims to greatness as a romantic and as a satiric poet, and fully substantiates his view that many of the characteristics of Byron's best poetry are due largely to the nature of his social experience – to the fact that he was primarily "no mere man of letters and romantic poet, but a sophisticated man of the world, a Regency aristocrat." Mr. Rutherford is Lecturer in English at Edinburgh University. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original 1961 edition by Stanford University Press (ISBN 0804700710) American Life in Autobiography : A Descriptive Guide $14.38 Richard G. Lillard Book This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original 1956 publication for Stanford University Press. The Psychobiological Program of the War Shipping Administration $21.31 Edited by George G. Killinger Book In the midst of the problems and stress of wartime shipping, it has been a source of satisfaction to observe the experiments and progress in psychobiology growing from the intensive medical program of the War Shipping Administration. Psychologists and psychiatrists, working together, have gained such a comprehensive understanding of the mental and emotional problems of the seagoing man that the program has had a potent influence throughout the entire Merchant Marine. From the day a man applies at an enrolling office for training in the Maritime Service, he is affected by the psychobiological program. He is given preliminary personality screenings at an enrolling office, more elaborate study at the training station, and individual examination before each voyage throughout his wartime shipping career. The mental health and the high morale of men who survive this careful selective process are maintained through a carefully planned program of orientation, of leadership training, and of group and individual therapy. Too much cannot be said for the part that psychobiology has played in bringing about a healthy, vigorous, and capable wartime Merchant Marine. It is hoped that this book, compiled by men who have developed and carried on the program, will not only present new scientific approaches in the study of human behavior, but will also give us all a deeper understanding and insight into the character of the men of the Merchant Marine. EDWARD MACAULEY, Captain, USN ret. Acting Chairman, United States Maritime Commission WASHINGTON DC, March 1946 This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original Stanford University Press publication (ISBN: 0804740380) ORIGIN OF THE PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL PROGRAM OF 13 THE PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL PROGRAM OF THE WAR SHIP 32 THE PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL PROGRAM AT THE UNITED 61 THE PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL PROGRAM AT THE UNITED 67 THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE MARITIME SERVICE 89 A STUDY OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE MARITIME 101 A STUDY OF THE HARROWERERICKSON MULTIPLE 115 DISENROLLMENTS AND SURVIVAL PREDICTABILITY 135 LEADERSHIP TRAINING By Judd Marmor 235 A METHOD OF LEADERSHIP SELECTION 249 PSYCHOBIOLOGY FOR THE PURSERPHARMACISTS 255 THE TRAININGSTATION RECORDS AND POSTGRAD 263 STATISTICAL AND RELATED ADMINISTRATIVE PRO 283 THE PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL PROGRAM IN RETROSPECT 309 A MARITIME SERVICE INVENTORY 321 B A COURSE IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND LEADERSHIP 338 More A STUDY OF 500 CONSECUTIVE TRAINEES IN 151 PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN THE TRAINING OF 16 CHARACTERISTICS OF 500 ACTIVE WARTIME 173 LITERACY OF AMERICAN MERCHANT SEAMEN 197 CHARACTERISTICS OF 200 ACTIVE MERCHANT 203 CHARACTERISTICS OF 200 UNLICENSED AMERICAN 211 GROUP EDUCATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH 221 A SERVICE NEWSPAPER AS A MENTALHYGIENE 229 The New Day : Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover 1928 $17.32 HERBERT HOOVER, Introduction by RAY LYMAN WILBUR Book The New Day : Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover 1928 Second Edition INTRODUCTION THE FACTS of Science have compelled new conceptions of government for a civilization which has virtually been made over in the last fifty years. Instead of the simple farm, village, and small seaport social structure of our forefathers we have the intricate, delicately balanced, interdependent economic organization of the present, with its intimate relationships to all peoples in all parts of the world. Human needs, aspirations, passions, and desires have not changed since the Declaration of Independence and the creation of our Constitution. The importance of keeping intact the rights of individuals and of developing their duties and responsibilities to society is now paramount. The Presidential campaign of 1928 was as significant as that of 1860. Not since the Lincoln-Douglas debates has the country followed the issues of a campaign with more intensity. The speeches of Mr. Hoover were measured statements of a new liberalism facing new conditions with courage and with confidence in the individual human being to act wisely for himself and for his neighbors. They clarified the citizen's relationship to the great economic mechanism resulting from the practical applications of invention, discovery, and widespread education. These speeches visualized those methods of entering upon the corning constructive period which will lead to equal opportunities for the youth of the United States of America in accordance with their abilities and industry. The Stanford University Press asked for the privilege of publishing these addresses of Mr. Hoover so that a permanent and authoritative record would be available. Just as his life and deeds have been an inspiration to generations of Stanford men and women, we think that these speeches will stimulate, guide, and hearten the people of our great democracy in the critical and formative years now before us. RAY LYMAN WILBUR STANFORD UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA November 16, 1928 This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original 1928 edition from Stanford University Press (ISBN 0804740399, 9780804740395)

Distant Pleasures : Alexander Pushkin and the Writing of Exile $18.40 Stephanie Sandler Book At the very time he was becoming Russia’s first and only national poet, Alexander Pushkin spent nearly six years in exile (1820-26). This book explores the meanings of exile for Pushkin’s changing sense of himself and for his poetic practices. Sent out of Petersburg but confined within Russia’s borders, Pushkin saw both the southern expansion of the empire and the isolation of country life in the North. Exile thus shaped his politics, and because he was separated from his readers and fellow writers, it defined the rhetorical patterns within which he wrote. The author reads a small but varied group of texts from the years of exile: lyric poems, long narrative poems, the verse novel, Eugene Oregin, and the drama, Boris Godunov. By exploring Pushkin’s representations of distance from his audience, she demonstrates how he created that audience. Rather than narrating Pushkin’s “growth” into greatness, the author develops a theory of reading Pushkin’s shifting conceptions of himself, his work, and his country during the years of exile. His rhetoric of apostrophe, quotation, and figuration is considered carefully in each text. Quoted texts are given in Russian and in English translation. The analyses range across several methodological and theoretical perspectives: biographical and historical information is frequently brought in, formalist and Bakhtinian frameworks are used for several texts, and the lessons of deconstruction and feminist inquiry are particularly important as Pushkin’s rhetoric of distance and politics of pleasure are read. Stephanie Sandler was Assistant Professor in the Department of Russian and in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Amherst College. Cover illustration courtesy of the Pasternak Trust. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the 1989 Stanford University Press edition (ISBN: 0804715424). Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism $20.41 Bonnelyn Young Kunze Book Focusing on the formative period of Quakerism in seventeenth-century England and the role of one vigorous and authoritative woman, this study offers new insights into the religious, social, and family life of Margaret Fell. The book probes Fell's pivotal role, in close relation to George Fox, in the architecture of the early Quaker church order. It investigates Fell's role in the development of the Quaker women's meetings, a unique seventeenth-century Quaker institution. It also offers a fresh historical perspective of this socially prominent sectarian woman in terms of her family relationships, the household economic unit, the neighborhood network, and the wider sectarian religious community that extended far beyond her home, Swarthmoor Hall in rural north-west Lancashire. The author marshals evidence to argue that is was in keeping with Margaret Fell’s social status, permanence of place, personality, and skills learned in the domestic sphere, that she was a co-leader, along with George Fox, in the first fifty years of Quakerism. At the time of original publication, Bonnelyn Young Kunze was Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at LeMoyne College, Syracuse, New York. Fellowships from the University of Rochester and the Shakespeare Library, and travel grants from Clemson University, enabled her to complete the research and writing of this book. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the 1994 Stanford University Press edition (isbn 0804721548). Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com. Contents Margaret Fells 13 The Swarthmoor Farm 65 Margaret Fells Charitable 83 Feuding Friends 101 We Have Been a Suffering People under Every Power 131 Margaret Fell and Womens 143 A SeventeenthCentury 169 Fells Worldview 187 Fells Spiritualist 197 Fells Work to Convert the Jews 211 Conclusion 229 Notes 235 Appendix 290 Index 318 Copyright Hutterian Bretheren : The Agricultural Economy and Social Organization of a Communal People $19.66 John W. Bennett Book Hutterian Brethren The Agricultural Economy and Social Organization of a Communal People John W. Bennett The Hutterian Brethren, an Anabaptist sect that practices strict communal living based on religious principles, is here studies through a detailed examination of six colonies in southwestern Saskatchewan. Unlike the Amish (also an Anabaptist group although only partly communal), the Hutterians do not reject modern technology. Organized in colonies of 130 to 150 people on communal farms, they have flourished economically in the forbidding natural environment of the Great Plains area. The author’s objectives are to show how one group of typical colonies found their land, established their agricultural economy, and worked out relations with the local inhabitants, and to discover why they Hutterites have been so successful. Among the topics discussed are family and kinship, instrumental organization, agricultural management and decision-making, methods of production, and patterns of change in Hutterian society and technology. Of special interest is the comparison of the Hutterian colony and the Israeli Kibbutz as examples of enduring communal societies. John W. Bennett is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at Washington University, St. Louis. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original work (ISBN 080470144X). You can find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com. The Closing of the Public Domain $21.52 E. Louise Peffer Book The Closing of the Public Domain Disposal and Reservation Policies, 1900-1950 E. Lousie Peffer On June 17, 1902, the 56th Congress of the United States passed the Reclamation--or Newlands-Act, which allocated the proceeds of future sales of public lands to the irrigation of the arid West. Federally sponsored reclamation was the last of the great developmental projects of the country to be subsidized initially by proceeds from the public domain. In its major aspect, the act represented a continuation of an established pattern of policy. In another respect, however, it gave indication of a new trend in policy for the future. In 1900 there were still around 560 million acres open to entry and settlement under the general land laws of the United States, within the continental limits of the country exclusive of Alaska. This was more than a fourth of the land area of the whole country. It was difficult, even impossible, to accept the idea that so vast an area could not long be expected to furnish homes. Indeed, the Reclamation Act was intended to push far into the future the time when consideration of such an eventuality would be necessary. By the most optimistic estimates, reclamation, chiefly by irrigation, would in time bring 100 million acres into cultivation-and the tendency was to accept the most optimistic figure. Furthermore, the non-irrigable land was not worthless; some of it was valuable for forests, some for minerals, some as range. Consequently it was hardly likely that the country could be brought to believe that the frontier of opportunity afforded by the public domain was closed, as Frederick Jackson Turner, in his famous hypothesis advanced in 1893, had suggested the geographical frontier to be; and that a new policy was dictated. There was, however, a small but dynamic body of opinion which cited, as evidence of the need for change, the very arguments advanced against a change of policy. The public land policy of the United States has been described as having fallen into three phases: sale, development, and reservation. The Reclamation Act bridged the three, using as expedients in aid of further development the old principle of sale and the new principle of reservation. The resort to the reservation principle in the Reclamation Act did not constitute Congressional acceptance of the idea it represented. It did, however, point the direction in which public land policy was to travel in the twentieth century. In its main outline, the story of the public domain in the twentieth century is one of a tug of war between the forces advocating the continuation of the process of settlement and development, and the growing number of those maintaining that the equity of the public in the valuable resources which remained should not be dissipated. It is a struggle which continues actively today in spite of the apparent victory achieved by the reservationists in the passage of the Taylor Grazing Act in 1934. This act, as amended, virtually closed both the public domain and one of the most significant and colorful epochs of American history. This study does not purport to be a history of the public domain in the twentieth century. Nor can it present a full coverage of the phase of public domain history implied by the title; for the latter period, much of the material necessary to round out the account is not yet open to public scrutiny. It is proposed to relate, on the basis of the sources which are available, the steps by which the concept of the public domain has veered from one of land held in escrow pending transfer of title, toward one of reservations held in perpetuity in the interest of the collective owners, the people of the United States. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the 1951 original edition: Title: The Closing of the Public Domain Author: E. Louise Peffer Publisher: Stanford University Press 1951 ISBN: 080473237X The Poetics of Greek Tragedy $16.87 Malcolm Heath Book The Poetics of Greek Tragedy By Malcolm Heath This ambitious book attempts a sweeping redefinition of Greek tragedy in terms of the pragmatics of performance. The author presents what he calls an “emotive-hedonist” theory, arguing that the main point of tragedy was not to offer moral or metaphysical instruction (or, indeed, any instruction at all), but “to give its audience aesthetic pleasure through the excitation of an intense emotional response.” This response was most typically in the range of terror, anxiety, fear, and pity, but it ranged more widely, embracing love and joy. The theory has some particularly arresting implications for the ways we should conceive the central characters in tragedy. Rather than think of a “hero,” the author argues, we should think of “focal figures,” with whose feelings the audience is meant to identify, and we should recognize that focus is mobile and can shift (for example, from Antigone to Creon) in the course of a play. Emphasizing that a play must be understood in terms of performance, the author also discusses the mode and textual function of tragedy – the way in which dramatic narrative is organized as a text that is coherent and apt to its purposes. He shows how a play as narrative depends on a series of narrated events that must satisfy, or give the appearance of satisfying, the requirements of continuity and closure; satisfying these two requirements is all that is needed to give a play unity. The concluding chapter is a close reading of Sophocles’ Ajax in the light of the author’s theory of tragedy. At the time of publication, Malcolm Health was a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford University. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original work. Title: The Poetics of Greek Tragedy Author: Malcolm Heath Publisher: Stanford University Press 1987 ISBN 0804710813

Cell Biology: A Current Summary 1965 $16.60 John Paul Book CELL BIOLOGY A Current Summary 1965 John Paul The past decade may well have been the most dramatic period in the history of biological science. The secrets of the genetic code have been revealed, the complex structure of living molecules has been greatly elucidated, and as a result the central unifying hypothesis of the cell theory has taken on new significance for and impact on biology. This book provides a clear and concise summary of the current state of knowledge of cell biology, and by concentrating on the molecular biology of heredity and its manifestations in cell differentiation, the author has centered attention on the most fascinating features of present-day biology. Topics covered are the nature of cells, the molecular basis of cell structure, the physiochemical basis of cellular activity, the origin and evolution of cells. An effort has been made to give enough of the factual background on important issues to enable the reader to evaluate the status of each problem introduced. The bibliography is intended, in the author's words, "to serve as a bridge between this book and the very extensive scientific literature which every serious student will wish to explore." Mr. Paul is Reader in Biology at the University of Glasgow. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original work: Title: Cell Biology: A Current Summary Author: John Paul Publisher: Stanford University Press 1965 ISBN: 0804761744 Contents The Cell Theory 5 Macromolecules 21 Biological Membranes 35 Energy in Biological Systems 51 Energy Transducers 65 Synthesis of Proteins and Nucleic Acids 77 The Control and Integration of Function 95 Reproduction and Heredity 108 Cytodifferentiation 132 Cellular Interaction 146 THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF CELLS 157 Minority Problems in Southeast Asia $19.18 Virginia Thompson and Richard Adloff Book MINORITY PROBLEMS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA By Virginia Thompson and Richard Adloff Shifts of power in Southeast Asia during the past decade (1945-1955) from colonial to national groups have brought minority problems of the area into a new and important focus. “Everywhere in Southeast Asia,” reported the authors of, Minority Problems in Southeast Asia, “the new nationalist governments have teed to ignore the problems of the ethnic minorities once the foreign imperial power has been eliminated. Their concern for such minorities is aroused only when they feel that outside elements may be using minority grievances as an excuse to re-establish foreign rule.” Strategically placed minorities in Thailand, Burma, Indochina, Indonesia, and Malaya may play potentially disruptive, if not subversive, roles in the future. Virginia Thompson and Richard Adloff examine these ethnic and alien groups for their economic stake, political activities, history, and education, and in certain cases analyze their citizenship status. This is the first study of the Indian minority and of the indigenous minorities such as the Eurasians, the Malays of Thailand, the Thai of Indochina, the Arakanese, and the Ambonese. The Chinese minority – already exhaustively treated in other studies – is presented here chiefly as a regional problem, with special reference to their current activities. A final chapter relates to possible future developments, and warns that those in power must offer minorities enough of a stake in the country to induce them to merge with the majority people in a common nationality, since they are now deeply rooted in Southeast Asia. This book is issued under the auspices of the Institute of Pacific Relations. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the orginal work. Title: Minority Problems in Southeast Asia Author: Virginia Thompson and Richard Adloff Publisher: Stanford University Press 1955 ISBN : 080473786X Yosemite Trails and Tales $14.62 Katherine Ames Taylor Book Yosemite Trails and Tales By Katherine Ames Taylor Readers familiar with the earlier book on Yosemite by Katherine Ames Taylor, will be gratified by the inclusion in her latest book on that national park of most of the material that made delightful reading several years ago. Additional information has been added to bring the book up to date and to provide practical guidance for the visitor. Unlike official guidebooks to our national parks, Yosemite Trails and Tales fuses a personal reaction to Yosemite's scenic beauties and its legends and characters with descriptions of the area's principal auto tours, hiking trails, and trips by horseback. Without pretending to be a detailed guide to Yosemite, this book is designed to recapture some of the initial wonder that overcame one of the first discoverers as he looked down from a lofty crag, caught the majestic panorama unfolding from the cliff on which he stood and named it "Inspiration Point? The book is an invitation to personal experience, personal discovery of the park's wonders. Photographs by Ansel Adams lend an added charm to the text. The area map and the valley poor map, reproduced by permission of the National Park Service, will be of help to driver, rider, or hiker in the discovery of Yosemite's rare treasures. This is a reproduction edition from scanned copy of the 1948 publication. Title: Yosemite Trails and Tales Author: Katherine Ames Taylor Publisher: Stanford University Press 1948 ISBN 0804740984 Bodies in Pieces $15.10 Deborah A. Harter Book Bodies in Pieces Fantastic Narrative and the Poetics of the Fragment DEBORAH A. HARTER Bodies in Pieces explores the insistent presence of the fragmented body in fantastic narrative of the nineteenth century - its characteristic beating heart and severed hands, its breasts and feet and teeth and lost meshes of hair. In the process it uncovers a poetics of the fragment that both fundamentally defines this genre and links it to its contemporary and "other," the realist novel. Reading texts from Hoffmann to Maupassant, from Balzac and Poe to Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, the author reflects on the body's production through both textual and subjective shattering, on its violation of material and discursive categories, and on its depiction of the mutilated feminine in terms of a transparently male agony. She asks how this body's pieces function to determine fantastic discourse, from what violence they are produced, to whom they belong. And she suggests that, in contradistinction to the structured and structuring unities of the realist novel, the fragmented body in fantastic narrative represents this genre's underlying fascination with all that is fragmentary and incomplete. But this study discovers in this narrative form more than just a poetics of the fragment. It discovers as well that just as the realist novel is fraught with parts that finally give the lie to its desperate efforts at achieving unity - constructing the human body itself in ways that reveal its careful patchwork of pieces - so the fragment in fantastic narrative betrays a certain anguished gesture toward its own, different vision of wholeness. Adding to her discussion the novels of Dickens, Eliot, and Flaubert, the author proposes that the differing strategies of these two genres--the one pressing toward, the other away from totalization - are a complementary set of terms in a single imaginative system. In this system, fantastic narrative becomes for the realist novel far less an opposing than a reflective other, while realist discourse is discovered in all its fragmented, "fantastic" nature. Deborah A. Harter is Associate Professor of French Studies, and Allison Sarojim Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities (1994-96), at Rice University. Jacket illustration: Theodore Gericault (1791-1824), Fragments atlatomiques: also known as Etude de pieds et de maitts, photograph courtesy Musee Fabre Montpelier; reproduced by permission of the Musee Fabre. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original edition: Title: Bodies in Pieces: Fantastic Narrative and the Poetics of the Fragment Author: Deborah A. Harter Publisher: Stanford University Press 1996 ISBN: 0804725071 On the Game of Politics in France $16.24 Nathan Leites Book ON THE GAME OF POLITICS IN FRANCE Nathan Leites with a Foreword by D. W. Brogan Contemporary French politics has long evoked a variety of emotions, not only abroad but in France itself - astonishment, exasperation, amusement, ennui, sadness, contempt, to name but a few. It is the aim of this witty and spirited book to explain in detail the intricate, ritualized "rules of the game" that govern French parliamentary strategy and tactics. The shirking of responsibility, the conscious planning for the eventual failure of announced policy, the avoidance of action until complete disaster threatens, these are all major rules of the game, and the author has shown how these and other rules operated from 1951 through the breakdown of the Fourth Republic in the spring of 1958. An Epilogue analyzes the events of May and June, 1958, in the light of the rules. Perhaps the most important of the rules is the very opposite of that which President Truman laid down for himself, "the buck stops here." In the French system, the buck never stopped anywhere. Within the limits of this deliberate irresponsibility, the politicians could display animosity, ambition, rancor, revenge, and hate. But the game was played by players who preferred not to play in a way that would make a return match difficult. As Mr. Brogan remarks, “The deputies had to meet in the corridors, the restaurants, the bars, the committees as well, or in the chamber or round the table of the Council of Ministers. So there grew out a system of quite savage but not quite deadly dueling. The reader can leave with amusement or disgust, how it was possible to make the most profuse professions of support hurtful, even how to wound by applauding. For the student of that form of behavior attributed by men to women – that is, for the student of cattiness – this book is a treasure house.” It is conceded that many of these patterns of behavior are also found outside France, but it is also shown that even when French political practice corresponds to the universal game of politics, certain French peculiarities give a unique flavor to standard political practice. At the time of publication, Mr. Leites was a Visiting Lecturer at Yale University and a staff member of The RAND Corporation. He is the author of several books, including, The House Without Windows: France Selects a President. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original work: Title: ON THE GAME OF POLITICS IN FRANCE Author: Nathan Leites Publisher: Stanford University Press 1959 ISBN: 0804740852

French West Africa $29.20 Virginia Thompson and Richard Adloff Book This is a reproduction edition from the original 1958 publication on French West Africa. There have been a great many books on Africa since the ware but astonishingly few in English that deal with the vast and important tropical areas under French administration. As to the most extensive of these – French West Africa – the lack is particularly striking, contrasting as it does with the larger number of works concerning adjacent Nigeria and Ghana. The few studies of French West Africa produced thus far by British and American writers have been mostly in specialized periodicals, and no work on the Federation as a whole has been available to the English-reading public. The authors have provided a general and reliable survey of the main political, economic, social and cultural developments in the whole territory of French West Africa, supplemented by an analysis which takes into account both official and non-official French and African viewpoints. Some historical background is provided – especially where it is helpful to the understanding of current developments – but the book’ emphasis is upon the rapid evolution of French West Africa, in many fields, since the end of the Second World War. While most welcome as a reference work for students, the book will also be read more widely for the light it casts on the role that the French West African group of territories may play in the future ‘Eurafrica.’ This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original work: Title: French West Africa Author: Virginia Thompson and Richard Adloff Publisher: Stanford University Press 1958 ISBN: 0804742561 EDUCATION AND ANTHROPOLOGY $19.60 Edited by George D. Spindler Book EDUCATION AND ANTHROPOLOGY Edited by GEORGE D. SPINDLER Papers from participants in the June 9-14, 1954 Conference sponsored by the School of Education and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Stanford University and the American Anthropological Association. The opinions, concepts, and hypotheses expressed and developed in Education and Anthropology represent a new fusion between two fields of study. Each is concerned with a special aspect of the development of man; in the main, each has hitherto approached its goals independently of the other. In the conference from which this book stems, twenty-two outstanding anthropologists and educators met to pool their thinking for mutual benefit in the two fields. Their intent was to explore ways in which understanding of social pressures and cultural patterns can help educators to understand the role of education in the cultural process and to function effectively in a society where values, beliefs, and attitudes are changing rapidly. The topics discussed include the history of relations between education and anthropology; the school in the community context; ways in which educational goals are defeated by conflicts between cultural ideals and action; different types of communication and teacher-student relations; ways of developing intercultural understanding through education; differences between educational needs and cultural forces in the childhood and adolescent years; the relationships between anthropological and educational theory and philosophy; methods for the study of school systems in various social environments; and the dilemma of the educator in the South, where segregation has strong social and political support but has been declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court decision. Papers on each topic, written by authorities in the respective fields, were distributed before the conference as the basis for interchange of ideas. The book includes both the papers and transcripts of the ensuing discussions, edited by Dr. Spindler, together with an overview summary by Margaret Mead, one of America's leading anthropologists with an intense and long-term interest in education. Research and application already accomplished are reviewed incidentally to critical analysis of projected developments of education and anthropology. Specialists in education evaluate, modify, and reformulate the approaches of the anthropologists in the light of their professional experience; anthropologists apply their concepts, methods, data, and point of view to the educative process in its broadest sense. The result of such interdisciplinary collaboration is a fully co-operative product, filled with new concepts, hypotheses, and approaches. In the discussion of the effects of racial desegregation in Southern schools, practical suggestions show what kinds of data and ideas the anthropologists could organize to present to educators faced with the task of implementing the Supreme Court decision-a "field problem" of considerable importance. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original work: Title: Education and Anthropology Editor: George D. Spindler Publisher: Stanford University Press, 1955 ISBN: 080473822X Authors of papers by: L. James Quillen, George D. Spindler, Bernard J. Siegel, John Gillen, Solon T. Kimball, Cora DuBois, C.W.M. Hart, Dorothy Lee, Jules Henry, and Theodore Brameld Commentaries and discussions by the above and: Felix M. Keesing, Robert N. Bush, Hilda Taba, Lawrence K. Frank, William E. Martin, Margaret Mead, Fannie R. Shaftel, Paul R. Hanna, Arthur P. Coladarci, William H. Cowley, Lawrence G. Thomas, and Alfred L. Kroeber Magic: A Sociological Study $26.20 Hutton Webster Book Magic: A Sociological Study Hutton Webster Published in 1948 To the layman magic is a black art surrounded by an aura of romance and mystery. To sociologist Hutton Webster magic, black and white, is a pseudo science that has discouraged intellectual activity among primitive cultures around the world. The unknown, the unexplainable have always presented a challenge to mankind. That’s where magic comes into the picture, and to the primitive mind hocus-pocus seems a very logical and satisfactory way of meeting that challenge. Even today the dependence on magic continues as an integral part of primitive life. Here, Hutton Webster presents a carefully prepared survey of magic, an excellent text or reference for sociological study. He describes the various forms of magic; e tells how magicians are made and how they operate. Above all Dr. Webster emphasizes the importance of doing away with the practice, for it substitutes unreal for real achievement and generally delays the progress of civilization. In compiling his material the author has used primary sources exclusively; there is no secondhand material in the book. Particularly valuable to the student are the extensive notes incorporated in the volume. Another important sociological study by Hutton Webster is, Taboo. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original work: Title: Magic: A Sociological Study Author: Hutton Webster Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 0804736243 The International City of Tangier $20.35 Graham H. Stuart Book This is a reproduction edition of the 1931 publication of this work. THE World War, which served as a last resource to cut the Gordian knot of tangled international relations, solved many of the difficult problems of diplomacy. The settlement itself, however, raised others of a different character and equally difficult of solution. The map of Europe redrawn to satisfy the needs of a burgeoning nationalism raised almost impossible situations to torment the well-meaning makers of a new world. Justice rarely follows as a corollary of force, and statesmen learned to their dismay that history may easily lend itself to opposite theses. A league of nations was wisely set up, a league handicapped necessarily by a heritage of difficult problems with which only an impartial and well-knit organization could hope to deal. Among the most difficult of these problems was that of international administration. The territories taken from Turkey and Germany had to be dealt with in a spirit different from that of conquests of the past. Minorities had to be protected, international rivers had to be kept free from local control, and certain areas like the Saar Basin and Danzig could only be administered by some sort of neutral agency. These problems were attacked and many have already been settled. But the ultimate success of international administration can be determined only after a long and fair trial. Yet the measurement of success or failure is after all largely relative and can be best approximated by a comparison of somewhat similar situations. With this in mind it should be of value in considering the problem of international administration to study experiments which have already been made. A number of examples immediately come to the mind of the investigator, especially public international unions, such as the postal and telegraph unions, the International Institute of Agriculture, the Pan-American Union, the Danube River Commission, and others of similar character. But of a decidedly more political nature and therefore furnishing much more difficult problems are the international administrative areas of Shanghai and Tangier. Here we find problems of an international character which by their very nature have induced systems of international control. Each area has presented its problems for a considerable period of time and neither set of solutions is yet entirely satisfactory. It has been the purpose of this study to consider the entire problem presented by Tangier, perhaps the oldest and most difficult problem of international administration. It is evident at the outset that such a problem can be considered properly only after a careful investigation into its historical background. For that reason an effort has been made to explore the situation first from the standpoints of geography, history, and diplomacy. With this as a foundation it has been possible to study the gradual development of the international control and to picture its present functioning. To obtain the proper perspective the writer thought it necessary to examine as far as possible all the material which has hitherto appeared on the subject in the three countries most concerned - France, Spain, and Great Britain. Coincident with this examination the writer discussed the question with various officials of these governments to obtain a personal impression of the present attitude. Finally, he spent a considerable time upon the spot in order to estimate fairly the problem and to form a more accurate appreciation of success in its solution. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original work: Title: The International City of Tangier Author: Graham H. Stuart Publisher: Stanford University Press 1931 ISBN: 0804743438 Britain's Scientific and Technological Manpower $24.40 George Louis Payne Book The United Kingdom is the principal ally of the United States in world affairs. Her political effectiveness, military potential and economic welfare – all of direct concern to this country – are now largely dependent on her technological competence. This report presents a general review of Britain’s scientific and engineering manpower – its postwar strengths and deficiencies, the present supply, the expected future demand, and the steps being taken or planned to meet this demand, including data from the latest manpower survey of 1959, and 1962 and 1966 projections of need. The British see the challenge of the manpower problem as a question not merely of success but of survival. In the words of an anonymous British expert, “the price of survival is to change our culture.” Great Britain has only one-third as many pure scientists as the United States in absolute numbers, but approximately the same proportion on a population basis. But she is much less well supplied with engineers and highly qualified technologists. As Britain’s population is not growing – the population of the United States has doubled in the last fifty years – a many-faceted program has been launched for making a technical education available to a larger proportion of her young people. One of the most valuable features of this stud is a penetrating account of the British educational system and of some of the social and economic factors affecting the manpower situation. Recent developments in the British educational system will be of special interest to those concerned with the problems of American education. Another striking contrast is in the relation of fundamental and applied research in the two nations: Great Britain employs twice as many scientists in education as we do, and only a third as many in industry as we do. While the British Government must therefore concern itself with promoting applied research and strengthening the ties between industry and science by supporting industrial research associations, our government, through the National Science Foundation, puts primary emphasis on encouraging fundamental science in the colleges and universities. This study, sponsored by the President’s Committee on Scientists and Engineers, constitutes a model fro periodic assessment of the free world’s needs and resources. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the work: Title: Britain’s Scientific and Technological Manpower Author: George Louis Payne Publisher: Stanford University Press 1960 ISBN 0804761752 Contents PREFACE 3 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND 11 TECHNICAL MANPOWER AND ITS EMPLOYMENT IN 27 CHAPTER HI CURRENT AND EXPECTED DEMAND FOR SCIENTISTS 65 THE SECONDARY SCHOOLS 108 THE UNIVERSITIES 151 NONUNIVERSITY CHANNELS TO A TECHNICAL EDUCA 192 CHAPTER VH EXPANSION OF EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES 243 EXPANSION OF EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES 302 RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 335 TECHNOLOGICAL EXPANSION AND THE SOCIAL SCENE 367 SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES 400 NOTES ON AMERICAN MANPOWER STATISTICS 425 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS AND PUBLICATIONS 446 INDEX 457 Copyright

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