Dartmouth Authors
Doug Storer '21. Amazing But True! Stories A bout Royalty. Pocket Books, 1976. 188 pp. $1.75. For his eighth book in the Amazing But True series, Storer has ransacked the historians from Herodotus to day-before-yesterday's Times and has come up with 29 bizarre stories, legends, and more-or-less historical I oddments about royalty throughout history. Mary Queen of Scots, he says, wore red velvet underwear to her beheading.
Frederic G. Worden '39, George Adelman '47, and Judith Swazey, eds. The Neurosciences:Paths to Discovery. M.I.T., 1976. 622 pp. $30, hardcover; $18.95 paper. Though young, even as sciences go, the field of neuroscience — defined broadly by the editors as "a scientific understanding of the brain" — poses one of the central questions of the late 20th century: having achieved the astonishing accomplishment of inventing the scientific method of apprehending reality, can the human brain now achieve an equally scientific, dispassionate view of itself? This book is an account of how many scientists, each in his own way, have gone about arriving at answers to that question.
Russell A. Fraser '47 and Norman Rabkin, eds. Drama of the English Renaissance. Vol. I, The Tudor Period; vol. II, The StuartPeriod. Macmillan, 1976. Paperback. Vol. I, 563 pp., $7.95. Vol. II, 770 pp. $9.95. Professors Fraser and Rabkin have assembled 41 plays from Renaissance England, including many never, or seldom, anthologized before. The most extensive survey of Renaissance drama in over 40 years, both volumes take full advantage of new Elizabethan dramatic scholarship.
Frederick C. Adams '63. EconomicDiplomacy: The Export-Import Bank andAmerican Foreign Policy, 1934-1939. University of Missouri, 1976. $12.50. Associate professor of history at Drake University, Adams surveys the early history of the Export-Import Bank, one of the most important legacies of the New Deal, and concludes that the activities of the bank constitute an important example of the tendency to concentrate power in the executive branch of the government. Both in theory and practice the bank also affords evidence that U. S. policy supported an open world market, which serves to qualify overassertive claims of U. S. isolationism in the years preceding World War II.
Michael R. Darby '67. Macroeconomics: TheTheory of Income, Employment, and thePrice Level. McGraw-Hill, 1976. 395 pp. $12.95. "Michael Darby's text... is an important book. Darby has written the most complete and thorough text on the modern quantity theory of money that there is. It is an advanced-level analysis of inflation, unemployment, growth, and business cycles." — Colin D. Campbell, professor of economics.
Peter E. Rosden '69 and George Rosden. TheLaw of Advertising. N. Y., Matthew Bender, 1976. 2 vols. $97.50. A definition of the legal issues involved in all types of advertising, setting forth the legal liability of ad agencies, advertisers, and the media; the book also supplies working guidelines to help the advertiser work within the truth-in-advertising laws and to avoid potential litigation and consumer and F.T.C. complaints.
