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27426. Angyal, Andras, 1902-1960. Foundations for a Science of Personality. New York: Viking, 1969, xii, 398pp., PAPERBACK, very good, $15
Cover design by Abner Graboff. A Viking Compass Book. 670003557.


27420. Arnheim, Rudolf, 1904-. Toward a psychology of art. Collected essays. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1966, later printing, viii, 369pp., large PAPERBACK, very good, minor scuff at bottom of spine, $11
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23714. Arnheim, Rudolf, 1904-. Rudolf Arnheim, Zauber des Sehens : Gespräch mit Ingo Hermann in der Reihe "Zeugen des Jahrhunderts". Herausgegeben von Ingo Hermann. Göttingen : Lamuv, 1993, 105pp., PAPERBACK, very good, $50
Zeugen des Jahrhunderts.


27243. Arnheim, Rudolf, 1904-. Toward a psychology of art. Collected essays. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1966, later printing, viii, 369pp., large PAPERBACK, good used copy, slight wear to cover, lower corner, $9
.


24767. Arnheim, Rudolf, 1904-. Anschauliches Denken. Zur Einheit von Bild und Begriff. Aus dem Amerikanischen übersetzt vom Verfasser. Köln: Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg, 1972, 322pp., large PAPERBACK, very good, lamination chipping, $35
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24766. Arnheim, Rudolf, 1904-, (contributor). Poets at work; essays based on the modern poetry collection at the Lockwood Memorial Library, University of Buffalo, by Rudolf Arnheim, Karl Shapiro, W. H. Auden, Donald A. Stauffer. Introduction by Charles D. Abbott. New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1948, later printing, ix, 186pp., very good dust-jacket, chipped around edges, very good red cloth, previous owner's bookplate: Ruth B. Borofsky (copyright by "Richard"), $25
Foreword [by] S.P. Capen.--Genesis; or, The poet as maker [by] D.A. Stauffer.--The meaning of the discarded poem [by] Karl Shapiro.--Psychological notes on the poetical process [by] Rudolf Arnheim.--Squares and oblongs [by] W.H. Auden.


24782. Bateson, Gregory. Mind and nature : a necessary unity. New York : Dutton, 1979, 2d printing, xii, 238pp., very good dust-jacket, slight wear, very good hardcover, one corner bumped, $22
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22717. Baumgartner, Peter / Payr, Sabine. Speaking minds: interviews with twenty eminent cognitive scientists. Edited by Peter Baumgartner and Sabine Payr. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995, vi, 342pp.: ports. 24 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good gray cloth, fresh copy, $22
Useful introductory interviews with Patricia Churchland, Paul Churchland, Aaron Cicourel, Daniel Dennett, Hubert Dreyfus, Jerry Fodor, John Haugeland, George Lakoff, James McClelland, Allen Newell, Step[hen Palmer, Hilary Putnam, David Rumelhart, John Searle, Terrence Sejnowski, Herbert Simon, Joseph Weizenbaum, Robert Wilensky, Terry Winograd, Lotfi Zadeh.


25679. Bertalanffy, Ludwig von, 1901-1972. Problems of life : an evaluation of modern biological and scientific thought. New York : Harper, 1960, viii, 216pp., PAPERBACK, very good, previous owner's blindstamp on covers, name on cover, $15
Cover design by David November. Harper torchbooks ; TB 521 : Science library.


26662. Capra, Fritjof, 1939-. The turning point : science, society, and the rising culture. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1982, 1st printing, 464 p. : ill. ; 24 cm., very good dust-jacket, very good blue hardcover, remainders stripe on bottom edge, $19
Critique of Newtonian world-view, new vision of reality, systems view of life, wholeness and health. Capra received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Vienna in 1966.


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26405. Ehrenzweig, Anton, 1908-1966. The hidden order of art. A study in the psychology of artistic imagination. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1971, xiv, 306pp. illus. 23 cm, PAPERBACK, very good, $12
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24952. Eisner, Elliot, ed. Learning and Teaching the Ways of Knowing. Eighty-Fourth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education. Part II. Chicago: University of Chicago Press / National Society for the Study of Education, 1985, 304pp., large PAPERBACK, very good, but cover scuffed, $20
14 essays by different authors, including Jerome Bruner. Includes Rudolf Arnheim, "The Double-Edged Mind: Intuition and the Intellect", pp. 77-96.


25861. Ferguson, Francis. Architecture, cities and the systems approach. New York : George Braziller, 1975, stated First Printing, 168pp., large PAPERBACK, very good, $14
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27471. Forizs, Lorant. Loops and interfaces of man : a holistic model of human motivation in the sociocultural transactions. Roslyn Heights, N.Y.: Libra Publishers, 1977, 164pp., very good dust-jacket, very good brown cloth, $25
Forizs: born in Hungary, M.D., 1945-48 service in refugee hospitals in Germany, 1949 to US; asst professor of psychiatry Chapel Hill; at time of writing: Dept of Psychiatry, University of Florida, School of Medicine.


16397. Frank, Helmar G., 1933-, and others. Kybernetik : Brücke zwischen den Wissenschaften : 9 Beiträge namhafter Wissenschaftler und Ingenieure. Frankfurt a. M.: Umschau Verlag, [1962], 128pp., small PAPERBACK, very good, with small stapled illustration booklet in back pocket, $35
Sonderdruck aus der Zeitschrift "Die Umschau in Wissenschaft und Technik".


1218. Friedmann, Hermann, 1873-1957. Wissenschaft und Symbol: Aufriss einer symbolnahen Wissenschaft. München: C. H. Beck, 1948, no date, probably 1948, 502pp., dust-jacket, small tear at top of spine, with descriptive flaps, very good black cloth with gold titles, $35
Not in BiogHd; St/T2; 1873.Bialystok-1957.Heidelberg; Emigr. 1934UK, 1948Germany. Member of the Klub 1943, contributor to Rehfisch ed., In Tyrannos; see his autobiography, Sinnvolle Odyssee (1950) where he describes meetings with Mussolini, Schleicher and others..The Vorwort is dated "London, Ende 1948." The book later appeared in the Biederstein Verlag, Munich, dated 1949. The C.H. Beck edition, undated, seems to precede that, [1948] according to the NUC.


17892. Harris, Harold Arthur, ed. Astride the Two Cultures. Arthur Koestler at 70. NY: Random House, 1976, stated First American Edition, xix, 219pp. , plate: ill. (1 col.), col. port. 23 cm, good dust-jacket, stained on reverse, wavy on front, good brown half-cloth, but foredge slightly discolored, $25
Harris, H. Introduction. -- Webberley, R. An attempt at overview. -- Graubard, M. The sleepwalkers. -- Barron, F. Bisociates: artist and scientist in The act of creation. -- Thorpe, W. H. Arthur Koestler and biological thought. -- Beloff, J. Koestler's philosophy of mind. -- Hamilton, I. Wonderfully living: Koestler the novelist. -- Rees, G. Darkness at noon and the "grammatical fiction." -- Grigg, J. The do-gooder from Seville Gaol. -- Koestler, C. Twenty-five writing years. -- Fyvel, T. R. Arthur Koestler and George Orwell. -- Nott, K. The Trojan horses: Koestler and the behaviourists. -- Haynes, R. Wrestling Jacob: Koestler and the paranormal. -- MacLean, P. D. The imitative-creative interplay of our three mentalities.


7290. Hartmann, Max, 1876-1962. Philosophie der Naturwissenschaften. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1937, 46pp., private cloth binding, original wraps bound in, $30
Sonderausgabe aus: 25 Jahre Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften, Bd. II.


26608. International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences. Modern science and moral values : proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences, Tokyo, November 18-21, 1973. Tarrytown, N.Y. : International Cultural Foundation, 1973, xiv, 591pp., 25 cm., very good dust-jacket, very good green hardcover, $29
Contributors include: Eccles, Bar-Hillel, Sakai, Stent, Laszlo, Buckley, Gerholm, Hintikka Fujimoto, Rosenmayr, Coates, Jantsch, Riecken, Strasser, Baick, Dror, Cournand, others.


24033. Kasanin, J. S., 1897-1946, ed. Language and thought in schizophrenia; collected papers presented at the meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, May 12, 1939, Chicago, Illinois and brought up to date. Edited by J.S. Kasanin. With a preface by Nolan D.C. Lewis. Berkeley, Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1951, 3d printing, xiv, 133pp., very good dust-jacket, very good green cloth, previous owner's name: Tessuras, $20
Introductory remarks, by J.S. Kasanin.--The language of schizophrenia, by H.S. Sullivan.--Methodological approach to the study of schizophrenic thought disorder, by Kurt Goldstein.--The disturbance of cenceptual thinking in schizophrenia, by J.S. Kasanin.--Experimental analysis of schizophrenic thinking, by Norman Cameron.--A method for distinguishing and evaluating formal thinking disorders in schizophrenia, by J.D. Benjamin.--Errors in perception and fantasy in schizophrenia, by S.J. Beck.--The specific laws of logic in schizophrenia, by E. von Domarus.--Disturbances of thinking in schizophrenia, by Andras Angyal.--Concluding remarks, by J.S. Kasanin.


12290. Kastein, Gerrit Wilhelm. Eine Kritik der Ganzheitstheorien. Leiden, J. Ginsberg, 1937, 131pp., very good sewn paper wraps, slight edgewear, mild bruise to lower corner with resulting light fold marks on pages; pages mostly uncut, $75
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15512. Koffka, Kurt, 1886-1941. The growth of the mind. An introduction to Child-Psychology. Translated by Robert Morris Ogden. New York, Harcourt, Brace & company, 1925, 382pp., very good green cloth, previous owner's name and bookplate: Dr. Nellie L. Perkins, $40
International library of psychology, philosophy, and scientific method.


26726. Köhler, Wolfgang, 1887-1967. The mentality of apes. Translated from the second revised editon by Ella Winter. NY: Vintage Books, 1959, 2d edition, revised and reprinted, First Vintage Edition, 293, viii, small PAPERBACK, very good but worn around edges, previous owner's name, $20
Cover design by Jerome Gould. Vintage Book K74.


25638. Köhler, Wolfgang, 1887-1967. Dynamics in psychology. New York, Grove Press, 1960, First Evergreen edition, 158pp., sewn PAPERBACK, very good, $20
Cover design by Roy Kuhlman. Evergreen, E-242. First published in 1940.


23077. Köhler, Wolfgang, 1887-1967. The place of value in a world of facts. New York: New American Library, 1966, stated First Printing of the Mentor edition, xi, 320pp., small PAPERBACK, very good, remainder stripe on bottom edge, $9
A Mentor book, MQ691.


27856. Küppers, Günter / Krohn, Wolfgang. Die Selbstorganisation der Wissenschaft. Küppers, Günter.. Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp, 1989, 146 p. ; 18 cm., small PAPERBACK, very good, SIGNED printed card laid in:compliments of Günter Küppers. Previous owner's heraldric stamp: von Foerster with handwritten date. $35
Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Wissenschaft ; 776.


27714. Laszlo, Ervin, 1932-. The systems view of the world : the natural philosophy of the new developments in the sciences. New York : G. Braziller, 1975, 4th printing, viii, 131 p. 22 cm., PAPERBACK, very good, $12
Biographical information on rear cover.


24147. Lewin, Kurt, 1890-1947. "Der Übergang von der aristotelischen zur galileischen Denkweise in Biologie und Psychologie,". pp. 421-466 in Erkenntnis, Band 1, Heft 6, 1930-1931. Leipzig: Felix Meiner, 1931, 421-466pp., very good green sewn paper wraps, chipped at top and bottom of spine, $45
Complete issue of Erkenntnis, also contains Julius Schaxel, "Dasd biologische Individuum.".


27321. Metzger, Wolfgang, 1899-1979. Laws of seeing. Translated by Lothar Spillmann. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2006, xxv, 203pp., very good yellow half-cloth, remainder stripe on bottom edge, $36
Introduction to the English translation -- Preface -- Introduction: overview of the history of visual theory -- 1 Ambiguous figures in our daily environment -- 2 Visible and invisible forms -- 3 Of groups and borders -- 4 Developmental stages in shape formation -- 5 Gestalt laws serving camouflage -- 6 Brightness and spatial form -- 7 Gestalt laws in the spatial effect of perspective drawings -- 8 Form and substance of seen things- the Prägnanz tendency -- Gestalt laws in the spatial effect of brightness -- 10 Yet another important camouflage principle -- 11 The wandering moon -- 12 Laws of seeing and laws of nature.


25060. Mishra, R. K. / Maaß, D. / Zwierlein, E.. On Self-Organization. An Interdisciplinary Search for a Unifying Principle. With 71 figures. Berlin, Heidelberg, NY: Springer-Verlag, 1994, 298pp., very good hardcover, slight wear to edges and corners, $45
19 essays on self-organization, dynamic systems, non-linear dynamics, entropy, synergetics, biomolecular systems.


23711. Mocek, Reinhard. Wilhelm Roux, Hans Driesch : zur Geschichte der Entwicklungsphysiologie der Tiere ("Entwicklungsmechanik"). Jena : Fischer, 1974, 229pp., very good sewn paperback, $35
Biographien bedeutender Biologen ; Bd. 1. Substantial study of biological research which preceded the Gestalt breakthroughs. Köhler and others had to deal first with Driesch, organicism, entelechy.


23031. Nachrichtentechnische Gesellschaft im VDE, hrsg. Aufnahme und Verarbeitung von Nachrichten durch Organismen. Fachausschuss Informations- und Systemtheorie. Stuttgart: S. Hirzel, 1961, 166pp., very good dust-jacket, minor tear at top edge, very good gray cloth, $45
Vorträge aus dem Gebiet der Kybernetik. Contriburtors include: Marko, Feldtkeller, Küpfmüller, Keidel, Schouten, Scholl, Cramer, Wenzel, Ernsthausen, Schwartzkopff, Baumgartner, Reichardt, Bünning, Mittelstaedt, Vossius, Andrew.


27625. Piaget, Jean, 1896-1980. La Genèse du nombre chez l’enfant. Neufchatel : Delachaux et Niestle, 1997, 7eme edition, 317pp., sewn PAPERBACK, very good, $20
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27935. Piaget, Jean, 1896-1980. Sprechen und Denken des Kindes. Übersetzt von Nicole Stöber. Fr/M: Ullstein, 1983, later printing, 2636.3pp., small PAPERBACK, very good, $12
Ullstein Materialien 35159. Translation of Le langage et la pensée.


26907. Piaget, Jean, 1896-1980. Six psychological studies. With an introduction, notes and glossary by David Elkind. Translated from the French by Anita Tenzer, translation edited by David Elkind. New York: Random House, 1968, later printing, xx, 169pp., small PAPERBACK, very good, $6
Vintage book ; V-462 Translation of: Six études de psychologie.


27252. Piaget, Jean, 1896-1980. Structuralism. Translated from the French and edited by Chaninah Maschler. London, Routledge and K. Paul, 1971, vi, 153 p. 22 cm., sewn PAPERBACK, very good, previous owner's name, $7.5
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27623. Piaget, Jean, 1896-1980. La psychologie de l’intelligence. Paris, Armand Colin, 1964, 7eme edition, 212pp., small sewn PAPERBACK, very good, $12
Collection Armand Colin, no. 249.


24464. Rignano, Eugenio, 1870-1930. Das Gedächtnis als Grundlage des Lebendigen. Mit einer Einleitung von Ludwig von Bertalanffy. Wien-Leipzig: Wilhelm Braumüller, 1931, xix, 163pp., very good private green half-cloth, a few minor pencil notations, INSCRIBED: Herrn G. Frankhausen in ausgezeichneten Hochschätzung 15.X.32 / Bertalanffy. $150
Bertalanffy's six-page introduction is dated Vienna, Feb. 1931.


27478. Rosenblueth, Arturo, 1900-. Mind and brain; a philosophy of science. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1970, xii, 128 p. 21 cm., sewn PAPERBACK, very good, $10
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23195. Sluckin, Wladsylaw. Minds and machines. [Harmondsworth, Middlesex] Penguin Books [1954], 223pp., small sewn paperback, age worn, spine chipped, $5
Pelican books, A308. Pelican psychology series. Early popular work on cybernetics.


26737. University of Colorado. Psychology Department, ed. Contemporary approaches to cognition : a symposium held at the University of Colorado. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1964, 2d printing, vi, 210 pp. ; 22 cm., good dust-jacket, worn around edges, very good blue cloth, a few very minor pencil erasures, previous owner's name, $25
Contributors: Jerome S. Bruner - Egon Brunswik - Leon Festinger - Fritz Heider - Karl F. Muenzinger - Charles E. Osgood - David Rapaport.


8834. Watzlawick, Paul, 1921-. Vom Schlechten des Guten oder Hekates Lösungen. München: Piper, 1986, 124pp. . 20 cm., very good dust-jacket, very good orange cloth, but nice library bookplate, gift with no other library markings, $12
Operation successful, patient dead. Solutions that lead to disaster and how to avoid them.


27098. Weber, Jürgen, 1928-. Gestalt, Bewegung, Farbe : Kunst und anschauliches Denken. Braunschweig: Georg Westermann, 2. Auflage, 236pp., large PAPERBACK, good but spine worn along edges, some foxing on endpapers, $35
The book developed through correspondence with Rudolf Arnheim beginning in 1963, he also reviewed the manuscript.


24768. Weiss, Paul A., ed. Knowledge in search of understanding : the Frensham papers. Edited by Paul A. Weiss. Mount Kisco, N.Y. : Futura Pub. Co., 1975, ix, 278pp., very good large hardcover, with typed gift bookplate glue in: GIFT FROM: André F. Cournand, [etc.]. $85
Contributors include: Konrad Lorenz, Michael Polanyi, Paul A. Weiss, Gert H. Muller, Yehuda Elkana, Piet Hein, Andre F. Cournand, Harriet Zuckerman, Robert K. Merton, H. B. G. Casimir, W. De Coster, A. van Dantzig, Oscar van Leer, Caryl P. Haskins, John C. Eccles, Dominique Dubarle, Pierre Piganiol.


27394. Werner, Heinz, 1890-. Comparative psychology of mental development. Foreword by Gordon Allport. New York, International Universities Press, 1964, revised edition, 3d printing, xii, 564pp., fair only, worn, stained and chipped dust-jacket, very good green cloth, slight wear, previous owner's name, $25
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1785. Werner, Heinz / Bernard Kaplan. Symbol Formation: an Organismic-Developmental Approach to Language and the Expression of Thought. NY: John Wiley, 1963, 530pp., very good dust-jacket, very good gray cloth, $85
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27401. Whitehead, Alfred N., 1861-1947. Essays in science and philosophy. New York : Philosophical Library, 1947, vi, 38pp., good blue cloth but torn at top of spine, spine a bit faded, $30
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24238. Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947. Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead : as recorded by Lucien Price. Boston : Little, Brown, 1954, later printing, 396pp., very good dust-jacket, very good black cloth, $7.5
An Atlantic Monthly Press Book. "The process itself is the actuality" (213).


27604. Whitehead, Alfred N., 1861-1947. The concept of nature; Tarner lectures delivered in Trinity College, November, 1919. Cambridge, University Press, 1926, reprinted, viii, 202pp., good blue cloth, but with light pencil notes in margins on many pages, previous owner's name: Katherine L. Bundy, $20
First published in 1920.


27715. Whitehead, Alfred N., 1861-1947. Modes of thought. New York : The Free Press, 1968, 4th printing, ix, 179 p. ; 21 cm., PAPERBACK, very good, $12
Cover design by H. Lawrence Hoffman. Six lectures delivered in Wellesley College, Massachusetts, and two lectures in the University of Chicago.