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"Alix Holt, in her careful, objective comments on the life and work of Miss Kollontai, has served her subject well. . . .She has given us this chance to become acquainted with the thought of a woman liberated before her time." -New York Times Book Review

"Derek Jewell has performed a valuable task in writing the first complete biography of the greatest composer jazz has so far produced and one of America's most important musicians." -Andre Previn

The poems in this volume were selected by the poet in 1978 from his first three books A Run of Jacks, Death of the Kapowsin Tavern, and Good Luck in Cracked Italian and from his three more recent books, The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir, What Thou Lovest Well Remains American, and 31 Letters and 13 Dreams.

From his studies of historical records Immanuel Velikovsky has concluded that close encounters between the Earth and the planet Mars and Venus occurred at about 1500 B.C. and 775 B.C. He believes that these near collisions are responsible for many of the events described in Biblical texts and in other ancient writings. Although Velikovsky's views have not been generally accepted in the scientific community, public interest in them has continued for almost three decades

The two lectures presented in this important volume were delivered by Erik H. Erikson at the second annual Jefferson Lectures in the Humanities, sponsored by The National Endowment for the Humanitites.

"One of the truly important works of our time-and one that will be alluded to and quoted from for a long time to come. . . .The first thorough-going treatment of communications theory written by an English teacher specifically for English teachers-a superlative work." -Edward P.J. Corbett

Here is a midsummer night's dream of a novel, Anthony Burgess in a mood of comic whimsy. A baronet, Sir Benjamin Drayton, has received a consignment of stone statues of gods and goddesses, including Venus. A ring slipped on Venus's finger by a young man about to be married upsets a number of arrangements, including the wedding plans.

In J. Robert Loy's smooth and accurate translation (the first in English except for a privately printed one of 1798), the reader can now discover the originality of Diderot's witty masterpiece. It is a book that no one interested in the evolution of modern fiction, or the ideas of the Enlightenment, will want to miss.

Winner of the Allan Nevins Award of the Society of American Historians.

Rank's development of will psychology led him to a philosophy of the psychological, outlined in Truth and Reality. Here he explores the psychological determinants of the relationship of inner world to outer reality.

The playground of Mr. Burgess' humor is a city to which his hero, Denham, J. W., businessman, forty, British, returns on leave from the Far East to find the face of England hardened into a standardized grimace. He is appalled by his observations in all quarters of cheapness, shallowness, vice. He is appalled also by monotony. But monotony reigns only briefly. Soon Everett, the broken-down poet, and Winterbottom, the printer, have involved him in affairs which put a strain on his holiday spirit. And with the appearance of Mr. Raj, Ceylonese gentleman, persistent lecher and unflagging sociologist, speed quickens and control diminishes as Denham is carried helpless down the homestretch of his grueling comic course. Mr. Burgess' humor stems from the depth of life rather than from its surface. His people are so vividly alive, and the anger, laughter and melodrama of their experiences so affecting that their story takes on dimension rare in novels so thoroughly entertaining.

In 1951 Joan M. Erikson, a craftswoman and writer, was asked to develop a program of planned activities for the patients at the Austen Riggs Center, a small private institution for the emotionally disturbed. In this book she and her co-workers describe their experience and its wider applications.

A unique view of the Khrushchev period as seen by two prominent Soviet dissidents.

Summarizing in broad outline the data accumulated from about a hundred studies on the essential points of causal explanation, this introduction (written with the collaboration of R. Garcia) defines the main problems posed by these data.

"Provides a provocative new insight into the changing pattern of New England cultural and social history." -William and Mary Quarterly

This taut, compelling drama centers on a radical brain operation performed on two little girls with a horrible and disfiguring disease, dystonia musculorum deformans.

"A thoughtful, ingenious, speculative book, a pleasure to read and to reread. No one interested in the history of women and the family, and in Victorian civilization as a whole, can afford to miss it." -Journal of American History

"The Russian literary heritage of the 1920's and 1930's continues to grow as significant works are uncovered that were long forgotten or never published. The most recent find is not a single work or author, but an entire literary movement-the Oberiu. . . . Professor Gibian's book is most welcome . . ." -Slavic Review

Liam O'Flaherty, who has written short stories in Gaelic and in English, is a worthy successor to the anonymous storytellers of the past. -Vivian Mercier

"A major contribution to the history of American politics." -Noble E. Cunningham, American Historical Review

"A brief and luminous account of a century of southern Republicanism" -Dewey Grantham, Vanderbilt University

The Sonata in the Baroque Era explores the first appearance of the term "sonata" as an instrumental title in the sixteenth century to the virtual end of the thorough-bass practice, around 1750.

Plautus wrote upwards of fifty plays, of which twenty have survived.

Few literary works have been so variously interpreted as Nikolai Gogol's enduring comic masterpiece, Dead Souls.

In the 1870's "The Eastern Question" split Britain into two camps as no other subject of foreign policy had done. The controversy became centered around the figures of two political titans, Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone, and forced immediate policy decisions and eventually a redefinition of British imperialism.

These lucid, compact, and authoritative studies provide summaries for the scientists and a comprehensible introduction to scientific ideas for the nonspecialist. Each book is illustrated with diagrams and halftone plates.

This short volume selects and describes the main facts about the 'facts of life' and discusses their significance to man. It is only natural that it includes much information gleaned from mammalian reproductive patterns. It was their investigation that historically gave the clues to understanding what happens in human reproduction.