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Archetypal patterns endure because they give expression to perennialdilemmas submerged in the collective unconscious. Having examined more than 300novels by both major and minor women writers over three centuries, Annis Prattperceives in women's fiction distinctive elements of plot, characterization, image, and tone. She argues that women's fiction should be read as a mutually illuminativeor interrelated field of texts reflecting feminine arch...

Allen Edwards investigates the interrelationship of attitude and personality.

A. C. Scott, a student of Chinese culture, traces the development of the novel, short story, and poetry, the theatre and dance, painting, the graphic arts, and sculpture, architecture, and music through the 20th century. He also discusses the artistic achievements of the Chinese outside of China.

?Miss Debo's study is calm and restrained, she scorns the writers who have told melodramatic tales of poor Indians and whites and their didoes when overwhelmed by sudden riches.... Within its self-imposed limitations, it is an honest and knowing book, written with a great affection. The best part of it, somehow, is the brief, reminiscences of a few old-timers, little flashes which tell more than many pages of description.?-New York Herald Trib...

This is a thorough and reliable account of Frances Vasquez de Coronado, the Spanish protege of the Mexican viceroy, who was the first white explorer of the Southwest. Four hundred years ago he led a band through parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, and became the pathfinder for future exploration.

Robinson unfolds the vision of four influential writers on psychology---J.S. Mill, F. Hegel, Wilhelm Wundt, and William James---who considered the world, its persons and problems, its possibilities and conflicts, its scientific facts and its moral ambiguities, and proceeded to devise a means by which to improve it. Robinson shows how in thinking about psychology, these individuals provided an intellectual context within which the discipline co...

Professor Von Grunebaum's essays deal with three fundamental problems in Islamic civilization: the growth among Muslims of a consciousness of political thought, attitude toward science, and urban structure, and the interaction of Islam with other civilizations.

?The White Umbrella is a sketchy but intriguing survey of the political thought of India. It illuminates current Indian policy and political practice, and will reward handsomely those who buy and read it.?-Saturday Review

This book integrates the results of research on the topics of frustration and conflict.

?Mr. Gervasi is strongly convinced that the report should be acted upon, and he does a competent job of presenting and dramatizing the facts it contains.?-New Yorker

?A profound, highly disturbing, illuminating, thoroughly documented study of the oath as a loyalty test in the U.S.... Extremely important.?-Library Journal

This collection of verse, by Sir John Squire, founder of the London Mercury, consists of poems which have appeared in many anthologies as well as others which Sir John thought worthy of preservation. It displays the things he held dear: his friends, his children, Devon, his dogs, English life, and the scenery of the countryside.