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SUB-TITLE: Essays in Autobiography. BOOK NUMBER: CN 1168; 09066884. DESIGNER: Sidney Feinberg. COVER DESIGN BY: One + One Studio. CONTENTS: Preface to the Series; IN THE BEGINNING 1. Childhood Lost and Found 2. Into the Academy 3. Graduate School at Harvard 4. The War Years--and Coming Home; IN THE MIDDLE 5. Living in World Three 6. The Judas Eye 7. The Turn to Mind 8. How Mind Begins 9. The World and Words 10. The New Curriculum; IN THE END 11. Ornaments of Consciousness 12. Extravagant People 13. Living in Universities 14. Da Capo; Index. SERIES: Preface to the Series ...Accordingly, the Sloan Foundation has set out to encourage a representative selection of accomplished and articulate scientists to set down their own accounts of their lives in science. The form those accounts will take has been left in each instance to the author: one may choose an autobiographical approach, another may produce a coherent series of essays, a third may tell the tale of a scientific community of which he was a member. Each author is a man or woman of outstanding accomplishment in his or her field. The word "science" is not construed narrowly: it includes activities in the neighborhood of science such as technology and engineering as well as such disciplines as economics and anthropology as much as it includes physics and chemistry and biology... SYNOPSIS: Jerome Bruner, the eminent psychologist and a groundbreaker in the study of cognition, perception, and the "nature of knowing," offers an intensely personal and rigorous account of the growth of psychology and of the men and women who have contributed to it over the last half century. We come to know a man whose relentless intellect defies categorization. His work has expanded the strict limits of psychology to embrace questions about the growth of language and the issue of education itself as he has striven passionately to create a bridge between science and the humanities. Among his...