Cumulative Record

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Definitive Edition
By B.F. Skinner
Copley Publishing Group / 1999
Paperback / 730 pages
$25.00

As the title suggests, this book contains articles that Skinner first published elsewhere. The articles range widely in content, from the famous "A Case History in Scientific Method" to "Has Gertrude Stein a Secret." The book is divided into the following sections:

PART I: The Implications of a Science of Behavior for Human Affairs, Especially for the Concept of Freedom

PART II: A Method for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior--Its Theory and Practice, Its History, and a Glimpse of Its Future

PART III: The Technology of Education

PART IV: The Analysis and Management of Neurotic, Psychotic, and Retarded Behavior

PART V: For Experimental Psychologists Only

PART VI: Creative Behavior

PART VII: Literary and Verbal Behavior

PART VIII: Theoretical Considerations

PART IX: A Miscellany

PART X: Coda