Search Results: Authors starting with E from Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller

Wilson, Hinkle & Co, 1870. Hardcover. Good. Some fraying and loss to top of spine

University of Illinois Press, 2000. Softcover. Very Good. 6x0x9. In Very Good+ condition. Whether a pilgrimage crystallizes around a place, a visionary individual, or a text, it brings widely diverse individuals and their beliefs, doctrines, and expectations into contact with each other. One person's holy site is another person's profit center - and this mingling of the sacred and the profane is what makes pilgrimages and their destinations complex sites of exchange and conflict. Focusing on Christian pilgrimage to locales as far flung as Lourdes, Italy, Jerusalem, Sri Lanka, and Peru, this important collection assesses the qualities and power of pilgrimage shrines as sites for accommodating various, often competing, meanings and practices, both among pilgrims and between shrine custodians and devotees.Contributors discuss the highly organized shrine at Lourdes and also the shrine at San Giovanni Rotondo in Sangiovannesi, Italy, where conflicting interests among townspeople and pilgrims have… Read More

Bear & Company, 2007. Softcover. Very Good. 6x0x9. Toltec Dreaming explores the many aspects and levels of the dream-state, distinguishing ordinary dreaming from “dreaming awake,” a condition of heightened awareness through which the active dreamer ascends to the Dream of Transcendence. In this book, Ken Eagle Feather presents the history of dreaming’s place within the Toltec tradition and provides a practical how-to manual for achieving and maximizing dreaming potential.The Toltec Way superimposes on the waking world the subtle physics of the dream world in order to create a conscious dreaming body, often referred to as an out-of-body experience, that can allow anyone to use dreaming as a vehicle to higher consciousness. Once the dreaming energies are fully awakened, unbounded conscious perception can come alive, whether one is in the world of dreams or in daily life. The author shows how to communicate while in the dreaming body and… Read More

Hampton Roads Publishing Company, 1995. Softcover. Very Good. 5x1x8. On the Toltec Path is an overview of the theory, discipline, and practice of the Toltec Way, a philosophy and heightened way of perceiving the world taught by the Indian seer don Juan Matus. As a philosophy, it is a method of inquiry using the Toltec three Rs: re-examination, re-interpretation, and re-formulation. As a way of perceiving the world, it offers sophisticated processes of managing perception through dreaming, visions, and learning to see the world as both ordinary and non-ordinary reality. By contrasting and balancing these two realities we are able to stand apart from both and pick and choose the best each has to offer. Learning how to become a true seer enables us to realize the purpose and meaning of our life.The works of Carlos Castaneda have long been among the best-known introductions for those who wish to study the Toltec Way. However, many who want to learn the practical and technical aspects of this path have… Read More

Bright Mountain Books, 1984. Softcover. Good. 6x0x9. Previous Owner Name. A scholarly yet entertaining look into this staple of Southern Appalachian history. The folklore of moonshine whiskey is full of fact and fiction, but the real characters tell stories even more humorous and exciting. Dabney's interviews with actual moonshiners and his documented history allow one to take a trip through the mountains - and through history - to discover both the origins and development of the art of making whiskey. With a complete glossary, photographs, illustrations, and interviews, Mountain Spirits offers a most complete exploration of this craft, from distilling for personal use to the moonshining gangs that emerged during Prohibition.

Corner House Publications, 1975. Hardcover. Good/Good . 8x5x1. A biography of a Puritan woman, the wife of John Winthrop, first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Margaret Winthrop is, in theory, a biography of the third wife of Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts. In reality, the book is a history of the Puritans prior to their departure to America, of their settlement in Massachusetts, and an account of their domestic and religious life in the colony. Relying primarily upon the journal of Governor Winthrop and his correspondence with his wife for information on Margaret Winthrop's life, Earle also utilized diaries, letters, wills, and religious tracts written by other men and women to provide a setting for the book. Margaret Winthrop illustrates the changes Puritan colonists faced as a result of their movement from England to America in search of religious freedom. Earle devotes two chapters to the lives of Puritans in England under the reign of James I. We learn the details of life… Read More

Arizona Cactus & Native Flora Society/Desert Botanical Garden, 1970. Trade paperback. Very Good. Science Bulletin No. 4.; 112 pages.

Houghton Mifflin, 2011. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good . 5x1x8. Signed by Author. Brief gift inscription by and signed by Steve Earle. Doc Ebersole lives with the ghost of Hank Williams—not just in the figurative sense, not just because he was one of the last people to see him alive, and not just because he is rumored to have given Hank the final morphine dose that killed him. In 1963, ten years after Hank's death, Doc himself is wracked by addiction. Having lost his license to practice medicine, his morphine habit isn't as easy to support as it used to be. So he lives in a rented room in the red-light district on the south side of San Antonio, performing abortions and patching up the odd knife or gunshot wound. But when Graciela, a young Mexican immigrant, appears in the neighborhood in search of Doc's services, miraculous things begin to happen. Graciela sustains a wound on her wrist that never heals, yet she heals others with the touch of her hand. Everyone she meets… Read More

Tat Foundation, 2018. Softcover. Like New. 5x0x8. Signed by Significant Other . With brief gift inscription by and signed "Norio" by Norio Kushi. Norio’s Kushi's insights, the windfall of long hours on the road, are the stuff of practical wisdom. The ability to question one’s reality is the first requisite of evolutionary change. Awakening—you might also call it spiritual transformation or enlightenment—is neither a solution to life’s problems nor a goal to be achieved through personal endeavor but, rather, a ground zero, a place to come from if one is to live a productive and fulfilling life. This is the story of Norio Kushi's journey, how he was born in New York City to Japanese parents, Michio and Aveline Kushi, how he grew up and came of age within the eccentric surroundings of the Boston macrobiotic community of the 1960s and 1970s, and how, since then, he has consistently been guided by… Read More

Watson-Guptill Publications, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good . 8x1x11. In Very Good+ condition and Very Good+ dustjacket. This striking visual reference makes it possible for artists to capture the human figure in motion, solve compositional problems and faithfully record the surface appearance of muscles and bones as well as facial features and foreshortened aspects of the figure.

Crown Publishers, 1986. Hard cover. Very Good/Good. 9x7x0. True stories of encounters between humans and the black, brown, grizzly, and polar bears of North America contain scientific information as well as descriptions of violent attacks. Ben East was a longtime editor and writer for Outdoor Life, and earned the nickname the 'dean of outdoor writers' in recognition of his long career and his commitment to mentoring the aspiring writers who worked with him. East was also an early and important conservationist, deeply committed to preserving Michigan's natural beauty. He was instrumental in gaining State Park status for both Tahquamenon Falls and the Porcupine Mountains. He also played a major role in securing Isle Royale as a National Park. He was involved in a number of conservation organizations and won the Michigan United Conservation Clubs Conservation Award in 1971 as well the Michigan Environmental Award and formal recognition by the Michigan state legislature, both in 1973.

W. W. Norton, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Some spotting to covers, else in Very Good condition. the dustjacket has some tears and edgewear. Uncommon in dustjacket.

Dover Publications, 2003. Softcover. Like New. 5x0x8. Raised among the Sioux until the age of 15, Charles Alexander Eastman (1858–1939) resolved to become a physician in order to be of the greatest service to his people. Upon completing his education at Boston University School of Medicine, he accepted an appointment to a South Dakota Indian reservation, where he was the only doctor available to the victims of the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. With the encouragement of his wife, he further distinguished himself both as a writer and as a uniquely qualified interpreter of Native American ways. His writings offer authentic, sometimes stirring views of a world that has forever changed.In The Soul of the Indian, Eastman brings to life the rich spirituality and morality of the Native Americans as they existed before contact with missionaries and other whites. This is a rare firsthand expression of native religion, without the filters imposed by translators or anthropologists. Rather… Read More

The Friends of the University of Rochester Libraries, 1987. Hardcover. Like New. 9x6x0. A bright, fresh copy. No slipcase. A follow-up volume to Eastman's popular account of an African safari, compiled from a collection of letters related to his second trip to Africa in 1928. Foreword by Elias Mandala, introduction by Kenneth M. Cameron. Illustrated with photographs by Eastman and fellow adventurer Martin Johnson. "George Eastman (July 12, 1854 - March 14, 1932) founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. The roll film was also the basis for the invention of the motion picture film in 1888 by world's first filmmaker, Louis Le Prince. Eastman was already 72 when he made his first trip to East Africa. As Kenneth Cameron has written of Eastman’s first hunting safari: “Combining danger and caution, rigor and civilized comfort, it can be taken as a model for the fully developed safari as laid on… Read More

Omnidawn, 2015. Softcover. Like New. 6x0x9. Some Habits proceeds by way of a series of letters charting the dreams, observations, apologies, and epiphanies of an unnamed addressor. The poem is infected by the vernacular language of the Ozark mountain region, and by the cultural effluvia of the flat lands hemming the Mississippi River. In the manner of the great poetic epistles, Some Habits risks unknowing its subject. Who broadcasts? Who receives? C. Violet Eaton is a poet living in Arkansas. His first full- length collection, Some Habits, was the winner of the 2013 Omnidawn Open Poetry Prize, selected by Forrest Gander.

Free Press, 1979. Softcover. Very Good. 6x1x9. A biography of Jefferson Davis, who was a West Point graduate, soldier in the Black Hawk Wars, plantation master and self-made aristocrat, Secretary of War under Franklin Pierce, and the President of the Confederate States of America.

Crescent, 1982. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jack.

Beekman House, 1985. Hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. By The Editors of Consumer Guide. A look at Ferrari the man, and the significant road going Ferrari models. The evolution of Ferrari cars is presented in all it's colorful detail.

Pubns Intl Ltd, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good . 9x0x11. Native American Indian art and artifacts from the New Mexico, Arizona and Four Corners region of the Southwestern United States. Works by the Navajo, Pueblos, Zuni, Zia, Hopi, San Ildefonso, Santa Clara, Acoma, Mimbres and others. 150 color illustrations / photographs of art and artifacts - pottery, blankets, weaving, baskets, silver jewelry, turqouise, Mimbres bowls, Kachina dolls / figures and other works. Glossary.

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1983. Hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. A few small words written in the margins of a couple of pages. This is not an x-library copy, as is more commonly offered. "In this contemporary approach to aesthetics, Marcia Eaton presents a theory that provides a method of dealing with skepticism regarding the possibility of distinguishing art from non-art.