Psychology

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with black and gilt stamping, 305 pages. A guide for parents who wish to understand the physical and psychological problems of early childhood. A pioneering work on early childhood development that is as relevant today as when it was first published in 1950. Covers with some discoloration to blue color, interior of book is clean, tight.

Hardcover. London, William Heinemann , 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Many aspects of how and why the human mind evolved remain mysterious. While Darwinian natural selection has successfully explained the evolution of much of life on earth, it has never seemed fully adequate to explain the aspects of our minds that seem most uniquely and profoundly human--art, morality, consciousness, creativity, and language. Nor has natural selection offered solutions to how the human brain evolved so quickly--in less than 2 million years--and why such a large brain remains unique to our species. Now, in The Mating Mind, a pioneering work of evolutionary science, these aspects of human nature are at last explored and explained. Until fairly recently most biologists have ignored or rejected Darwin's claims for his other great theory of evolution--sexual selection through mate choice, which favors traits simply because they prove attractive to the opposite sex. But over the last two decades, biologists have taken up Darwin's insights into how the reproduction of the sexiest is as much a focus of evolution as the survival of the fittest. Clean copy.

Softcover. The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 2nd Ed., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two matching softcover volumes, 765 total pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copies.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket, 79 pages. Talks originally delivered on the BBC Third Programme, on what goes on in the body when men and animals are thinking. A Series of Broadcast Talks by Sir Charles Sherrington, E.D. Adrian, W.E. Le Gros Clark, S. Zuckerman, E.T.O. Slater, Wilder Penfield, W. Russell Brain, Viscount Samuel, A.J. Ayer & Gilbert Ryle. Dust jacket shows wear at edges and darkening to paper. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Liveright Publishing, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering, 418 pages. In this important and challenging book, Wolfgang Kohler's subject is value, or what he calls the "requiredness" of an object or activity. Starting with a descriptive account of values as we become aware of them, he finds that, inside certain contexts, parts of such structures do not appear as indifferent facts. They are experienced as belonging there intrinsically or, also, as being out of place in their contexts. Kohler's closely reasoned analysis, drawing on the fields of psychology, biology, and physics, centers around this concept of requiredness. Clean copy. No dust jacket.

Softcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 286 pages, b&w illustrations. This book examines the sense of smell in humans, comparing it with the known functions of the same sense in other animals. Odorous cues play a role in sexual physiology and behavior in animals and there are claims that odor can play the same role in humans. The place of odors and scents in aesthetics and in psychoanalysis serves to illustrate the link between the emotional centers and the brain. The book presents arguments to explain the way in which our ancestral past has given rise to our modern day olfactory enigmas. Contains a glossary and chapter summaries. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Berlin/London, Springer International, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 597 pages. The relation between body and mind is one of the oldest riddles that has puzzled mankind. That material and mental events may interact is accepted even by the law: our mental capacity to concentrate on the task can be seriously reduced by drugs. Physical and chemical processes may act upon the mind; and when we are writing a difficult letter, our mind acts upon our body and, through a chain of physical events, upon the mind of the recipient of the letter. the authors of this book stress that they cannot solve the body mind problem; but they hope that they have been able to shed new light on it. B&w illustrations, clean copy. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 399 pages. Citing newly uncovered archival sources, Simpson first argues that Hitler emulated the Turkish government's 1915-1918 policy regarding the massacre of the Armenians by offering economic incentives and other rewards to citizens willing to participate in the extermination of the Jews. He then examines the Us Government's response to both genocidal campaigns. Of utmost interest is the evidence he presents that President Eisenhower's Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, and Dulles' brother Allen, director of the CIA, deliberately stymied efforts to bring to justice many German bankers and industrialists involved in the Nazis' extermination-through-labor programs. The study leaves little doubt that many members of Germany's corporate elite not only were aware of the genocidal programs during the war but sponsored innumerable supplementary side camps staffed by company employees. Simpson argues that while genocide is still widely practiced today, it is usually tolerated by those who benefit from it through the theft of land and natural resources.

Hardcover. London, Kegan Paul Trench Trubner, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth spine with printed paper label and white paper covered boards with red titles, 110 pages. This copy INSCRIBED & SIGNED by Stefansson on the half title page, and dated 'London, June 5 1931.' No. 16, in the General series of 'Psyche Miniatures'.

Softcover. Oxford UK, Blackwell, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 332 pages. The Zizek Reader - which includes a Foreword by Zizek and a new, previously unpublished essay on cyberspace - provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the flamboyant work of a figure who has been variously described as 'one of the most arresting, insightful and scandalous thinkers in recent memory' and 'the Giant of Ljubljana'. His work is an extraordinary mix of Hegel and Hitchcock, Schelling and science fiction, Kant and courtly love, Stalin and Stephen King, all of which is strongly seasoned with Lacanian psychoanalysis. Divided into three parts - Culture, Woman and Philosophy - the Reader not only provides careful explications of the individual extracts within each section but also connects these extracts in a general introduction, mapping the shiftings of Zizek's thought within the Lacanian framework. The essays on woman offer feminism ammunition from unexpected sources, within a reading of Lacan that goes counter to his ambiguous reception by feminists. In fact, at this collection dazzlingly demonstrates, Zizek provides us with one of the most limpid and persuasive readings so far produced of Lacan's difficult thought. Name on inside of front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Titanic Thompson is the rollicking true story of one of the most charismatic characters in twentieth-century America. Travelling only with his golf clubs, a .45 revolver, and a suitcase full of cash, this is the legendary tale of a man who was married five times to five different girls, all teenagers on their wedding day. He killed five men, though he'd say 'they'd all agree they had it coming to them'. He won and lost millions in a time when being a millionaire still really meant something.Filled with fascinating facts and famous faces - Harry Houdini, Al Capone, Lee Trevino, Arnold Rothstein and Jean Harlow all make appearances - this is a brilliant and compelling snapshot of life on the road in freewheelin' America.

Hardcover. NY, Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with black and gilt lettering on spine. A scarce study of suicide published in the thirties. B&w photo of co-author Dublin laid-in. Both writers worked for the Metropolitan Insurance Company. Clean copy.

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 370 pages. Democrat and Republican. Meat Eaters and Vegetarians. Black and White. As human beings we sort ourselves into groups. And once we identify ourselves as a member of a particular group--say, Red Sox fans--we tend to feel more comfortable with others of our own kind, rather than, say, Yankees fans. Yet we all belong to multiple groups at the same time--one might be a woman, a mother, an American, a violinist. How do we decide which identities matter and why they matter so much? And what makes us willing to die for, or to kill for, a religion, a nation, or a race? In this award-winning book, David Berreby describes how twenty-first-century science is addressing these age-old questions. Ably linking neuroscience, social psychology, anthropology, and other fields, Us and Them investigates humanity's "tribal mind" and how this alters our thoughts, affects our health, and is manipulated for good and ill. From the medical effects of stress to the rhetoric of politics, our perceptions of group identity affect every part of our lives. Science, Berreby argues, shows how this part of human nature is both unexpectedly important and surprisingly misunderstood. Clean copy.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 277 pages. A look at the human sense of time, a biological rhythm that may follow a different beat from that dictated by external, "official," "objective" timepieces. Time and Place-Timeplace-is a continuum of the mind, as fundamental as the spacetime that may be the ultimate reality of the material world.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, navy cloth, title in gilt to spine. In a worn and chipped dust jacket with some closed tears. 107 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Running Press, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boardas. This collection of fifty true disclosures by women around the world from all ages and walks of life reveals their innermost thoughts and feelings during sex, accompanied by full-color interpretive illustrations from cutting-edge artists. Author Lucy-Anne Holmes has spoken to women from around the globe, ranging in age from 19-75, as they reveal their innermost thoughts and feelings during sex. The result is an incredible compendium of true disclosures that are funny and sad, shocking and tender. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Jason Aronson, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Donald Woods Winnicott (1896 - 1971) was an English paediatrician and psychoanalyst who was especially influential in the field of object relations theory and developmental psychology. Clean, like new.