Foreword by lewis thomas (9 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Ex-library with typical markings/stickers; rear free endpaper with some roughness from card pocket removal; dust jacket in plastic sleeve, glued to pastedowns. "This collection of essays documents the indebtedness and thematic similarities uniting Shakespeare and eight southern authors - William Gilmore Simms, Henry Timrod, Sidney Lanier, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, and Walker Percy.".…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. First Printing. Minor stains of front cover. Slight wear at corners of book cover. Light foxing on outside page edges.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine condition. Fine dust jacket. First Edition. New York & London: The Guilford Press, 1986. A beautiful copy. Appears unread. Fine condition in a Fine Dust Jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Contains 17 chapters in 4 main parts as follows: PART I. THE FUNCTIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF TEMPERAMENT. 1) The Significance of Temperament; 2) Goodness of Fit: Control and Mastery versus the Controlling Parent or Child; 3) Parental Reactions to the Child's Temperament; 4) Temperament in Infancy; 5) Temperament in the Toddler Stage; 6) Temperament in Middle Childhood; 7) Temperament in Adolescence; 8) Temperament in Adult Life. PART II. CLINICAL APPLICATIONS. 9) Obtaining Data on Temperament in Clinical Practice; 10) Prevention and Treatment: General Considerations; 11) Parent Guidance; 12) Direct Treatment of Child and Adult. PART III. SPECIAL AREAS. 13) Temperament and School Functioning; 14) Temperament and Pediatric Practice; 15) Temperament and Nursing Practice; 16) Temperament and the Handicapped Child. PART IV. OVERVIEW. 17) The Clinical Significance of Temperament. Appendix A) Temperamental Categories and Their Definitions; Appendix B) Consistency and Inconsistency of Temperament over Time. References. Index. Bound in the original two-tone blue cloth, lettered in shiny gold on the spine. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. 8vo. xvi, 315pp.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. (ix) 157 pp. Burgundy boards lettered in gilt on the spine; endpaper maps; illustrated with black and white photographs. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; no interior markings. The Contents are: Foreword by Dr Lewis H. Thomas; Preface; The Sound of Silence; The First of All Things; Climate and Vegetation; Wildlife in Rocky Montains Park; The First Mountain People; Traders Travellers and Missionaries; New Light on the Rockies; The Coming of the Rails; The Old and the New; A Park and a Man; A New Century; Park Policy; The Park and Industry; Change in the Park; Banff and the Visitor; Sidelights; and The Future; followed by an epilogue, an appendix (the Pablo Buffalo Herd) and an index. Size: 8vo. Book. …

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. (xv) 266 pp. Light edge and corner wear with a crease on the spine; previous owner's name inside. Cover art by Stanislaw Fernandes. Discusses the work of: Edgar Rice B urroughs; Philip K. Dick; Thomas M. Disch; Robert A. Heinlein; Frank Herbert; William Hope Hodgson; C. S. Lewis; H. P. Lovecraft; A. Merritt; Walter M. Miller; Jack Vance; Jules Verne; Stanley G. Wein baum; H. G. Wells; Jack Williamson; S. Fowler Wright; John Wyndham; Roger Zelazny; Michael Moorcock; Larry Niven; H. Beam Piper; Frederik Pohl; C. M. Kornbluth; Joanna Russ; Mary Shelley; Cordwainer S mith; E. E. "Doc" Smith; Olaf Stapledon; Theodore Sturgeon; A. E. Van Vogt; Fritz Leiber; Henry Kuttner; C. L. Moore; Ursula K. Le Guin; Harlan Ellison; M. John Harrison; Gordon R. Dickson; Arthur C. Clarke; Hal Clement; Samuel R. Delany; Poul Anderson; Isaac Asimov; J. G. Ballard; Alfred Bester; James Blish; Ray Bradbury; John Brunner; and many many others. Stanislaw Fernandes; (illustratore). Book. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. First edition first printing octavo hardback xviii + 190 pp. illustrated Good condition ( slight spillage has left small stains on a few page edges in the middle) . Previous wner's inscription on front free end paper.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY JOE WILDER: "TO N. PILSON, FOR SURE A VERY SPECIAL & GIFTED, CARING PERSON." OVERSEAS & PRIORITY ORDERS WILL REQUIRE SUBSTANTIAL, ADDITIONAL POSTAGE. INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Xv, 394 Pp. Hardcover. First Printing Indicated. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. 6 x 9.25in. xiv. 223pp. Publisher's cloth boards. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Emil, with best wishes, George." FINE/AS NEW in Very Good dust jacket protected in a removable archival cover. The book itself is flawless. The dust jacket shows slight shelf rubbing of the extremities, a short closed tear of the front panel, otherwise remains Fine/As New. As pictured.…