Random Notes

□ More September Titles: Crime and Human Nature (Simon & Schuster, $22.95) by James Q. Wilson and Richard J. Herrnstein, argues that certain individuals, as well as the families and groups from which they derive, have a biological predisposition toward criminal behavior that may even be revealed by physique and facial features.

The Workshop of Democracy (Knopf, $24.95), by James MacGregor Burns, is the second volume—following The Vineyard of Liberty—in the author’s projected series, “The American Experiment,” embracing the period from the end of the Civil War to the Great Depression. . . . Robert L. Heilbroner’s The Nature and Logic of Capitalism (Norton, $15.95) argues that in capitalist societies the search for wealth is a quest for prestige “with its freight of unconscious sexual and emotional needs” (to which the appropriate response may be: “So what?”).

□ More September Titles: Crime and Human Nature (Simon & Schuster, $22.95) by James Q. Wilson and Richard J. Herrnstein, argues that certain individuals, as well as the families and groups from which they derive, have a biological predisposition toward criminal behavior that may even be revealed by physique and facial features.

The Workshop of Democracy (Knopf, $24.95), by James MacGregor Burns, is the second volume—following The Vineyard of Liberty—in the author’s projected series, “The American Experiment,” embracing the period from the end of the Civil War to the Great Depression. . . . Robert L. Heilbroner’s The Nature and Logic of Capitalism (Norton, $15.95) argues that in capitalist societies the search for wealth is a quest for prestige “with its freight of unconscious sexual and emotional needs” (to which the appropriate response may be: “So what?”).