Search Results: PSYCHOLOGY from Ainsworth Books

New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. 0393609642 . Only slight wear ; A bright, solid book dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; B&W Illustrations; 9.5 X 6.6 X 1.3 inches; 317 pages; "Hans Asperger, the pioneer of autism and Asperger syndrome in Nazi Vienna, has been celebrated for his compassionate defense of children with disabilities. But in this groundbreaking book, prize-winning historian Edith Sheffer exposes that Asperger was not only involved in the racial policies of Hitler’s Third Reich, he was complicit in the murder of children. As the Nazi regime slaughtered millions across Europe during World War Two, it sorted people according to race, religion, behavior, and physical condition for either treatment or elimination. Nazi psychiatrists targeted children with different kinds of minds, especially those thought to lack social skills, claiming the Reich had no place for them. Asperger and his colleagues… Read More

Springfield, IL: Charles C.Thomas. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Pebbled boards show light shelf wear.; A tight solid book, text unmarked. ; B&W Illustrations; 220 pages .

New York: International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics. Very Good-. 1978. Softcover. Card covers are sun-faded and show some edge wear. ; A tight solid book, unmarked. ; IAAEE monograph #5; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 57 pages; A disturbing study comparing Negroes and whites in the mid 1970's .

Toronto: University of Toronto. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1965. 1st. Hardcover. Price clipped DJ shows edge wear, small tears and chipping. ; Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. A tight solid book. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 397 pages; An unusual account of prisoners of war from World War I. It is a study of the the behavior of Allied soldiers from various walks of life and how they responded to their captivity. The Germans had assigned no activities but gradually the soldiers created a communal society with structure and support. .

Garden City: Garden City (Star Books). Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1947. Reprint. Hardcover. Dust jacket is scuffed, soiled and worn with chips and short tears ; A tight solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped, hinges intact. This is an unabridged reprint of the 1929 1st edition from Greenberg Publisher Inc. put out here by Garden City under their line of quality reprints, Star Books. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 264 pages .

New York: Crown. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. 1400054095 . DJ and boards show light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 273 pages; "Based on the author’s extensive reporting—and the inside look at the industry he got while working at a leading “lifestyle” publisher—SHAM shows how thinly credentialed “experts” now dispense advice on everything from mental health to relationships to diet to personal finance to business strategy. Americans spend upward of $8 billion every year on self-help programs and products. And those staggering financial costs are actually the least of our worries.SHAM demonstrates how the self-help movement’s core philosophies have infected virtually every aspect of American life—the home, the workplace, the schools, and more. And Salerno exposes the downside of being uplifted, showing how the… Read More

New York: Little, Brown and Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2019. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0316478520 . A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 386 pages; "Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. " .