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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. Hardcover. Good +/good. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 1/2". Unpaginated. Book presents nicely with price-clipped dust jacket wrapped in protective archival sleeve. Wear to jacket with rubbing, toning, and chipping to covers, corners, and edges. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers and edges of pink cloth over boards. Bookstore stamp to front paste-down. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. A very attractive, very pink circa 1950 collection of the poetry of E.E. Cummings.

Charlottesville: Star-Borne Unlimited, 1991. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". 271pp. Rubbing, bumps, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Crease to spine. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Faint toning to endpapers. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A wild and often hilarious love story between a fallen angel and a star commander which takes place during the devastating Intergalactic Wars in Orion and beyond. An unforgettable cast of characters leads you through some amazing adventures as the secret key that holds this dimensional universe into the template of duality is revealed and transformed!(Publisher).

New York: Bantam Books, 1976. Mass market paperback. Good. Mass market paperback. 7" X 4 1/4". xviii, 236pp. Rubbing, toning, creasing, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Top corner of front cover is missing. Creasing is spine. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Stamp and previous owner's name in ink to inside of front cover. Ink mark and blindstamp to title page. Age-toned pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: For years, Soviet scientists from Prague to Moscow have been experimenting with man's amazing psychic powers. Here for the first time, in their own words, are the results of these experiments--translated from papers never before available to the West. Autosuggestion, possession, stigmata, pain control, reincarnation hypnosis, clairvoyance, biological radio communication, speed learning, prophecy, secret knowledge of ancient civilizations.(Publisher).

Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2000. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 12" X 9 1/4". viii, 301pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. LIght rubbing and shelf wear to covers and edges of green cloth over baords. Boards are slightly warped. Pages are clean and unmarked. 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: Early Art and Artists in West Virginia is copiously illustrated with 136 plates accompanying the essays on portraiture and landscape painting, which form the first half of the book. A similar number of smaller illustrations in full color bring life to a biographical directory in the second part of the book, which contains nearly one thousand known painters who worked in West Virginia. Many West Virginians will find their family names in this directory, and some will… Read More

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". xvi, 256pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This book presents previously unexamined connections between teaching practices and specific philosophical ideas, locating the prior beliefs and practical knowledge of early childhood practitioners in urban India within the broader social and historical religio-philosophical context.(Publisher).

London: Bloomsbury, 2017. Hardcover. Very good +. Hardcover. 8" X 5 1/4". ix, 227pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: What skills did Shakespeare's actors bring to their craft? How do these skills differ from those of contemporary actors? Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre: Thinking with the Body examines the 'toolkit' of the early modern player and suggests new readings of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries through the lens of their many skills. Theatre is an ephemeral medium. Little remains to us of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries: some printed texts, scattered documents and records, and a few scraps of description, praise, and detraction. Because most of what survives are printed playbooks, students of English theatre find it easy to forget that much of what happened on the early modern stage took place within the gaps of written language: the implicit… Read More

Whitford: The Whitford Press, 1966. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 9" X 6". 63pp. Spots of toning and creasing to covers and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Faint dust-spotting to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. An overall clean, solid copy of this catalog of latches, locks, knobs, hasps, keys, and more.

New York: Asia Publishing House, 1965. Hardcover. Very good/good. Hardcover. 8 7/8" X 5 7/8". 96pp. Heavy wear to dust jacket, with rubbing, tearing along edges, and mild dust soiling. 2 1/2" tear to top of front cover, no losses. Mild rubbing to edges of gray hardcover binding, with gentle bumping to corners and head and tail of spine. Spine lettered in black. Binding is tight and sound. Contents are clean and unmarked. From front flap: "Based on a random sample of 423 families in the seaport of Mahuva, Saurashtra, this book presents a neat little study about the changing economy of the community, approaching the subject from the points of view of the persons engaged in different activities of production.

Glebe: Bernarr P. Sloan, 2002. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. Signed and inscribed in ink by author to front free end paper. 10" X 7 1/4". xiv, 426pp. Mild wear to pictorial paper wraps with light creasing to covers, edges, and spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. A clean, solid copy of this work detailing to lives and struggles of two Australian families during the Great Depression.

New South Wales: Fast Books, 2002. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 10" X 7 1/4". xiv, 289pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Previous owner's name in ink to front free endpaper. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. An overall clean, solid copy of this history of a family of bakers in the 1020s by Bernarr P. Sloan.

The Aquarian Press, 1988. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 1/4". 192pp. Wear to pictorial paper wraps with rubbing, creasing, and toning to covers, corners, and edges. 1/2" closed tear to edge of front cover. Small sprice-sticker to front cover. Penciled notation to half-title page. Stamp from Arcanum Book Shop to inside of front cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Through an extensive and rigorous experimental programme, developed in his home area of the west coast of Scotland, Dr. Fidler has established ways in which a standing stone can be 'charged' with energy and then permanently 'fixed'. His conclusions in this remarkable and important study have considerable implications. They suggest that earth energy, harnessed by the ley line system, is human in origin and that modern developments such as cities and motorways may be altering important biological aspects of the earth energy system.(Publisher).

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Second Edition. Hardcover. 11" X 8 3/4". viii, 318pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Fully updated throughout, including revised illustrations and new images from NASA missions, this new edition provides an overview of Earth's history from a planetary science perspective for Earth science undergraduates. Earth's evolution is described in the context of what we know about other planets and the cosmos at large, from the origin of the cosmos to the processes that shape planetary environments and from the origins of life to the inner workings of cells. Astronomy, earth science, planetary science and astrobiology are integrated to give students the whole picture of how the Earth has come to its present state and an understanding of the relationship between key ideas in different fields. The book presents… Read More

New York: DAW Books, Inc, 1994. First Edition. Paperback. Good. First Edition. Paperback. First Printing, February 1994, with full number line. 6 7/8" X 4 1/8". 255pp, plus ad. Moderate edgewear to pictorial paper wraps, featuring cover art by John Jude Palencar. Lean and creasing to spine. All edges yellow. Despite creasing to spine, binding remains firm, tight, and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. This is the third and final volume in Suzette Haden Elgin's Native Tongue Trilogy. The first volume published in 1984, while Margaret Atwood was in the middle of writing The Handmaid's Tale, this dystopian trilogy imagines a future America where women no longer have legal rights and the earth's financial wellbeing depends on a line of linguists who breed women to birth and to become ideal translators of alien languages before they send them to "Barren Houses." The women of the linguist lines, however, have for generations been secretly crafting a language of their own, a language of revolution.… Read More

Camden: Briar Patch Press, 1990. Leather_bound. Good. Leather_bound. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xxii, 303pp. Rubbing and light shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of black leather over boards. Three raised bands to spine. Gilt stamping at spine and front cover is rubbed and faded in some spots. Spotting to all-edges gilt. Gold, sewn-in silk ribbon appears to have been cut short. Foxing to endpapers. Faint musty smell to pages. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: East Africa And Its Big Game is a travelogue written by John Christopher Willoughby, documenting his hunting trip from Zanzibar to the borders of the Masai in 1889. The book details his experiences hunting big game such as elephants, lions, and rhinoceroses, as well as the challenges he faced while navigating the African wilderness. Willoughby also provides insights into the local culture and customs of the people he encountered on his journey. This book is an intriguing read for anyone interested in African… Read More

Berkeley: Celestial Arts, 2004. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. Signed and inscribed to previous owner by author in ink at half-title page. 9" X 6". xii, 488pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. With postcard and 5 Boulder Bookstore bookplates laid in. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Revised edition of the groundbreaking New Age book that seamlessly merges Western psychology and science with spirituality, creating a compelling interpretation of the Eastern chakra system and its relevance for Westerners today. In Eastern Body, Western Mind, chakra authority Anodea Judith brought a fresh approach to the yoga-based Eastern chakra system, adapting it to the Western framework of Jungian psychology, somatic therapy, childhood developmental theory, and metaphysics and applying the chakra system to important modern social realities and issues such as addiction, codependence, family dynamics, sexuality, and personal empowerment.… Read More

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 8 1/4" X 5 1/2". 213pp. Mild wear to pictorial paper wraps with rubbing and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Faint dust-spotting to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In Echoes, John Sallis mobilizes the figure of echo, used by Heidegger to characterize originary thinking, as the motif around which to organize a radical reading of Heidegger's most important texts.(Publisher).

Stanford: Standford University Press, 1968. Hardcover. Good/good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". vi, 242pp. Wear to unclipped dust jacket with rubbing, toning, creasing, chipping, and tears to covers, corners, and edges. Light rubbing and bumps to corners and edges of orange cloth over boards. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Penciled notation to front and rear paste-down. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Psychology today is predominantly an experimental science; descriptive and ecological studies of human behavior have a mino place in the deiscipline. But there are signs of an increasing interest in the interaction of behavior and environment outside laboratories and clinics. It is the purpose of this book to facilitate this development by providing concepts, field methods, and analytical programs for investigating human molar behavior and its environment in real-life situation.(Publisher).

New York: Routledge, 1989. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xv, 392pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Previous owner's name in ink at front free endpaper. Very occasional penciled underlining to pages. Underlining does not obscure text. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: An innovative new textbook presenting a view of adaptive behaviour which attempts to integrate both evolutionary and psychological perspectives on learning. This book should be of interest to students of animal behaviour, learning theory, comparative psychology, zoology, evolutionary theory.(Publisher).

Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1999. Hardcover. Good +. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 375pp. Very mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Scattered inked underlining to to pages. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In the context of an Emory Symposium on Cognition honoring the enormous contributions to cognitive psychology of Ulric Neisser, this book brings together ecological approaches to various aspects of cognition and its development. Well-known former students and colleagues of Neisser articulate their views on perception, memory, and culture. There is a strong developmental component, with chapters on infant perception, infant problem solving, and the cognitive profile of Williams Syndrome, as well as two chapters that consider philosophical issues related to cognitive psychology.(Publisher).

Bogota: Luis Augusto Castro, 2016. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 8 1/4" X 5 1/2". 171pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Archbishop Castro takes the reader through the biological diversity and socio-political trials of Amazonia in Colombia. At the same time, the reader partakes in a spiritual growth journey. This book addresses faith and spirituality through the beauty of nature, the miracle of life, the struggle for survival, and the ecological concerns of the Amazon rain forest.