Search Results: Psychology from Syber's Books ABN 40533682787

Basic Books, New York, 1990. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 550 g; XIV, 306 pages, includes chapter notes, bibliography, index. Illustrated with photographs and drawings in the text. The top edge of the text block is slightly spotty and the top corner of the front panel has been rubbed. Otherwise there is no damage to report. "On reflection, however, I took heart. This kid, with ingenious clarity, had absorbed the essence of the course. In the contemporary world, where the mass media serve as increasingly powerful arbiters of reality, the primacy of style over substance has become the normative consciousness." -- from the introduction page two Size: Large Format Paperback. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Sociology & Culture; Psychology; ISBN: 0465001017. ISBN/EAN: 9780465001019. Inventory No: 0226252. . 9780465001019

University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. list of tables, acknowledgements, introduction by author, bibliography, name index, subject index. Pale green coloured endpapers. Numerous tables throughout the book illustrate the text. Bright red boards with black and white writing on the spine. Rubbing to the head and to the heel of the spine and shelfwear to the lower book edges. Rubbing to the book corners. Previous owner has highlighted ( in green ) many passages in the first few pages and a few passages within the text in pencil. Between pages 182-183 the spine has split and underlying webbing can be seen. Photographic dustwrapper, showing young children looking at a poster for " Grizzly " the movie, with red and white coloured titles to the front panel and the spine. The dustwrapper is quite rubbed, particularly the back panel and faded, the spine being the most affected. A late Seventies study, in Australia, on… Read More

Francke, Berlin, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good/Fair. 396 pp., original dustwrapper. The dustwrapper which is now in protective plastic is chipped at the head and tail of the backstrip and the fold overs, and the front fold over has been separated from the body of the dustwrapper. The lower front board edge has been bumped. Otherwise the book is very good order. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: philosophy; Psychology; Language -- German; Inventory No: 0208360. .

Pluto Press, Annandale New South Wales, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 300 g; 196 pages, indexed, and illustrated with some black-and-white photographs. The book is a collection of conversations on the practice of writing and the modes of perception that produce different cultural sexual and political identities. The conversations emerge from a historical context in which foreignness, as they lived reality and as a concept lived with, shapes and intersects with of the life histories and the work of those writers and intellectuals included on this book." Page 9. Dogearing of Page nine. Otherwise the book shows no damage. Size: Trade Paperback. We are happy to provide pictures of this book on request Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Sociology & Culture; Psychology; Gender Studies; ISBN: 186403047X. ISBN/EAN: 9781864030471. Inventory No: 0227571. . 9781864030471

W.H. Allen, London, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair/Poor. 368pp., last 2 blank. Red coloured boards with gilt writing on spine. Bumping to the head and to the heel of the spine and to the book corners. Shelf wear to the top and bottom edges. Browning and foxing to the paper edges. Browning and handling marks to the endpapers along with faint offset tanning. Internally in the pages are somewhat brown and foxed. Illustrated dustwrapper, showing abstract faces against a white background, with red and black writing on the front panel and spine. Corners of the dustwrapper are rubbed and chipped and there is chipping to the top and bottom dustwrapper edges. The entire dustwrapper has been pocked marked with brown stains. The spine it has been particularly affected with the staining and also somewhat darkened due to sun damage. The story of the author and of to friends, who went through therapy and psychoanalysis to help with their problems in the late 1950s --… Read More

Compcare Pubns, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1993. Third Impression. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. 800 g; XVI, 310 pages, indexed, includes bibliography and appendices. Illustrated with diagrams of a clinical nature. With original photographic illustrated dust jacket. The book and dust jacket show no sign of damage. "I believe I had to write this book. As a sex therapist and addictions counsellor, I have adapted the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous to recovery from sexual dysfunction and integrated them with other principles of help people discover and recover their sexual selves." From the foreword Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. We are happy to provide pictures of this book on request Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion & Theology; Psychology; Sexuality; Self Help; ISBN: 0896382451. ISBN/EAN: 9780896382459. Inventory No: 0226661. . 9780896382459

Warner Paperback Library, New York, 1973. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. introduction by Hugh Lynn Cayce. Illustrated front cover, with a small photograph of Edgar Cayce, with blue, white and yellow background and black coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. Pale yellow coloured tint to all text block edges. A book about how to get "high" without the use of drugs. The author is/was an experienced psychotherapistl, who used the work of the 1940's seer Edgar Cayce, as the foundation of his "drugless high" for his patients. Rubbing and creasing to the book corners and rubbing to the book edges. The book panels have become slightly rubbed and the white of the background has become somewhat yellow. Age toning to the internal text. Browning to the verso of the card covers. second impression of the First Edition. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). X, 11-286 pages, two pages following more books on or by Edgar Cayce by publishing house,. Please refer… Read More

Prentice-Hall Inc, New Jersey, 1979. 2nd Impression. Softcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Various. 450 g; XXIV, 360 pages, includes a bibliography and index and appendixes. Slight bump to the lower rear corner of the book, otherwise apart from trivial handling marks, in very good condition. The book offers an alternative to expensive drugs and traditional methods of treating illness, showing how to achieve inner peace and maintain good health. Includes an article by Elisabeth Kubler Ross and an appendix on Brompton's mixture for relief of pain in terminal disease. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: New Age & Alternative; Psychology; Medicine & Health. ISBN: 0134655915. ISBN/EAN: 9780134655918. Inventory No: 0229033. . 9780134655918

Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: Donna Rawlins -- Jacket. 500 g; XIV, 218 pages, last page blank, indexed, includes a bibliography, and sundry appendices. The book is illustrated with black-and-white photographs, and black-and-white line drawings. Admittedly the section on the methods of recording and the use of a tape recorder are a little bit dated, but the body of the book offers a solid grounding in the technique of obtaining oral history from a client. And 20 years after at the book was written, this technique still has a valid place in the recording methodology. Many of the political and economic refugees from Third World countries have a need to have their history understood, and this book will provide the techniques to record it. Colour illustrated dust jacket. Ownership inscription on the front end page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator:… Read More

Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd, London, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good/Good. 750 g; 192 pp., index, 56 pp. black and white illustrations and 8 pages of colour illustrations. illustrated endpapers. Illustrated dustwrapper which is slightly sunned, has the authoress in a "Barbara Cartland" like pose, pillowed out on a bed. Rose pink cloth boards. Sounds tacky? Actually a quite good survey of courting customs through the ages. Soundly researched, and well written, although the author fails to sheath her sharp tongue at times. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. We are happy to provide pictures of this book on request Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Psychology; ISBN: 0297766929. ISBN/EAN: 9780297766926. Inventory No: 0215254. . 9780297766926

Hutchinson, London, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. XII, 271 pages, + 3 Blank; includes notes, bibliography, index. Original dust wrapper. The author offers a provocative look at our attitudes about incest and what they tell us about our evolutionary past and possible future. Basically the author claims "we don't like incest because we have evolved not to like it -- and have developed a whole range of social behaviour around the mechanisms of our dislike." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Anthropology; Psychology; Gender Studies; ISBN: 0091440807. ISBN/EAN: 9780091440800. Inventory No: 0208227. . 9780091440800

Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1991. First Edition. Softcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 660 g.; X, 390 pages, last to pages blank, acknowledgements, bibliography and index. Black-and-white photographic front cover with yellow background and white and blue titles to the front panel and backstrip. Black-and-white photograph of author to the rear panel. Creasing to the book corners and rubbing to the book edges. Inserted loosely is a review slip. "Why is homosexuality socially marginal yet symbolically central? Why, in other words, is it so strangely integral to the very societies which obsessively denounce it, and why is its history -- history rather than human nature -- which has produced this paradoxical position? These are just some of the questions explored in Sexual Dissidence. This wide-ranging study returns to the early modern period in order to focus, question, and development issues of postmodernity, and in the process brilliantly links writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Andre Gide,… Read More

Nakari Publications, Narre Warren East, Victoria, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. 300 g; photographic illustrated paperback binding, a couple of foxing marks to the top edge, and slight darkening of the paper. Jim Cairns signature on the bottom of the title page. "The new politics must begin with what is needed there or there will be nothing but more disillusion, cynicism and violence. And Christianity, democracy, liberalism and socialism will become meaningless rituals. This book is a study of anthropology and psychology to explain the past and show there is a way out." Rear panel Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The author has signed the book on the title page.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: philosophy; Psychology; Signed by Author. ISBN: 0731615247. ISBN/EAN: 9780731615247. Inventory No: 0218683. . 9780731615247

Gallery Books, New York, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic and Illustrations. introduction by author, references and index. The text is illustrated with colour and black-and-white photographs, colour and black-and-white illustrations and cartoons. Brown coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Colour photographic dustwrapper with white coloured titles to the front panel and black and white coloured titles to the back strip. Black and white photograph of author to the rear fold over panel. "The World of Sexual Behaviour: Sexwatching is a fascinating study of human sexuality. Looking beyond the truths of biology to the insides of psychology, Milton Diamond – one of America's foremost authorities – sets out the facts about nature and variety of sexual behaviour." -- from front fold over panel blurb. Rubbing to the book corners and back strip corners. Light age toning of the text… Read More

Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1973. reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. clean second-hand copy, fading of the spine section, and of the top edge of the front panel, internally clean, no annotations, illustrated with black-and-white photographs. In emphasising the questions and approaches underlying the process of anthropological discovery our goal has been to provide glimpses of anthropological problems and illustrations of some of the ways in which those problems can be handled. Wherever possible direct quotations, reminiscences, and other primary materials have been used as a means of indicating the nature of anthropological reality and the richness of our data. Book does not attempt to summarise all the theoretical approaches or all of the subdisciplines of the field. Although it refers to many important anthropologist, does not present a history of the discipline. – We have presented and defined a number of important words and concepts, but we have generally adhered… Read More