Search Results: Authors starting with P from Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller

Sports Media Group, 2004. Hardcover. Like New/Very Good . 11x1x8. The original vision for Pinehurst included tennis and bridge and horseback riding--but no golf. There was hardly a reason for Pinehurst to even exist--there was no mountain or ocean or river or city or industry. Nonetheless, the infant resort sprouted wings in the early 1900s as one of the preeminent places to enjoy the game of golf. Its history and that of American golf are one and the same. The Spirit of Pinehurst is the a collection of stories that captures not only the rich history of Pinehurst but its singular ambience and character. You'll feel the electricity and emotion of Stewart's courageous putt to win the 1999 U.S. Open; you will revel in the sensory overload of the Village of Pinehurst. It has often been said that golf was born in St. Andrews, but it lives in Pinehurst.

Artpace a Foundation for Contemporary Art, 2003. Hardcover. Like New/Fine . 8x1x9. Since its founding seven years ago by Pace Foods heiress Linda Pace, ArtPace has become one of the premiere foundations for contemporary art. An artist residency program based in San Antonio, Texas, ArtPace's goal is to give artists time and space in which to imagine new ways to work. Each year, nine artists (three from Texas, three from other areas of the United States and three from abroad) are invited to the foundation to create new work. Selected by guest curators the likes of Robert Storr and Okwui Enwezor, the list of artists who have undertaken residencies at ArtPace is impressive, prescient and diverse, including Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Annette Messager, Tracey Moffatt, Xu Bing, Nancy Rubins, Cornelia Parker, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Glenn Ligon, Kendell Geers, Carolee Schneemann, Mona Hatoum, Isaac Julien, Arturo Herrera, and Christian Jankowski. Dreaming Red includes illustrations of all the works created… Read More

John Wiley & Sons, 2001. First Edition. Hard cover. Like New/Fine.

Kodansha, 1981. Softcover. Very Good. 4x1x7. The story of the race to build and use the bomb, and its climax on August 6 1945. This is the entire story, including hitherto unpublished information on Japan's attempts to develop the bomb.

The Interstate Company, 1947. First edition. Wraps. Very Good. A large format softcover viewbook that was "For sale only enroute on Southern Pacific Lines". With 20 full page color plates and accompanying text. A scarce railroad collectable.

The American Nature Association, 1942. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dustjacket as Issued. 6 Issues, with covers; bound in maroon cloth. From the John Muir School Library (on spine), and stamped as such on covers. American Nature Association, headquartered in Washington, D.C., was the publisher of Nature Magazine from 1923 to 1959; and a discount reseller of natural science books for its members. It was founded by Arthur Newton Pack and his father, Charles. Nature Magazine was an "illustrated monthly with popular articles about nature" and later, the "interpreter of the great outdoors." A May 1924 review of the organization and its magazine, written by Carroll Lane Fenton and published in American Midland Naturalist called the magazine "excellent" with "abundant pictures, admirably printed"; and said it was a "highly worth while publication" that deserves a wide circulation among town and school libraries." Bruce Horsfall is best known for his book… Read More

Wiley, 2003. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good . 6x0x9. American Still Life tells the intertwined true stories of America's favorite whiskey and the family dynasty that produces it to this very day. Jim Beam is the world's top-selling bourbon whiskey, with sales of over five million cases per year. Not a day has passed in the 207 years of Jim Beam's existence when a Beam family member has not been master distiller. Dedicated to quality, and dedicated to the family legacy, the Beams have shepherded their particularly American spirit to the top of their industry. And they've done it in an industry beset by challenges, from government regulation and prohibition, to changing consumer tastes, to fierce new global competition. By creating a brand of unparalleled quality and consistency, and by tying the success of their product with the good name of the family, the Beams have established a lasting legacy as perhaps one of the greatest family business dynasties in American history. Not just a… Read More

Walker & Company, 2006. Hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. 103x22x151. The dustjacket has a short tear. Poet, writer, and descendant of Charles Darwin, Ruth Padel set out to visit a tropical jungle and wildlife sanctuary in India-- and her visit turned into a remarkable two-year journey through eleven countries in search of that most elusive and most beautiful animal: the tiger. Armed with her grandmother's opera glasses and Tunisian running shoes, she set off across Asia to ask the question: can the tiger be saved from extinction in the wild?Tigers are an "umbrella species", they need everything in the forest to work in tandem: they eat deer, the deer need vegetation, the vegetation has to be pollinated by birds, mammals, rodents and butterflies. If you save the tiger, you save everything else. Today, the 5,000 tigers that still survive in the wild live only in Asia and are scattered throughout 14 countries. Padel says that while tigers will never become… Read More

Menasha Ridge Press, 2001. Hardcover. Like New/Very Good. 5x1x7. A short tear to dustjacket. Keeping Hearth & Home in Old Ohio is a "how-to" book, but not for you. Drawn from a wealth of authentic Victorian-era books and magazines, it is like the book your great- or great-great grandmother might have read at age 17 to prepare herself for the etiquette of courting, to learn how to conduct herself in public, and to learn what would be required of her during marriage. Later, she might have read the same book through all over again, for ideas about how to arrange the parlor and how to direct her children's playtime.So welcome to the family household in old Ohio. Come indoors, pull up a fireside rocker, and discover how the everyday rituals of a bustling nineteenth-century home can bring history to life more vividly than ever.

Amherst Media, 1998. 4th Fourth Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 8x0x11. In Very Good+ condition. Paduano introduces the reader to the world of infrared photography and gets them started using basic techniques and step-by-step instructions. Includes sections on selecting subjects and anticipating results; precautions for storing and handling film; filters and focusing; toning and hand colouring; processing and developing and digital infrared.

Balboa Press, 2013. Softcover. Like New. 5x0x8. Wisdom is Women's Gift to the World. In the many cultural stories that speak about the changing of the ages, it is always Feminine Spirit which brings about the transition to new life, for Feminine Spirit knows the rhythms of life, death, and rebirth and is the "opener of the way" In times of cultural transformation, it is also our right-brain, feminine consciousness that is our best guide, for it opens us to the creative imagination, the realm of possibility. The return of the Goddess awakens the transformative energy that births the changing of the ages. In the western story of worldwide spiritual transformation, there is a powerful image of Cosmic Woman, an image of the archetypal Feminine Spirit who transforms and gives birth to this new age. And her archetypal image gives us instructions for opening to and incarnating wisdom. This image of the awakening Feminine Spirit is an image of the Conscious Woman: a woman, clothed with the… Read More

Houghton Mifflin, 1991. Hard cover. Very Good/No dustjacket. Previous owner name. The first and only guide to cover all 790 species found in North America north of Mexico, from the almighty Chinook Salmon to the tiny but notorious Snail Darter. Here are the field marks, habits and habitats of each species, including more than 700 illustrations and 377 detailed maps.

Willow Creek Press, 1998. Hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. A charming and colorful look at the world of horses. Just Horses will delight all who are enthralled by equine beauty, majesty, history and romanticism. From the thrill and promise of a dewy morning ride to the daily chores of grooming and cleaning stalls, or from the joy and treasure of a new foal to the hijinx of a cantankerous stallion, all aspects of life with horses is insightfully discussed and brilliantly photographed.

Random House, 2003. Hardcover. Like New/Very Good+. 5x1x8. Signed by Author. Inscribed For Carol with pleasure in our meeting From Elaine Pagels. In Beyond Belief, renowned religion scholar Elaine Pagels continues her groundbreaking examination of the earliest Christian texts, arguing for an ongoing assessment of faith and a questioning of religious orthodoxy. Spurred on by personal tragedy and new scholarship from an international group of researchers, Pagels returns to her investigation of the “secret” Gospel of Thomas, and breathes new life into writings once thought heretical. As she arrives at an ever-deeper conviction in her own faith, Pagels reveals how faith allows for a diversity of interpretations, and that the rogue voices of Christianity encourage and sustain the recognition of the light within us all. Elaine Pagels, is an American historian of religion and the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. Pagels was awarded a… Read More

Random House, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. Signed by Author. Inscribed "For Kristin with appreciation and affection - from Elaine". Autographed copies of this title are rarely offered. How did the early Christians come to believe that sex was inherently sinful? When did the Fall of Adam become synonymous with the fall of humanity? What turned Christianity from a dissident sect that championed the integrity of the individual and the idea of free will into the bulwark of a new imperial order — with the central belief that human beings cannot not choose to sin? In this provocative masterpiece of historical scholarship Elaine Pagels re-creates the controversies that racked the early church as it confronted the riddles of sexuality, freedom, and sin as embodied in the story of Genesis. And she shows how what was once heresy came to shape our own attitudes toward the body and the soul. Elaine Pagels is an American historian of religion and the… Read More

Viking, 2012. Hardcover. Like New/Very Good+. 6x1x8. Signed by Author. Inscribed "For Patricia a Kindest spirit! From Elaine Pagels". In this startling and timely book, Pagels returns The Book of Revelation to its historical origin, written as its author John of Patmos took aim at the Roman Empire after what is now known as "the Jewish War," in 66 CE. Militant Jews in Jerusalem, fired with religious fervor, waged an all-out war against Rome's occupation of Judea and their defeat resulted in the desecration of Jerusalem and its Great Temple. Pagels persuasively interprets Revelation as a scathing attack on the decadence of Rome. Soon after, however, a new sect known as "Christians" seized on John's text as a weapon against heresy and infidels of all kinds-Jews, even Christians who dissented from their increasingly rigid doctrines and hierarchies. In a time when global religious violence surges, Revelations explores how often those in power throughout history have… Read More

Ecco, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Fine. 1x6x8. In the wake of great personal tragedy, National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author Elaine Pagels reflects on the persistence and nature of belief and why religion matters. Why does religion still exist in the twenty-first century? And why do so many people—even, and especially, those who challenge religion—continue to argue about the questions it raises? What purpose does it serve in our lives? These questions took on a new urgency for Pagels when she was dealing with unimaginable loss: the death of her young son, followed a year later by the shocking loss of her husband. Here she interweaves her personal story with the work that she loves—illuminating how, for better and worse, religious traditions have shaped how we understand ourselves; how we relate to one another; and, most important, how we get through our most difficult challenges. In the process, Pagels opens… Read More

Ecco, 2018. Hardcover. Like New/Fine . 1x6x8. Signed by Author. Inscribed on first blank page "For Barbara a Kindred spirit! Elaine Pagels." Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality to politics, whether they are religious or not? In Why Religion? Elaine Pagels looks to her own life to help address these questions. These questions took on a new urgency for Pagels when dealing with unimaginable loss—the death of her young son, followed a year later by the shocking loss of her husband. Here she interweaves a personal story with the work that she loves, illuminating how, for better and worse, religious traditions have shaped how we understand ourselves; how we relate to one another; and, most importantly, how to get through the most difficult challenges we face.Drawing upon the perspectives of neurologists, anthropologists, and… Read More

Privately Published, 2012. Wraps. Like New. With color photos of the author's work36 pages. Mike Rand began exhibiting his ceramic artwork while still in public school. By 1996 his work was exhibited on the national stage. After attaining his Master of Arts degree at Southern Cross University in Lismore, NSW, Australia he began to exhibit internationally. In 2002 Rand returned to the United States of America where he continued exhibiting in group and solo exhibitions. His artwork is part of the permanent collections of the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Dayton Art Institute. His studio and wood-kiln are in the mountains of Colorado.

Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2005. Trade paperback. Very Good. As the politics of energy grow bleak, visionary entrepreneurs in the biofuels industry may well become society's next great hope. Rudolf Diesel designed his engine to run almost anywhere, using almost any fuel, and renewable fuels made from vegetable and other oils (foreseen by Diesel in 1912) are finally coming into their own. In this book, Greg Pahl delves into the history of the biofuels industry. He assesses its recent successes and current shortcomings, and estimates its future.