New York: Basic Books, 1992. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [10], 306, [4] pages. Author's Note. No Dust Jacket present. Front edges of fep and next page creased. Cover has some wear and soiling. Irvin David Yalom (born June 13, 1931) is an American existential psychiatrist who is emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, as well as author of both fiction and nonfiction. After graduating with a BA from George Washington University in 1952 and a Doctor of Medicine from Boston University School of Medicine in 1956 he went on to complete his internship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and his residency at the Phipps Clinic of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and completed his training in 1960. After two years of Army service at Tripler General Hospital in Honolulu, Yalom began his academic career at Stanford University. He was appointed to the faculty in 1963 and promoted over the following years, being granted tenure in 1968. Soon after this period he made some of his most lasting contributions by teaching about group psychotherapy and developing his model of existential psychotherapy. In 1970, Yalom published The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, speaking about the research literature around group psychotherapy and the social psychology of small group behavior. This work explores how individuals function in a group context, and how members of group therapy gain from his participation group. In addition to his scholarly, non-fiction writing, Yalom has produced a number of novels and experimented with writing techniques. In Every Day Gets a Little Closer Yalom invited a patient to co-write about the experience of therapy. More

New York: Harper Business, 2021. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. viii, 325, [1]. Notes. Index. Minor ding to bottom of boards. Christopher Mims is a technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal, which he joined in 2014. Mims received a bachelor's degree in neuroscience and behavioral biology from Emory University in 2001. Mims was a science and technology correspondent and editor for Quartz. Mims was an editor at Scientific American, Technology Review, Smithsonian and Grist. Mims was also a producer at Small Mammal, where he helped director John Pavlus produce science videos for Slate, Popular Science, and Nature. Mims covered the converging crises of the 21st century for Grist. Mims has also reported for Wired and Scientific American, and worked on various projects for the BBC, The Atlantic, and Smithsonian. Mims was a contributing editor at MIT Technology Review between 2011 and 2012. Christopher Mims is a columnist who writes about technology for The Wall Street Journal's tech bureau in San Francisco. The subjects of his columns vary widely from one week to the next. He has written about bidets, brain implants, the cult of the founder, the history of technology, innovation, venture capital, robotics, batteries, energy, materials science, wireless communications, AI, data science, telepresence, microchips, logistics, IT, 3D printing and autonomous boats, trucks, cars, drones and flying taxis. Christopher joined the Journal from Quartz, where he also covered technology. He has won a Sabew award for commentary, and has written a book, “Arriving Today” on how supply chains work. More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. [14], 318, [2] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Index. Black mark on bottom edge. Minor moisture stain at bottom. some DJ wear and soiling. George Peper, currently editor at large for Links magazine, was editor in chief of Golf Magazine for twenty-five years has written, co-written, or edited 17 books, including Artisan’s 500 World’s Greatest Golf Holes and Greg Norman’s Shark Attack. In 1999, his script for the documentary The Story of Golf was nominated for an Emmy Award. The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews is one of the oldest golf clubs in the world. It is a private members-only club based in St Andrews in Scotland. It was previously known colloquially as "The R&A", but in 2004, a new organization known as The R&A was spun off, assuming the club's functions as one of the governing authorities of the game and organizer of tournaments such as The Open Championship. Despite this legal separation, one of the club's objectives remains to contribute, through its members, to the governance, championship organization, and golf development roles now carried out by The R&A. The organization was founded in 1754 as the Society of St Andrews Golfers, a local golf club playing at St Andrews Links. The club quickly grew in importance. In 1834, King William IV recognized St Andrews as Royal and Ancient and The Royal Society of St Andrews Golfers grandly proclaimed it the Home of Golf. Later it was referred to as The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews.[5] In 1897, the Society codified the rules of golf. Gradually over the next 30 years, it was invited to take control of the running of golf tournaments at other courses. More

New York: ECCO [An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers], 2001. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxvii, [1], 237, [5] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations (some in color). Publisher's Note. A Note to the Reader by Alain Vircondelet. Foreword by Paul Lombard. Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates. DJ has a tear at the top front near the spine. This was originally published in French as Memoires de Balthus by Editions du Rocher. Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (February 29, 1908 – February 18, 2001), known as Balthus, was a Polish-French modern artist. He is known for his erotically charged images of pubescent girls, but also for the refined, dreamlike quality of his imagery. Throughout his career, Balthus rejected the usual conventions of the art world. He insisted that his paintings should be seen and not read about, and he resisted any attempts made to build a biographical profile. Towards the end of his life, he took part in a series of dialogues with the neurobiologist Semir Zeki, conducted at his chalet at Rossinière, Switzerland and at the Palazzo Farnese (French Embassy) in Rome. They were published in 1995 under the title La Qûete de l'essentiel and in it he gives some of his views on art, painting and some painters. Balthus was one of the few living artists to be represented in the Louvre, when his painting The Children (1937) was acquired from the private collection of Pablo Picasso. More

Los Angeles: Los Angeles Times, 1991. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Format is approximately 11 inches by 15 inches. 128 pages plus illustrated covers. Illustrations (some in color). Map. Cover has wear and soiling. Coverage of the war in graphics format with color throughout. The content includes: To The Reader, How We Covered The War, Special Report: The Line In The Sand November 25, 1990. War Diary. January 17, 1991 - March 12, 1991, World Report: Witness to War Mach 12, 1991. and Appendices. The Los Angeles Times, abbreviated as LA Times, is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the United States. The publication has won more than 40 Pulitzer Prizes. It is owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong and published by the Times Mirror Company. In the 19th century, the paper developed a reputation for civic boosterism and opposition to labor unions, the latter of which led to the bombing of its headquarters in 1910. The paper's profile grew substantially in the 1960s under publisher Otis Chandler, who adopted a more national focus. The paper moved out of its historic downtown headquarters to a facility in El Segundo, near Los Angeles International Airport in July 2018. More

New York: Penguin Press, 2020. Fourth Printing [stated]. Hardcover. xii, [2], 465, [1] pages. Author's Note. Notes. Index. Philip Rucker is an American reporter and author. He is currently the White House Bureau Chief at The Washington Post, where he has been working since 2005. Initially covering a variety of beats, he became a White House correspondent and was promoted to White House bureau chief in 2014. He covered the entire Trump administration for the Post, as well as Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign. He is also a political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC and a regular guest on PBS news shows. He is the co-author, with his Post colleague Carol Leonnig, of two best-selling books about the Trump administration. The first, A Very Stable Genius. is an insider account of the first three years of Trump's presidency. The second, I Alone Can Fix It, covers Trump's final year in office and its immediate aftermath. Carol Duhurst Leonnig is an American investigative journalist. She has been a staff writer at The Washington Post since 2000, and was part of a team of national security reporters that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for reporting, which revealed the NSA's expanded spying on Americans. Leonnig also received Pulitzer Prizes for National Reporting in 2015 and 2018. In 2011, Leonnig and her Post colleague Joe Stephens revealed in a series of stories how the Obama administration pressed to approve a $535 million federal loan to Solyndra, a solar panel manufacturer whose leading investors were tied to a major Obama fundraiser. More

New York: Out of London Press, 1975. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. Format is approximately 6 inches by 8.75 inches. 160 pages, plus covers. Illustrations. Footnotes. Cover has some wear, soiling and 'bubbling' of the clear plastic covering. Contents listed are: ONtoLOGIC, LOGIC, ANALOGIC, Zeno of Elea, Plato, Aristotle, Robert Grosseteste, James Joyce, Dante Alighieri, Black Elk, Michael Maier, Carl Gustav Jung, G. Spencer Brown, Gertrude Stein, Kenneth Burke, and CATALOGUE. James Reineking (October 6, 1937 in Minot, North Dakota – August 25, 2018) was an American sculptor. In 1967 he graduated with a Master of Fine Arts. He taught at various American universities and went to New York in 1970. He has lived permanently in Germany since 1980. From 1990 to 2003 he was a professor of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. As early as 1970 he exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and in 1972 at the Whitney Biennale, New York. In 1977 Reineking was invited to the Skulptur.Projekte in Münster and to documenta 6 in Kassel. He had his first major institutional solo exhibitions in 1980 at the Baxter Art Gallery, Pasadena, and together with the American painter Robert Mangold at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld. Numerous participations in exhibitions have followed – California, Dublin, Aalborg, Brussels and Humlebaek – in Germany, including the Kunsthalle Hamburg, the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, the Kunsthalle Bremen, and the Wilhelm -Hack-Museum, the 37th annual exhibition of the Deutscher Künstlerbund in the Kunsthalle zu Kiel, in the Museum St. Wendel, in the Kunsthalle Mannheim, and in the Haus der Kunst. More

Atlanta: Tupper and Love, Inc., 1951. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 6.125 inches by 9.25 inches. [12], 62 pages. Cover has some wear and soiling. Minor endpaper soiling. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads For George, with much affection--Devotedly, Daniel W. Hicky Atlanta: March 15, 1953. (signature in a different color ink as apparently the first pen was running out of ink). Daniel Whitehead Hicky (b December 6, 1900 Social Circle, Ga. – d July 17, 1976 Atlanta, Ga.) was an American poet and one of the most widely published poets in America during his prime. In addition to his six published books; "Bright Harbor" (1932), "Thirteen Sonnets For Georgia" (1933), "Call Back The Spring" (1935), "Wild Heron" (1940), "Never The Nightingale" (1951), and "The Poems of Daniel Whitehead Hicky" (1975), his work was regularly published in the national magazines, newspapers, and periodicals including The Saturday Evening Post, Harper's Magazine, The Atlanta Constitution, The North American Review, The New York Times, Cosmopolitan Magazine, New York Herald-Tribune, and others. He also wrote a column for the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, "As I Was Saying", discussing news, events and gossip from the local country clubs such as Piedmont Driving Club and Capitol City Club. And he gave lectures and readings of his poems throughout the South and Eastern USA at various colleges, clubs, and poetry societies. He was president of the Atlanta Writers Club for two years, and for many years was considered for Poet Laureate of Georgia. In 1931, he won the American Poetry Society's prize for his poem, "Machines" More

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1986. Signed Limited First Edition [published by special arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.]. Leather bound. [14], 204 pages. Illustrations. Signed by the author on an fep. Features blue leather boards with gilt designs on cover and gilt lettering, designs and three raised bands along spine; 3 gilt edges; ribbon. Dear Collector letter laid in, and states: In her new book, Nine Women, nine exquisitely crafted stories introduce us to characters of very different backgrounds and temperaments. These are tales of love, of family relationships, of the struggle for dignity, both in the midst of poverty and among the country-club set. Ms. Grau expresses her large themes through everyday occurrences in the livers of women. The short stories are titled: The Beginning, Hunter, Letting Go, Widow's Walk, Housekeeper, Ending, Summer Shore, Home, and Flight. Shirley Ann Grau (July 8, 1929 – August 3, 2020) was an American writer. Born in New Orleans, she lived part of her childhood in Montgomery, Alabama. Her novels are set primarily in the Deep South and explore issues of race and gender. In 1965 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature for her novel The Keepers of the House, set in a fictional Alabama town. Grau's writing explores issues of death, destruction, abortion, and miscegenation, frequently set in historical Alabama[9] or Louisiana. Although she did not restrict her writing to the Deep South or to stories about women, she is recognized as an important writer in the fields of women's studies, feminist literature, and Southern literature. More

New York: Collins in association with the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, 2008. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 8.25 inches by 10.5 inches. x, 180, [2] pages. Illustrations (some in color). Notes and Sources for further information. Index. Martin Caidin praised author Von Hardesty's Red Phoenix: The Rise of Soviet Air Power, 1941-1945, deeming Hardesty's chronicle of Soviet military air power during World War II "a brilliant study" and commending its "wealth of detail on structure, policy, organization and statistical data." In addition to Red Phoenix, Hardesty has written and edited numerous other books about aviation. Hardesty is author with Gene Eisman of Epic Rivalry: The Inside Story of the Soviet and American Space Race. The book examines the intense rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union as the two countries launched their space programs in the 1950s. Using declassified documents and a number of other American and Russian sources, the authors detail both the American and Russian perspectives as each country tried to outdo the other in order to achieve the prize goal of achieving dominance in outer space. Hardesty is also editor of the 1996 book, Stalin's Aviation Gulag: A Memoir of Andrei Tupolev and the Purge Era, written by L.L. Kerber. This story of the Russian aviation pioneer's life and his torments under Joseph Stalin's regime was called "refreshingly lively reading" by Aerospace Power Journal contributor David R. Johnson. More

New York: Custom House, 2018. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, [2], 431, [5] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Minor sticker residue at back of DJ. Greg Miller is an investigative foreign correspondent for The Washington Post based in London, and is the author of “The Apprentice — Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy,” a book published in 2018 by the Washington Post and Harper Collins. Miller was among the Post reporters awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and the fallout under the Trump administration. Miller was also part of the team awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service for the paper’s stories about U.S. surveillance programs exposed by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden. More

New York: Vintage Books [A Division of Random House], 1984. First Vintage Books edition [stated]. Presumed first printing thus. Trade paperback. xx, 891,[1] pages. Donovan's Awards. Illustrations. Maps. A Note on Sources. Sources and Notes. Index, Anthony Cave Brown (March 21, 1929 in Bath - July 14, 2006 in Warrenton, Virginia) was an English-American journalist, espionage non-fiction writer, and historian. Cave Brown's first major work to attract widespread attention was Bodyguard of Lies (1975), which examined the strategical elements of World War II, including codebreaking and its effect on the war's outcome. He followed up on this theme with a book, The Last Hero: Wild Bill Donovan, about William J. Donovan, the director of the American Office of Strategic Services during World War II; the Office of Strategic Services later evolved into the Central Intelligence Agency. Another espionage-related effort was a 1987 biography of Sir Stewart Menzies, who served as head of British MI6 (Secret Intelligence Service) during World War II. The book was titled C: The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Graham Menzies, Spymaster to Winston Churchill. His book Treason in the Blood: H. St. John Philby, Kim Philby, and the Spy Case of the Century, published in 1994, examined the interconnected lives of the famous British spies Kim Philby and Harry St. John Philby, son and father. His final 1999 book Oil, God and Gold: The Story of Aramco and the Saudi Kings, examined the Aramco company in Saudi Arabia. More

Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Books, 1998. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xvii, [1], 203, [3] pages. Frontispiece. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Graphs. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. James M. Paradis is a former licensed battlefield guide at Gettysburg National Military Park and completed masters and doctoral work at Temple University. He has authored two books on African Americans in the Civil War. This work was based on his doctoral dissertation (Temple University). During the Civil War, many African Americans were eager to strike a blow for freedom long before American public opinion was ready to support the fighting efforts of the Sable Arm. The 6th Regiment of United States Colored Infantry fought a war against prejudice as well as the Confederacy. At first, their mission brought them little recognition and glory as they struggled through rain and mud in a series of grueling marches and faced the arduous task of digging the infamous Dutch Gap Canal, moving tons of earth by hand as Confederate shells fell among the workers. At last, the regiment became involved in the crucial campaigns against Petersburg and Richmond, and took part in the assault against the Confederate Goliath, Fort Fisher, North Carolina. The African Americans' greatest ordeal and demonstration of courage came during the battle of New Market Heights, where their charge through withering opposing fire resulted in frightful casualties and the winning of the Congressional Medal of Honor by three soldiers. More