This Book Is Not Required

This revised edition of a modern classic remains faithful to the vision of the late Inge Bell - to encourage students to educate themselves by calling their attention to the personal, social, intellectual, and spiritual demands and opportunities presented by college and university life - the total university experience.

The revision has been undertaken by a team of college students under the direction of Bernard Mc Grane. This participatory venture transmits to the reader the same sense of participation and excitement.

"...encourages students to educate themselves by calling attention to the college experience as a whole--the personal, social, intellectual, and spiritual demands & opportunities presented by college life."

Inge Bell (1930-1996) received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She helped organize the Berkeley/Oakland chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (C.O.R.E.), an experience that led to the publication of her first book, C.O.R.E.: The Strategy of Non-Violence. She taught sociology at Pitzer College until 1982, and wrote the first edition of This Book Is Not Required in 1985.

Bernard Mc Grane received his Ph.D. from New York University and taught at Vermont College, Colby College, Cuesta Community College, UCLA, Pitzer College, and the University of California, Irvine before accepting his current position at Chapman University. He is the author of Beyond Anthropology, Society and the Other, and The Un-TV and the 10 MPH Car—Experiments in Personal Freedom and Everyday Life.