New from Yale
The American Disease
Origins of Narcotic Control
by DavId Muslo, M.D.
After intensive research into the history of drugs, David Musto presents a major
re-evaluation of the role of narcotics in American society. Following the history
of narcotic control from the introduction of cocaine in America to today's
proposals for marijuana legalization, Dr. Musto, a psychiatrist and historian,
traces two major themes in American attitudes toward drug users: treatment
and repression.
The American Disease
is a thorough and objective study that
will prove to be indispensable to an understanding of this important contem–
porary problem. $10.95
Wilderness and the
American Mind
Revised edition
by RoderIck Nash
Roderick Nash's classic study of American attitudes toward wilderness over
three and .a half centuries has how been revised and updated in the light oftha
"environmental revolution" that has exploded in the six years since the book
first appeared. The new chapters deal with such matters as the Grand Canyon
dam controversy and the legal questions troubling the National Wilderness
Preservation System, as well as the role played·by the wilderness mystique in
the current countercultural protest. In a review in
Natural History
William O.
Douglas said of the original edition, "This book is a mandatory prelude to any
modern treatment of conservation problems." paper $2.95 cloth $10.00
Literary Theory
and Structure
edIted by Frank Brady, John Palmer, and Martin Price
The extraordinary range of major twentieth-century literary criticism is bril–
liantly represented in this collection of nineteen original essays. The first part
of the book is devoted to a consideration of basic theoretical problems of
definition and application: the second to an examination of the concept of
structure. The vitality of these essays, as well as the eminence of the contribu–
tors make this collection an important addition to contemporary criticism. It is
necessary reading for every serious scholar In the field. $12.50
Field Guide
by Robert Haas
The winning volume in the 1972 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is a
collection of richly anecdotal, lyric poems. Robert Hass writes about the
California coast, about birds, fish, books, friends, present sensations, and the
impingements of the past upon the present Running through the book is a
core of love poems, mainly domestic, which muse on the natural order that the
affections try to establish even within the wilderness of history and political
violence. Stanley Kunitz, the Judge of the competition, calls this year's selec–
tion "a big, strong-hearted, earthy book, in the American epic tradition of
Whitman and Neruda." Yale Series of Younger Poets, 68 cloth $5.00
paper $1.95
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