With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson

Composing a Life

This reissue of Bateson's treatise on the improvisational lives of five extraordinary women uses their personal stories to delve into the creative potential of the complex lives of today, where ambitions are constantly refocused on new goals and possibili

Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology

Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. With a new foreword by his daughter Mary Katherine Bateson, this classic anthology of his major work will cont

Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred

Building on theories from his acclaimed Mind and Nature, Bateson goes beyond his earlier milestone work in this inquiry into the essence of science and the importance of the "sacred" in the natural world.

Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation

Rarely do science and literature come together in the same book.  When they do -- as in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, for example -- they become classics, quoted and studied by scholars and the general public alike.Margaret Mead accomplished

Peripheral Visions: Learning Along the Way

Bateson uses her background as an anthropologist and her own reflections on our rapidly changing world to propose a new vision of learning through participation. The author of Composing a Life reveals how the continuation of learning throughout life can a

Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom

Mary Catherine Bateson sees aging today as an "improvisational art form calling for imagination and willingness to learn," and in this ardent, affirming study, she relates the experiences of men and women—herself included—who, upon entering this secon