Search Results: Psychology: Self Help from The Owl at the Bridge

New York, Published by John Doyle, and Thomas Doyle, Market Street, Providence, R. I. 1831. Hard Cover. Unpaginated; [268] pages; 16 cm. First issued in four parts, London, 1829-1830. Letter VI is dated Kensington 25 August, 1830. Cf. American Imprints 6583 This unpaginated printing with the joint Providence imprint seems to be unrecorded. Bound in contemporary cloth over boards. Stock#OB248.

Chicago, Nelson Hall [1975].. Hard Cover. 5 p.l., 141 p.; 22 cm. "The puzzles require no special knowledge or vocabulary." Stock# 30,135. Fine/ dj, fine. Games; psychology.

NY, Farrar & Rinehart [1927]. "...by Robert Burton, now for the first time with the Latin completely given in translation and embodied in an all-English text." First published at Oxford in 1621 (Printing & the Mind of Man 120 traces its subsequent versions). Hard Cover. xix, 1036 pages, plates; 24 cm. Vg, spine faded, my bookplate / no dj. Stock#47720.

N.Y., Arno, 1977. Hard Cover. 253 p. 26 cm. Published by the University of Minnesota Center for Death Education. The growth of death counseling activity can be seen by the fact that this book covers 130 years; the next volume was for 1975-1980. Stock #29,128. Vg, ex-library with plate and stamps/ no dj.

N.Y., William Morrow, 1984. Hard Cover. 190p., 21.5cm. "Where to go and what to do to find your man." Stock# 34,169. Vg/ dj good, torn.

New York, P. H. Wyden [1973]. Hard Cover. x, 175 p. 21.5 cm. "Try getting it all together on your own before you give your time and money to someone else." Stock# 40,512. Vg, book club/ dj vg.

New York : Norton, [2000].. Hard Cover. 155 pages ; 20 cm. First U.S. edition. "Philippe Cabassac has fly-truffled every winter since childhood on his family estate in Provence. Stalking the flies that lay their eggs over the odoriferous truffles, he has become a master in this subtle art. With the death of his young wife, Julieta, however, his hunt takes on a new urgency: he discovers that the pungent tubers bring him a series of dreams where his lost wife is restored to him in intimate, prolonged communion.Memory and dream braid together into a magical narrative, and Cabassac's seductive epiphanies overwhelm his waking life as he desperately pursues their promise of redemption and revelation."--Jacket. Stock# 47788. Fine, as new / dj fine.

Chicago, Nelson-Hall, 1974. Hard Cover. 5 p.l., 256 p. illus., 23 cm. New Edition; first pub. 1959. Many examples of famous peoples' handwriting which display what was already known about them. Stock #29,189. Vg/ dj vg.

N.Y., Sheed and Ward,1964. Hard Cover. x, 182 p., 21.5 cm. "Father Greeley addresses the young women of today who will occupy the important positions in the coming decades--writers, teachers, reseach specialists, family counselors, wives and mothers." Stock# 34,221. Vg/ dj good+.

Thorofare, N.J. : Slack ; New York, N.Y. Distributed by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1984.. Hard Cover. 208 p. ; 24 cm. "He argued that social bonds are essential at transcending the stresses of everyday life and enriching it above the limitations of poverty as well as crossing communication gaps between generations." Bibliography: p. 199-206. Stock# 44,421. Vg / dj vg.

N.Y., Bantam, 1986. Soft Cover. xxviii, 852 p., 23cm. "A dazzling array of observations about how we perceive and think. Balanced between art and science, magic and logic, humor and rigor." Stock# 33,464. Vg/ paper.

N.Y., Dodd, Mead, 1983. Hard Cover. xvii, 281 p. 24 cm. This is not just about men, but of family dynamics and of masculine desire to be mothered. Stock# 30,806. Vg/ dj vg.

N.Y., Basic Books, 1993.. Hard Cover. x, 262 p. 'We live in a world marked by breathtaking historical change and instantaneous global communication. Our lives seem utterly unpredictable; there are few absolutes. What does this mean for each of us as individuals? Lifton tells us, the self turns out to be surprisingly resilent.' Stock #100,679. Vg/dj vg. Psychology

Hicksville, N.Y., Exposition Press, 1974. Hard Cover. Signed. 111 p.; 21 cm. A man who was confined in two mental hospitals by his father published this vanity-press book to show that he was sane and the confinement unfair and illegal. His description of conditions and attitudes is pretty shocking but consistent with other stories. This copy is inscribed, contains a typed, signed letter from the author dated October 1974, and a copy of a 1942 letter from the recipient. Vg/no dj. 101642.

Large type edition. Hardcover. 297 pages; 24 cm. Fifteen essays with foreword and afterword. "What is important, though, is that our dispassionate acceptance of attrition be matched by a full use of everything that has ever happened in all the long wonderful-ghastly years to free a person's mind from his body... to use the experience, both great and evil, so that physical annoyances are surmountable in an alert and even mirthful appreciation of life itself.' Bound in lavendar cloth stamped in tan, red, black; no dust jacket (as issued); fine. stock#100330/h.

Peter Pauper Press, Mount Vernon, NY [c1959]. Hard Cover. Arranged in calendar form with one saying per day, and decorated with red & blue woodcuts. 60 p., 19 cm.; dj price torn out; VG+. Gift quality. 34790.

Peter Pauper Press, Mount Vernon, NY [c1968]. Hard Cover. 62 p., 19 cm. A collection of quotations illustrated by woodcuts in blue. With an introductory paragraph "On the Need for a Rest" by John Ruskin. Vg/ dj vg; gift quality. Stock#29061x.

N.Y., Arbor House, 1984. Hard Cover. 233 p. 23.cm. A follow up to his The Peter Pan Syndrome, published in 1983, this book faces the question: how can a woman break the mothering habit without being rejected? Stock# 30,807.

Champaign, Il, Research Press, 1979. Soft Cover. xii, 194 p.,23 cm. The decision/s to be made concern one's own future and this book provides the material, including questionnaires, for a woman to decide what she should do. Stock# 34,225.Vg/ paper.