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Abstract HIGHER EDUCATION: Power and Conflict in the University—Research in the Sociology of Complex Organizations by J. Victor Baldridge. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1971. 238 pp. $7.95. Affirmation and Dissent: Columbia's Response to the Crisis of World War I by William Summerscales. New York: Teachers College Press, 1970. 159 PP. $7.25. Die Hochschulreform in den USA und Ihre Bedeutung Für Die BRD [Reform in American Higher Education and its Meaning for the German Federal RepubliC] by Er-win Helms. Hannover: Hermann Schroedel Verlag, 1971. 236 pp. 25 DM. From Riot to Reason by Eldon L. Johnson. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1971. 127 pp. $4.50. The Now Generation by Austin L. Porterfield. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1971. 152 pp. $4.00. Breaking the Access Barriers: A Profile of the Two-Year Colleges by Leland L. Medsker and Dale Tillery. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1971. 183 pp. $5.95. HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION: Being and Education: An Essay in Existential Phenomenology by Donald Vandenberg. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1971. 228 pp. $7.95, $3.95 paper. Freedom and Control in Education and Society by Frank L. Field. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1970. 196 PP. Guide to the Works of John Dewey edited by Jo Ann Boydston. Carbondale and Edwardsville, III.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1970. 396 pp. $15.00. Philosophy of Education from the Standpoint of the Transaction Theory by John P. Wynne. Farmville, Va.: Longwood College Foundation Publishers, 1971. 390 pp. $6.00, $4.00 paper. Ludvig Holberg's Memoirs: An Eighteenth Century Danish Contribution to International Understanding, edited by Stewart E. Fraser. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1970. Volume I, text, 2S9 pp. Volume II, 30″ × 24″ portfolio of 33 historical engravings. 120 guilders ($36.50). PSYCHOLOGY AND COUNSELING: Introduction to Educational Psychology: An Operant Conditioning Approach by Carl E. Pitts. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1971. 242 PP. $5.95. Statistical Reasoning In Psychology and Education by Edward W. Minium. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1970. 465 pp. $9.95. Developmental Counseling and Therapy by Bill L. Kell and Josephine Morse Burow. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970. 268 pp. $6.95. SOCIAL AND FOUNDATIONAL STUDIES: Clarifying Public Controversy: An Approach to Teaching Social Studies by Fred M. Newmann and Donald W. Oliver. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1970. xi + 356 pp. $6.95. Social Foundations of Education: Environmental Influences In Teaching and Learning, 2d Ed., by Cole S. Brembeck. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1971. 661 pp. $10.95. Foundations of Vocational Education by Rupert N. Evans. Colombus, Ohio: Charles E. Merrill Publishing Co., 1971. 292 PP. 88.95. TEACHING AND LEARNING: Child Learning, Intelligence, and Personality: Principles of a Behavioral Interaction Approach by Arthur W. Staats. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1971. 358 pp. $8.95. Nobody Can Teach Anyone Anything by W. R. Wees. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1971. 199 PP. $5.95. Rhetoric by Albert E. DiPippo. Beverly Hills, Cal. Glencoe Press, 1971. 323 pp. $4.50. The Timely and The Timeless: The Interrelationships of Science, Education, and Society by Bentley Glass. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1970. 99 PP. $4.99. Among young adults of all races, the number holding college degrees has increased from 6 to 16 percent since 1940, and the proportion with high school diplomas is up from 38 to 75 percent. With college enrolment now at 7.4 million, nearly two-thirds of the students have fathers with no formal education beyond high school.—The Education Digest (April, 1971).