Search Results: Philosophy from 100 POCKETS

North Adams, MA: Storey Publishing, 2017. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/None as Issued. Liz Daly (Photography). Text/NEW & Bright. Stated First Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover/New w/a whisper of shelfwear. DJ/None as Issued. Ayurveda, in Sanskrit, means "the study of life" (ayush, life; veda, study). It is an ancient dietary, medicine system still popularly practiced in India & Nepal. Therapies combine use of herbs, special diets, meditation, yoga & massage. Author Ananta Ripa Ajmera elucidates the philosophy behind mindful eating & holistic practices. 240 pgs w/color photos, 9 chapters in 4 parts: Part 1, Healing Your Body; 2, Strengthening Your Mind; 3, Free Your Spirit; and 4, Putting it All Together.

Paris, France: Seghers/Laffont, 1975. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW, showing margin discoloration. White softcover/VG; srong & sound w/marked brown spotting (acidic paper reaction) and discoloration. Critical analysis of government sponsored "terrorism". French translation of "Counter-Revolutionary Violence: Bloodbaths in Fact & Propaganda" (first published 1973 in response to US military actions in Viet Nam)) by lingquist, philosopher and political activist Avram Noam Chomsky (1928 -) and economist Edward S. Herman, with a Forward by Jean Pierre Faye. Critical analysis, in direct response to US sctions in Viet Nam, of government sponsored "terrorism".

New York. NY: Little Simon, 2010. First Edition, 2nd Printing . Board Book. Near Fine/None as Issued. Monica Sheehan (Author-Illustrator). NEW Copy w/trace shelfwear to illustrated boards. First Edition, 2nd Printing. Monica Sheehan is the eleventh child in a large, boisterous family, is well schooled in using humor as a survival skill. Here, she gathers together some of her most beloved cartoons from Real Simple magazine in an inspirational book of small things that make for a happier life: show up, Books is a logical sequel to Life's Little Instruction Book Rreminders of simple truths, for young and old, to live the day well, sleep well, and be well set for tomorrows.

New York, NY: HarperPerennial, 1991. First Edition, 9th Printing . Paperback. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy. First published 1991; this is the 1996 paperback issue. Refernce/Resource. Critical anthology of some 140 premier writings --- fiction & nonfiction --- of the American West. Edited by the incomprable Oklahoma-borm of Journalism at the Univ of New Mexico Tony Hillerman (1925 - 2008). Professor Ermitus who gave life to America Southwest through his Jim Chee/Joe Leaphorn mystery series. Scholary study. 258 pgs, in 15 parts: I, In the Beginning ... ; 2, The Original Westerners; 3, The Navajos; 4, The Hispanos; 5, Frontier Life; 6, The Cowboys; 7, Tall Tales & Practical Jokes; 8, Characters; 9, The Mines; 10, Women; 11, Law & Disorder; 12. Travel; 13, The Military; 14, The Western Way with Words; and, last but no least, 15, Fiction.Few places hold more romance than the American West. Edited by the incomprable Tony Hillerman who truly knew the region, this anthology rounds out the… Read More

New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1991. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/New. Text/NEW & Bright. Collectible. First Edition, 1st Printing. Bi-color boards/NF w/trace upper edge rubs. DJ/Fine. Light spotting (acidic paper reaction to upper text block. Critical anthology of some 140 premier writings --- fiction & nonfiction --- of the American West. Selected by Oklahoma-born, professor of Journalism of Univ of New Mexico Tony Hillerman (1925 - 2008) who gave life to America Southwest through his Jim Chee/Joe Leaphorn mystery series. 258 pgs, in 15 parts: I, In the Beginning ... ; 2, The Original Westerners; 3, The Navajos; 4, The Hispanos; 5, Frontier Life; 6, The Cowboys; 7, Tall Tales & Practical Jokes; 8, Characters; 9, The Mines; 10, Women; 11, Law & Disorder; 12. Travel; 13, The Military; 14, The Western Way with Words; and 15, Fiction.

Boston, MA: New Science Library/Shambala, 1985. First Edition, 3rd Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy w/date stamped to fEP. Exploring the role of mind and spirit in the art of healing the physical body. 12 chapters: I, The Light of Health, the Shadow of Illness: A Living Unity; II, The Jonah Complex & the Fear of Being Healthy; III, Beyond Pain & Death: An Impossible Dream?; IV, Of Time, Evil, & Health; V, The Distant View of Health & Illness; VI, Mind or Matter:: The Wrong Question; VII, Rhythms of Life: Health & Illness; VIII, Conscious Choice & Health: A New View; IX, The Living Force: Toward a New Model of Healing; X, Three Patients; XI, Holistic Health: A Critique; and, XII, The Wounded Healer.

Los Angeles, CA: David Horowitz Freedom Center, 2006. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. COPY. 67 page examination of the Middle East conflict dating from the Israel's 2005 withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. This is the 2006, Updated & Expanded Edition w/an Analysis of the Hamas/Helzabollah Attack. A record & analysis of an Islamic jihad against Israel proper and notions of "occupation" of Arab lands. Puzzling goals of Hezbollah & it's apparent little concern for the socio-economic welfare of both Arab & Jewish peoples living in the region? Militarism with no provisions to establish acceptable social state? A modern horror. 3 sections preceded by Preface: The Veil is Off: 1, The Refugee Question; 2, The Eight Stages of the Creation of the Problem; and 3, The Question of 'Occupation' & the Settlements. A modern turmoil.

Matwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1987. Third Edition . Printed Coated Cardstock. Near Fine/No Jacket. 9"; 22.8 cm. Tall. The other major change [incorporated in this edition] is the deletion of the introductory chapter on Roman Catholic medical ethics. I have replaced this section with a chapter on thematic ethical concepts taken from my revised edition of my Introduction to Bioethics, also available from the Paulist Press." [Preface] The topics here are Abortion (4 papers); Severely Handicapped Children (4 papers); Death and Dying (6 papers); Research and Human Experimentation (4 papers); Ethical Dilemmas in Obtaining Informed Consent (4 papers); Genetic Engineering (5 papers); and The Allocation of Scarce Resources (5 papers). 620 [+ x] pages, with [Appendix], Instruction on Respect for Human Life ... by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Covers show scant shelf-use; text is clean and near new.

New York, NY: Harper San Francisco, 1991. 4th Printing of 1992 . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/trace wear to lower front corner. Gift inscription to fEP. Anthropologist William Lyon takes on the role of "translator" to convey the beliefs and practices of Lakota elder and shaman Wallace Black Elk (1921 - 2004 ), spiritual descendant of Nicholas Black Elk (1863 - 1950), important Native American religious figure whose teachings are recorded in John, G. Neihardt's chronicle, "Black Elk Speaks". Book in two parts: the first covers Wallace Blak Elk's early training shaman, and the second centers on his application of the sacred powers.

New York, NY: Information Incorporated, 1960. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. Ivan Whitkov (Illustrator). Text/Near Fine w/trace evidence of humidity exposure. Black linen boards/NF. DJ/Poor; consider without, with 1/3 loss to upper front. LAID-IN: Typed guide to first 5 chapters. Basic guide to training the body in sleep, walking & even sitting to perform at its best. 126 pgs. 6 chapters, w/line drawings: 1, Body Dynamics: What it is All About; 2, Rest Assured: The Art of Relaxation; 3, Building Beauty & Posture on the Floor; 4, Sitting Pretty the Zen Way; 5, Stand & Face the World; and 6, Zen & Body Dynamics. Strong copy with poor dustcover.

London, UK: Penguin Books, 1988. First Edition, 6th Printing . Paperback. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Softcover/NF w/faint creasing to front corner tips. 23rd novel by Dame Jean Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999). First published 1987; this is a Penguin reprint. Story of frienships. formed at Oxford, living in politically questioning England of the 1980s. As a "brotherhood", they support David Crimond's endeavor to write a revolutionary, utopian tract on Marxism (which explains the title), and, that the tale is a leftist love story bespeaks of England's mood of the decade. The novel (in which women feature prominently) traces a group of intelligent, and somewhat confused and intellectual lazy, fellows from university days through middle age, who share a fascination with Crimond. Crimond, not part of this inner group, has trouble in producing, Nevertheless, cemented in a sense of duty, the Brotherhood pays out a continuous annual stipend. The narrative opens with Crimond… Read More

Chicago, IL: Univ of Chicago Press, 1993. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/None as Issued. BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE. First published in French under the title: Aus Hasard, Editions du Seuil, 1991. This is the First Printing of the English translation by Carol Volk. Text in 6 chapters: Chapter 1, Chance; 2, Fate; 3, Anticipation; 4, Chaos; 5, Risk; and, 6, Statistics. Reflections on human struggles to find order and predictability. Fine copy.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ Press, 1975. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Softcover/Good; sound w/edge wear & creasing to corner. Anthology of poems, published and unpublished from Egyptian Greek poet, journalist and civil servant Constantine P. Cavafy (1863 - 1933), translated w/biographical notes. A voice of culture iin dedcline --- hence ours as well. Posthumous publication 2 years after poet's 40th birthday; this is the English rendition published w/o ISBN. 262 pgs w/poems in chronological order. Poems include "An Old Man", 1894: "At the noisy end of the cafe, head bent/ Over the table, an old man sits alone/ A newspaper in front of him/.../ But so much thinking, so much remembering./ Makes the old man dizzy. He falls asleep/ His head resting on the cafe table"; "As Much As You Can", "Even if you can't shape your life the way you want/ ... Do not degrade it by draggin it along/ To the daily… Read More

Sacramento, CA: California Department of Education, 1991. Preliminary Edition, First Thus . Soft Cover/Stapled. Fine/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy. Ecology, environmental studies and school's active participation. Resource guide for elementary and middle grade schools teachers regarding identified endangered species of California State. Document co-sponsored by the CA Dept of Education, CA Dept of Fish & Game, and the Nat'l Audubon Society. Major text sectors are: 1, Vanishing California; 2, Adopt a Species Competition Guidelines; 3, How to Adopt a Species; 4, Sample Adoption Plan; 5, California's Federally & State-Listing Plants & Animals by County; 6, Resource Organizations & Agencies; 7, Endangered Species Reference Materials; and 8, Environmental Education Award Programs, followed by appendices.

Thunder Bay, Ont, Canada: Canadian Journal of Enviromental Education/Lakehead Univ, 2004. Volume 9, 2004 . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY w/trace wear to softcover. Annual publication of the Faculty of Education, Lakehead Univ, Ontario, Canada; interdisciplinary research group. COVER ART: "Gum Graffiti: An Environmental Art Project"; photo, Hannah Jickling.This 2004, Volume draws from the 2003 seminar titled "Making Ethic an Everyday Activity". 15 essays addressomg environmental philosophy, each concluding with a biographicas sketch of the contributor.

Valencia: Prometeo. Library Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATED COPY; no loan pocket. Text/Near New showing margin discoloration. Brown linen library boards/NF. The principal virtue of this edition of the work by the Archipreste de Hita is that it was published by Promoteo, whose Director literario was V. Blasco Ibáñez. And though undated, it can reasonably be assigned to 1926. It contains LXXV numbered poems, and the Cantiga de loores de Santa Maria ("Quiero seguir a ti, flor de las flores ...."). 211 (+ iii, Indice) pages.

New York, NY: Dell Publishing, 1980. Dell, 5th Printing, 1981 . Paperback. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/AS NEW, w/margin discoloration. Softcover/Good; sound; shelfworn w/rubs to all leading edges, faint creasings to surfaces, and slight lean to spine. Text blocks dyed green. Satircal novel on human governance & ensuing beaucracy that coined the term "CATCH-22" ... the state of affairs, so governed by a maze of conflicting rules that resolutions are not possible. Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), flew 60 combat missions over Italy in War World I before wrting this book. Recounted from points of view of multipe characters, and, uniquely with timelines of the separate stories out of sequence. 463 pgs. Novel set during the War, from 1942 - 1944. We follow the life of antihero Capt. John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier, elucidated w/training practices at Lowry Field, CO & Santa Ana Army Air Base, CA. Novel examines the absurdity of war and military life through the… Read More

New York, NY: Doubleday, 1999. Advance Reading Copy (ARC) . Soft cover. Very Good - COLLECTIBLE/None as Issued. Text/Bright & NEW. Advance Reading Copy; scheduled publication date for Hardcover, Jan, 1999. Softcover/NF; sound w/light shelf wear & rubs to lower front/back corner tips. Faint stamp to lower text block, interestly, in Chinese ideographs. 167 pgs. Anthology of 18 essays. Rich mediative musings from theologian and sailor Myron Arms. Described by the author, these essays of varying lengths, are sailing notes written for his children, for friends, and fragments from articles first published elsewhere. Records aboard a ship described as an inverted dome of a great cathedral, afloat on our Earth's open, briny waters, and, simultaneously, one's personal, interior sea. Reflections on journey's of the earthly day, to day and days through life at large. Constant is reverence for the natural world man habitates, and, why his mind and soul dwells upon an answer the big question… Read More

New York, NY: Warner Books Inc, 1997. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/Near New. Text/BRAND NEW. DJ/NF w/a whisper of shelfwear. Non-fiction. Author, screenwriter & film producer James Redfield (1950 - 1996) shares the intellectual basis of the "emerging spirituality" that supported his celebrated historical & philosophical New Age novels: The Celestine Prophecy (1993), and, The Tenth Insight. 242 pgs in 12 chapters. An intellectual journey.

Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1984. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Gordon Morrison (Illustrator). Paperback. BRAND NEW Copy w/trace cover wear. Classic, poetic narrative of local history of a square mile of land in the environs of Littleton (near Concord of the Rude Bridge), Massachuetts. Written by editor of MA Audubon Society's Sanctuary magazine John Hanson Mitchell, the book earned its author an honorary doctorate from Fitchburg State Univ, and spawned the "Scratch Flat Sagas" which use the same tract of land introduced in this volume to contemplate land usage in our time. The narrative is of "a country within a country, a single square mile of land in eastern Massachusetts that was known as Scratch Flat in the nineteenth century" graced by a tangled grove of twelve old plum trees planted sometime in the 1920s. A brief introduction to Scratch Patch (Location: Nowhere. Everywhere... 35 miles west of Boston) and a Cast of Characters precede a… Read More