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BOOKSHELF

Principia Ideologica: A Treatise on Combatting Human Malignance by Stephen Edward Seadler '46. An exploration into the malevolent ideologies that have reached their culmination in Western societies, the principles that can lead toward new paradigm for peace, and applications of those principles for individuals, groups, and nations (I.D. Center, $40 paper).

Dashiell Hammet: Complete Novels, edited by Steven Marcus '48, George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities. The ex-Pinkerton detective's five novels - Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key and The Thin Man - inaugurated the hardboiled detective genre and set the standard for the modern American crime novel (Library of America, $35).

Life in an Older America, edited by Robert N. Butler '49, Lawrence K. Grossman '52 and Mia R. Oberlink. These essays examine the implications for social policy, economic health and intergenerational conflict of the aging of America in the new millennium, when more than 20 percent of all Americans will be elderly and the ratio of working people to retirees will continue to decline (Century Foundation Press, $24.95 cloth, $12.95 paper).

War Poems, selected and edited by John Hollander '50. This Everyman's Library Pocket Poets anthology features verse marking human conflict from heroic Greece and ancient China through the Cold War, with many of the non-English language contributions translated by the editor (Alfred A. Knopf, $12.50).

Does Literary Studies Have a Future? by Eugene Goodheart '53. This latest salvo in the culture wars targets both left and right, challenging any easy dichotomy between tradition and innovation and showing that the way the battle has been joined makes it more difficult for a "fruitful academic discussion of literature" to survive (University of Wisconsin Press, $27.95 cloth, $14.95 paper).

Legends: Volume 1, edited by Robert Silverberg '56. The first of three volumes of new science fiction and fantasy novellas, all edited by the Hugo and Edgar award-winning author, includes his "The Seventh Shrine," a Lord Valentine adventure in Majipoor (Tor, $6.99 paper).

To Open the Sky by Robert Silverberg '56. Originally published in 1967, this tale of a futuristic theocracy that promises earthly immortality, and of those who resist it, is available in either paper or as a digital download via the Internet (Pulpless.com, $19.95 paper, $3.95 digital).

My Friend, My Friend: The Story of Thoreau's Relationship with Emerson by Harmon Smith '56. Journal entries and letters reveal the depth of the friendship between the two Transcendentalists, which became an essential source of support, guidance and connections for the young Thoreau, who was struggling to find his own identity as a writer (University of Massachusetts Press, $29.95).

The Politics of Bad Faith: The Radical Assault on America's Future by David Horowitz '59. In this "intellectual companion" to his Radical Son, the editor of the journal Heterodoxy decries the submerged Marxism of academia's radical left, urges a return to the classic meaning of "liberal," and calls for the restoration of bedrock conservative values to preserve the nation (Free Press, $25 cloth; Touchstone Books, $13 paper).

The Revival of Pragmatism: New Essays on Social Thought, Law, and Culture, edited by Morris Dickstein '61. The Columbia contributors to this volume devoted to pragmatism, the "distinctive American contribution to philosophy," include not only the editor, who is Distingished Professor of English at Queens College and CUNY's graduate school, but also Sidney Morgenbesser, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy Emeritus (Duke University Press, $23.95 paper).

Elements of Semiotics by David Lidov '62. The author, a professor of music at Toronto's York University, goes beyond semiotics as a mere study of signs and "attempts to draw the foundational problems of semiotics into a unified focus" for the uninitiated (St. Martin's Press, $45).

The Fergus Dialogues: A Meditation on the Gender of Christ by D. Keith Mano '63. A dialogue with a wise, middle-aged homeless man on the Coney Island-bound D train becomes a journey of spiritual and intellectual discovery for a wealthy but morally bankrupt young entrepreneur (International Scholars Publications, $74.95 cloth, $55 paper).

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