December's features include new studies of Freud, an Internet resource, biographies and a book of dinosaurs. As is traditional, the items are arranged in classification, i.e., rough subject, order.

Happy holidays.

Miller, Martin A. Freud and the Bolsheviks. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. Location: Olin, BF 175 M485x 1998 This is the first comprehensive history of psychoanalysis in Russia from the last years of the tsars to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Miller, a professor of history at Duke University, finds that the oscillations in Russian attitudes toward Freud during Soviet rule reflected shifting tensions within Russian culture at large. (Martha Hsu, mrh4@cornell.edu)

McGinn, Bernard. Flowering of Mysticism: men and women in the new mysticism (1200-1350). New York: Crossroad Herder, 1998. (The presence of God, a history of Western Christian mysticism, 3). Location: Olin BV 5077 .E85 M34x 1991 [vol.3] Uris BV 5077 .E85 M47 [vol.3]   The third volume in a projected five volume set by the leading scholar of Christian mysticism in the world, already considered the authoritative study on the subject. Describes the dynamic changes in the religious life of the late Middle Ages, when newly formed orders such as the Franciscans and Dominicans, but especially the independent religious women known as the Beguines, provided the impetus for a "new mysticism". Absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in the history of medieval Christianity, from beginner to advanced scholar. (Yoram Szekely, ybs1@cornell.edu)

Kelsey, Harry. Sir Francis Drake: The Queen's Pirate. New Haven,Conn: Yale University Press, 1998. Location: Olin, DA 86 .22 .D7 K45x 1998 Called by one reviewer, ". . . a fascinating and rewarding study,"this is a reinterpretation of the famous Elizabethan "Sea Dog." Kelsey shatters the familiar image of Drake as a "pious, brave, and just seaman who initiated the move to make England a great naval power. . ." Rather, Drake is painted as "an amoral privateer" and adventurer bent on lining his own pockets with Spanish gold; an ineffectual commander who was "suspicious. . .to the point of paranoia," and who had no sense of personal loyalty. (David Brumberg, gdb1@cornell.edu)

Mundill, Robin R. England's Jewish solution: experiment and expulsion, 1262-1290.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. (Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought, 4th. series, v.37). Location: Olin DS 135 .E5 M79x 1998. A detailed historical study of Jewish settlement and of seven specificJewish communities in England during the latter half of the 13th century, with emphasis on the Jews' economic activities and legal status. Also examines the background to the expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290 which resulted in their continuous exclusion for the following four hundred years. A major new work in the field of medieval Jewish history. (Yoram Szekely, ybs1@cornell.edu)

Hughes, Lindsey. Russia in the age of Peter the Great. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. Location: Olin, DK131 .H84x 1998 Uris DK131 .H84x 1998 This is a scholarly work which draws on previously unavailable sources. Hughes' work is probably the most comprehensive and up-to-date source on Petrine Russia now available. The book has a double focus: Russia, on the one hand, the bold modernization which occurred alongside a consolidation of the feudal society; and Peter himself on the other hand, how his youth and family determined his incredible life. It shows how these two phenomena reflect and explain each other. (Wanda Wawro, wtw3@cornell.edu)

Mitchell, W. J. T. The Last Dinosaur Book. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998. Location: Olin: +E 169.04 M58x 1996 Uris: E 169.04 M58x 1996 Barney, Jurassic Park, and Barnum and Bailey in a humanities research collection? With depth, insight, and the requisite sense of humor, this study describes the family tree of dinosaurs as contemporary cultural icons. The author is Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor in the departments of English and Art History at The University of Chicago, and the editor of Critical Inquiry. An engaging scholarly contribution , enhancing Olin Library's collections of works on themes and motifs in literature and lore. (Sarah How, seh4@cornell.edu)

Caroli, Betty Boyd. The Roosevelt Women. New York: Basic Books,1998. Location: Olin, E 757 .3 .C37x 1998 Uris, E 757 .3 .C37x 1998 Chronicling nine extraordinary Roosevelt women across a century and a half, Caroli examines them as "mothers, daughters, wives, world travelers, authors, campaigners, and socialites." The author shows how the Roosevelt Women "demonstrated the energy and intellectual curiosity that defined their famous family, as well as the roles they played in the intrigues, scandals,and accomplishments that were hallmarks of the Roosevelt clan." The power of the story lead one reviewer to declare, "Hats off to Betty Caroli for this magnificent portrait of the women of one of America's most fabled families." (David Brumberg, gdb1@cornell.edu)

LANIC (Latin American Network Information System). [Austin: Institute of Latin American Studies, n.d.] Location: http://lanic.utexas.edu/ The mother of all Latin American Internet sites. LANIC began as a Gopher server in 1992-- these archives are still maintained-- and migrated to the World Wide Web in 1996. Now it produces extensive digital content and maintains over 10,000 links to networked resources published in and about Latin America. (David Block, db10@cornell.edu)

Cambridge and the Torres Strait, Centenary Essays on the 1898 Anthropological Expedition, eds,. Anita Here and Sandra Rouse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Location: Olin GN17.3 .G7 C35x 1998) One hundred years ago, A.C. Houdini led an expedition organized at the University of Cambridge to the South Pacific. Its objective was nothing less than a comprehensive mapping of the culture of the Torres Strait .This volume, commemorating the expedition's centennial, offers nine essays that comment on the history of this enterprise and how its findings both shaped and reflected anthropological theory at the beginning of the twentieth century. (David Block, db10@cornell.edu)

Eisenstein, Zillah. Global Obscenities: Patriarchy, Capitalism, and the Lure of Cyberfantasy. New York: New York University Press, 1998. Location: Olin HQ 1190 .E38x 1998 Uris HQ 1190 .E38x 1998 Almost 20 years ago, with Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism, Eisenstein started "a dialogue between Karl Marx's theory of exploitation and radical feminism's recognition of women as a sexual class." Now this Ithaca College professor expands the conversation, using Marx's theory of exploitation "to expose the distinct power relations of racialized patriarchy and their unique representation/exploitation in cyber-media-capitalist culture." (p. 3) Her new thoughts on race, sex, capitalism, and cyber media are sure to be of interest to her colleagues in Ithaca and beyond. (Brenda Marston, bjm4@cornell.edu)

McDonough, Peter, Samuel H. Barnes, and Antonio Lopez Pina. The Cultural Dynamics of Democratization in Spain. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. Location: Olin JN 8210 M39x 1998 Since the death of Franco in 1975, Spain has made a full transition to democracy. This book looks at what that transition has meant for the Spanish people, drawing on four national surveys taken between 1978 and 1990. Readers interested in newspaper accounts of post-Franco Spain may browse through the Madrid newpaper El Pais, published since 1976 (Olin Microforms Film 6498; indexes at Olin Reference AI 21 P32). El Pais was purchased in 1992 with funds from a Title VI grant for Western European area studieswhich was administered by Cornell's Institute for European Studies from 1988-1997. (Sarah How, seh4@cornell.edu)

Encyclopedia of Language and Education , ed. David Corson. Dordrecht, Boston : Kluwer, 1997. Location: Olin P40.8 .E53x 1997 Each of the eight volumes of the Encyclopedia of Language and Education deals with a single major subject in the field and provides extensive information and authoritative opinions, as well as dozens of state-of-the-art reviews on the extant literature. Experts in each field survey early developments, major contributions, and work in progress, along with problems and difficulties, and anticipated directions for research and practice. The research value of the Encyclopedia is substantially enhanced by extensive bibliography at the end of each entry. (Wanda Wawro, wtw3@cornell.edu)

Articulations of Difference: Gender Studies and Writing in French, eds., Dominique D. Fisher and Lawrence R. Schehr. Stanford, Stanford University Press. 1997 Location: Olin PQ 295 H65 A77 1997 This collection of fifteen essays deals with the representations, theories and problematics of homosexuality in French writing of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The essays range from studies of traditional narrative and poetry to readings of medical records, from examinations of twentieth-century narratives of gay liberation to readings of gender in the post-colonial world. (Flaminia Cervesi-McCobb, fcm4@cornell.edu)

Bini, Daniela. Pirandello and His Muse: The Plays for Marta Abba.. Gainesville, University Press of Florida. 1998. Location:PQ4835 I7 253496x 1998   This study examines the later plays of Luigi Pirandello - those he wrote for his muse, actress Marta Abba - in light of the recent publication of their correspondence. With sensitive commentary on the letters, Daniela Bini reads the plays the old maestro wrote for the young actress as the sublimation of an erotic impulse he denied throughout his life. Pirandello, Bini maintains, makes love to Marta in the only way he could, the mystical union of the creator and his muse. (Flaminia Cervesi-McCobb, fcm4@cornell.edu)

Lorell, Mark A. The cutting edge : a half century of fighter aircraft R&D. Mark A. Lorell and Hugh P. Levaux. Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 1998 Location: Olin + UG 643 L674x 1998   1998 marks the fiftieth anniversary of RAND, the policy research institution. For most of those fifty years, Olin Library has maintained a comprehensive publications subscription with RAND. Olin's standing order has brought in a wealth of research and technical reports on policy topics including national defense, education and training, health care, criminal and civil justice, labor and population, science and technology, and international relations. The Lorell and Levaux report is a representative RAND publication, reviewing a public policy issue of contemporary concern and utilizing extensive background material. The authors suggest that the dramatic contraction of the aerospace industry may jeopardize the future design and production of innovative and cost-effective military fighteraircraft. They draw on an extensive, historical database spanning the past fifty years of domestic military aircraft production. (Janie Harris, JLH9@cornell.edu)

Iran <microform> : the making of U.S. policy, 1977-1980. -- Alexandria, Va. :Chadwyck-Healey, Inc. ; <Washington, D.C.> : National Security Archive, 1990. Location: Microfiche: Olin,micr Microfiche;2088 Guide: Olin,ref + Microfiche;2088 Index: Olin,Ref + Microfiche;2088 This is a reproduction, on microfiche, of over 14,000 pages of governmentdocumentation, much of it once-classified, pertaining to U.S. political, military, and economic involvement in Iran,1977-1980.In many cases, these materials have been gathered by the National Security Archive through its own--or other researchers'--Freedom of Information Act requests. This rich document set is an invaluable source for scholars and researchers seeking to understand the complex process of American foreign policy making in this area of the world. The documents which focus primarily upon U.S. policy towards Iran from 1977-1980 explain why and how the deep reservoir of good will that marked U.S.-lran relations for a century was drained dry pushing these two countries to the brink of war. The collection presents a thorough view of America's involvement in Iran, from the roots of the Carter Administration's dealings with the Shah, to shifting relations with the Provisional Government of Prime Minister Bazargan, to the final breakdown marked by Iranian seizure of the Embassy and the beginning of the hostage crisis. Documents include: Cables, Airgrams,Intelligence Reports, Memos, Statements, Briefing Papers, Reports, Press Briefings, Hearings, Letters, Internal Papers (Ali Houissa, ah16@cornell.edu)