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Is there a level of abstraction from which the segments of our universe can be surveyed and ordered? Kenneth Boulding says there is. It is The Image - "the sum of what we think we know and what makes us behave the way we do." Having roused the idea, he chases it through biology, psychology, sociology - bringing it to bay, perhaps, in philosophy.

Broadly defining power as the ability to get what we want, this volume - new in paper - identifies three major types of power: threat power, which is particularly important in political life, economic power, which derives from the power to produce and exchange goods and depends on the changing distribution of property ownership, and integrative power, which rests on relationships such as love, legitimacy, respect, affection, community and iden...