The Essentials of Healthful Living

The Healthful Art of Dancing

Dr. Gulick's treatment of the subject is largely from the practical standpoint. The problem was to find suitable exercise for school girls in the large cities. In New York City, where folk-dancing has been taken up by the school authorities and made a part of the regular curriculum, exercise was provided for the boys by means of the Public Schools Athletic League. Within the last two years a Gi...

The Essentials of Psychosynthesis

"Myth is the mode of simultaneous awareness of a complex group of causes and effects. Electric circuitry confers a mythic dimension on our ordinary individual and group actions. Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single separate planes." (ibid, p. 114) "The fragmenting of activities, our habit of thinking in bits and parts—"specialism"—re...

The Essentials of BPEL

The Essentials of Bacteriology

This book gives an outline of the structure of bacteria, their methods of growth, &c., and the details necessary for their examination in the laboratory. The most important and well-known varieties are dealt with separately, and sufficient information is given for their identification. A short appendix is added on yeasts and moulds, with an account of the apparatus used in the examination of ai...

The Essentials of Psychopathology

as his basis. Besides this important and distinctive feature, the book is probably unique in its inclusion of several case-histories recorded with meticulous care in great detail. The book opens with a very penetrating discussion of the part played by heredity and by environment in the aetiology of mental disorders. The author considers that the uncertainty, which still exists after centuries o...