Uses the disciplines of psychology, anthropology, sociology and psychiatry to explain what makes people act the way they do.

    The author believes that understanding the structure and function of myths in these traditional societies serves to clarify a stage in the history of human thought: "myths reveal that the World, man, and life have a supernatural origin and history, and that this history is significant, precious, and exemplary."

    With ardor and poetry Eiseley rekindles the importance of Bacon's thought and evokes its depth as well as its modern relevancy.

    The result presents the state of the medicolegal art of investigating human skeletal remains. The third edition follows more than 25 years after the second edition. During this time, considerable changes occurred in the field and Forensic Anthropology became a distinct specialty in its own right. Included in the book are detailed discussions on crime scene investigation, including excavation techniques, time interval since death, human or animal remains, mass graves, and preparation of remains. Existing chapters, all dramatically revised, bring readers in line with the current concepts of skeletal age; determination of sex; assessment of ancestry; calculation of stature; factors of individualization; superimposition and restoration of physiognomy. There is also a section on dental analysis examining such topics as dental anatomy, nomenclature, estimation of age in subadults and adults, determination of sex and ancestry, and pathological conditions. New additions are chapters on skeletal pathology and trauma assessment. A new chapter has also been added on "Forensic Anthropology of the Living." Although all of the sections of the book have been updated significantly, the authors have retained some sense of history to recognize the many pioneers that have shaped the discipline. The text will assist forensic anthropologists and forensic pathologists who have to analyze skeletons found in forensic contexts. This book has a global perspective in order to make it usable to practitioners across the world. Where possible, short case studies have been added to illustrate the diverse aspects of the work.

    This study in theological anthropology considers man as the image of God, the meaning of the image, immortality, and human freedom, dealing always with living, actual man and his inescapable relation to God.

    Not the least of these is that it presents us with the now somewhat un- usual case of a truly first-rate thinker who had the inclina- tion to contribute to the history of sociological theory and to comment extensively on the work of a key figure in that history, Henri Saint-Simon. The core of this volume con- I tains Durkheim's presentation of Saint-Simon's ideas, their sources and their development. Indeed, Durkheim so subordinates himself in these pages that we might well wish that he had developed his own critical reactions to Saint-Simon at greater length. This is somewhat unusual in the annals of current sociological schol- arship in America, which has tended to leave "mere" exe- gesis and historical commentary to text book writers, and which sometimes unwittingly fosters the barbaric assumption that books and ideas more than twenty years old are beyond scientific salvation. In contrast to such current preoccupa- tions with the modern, it is noteworthy that at the time Durkheim (1858-1917) wrote these lectures on socialism and Saint-Simon (1760-1825), the latter was dead some I seventy years. In some quarters a concern for the history of sociological I theory is now regarded as misguided. Of course, it is easy to understand how the usual trite chronicle of thinkers and ideas could foster such a disillusioned appraisal. Yet this dim view of the history of sociological theory may be pre- maturely pessimistic about earlier theory and unduly opti- ; mistic about the state of current theory.

    

    A semi-biographical work that opens with the author's childhood in New Zealand, then moves on (briefly) through his wartime experiences in the airforce, before returning to the South Pacific and undertaking a broad personal survey of the development of the region in human terms.