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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. Many are written by his former students.

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An Investigation Into Some Perceptual Correlates Of Prejudice

By Donald Reynolds

ABSTRACT: The object of this study was to ascertain if differences exist in perceptual responses of subjects rated as high or low In anti-Negro prejudlce. The equipment used wes an Eagel stereoscope; the technique was a modifled "method of limits” which held exposure tine constant while inorementally varying illumination In the stereoscopic frames.

An abstract of a thesis submitted to Michigan State Univeresity In partial sulfillaent of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS. Departsent of Payobology. 1962. 50p

The Use and Misuse of Language

USED BOOK. MAY CONTAIN MARK-UP

Edited, and with a foreword by S. I. Hayakawa

FROM THE FOREWORD: “The essays in this book are selected from the files of the quarterly journal, ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, of which I have been editor since its foundation in 1943. General semantics is the study of the relations between language, thought, and behavior: between how we talk, therefore how we think, and therefore how we act. How We Talk. In general semantics, when we concern ourselveswith how people talk, we are not worrying about the elegance of their pronunciation or the correctness of their grammar. Basically we are concerned with the adequacy of their language as a "map" of the "territory" of experience being talked about.

Greenich. Conn. Fawcett. 1943, 1958. 232p. USED BOOK. MAY CONTAIN MARK-UP

Suicide and Scandinavia

By Herbert Hendin

This is a study of national character as well as an investigation of the Scandinavian suicide phenomenon. Denmark, Sweden, and Norway have all been described as "social welfare states" and they are related historically as well as geographically. Yet the suicide rates in Denmark and Sweden are among the world's highest and are almost three times the strikingly low suicide rate inNorway. Seeking to understand this phenomenon, D.r Herbert Hendin of the Columbia University Psychoanalytic Clinic undertook a four-year study of suicide ni the Scandinavian countries. Using psychoanalytic techniques, he interviewed suicidal and non-suicidal patients as well as non-patients. He correlates the picture of the Norwegian, Swede, and Dane that emerges from Suicide and Scandinavia with the literature and folk tales of each country and also with such sources of popular culture as cartoons and stories in women's magazines.

NY. Anchor. 1954; 194p. USED BOOK. CONTAINS MARK-UP

Manchild in the Promised Land

By Claude Brown

From the Foreword: “I want to talk about the first Northern urban generation of Negroes. I want to talk about the experiences of a misplaced generation, of a misplaced people in an extremely complex, confused society. This is a story of their searching, their dreams, their sorrows, their small and futile rebellions, and their end­less battle to establish their own place in America’s greatest metropolis—and in America itself.

The characters are sons and daughters of former Southern sharecroppers. These were the poorest people of the South, who poured into New York City during the decade following the Great Depression. These migrants were told that unlimited op­portunities for prosperity existed in New York and that there was no “color problem” there. They were told that Negroes lived in houses with bathrooms, electricity, running water, and indoor toilets. To them, this was the “promised land” that Mammy had been singing about in the cotton fields for many years.

NY. Signet. 1965. 478p. CONTAINS MARK-UP

Lethal Rejection: Stories On Crime And Punishment

Edited By Robert Johnson Sonia Tabriz

FROM THE COVER: "[T]he authors (prisoners, academics, and students) use poetry, prose, andplays to take the reader into the reality of prison and the justice system - not through facts and figures, but through the tears and screams, blood and painof the people chewed up by .it. [T]his book isfiction; but ti isalso a book about prison that can offer a type of truth that numbers can't. Enjoy your reading- fi you can." Joycelyn M. Pollock,

Durham, North Carolina. Carolina Academic Press.. 2009. 335P. CONTAINS MARK-UP.

White Death

BY Philip Baridon

“El Patron turned to one of his lieutenants, "Get rid of the body." His voice sounded flat, emotionless. El Patron too close, as he casually flicked a piece of brain matter from his shoulder. "Cut off both hands, leave the wedding band on, return the truck to the factory with the right hand, and tell them to find drivers who won't short me a brick. The left hand is for the widow. Make the message clear: Cheat me, and you die."

Washington. Roundfire. 2013. 234p. CONTAINS MARK-UP.