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Show trist's viewpoint more understandable understand-able to all those called upon to deal professionally with behavior problems. What's Jtew at the LIBRARY "Peace Can Be Won" by Paul Gray Hoffman. The former director di-rector of Economic Cooperation Administration charts a program of immediate action with long-term long-term implications by which the U. S. can assume leadership in combating Russia's designs against the rest of the world in his "Peace Can Be Won." It is a program of military prepardness, economic & political and psychological action. The author states his case with simple forcefulness and cites his experiences with ECA in stressing the need for economic aid and a good information service propagandized propa-gandized for democracy. One review states, "Mr. Hoffman's Hoff-man's little book is a political primer pri-mer for mass, education and an appeal for positive approach. It resembles Wendell Wilkie's, "One World," but Mi-. Hoffman writes from practical experience, which Mr. Wilkie did not." ' Lucy Carmiohael," by Margaret Kennedy. Once in a while a novel is written with the sweep and the depth which allow the reader to lose himself for many hours in a world of someone else's creation. Margaret Kennedy's, "Lucy Carmichael" is such a book. It is a rich, warm novel, telling tell-ing how a girl rebuilt her life after she was abandoned literally at the altar. It is a story of intrigue in a typical English community. There are no skimped characters and there is not a feeling of hurry or clutter. Miss Kennedy takes time to tell her story about her people. The men and women of the story live and are the reader's personal friends or enemies. There is also genuine excitement in the book. It is the work of a mature writer at the peak of her career. "We Kept Mother Single," by Eleanor Kamb Meet the Kambs, one of the most delightful real-life real-life families yet to appear in a book. If you are one who look upon children from broken homes as the great underprivileged class, you are in for a hilarious awakening. awaken-ing. This is a family whirlwind, a headlong, rollicking, delightful example of how much fun a one-parent one-parent family can have. Mother gets a job and one suitor after another is charmed by the gaiety of the household. None of them seem to stand the gaff very long. The reader will find himself completely carried away by the family spirit and interests and expecting ex-pecting anything to happen anytime. any-time. "Saints, Sinners and Psychiatry" by Camilla M. Anderson, M. D., assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, psy-chiatry, University of Utah In this highly-readable presentation of the dynamics of human behavior, be-havior, Dr. Anderson discusses the relationships of those factors in personality which are significant in behavior and therapy. The theory presented by the author' is an attempt at-tempt to clarify the basic motivations motiva-tions which dominate the human activity and to relate the over-manifestations over-manifestations of personality to the basic subconscious drives. It is the presentation of a stimulating stimu-lating theory, presented in a lively manner, a theory which in many ways is unique in modern psychiatric psychia-tric thought. Both concepts and terminology have been simplified in an effort to make the psychia- |