Dartmouth Authors

Bob Blood '42 and Margaret Blood. Marriage. Free Press, 1978. 653 pp. The third edition of one of the most successful and widely used textbooks in its field, with new material on such current topics as sterilization, abortion, adoption of children, divorce, the "new wedding," extra-marital involvement, and changing sex roles. The Bloods are both marriage counselors, and he formerly taught sociology at the University of Michigan.

Robert A. Hoekelman '48, ed. Principles ofPediatrics: Health Care of the Young. McGraw-Hill, 1978. 2,025 pp. A major new pediatric textbook which, unlike many of its predecessors, approaches child care in a holistic sense and deals with children's health as well as illness and with psychosocial as well as physical ailments. The book contains contributions by 203 specialists including not only physicians but psychologists, nurses, dentists, and. social workers as well. Dr. Hoekelman is professor of pediatrics, health service, and nursing at the University of Rochester School of Medicine.

Simon Grolnick '52, co-editor. BetweenReality and Fantasy: Transitional Objectsand Phenomena. Jacob Aaronson, 1978. 579 pp. The joint production of two M.D.'s and a Ph.D., this book contains 31 analytical essays by international specialists in psychology and is the first book-length study devoted entirely to exploring D. W. Winnicott's landmark psychoanalytical concept of the transitional object, familiarly known as "the security blanket." Grolnik is clinical assistant professor of psychoanalysis at the Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, N.Y., and psychiatric director of the Brooklyn Community Counseling Center.

John Osbert Voll '58. Historical Dictionary ofthe Sudan. Scarecrow Press, 1978. Illustrated. 193 pp. About Africa's largest but perhaps least well-known nation, the book provides a general survey of Sudanese history, identificaiton of key groups, leaders, and sites in both modern and ancient Sudan, and a 70- page critical bibliography listing additional sources of information. Voll, who teaches at the University of New Hampshire, lived in the Sudan for almost two years while preparing his book.

John M. Ryan '58 and Albert L. Ayars. TheTeenager and the Law. Christopher Publishing, 1978. Paperback. 165 pp. Cast in non-technical, layman's language, this book is aimed at helping young adults understand the laws by which their relationships to others are defined and their own rights and freedoms protected. The authors stress those specific aspects of the law which apply most frequently to young persons, but they also include more general discussions on the necessity for laws in a democratic society and the nature of the American legal system. Ryan is a practicing attorney and lecturer on law at the College of William and Mary, Ayars a school administrator.

Roger D. Masters, Professor of Government, ed. Jean Jacques Rousseau, On the SocialContract, with Geneva Manuscript andPolitical Economy. St. Martin's Press, 1978. Paperback. 245 pp. $4.95. The most recent translation and the only English-language critical edition of one of the classics of Western political thought. The book is distinguished by Masters' unusually comprehensive editorial notes on the history of the SocialContract, on Rousseau's personality, and on the famous political philosopher's two related but antecedent works, the Geneva Manuscript and Political Economy. The translation of all three works is by Judith R. Masters.