"The finest, most provocative, most scholarly, and most important study on Russia I have read in a long time.

"Analytical and personal, this book appeals to its readers' emotions even as it engages their critical intelligence.

This beautifully written book is more than just another book on Chaucer: this is a book on Chaucer that we really need."--R. A. Shoaf, editor of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

When August Frugé joined the University of California Press in 1944, it was part of the University's printing department, publishing a modest number of books a year, mainly monographs by UC faculty members.

"A wonderfully written book . . . [about] a little-recognized but enormously significant process that has shaped contemporary American political culture.

In a time when many young women don't even know that there was a period when abortion was a crime, this work offers chilling and vital lessons of importance to everyone.

"The trauma seemed instructive enough" for him to begin a journal. That journal is the heart of Second Sight, a sensitively written account of Hine's journey into darkness and out again. The first parts are told simply, with little anguish.

"The trauma seemed instructive enough" for him to begin a journal. That journal is the heart of Second Sight, a sensitively written account of Hine's journey into darkness and out again. The first parts are told simply, with little anguish.

"--Mark D. Meyerson, University of Notre Dame 'This is an extremely important work, a new departure in the study of the history of the Spanish Inquisition.

"One of the most important works ever written on the reception of Luther through print."--Thomas Brady, University of California, Berkeley "One of the most important works ever written on the reception of Luther through print.