€0NSC10USNE➔ Queuing and Waiting, by Barry Schwartz U. of Chicago Press 5801 Ellis Ave. . Chicago, IL 60637 We wait for unscheduled service at the supermarket, post office, theater, stoplights, gasoline stations; we wait for peopl1e to repair our houses and o_ur bodies. This is a _sociological study (with _the assets and deficits that implies) of a variety of waiting and delay processes; religious variations in client impatience; intentional delays as means of establishing hierarchy (15 minutes' wait for a full professor before students leave a class); an odd sticking out chapter on manuscript review in scholarly journals. Overall, the study is disappointing to me; not sure why-I was maybe expecting a wider perspective.-Maybe if Studs Terkel and Marshall McLuhan added interviews and photo montage. It is important perspective, and surely the most complete study I've ~een so far. Brain Mind Journal P.O. Box 42492 Los Angeles, CA 90042 . Marilyn Ferguson, auf~or of The Brain Revolution (see RAIN, Vol. II, No. 1), has begun issuing this newsletter every first and third Monday. It is a selection of concise articles on frontiers of mind/ consciousness research. Reaches a whole other area than either Psychology' Today or East West Journal. $15/yr. Transpersonal Psychology in Education is Fastback No. 53 in an admirable series of little books published by Phi Delta ·Kappa's educational foundation. Thomas Roberts and Frances Vaughan note in their preface that "a revolution in psychology usually foreshadows a revolutian in education." They ask pertinent questions about human capabilities, describe innovative approaches ~m- , ploying altered states of consciousness in learning and describe emerging psychologies. The fastbacks, subsidized by the founda- . ,tion, are extremely cheap: eight titles for $4, $15 for the first 58; cheaper in bulk and to members. Sixty-six titles are now in print. For information, Special Publications, Phi Delta Kappa, 8th and Union, Box 789, Bloomington, IN 47401. • BIOFEEDBACK: Another innovative approach to getting the word out quickly. Biomonitoring Applications puts out a program of cassettes featuring not only many fai:nous biofeedback researchers discussing their latest. findings but also those who are putting the research to work in hospitals, private offices and other clinical settings. Headache, stress, weight control, cardiology, depression, rehabilitation, behavior mo~, relaxation and instrumentation are among the topics covered. The tapes are expensive ($9 .95 each, 10 for $90) but will be less under a subscription plan to begin in January. BMA, 2 70 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016. Q.I u C: c,I • z PSYCHIATRY: The splendid new edition o~ Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry II, edited by Alfred Freedman, Harold Kaplan and Benjamin Sadock, is almost twice the length of the 1967 edition. The editors blame the "explosive expansion of psychiatric knowledge" for the size of the $65, twovolume, 2,609-page set. This is a truly com- • prehensive approach, with 226 contributors, including many of the best-known contemporary theorists, researchers, and authors in the field. The increasingly broad spectrum of approaches is evident in the inclusion of such topics as biofeedback, meditation, parapsychology and synchronicity. A large section details new therapies. Encyclopedic, readable, generously illustrated. Publisher: Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore. Hawaii Health Net 1629 Wilde·r Ave., #802 Honolulu, Hawaii 96882 808-949-3642 Someone asked us awhile back what's happenirig in Hawaii environmentally. Well, as health relates to environment, this is a good growing network of persons from a wide variety of backgrounds who sponsor eclectic workshops/conferences/gatherings from play tb ESP to natural living. An ongoing directory of involved individuals. Synthesis 150 Doherty Way Redwood City, CA 9406 l Similar to Human Dimensions (RAIN No. 6) .. This is an intellectual journal containing fairly-long to long essays on self-realization, meeting of east and west, inner wisdom, spiritual journeys, planetary -consciousness. Done in a high class way-heavy book stock, glossy cover, etc. It is very "astral" in appearance-not like the funky, newsprint East West Journal arid New Age Journal Dec 1975 RAIN Page 7 and not orie~ted as those toward practical living skills. The center section is a self-instruction manual which didn't seem to have an integral reason for existing separately. The essays are good. Recommend'ed for those needing to work their way through intellectual karmas and in need of soft long sound· introductions tQ varieties of religious and self-realization possibilities. / (EDUCATiON ) Seed Catalog, $5.95 from: Beacon Press 2 5 Beacon St. Boston, MA 02108 . Whether you 're a teache.r, hermit, parent, administrator or librarian, you should look this one over. 3 5 0-plus pages of materials, organizations, ideas, devices. Emphasis is on the simpler, less expensive teaching tools. And of course they let their prejudices show. AstOllnding to think of the.percentage of groups and materials listed here that didn't exist exist, say, 6 or 7 years ago. Highly reccommended. Even though 2 years oldI'd probably still recommend it even 3 or 4 years from·now. Continued on page 8
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