Vally Wieselthier

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John E. Chubb and Terry M. Moe. Politics, Markets, and America's Schools. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1990. 318 pages. $10.95 paperback.

Jacques Ellul. The Technological Bluff. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990. 418 pages. $24.95 hardback.

Robert Grudin. The Grace of Great Things. New York: Ticknor &; Fields, 1990. 257 pages. $20.95 hardback.

Alfie Kohn. The Brighter Side of Human Nature: Altruism and Empathy in Everyday Life. New York: Basic Books, 1990. 400 pages. $19.95 hardback.

Samuel Lipman. Arguing for Music/Arguing for Culture. Boston: David R. Godine in association with the American Council for the Arts, 1990. 448 pages. $19.95 paperback.

Colin Martindale. The Clockwork Muse: The Predictability of Artistic Change. New York: Basic Books, 1990. 411 pages. $29.95 hardback.

Seymour D. Sarasan. The Challenge of Art to Psychology. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. 188 pages. $25.00 hardback.     

Design Lesson Number One

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Ourselves, Our Values: James Lincoln Collier. The Rise of Selfishness in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. 308 pages. $24.95 hardback.

Ourselves, Our Values: Kenneth J. Gergen. The Saturated Self: Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Life. New York: Basic Books, 1991. 295 pages. $24.95 hardback.

Ourselves, Our Values: Mary Ann Glendon. Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse. New York: The Free Press, 1991. 218 pages. $22.95 hardback.

Ourselves, Our Values: Paul Leinberger and Bruce Tucker. The New Individualist: The Generation after the Organization Man. New York: Harper Collins, 1991. 454 pages. $24.95 hardback.

The Schools Mess: Chester E. Finn, Jr. We Must Take Charge: Our Schools and Our Future. New York: Macmillan, 1991. 365 pages. $22.95 hardback.

The Schools Mess: Dennis P. Doyle, Bruce S. Cooper, and Robert Trachtman. Taking Charge: State Action on School Reform in the 80's. Indianapolis, Indiana: Hudson Institute, 1991. 150 pages. $15.00 paperback.

The Schools Mess: Jonathan Kozol. Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools. New York: Crown Publishers, 1991. 250 pages. $20.00 hardback.

The Schools Mess: Jane M. Healy. Endangered Minds: Why Children Don't Think and What We Can Do About It. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990. 382 pages. $11.00 paperback.     

Notes

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Marvin Cetron and Owen Davies: American Renaissance: Our Life at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. 400 pages. $19.95 hardback.

Richard Grenier: Capturing the Culture: Film, Art, and Politics. Washington, D.C.: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1991. 392 pages. $24.95 hardback.

Thomas P. Hughes: American Genesis: A Century of Innovation and Technological Enthusiasm. New York: Viking Penguin, 1990. 529 pages. $10.95 paperback.

Anson Rabinbach: The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity. New York: Basic Books, 1990. 402 pages. $34.95 hardback.

Jeremy Rifkin: Time Wars.: New York: Touchstone Books, Simon &; Schuster, 1989. 302 pp. $9.95 paperback.     

A New Meaning to “Partnerships”

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Michael Straight. Nancy Hanks. Durham: Duke University Press, 1988. 429 pages. $22.50 hardback. Reviewed by Samuel Hope.

Business Committee for the Arts Arts Education: A Resource Guide New York: Business Committee for the Arts, 1989 Packet format, 32 pages. $15.00 Reviewed by Samuel Hope.

Livingston Biddle. Our Government and the Arts. New York: ACA Books, 1988. 539 pages. $16.95 paperback. Reviewed by Samuel Hope.

Benjamin Ginsberg. The Captive Public: How Mass Opinion Promotes State Power. New York: Basic Books, 1986. 272 pages. $8.95 paperback. Reviewed by Samuel Hope.

Miklos Haraszti. The Velvet Prison: Artists under State Socialism. New York: Basic Books, 1987. 164 pages. $14.95 hardback. Reviewed by Samuel Hope.     

The New Curriculum

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Margaret Jane Wyszomirski and Pat Clubb, eds. The Cost of Culture: Patterns and Prospects of Private Arts Patronage. New York: ACA Books, American Council for the Arts, 1989. 97 pages. $9.95 paperback.

Neil Postman. Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble about Language, Technology, and Education. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. 190 pages. $17.95 hardback.

The Challenge of Change: Papers and Presentations from the 15th Annual National Conference, ed. Keens Company. New York: FEDAPT, 1987. 144 pages. $14.95 paperback.     

Entertainment!

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Robertson Davies, The Lyre of Orpheus. New York: Viking Penguin, 1988. 472 pages. $19.95 hardback.     

Hand Puppets in the School

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Peter F. Drucker. The New Realities. New York: Harper &; Row, 1989. 276 pages. $19.95 hardback.     

The Malignant Obsession

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Joseph H. Berke. The Tyranny of Malice. New York: Summit Books, 1988. 446 pages. $24.95 hardback.     

Slide Transparencies

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Ernest Pascarella and Patrick Terenzini. How College Affects Students. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1991. 792 pages. $75 hardback; $39.95 paperback.     

Striving for Excellence in Arts Education

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Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art. Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1990. 208 pages. $16.95 hardback.     

Black-Fired Pottery

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Thomas Sowell. Inside American Education: The Decline, The Deception, The Dogmas. The Free Press, 1993. 303 pages; $24.95 hardback.     

More Challenge than Comfort

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Ralph A. Smith and Ronald Berman. Public Policy and the Aesthetic Interest: Critical Essays on Defining Cultural and Educational Relations. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1992. 283 pages. $39.95 hardback; $15.95 paperback.     

Art in the Making

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Jan Adkins, Letterbox: The Art and History of Letters, Walker: New York, 1981, 48 pages, $10.95.

Michael Kehoe, The Puzzle of Books, Carolrhoda Books, Minneapolis, 1982, unpaged, $6.95.

Linda Bourke, Handmade Abc: A Manual Alphabet, Addison-Wesley: Reading, Mass., 1981, unpaged, $6.95.

Linda Bourke, Signs of a Friend, Addison-Wesley: Reading, Mass., 1982, unpaged, $2.95 (paper).

Philip Newth, Roly Goes Exploring, Philomel Books: New York, 1981, unpaged, $12.95 (spiral bound).

Tomas Gonzales (text by J. R. Kesselman and F. Peterson), I CAN USE TOOLS, Elsevier/Nelson: New York, 1981, unpaged, $6.25 (boards).

Harvey Weiss, Hammer and Saw, Crowell: New York, 1981, 80 pages, $9.00.

Gail Gibbons, Tool Book, Holiday House: New York, 1982, unpaged, n.p.i.

Harvey Weiss, Model Building: And How to Make Them, Thomas Crowell: New York, 1979, 96 pages, $7.95.

Paul Berman, Make-Believe Empire: A How-to Book, Atheneum: New York, 1982, 88 pages, $8.95.

Evaline Ness, Four Rooms From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Scribners: New York, 1977, unpaged, $6.95.

Alan Rose, Build Your Own Taj Mahal, Perigee: New York, 1981, unpaged, $7.95.

Les Walker, Housebuilding for Children, The Overlook Press: New York, 1977, 175 pages, $10.00.

Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey (story by Natalie S. Carlson), Marie Louise and Christopher at The Carnival, Scribners: New York, 1981, unpaged, $11.95

Beverley Gooding (Kenneth Grahame), Wayfarers All from The Wind in the Willows, Scribners: New York, 1981, 32 pages, $11.95.

Shawn Rice (text by Paul Rice and Peter Mayle), AS DEAD AS A DODO, Godine: Boston, 1981, unpaged, $10.95.     

Book Review

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James Crouse and Dale Trusheim. The Case Against the S.A.T. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1988. 223 pages. $22.50 hardback. Reviewed by Samuel Hope     

Book Note

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Norman Lebrecht Who Killed Classical Music? Maestros, Managers, and Corporate Politics Secaucus, N.J.: Birch Lane Press, Carol Publishing Group, 1997. 455 pages. $24.95 hardback.     

Science and Ideology

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Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt. Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. 315 pages. $25.95 hardback.     

Computer News

The Prometheus Project: Mankind's Search for Long Range Goals by Gerald Feinberg, Doubleday and Co., Garden City, New York. 1969. 261 pages. Paperback $1.45.

The Holloman Story by George F. Meeter, The University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106. 1967. 203 pages. $5.95.

Human Biology—A Guide to Field Methods/IBP Handbook #9 by J. S. Weiner and J. A. Lourie, F. A. Davis Co., 1915 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19103. 1969. 656 pages. $17.50.

Flowers of Europe/A Field Guide by Oleg Polunin, Oxford University Press, 200 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016. 1969. 662 pages. $15.00.

The Changing Classroom: The Role of the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study by Arnold Grobman, Doubleday and Co., Inc., 277 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017. 1969. 384 pages. $6.95.

Space Travel by Jeanne Bendick, Franklin Watts, Inc., 575 Lexington Ave., New York, N.Y. 10022. 1969. 96 pages. $2.95.

The Role of Federal Agencies in Technology Transfer by Samuel I. Doctors, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1969. 230 pages.

Living in Space/The Astronaut and His Environment by Mitchell R. Sharpe, Doubleday Science Series, Doubleday and Co., Garden City, New York. 1969. 192 pages. $2.45 paperback.

Physical Science/Exploring The New World of Science by William Lemkin, Ph.D., Oxford Book Co., 387 Park Avenue South, New York, N.Y. 10016. 1969. 381 pages. $3.85.     

Book Notes

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All-Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture. New York: Basic Books, 1988. 306 pages. $10.95 paperback.

Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education New York: Harper & Row, 1990. 204 pages. $18.95 hardcover.     

Eggshell Library for Clowns

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Howard Gardner The Disciplined Mind: What All Students Should Understand New York: Simon &; Schuster, 1999. 287 pp. $25.00 hardback.     

Books and the Child

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Marion Endicott, Emily Carr: The Story of an Artist, Women's Educational Press: Toronto, Canada, 1981, 64 pages, n.p.i. (paperback)

Jean Lipman with Margaret Aspin-wall, Alexander Calder and his Magic Mobiles, Hudson Hills Press: New York, 1981, 96 pages, $15.00

M. B. Goffstein, Lives of the Artists, Farrar, Straus & Giroux: New York, 1982, unpaged, $8.95

Trina Schart Hyman, Self-Portrait, Addison-Wesley: Reading, Massachusetts, 1981, unpaged, $8.95

Andrew Glass, Jackson Makes his Move, Warne: New York, 1982, unpaged, $9.95

Tom Seidmann-Freud, The Magic Boat, Greenwillow: New York, 1981, unpaged, $5.95

Ernest Nister, Magic Windows, Philomel Books: New York, 1980, unpaged, $6.95

Lothar Meggendorfer, The City Park, Viking: New York, 1981, unpaged, $10.95

J. F. Schreiber (verses by Anthea Bell), The Great Menagerie, Viking: New York, 1980, unpaged, $7.95

Lothar Meggendorfer, International Circus, Viking: New York, 1980, unpaged, $7.95

Eric Hill, Spot's First Walk, G. P. Putnam's Sons: New York, 1981, unpaged, $7.95

Robert Crowther and lames R. Diaz (paper engineer), The Most Amazing Hide-and-Seek Counting Book, Viking: New, York, 1981, 14 pages, $8.95

Demi, Where is Willie Worm? Random House: New York, 1981, unpaged, $3.50

John Goodall and Tor Lokvig (paper engineer), PADDY FINDS A JOB, Atheneum: New York, 1981, unpaged, $6.95

Eric Carle, The Honeybee and the Robber, Philomel: New York, 1981, 15 pages, $10.95