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Paris: Editions Michele, 2016. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 11" X 9 1/4". 159pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. H. Craig Hanna is an accomplished contemporary artist known for his figurative paintings and drawings. Born in 1967 in the United States, Hanna studied at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and the New York Academy of Art. He has gained recognition for his distinctive style that merges classical techniques with contemporary aesthetics. Hanna's works often feature figures depicted with a high level of realism, capturing the nuances of light, shadow, and form. His paintings and drawings showcase a remarkable attention to detail and a mastery of anatomy, showcasing his deep understanding of the human figure. While rooted in traditional techniques, Hanna's artworks also exhibit a contemporary sensibility. He combines classical academic training with bold brushwork, expressive gestures,… Read More

New York: The Library of America, 2014. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. Hardcover. 8 1/4" X 5 1/4". viii, 872pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in brown cloth over boards with spine stamped in red and gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. With two tan, silk bookmarks sewn in. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A major literary event: Mencken's dazzling autobiography, with 200 pages of his own never-before-published commentary and photos. In 1936, at the age of fifty-five, H. L. Mencken published a reminiscence about his boyhood in The New Yorker, beginning a long and magnificent adventure in autobiography by America's greatest journalist. Mencken went on to gather his childhood recollections in Happy Days (1940), a richly detailed, poignant account of growing up in Baltimore. A critical and popular success, the book surprised many with its glimpses of a less curmudgeonly Mencken, and there soon followed the absorbing sequels Newspaper… Read More

San Diego: Point Loma Publications, 1994. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 9" X 6". xiv, 308pp. Wear to pictorial paper wraps with rubbing, toning, and gentle bumps to covers, corners, and edges. Dust spotting to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In this volume, you learn of the course of Gnosticism. It upholds Blavatsky's startling declaration of the once universal religion from which Gnosticism, and indeed Buddhism and Brahmanism, and early Christianity spring. Basic beliefs of the Gnostics are clarified, and made understandable as we recognise that there is always a direct continuation from age to age of this secret knowledge of hidden and spiritual things.(Publisher).

Franklin Library: The Franklin Library, 1984. First Edition. Leather_bound. Very good. First Edition. Leather_bound. Signed by the author in ink at front endpaper. 9 1/4" X 6 1/2". 566pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of brown leather over boards. Three raised bands to spine with four gilt compartments. Dust-spotting to all-edges gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. With letter from The Franklin Library laid in. A handsome copy of this signed limited edition work by Leon Uris. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Leon Uris retums to the land of his acclaimed best-seller Exodus for an epic story of hate and love, vengeance and forgiveness and forgiveness. The Middle East is the powerful setting for this sweeping tale of a land where revenge is sacred and hatred noble. Where an Arab ruler tries to save his people from destruction but cannot save them from themselves. When violence spreads like a plague across the lands of Palestine—this is the time of The Haj.(Publisher).

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/good. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 5/8". 180pp. Moderate wear to unclipped dust jacket, with small tear to upper edge of front panel and head of spine, foxing, and edgewear. Blue cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Mild wear to binding, with light edgewear, bumping to head and tail of spine, and slight lean to spine. Foxing to edges of text block. Previous owner's name to front pastedown. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A solid first American printing of this fourth novel in the adventures of Lieutenant St. Vincent Halfhyde by Philip McCutchan.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 5/8". 188pp. Mild edgewear to unclippd pictorial dust jacket, with light edgewear and foxing. Green cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Mild edgewear to binding, with gentle bumping to corners and head and tail of spine and light shelfwear. Foxing to edges of text block. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A solid first American printing of this twelfth novel in the adventures of St. Vincent Halfhyde by Philip McCutchan.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 5/8". 184pp. Mild edgewear to unclippd pictorial dust jacket, with light edgewear and foxing. Black cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Mild edgewear to binding, with gentle bumping to head and tail of spine and light shelfwear. Foxing to edges of text block. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A solid first American printing of this twelfth novel in the adventures of St. Vincent Halfhyde by Philip McCutchan.

Baltimore: Montgomery Ward & Company, 1941. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 13 1/8" X 9 3/8". 62pp. Paper wraps show rather heavy edgewear, with tears to edges and extremities, chipping and tears to spine, dust ssoiling, and faint dampstains. Front hinge tender. Binding remains quite sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. Blank order form, two Montgomery Ward postage paid envelopes, and typed letter concerning the catalog signed by H. D. Wolf, Manager of Baltimore House. A worn but solid and quite handsome copy of this 1941 trade catalog from Montgomery Ward & Company, with pages and pages of photographs of furniture and interior design.

Hamburg, Germany: Boysen & Maasch, 1912. Limited Edition. Loose_leaf. Very good +. Limited Edition. Loose_leaf. Between 1908 and 1912, the Hamburg Senate along with Ernst Juhl collected 1000 photographs of the city and its surroundings, choosing 90 photographs from photographers A. Bruhn, Rudolf Dührkoop, Mrs. Diez-Dührkoop, Major Böhmer, and O. Hofmeister for this publication, an edition limited to 300, this being number 215. These 90 stunning sepia collotypes are tipped in to imperial Japan paper with printed title, publication, and photographer's name and showcase Hamburg's harbor, farmhouses, sailors, fishermen, the working class, at times in traditional costume, and some neighboring lands. As Ernst Juhl states in his introduction: "The chosen pictures should bring to the stranger and the natives the beauties of the state and land area in front of their eyes and especially to the photographers, the lover as well as the expert, to offer suggestions for artistic undertakings." A truly stunning… Read More

Helsinki, Finland: Lamentations of the Flame Princess, 2010. First Printing, Limited to 500 copies. Paperback. Very good +. First Printing, Limited to 500 copies. Paperback. 8 1/4" X 5 7/8". 36pp. Staplebound text block within loose wraps, as issued, with verso of wraps acting as a gameboard. Slight wear to edges of wraps, else fine. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean, bright, and unmarked. This is a highly presentable 2010 first printing, limited to 500 copies, of Hammers of the God, an RPG adventure in the Weird Fantasy Role-Playing Game Lamentations of the Flame Princess. ABOUT LAMENTATIONS OF THE FLAME PRINCESS, HAMMERS OF THE GOD: By the Sign of the Hammer! A mysterious map and a promise treasure to be won are all that are required to set any adventurer worth the name into the wilderness. But sometimes what is found is far more than treasure. Many that are good and noble will kill to make sure the secrets to be found under the old mountain stay buried. Many that enter the darkness… Read More

Maplewood: Hammond & Co, 1959. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 12" X 9 1/2". Wear to pictorial paper wraps with rubbing, toning, and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Inked scribbles and penciled price mark to front cover. A spot of soiling to top corner of front cover. Moveable sky chart is present and functional. Spots of toning to insides of covers. Binding is sound. An overall solid copy of this 1959 star chart and planetarium.

New York: Springer, 2010. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 10 1/4" X 7 1/4". xxiv, 494pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. A couple spots of toning to edge of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Presents a unique approach to the subject of cognition, integrating different approaches to understand exceptionality in cognitive functions on the common basis of underlying biological mechanisms Offers a broad scope in contrast to already published volumes The book contains a comprehensive survey that relates most of the major individual difference constructs to specific mechanisms of cognitive control(Publisher).

Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". vi, 497pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. A spot of toning to bottom edge of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: As the fields of philosophy of medicine and bioethics have developed in the United States, the philosophical perspective of phenomenology has been largely ignored. Yet, the central conviction that informs this volume is that phenomenology provides extraordinary insights into many of the issues that are directly addressed within the world of medicine. Such issues include: the nature of medicine itself; the distinction between immediate experience and scientific conceptualization; the nature of the body - and the implications of embodiment in the realm of clinical practice; the meaning of health, illness and disease; the problem of intersubjectivity - particularly with respect to achieving successful communication with… Read More

Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 10" X 6 3/4". xxii, 641pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Motivation is a pervasive force that can affect well-being in a variety of life situations, from the more minor through to the ability to overcome addictions and other serious psychological problems. This book presents empirically supported theories (featuring current concerns theory), questionnaires based on these theories (highlighting the Motivational Structure Questionnaire) and varied interventions based on these, with special emphasis on Systematic Motivational Counselling but also including chapters on such approaches as Personality Systems Interaction Theory, expectancy-based approaches, Motivational Interviewing, logotherapy and several others.(Publisher).

New York: Altamira Press, 2008. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" X 6". viii, 292pp. 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 authoritative collection provides a practical and comprehensive introduction to team-based qualitative research. The authors are social scientists and health researchers with extensive experience in this rapidly expanding field. Qualitative research has become increasingly interdisciplinary and team oriented. The transition away from the lone-researcher approach to collaborative and inter-institutional research creates new challenges for designing and implementing qualitative research. The authors use examples from both American and international studies to show how working in teams affects research design, project management, data analysis, and the presentation of research findings. The book offers numerous approaches and methods for making team research more… Read More

New York: CRC Press, 2017. Hardcover. Very good +. Hardcover. 10 1/4" X 7 1/4". xv, 496pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Gentle bumps to corners. 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: This handbook will provide both overviews of statistical methods in sports and in-depth treatment of critical problems and challenges confronting statistical research in sports. The material in the handbook will be organized by major sport (baseball, football, hockey, basketball, and soccer) followed by a section on other sports and general statistical design and analysis issues that are common to all sports. This handbook has the potential to become the standard reference for obtaining the necessary background to conduct serious statistical analyses for sports applications and to… Read More

Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2009. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". xviii, 830pp. Mild rubbing, creasing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. 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: This comprehensive Handbook provides a survey of all the major research areas in sports economics written by almost all of the active researchers in this field. It offers not only an accessible insight into the major findings of the literature but also presents some of the world's principal researchers' views on the unanswered questions that face us today. Issues covered include: - sport in the economy - the demand for sport - cost-benefit analysis of sport - sporting governance and the state - individualistic sports - team sports - dysfunctions in sport including discrimination, doping and… Read More

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 10 1/4" X 7 1/4". xiv, 588pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. 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: How is language acquired when infants are exposed to multiple language input from birth and when adults are required to learn a second language after early childhood? How do adult bilinguals comprehend and produce words and sentences when their two languages are potentially always active and in competition with one another? What are the neural mechanisms that underlie proficient bilingualism? What are the general consequences of bilingualism for cognition and for language and thought? This handbook will be essential reading for cognitive psychologists, linguists, applied linguists, and educators who… Read More

Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2001. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 10" X 7". xxvii, 732pp. Rubbing, creasing, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Pages are free of marks and notation. 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: The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology is a landmark in the resurgent field of humanistic psychology and psychotherapy. Their range of topics is far-reaching--from the historical, theoretical, and methodological, to the spiritual, psychotherapeutic, and multicultural. Students and professionals are looking for the fuller, deeper, and more personal psychological orientation that this Handbook promotes.(Publisher).

New York: The Guilford Press, 2009. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 10 1/4" X 7 1/4". xv, 624pp. Gentle bumps and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of red cloth over boards. Sticker to rear cover. 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: How do individual differences interact with situational factors to shape social behavior? Are people with certain traits more likely to form lasting marriages; experience test-taking anxiety; break the law; feel optimistic about the future? This handbook provides a comprehensive, authoritative examination of the full range of personality variables associated with interpersonal judgment, behavior, and emotion. The contributors are acknowledged experts who have conducted influential research on the constructs they address. Chapters discuss how each personality attribute is… Read More