transactionrnNew and Recent Books on Family and PolicyrnThernSwedishrnExperimentrnin FamilyrnPolitiesrnAllanrnCarlsonrnr/-rnThernpoliticsrnHumanrnfsjaturernThomas FlemingrnFamilyrnQu^tjpjisrnReflectlDns on thernAmerican Socaal CrisisrnAllan C. CgbTlscjnrnTHE SWEDISH EXPERIMENT INrnFAMILY POLITICSrnTHE MYRDALS AND THE INTERWAR POPULATION CRISISrnMan CarlsonrnThis devastating account of ttie work of Gunnar and Alva Myrdal portraysrnhow two young scholars used the power of ideas to help engineer a newrndomestic order in Sweden. It offers the general reader remarkable insightrninto the nature of Scandinavian social life, and the specialist a criticalrnperspective on how social science can itself become the problem, ratherrnthan providing solutions in contemporary post-industrial life.rnISBN: 0-88738-299-1 (Cloth) 314 pp. $39.95rnTHE POLITICS OF HUMAN NATURErnThomas FlemingrnThis effort to understand human nature in a political context takes up sexrnand gender differences, democracy and dictatorship, individual andrnfamilial patterns of association.rn’Probing and thoughtful” -Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Chroniclesrn”Learned, thoughtful, and superbly written”rn-Robert Nisbet, The National Reviewrn”Progressives and radicals could benefit from grappling with Fleming’srnintellectually stimulating presentation.”rn-The Progressivern”A wide-ranging and freewheeling review of sundry madnesses affectingrnmodern political thought.” -This WorldrnISBN: 0-88738-189-8 (cloth) 276 pp. $32.95rnFAMILY QUESTIONSrnREFLECTIONS ON THE AMERICAN SOCIAL CRISISrnAllan CarlsonrnWhat accounts for the crisis in American family life? This creative searchrnfor answers borrows from conservative, feminist, and socialist traditions,rnoffering a number of provocative explanations.rn”One of the most profoundly sensible voices on the American landscape.rn. . . All of his positions are carefully laid out and supported by meticulousrnresearch and precise reasoning.”rn-William Tucker, The American Spectatorrn”Genuinely profound” -E. Calvin Beiser, Worldrn”Of interest to historians, social scientists/planners and students at thernupper-division undergraduate level and above”rn-D.A. Chekki, ChoicernISBN: 0-88738-206-1 (Clottl) 335 pp. $39.95rnOrder from your bookstore or direct from the publisher.rnMajor credit cards accepted. Call (201) 932-2280rnF ^ n transaction publishersrnI [7 I Department FP012rn^ wm Fiutgers-The State Universityrntransaction New Bfunswick, N.J. 08903rnrnrn