Search Results: Psychology from Elk Creek Heritage Books

New York: Threshold Editions, 2011. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First Threshold Editions / Mercury Radio Arts hardcover edition, January 2011. In addition, complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition with light gray boards, aqua-blue spine cloth and silver gilt spine lettering. Text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. Dust jacket in likewise very good condition; not price clipped. * From the book, ""This book, which was only possible by combining decades of personal struggle with world-class professional experience, can be the beginning of the best days of your life--you just need the courage to take the first step."" From WorldCat Summary, ""Radio and television personality and #1 bestselling author Beck, together with psychiatrist Ablow, shares the inspirational story of the seven simple principles that changed Beck's life.""

Harmony Books, 1996. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6th Printing Hard cover in very good condition with beige boards, sky blue spine cloth, and copper gilt spine lettering. Light gold colored end papers. Text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings to note. Top of text block has light spots / dust dulling. Dust jacket very good; not price clipped. * From the jacket, ""...breakthrough view of mind, body, and spirit, based on fifteen years of research into energy medicine ...presents a unique program for promoting spontaneous physical, emotional, and spiritual healing .... shows the links between emotional and spiritual stresses and specific illnesses in the context of the anatomy of the human energy system ...""

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Times Books: Henry Holt & Company, 2011. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Black boards with silver spine lettering in very good condition showing only light bumps to the corners. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted. Dust jacket very good with only light shelf and edge wear. From the dust jacket flap, ""A pioneering neuroscientist shows how the long-sought merger of brains with machines is about to become a paradigm-shifting reality.""

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Poseidon Press, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing First Edition per complete number line. Beige boards with dark maroon spine cloth containing gold/gilt spine lettering. Beige lightly speckled end papers. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted but for two stamps on bottom text block of the Simon & Shuster device (the walking man.) Dust jacket very good with hint of mellow age toning; not price clipped.

Saranac, New York: Warm Up the Workplace, 2006. Soft cover. Very Good. Inscribed by Author. 2nd Printing Soft cover in very good condition, appears never read. Text block clean and tight; no markings; no writing but for inscription on half-title page written and signed by author (authenticity not verified.) Wraps very good; crisp & bright.

Berkeley, CA: Wildcat Canyon Press, 1999. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Printing First Edition, First Printing per number line including the number one. Soft cover in very good condition. Text block clean and tight. No markings noted. * From the book, "" In this groundbreaking book, Ms. Thoele navigates the emotional labyrinth of stepmothering - offering hands-on advice and practical skills for women who want to be good stepmothers, but still take care of themselves.""

New York: Basic Books, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 815. 1st Printing First Edition per complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition with dark beige boards, brown spine cloth, and gold and aqua gilt spine lettering. Interior text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. Light foxing to text block edges. Dust jacket in very good condition with just a ghost of shelf wear; closed chip at rear top corner at fold line. Not price clipped. * From the jacket flap, ""Howard Gardner changed the way we think about intelligence. In his classic work ""Frames of Mind,"" he undermined the common notion that intelligence is a single capacity that every human being possesses to a greater or lesser extent. Now building on the framework he developed for understanding intelligence, Gardner gives us a pathbreaking view of creativity, along with riveting portraits of seven figures who each reinvented an area of human… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: The Viking Press, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 3rd Printing Stated Third Printing, February 1969. Black boards in very good condition. Front board has, lightly embossed, ""The Issac Ray Award Book."" Silver and red spine lettering bright & crisp. Red dust jacket good with edge and shelf wear and is slightly chipped. Red color of spine is faded and /or age toned a darker red. Inside of jacket shows marks of dried damp stain. Not price clipped. Red end papers with former owner's name on front paper. Top text block edge stained red. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted. Concludes with Reference notes to the chapters and an Index. 305 pages. From the book, ""Dr. Menninger takes our penal system apart to show why it doesn't work and what could be done to set it right.""

U.S.A.: Viking Adult, 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing First Edition per complete number line. Hard cover in very good condition. Mustard colored boards and spine cloth with blue gilt spine lettering. Book is crisp, clean, and tight and appears unread. No wiritngs or other markings noted. Dust jacket likewise in very good condition; not price clipped.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 1st Printing Stated First Edition plus has complete number line. Hardcover in very good condition. Black boards with gold colored spine lettering and light edge wear. Front free endpaper contains tiny writing/notes from previous owner. Five or six pages of text contain pencil or ink unobtrusive underling; one page with notes in white space at bottom of a page, no other writings or marginalia found in rest of text. Text block itself tight. Mellow age toning to the papers. Dust jacket is complete but is starting to separate along fold line. Light stain on front, much shelf & edge wear with chips at head & heel of spine and along flap folds. (See photos.) Not price clipped. Concludes with Appendices of Notes to the Chapters and a comprehensive Index.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Soft cover in fine condition. Text block clean and tight. No writing, no markings noted.Presents as new and unread. * From a review on the rear cover of the book, ""At last! A summary work of decades of recent scholarship on gender which sifts through the huge amount of accumulated data, judiciously weighs the evidence, and brings immense clarity and insight to the major areas of contention. I cannot imagine anyone who would not profit from reading this scrupulous, comprehensive, incisive book.""

Doubleday, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First Edition in addition to complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition with maroon boards, gold gilt spine lettering, and olive green end papers. Interior text block clean & tight: no writings, no markings to note. Dust jacket in likewise very good condition showing only ghost of shelf wear; not price clipped. * A companion volume to the ground-breaking PBS series from journalist Bill Moyers and his longtime colleague, producer David Grubin, but a volume that stands on its own. * From the jacket, ""....explores the healing connections between our minds and our bodies. .... Ancient medical science told us our minds and bodies are one. So did philosophers of old. Now, modern science and new research are helping us to understand these connections. ....Bill Moyers talks with physicians, scientists, therapists, and patients - people who are taking a new look at the meaning… Read More

Lake Mary, Florida: New York University Press, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing First Edition per complete number line with number one. Black boards with gold gilt spine lettering in very good condition. Internal text block clean & tight with no writings, no markings noted. Dust jacket very good with only ghost of shelf & edge wear; not price clipped - there is no price printed on front flap. * From the book, The advancement of psychoanalysis in America has reached an impasse. Scientists are pitted against hermeneuticists, theorists against practitioners. Debates over narrative truth versus historical truth, clinical theory versus meta-psychology, and the role of the past in theory and therapy are reflected and refracted through a host of competing schools and approaches. . . . Lamm concludes that the three discourses of psychoanalysis do not compose a hierarchy, and are not engaged in an argumentative struggle for supremacy, but are a participant voice in… Read More

U.S.A.: Villard Books, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Stated First Edition. Hardcover in very good condition. White boards with black spine cloth containing gold colored lettering. White of front board contains gold colored design of author's initials. There is a quarter-inch dot /stain on front free endpaper. No other markings, no writing, no underlining, no highlighting in balance of text block. Binding is tight. dust jacket in very good condition with mild shelf & edge wear, light bumps to top & bottom of spine edges. Not price clipped. Concludes with a List of References. 235 numbered pages.

New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1988. Soft cover. Near Very Good. Soft cover in very good condition. Text block clean and tight. No markings noted. Very small crease at bottom of back cover. * From the back cover, ""Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant of the immune system. The truth is: love heals. Miracles happen to exceptional patients every day - patients who have the courage to love, those who have the courage to work with their doctors to participate in and influence their own recovery.""

Harvard University Press, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First Edition, Copyright 1988 and no additional printings noted. Hardcover in very good condition with rose colored cloth boards and silver spine lettering. Interior text block clean & tight with no markings noted. Dust jacket very good with tiny edgewear and chips at head of spine and closed tears, chips, and wrinkle at heel of spine. 313 numbered pages. * Concludes with an extensive section of References for further reading and an Index. Summary from the dust jacket flap, ""In the fourteen articles collected in this volume, Gilligan and her colleagues expand the theoretical base of 'In a Different Voice' (Harvard University Press, 1982) and apply their research methods to a variety of life situations. The contrasting voices of justice and care clarify different ways in which women and men speak about relationships and lend different meanings to connection, dependence, autonomy, responsibility, loyalty,… Read More

Harper Perennial, 1999. Soft cover. Very Good. Soft cover in very good condition. Interior text block clean & tight; no writing; no markings to note. Mellow age toning to papers. Wraps very good; crisp & shiny with only ghost of shelf & edge wear.

NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing First Edition / First Printing per complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition with deep rose boards, black spine cloth and white spine lettering. Text block clean and tight. No markings noted. Dust jacket in very good condition showing light rubbing along corners, fold lines, and edges; not price clipped. * From the book, ""Shyness is not the same as nonassertiveness: you can be nonassertive and not be shy. Most shy people aren't looking for lengthy psychological analysis of their problem, but for concrete, fast-working methods that they can use right away in the next social encounter. This is what Dr. Powell provides.""

New York: The Guilford Press, 1984. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hard cover in very good condition with light shelf wear to the boards; foxing on top of text block. Interior text block clean and tight;.top text block has foxing. Previous owner's book plate on front free end paper; name marked out. No other writings or markings noted. Dust jacket very good with mellow age toning. * From the book, ""Taken together, the chapters in this volume provide a wealth of information - hitherto available only in scattered and disparate publications - about the technical know-how required for application of specific strategies, the personal and environmental factors that may generate or compound stress problems, and the variables militating in favor of or against the use of a particular technique.""

Cambridge University Press, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First Published 1999; no other printings indicated. Hard cover in very good condition with black boards and silver gilt spine lettering. Text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. Front free end paper, which is blank, has been clipped at bottom corner - a triangle 4"" x 3"" x 5"". Dust jacket in very good condition. * Written over 20 years ago when the Internet was beginning to interact with people, ....or people with cyberspace...... From the jacket, this book is an exploration (in 1999) of ""the Internet - and our experience within it ....it is still young, we have a rare window of opportunity to influence the course of its development as a social technology that can support almost every kind of human activity."" [Would be interesting to compare the history of the internet of 1999 with internet of 2022....