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As Moscow bureau chief for Business Week magazine, Rose Brady was on the scene during the fall of the Soviet Union and the key early years of Russia’s transformation from a socialist state to a market economy. Brady interviewed scores of major political and economic figures, entrepreneurs, and ordinary Russian citizens, all of whom confronted enormous changes during the first five years of economic reform. In this compelling book, Brady provides one of the first accounts of Russia’s transition period written by an observer without a personal stake in the reform efforts’ outcome. The author takes readers into the factories, stores, banks, impromptu markets, homes, and schools of Russia, as well as into the corridors of power, to explain how the country’s own brand of capitalism has evolved.The book describes the shock to citizens when Boris Yeltsin’s government liberated prices in 1992; the early entrepreneurs who scrambled for position as state assets were privatized; privatization chief Anatoly Chubais’s crucial compromises, which altered the shape of Russian capitalism; and the development of an oligarchical system dominated by a handful of financial-industrial conglomerates. Some people have been left behind in poverty, sickness, and confusion as Russia has lurched toward capitalism, Brady concludes, yet by 1997, with private-sector domination of the economy, Russia had achieved an essentially successful economic transformation.

A dialogue among Stanley B. Greenberg, Theda Skocpol and other thinkers. They argue that the USA is ready for a progressive politics with substance, and contend that by embarking on a popular progressive course, the Democratic Party can become the moral voice of American families.

This text, an analysis of democracy in Japan, refutes the widely accepted hypothesis that postwar Japan has been a semiauthoritarian and consensual state. Rather, it contends, Japanese political life has been fragmented and discordant at all levels - bureaucracy, parties and business and industry.

In this text, the authors look at the interaction between population and food supply and offer a strategy for balancing human numbers and nutritional needs. Their proposals include improving the status of women, reducing racism and religious prejudice, and reforming the agricultural system.

A selection of insights about conflicts and competition, vital to those who formulate immigration policies. The insights are derived from the work of authors such as Frank D. Bean, Thomas E. Cavanagh, John A. Garcia, Peter H. Schuck, Wendy Zimmerman, and more.

Examines Milton's thinking about matter and substance throughout his entire poetic career, seeks to alter the prevailing critical view that Milton was a monist-materialist - one who believes that all things are composed of material and all phenomena are the result of material interactions.

An anthology that serves as a literary map to guide readers through the varied geography of contemporary Italian fiction. For English-language readers who are familiar with the work of Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco, this collection presents an opportunity to acquaint themselves with the work of important contemporary Italian writers of fiction.

A collection of essays on teaching Italian language, literature, and culture through theatre. From theoretical background to course models, it provides the resources that teachers and students need to incorporate the rich and abundant Italian dramatic tradition into the curriculum. It also includes the "Director's Handbook".

'Dissent' was founded in 1954 to provide a platform for liberal thinking at a time when the American right was dominant and the American left mired in dogma. This commemorative volume offers articles by such luminaries as Norman Mailer, Irving Howe, Theodore Draper, Sean Wilentz and Michael Kazin.

A comprehensive history of child care policy and practice in the USA from the colonial period to the present. It draws on a range of archival material to demonstrate why the current child care system evolved as it has and places its history within a broad comparative context.

An investigation of the everyday lives of men in pre-revolutionary America. It looks at men and women in colonial Massachusetts and Connecticut, comparing their experiences in order to understand the domestic environment in which they spent most of their time.

This work puts debates about Social Security reform into historical perspective, considers various reform ideas, and elaborates a proposal to ensure that the system can continue to meet the claims of the retired and the disabled. It sets out a plan to change the way Social Security is financed.

This study of a school choice plan in St Louis, Missouri - which allowed black students to attend suburban schools - reveals the ugliness and beauty of race relations. It describes the resistance of suburban white educators and the courage of the black students who crossed the colour line.

This collection of writings offers a discussion among leading thinkers about the points at which rhetoric and religion illuminate and challenge each other. The contributors are theorists and critics in rhetoric, theology and religion, and they address a variety of problems and periods.

The explosion of information brought about by advances in genetic research brings welcome scientific knowledge, but it also raises complex and troubling issues concerning privacy and confidentiality. This volume provides a comprehensive exploration of these ethical, legal and social issues.

A series of fictionalized vignettes of daily life as experienced by ordinary individuals in the USA. Each takes place in a year from 1901 to 1969, and each is followed by a short dialogue in which the author argues with an interlocutor over why he has chosen to develop a scenario in that year.

A comparative history of three revolutions in the Americas is provided by this work: the American Revolution in 1776; the 1791 slave revolt in the French colony that became Haiti; and the prolonged Spanish American struggle for independence that ended 50 years later.

This work on the history of constitutional theory suggests that in recent years, new political and interdisciplinary perspectives have undermined the tenets of legal liberalism, and that liberal law professors have enlisted other disciplines in an attempt to legitimize their beliefs.

This study advocates a method of helping patients with a combination of alternative and mainstream medicine - a treatment of mind, body, and spirit that energizes patients. Spiro encourages physicians to talk and listen to their patients, and to employ alternative approaches.

This text addresses the conundrum of environmental regulation by tracing its source to the competing characterizations of regulatory legitimacy that have accompanied the growth of the American state.

This selection of poetry is accompanied by an introduction by George Bradley, the 1986 winner of the annual Younger Poets contest. The book is divided into two sections: "The Early Years", presenting the first 31 winners of the contest and "The Modern Series", displaying work by US poets.

This exploration of the nature of cyberspace and increasing virtualization of everyday life argues that electronic neighbourhoods should be less important to us than our geophysical neighbourhoods, speaking in favour of civic networking.

What is the healthiest diet for an infant? What constitutes a nutritious school lunch? - this text, written by doctors, dieticians, nurses and social workers, answers such questions. It presents information and guidelines about childhood nutrition and includes recipes from famous chefs.

Examines variations in minority and majority educational patterns. This book also assesses underlying causes and offers recommendations for increasing the rate of minority educational progress.