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Sociology

1952

Black Skin, White Masks

non-fiction

philosophy

race

nonfiction

Frantz Fanon - 1952

A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world.

Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grace when it was first published in 1952, the book remains a vital force today.

The Counter-Revolution of Science

Friedrich A. Hayek - 1952

Early in the last century the successes of science led group of French thinkers to apply the principles of science to the study of society.

These thinkers purported to have discovered the supposed laws of society and concluded that an elite of social scientists should assume direct control of social life.

The World We Live In

LIFE - 1952

BEAUTIFUL colorful pictures throughout, includes the miracle of the sea, face of the land, canopy of air, creatures of the sea, the age of mammals, the coral reef, the arctic barrens, the rain forest, the woods of home, the starry universe, the face of the land, the pageant of life, lovely, pages and pages of fold out pictures..

BEAUTIFUL colorful pictures throughout, includes the miracle of the sea, face of the land, canopy of air, creatures of the sea, the age of mammals, the coral reef, the arctic barrens, the rain forest, the woods of home, the starry universe, the face of the land, the pageant of life, lovely, pages and pages of fold out pictures.

Public Relations

Edward L. Bernays - 1952

Public relations as described in this volume is, among other things, society’s solution to problems of maladjustment that plague an overcomplex world.

All of us, individuals or organizations, depend for survival and growth on adjustment to our publics.Publicist Edward L. Bernays offers here the kind of advice individuals and a variety of organizations sought from him on a professional basis during more than four decades. With such knowledge, every intelligent person can carry on his or her activities more effectively.This book provides know-why as well know-how. Bernays explains the underlying philosophy of public relations and the PR methods and practices to be applied in specific cases. He presents broad approaches and solutions as they were successfully carried out in his long professional career. Public relations is not publicity, press agentry, promotion, advertising, or a bag of tricks, but a continuing process of social integration. It is a field of adjusting private and public interest.Everyone engaged in any public activity, and every student of human behavior and society, will find in this book a challenge and opportunity to further both the public interest and their own interest.

A dictionary of psychology (Penguin reference books)

James Drever - 1952

The technical vocabulary of psychology is not in itself an unduly large one, but several other sciences border upon the psychological field and some knowledge of their terms also is necessary.The stimuli which act upon our sense organs are described in physical terms; what happens in the nervous system is relevant and has to be expressed in physiological terms; abnormal behaviour and the clinical description of it and its causes require medical terms.

Thus the technical vocabulary actually used by psychologists tends to be rather extensive.It is the aim of this dictionary to give some help, not merely to the layman, but also to the student, in what has now become an important branch of contemporary science.It is commended with confidence as a document relevant not merely to the experimental psychology of former days, but to recent developments in psychometrics, social psychology, psychopathology and industrial psychology

The Uses Of The Past: Profiles Of Former Societies

history

non-fiction

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Herbert Joseph Muller - 1952

With the vision of both historian and philosopher, Herbert Muller surveys the golden ages of past societies in a search for a pattern or a lesson that can be meaningful today.

He analyzes the spirit and contribution of the Byzantine Empire, Israel, Greece, and Rome; Western Christendom, including the Age of the Enlightenment; 'Holy Russia,' Byzantine and Marxist; and the mysticism of India and the humanism of China. In his final chapter he presents a challenge and a credo for the present. Professor Muller is in the Department of English, Indiana University.