Robert Coles, Author University of Iowa Press $28 (292p) ISBN 978-0-87745-188-4
Coles's essays reflect his committed concerns: therapeutic work with children, civil rights, the ethical dimension of medicine. Talking to a six-year-old Southern black girl who defied a white mob and desegregated her school, the Harvard professor...
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Robert Coles, Author Random House (NY) $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-375-50108-1
In a collection that ranges from vague to incisive, Coles (Children of Crisis; The Moral Intelligence of Children; etc.) presents true stories and reflections about moral leaders and what distinguishes them as such. Drawing heavily on recorded...
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Robert Coles, Author Random House (NY) $21 (224p) ISBN 978-0-679-44811-2
Child psychiatrist Coles, who won a Pulitzer for The Spiritual Life of Children, now tackles the daunting subject of how parents, relatives and teachers give shape to children's moral values and behavior. Drawing on case studies, talks with parent...
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Robert Coles, Author Little Brown and Company $25.95 (420p) ISBN 978-0-316-15164-1
This welcome, expanded edition of an essay collection first published in 1975 includes 16 previously uncollected pieces and is approximately 40% new material. Coles, Pulitzer Prize-winning psychiatrist and Harvard professor, is dismayed at the...
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Robert Coles, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $22.95 (306p) ISBN 978-0-395-63647-3
In a searching, inspirational probe, eminent Harvard psychiatrist Coles ( The Moral Life of Children ) examines the idealistic motives of people who engage in volunteer work, community service or civil rights activism. Mixing autobiographical...
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Robert Coles, Author Addison Wesley Publishing Company $10.66 (0p) ISBN 978-0-201-07964-7
Coles, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard psychiatry professor, here examines Weil's radical sociopolitical views, astringent moral philosophy and mystical Christianity. ``A new study of this brilliant, perplexing and `unnerving' French thinker and...
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Robert Coles, Author University of Iowa Press $22.5 (352p) ISBN 978-0-87745-208-9
As a literary critic, Harvard psychiatry professor Coles tends to be rhetorical and preachy, but his most insightful essays give voice to the tacit moral and political dimensions embodied in writers' visions. Among the wordsmiths he most admires are
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Robert Coles, Author Addison Wesley Publishing Company $19 (179p) ISBN 978-0-201-02205-6
A new study of this brilliant, perplexing and ""unnerving'' French thinker and moral heroine, who died in 1943 at age 34, is certainly called for, and this perceptive one does her justice. Coles, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and
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Robert Coles, Author Princeton University Press $47.5 (200p) ISBN 978-0-691-05805-4
Coles, a Harvard professor of psychiatry and social ethics and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Children of Crisis, is one of those rare writers who can gracefully combine intellectual rigor with the idiom of spiritual quest. Here, despite the...
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Robert Coles, Author Mariner Books $15 (384p) ISBN 978-0-395-59923-5
Child psychiatrist Coles interviews children from various cultural and religious backgrounds to find out what God means to them and how God fits into their lives. ``The children, most around the age of 10, respond with fervency and depth that...
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Robert Coles, Author Da Capo Press $18.5 (206p) ISBN 978-0-201-07974-6
Pulitzer Prize-winning Coles ( Children of Crisis ) here presents Dorothy Day, founder of the newspaper the Catholic Worker , whom he acknowledges as spiritual mentor. ``Day's compelling point of view is expressed in story format in an...
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Robert Coles, Random, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6203-4
Psychiatrist and Harvard professor Coles (The Moral Intelligence of Children) adapts his undergraduate lectures on literature's contribution to the development of our moral character. The result amounts to both more and less than you might expect...
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Robert Coles, Author, Margaret Sartor, Editor Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $30 (133p) ISBN 978-0-395-61129-6
Throughout his three decades of exploring the ways children understand their worlds, child psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Coles (Children in Crisis series; The Spiritual Life of Children ) has asked youngsters to draw pictures. He...
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Robert Coles, Author, Jocelyn Lee, Photographer, John Moses, Photographer W. W. Norton & Company $27.5 (223p) ISBN 978-0-393-04082-1
Neither a celebration nor a condemnation, Pulitzer Prize-winning child psychiatrist Coles's poignant documentary is based on interviews conducted between 1987 and 1990 with pregnant teenagers and teen mothers and their boyfriends or husbands....
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Robert Coles, Author, Peter Davison, Editor Atlantic Monthly Press $19.95 (302p) ISBN 978-0-87113-034-1
What meaning do terms like ""conscience'' or ``moral purpose'' hold for malnourished, sick, poorly clothed children in Brazilian slums or South African hovels, children whose main goal is to survive another day? In attempting to answer this question,
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Robert Coles, Author, Peter Davison, Editor Atlantic Monthly Press $19.95 (341p) ISBN 978-0-87113-035-8
Children only four or five years of age are capable of developing outspoken, blunt and imaginative political views. Coles, in this companion volume to The Moral Life of Children (reviewed above), explores young people's developing political...
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Robert Coles, Author, Thomas Roma, Photographer, Alex Harris, Photographer W. W. Norton & Company $27.5 (184p) ISBN 978-0-393-04606-9
Harvard psychiatrist Coles, author of the acclaimed Children of Crisis series, here inquires of 11 men and women, all of them over 75 and living on their own, ""How are you getting on?"" Although several of the people are upbeat and only a few are...
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Robert Coles, Author, Robert Cole, Author Houghton Mifflin Co $22.95 (358p) ISBN 978-0-395-55999-4
With his Children of Crisis series, begun nearly 30 years ago, and later studies about children's moral and political lives, Coles, child psychiatrist, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and Harvard professor, has taught a generation of adults how to...
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Robert Coles, Author, Jim Forest, Author Crossroad Publishing Company $16.95 (204p) ISBN 978-0-8245-0885-2
Presented as a soul-searching diary, this is actually an assemblage of Coles' columns, mostly on religious themes, from the New Oxford Review. As he mingles with tenant farmers in Alabama, Hispano-Americans in the Southwest and hate-filled children...
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Robert Cole, Author, Robert Coles, Author Addison Wesley Publishing Company $17.9 (182p) ISBN 978-0-201-02829-4
Harvard psychiatrist Coles, Pulitzer Prize winner for Children of Crisis, here presents Dorothy Day, whom he acknowledges as spiritual mentor. Coles first met Day, who died in 1980, 35 years ago when, as a medical student, he did volunteer work at...
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Robert Coles, Author University of Iowa Press $0 (74p) ISBN 978-0-87745-258-4
This second volume of poetry is primarily for those intrigued by the Pulitzer Prize-winning psychiatrist's nonfiction ( Children of Crisis ). Here Coles turns to his own experiences, and the humanity of his vision redeems the flatness of his verse. `
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Robert Coles, Author . Random $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-375-50559-1
The best part of this disappointing work is the dissection of Springsteen's lyrics but Coles's bid to highlight average Americans' interpretation of the Boss's songs falls short on several levels. Many of what are essentially oral...
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