50 years of the San Francisco opera

Bloomfield, Arthur

San Francisco Book Co

The Oriental magic of the Bambergs ([Classic magic series)

Robert J. Albo

Eric C. Lewis

David Bamberg

From Kirkus:A fascinating look at the media's favorite halfway house: San Francisco's Delancey Street Foundation, where a family of 300 ex-cons and addicts go about the grueling business of saving each other. And business it is. Members rise at 6:30 to work a day Ben Franklin would envy--at the Foundation's construction or moving company, the restaurant, the florist business, then maybe some classes, and after-dinner meetings or biweekly encounter ""games."" ""Games""--ha! Even worse are the ""dissipations"" for ""old-timers"" who can take it: 45-hour marathons where old bogies get exorcised and are hopefully replaced by feelings of affection, trust, and responsibility. Because John Maher, the tough-talking ""con"" man (in both senses) who spent ten years behind bars and more time in Synanon before founding his center, doesn't believe sociopaths are unreachable--just unreached. (See also Grover Sales' John Maher of Delancey Street, below.) This he does by a curious amalgam of the conservative work ethic, social responsibility (the Foundation does charitable work for the aged, the handicapped, and the vets), reform politics (they work for Chavez, and vice versa), and, of course, the psychotherapeutic encounters, which always include ""squares"" from the outside as well. Unlike many other halfway houses, Delancey people ""graduate"" after two years--though why they should ever want to leave their deluxe pads on Pacific Heights, or the pool in their Sausalito apartment house, is another question. The author is an English sociologist of impeccable credentials (Cambridge, Harvard); he spent a year being favorably impressed by the Foundation, and so should any reader of this provocative book.

Sane asylum

Hampden-Turner, Charles

Murder and Madness (The Portable Stanford Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

LUNDE, Donald

True Crime

Reports the five-year findings of a psychiatrist and legal expert on the the causes of murder in the United States and the relation of the crime to insanity, pointing out that most murders are committed by relatives and friends of the victims

Murder and Madness

Politics & Social Sciences

Lunde, Donald T.

Social Sciences

Challengers to capitalism: Marx, Lenin, and Mao (The Portable Stanford series)

Gurley, John G.

Politics & Government

The anxious economy (The Portable Stanford)

Business & Money

Solomon, Ezra

Economics

Conceptual blockbusting: A pleasurable guide to better problem solving (The Portable Stanford)

ADAMS, James L.

Management & Leadership

From the Book Jacket: "Do we have neighbors in outer space? Will we contact them? What will be their interest in us - friendly or hostile? Will we expand into space and play a grand future role there, bringing fertility to the galaxy? This lively book explores these questions and gathers in one place the offerings of the different specialties that delve into the possibilities of life in outer space...."

The Galactic Club: Intelligent life in outer space (The Portable Stanford series)

Travel

Bracewell, Ronald Newbold

Australia & South Pacific

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