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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 6, 1963
The Sea, Medicine, Cooking, Usage and Anthropology
UNDER THE SEA WIND, by Rachel Carson (Signet Science Library. 60 cents).
When this book was reissued several years ago it profited from the celebrity of Rachel Carson's "The Sea Around Us." Now it is out in time to profit from "Silent Spring."
The book is a description of the struggle for life that is taking place on the shore and in the waters of the oceans, of the birds and fish that battle nature and their natural enemies.
MAGIC, MYTH AND MEDICINE. by D. T. Atkinson (Premier, 50 cents).
There are three sections — the edge of the sea, the gull's way, and river and sea. The book has been widely recognized for its depiction of nature and the relationships of plants and animals to each other.
Here is a book by a doctor that gives to the general reader interesting insights into man's struggle against disease from the days of demons and withd doctors to the terrific strides of today.
It is a book of heroes, from the doctors of Greece and Rome and the Middle East through Agrippa, Paracelsus, Valentine, Ambrose Pare, Vesalius, Harvey, John Hunter, Rush, Jenner, Ephraim McDowell, Crawford Long, Semmelweis, Lister, Reed and Gorgas.
THIRD-PARTY MOVEMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES, by William Hesseltine (Anvil Original, $1.45).
Hesseltine, a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, has edited and written on documents in third-party developments in this country. The collection illustrates the diversity of American political life.
Among the writings are some on anti-Masonry, the Workingmen's party of the Jacksonian era, the anti-renters, the Know-Nothing movement, anti-slavery movements, including the Free-Soilers, Prohibitionists, Greenbackers, Populists, Socialists, Progressives and
Bull Moosers, and the Progressive party of Henry A. Wallace.
BASIC HISTORY OF THE CONFEDERACY, by Frank E. Vandiver
(Anvil Original. $1.45).
In this Civil War centennial period, here is a unique kind of paperback, documents concerning the Confederacy, with a special emphasis on Jefferson Davis.
Topics treated are many. Among them are the South Carolina ordinance of secession, the Confederate constitution, messages and statements of Davis, Beauregard and Maj. Anderson and the firing on Ft. Sumter, conscription statements, proposed treaties, a view of Stonewall Jackson, a last report by Gen. Lee, and the surrender terms at Appomattox.
PSYCHOTHERAPY EAST AND WEST. by Alan W. Watts (Mentor, 60 cents).
Here is a comparison of the thinking of the East and West. The author examines the theories of Freud, Jung, Sullivan and May and relates them to Buddhism, Vedanta, Yoga and Taoism. His contention is that the wisdom of the masters of Zen Buddhism has demonstrated that the modern "ego" concept is not valid.
THE GENETIC CODE, by Isaac Asimov (Signet Science Library, 60 cents)—a description of how the work of the 1962 Nobel prize winners in medicine and physiology someday may make possible the genetic elimination of disease and unfavorable inherited traits.
PRIMITIVE MAN AND HIS WAYS, by Kaj Birket-Smith (Mentor, 75 cents) - a description of six primitive, contemporary societies by a famous anthropologist. Birket-Smith, keeper of the ethnographical department of the National Museum in Copenhagen, discusses the Australian aborigines, the Tuareg, the Maori, the Lapps, and two groups of American Indians. He gives a geographical history of each race and shows why development came to a halt.
LOVE THE FRENCH WAY, by J. C. Ibert and J. Charles (Signet original, 50 cents)—a translation of a French work dealing with several aspects of love, including customs, practices and attitudes concerning courtship, marriage and divorce; lovers and mistresses; legal offspring and illegitimate children. There are case histories to bolster the conclusions.
A CONCISE HANDBOOK OF BETTER ENGLISH, by Roger Goodman (Bantam Reference Library, 60 cents)—Here is one more handy paperback guide for the student who needs help in writing. Goodman offers assistance in the parts of speech, sentences (including excellent sections on sentence diagramming, that almost-forgotten art), phrases and clauses, punctuation, usage, spelling, vocabulary, letter writing, preparing book reports and research papers.
COURMET COOKING BY THE CLOCK, by William and Chesbrough Rayner (Signet original, 75 cents); SPECIALTY COOKING WITH WINE, by Morrison Wood (Signet, 75 cents)-Two guides with enough recipes and menus to keep readers smacking their lips for some time. It would be impossible to list all the exotic foods that are set forth here, but suffice it to say that even the hungry of Kansas can prepare many of these foods with little difficulty, or cost.
THE BIG CON, by David W. Maurer (Signet, 60 cents)—a collection of stories of big-time swindlers who bear names like Christ Traggy, Larry the Lug The Postal Kid, and Limehouse Chapie. The book amounts almost to a how-to-do-it of con games.
DICTIONARY OF FOREIGN TERMS, edited by C. O. Sylvester Mawson (Bantam, 95 cents). This revision and enlargement of the handy handbook compiled by the editor of Roget's Thesaurus contains more than 15,000 key expressions in more than 50 foreign languages. The revision has been done by Robert J. Schwartz.
LOST LANGUAGE, by P. E. Cleator (Mentor, 75 cents)—This paperback reprint gives readers who missed the hardback issue a space exploration authority's view of how the hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt and other similar writings were deciphered so their messages could be read by modern man.
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PERSONALITY, by Joseph Nuttin (Mentor-Omega, 75 cents)—A book by a Catholic priest who is regarded as one of Europe's foremost psychologists. The book is a summary of Freudian psychology, in which Father Nuttin evaluates psychoanalysis as a philosophy.
HOW TO BUY STOCKS, by Louis Engel (Bantam Reference Books, 50 cents)—This is a new, enlarged edition of a best-seller which has assisted Americans in making investments. The author provides charts, lists of blue chip stocks, data on tax-free municipal bonds, how capital gains law works, and so on.
TWENTY STEPS TO PERFECT SPELLING, by Frances Hall (Bantam, 60 cents)—A work in which the author sets out to prove that if you can pronounce a word you can spell it (should be hebiuti tor students struggling with English proficiency examinations). There are 100 lessons, plus a supplement of problem words.
COLD WAR DIPLOMACY, 1945- 1960, by Norman A. Graebner (Anvil Original, $1.45).
This is a compilation and interpretation of significant documents of the cold war by a distinguished historian, who teaches at the City College of New York.
It includes Cordell Hull's radio address of 1944, Churchill's "iron curtain" speech at Fulton, Mo. Truman's speech calling for Greek-Turkish aid, the Marshall Plan speech, two speeches by Dean Acheson, the controversial speech
by Dulles on liberation of the satellite peoples and also the Dulles speech on China policy.
THE IDEA OF RACIALISM, by Louis L. Snyder (Anvil Original,
$1.45).
These documents constitute an investigation into the concept of racialism as it has been connected with many phases of human activity.
Writers include reputable anthropologists and disreputable racists, from Franz Boas to Madison Grant. The Aryan myth, anti-Semitism, the third reich, the American Negro, and many other aspects of the question are treated.
THEY STUDIED MAN, by Abram Kardiner and Edward Preble (Mentor, 75 cents).
Here is an analysis of the contributions made by 10 great scientists in the understanding of man, society and culture. The book is a study of the growth of anthropology from modern beginnings to its complex status today.
Kardiner and Freble begin with Darwin, Spencer, Edward Taylor and James Frazer as pioneers in analyzing man's cultural origins. They move on to consider Emile Durkheim and Franz Boas, who developed scientific tools for classification and study of social relationships.
THIS IS OUTER SPACE, by Lloyd Motz (Signet Science Library, 60 cents).
Lloyd Motz writes in this volume that outer space is a place where the shortest distance between two points is a curved line, where the law of gravity is wrong, where light does not travel in straight lines, and where man may never be able to go, despite John Glenn, moon shots and missiles.
Motz teaches astronomy at Columbia. He tells how the Newtonian concepts of the universe were swept aside at the beginning of the century, how Einstein formulated the theory of relativity, how Planck devised the quantum theory.
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