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In Bluebelard's Castle
Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture
by George Steiner
Nostalgia for barbarism can grow inside high civilization. It is not, perhaps,
the absence of heaven so much as that of hell which a secular culture finds
intolerable. A post-culture is one that has learnt how to build "hells" on
earth, in politics, in the economic process. What remains of western civilization
now stands at the seventh and last door in Bluebeard's castle. Will it open
that door, and what lies beyond? These are some of the themes treated in
this book, which is at once a philosophic argument and an act of intense
vision.
$5.95
Patterning of Time
by Leonard W. Doob
In this wide-ranging study of the ancient, fascinating problem of time, leonard
Doob makes use of insights and data provided by the socilll sciences, psy–
chology, psychiatry, and the arts, and seeks to define what we know and do
not know. The topics under discussion include the varieties of temporal sys–
tems in different societies, the IIpproach through psychophysics and experi–
mental psychology, the so-called internal clock which most persons think they
have, and the development of a temporal sense in children. A detailed
examination is made of the influence upon time perception of emotional
states, drugs, dreams, hypnosis, IIging, mentlll disorders, personlliity, groups,
work lind social change.
$15.00
A Bias For Hope
Essays on Developm.ent and Latin America
by Albert O. Hirschman
For almost twenty years Albert Hirschmlln hils been studying and writing
about development and latin AmericlI. His principal shorter papers in this
field are collected and reprinted here. In II recently written introductory
essay Mr. Hirschman discusses the interaction between economic and political
factors in development, delineating common themes in his writings of the
last 18 years. He arrives at a highly personal view of social change for which
he coins the term "possibilism." This book will be of lasting interest to scholllrs
in Llltin Americlln studies liS well os those concerned with the economic.
political, and social aspects of developing nations.
The Police and th'e Public
by Albert J. Reiss, Jr.
Cloth $12.50
Paper $3.45
Riding in patrol cars in Detroit, walking the beat with Chicago policemen,
observing the scene in Boston police stations, and sitting in the police com–
munications center in Washington, sociologist Reiss studies the person-to-per–
son interactions of police and public. The behavior of policemen, Reiss con–
cludes, is no more civil or humane thon that of the populotion he serves–
nor clIO we expect it to be. To moke substontial improvements in police be–
havior, we must become serious in the attempt to create
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more civil society.
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$7.95
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