A collection of principles and methods for the application of disaster relief, this book explains the essential problems present in a variety of calamities, as well as the procedures determined best to deal with them effectively, based on the experience of the American Red Cross.

J. BYRON DEACON was general secretary of the Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity and division director of Civilian Relief for Pennsylvania.

This report, published in 1947, is a guide to public relations programs around health and welfare services. It is written for professional workers, administrators, and volunteers who must answer questions, speak to audiences, or write letters and bulletins about social welfare.

HELEN CODY BAKER was publicity director at the Council of Social Agencies of Chicago.

MARY SWAIN ROUTZAHN was director at the Department of Social Work Interpretation of the Russell Sage Foundation.

Published in 1936 as part of the Russell Sage Foundation’s Emergency Relief Studies series, Cash Relief explores the use of cash grants as emergency relief versus providing goods such as food, clothing, or fuel. Cash relief became widespread among emergency relief administrations during 1934 and 1935. The staff of the Charity Organization Department of the foundation made field visits to nine cities where this system had been in operation. This book provides a history of such practices and the departments fieldwork findings.

JOANNA C. COLCORD was director of the Charity Organization Department at the Russell Sage Foundation.

"In 1963 The Center for the Study of Law and Society accepted a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation for the purpose of examining issues and perspectives bearing on the administration of civil justice. It was hoped that some ground might be laid for research that would be of interest to social scientists and of value for legal reform."

JEROME E. CARLIN, San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation.

SHELDON L. MESSINGER, Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley

Published in 1948, this book is concerned with how the law school may be more effective in educating the many law-trained students who will eventually go on to work as legislators, judges, and policy-making members in government, or who, as lawyers outside the government, will nevertheless exert large influence over it. One of the most important questions is whether government lawyers are inadvertent policy-makers, and if so, how they make policy.

ESTHER LUCILE BROWN was director of the Department of Studies in the Professions at the Russell Sage Foundation.

In 1962 the Russell Sage Foundation initiated a series of studies on the social consequences of standardized intelligence, aptitude, and achievement testing. This book presents the initial results from the series, focusing on the social impact of tests of intellectual abilities, based on questionnaire responses from adults across the United States.

ORVILLE G. BRIM was president of the Russell Sage Foundation.

JOHN NEULINGER was assistant professor of psychology at City College of the City University of New York.

DAVID C. GLASS was professor of psychology at New York University.

Published in 1937 to serve as a course plan, How to Interpret Social Work focuses on how to talk about social work in a range of public spheres, from informal and familiar approaches to more formalized and skilled techniques needed in addressing the general public.

HELEN CODY BAKER was publicity director at the Council of Social Agencies of Chicago.

MARY SWAIN ROUTZAHN was director at the Department of Social Work Interpretation of the Russell Sage Foundation.

In Drugs and Society, Bernard Barber organizes and criticizes what has been learned about drug behavior by biologists, medical researchers, pharmacologists, sociologists, practicing physicians, economists, and government officials, The author brings out the implications of what is now known, the perils of continued ignorance in many areas, and the need for a great deal of specific new research.

Barber examines the ethical considerations relating to experimentation with drugs on human subjects. He indicates that our social policy for the treatment of drug addicts is based on prejudice and ignorance and that it probably aggravates the troubles it seeks to eliminate.

BERNARD BARBER was professor of sociology at Barnard College, Columbia University

A volume of Social Science Frontiers, a series of publications reviewing new fields for social development, aimed at foundation executives, administrators of research grant programs, directors of research organizations, and others concerned with making contemporary social science more useful for the function of social reporting.

OTIS DUDLEY DUNCAN was professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin.