Search Results: Authors starting with C from Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller

Abrams Press, 2012. Hardcover. Like New/Fine . 6x1x9. A Book club Main Selection. They fought a series of extraordinary battles across several theaters of war that established them as two of the greatest generals of their age. Born four years apart, their lives were remarkably similar--from their shared provincial upbringings to each nearly dying in but emerging from the first World War with glowing war records. They would begin to fight each other as divisional commanders in 1940 and as they came to prominence, first in North Africa, then at the Normandy D-Day allied invasion. Caddick-Adams tracks and compares their military talents and personalities in battle. Monty and Rommel explores how each general was raised to power by their war leaders, Churchill and Hitler, and how the innovative military strategy and thought of both permeate down to today's armies.

Findhorn Press, 1988. Trade paperback. Good.

Findhorn Press, 1994. 2nd Edition, Revised ed. Trade paperback. Like New. 86x8x134. For over forty years the Findhorn Community has been a centre of demonstration and education for the spiritual realities that underlie the world of form. In particular Eileen Caddy, through her own spiritual path, has been instrumental in turning people within to seek their own divine essence and inner direction.The first part of this book provides glimpses into Eileen’s life and a taste of the dramatic spiritual lessons she underwent. The second part presents some of the guidance she received from the ‘God within’ during the early years of the community. When Eileen’s words are read quietly and receptively and, above all, when they are put to the only real test - that of action and practice - you discover to your surprise and perhaps exasperation that you are being invited to begin a new way of living. It is a way of life that not only… Read More

W. W. Norton & Company, 1993. Hardcover. Like New/Fine . 5x0x8. With Brief therapy finally getting deserved interest, the time is ripe for an overview. Cade and O'Hanlon state that they 'decided to collaborate on a book that would summarize the main elements, the ideas, principles, attitudes, and techniques associated with brief therapy.

Stone Wall Press , 1980. Hardcover. Very Good/Good . 9x6x1. A small chip missing to dustjacket at spine. A classic work devoted exclusively to hunting these magestic, broad-winged waterfowl. And anyone else thinking about writing on the subject ought to look at Cadieux's book before starting. He covers the topic thoroughly, in a smooth style that mimics the graceful flight of his subject. Cadieux combines an intriguing mix of solid information about goose identification, habits, management and hunting techniques with lively anecodotes about hunting trips from Canada to Mexico and just about everywhere the goose flies in between. A former President of the Outdoor Writers' Association of America, Cadieux wrote more than 1,100 magazine articles and 11 books, two of which were Outdoor Life Book of the Month selections. Chuck’s books cover a variety of outdoor topics. For example, there’s Goose Hunting, which details a unique type of hunting prevalent on the… Read More

Fulcrum Publishing. Hardcover. Like New/Very Good+. 9x0x11. Beginning with Native American stories, this invaluable resource provides hands-on activities that inspire children to understand and appreciate Native American cultures and the Earth. Joseph Bruchac, coauthor of The Keepers of the Earth series, is a nationally acclaimed Native American storyteller and writer who has authored more than 70 books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for adults and children. He lives in upstate New York. Michael J. Caduto is an award-winning author, master storyteller, poet, musician, educator, and ecologist. He has received numerous awards, including the New York State Outdoor Education Association's Art and Literary Award, New England's Regional Award for Excellence in Environmental Education, the American Booksellers' "Pick of the List" Award, and the Association of Children's Booksellers' Choice Award, among others.

Fulcrum Group, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 11x8x1. Wood, Carol. Previous Owner Name. Beginning with Native American stories, this invaluable resource provides hands-on activities that inspire children to understand and appreciate Native American cultures and the Earth. Joseph Bruchac, coauthor of The Keepers of the Earth series, is a nationally acclaimed Native American storyteller and writer who has authored more than 70 books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for adults and children. He lives in upstate New York. Michael J. Caduto is an award-winning author, master storyteller, poet, musician, educator, and ecologist. He has received numerous awards, including the New York State Outdoor Education Association's Art and Literary Award, New England's Regional Award for Excellence in Environmental Education, the American Booksellers' "Pick of the List" Award, and the Association of Children's Booksellers' Choice Award, among others.

Clarkson Potter Publishers, 1988. Hardcover. Good/Good . 11x9x1. Traces the development of the pastoral landscape from the work of the 16th Century Venetian painters - Giorgione - Titian - Bellini - Carracci - Zampieri - Lorrain (Gellee) - Rubens - Watteau - Boucher - Fragonard - Gainsborough - Constable - Manet - Cezanne - Henri Rousseau - Gauguin - Bonnard - Matisse.

SMK Books, 2012. Softcover. Good. 6x0x9. Some pencil underling and margin notes; else Fine. His first novel, Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto, was published in 1896. The graphic story of an Americanized Russo-Jewish immigrant, it attracted much attention and was favorably commented on by the press both in America and in England. W. D. Howells compared Cahan's work to that of Stephen Crane, and prophesied for him a successful literary future.

Contemporary Books, 1996. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good . 10x0x10. A 1" tear and some edgewear to dustjacket. Previous Owner Name. Since 1929, George Brace has visually profiled almost every major league baseball player. This famous collection of baseball photography-contains hundreds of thousands of negatives depicting more than 10,000 players. The bulk of his work had never been published and many negatives were never even printed. The Game That Was concentrates on the 1920s-the 1950s and produces baseball's family album.

Editions L'Art De Vivre La Difference, 1998. Softcover. Like New/Fine. Signed by Author. Gift inscription by and signed by Philippe Charriol. The story of the famous french watchmaker and jeweler who founded the firm of Charriol in 1983. Prior to founding his own brand, Philippe Charriol was a leader inside the maison of Cartier for 15 years, holding various positions including General Manager, and then as Brand President for the Asian market based in Hong Kong. Today, this Geneva-based international luxury brand specializes in watches, jewelry, leather goods, writing instruments, travelware, eyewear and fragrances. Philippe Charriol, a devotee of art, history, and car racing, drew inspiration from ancient Celtic culture in order to create his maiden collection in 1983 - the Celtic Collection. He was the first jeweler to use gold cable, or steel cable, as decorative motifs and as watch bracelets. A racing sponsor and racing enthusiast for 25 years, Philippe Charriol died in an auto racing… Read More

Asia Society Inc., N.Y, 1974. Hard cover. Very Good/Good. Catalog for a 1972 exhibition in New York and Berkeley, CA. 63 B&W plates of Japanese paintings from the middle to late 1700's, which are some of the least understood or studied outside of Japan. 135 pages. Nanga, "Southern painting"), also known as Bunjinga, "literati painting"), was a school of Japanese painting which flourished in the late Edo period among artists who considered themselves literati, or intellectuals. While each of these artists was, almost by definition, unique and independent, they all shared an admiration for traditional Chinese culture. Their paintings, usually in monochrome black ink, sometimes with light color, and nearly always depicting Chinese landscapes or similar subjects, were patterned after Chinese literati painting, called wenrenhua in Chinese.

Crescent, 1989. Hard cover. Like New/Very Good. 12x9x0. An absorbing history of the railroad that epitomized the spirit of America's westward expansion. Told in amazing color and b&w pictures. Founded in 1862, the original Union Pacific Rail Road was part of the First Transcontinental Railroad project, later known as the Overland Route. Over the next century, UP absorbed the Missouri Pacific Railroad, the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company, the Western Pacific Railroad, the Missouri Kansas, Texas Railroad and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. In 1996, the Union Pacific merged with Southern Pacific Transportation Company, itself a giant system that was absorbed by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, initially maintaining the Southern Pacific name before the newly merged company reverted to the UP moniker. The Union Pacific Railroad is the principal operating company of the Union Pacific Corporation, both headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska.

Vintage Books, 1994. Softcover. Very Good. 5x0x8. In his latest tour of the earth's remote, exotic, and dismal places, the author of Road Fever and A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg sleeps with a grizzly bear, witnesses demonic possession in Bali, and survives a run-in with something called the Throne of Doom in Guatemala. Vivid and outrageously funny. Tim Cahill (born 1944 in Nashville, Tennessee) is a travel writer who lives in Livingston, Montana, United States. He is a founding editor of Outside magazine and currently serves as an editor at large for the magazine.

Vintage Books USA, 1989. Softcover. Very Good. 5x0x7. Tim Cahill brings 'em back alive. Not only has he survived fantastic journeys through the Himalayan rapids, the Grand Terror of Montana, and Dian Fossey's forbidden zone, he writes about them, too. Fearless and hell-bent on destroying all obstacles in his path, Cahill takes us to places rarely seen and barely endured. All admonitions and warnings be damned: Tim Cahill dares us to follow him wherever danger and craziness lurk. And to laugh as he prevails. Tim Cahill (born 1944 in Nashville, Tennessee) is a travel writer who lives in Livingston, Montana, United States. He is a founding editor of Outside magazine and currently serves as an editor at large for the magazine.

Villard Books, 2002. Hardcover. Like New/Fine. 6x1x9. Signed by Author. Gift inscription by and signed by author. Hold the Enlightenment takes Tim Cahill to sites as far-flung as Saharan salt mines, the Congolese jungle, and Hanford, Washington, home of the largest toxic-waste dump in the Western hemisphere. With his trademark wit and insight, Cahill describes stalking the legendary Caspian tiger in the mountains bordering Iraq, slogging through a pitch-black Australian eucalyptus forest to find the nocturnal platypus, diving with great white sharks in South Africa, staving off enlightenment at a yoga retreat in Jamaica, and much, much more. In these essays, vivid and masterly storytelling combine with outrageously sly humor and jolts of real emotion to show one of the most popular journalists of our time at the absolute peak of his game. Tim Cahill is one of the founders of Outside, author of its long-running “Out There” column, and an editor-at-large. He's… Read More

Crown, 2004. Hardcover. Like New/Fine . 5x0x7. Lost in My Own Backyard brings acclaimed author Tim Cahill together with one of his—and America’s—favorite destinations: Yellowstone, the world’s first national park. Cahill has been “puttering around in the park” for a quarter of a century, slowly covering its vast scope and exploring its remote backwoods. So does this mean that he knows what he’s doing? Hardly. “I live fifty miles from the park,” says Cahill, “but proximity does not guarantee competence. I’ve spent entire afternoons not knowing exactly where I was, which is to say, I was lost in my own backyard.”

Villard, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Fine . 6x1x9. Hold the Enlightenment takes Tim Cahill to sites as far-flung as Saharan salt mines, the Congolese jungle, and Hanford, Washington, home of the largest toxic-waste dump in the Western hemisphere. With his trademark wit and insight, Cahill describes stalking the legendary Caspian tiger in the mountains bordering Iraq, slogging through a pitch-black Australian eucalyptus forest to find the nocturnal platypus, diving with great white sharks in South Africa, staving off enlightenment at a yoga retreat in Jamaica, and much, much more. In these essays, vivid and masterly storytelling combine with outrageously sly humor and jolts of real emotion to show one of the most popular journalists of our time at the absolute peak of his game.

AuthorHouse Publishing, 2011. First Edition. Softcover. Like New. 6x0x9. Signed by Author. Inscribed "Brother Bill, Happy 75th Jack Cahill". Signed copies rarely offered. Jack's Drift is a funny and poignant look into the timeless art of fly fishing. Cahill takes the reader on a page turning 50 year fishing trip. You can fish from Florida to Alaska and from Vermont to California from the comfort of your favorite chair, as he leads you along the banks of legendary waterways. Drift along as fishing becomes the backdrop to the entertaining antics of both man and beast. Jack and company encounter everything from fish to bears and colorful anglers as they traipse their way through five decades in pursuit of that elusive quarry. Feel the wind in your face and the sun on your neck and the caress of the current that draws them to the fabled waters of the mountain west, It's a fishing tale for everyone and every time that touches the heart and the funny bone. Also by J. Wilfred Cahill with… Read More

Krause Publications, 1998. Trade paperback. Very good. Signed by previous ow. Owner name front cover. Else Fine condition. This book will help you build and better enjoy your monsterous collection of a action figures, model kits, puzzles, books, games, pins, magazines, trading cards, movie posters, costumes, masks, toys, comics, and anything else with a monster on it! More than 3,000 collectible and TV and movie related items are listed in this guide, along with 800 photos to help you identify your scary stuff!