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TOCH LIBRARY

Most of the books in Hans Toch’s library are heavily marked up. This makes them worthless monetarily, but a treasure to see what he considered significant in the many classics in his library, including many written by his former students.

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Work In America

USED BOOK. MAY CONTAIN MARK-UP

By W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.

Report of a Special Task Force to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. FROM THE FOREWORD:

Most of the people in the United States will work, or have worked, forty or more years. To be concerned about the worker is to be concerned about the aged who, through their labors, brought this Nation to its present level of affluence and well- being; about the youth who have yet to choose from among a thousand occupations; about the disabled and others who are unable to participate in the economic, social, and psychologi- cal rewards of work; about the new role of women in our society; and about the rest of us who depart from our homes and return and who seek to fill the time in between with meaning. ful and well-recompensed activities….

Boston. MIT Press. 1973.276p.

Special Care: Improving The Police Response To the Mentally Disabled

By Gerard R. Murphy

From the Preface:”The policies of deinstitutionalization, first implemented over fifteen years ago and designed to transfer the care of the mentally ill from hospitals to local communities, have affected many public and private groups of society. A few groups have found themselves with a disproportionate amount of additional responsibilities not always with a concomitant allocation of resources. Law enforcement is one of these segments.”

Washington DC. Police Executive Research Forum. 1986.