THE PURITAN ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN SELF. By Sacvan Bercovitch. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1975; pp. 250. $15.00.
PERSUASION: A MEANS OF SOCIAL INFLUENCE. By Winston L. Brembeck and William S. Howell. (Second Edition.) Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1976; pp. x‐353. $10.50.
PERSUASION: UNDERSTANDING, PRACTICE AND ANALYSIS. By Herbert W. Simons. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison‐Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1976; pp. xvi‐382. $9.95.
THE COMMUNICATIVE EXPERIENCE. By Lawrence W. Rosenfield, Laurie Schultz Hayes, and Thomas S. Frentz. Boston, Massachusetts: Allyn and Bacon, 1976; pp. vii‐452. $9.95.
MEANING. By Michael Polanyi and Harry Prosch. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1975; pp. xiv+246. $12.50.
COMMUNICATING PERSONALLY: A THEORY OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION AND HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS. By Charles M. Rossiter, Jr. and W. Barnett Pearce. New York: The Bobbs‐Merrill Series in Speech Communication, 1975; pp. xii+271.
DYADIC COMMUNICATION: A TRANSACTIONAL PERSPECTIVE. By William W. Wilmot. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison‐Wesley Publishing Company, 1975; pp. xv+196.
BETWEEN PEOPLE: A NEW ANALYSIS OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION. By Gerald R. Miller and Mark Steinberg. Chicago: Science Research Associates, Inc., 1975; pp. xi+367.