Particulars of My Life.
by Skinner, B. F
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0224013149
- ISBN 13
- 9780224013147
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1976. 1st U.K. ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos, edges lightly foxed, minor edgewear, owner's rubber stamp, protected by removable semiarchival plastic sleeve. 309 pp. First book of a three-part autobiography of B. F. Skinner, the famous pioneer but controversial American psychologist, considered the father of behaviourism. This part covers childhood in rural Pennsylvania, and his decision to abandon a literary life and study psychology at Harvard University, where he eventually became Professor of Psychology.
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4406
- Title
- Particulars of My Life.
- Author
- Skinner, B. F
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st U.K. ed.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0224013149
- ISBN 13
- 9780224013147
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- biography, autobiography, psychology, psychologists, behaviorism, behaviourism, united states, first edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIRS;
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Bookhome Sydney
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Bookhome Sydney
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Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...