Abacus Arithmetic

Science & Math

Crook, Welton J.

Mathematics

Pacific Book Pub

English Word Building from Latin and Greek

Reference

Grummel, William C.

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Neurophysiological Insights into Teaching

Education & Teaching

Stuart, Marion F.

Schools & Teaching

In the mid-19th century the far shores of the Pacific Ocean, from California to Australia, from Siberia to Chile, knew the flag--a white falcon on a blue ground--of the house of Godeffroy, merchants and shipbuilders of the city of Hamburg.From the establishing of the firm's first South Seas trading station in Samoa in  1857 Godeffroy combined his business interests with the assembling of collections of the flora and fauna of the Pacific Islands and the arts and crafts of the Island peoples.

White Falcon: The House of Godeffroy and Its Commercial and Scientific Role in the Pacific

Spoehr, Florence M.

Porteus Maze Test: Fifty Years Application

Porteus, Stanley D.

Fugue and Invention in Theory and Practice

Arts & Photography

Verrall, John W.

Music

Written for all who are interested in the mechanics of humor, Sweet Madness presents a general discussion and introduction to the roles of paradox, metaphor, and fantasy in humor. The operation of the implicit and the unconscious in humor; the importance of humor to human life; and the development, from childhood on, of the sense of humor are discussed.  The background for this serious study is drawn from such fields as psychiatry, psychology, anthropology, and sociology. William F. Fry, in this work, presents a new theory of the structure of humor based on the sometimes little understood psychological processes experienced by those who use humor or are exposed to humor. It is these relationships with other fields of study that allows for this investigation into the anatomy of humor.  Fry, in this outstanding and erudite volume, takes a giant step in furthering our thinking about humor in transactional terms. Humor and a sense of humor are a vital part of human interactions, and as such, this book has much to contribute to the study of psychology, cultural, communications, and of coursehumor itself.

Sweet Madness: A Study of Humor

Literature & Fiction

Fry, William F.

History & Criticism

Literature, Popular Culture, and Society

Lowenthal, Leo

This book analyzes and defines media appeals specific to American pro-fascist and anti-Semite agitators of the 1940s, such as the application of psychosocial manipulation for political ends. The book details psychological deceits that idealogues or authoritarians commonly used. The techniques are grouped under the headings "Discontent", "The Opponent", "The Movement" and "The Leader". The authors demonstrate repetitive patterns commonly utilized, such as turning unfocused social discontent towards a targeted enemy. The agitator positions himself as a unifying presence: he is the ideal, the only leader capable of freeing his audience from the perceived enemy. Yet, as the authors demonstrate, he is a shallow person who creates social or racial disharmony, thereby reinforcing that his leadership is needed. The authors believed fascist tendencies in America were at an early stage in the 1940s, but warned a time might come when Americans could and would be "susceptible to ... [the] psychological manipulation" of a rabble rouser.

Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

<p>U.S. Consul at Monterey from 1844 to 1848, Thomas Larkin is well-known to any student of California history. Larkin achieved immortality because his office became the nerve center of American activities in California before the Mexican War and because he left behind a voluminous and revealing correspondence. In this volume, John Hawgood has brought together some of Larkin's most interesting letters, many of which were published in George Hammond's ten volume Larkin Papers.When First and Last Consul appeared in 1962 scholars received it warmly because the letters provided a long-needed corrective to Reuben Underhill's biography of Larkin; because Hawgood's choice of letters shed considerable light on commercial and political affairs in California when Larkin was consul; and because Hawgood's narrative provided a unity to the Larkin letters that made the book a pleasure to read.</p>

First and Last Consul: Thomas O. Larkin and the Americanization of California

History

Larkin, Thomas Oliver

Hawgood, J.

Americas

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