# CSG Book Publishing Report

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> From Greg Williams (920510)

Report on Control Systems Group Book Publishing

Available now:

MIND READINGS  
EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF PURPOSE  
Richard S. Marken  
x + 212 pp.  
ISBN 0-9624154-3-X  
$18.00

&nbsp;&nbsp;"This book can show a willing psychologist how to do a new kind of research.  
The theme that runs through all these papers is modeling, the ultimate way of  
finding out what a theory really means. Richard Marken is a skilled modeler,  
as will be seen. But he has a talent that goes beyond putting ideas into the  
form of working simulations, a talent that can be admired but is hard to  
imitate. He finds the essence of a problem and an elegantly simple way to cast  
it in the form of a demonstration or an experiment."  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;- from the Foreword by William T. Powers

&nbsp;&nbsp;Most of the twelve papers in this volume describe experimental tests and  
demonstrations of PERCEPTUAL CONTROL THEORY, "a comprehensive, scientifically  
rigorous, and humanistically satisfying approach to understanding the behavior  
of organisms." Beginning with a formal description of behavior as a process of  
control, Marken shows how to detect intentional behavior, demonstrates that  
control is not a lineal cause-effect sequence, critiques the notion of  
environmental control of behavior, builds models of hierarchical control  
systems, and concludes by suggesting possible applications of perceptual  
control theory in human factors engineering.

Still available:

LIVING CONTROL SYSTEMS  
SELECTED PAPERS OF WILLIAM T. POWERS  
1989  
xx + 300 pp.  
ISBN 0-9624154-0-5  
$16.50

LIVING CONTROL SYSTEMS II  
SELECTED PAPERS OF WILLIAM T. POWERS  
1992  
xviii + 277 pp.  
ISBN 0-9624154-2-1  
$22.00

INTRODUCTION TO MODERN PSYCHOLOGY: THE CONTROL-THEORY VIEW  
Edited by Richard J. Robertson and William T. Powers  
1990  
x + 238 pp.  
ISBN 0-9624154-1-3  
$25.00

Order from:  
CSG Book Publishing, 460 Black Lick Rd., Gravel Switch, KY 40328 U.S.A.

Kentucky residents should add state sales tax.  
Quantity discounts are available.  
All prices postpaid, U.S. funds only.