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Carrollton, GA: Division 32 of the American Psychological Association, 1997. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" x 6". Mild shelf wear. Features the following articles: Psychotherapy in the Emotional Crises without Resort to Psychiatric Medications by Peter R. Breggin Humanistic Psychology and the Humanism of Karl Jaspers by Amedeo Giorgi Agoraphobia, Erwin Straus and the Phenomenologicl Psychopathology by Stewart Sadowsky Responsibility and Survivor Testimony by Lane Gerber and David R. Harrington Task Force Report Guidelines for the Provision of Humanistic Psychosocial Services by Division 32 Task Force Reviews The Choice of a Lifetime: Returning from the Brink of Suicide (by Nila Bogue) reviewed by Tobin Hart Obituaries James B. Klee by Mike Arons G. Marian Kinget by Christopher M. Aanstoos.

Carrollton, GA: Division 32 of the American Psychological Association, 1997. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" x 6". Mild shelf wear. "This issue is dedicated to Victor E. Frankl in memoriam March 26, 1905 - September 4, 1997" Features the following articles: Being and Becoming: A Field Approach to Psychology by Arthur W. Combs Transcendental Empathy in the Therapeutic Encounter by Tobin Hart Constructivist Therapy with Serious Disturbances by L.M. Leitner and M.A. Celentana From Deficit Toward Competency: Discourse and Language in Clinical Practice by Mei-whei Chen & Julie Pohn Noosbond Task Force Reports Training and Ethics: Guidelines for Humanistic Practice by Division 32 Task Force Continuing Education in Humanistic Psychology by Continuing Education Committee Book Reviews Changes of Mind: A Holonomic Theory of the Evolution of Consciousness (by Jenny Wade) reviewed by Elena Mustakova-Possardt The Place of Confluent Education in the Human Potential Movement (by Stewart B. Shapiro)… Read More

Carrollton, GA: Division 32 of the American Psychological Association, 1991. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" x 6". Mild shelf wear. Features the following articles: The Return of Trauma Theory: Implications for Hermeneutic Psychotherapy by Michael W. Barclay Alienation, the Self, and Television: Psychological Life in Mass Culture by Michael P. Sipiora A Phenomenology of Friendship Families by Carol S. Becker Having a Point of View by Richard D. Logan Processing Mental Objects Directly: a Therapeutic Application of Phenomenology by Fred J. Hanna Artaud and the Voice of Uncertainty by Michael Brant DeMaria Reviews and Comments: Fulfilling Lives: Paths to Maturity and Success (by Douglas Heath) by M. Brewster Smith The Spiritual Life of Children (by Robert Coles) by Robert Atkinson Power and Politics: The Psychology of Societ American Partnership (by Jerome Bernstein) by David Polizzi Recent Books by Division Members (by Aanstoos, Barron, Bugental, Mahrer, Moustakas, Schneider, Smith, Weiss) A… Read More

Carrollton, GA: Division 32 of the American Psychological Association, 1995. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" x 6". Mild shelf wear. Features the following articles: Current Developments in Humanistic Psychology by Christopher M. Aanstoos The Scientific Status of Psychology by Frederick J. Wertz Between a Boulder and a Hard Place: The Dialectics of Positivism, Constructivism, and Hermeneutics by Martin H. Klein On the Rhetorics of Social Science by David L. Rennie The Approach of the Human Science Researcher: Implications for the Practice of Qualitative Research by Russell A. Walsh The Problem of Suffering: Existential and Transpersonal Perspectives by Roger Walsh Holistic Biology and the Organismic Foundations of Humanistic Psychology by James Morley Husserl on the Teachings of the Buddha by Fred J. Hanna Restoring Connectedness in the Kosmos: A Healing Tale of a Deeper Order by Kaisa Puhakka An Annotated Bibliography by Scott Churchill.

Carrollton, GA: Division 32 of the American Psychological Association, 1989. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" x 6". Mild shelf wear. "This issue respectfully dedicated to the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre Beijing, China June 3-4 1989 for courageously embodying the humanistic ideal: the liberation of human potential." Features the following articles: Language and Human Science: The Vocabularies of Academic Psychology and Psychoanalysis by Bernd Jager The Ecstatic and the Theory of Jacques Lacan by Michael W. Barclay The Unfolding Meaning of Intentionality and Horizon in Phenomenology by Rolf Von Eckartsberg The Liberating Value of Constructionism for Minorities by Albert H. Jenkins The Phenomenology of Erwin Straus: An Overview and Appraisal of Its Relevance for Human Studies by Donald Wagner The Boulder Graduate School by Normandi Ellis Reviews and Comments: Remembering: A Phenomenological Study Review by John Scanlon Review by Calvin O. Schrag Reply by Edward S. Casey.

Carrollton, GA: Division 32 of the American Psychological Association, 1986. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 8 1/2" x 5 1/2". Mild shelf wear. Features the following articles: The Rat in Psychological Science by Frederick J. Wertz Death and Psychoanalytic Praxis: The Convergence between Jacques Lacan and Depth Phenomenology by Richard Alapack Cross-Cultural Approaches to Multiple Personality Disorder: Therapeutic Practices in Brazilian Spiritism by Stanley Krippner The Graduate Program at Seattle University by Georg Kunz Reviews and Comments: Eros and the Body by Marc LaFountain Retrieving the Moral Sense of Nature by Phillip L. Friesen with Reply by Erazim Kohak Transpersonal Psychology: A Reply to Rollo May by Ronald S. Valle The Personal in the Transpersonal: A Reply to Rollow May by Steven J. Hendlin.

Carrollton, GA: Division 32 of the American Psychological Association, 1991. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" x 6". Mild shelf wear. Features the following articles: Outcomes of an Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapy: A Tribute to Rollo May by James F.T. Bugental Complex Knowing: Toward a Psychological Hermeneutics by Robert D. Romanyshyn Corporal Punishment in the Public Schools by Adah Maurer The Adolescent First Kiss by Richard Alapack Paradox and Health by Kirk J. Schneider Vive le Difference! Luce Irigaray's Interrogatory Alterity by Marsha Hammond The Humanistic Paradigm in Education by Roy Jose DeCarvalho In Memoriam of Laura Perls Reviews and Comments: Spiritual Emergency: When Personal Transformation Becomes a Crisis (by Stanislov and Christina Grof) by Sarah Dubin-Vaughn Drugs, Addiction, and Initiation: The Modern Search for Ritual (by Luigi Zoja) by David Polizzi A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium (by Phillipe Aries and Georges Duby) by Kareen Ror Malone Does… Read More

Carrollton, GA: Division 32 of the American Psychological Association, 1999. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" x 6". Mild shelf wear. Features the following articles: Empathic Self-Transformation and Love in Individual and Family Therapy by Peter R. Breggin The Bodily Complexity of Truth-Telling in Qualitative Research: Some Implications of Gendlin's Philosophy by Les Todres The Countryside of Childhood: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Approach to Developmental Psychology by Eva-Maria Sims Attitudes and Values of Humanistic Psychologists: Division 32 Survey Results by David N. Elkins, Joanna Lipari, & Christopher J. Kozora Jung's Concepts of the Archetype: An Existential Phenomenological Reflection by Richard S. Zayed and Bertha Mook Book Reviews Beyond Religion: A Personal Program for Buiding a Spiritual Life Outside the Walls of Traditional Religion (by David N. Elkins) reviewed by Gary Schouborg with response by David Elkins.

Paris: Racine, 2013. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9 1/2" X 6 3/4". 167pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are bright, clean, and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. Text is in French. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The exhibition ALBERTO MAGNELLI Pioneer of Abstraction, invites you to discover the prolific work of this remarkable artist from the 20th century. Finding artistic inspiration from the Italian Futurists and his contacts with the Parisian avant-garde, from 1911, Magnelli produces his seminal and original work. Associating with Guillaume Apollinaire, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger and Henri Matisse, Alberto Magnelli began to occupy a significant place in the cultural scene in Paris around the time of cubism and the rise of abstraction.(Publisher).

Chicago, 1922. Pamphlet. Good. Pamphlet. 7" X 3 3/4". Paper is tissue-thin with toning and chipping along top. Fold-crease at center. Leaflet is free of marks and notation. The Chicago Teachers Federation (CTF) was founded in 1897 as a professional association to represent teachers in the Chicago Public Schools. By the early 1900s, the CTF began to shift its focus towards labor organizing and advocating for better working conditions and pay for teachers. In 1902, the CTF went on strike for the first time, demanding higher wages and better working conditions. The strike was successful and helped to establish the CTF as a powerful labor organization. Throughout the 1910s and 1920s, the CTF continued to advocate for teachers' rights and better education policies.

Macon: Mercer University Press, 2018. Hardcover. Good +/Good +. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6". xvi, 304pp. Light rubbing, creasing, and chipping to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Sticker to front and rear cover of jacket. Bound in gray cloth over boards with spine lettered in black. Corners of boards are gently bumped. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: "When the bullets start flying, I hope the first one gets you." The man in the crosshairs was the author's father. It was an era of seismic social change in the American South. Four decades later, his son visited the National September 11 Museum. In a young firefighter's heroism on 9/11, the author glimpsed a truth about his father's lifelong devotion to duty, law, and justice. So he sat down and began writing him letters. THE BURDENS OF AENEAS is that series of letters--a fascinating collection of wide-ranging essays, invented conversations, reminiscences, interior monologues, and vivid descriptions of… Read More

Frederick, Maryland: [Frederick News-Post Publishing Co.], 1921. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. Very good. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 26pp. Signed by Eleanor D. Abbott at title page. Moderate wear to paper wraps, with small closed tear to front panel and tail of spine, creasing, and edgewear. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A quite well-preserved signed first printing of this sketch of the eponymous, flag-protecting, Unionist heroine from John Greenleaf Whittier's poem by her great grand-niece.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. This 1851 edition of John S. C. Abbott's history of Joséphine Bonaparte features a stunning chromolithographic title page as well as an engraved frontispiece portrait of the Empress and 6 engraved plates throughout. 6 3/4" X 4 1/2". [xiii], 14-328pp, plus 4pp ads. Bound in blind-decorated and blind-ruled red cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Moderate wear to binding, with corners bumped, split, and turned in, open tears to head and tail of spine, including nearly 2" neat tear along edge of lower spine, soiling to boards, hard bump with tear to rear board, and lean to spine. Hinges tender and hint of spine to some pages. Binding remains quite sound. Birthday gift inscription dated July 9th, 1851 to front free endpaper. Yellow coated endpapers. Foxing and occasional smudging to pages throughout, else unmarked.

Charlotte, 1979. Staplebound. Good. Staplebound. 8" X 5 3/4". 89pp. Wear to paper wraps with rubbing, creasing, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges. Pages are clean and unmarked. Staple binding is sound. With color postcard of unknown man laid in. An overall solid copy of the 89 page booklet by Dr. 'Abd al-Rahman criticizing the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and America and Britain's role in it.

New York: Balzer + Bray, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. 11 1/4" X 9 1/4". Unpaginated. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in pictorial paper over boards. Pages are bright, clean, and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The debut picture book from iconic voting rights advocate and #1 New York Times bestselling author Stacey Abrams is an inspiring tale of determination, based on her own childhood. Stacey is a little girl who loves words more than anything. She loves reading them, sounding them out, and finding comfort in them when things are hard. But when her teacher chooses her to compete in the local spelling bee, she isn't as excited as she thought she'd be. What if she messes up? Or worse, if she can't bring herself to speak up, like sometimes happens when facing bullies at school? Stacey will learn that win or lose . . . her words are powerful, and sometimes perseverance is the… Read More

New York: Atria Books, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xviii, 366pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Gentle rubbing and bumps to corners and edges of blue paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. 2020 Palestine Book Awards Winner 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist ABOUT THIS BOOK: As Nahr sits, locked away in solitary confinement, she spends her days reflecting on the dramatic events that landed her in prison in a country she barely knows. Born in Kuwait in the 70s to Palestinian refugees, she dreamed of falling in love with the perfect man, raising children, and possibly opening her own beauty salon. Instead, the man she thinks she loves jilts her after a brief marriage, her family teeters on the brink of poverty, she's forced to prostitute herself, and the US invasion of Iraq makes her a… Read More

New York: Ecco, 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author in ink at front endpaper. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". x, 371pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in blue paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: From the bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes her first novel for adults, the story of one Dominican-American family told through the voices of its women as they await a gathering that will forever change their lives. Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So when she decides she wants a living wake—a party to bring her family and community together to celebrate the long life she's led—her sisters are surprised. Has Flor foreseen her own death, or someone else's? Does she have other motives? She… Read More

Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1992. First Edition. Leather_bound. Very good. First Edition. Leather_bound. Signed by the author in ink at front endpaper. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 399pp. 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 clean, handsome copy of this signed limited first edition novel by Peter Ackroyd. After the death of his mother, Timothy Harcombe is separated from his disreputable father and sent to live with his grandparents, where he becomes lost in the world of English literature(Publisher).

London: Charles H. Kelly, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 5/8" X 5 1/4". 349pp, plus one leaf of ads. Dark blue cloth over bevelled boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Heavy edgewear and scattered rubbing to cloth, with corners bumped and rubbed to boards and light soiling. Top edge gilt. Lean to spine. Hinges a little tender. Attendance Prize bookplate to front pastedown from Chapel Street P.S.A. Brotherhood of Blackburn, dated 1902. Some erased marks to front free endpaper. Tissue guarded frontispiece with plates and vignettes throughout. A tale of working class Lancashire in that dialect by Yorkshireman Reverend Frederick R. Smith, writing under the pseudonym John Ackworth to keep his non-ecclesiastical, popular fiction writings on the down low.

New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xvii, 268pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Gentle bumps to corners of black paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: When modern primary schools were first founded in Japan and Egypt in the 1870s, they did not teach art. Yet by the middle of the twentieth century, art education was a permanent part of Japanese and Egyptian primary schooling. Both countries taught music and drawing, and wartime Japan also taught calligraphy. Why did art education become a core feature of schooling in societies as distant as Japan and Egypt, and how is aesthetics entangled with nationalism, colonialism, and empire? Beauty in the Age of Empire is a global history of aesthetic education focused on how Western practices were adopted, transformed, and repurposed in Egypt and Japan. Raja Adal uncovers the emergence of aesthetic… Read More