Psychology & Self-Improvement
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The Soul of Sex: Cultivating Life as an Act of Love
Moore, Thomas
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HarperCollins First Edition
1998 ISBN: 0060186976 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. "In our age of science and psychology it's tempting to think of human sexuality in terms of biology and interpersonal relationships. But this new book by Thomas Moore regards sex as an experience of the soul and emphasizes the themes of fantasy, desire, meaning, and morality." SEXUALITY,LOVE,ROMANCE,INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS Book #4429 |
US$12.50 |
Whom the Gods Destroy
Neary, John
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Atheneum First Edition
1975 ISBN: 0689106815 Fine Hardcover in Good Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with edge wear with several tiny chips and closed tears - small impression of a number on front (barely visible). DJ in a clear protective cover. "In this profoundly moving and inspired document a brilliant American journalist explores the dark and terrifying corridors of madness. Reconstructing from his own memory and from many hours of interviews, the author pieces together the story of a close personal acquaintance and the devastating ordeal that began for him in the spring of 1967." MENTAL HEALTH,MENTAL ILLNESS,PSYCHOSIS,BIOGRAPHY Book #4863 |
US$13.50 |
Who’s Looking Out for You?
O’Reilly, Bill
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Broadway Books
ISBN: 0767913795 Near Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Corner creasing of a few leaves. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. From the bestselling author and anchor of Fox New’s wildly popular The O’Reilly Factor. GOVERNMENT,POLITICS,CATHOLIC CHURCH,AMERICAN SOCIETY,JUSTICE SYSTEM,PATRIOTISM Book #7246 |
US$10.00 |
You Can If You Think You Can
Peale, Norman Vincent
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Simon & Schuster
1992 ISBN: 0671765914 Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Norman Vincent Peale's philosophy of positive thinking has had an unprecedented influence on millions of people throughout the world. THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING,MOTIVATION,INSPIRATION Book #4732 |
US$7.95 |
The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Peck, M. Scott , M.D.
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Simon & Schuster Fourth
Printing 1979 ISBN: 0671250671 Near Fine Trade Paperback. A tiny edge stain-else Fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Dr. M. Scott Peck, a practicing psychiatrist, suggests ways in which confronting and resolving our problems - and suffering through the changes - can enable us to reach a higher level of self-understanding. Dr. Peck discusses the nature of loving relationships: how to recognize true compatibility; how to distinguish dependency from love; how to become one's own person; how to be a more sensitive partner. RELIGION,SPIRITUALITY,PERSONAL GROWTH,MATURITY,MATURATION Book #4989 |
US$5.95 |
A Short Guide to a Happy Life
Quindlen, Anna
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Random House Third Printing
2000 ISBN: 0375504613 Fine Small Hardcover (12mo) in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. In this treasure of a book, Anna Quindlen, the bestselling novelist and columnist, reflects on what it takes to "get a life" - to live deeply every day and from your own unique self, rather than merely to exist through your days. Illustrated. SPIRITUALITY,INSPIRATION Book #4173,6597,7599 |
US$10.50 |
Anna
Reed, David
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Basic Books Book Club Edition
1976 ISBN: Near Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Very slight corner wear of binding - else Fine. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with mild wear and a small, closed tear; in a clear protective cover. Anna is the harrowing story of a beautiful young woman's mental breakdown and decent into madness - and of her husband's decision to care for her at home. BIOGRAPHY,MENTAL ILLNESS,MADNESS Book #5953 |
US$7.00 |
From Mother to Daughter: Thought and Advice on Life, Love, and Marriage
Rivers, Joan
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Birch Lane First Edition
1998 ISBN: 1559724935 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Written on the eve of her daughter's wedding, this letter of love from Joan Rivers to Melissa is filled with universal truths that every mother would want to tell her beloved daughter. MOTHERS,DAUGHTERS,BEHAVIOR,MORALITY,MARRIAGE,WEDDINGS Book #5239 |
US$9.95 |
Living Through Mourning: Finding Comfort and Hope When a Loved One Has Died
Schiff, Harriet Sarnoff
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Penguin Fifth Printing
1987 ISBN: 0140103090 Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. With understanding and wisdom, Harriet Sarnoff Schiff explores the complex feelings friends and relatives must cope with when someone dies, discusses in detail the gradual process of grieving - sorrow, denial, anger, guilt, powerlessness, and finally, acceptance. DEATH,GRIEF,BEREAVEMENT,LOSS Book #4162 |
US$9.50 |
The Bereaved Parent
Schiff, Harriet Sarnoff
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Penguin Reprint Edition
1978 ISBN: 9780140050431 Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. A book for parents whose child has died. Harriet Sarnoff Schiff is able to give genuine comfort to victims of this "most unnatural of disasters" because she herself is a bereaved mother. DEATH,BEREAVEMENT,LOSS Book #3994 |
US$6.50 |
How Could You Do That?!: The Abdication of Character, Courage, and Conscience
Schlessinger, Dr. Laura
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HarperCollins Tenth Printing
1996 ISBN: 0060173076 Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ price-clipped - else Fine; in a clear protective cover. Dr. Laura argues passionately against the self-indulgent subjective morality used in our society to excuse all sorts of bad behavior. MORALITY,MORAL RELATIVISM,ETHICS,CHARACTER,AMERICAN SOCIETY,AMERICAN CULTURE Book #6536 |
US$7.50 |
Parenthood by Proxie
Schlessinger, Dr. Laura
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HarperCollins First Edition
2000 ISBN: New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Never one to shy away from tough truths, Dr. Laura marshals compelling evidence for the widespread neglect of America's children and convincingly condemns the numerous rationalizations to excuse it. CHILDREN,CHILDHOOD,CHILDRAISING,CHILDREARING,AMERICAN SOCIETY Book #4004 |
US$15.50 |
New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time
Sheehy, Gail
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Ballantine Eighth Printing
1996 ISBN: 0345404459 Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. The old demarcations of adulthood - beginning at twenty-one and ending at sixty-five - are hopelessly out of date. In New Passages, Gail Sheehy discovers and maps out a completely new frontier - A Second Adulthood in middle life. ADULTHOOD,AGING,MATURITY,LIFE STAGES Book #4174 |
US$8.50 |
Understanding Men's Passages: Discovering the New Map of Men's Lives
Sheehy, Gail
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Random House First Edition
1998 ISBN: 0679308520 Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ with a tiny, closed 3 corner tear; in a clear protective cover. Understanding Men's Passages is the most intimate and candid account of what men's lives are really like today, revealing their doubts, their passions, their hunger for renewal. Given their increasingly unpredictable and elongated lives, men need to reinvent themselves and expand the ways they demonstrate their manliness. LIFE STAGES,MALE SEXUALITY,AGING,OLD AGE Book #4520 |
US$9.50 |
Every Day I Love You More (just not today): Lessons in Loving One Partner for Life
Shulins, Nancy
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Warner First Printing
2001 ISBN: 0446525510 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Touching, perceptive, and often hilarious, Every Day I Love You More (Just Not Today) is a guide to making love last. MARRIAGE,INTIMACY,MAN-WOMAN RELATIONSHIPS Book #6121 |
US$14.00 |
How to Argue and Win Every Time - At Home, At Work, In Court, Everywhere, Every Day
Spense, Gerry
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St. Martin's Third Printing
1995 ISBN: 0312118279 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Gerry Spense, the noted trial lawyer, says we were born to make the winning argument as we were born to walk. But argument is an art as well as a technique to be learned. ARGUMENT,NEGOTIATION,LAW,LAWYERS,LOGIC Book #6110 |
US$12.00 |
How to Ruin Your Life
Stein, Ben
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Hay House Third Printing
2002 ISBN: 1561709743 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. A powerful self-help tool in the form of a work of humor. HUMOR,CONDUCT,ETHICS Book #7210 |
US$9.00 |
The Natural History of Stupidity
Tabori, Paul
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Barnes & Noble
1993 ISBN: 1566192404 Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with light edge staining and corner creasing of flap; now in a clear protective cover. Broadly developing his theme - that stupidity is the world's bane - he emphasizes (among others) the stupidity of greed, of doubt, of red tape, of the law, of myth, and of wish-dreams. FOLLY,LAW,RED TAPE,MYTH,GREED,EROTICISM Book #5545 |
US$10.00 |
Elizabeth Takes Off: On Weight Gain, Weight Loss, Self-Image, and Self-Esteem
Taylor, Elizabeth
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G.P. Putnam's Sons First Edition
1987 ISBN: Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. "In this frank, compelling account, Elizabeth tells what it was like to go from screen goddess to downright fat, before her own horrified eyes. She talks about this life's wear and tear that drove her to eating extremes and about the unforgiving eye cast upon her by friends and fans alike." Many photos. OBESITY,DIETING,WEIGHT LOSS,HOLLYWOOD,ACTRESSES Book #3318 |
US$12.00 |
The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: A 25 Year Landmark Study
Wallerstein, Judith S., Julia M. Lewis, and Sandra Blakeslee
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Hyperion Third Printing
2000 ISBN: 0786863943 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. "Twenty-five years ago, Judith Wallerstein began talking to a group of 131 children whose parents were all going through a divorce." SOCIOLOGY,MARRIAGE,FAMILY,CHILDHOOD Book #6055,6056 |
US$12.00 |
Falling in Love for All the Right Reasons: How to Find Your Soul Mate
Warren, Dr. Neil Clark
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Center Street Second Printing
2005 ISBN: 0446576859 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Since 2000, Dr. Warren’s phenomenally successful Internet site, eHarmony.com, has brought together thousands of men and women in serious, lasting relationships. MARRIAGE,ENGAGEMENT,ROMANCE,COMPATIBILITY,eHARMONY Book #6969 |
US$13.50 |
An Intimate History of Humanity
Zeldin, Theodore
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HarperCollins 1995
ISBN: 006017160X Fine Oversized Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. "[This book] is a narrative of private lives, but it extends much further; it is universal history, but it has an extraordinary intimacy of tone..." ___Peter Ackroyd, The Times (London) SOCIAL HISTORY,CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY,PHILOSOPHY Book #6568 |
US$12.00 |
The Heart of the Soul: Emotional Awareness
Zukav, Gary and Linda Francis
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Simon & Schuster Second
Printing 2001 ISBN: 0743205677 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Zukav and Francis show how true emotional awareness transforms the human experience. SPIRITUALITY,EMOTIONS Book #6286,6287 |
US$10.00 |
