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Santa Monica: De Vorss & Co, 1973. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 8 1/4" X 5 1/4". 202pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of blue paper wraps. Light bumps to top edge of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. An overall clean, solid copy of this interpretation of the Bhagavad Gita by Wesley La Violette.

New York: Springer, 2012. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". xiv, 458pp. Very mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Occasional inked notation to pages. Notation does not obscure text. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Without the framework of the paradigm supporting layers of theories,models, and data, our concept of science, and its shared mode of scholarly thought, would not exist. The concept is readily understood. But how did we get there? Paradigms in Theory Construction classifies the collective worldviews that inform paradigms and clarifies the relationships between them, theories, and models in psychology, the hard sciences,and the social sciences. The book skillfully merges the philosophy of science with the history of scientific inquiry to explain how ideas take hold among populations,how paradigms are structured, whether they are based in logic, and under what circumstances paradigm shifts occur. Rich with historical and contemporary… Read More

New York: Stewart, Tabori, and Chang, 2007. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 9" X 6". 256pp. Mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Slight curl to covers. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: One in five adult Americans suffers from Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Millions seek relief through dietary changes or medications that often prove unsatisfactory and may be accompanied by side effects. It turns out that relief doesn t necessarily come from a bottle of pills or through diet changes it can be achieved by learning behavioral self-management strategies that get to the source of the problem. For over 10 years, Dr. Jeffrey M. Lackner has been helping patients gain control of their symptoms. His research backed by grants from the National Institutes of Health shows that these skills can help, whether their IBS involves diarrhea, constipation, or both. Now Dr. Lackner s Controlling IBS the Drug-Free Way offers IBS sufferers the same tools that have helped… Read More

Norwalk: The Easton Press, 1982. Leather_bound. Very good. Leather_bound. 12 1/4" X 9". 96pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of brown leather over boards. All-edge gilt. Spot of white paint to edge of text block. Toning from removed bookplate at front paste-down. Faint musty smell to pages. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is sound. An overall clean, solid copy of this collection of works by Russian painter Vassily Vassilyevich Kandinsky. This book is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". xv, 452pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in red paper over boards with spine lettered in silver. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This edition presents the first complete English translation of N.N. Ladygina-Kohts' journal chronicling her pioneering work with the chimpanzee, Joni. The journal entries describe and compare the instincts, emotions, play, and habits of her son Rudy and Joni as each develops. First published in Moscow in 1935 as a memoir in the Darwin Museum Series, this edition has 120 photographs, 46 drawings and an introduction by Allen and Beatrix Gardner of the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Nevada, as well as a Foreword and an Afterword by Lisa A. Parr, Signe Preuschoft, and Frans B. M. de Waal of the Living Links Center at Emory University.(Publisher).

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 10" X 7". xiii, 421pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Economics has much to do with incentives--not least, incentives to work hard, to produce quality products, to study, to invest, and to save. Although Adam Smith amply confirmed this more than two hundred years ago in his analysis of sharecropping contracts, only in recent decades has a theory begun to emerge to place the topic at the heart of economic thinking. In this book, Jean-Jacques Laffont and David Martimort present the most thorough yet accessible introduction to incentives theory to date. Central to this theory is a simple question as pivotal to modern-day management as it is to economics research: What makes people act in a particular way in an economic or business situation? In seeking an answer, the authors provide the methodological tools to design… Read More

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2000. Hardcover. Good +/Good +. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xvii, 302pp. Mild rubbing, creasing, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Price-sticker to rear cover and sunning to spine of jacket. Gentle bumps to corners and edges of white cloth over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Since its beginnings at the start of the 20th century, educational scholarship has been a marginal field, criticized by public policy makers and relegated to the fringes of academe. An Elusive Science explains why, providing a critical history of the traditions, conflicts, and institutions that have shaped the study of education over the past century.(Publisher).

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author in ink at front endpaper. Stated First Edition. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 204pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in blue paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In "The Boundary," one family vacations in the Roman countryside, though we see their lives through the eyes of the caretaker's daughter, who nurses a wound from her family's immigrant past. In "P's Parties," a Roman couple, now empty nesters, finds comfort and community with foreigners at their friend's yearly birthday gathering—until the husband crosses a line. And in "The Steps," on a public staircase that connects two neighborhoods and the residents who climb up and down it, we see Italy's capital in all of its social and cultural variegations, filled with the tensions of a changing city:… Read More

San Francisco: HOC DOI, 1980. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 9" X 7 1/2". 174pp. Mild wear to paper wraps with light rubbing and toning to covers and creasing to corners and edges. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In the early twentieth century, most Chinese immigrants coming to the United States were detained at the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay. There, they were subject to physical exams, interrogations, and often long detentions aimed at upholding the exclusion laws that kept Chinese out of the country. Many detainees recorded their anger and frustrations, hopes and despair in poetry written and carved on the barrack walls. Island tells these immigrants' stories while underscoring their relevance to contemporary immigration issues. An important historical document as well as a significant work of literature, Island is a testament to the hardships Chinese immigrants endured on Angel Island, their… Read More

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1925. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6". xi, 274pp. Rubbing, toning, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges of green cloth over boards. Boards are slightly warped. Dust-spotting to top edge of text block. Inked notation to front free endpaper. Occasional inked and penciled underlining and notation to pages. Hinges feel a touch tender, however, binding remains sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Dr. Laird gives an animated presentation of the difficulties and methods of employment psychology. Problems are not merely described--they are also concretely set before the reader in some apt and diverting manner. After chapters on individual differences and the difficulties these provide in selection, some of the traditional methods of selection are reviewed critically. The role of the charlatan is vigorously exposed, accompanied again by concrete samples,--reproductions of fakir advertisements and announcements which are denounced in no mincing terms.(American… Read More

London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1899. Leather bound. Very good +. Leather bound. Ex libris Helen Violet Graham (1879-1945), President of the Young Women's Christian Association and daughter of the 5th Duke of Montrose, with her bookplate to front pastedown and her inscription to flyleaf. Half-bound in dark blue morocco with blue linen over boards by Douglas and Foulis of Edinburgh, with spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Pale blue marbled endpapers. Scuff to tail of spine, light edgewear, and spot of rubbing to cloth over rear board, else near fine. Binding is firm and sound. Very occasional pencilled mark to pages. A handsome turn-of-the-century of Charles Lamb's beloved collection of essays, finely bound by Douglas and Foulis of Edinburgh and with interesting provenance.

Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1994. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. 9" X 6". 362pp. Mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of gray cloth over boards. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Previous owner's name in ink to front paste-down. Very occasional inked underlining to pages. Underlining to pages does not obscure text. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Interpreting has been a neglected area since the late 1970s. Sylvie Lambert and Barbara Moser-Mercer have attempted to give a new impulse to academic research in print with this collection of 30 articles discussing various aspects of interpreting grouped in 3 sections: I. Pedagogical issues, II. Simultaneous interpretation, III. Neuropsychological research.Being a professional interpreter may not be sufficient to explain what interpretation is all about and how it should be practised and taught. The purpose of this collection of reports on non-arbitrary, empirical research of simultaneous and sign-language interpretation,… Read More

Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2003. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Good. Ex-Library. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xxii, 331pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Sticker to spine. Stamps from Long Island University Libraries to edges of text block and to endpapers. Occasional inked notation to pages. Notation does not obscure text. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Beyond Individual and Group Differences: Human Individuality, Scientific Psychology, and William Stern s Critical Personalism examines the history of psychology s effort to come to terms with human individuality, from the time of Wundt to present day. With a primary emphasis on the contributions of German psychologist William Stern, this book generates a wider appreciation for Stern s perspective on human individuality and for the proper place of personalitic thinking within scientific psychology. The author presents an alternative approach to the logical positivism that permeates traditional… Read More

Atlanta: Banner Press at Emory University, 1955. Hardcover. Good +. Hardcover. 8" X 5 3/8". 85pp. Red cloth over boards, with upper board and spine lettered in gilt. Mild edgewear to binding, with sunning and scattered rubbing, particularly at spine. Gift inscription dated 1983 to front free endpaper. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A presentable copy of this collection of poetry by Augustus F. Lamkin, printed at the Banner Press of Emory University. OCLC shows 4 holdings.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. Paperback. Very good +. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xix, 377pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Light bump to bottom edge of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. Book appears to be unread. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A comparative look at how discrimination is experienced by stigmatized groups in the United States, Brazil, and Israel Racism is a common occurrence for members of marginalized groups around the world. Getting Respect illuminates their experiences by comparing three countries with enduring group boundaries: the United States, Brazil and Israel. The authors delve into what kinds of stigmatizing or discriminatory incidents individuals encounter in each country, how they respond to these occurrences, and what they view as the best strategy whether individually, collectively, through confrontation, or through self-improvement for dealing with such events. This deeply… Read More

Miami, Florida: Acme Press, 1973. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good. Second Edition. Hardcover. 9" X 6". xv, 753pp. Blue cloth over boards with upper board and spine lettered in gilt. Mild edgewear to binding, with corners turned in. Slight lean to spine. Rear hinge tender. Binding remains sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A solid copy of Dr. Julia McCain Lampkin-Asam's documented autobiography, particularly focused on the "malignant intrigue" that she attests for almost ten years ostracized her from the greater cancer community, precluded her from receiving research grants, and thus kept her from developing a cure for cancer.

New York: Emily Bestler Books, 2022. First Edition. Paperback. Very good. First Edition. Paperback. 8 1/4" X 5 1/4". 410pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Against the unforgiving landscape of a hospital, I fell in love with a mischievous, sun-eyed boy who became my only joy in that desolate place. That's what made it all the more soul-crushing when he committed suicide in front of me. Since then, I've sworn never to love anyone again. With three exceptions: My friends, Sony, Neo, and Coeur, a little gang of rebellious, dying kids. Sony leads the charge with the air of freedom and only one lung to breathe it. Neo, a bad-tempered and wheel-chaired writer, keeps track of our great deeds from stealing to terrorizing our nurse. Coeur is the beautiful boy, the muscle, the gentle giant with a failing heart. Before death inevitably knocks down our doors, my thieves and I have one last heist planned. A… Read More

University Park, PA: The Pennsylvannia University Press, 2012. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Hardcover. 9 1/4" x 7 1/8". 231pp. Extremely mild shelf wear to dust jacket. Black cloth boards with bronze lettering to spine. Binding sound and contents clean and bright. Gorgeous Beasts takes a fresh look at the place of animals in history and art. Refusing the traditional subordination of animals to humans, the essays gathered here examine a rich variety of ways animals contribute to culture: as living things, as scientific specimens, as food, weapons, tropes, and occasions for thought and creativity. History and culture set the terms for this inquiry. As history changes, so do the ways animals participate in culture. Gorgeous Beasts offers a series of discontinuous but probing studies of the forms their participation takes. This collection presents the work of a wide range of scholars, critics, and thinkers from diverse disciplines: philosophy, literature, history, geography, economics, art history,… Read More

New York: J. B. Ford & Company, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Uncle Consider. Uncle Consider. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 5/8" X 5 1/8". 248pp, plus 18pp ads. Presumed first. Red cloth over boards, stamped in black to upper board and spine. Heavy wear to binding, with heavy edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed to boards, chipping to head and tail of spine, heavy scattered rubbing, and heavy soiling. Previous owner's inked note to front free endpaper. Occasional smudge to pages, else clean and unmarked. Tissue guarded frontispiece. Profusely illustrated throughout by "Uncle Consider" after models by "those designing young men," Nast, Darley, Fredericks, Eytinge, White, Stephens, and others.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". xiii, 229pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This book is a philosophical analysis of Plato's dialogue the Statesman. Dr. Lane finds that rather than being transitional between the Republic and the Laws, the Statesman deserves a special place of its own--the dialogue emerging as a text that proposes a new conception of knowledge, authority, and the relationship between them. This investigation transforms our understanding of the Statesman and its fellow dialogues.(Publisher).