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Over the last two centuries and indeed up to the present day, Eastern Europe’s lands and peoples have conjured up a complex mixture of fascination, anxiety, promise, and peril for Germans looking eastwards. Liulevicius reveals that this crucial international relationship has in fact been integral to how Germans have defined themselves and their own national identity.

Editor: Harry F. Dahms
Since the linguistic turn in Frankfurt School critical theory during the 1970s, philosophical concerns have become increasingly important to its overall agenda, at the expense of concrete social-scientific inquiries. The chapters included in this volume of Current Perspectives in Social Theory highlight the problematic nature of mainstream perspectives.

Author: Lynn Sacco
This history of father-daughter incest in the United States explains how cultural mores and political needs distorted attitudes toward and medical knowledge of patriarchal sexual abuse at a time when the nation was committed to the familial power of white fathers and the idealized white family.

Co-Author: James G. Stovall
All Alabama elections are colorful, but the 1986 gubernatorial contest may trump them all for its sheer strangeness. This volume is certain to be a valuable work for any political scientist, especially those with an interest in Alabama or southern politics.

Author: Stephen H. Blackwell
Most famous as a literary artist, Vladimir Nabokov was also a professional biologist and a lifelong student of science. By exploring the refractions of physics, psychology, and biology within his art and thought, this book demonstrates how aesthetic sensibilities contributed to Nabokov’s scientific work.