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DELTA BOOKS
Distinguished works in paperbound editions
suitable for the permanent library.
Children of Crisis
A Study of Courage and Fear
Rob ert Col es. Explores the
attitudes of people, most of them
ordinary, caugh t up in the tense,
often violen t process of racial
stri fe-the child ren, the parents
and teachers, civi l rights workers,
militan t segregationists.
" . .. enables us to confront those
moments in our recent history
in the deepest human sense."
-Saturday Review
416 pages Illustrated $2.45
The Chinese Looking Glass
China and her
Enigmatic People
Dennis Bloodworth. Thi s twelve–
yea r Far Eastern co rrespondent
for the Observer traces more
than three-thousand years of the
history, philosophy, literatu re,
and everyday living that have
helped form the deeply-rooted
character of today's Chinese,
the often enigmatic people who
make up one-quarter of the
world's popul ation.
448 pages $2.45
The Mystery of Existence
An Essay in Ph il osophical
Cosmology
Milton Munitz. Seeks to establish,
by a sustained argumen t and in
a ca refully developed series of
steps, the significance of the
question , "Why is there a
world at all?"
288 pages $1.95
To Deny Our Nothingness
Contemporary Images of Man
Mau rice Friedman. Ashley
Montagu ca lled this book "a
fascinating examination of what
man is and what he ought to be."
It lays the groundwork for a
new, creati ve humanism and is
the product of more than fifteen
yea rs of active concern wi th the
image of man- not as a descrip·
tion or as an ideal but as a
direction of movement shaping
the raw material of the absu rd
into au thentic personal and
human exi stence.
384 pages $2.25
To Move a Nation
The Politics of Foreign Policy in
the Adm inistration of
John F. Kennedy
Roger Hilsman. This key maker
of foreign policy during the term
of JFK provides "an importan t
and engrossing work of
diplomatic history ... unfailingly
lucid, reasonable, and humane,
and-rare for a work in its genre
-never self·serving."
- The New Yorker
624 pages $2.95
Women in Crime
Five Revealing Cases
Tony Parker. " A heartrending
book ... most revea ling of the
tragedy of human wastage that
modern progress in penal
reform has failed to solve."
- Book-of-the-Month Club News.
" Fascinating and tragic . .. set
down by a man of perception
and compassion."
- San Francisco Chronicle
192 pages Illustrated $1.75
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