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THE VIETNAM WAR: DAY BY DAY.

By: Bowman, John S., general editor. Introduction by Fox Butterfield.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Mallard, New York, 1989.:

Seller ID: 17926

224 pp, 4to (12 1/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0792450876 Profusely illustrated with color and b&w photographs, maps. "....a detailed chronological account of this 'Thirty Years War' of the twentieth century. It traces the history of t he war from its earliest nineteenth-century origins to its gloomy aftermath in the 1980s. In so doing, it not only illuminates the interplay of policies, personalities, motives and strategies that shaped the war, but also the web of diplo m a t i c , p o l itical, social and ethical conflicts to which it gave rise and which, in the end, h...
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MODERN RIDING TECHNIQUES: HARMONY IN HORSEMANSHIP.

By: Brandl, Selma.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Shrewsbury, Swan Hill: 1997

Seller ID: 22174

ISBN: 1853108154

Binding: Soft Cover with Self Flaps

Condition: Very Good+

144 pp, small 4to (10 3/16" H). Profusely illustrated with colour photographs, b&w drawing, diagrams. "(Explores) the psychology of the horse as a basis for its schooling and also sets valuable guidelines for the initial and later training for the rider. The section on school movements and (Brandl's) detailed exposition of the rider's aids is exemplary, but even more notable is the author's supporting theme of mental and physical relaxation leading to harmony between horse and rider. It adds a further dimension to the riding disciplines and sets this book apart from its contemporaries...
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EXPANDING THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE SCIENCES. ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. VOLUME 323.

By: Briscoe, Anne M. and Pfafflin, Sheila M., Editors. (Richard M. Krause, Bernice resnick Sandler, Philip H. Abelson, Vera Kistiakowsky, Theresa F. Schwarzer, Florence L. Denmark, Amber B. Jones, Eileen C. Shapiro, Naomi J. McAfee, Gloria C. Hewitt, et al.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, New York Academy of Sciences: 1979

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 230

ISBN: 0897660137

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

334 pp, 9" H. Section Headings: The Future of Women in the Sciences; The State of the Art: Current Status of Women in the Sciences; Opportunities for Professional Advancement; Altering Attitudes: Strategies for Change; Government and Academic Policy; Experiences in Achieving new Directions; Summation. Interior - small soft bump at bottom corner of pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - small bump to bottom corner of rear cover.
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WEATHER FLYING. REVISED AND ENLARGED THIRD EDITION.

By: Buck, Robert N. Introduction by Wolfgang Langewiesche.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Macmillan: 1988

Edition: Revised and enlarged third edition.

Seller ID: 24320

ISBN: 0025180215

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

311 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). B&w photographs, drawings, maps. "Revised and updated, this edition includes: New ways to obtain weather information before and in flight using national TV coverage and the new-style FSS stations; An expanded section on the use of satellite pictures, including new illustrations; A simple explanation of wind shear and its avoidance, with an appraisal of the new instrumention to help fly through it; The latest information on radar and its use, and the importance of Stormscope, especially for smaller aircraft." Dust jacket has light wrinkling at top/bottom of...
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THE MAGICAL ARTS: A SHORT HISTORY

By: Burland, C. A.

Price: $32.50 USD

Publisher: London, Arthur Barker: 1966

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25897

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

196 pp, 8vo (8 11/16" H). B&w illustrations. "From the earliest time man has been fascinated by visions and dreams, and by the discovery that there were men who could, by magical powers, improve a crop or foretell the weather. As civilization grew there were demands for knowledge which would give control over other men or protection from the wiles of enemies. The study of magic and counter magic became important in the policy of states. Later magic was denounced as a work of the Devil, and then the Devil himself was demoted to become a laughing stock. Yet even nowadays there exis...
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THE NEGRO IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LITERATURE BY AND ABOUT NEGRO AMERICANS.

By: Chapman, Abraham.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Oshkosh, Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English, Wisconsin State University: 1966

Seller ID: 17578

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Good+

135 pp, 9" H. Contents: The Negro in American Literature; A Bibliography of Literature By and About Negro Americans - Bibliographies; Periodicals and Journals; Anthologies; Fiction; Poetry; Drama; Criticism, Literary and Cultural History, Scholarship; Essays and Miscellaneous Prose; Autobiographies; Biographies; Music, Spirituals, Blues, and Jazz; Folklore; Art; Education; Background and Reference Works; History; Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, and Political Economy; Civil Rights, Politics, and Nationalism; Press and Journalism; Religion. Interior - previous owner's name, faint eras...
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THE JAPANESE ART OF WAR: UNDERSTANDING THE CULTURE OF STRATEGY.

By: Cleary, Thomas.

Price: $12.95 USD

Publisher: Shambhala, Boston, 1991, Ist edition.:

Seller ID: 14583

126 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "Military rule and the martial tradition of the samurai have dominated Japanese culture for centuries, virtually to the present day. According to Thomas Cleary - translator of more than twenty-five classics of Asian philosophy - the Japanese people have been so steeped in the way of the warrior that some of the manners and mentality of this outlook remain embedded in their individual and collective consciousness..." Contents: Introduction; A Martial History of Japan; Zen in Japanese History; Bushido and Martial Arts; The W...
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GOD'S PLOT & MAN'S STORIES: STUDIES IN THE FICTIONAL IMAGINATION FROM MILTON TO FIELDING.

By: Damrosch, Leopold, Jr.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Chicago, University of Chicago Press: 1985

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 20774

ISBN: 0226135799

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

343 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). "Combining literary criticsm with psychology, sociology, and the history of ideas, (this book) offers a fresh approach to the often-asserted connection between Puritanism and the rise of the English novel. Its premise is that the Christian myth, far from serving as a simple, unified background to fiction, was paradoxical and full of potential conflicts, and that these were particularly vivid in the Puritan imagination. The extraordinary power of Puritan psychology rests in the control it granted Providence over the individual. Yet as a basis for fiction, ...
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THE DESCENT OF MAN, AND SELECTION IN RELATION TO SEX. SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND AUGMENTED. FIFTEENTH THOUSAND.

By: Darwin, Charles.

Price: $425.00 USD

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1882

Edition: Second Edition, reivsed and augmented.

Seller ID: 30515

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Very Good-

xvi, 693 pp, small 8vo (7 3/8" H), leather spine with 5 raised bands, black leather title label, gilt lettering & decoration, leather corners, marbled-paper covered boards, marbling to all edges of text block. Marbled endpapers. List of other titles by Darwin on verso of title page. B&w illustrations. "(Here, Darwin) applies evolutionary theory to human evolution, and details his theory of sexual selection, a form of biological adaptation distinct from, yet interconnected with, natural selection. The book discusses many related issues, including evolutionary psychology, evolutionary e...
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GIRLS GROWING UP IN LATE VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN ENGLAND.

By: Dyhouse, Carol.

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: London, Routledge & Kegan Paul: 1981

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 21529

ISBN: 071000821X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

224 pp, 8vo (8 11/16" H). "Girls learn about 'femininity' from childhood onwards, first through their relationships with the family, and later from their teachers and peers. Using sources which vary from diaries to Inspector's reports, Carol Dyhouse studies the socialization of middle- and working-class girls in late-Victorian and early-Edwardian England. She traces the ways in which schooling at all social levels at this time tended to reinforce lessons in the sexual division of labour and patterns of authority between men and women, which girls had already learned at home. In Element...
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RITES OF SPRING: THE GREAT WAR AND THE BIRTH OF THE MODERN AGE.

By: Eksteins, Modris.

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Lester & Orpen Dennys: 1994

Edition: Reprint.

Seller ID: 22224

ISBN: 1550135236

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

396 pp, 8vo (8" H). B&w photographs, map. "(C)onveys the terrible experience of trench warfare and explains why it so radically altered the psychology of Europe." - New York Times. Interior - a few pages with very small corner crease, ink notation on half-title page, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - minor edgewear, minor bump at top/bottom of spine, minor rubbing.
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EYE-DEEP IN HELL: TRENCH WARFARE IN WORLD WAR I.

By: Ellis, John.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: New York, Pantheon: 1976

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 23683

ISBN: 0394496647

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

215 pp, large 8vo (9 5/8" H). B&w photographs, map, diagrams. "(A) masterfully detailed reconstruction of what life was like for millions of men who lived and died in the trenches of World War I. Continuing his trail-blazing approach to the study of war and militarism, Ellis reveals the physical and spiritual environment of this unique world, the rituals of battle, the habits of daily life, and the constant struggle of men to find meaning in a world of excruciating boredom and impending death. (He) beings with a description of the physical construction of the trenches, their size and ...
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RICHARD WRIGHT: BOOKS & WRITERS.

By: Fabre, Michel. (Richard Wright.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, (1990), Ist edition.:

Seller ID: 10968

299 pp, large 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. "Richard Wright, born in Mississippi in 1908, was largely self-taught...In this valuable work Michel Fabre, Wright's biographer and foremost among Wright scholars, details the volumes in Wright's library, and the facts of Wright's reading habits. This listing of books that formed and influenced him includes second-hand books he bought while living in extreme poverty in Chicago, some borrowed books never returned, books purchased in New York and in Paris, books Wright deemed required reading for a growing novelist, gift books, and others in a ...
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REDNEY: A LIFE OF SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN.

By: Fowler, Marian. Inscrbed by author. (Sara Jeannette Duncan.)

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Anansi, Toronto, (1983), Ist edition.:

Seller ID: 13136

333 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photos. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. "(T)ells the story of Sara Jeannette Duncan, a popular Canadian writer at the turn of the century. Redney began as a beautiful young journalist, a restless romantic and a world traveller. Her writing career took her from her home in Brantford, Ontario, first to New Orleans - where she had a romantic fling with the 'Byron of the Rockies', the flamboyant Joaquin Miller - and then to adventures in Washington, Toronto, Montreal, and as far afield as Tokyo and London. Redney marr...
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WARTIME: UNDERSTANDING AND BEHAVIOR IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

By: Fussell, Paul.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York, 1989.:

Seller ID: 24222

330 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0195037979 B&w photographs. "(H)ere Fussell examines the immediate impact of the war on common soldiers and civilians. He describes the psychological and emotional atmosphere of World War II. He analyzes the wishful thinking and the euphemisms people needed to deal with unacceptable reality (the early belief, for instance, that the war could be won with 'precision bombing', that is, by long distance); he describes the ab n o r m a l l y intense frustration of desire and some of the means by which desire was satisfied; a...
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Image for SWEET POISON. (CONTAINS: BEAUTIFUL STRANGERS; CHARLEY'S TALE; THE SEASON OF THE WITCH-HUNTER; SMILE, PRETTY BABY; SWEET POISON AND OTHER SONGS; THE HOUSE THAT STAN AND ROSIE BUILT; GOLDEN BOY.)

SWEET POISON. (CONTAINS: BEAUTIFUL STRANGERS; CHARLEY'S TALE; THE SEASON OF THE WITCH-HUNTER; SMILE, PRETTY BABY; SWEET POISON AND OTHER SONGS; THE HOUSE THAT STAN AND ROSIE BUILT; GOLDEN BOY.)

By: Gibson, Margaret.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, HarperCollins: 1993

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 20232

ISBN: 0006475140

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

175 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). "Each of these seven stories explores the intimate psychological journeys of women in crisis. We meet Jasimine, an adolescent imprisoned in an illusory world and the bonds of an asylum; Cleo, who survives the terrors of madness and the shocking betrayal of her psychiatrist; Rosie, who at the end of her life finds herself tormented by her unborn children; and Meg, who must say goodbye to the love of her life and face the future on her own. In a style that is devastatingly honest and disturbingly beautiful, Gibson pieces together the shattered lives and allows us...
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THE SCHOOL OF FEMININITY. A BOOK FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN AS THEY ARE INTERPRETED THROUGH FEMININE WRITERS OF YESTERDAY AND TODAY.

By: Greene, Margaret Lawrence.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Musson: 1972

Edition: First Canadian Edition

Seller ID: 28861

ISBN: 0773700072

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

382 pp, 8 3/4" H. 6 b&w illustrations. "As provocative and challenging as when it was first published in 1936, (this book) traces the development of female thought as reflected by the creative imagination of writers from Mary Wollstonecraft and Jane Austen to Pearl Buck and Virginia Woolf. With superb balance of reason and passion, the author probes the minds and hearts of her fellow creatures. She assesses their feeling towards their existence as women and examines their reactions to the role society expects them to fulfil." Contents: Part I. The Nineteenth-Century School of Fe...
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THE MEANINGS OF BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: A HANDBOOK.

By: Griswold, Jerry.

Price: $27.50 USD

Publisher: Broadview Press, Peterborough, Ontario, 2004.:

Seller ID: 21290

258 pp, 8vo (9" H), soft cover. ISBN 1551115638 Colour plates. "Using Beaumont's classic story as a touchstone, this work shows how 'Beauty and the Beast' takes on different meanings as it is analyzed by psychologists, illustrated in picture book s, adapted to the screen, and rewritten by contemporary writers. (The book) provides expert commentary on the tale and on representative critical approaches and contemporary adaptations. (It) includes a variety of original source material s a n d t w e nty-three colour illustrations. 'The Meanings of Beauty and the Beast' is for any re...
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TO DANCE IS HUMAN: A THEORY OF NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION.

By: Hanna, Judith Lynne.

Price: $22.50 USD

Publisher: University of Texas Press, Austin, (1979).:

Seller ID: 11026

327 pp, large 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photos, figures, tables. "...explores dance through historical time and geographical space, from the rural villages of Africa to the stages of Lincoln Center...shows that it is as human to dance as it is to learn, to build, to fight, and to change. In this book (Hanna) constructs a new sociocultural and behavioral theory of dance - one that is derived from work in anthropology, semiotics, sociology, communications, folklore, politcal science and psychology, as well as the visual and performing arts...relies heavily on ethnographic materi...
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SHIFTING WORLDS, CHANGING MINDS: WHERE THE SCIENCES AND BUDDHISM MEET.

By: Hayward, Jeremy W.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: New Science Library, Shambala, Boston, 1987, Ist ed.:

Seller ID: 14846

310 pp, lg 8vo (9" H), soft cover. An in-depth, non-technical analysis of the perceptual process, drawing on the latest data from cognitive science - the 'new science of mind'. Added to these are insights gained from the Buddhist practice of mindfulness-awareness meditation. The results of this analysis and practice can free us from dependence on belief systems. We are presented with a genuine revolution in the understanding of consciousness, and the possibilities of awareness and compassion are revealed. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor e...
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Keyword: Psychology