Many of us in the social sciences long to transfer knowledge across dis- ciplinary boundaries in a way that is true to our discipline yet useful to other disciplines. One way to satisfy this longing is to seize articles that address similar issues from dif erent disciplines and piece them together to forge new intellectual coherence that can push forward the frontiers of knowledge. This seems to be the way in which new i elds of study take root. While I applaud this style of scholarship and its development, this book attempts to do something a little dif erent
