Adamant Press was founded in 1971 in a period of revolt against editorial and publishing conventions. A good many times since then it has given free and probably superfluous advices to inquirers to the effect that the way to publish usefully and with dispatch was to found a publishing house of one's own and get about it. We cannot say that very many persons have followed the advice. However, in the present day of desk-top publishing, when everybody and their brothers and sisters are into doing close to the same thing, we have, so to speak, lived to see it happen without being in any way responsible for it. And although many things published in this way use too large type fonts and waste a lot of space in the doing, we still think it promises fairly well. In the years since 1971 Adamant has busied itself discovering its central concerns, those listed above, and those represented in the dozen or so titles it has put out. One caution we would advance: this path of self-development in the publishing field works best if it entails a fierce self-criticism, and a resolute if impeccably courteous exclusion of titles and topics not of prime significance in the original context. This is to say, it is an educational rather than a business enterprise. Its concern is the really real; its central quest is how one knows what one thinks one knows.