Search Results: Authors starting with D from Underground Books, ABAA

Sydney: Powerhouse Publishing, 2000. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 11" X 8 3/4". 168pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This manuscript is almost 500 years old and was hand-written by Leonardo da Vinci in his characteristic mirror writing and supported by copious sketches. It covers a wide range of his observations and theories on astronomy, the properties of water, rocks and fossils, air and celestial light. The "Codex Leicester" provides a rare insight into the enquiring mind of the definitive Renaissance artist, scientist and thinker, as well as providing an illustration of the link between art and science and the creativity of thecientific process. Each page is reproduced in this publication and is accompanied by an interpretation of the original Italian texts by Leonardo scholar, Professor Carlo Pedretti. The volume also includes an introductoryssay by Michael Desmond on Leonardo, his… Read More

Bloomington: Balboa Press, 2012. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" X 6". xiii, 466pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Many of us go through our entire lives giving and receiving gifts, often unaware we are doing so. Jonathan's goal was to give the gift of service-from his dreams of a military career to the hospitality industry to civil service and finally to serve anyone suffering from the effects of addiction. Jonathan passed away on May 4, 2010, yet his spirit lives with us today. At this moment, he might say, "My gift to you is awareness. I want to make you aware of what it is like to have a severe addiction problem. If you are suffering from addiction, ask yourself, 'Do I want to follow Jonathan's path? Shouldn't I dedicate myself to changing and becoming the loving and trustworthy person that I know, deep inside me, I am?' If you are a family member, I present to you how my family… Read More

New York: Teachers College Press, 2010. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/2". xii, 303pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Very occasional inked underlining to pages. Underlining does not obscure text. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: With unprecedented scope and vision, Dr. Dai systematically redefines giftedness and proposes a new framework for the field of gifted education. He identifies nine essential tensions, revolving around three core questions: What do we know about the respective roles of natural ability, environment and experiences, and personal effort in talent development? How do we identify the gifted and talented, and study the process of gifted and talent development? And finally, how do we define the aims of gifted education and promote excellence? Sure to be a milestone in the field, this book: -Scrutinizes some of the deeply held assumptions about the nature of giftedness and explains why a contextual, developmental approach is a… Read More

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. Book Only, No CD. 10" X 8". xiv, 210pp. Very mild shelf wear to pictorial paper wraps. Light bump to head of spine. Very occasional highliting to pages primarily in first 1/4 of book. Pages are free of notations. Binding is firm and sound. Missing CD of audio exercises. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A protocol of easy-to-use tools that can be applied when readers experience difficult-to-manage emotions. Emotional flooding being overwhelmed by feelings happens in response to stress, anxiety, and life's challenges. In this client-orientated accompaniment to Affect Regulation Toolbox, Carolyn Daitch and Lissah Lorberbaum present skills and tools on how to dial down reactivity, practice mindfulness, and focus positively on the future. Written to conquer a broad range of emotional challenges in easily accessibly language, this book is intended to help clients improve the quality of their everyday lives. The workbook is split into two parts.… Read More

Racine: Whitman Publishing Company, 1939. Hardcover. Good +. Hardcover. 4 1/2" X 3 3/4". 424pp. Mild wear to pictorial paper over boards with rubbing to covers and creasing to corners and edges. Corners are gently bumped. Slight lean to spine. Small tear to bottom edge of first several pages. Age-yellowing to pages. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. AN overall clean, solid copy of this charming 1939 Little Better Book.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1952. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 6". xii, 259pp. Rather heavy wear to unclipped dust jacket with rubbing, creasing, chipping, and tears to covers, corners, and edges. Rubbing and gentle bumps to covers, corners, and edges of gray cloth over boards. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Toning to endpapers. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Here is a volume which combines with unusual success biography and medical science: the ills of a select group of famous and accomplished persons, discussed in the light of modern medical knowledge. It is, in effect, a long-delayed and lively post-mortem which can be read with interest by both lay readers and members of the medical profession.(Publisher).

Garden City: American Museum Sourcebooks in Anthropology, 1967. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 8" X 5 1/4". xv, 584pp. Wear to pictorial paper wraps with toning, rubbing, and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Faded price-sticker to front cover. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Previous owner's stamp to half-title page. Very occasional inked notation to pages. Notation does not obscure text. Binding is sound. This book is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This collection of readings in economic anthropology covers the whole range of non-industrial economics--production, allocation, trade, and money--from the relatively static, traditional economies of subsistence and peasant communities undergoing social and economic change and development. Where necessary, the writings of economists, historians, and sociologists have also been included to provide analytical… Read More

New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2004. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xvi, 364pp. Bumps to corners of paper over boards. Otherwise, very mild shelf wear to covers and edges. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This book focuses on what other volumes have only touched on, that is the factors that contribute to the rise of certain persons and ideas in the field of psychology. Bringing together noted experts in the field, it describes the process of intellectual reconstructions that determines how we view historical events, and why some ideas die only to be reborn again, as well as why new ideas can quickly topple traditional views.(Publisher).

London: Laurence King, 2018. Hardcover. Very good +. Hardcover. 13" X 10 1/4". 368pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial over boards. Price sticker to rear board. Spine backed in brown cloth and lettered in white and gilt. Pages are bright, clean, and unmarked. Binding is tight and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Hassan Fathy is Egypt's best-known 20th-century architect. He was also a man of contradictions. He came from a wealthy background and had a western-style training. Yet he embraced traditional, vernacular forms, techniques, and materials and throughout his career promoted their use as part of a campaign to improve the conditions of Egypt's rural poor. Earth & Utopia chronicles this lifelong commitment through personal interviews conducted by the author, photographs, and drawings from the Hassan Fathy archives, and Fathy's own writings on the subject, many of which are published for the first time. This beautiful, fascinating, and scholarly book will be essential… Read More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. Hardcover. Good +/good +. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 278pp. Mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Gentle bumps to corners of paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Rome was an aged but still vigorous power while Spain was a rising giant on track toward becoming the world's most powerful and first truly global empire. This book tells the fascinating story of the meeting of these two great empires at a critical moment in European history. Thomas Dandelet explores for the first time the close relationship between the Spanish Empire and Papal Rome that developed in the dynamic period of the Italian Renaissance and the Spanish Golden Age. The author examines on the one hand the role the Spanish Empire played in shaping Roman politics, economics, culture, society, and religion and on the other the role the papacy played in Spanish imperial… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/good. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". xvi, 451pp. Rubbing, creasing, toning, and chipping to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Rubbing and bumps to corners and edges of black cloth over boards. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Today Americans find themselves in the midst of a crisis--a crisis of violence which threatens the existence of human life. Responding to the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy, the Committee on Violence at Stanford University School of Medicine embarked on an extensive examination of violence and its roots. Violence and the Struggle for Existence, based on research from diverse fields, dramatically emphasizes the critical need to understand and reduce this life-threatening force.(Publisher).

Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York: Eugenics Record Office, 1912. Eugenics Record Office - Memoir No. 1. Hardcover. Good. Eugenics Record Office - Memoir No. 1. Hardcover. 12 1/2" X 9 1/2". v, 56pp, plus three fold-out charts bound at rear. Bound in full gray buckram over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Ex-University of Pennsylvania Library, with associated bookplate, labels, library card, etc. Moderate wear to binding, with corners turned in, scattered rubbing, and edgewear. Binding is firm. Taped 3 1/2-6" closed tears to title page and contents page. Occasional pencilled mark to pages, else unmarked. Several tears, most neat, to Chart A, as well as one neat tear along fold of Chart C. A worn, ex-library copy of this publication of the Eugenics Record Office, operating from 1910 to 1939 with a mission of gathering information on the ancestry of the American population in order to produce propaganda to further the eugenics movement.

Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1997. Hardcover. Good +. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xviii, 276pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Dust-spotting and stamps to edges of text block. Slight lean to spine. Stamp and previous owner's name in ink at front paste-down. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: With the accelerating emergence of global markets comes a demand for high quality translation and interpretation at all levels of business, government and academia - and therefore highly developed cognitive skills in two languages. The interdisciplinary contributions in this authoritative volume provide a strong foundation for improvement in these skills. The authors apply concepts and methods of cognitive science to translation, focusing on the relationship between translation theory, research and practice.(Publisher).

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 9 3/4" X 6 3/4". vii, 305pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Remainder mark to bottom edge of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Memory is one of the few psychological concepts with a truly ancient lineage. Presenting a history of the interrelated changes in memory tasks, memory technology and ideas about memory from antiquity to the late twentieth century, this book confronts psychology's 'short present' with its 'long past'. Kurt Danziger, one of the most influential historians of psychology of recent times, traces long-term continuities from ancient mnemonics and tools of inscription to modern memory experiments and computer storage. He explores historical discontinuities, showing how different kinds of memory became prominent at different times, and examines these changes in the context of specific themes including the question of truth… Read More

Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2008. Hardcover. Good +. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". 411pp. Very mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, and edges of paper over boards. Small price-sticker to rear cover. Corners and edges are gently bumped. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Educational Theories and Practices from the Majority World draws attention to ethnocentrism in educational research and practice. Whether it is educational theory, research or educational practices, most of the discourse is strongly marked by one single model, Western, so-called "modern" schooling. Scientific knowledge about education is typically seen as Western, and non-Western contexts are made subject to Western paradigms of inquiry. This book counters this Western ethnocentrism and suggests some means to fight it. The Western perspective stems from a minority and it does not represent the majority of the world population that is situated outside of Europe and North-America. For millennia,… Read More

London: Springer, 2008. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 8" X 5". xiv, 246pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Robotics is one of the hottest topics in medicine today, with an international interest that is exponentially growing. The introduction of robotic technology into modern operating theatres has provoked a revolutionary change in the basic surgical approach, with many advantages over traditional open surgical treatment, including faster recovery and a significantly lower risk of surgical trauma. While the benefits of minimally invasive surgery are apparent, the expansion of laparoscopic surgery throughout the field has been relatively slow due to the steep learning curve and the level of practice and specialism required to perform such procedures. Although revolutionary upon conception, standard laparoscopy involves the surgeon working from monitors with no depth perception and also… Read More

Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1974. Hardcover. Good/good. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 1/2". 371pp. Scattered rubbing and creasing to covers and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Price sticker to inside of front flap and rear cover. Rubbing and bumps to cover and edges of blue cloth over boards. Spine lettered in gilt. Crease to half-title and title page due to publisher's error. Small price sticker to copyright page. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The author examines the problems of religion critically from the standpoint of biology, psychology, metaphysics, etc. He makes a minute survey of metaphysical, psychological and political thinkers, their attitude towards religious concepts and a critical estimate of science and scientific investigations and in the light of these he builds up his own rational system of thought.(Publisher).

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 6". xviii, 423pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: What did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of Reason? Classical probabilists from Jakob Bernouli through Pierre Simon Laplace intended their theory as an answer to this question--as "nothing more at bottom than good sense reduced to a calculus," in Laplace's words. In terms that can be easily grasped by nonmathematicians, Lorraine Daston demonstrates how this view profoundly shaped the internal development of probability theory and defined its applications.(Publisher).

Chicago: Hope Publishing. Hardcover. Poor. Hardcover. 7 3/4" X 5 1/4". Heavy wear to over boards with soiling, rubbing, and surface paper loss to covers. Bumps and rubbing to corners, edges, and spine. Paper of rear cover is torn with board showing through. Pencil marks to front cover, front and rear paste-down, and to some pages. Age-yellowing and foxing to pages. Some pages are torn and incomplete. Hinges are tender with connective mesh visible at front and rear. Binding remains sound. An admittedly worn but overall solid copy of this collection of pentecostal hymns.

New York: Blue Rider Press, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by author in ink to title page. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 258pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Tan paper over boards with spine backed in red and lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. Original packing slip for Powell's signed first edition book club order form laid in. With decorative custom slipcase from Powell's first edition book club. ABOUT THIS BOOK: An exceptional debut novel about a young Muslim war orphan whose family is killed in a military operation gone wrong, and the American soldier to whom his fate, and survival, is bound. Jonas is fifteen when his family is killed during an errant U.S. military operation in an unnamed Muslim country. With the help of an… Read More