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first of these works, as suggested by its title, is a general introductory textbook, written primarily for college undergraduates as their first extensive and formal introduction to the field. Like many textbooks it has gone through multiple editions, the edition considered here is the seventh to be published; the first edition appeared a generation ago, in 1974. It is a of fairly average length for a book, not quite 400 pages, the text being interspersed with numerous illustrations and items set off from the text in boxes, defining terms

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