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JUMPING AT SHADOWS: The Triumph of Fear and the End of the American Dream.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 74071More details Price: $35.00 -
OUR AGE OF UNREASON: A Study of the Irrational Forces in Social Life.
Edition: Revised Edition.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1951). Hardcover - A book originally published in 1942 by this Hungarian-American psychoanalyst and physician, who is considered one of the founders of psychosomatic medicine and psychoanalytic criminology. Bibliography, index. 335 pp.
Condition: Very good in gray boards, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 79673More details Price: $12.00 -
BECOMING: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press 1963.
Condition: Good only. (edge wear, crease along edge front cover, water stain on front and back covers, prev. owner's name, underlining on a few pages)
Book ID: 14499More details Price: $10.00 -
THE KISS OF THE SNOW QUEEN: Hans Christian Andersen and Man's Redemption by Woman,
Edition: First printing.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of one of Hans Christian Andersen's most haunting and enigmatic tales, one which interweaves psychological analysis of the fairy tale with an account of Andersen's life. Includes the text of the story in an appendix, notes, index. xiii, 262 pp. ISBN: 0-520057740.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86097More details Price: $18.50 -
ALL THE PRESIDENTS' WOMEN: An Examination of Sexual Styles from Presidents Truman to Clinton.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Atlanta, GA: Humanics, (1999.). SIGNED first edition - 'Our US presidents 1945 through 1999 and what made them tick. New understandings of our presidents personalities, sexual styles and their women are presented in a most intriguing way.' A serious look at the subject - and at the variety of relationships from the more than 50 year marriage of George Bush Sr to his high school sweetheart - a match which appears to be a comfortable and genuinely loving one - to the philandering of Clinton and the support provided by Hilary despite his behavior. 359 pages. ISBN: 0-89334-2890.
Condition: SIGNED by the author on the first page with the words 'Vote well.' Fine (as new) in glossy wrappers.
Book ID: 28443More details Price: $18.00 -
ALL THE PRESIDENTS' WOMEN: An Examination of Sexual Styles from Presidents Truman to Clinton.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Atlanta, GA: Humanics, (1999.). SIGNED first edition - 'Our US presidents 1945 through 1999 and what made them tick. New understandings of our presidents personalities, sexual styles and their women are presented in a most intriguing way.' A serious look at the subject - and at the variety of relationships from the more than 50 year marriage of George Bush Sr to his high school sweetheart - a match which appears to be a comfortable and genuinely loving one - to the philandering of Clinton and the support provided by Hilary despite his behavior. 359 pages. ISBN: 0-89334-2890.
Condition: INSCRIBED by the author on the first page with the words 'Vote well.' Fine (as new) in glossy wrappers.
Book ID: 28444More details Price: $20.00 -
CHILDREN OF THE DREAM: Communal Child-Rearing and American Education.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: Macmillan, 1969. dj. Hardcover - Looks at the child-rearing and educational practices of the Israel kibbutzes and their ramifications for Americans - both poor and middle class. Bibliography, index. 363 pp.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 27537More details Price: $12.00 -
SOCIETY AND DRUGS: Drugs I: Social and Cultural Observations & STUDENTS AND DRUGS: Drugs II: College and High School Observations (2 volume set)
Edition: First edition.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, (1969) dj. Hardcover first edition - A publication of the Institute for the Study of Human Problems, Stanford University. Each volume has a bibliography and index. xvi, 400 pp. xix, 399 pp. ISBN: 0-87589-0334; 0-87589-0342.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jackets.
Book ID: 58588More details Price: $65.00 -
A SECOND WAY OF KNOWING: The Riddle of Human Perception.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Prentice-Hall, (1991) dj. SIGNED Hardcover first edition - A book which probes the limits of our understanding of the human mind. NSCRIBED on the front endpaper: "Larry Owens, best wishes to a serious bookman" and dated in 1995. References, selected bibliography, index. xxiii, 212 pp. ISBN: 0-13-4715829.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 67725More details Price: $30.00 -
NURTURESHOCK: New Thinking About Children.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Twelve / Hachette, (2009.). SIGNED first edition - In each chapter of this book, the authors explode a myth about child raising and offer new insights into the inner world of children. Provocative, entertaining and ver worthwhile. INSCRIBED on the title page and signed by Po Bronson. Sources and references. 327 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 56917More details Price: $30.00 -
NURTURESHOCK: New Thinking About Children.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Twelve / Hachette, (2009.). SIGNED first edition - In each chapter of this book, the authors explode a myth about child raising and offer new insights into the inner world of children. Provocative, entertaining and ver worthwhile. SIGNED on the title page by Po Bronson. Sources and references. 327 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 57005More details Price: $30.00 -
NURTURESHOCK: New Thinking About Children.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Twelve / Hachette, (2009.). First edition - In each chapter of this book, the authors explode a myth about child raising and offer new insights into the inner world of children. Provocative, entertaining and ver worthwhile. Sources and references. 327 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 59089More details Price: $16.50 -
A MINDFUL YEAR: 365 Ways to Find Connection and the Sacred in Everyday Life.
Edition: First printing.
Ashland, OR: Blackstone Publishing, (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book by two psychologists which joins "the age-old wisdom of mindfulness with cognitive behavioral science the best-tested set of practices for alleviating stress and anxiety." With a separate page for each day, it includes "365 reflections and invitations to be mindful in specific ways. They range over paying attention to our thoughts, feelings, and actions; noticing our bodies from our hands to our feet; noticing our sensory capacities and our desires and disappointments; noticing the way we may start each day with a hope, a rush to do,' or a dread." Foreword by Alice Boyes. xiii, 383 pp. ISBN: 978-1982501839.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 78802More details Price: $26.50 -
THE OBSESSION: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book - "A deeply committed and beautifully written analysis of our society's increasing demand that women be thin. It offers a careful and thought-provoking discussion of the reasons men have encouraged this obsession and women have embraced it. It is a book about women's efforts to become thin rather than to accept the natural dimensions of their bodies -" A book which is arguably even more relevant now than when it was written. Notes. 206 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0148845.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62557More details Price: $18.50 -
THE OBSESSION: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness.
Edition: Hardcover.
New York: Harper & Row, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book - "A deeply committed and beautifully written analysis of our society's increasing demand that women be thin. It offers a careful and thought-provoking discussion of the reasons men have encouraged this obsession and women have embraced it. It is a book about women's efforts to become thin rather than to accept the natural dimensions of their bodies -" A book which is arguably even more relevant now than when it was written. Notes. 206 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0148845.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (sunning to spine of dj)
Book ID: 71277More details Price: $12.50 -
ALGORITHMS TO LIVE BY: The Computer Science of Human Decisions.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An exploration into how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind. Among other topics the authors explain how to have better hunches and when to leave things to chance, how to deal with overwhelming choices and how best to connect with others. INSCRIBED by Brian Christian on the title page. Extensive notes, bibliography, index. x, 351 pp. ISBN: 978-1627790369.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some toning to edges of textblock but a tight clean copy overall)
Book ID: 85871More details Price: $35.00 -
ALGORITHMS TO LIVE BY: The Computer Science of Human Decisions.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An exploration into how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind. Among other topics the authors explain how to have better hunches and when to leave things to chance, how to deal with overwhelming choices and how best to connect with others. SIGNED by Brian Christian on the title page. Extensive notes, bibliography, index. x, 351 pp. ISBN: 978-1627790369.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some toning to edges of textblock but a tight clean copy overall)
Book ID: 87227More details Price: $35.00 -
ESKIMOS, CHICANOS, INDIANS: Volume IV of Children of Crisis.
Edition: Book club edition.
Boston: Little Brown, (1977.) dj. Hardcover - The fourth volume in this child psychiatrist's masterwork, an award-winning series which studies how children survive and adapt to changes - even violent changes - in their environment. This volume focuses three different groups of disadvanted - even oppressed - children in the United States. Based on his studies among the Eskimos in Alaska and the Pueblo and Hopi territory of New Mexico and the Rio Grande Valley. Illustrated in with full-color drawings by children. References, index. 587 pp. ISBN: 0-316-151629.
Condition: Fine in a very good dust jacket (closed tear, some edgewear.)
Book ID: 48266More details Price: $12.00 -
PRIVILEGED ONES: The Well-Off and the Rich in America: Volume V of Children of Crisis.
Edition: Book club edition.
Boston: Little Brown, (1977.) dj. Hardcover - The fifth and volume in this child psychiatrist's masterwork, an award-winning series which studies how children survive and adapt to changes - even violent changes - in their environment. This volume focuses on the children of affluent families in many different parts of the United States. Illustrated in with full-color drawings by children. References, index. 583 pp. ISBN: 0-316-151491.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48267More details Price: $12.00 -
THE SOUTH GOES NORTH: Volume III of Children of Crisis.
Edition: Book club edition.
Boston: Little Brown, (1971.) dj. Hardcover - The third volume in this child psychiatrist's masterwork, an award-winning series which studies how children survive and adapt to changes - even violent changes - in their environment. This volume focuses on the children, both black and white, living in the ghettos of our Northern cities - including Chicago, Cleveland, Boston, New York and others, children of families who left the rural South and Appalachia to try and find a better life in the North. Illustrated in with full-color drawings by children. References, index. 687 pp.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48268More details Price: $12.00 -
SLEEP THIEVES: An Eye-opening Exploration Into the Science and Mysteries of Sleep.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82880More details Price: $18.50 -
FACE TO FACE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of treating four, long-dependent, apparently unreachable, drug addicts - Roxy, a 52 year old heroin addict and con man; Mae, a discarded prostitute; Gerard, who clings to silence; and Connie who uses words to hide and distort reality. 301 pp. ISBN: 0-231036353.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 39355More details Price: $15.00 -
YOGA AND WESTERN PSYCHOLOGY: A Comparison.
Edition: First printing.
London: Oxford University Press, 1934. Hardcover first edition - The author divides this work into three parts entitled: analytical therapy; yoga; and a comparison. She discusses in some detail both the similarities and differences found between the two. 248 pp. plus a 1 p bibliography. Although this has been recently issued in paperback, the hardcover first edition is rather uncommon.
Condition: Very good+ in orange cloth with gilt lettering on the spine (prev owner's stamp on front endpaper, a little fading to the spine.)
Book ID: 35097More details Price: $35.00 -
MOVING BEYOND A.D.D./A.D.H.D.: An Effective, All Natural, Holistic, Mind-Body Approach.
Edition: Second edition, first printing.
Kill Devil Hills, N.C.: Transpersonal Publishing, (2007). SIGNED - "A book which offers strategic information and hope for parents of A.D.D./A.D.H.D. children by taking a holistic, mind-body approach to the disorder. In this second edition, the authors give up-to-date information about current drug therapies with penetrating insights about their use and abuse, challenging readers to either integrate holistic and conventional medical approaches or abandon alopathics for a natural, effective approach for 'moving beyond'." INSCRIBED on the first page by the author, Rita Kirsch Debroitner. Notes, bibliography, index. xviii, 320 pp. ISBN: 978-1929661190.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 83410More details Price: $21.50 -
PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT IN THE RELIGIOUS LIFE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Sheed and Ward, (1963) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book based on a series of lectures (called Understanding Human Nature) given to nuns in 1960. It "deals in dialogue form with the application of psychological studies to the life of nuns." viii, 247 pp.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket. (stamp on front endpaper, light sunning to edges of boards, toning to spine of dj)
Book ID: 84107More details Price: $16.50 -
REMINISCENCE, MOTIVATION AND PERSONALITY: A Case Study in Experimental Psychology.
Edition: First edition.
New York & London: Plenum Press, (1977). Hardcover first edition - Illustrated with numerous charts. Includes bibliography and index. xxi, 430 pp. ISBN: 0-306309246.
Condition: Ex-library with few markings (front endpaper removed, tape ghosts on boards) and otherwise tight and clean in dark blue boards with gilt lettering on the spine, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 84531More details Price: $21.50 -
SHOUTING AT THE SKY: Troubled Teens and the Promise of the Wild.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An account of a season spent in the desert wildlands of Utah with one of the best of the wilderness programs for teenagers, a book which gives an insight into how young lives can go terribly wrong and a story of individuals - counselors and participants alike, grown-ups and youths - sharing the struggle to find themselves. SIGNED on the half title page. 249 pp. ISBN: 0-312200080.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (slightly overopened after half title page)
Book ID: 84163More details Price: $30.00 -
WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Near fine in glossy white wrappers (some toning to edges of textblock). An uncommon advance issue, and especially so signed.
Book ID: 76980More details Price: $85.00 -
INTRODUCTION TO PYSCHO-ANALYSIS FOR TEACHERS: Four Lectures.
Edition: First English edition.
London: George Allen & Unwin, (1931.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Four lectures given before the teachers at the Children's Centres in Vienna, translated from the German by Barbara Low. Index. 117 pp. and 2 pp advertisements.
Condition: Near fine in orange cloth in a good dust jacket (prev owner's name, price-clipped, tears to bottom and top of spine of dj.).
Book ID: 50812More details Price: $31.50 -
THE VANISHING ADOLESCENT.
Edition: Paperback.
New York: Dell, 1967. Nice older paperback of this classic (50c cover price.) Introduction by David Reisman.
Condition: Very good.
Book ID: 11476More details Price: $10.00