Robert Conquest, a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a noted expert on the history of the former Soviet Union, received a prestigious Ingersoll Prize in Literature and Humanities.

Hoover Institution fellow Joseph Berger and Morris Zelditch, Jr. have long been two of the leading contributors to the Stanford tradition in the study of microprocesses. In a three-part volume, Status, Power, and Legitimacy: Strategies and Theories, now available from Transaction Publishers ($44.95), they bring together major contributions to the development of this tradition, in addition to a number of new essays, published for the first time.