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Ever regret passing up that course in anthropology or art history? College on Your Own (Bantam; $6.95), a new 417-page anthology of college reading lists, offers a second chance to set out on all those roads not taken, in or out of college. Compiled by Gail Thain Parker, former president of Bennington College, and veteran Guidebook Author Gene R. Hawes, the book is an intellectual Whitman's Sampler. The reading lists have been approved by some 20 professors at leading colleges. Their fields range from such traditional disciplines as art history, English literature and mathematics to such newer...
Harry N. Abrams Inc., the New York art-book publisher, bought the English-language rights, insured the risk by bringing in Bantam, the paperback house, as a partner and placed 40,000 copies on the market last fall under the simple title Gnomes. The book has sold 250,000 copies at a prepublication price of $14.95, and Abrams expects it to sell another 150,000 copies at the full price of $17.50. Abrams struck a crock of gold. Gnomes, says President Andrew Stewart, "will have a significant impact on our profits in 1978. We'd have a good year...
Robert Triffin is a little man, a bantam really, but he is a giant in international finance. He looks out on the world with sad, soulful eyes, and while he often does not like what he sees, he usually has ideas for setting matters right. Among many other things, he is now propagating a plan for getting some green back into America's fading dollar...
...secretaries, journalists, publicists and others to get information about 50,000 such places across the country without having to go through local telephone exchanges, which, at best, provide only phone numbers, not addresses. The 2½-lb., 640-page tome, entitled the National Directory of Addresses and Telephone Numbers (Bantam; $9.95), lists the most wanted businesses, governments, services, trade associations, foundations and cultural organizations throughout the U.S. Its originator and editor, Stanley Greenfield, 52, director of the magazine-acquisition and development group at CBS, says it would take 2,000 phone books and other directories to supply all the data...
...Second Whole Kids Catalog (Bantam; $7.50), by Peter Cardozo, belongs on any whole kid's bookshelf. No matter what his or her interest-or obsession-this fat paperback has an entry to satisfy it. Like the first Whole Kids Catalog (1975), its encore lists scores of free items that children can send away for-posters, coloring books, even games. Is the child a budding conjuror? Self-Working Card Tricks are only a postage stamp (plus $1.50) away, as well as membership in the Young Magicians Club. Kids into cartoons and photography can study film animation, make paper movie machines...