Search Results: Titles starting with S from Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1975. Softcover. Very Good. Cover torn at spine, which has been taped. Prepared for Partners' Dinner, The Brussels, New York, December 12, 1975. Photos, of people, throughout. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) is an American architectural, urban planning, and engineering firm. It was formed in Chicago in 1936 by Louis Skidmore and Nathaniel Owings; in 1939 they were joined by John O. Merrill. The firm opened their first branch in New York City in 1937, and has since expanded all over the world, with regional offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington DC, London, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Mumbai and Dubai. With a portfolio spanning thousands of projects across 50 countries, SOM is one of the largest architectural firms in the world. Their primary expertise is in high-end commercial buildings, as it was SOM that led the way to the widespread use of the modern international-style or "glass box" skyscraper. They have designed several of the tallest… Read More

University of Arizona Press, 1993. Trade paperback. Like New. In this cycle of poetry and stories, Navajo writer Luci Tapahonso shares memories of her home in Shiprock, New Mexico, and of the places and people there. Through these celebrations of birth, partings, and reunions, this gifted writer displays both her love of the Navajo world and her resonant use of language. Blending memoir and fiction in the storytelling style common to many Indian traditions, Tapahonso's writing shows that life and death are intertwined, and that the Navajo people live with the knowledge that identity is formed by knowing about the people to whom one belongs. The use of both English and Navajo in her work creates an interplay that may also give readers a new way of understanding their connectedness to their own inner lives and to other people. Luci Tapahonso shows how the details of everyday life—whether the tragedy of losing a loved one or the joy of raising… Read More

The Reilly & Lee Co, 1923. First edition. Hard cover. Good/No dustjacket. X-Private library; minimal markings. Some light dampstaining to blank page and endpapers. Written for the juvenile audience, with the hunting of the Walrus and other adventures in the far north. A scarce title in this highly collectable series, particularly in First Edition. Elliot Whitney was a group pseudonym used by various authors.

Apricot Press, 2004. Softcover. Good. 5x0x8. Except for Lewis and Clark, she was the most widely traveled North American of her time. She was born a Shoshone in the Rocky Mountains. As a girl, she was captured by the Minnetarees and taken to live on the plains of the Upper Missouri. Still a teenager, she joined the Lewis and Clark expedition, and traveled to the Pacific and back.

University of Oklahoma Press, 1979. Revised ed. Softcover. Very Good. 4x0x7. In the saga of early western exploration a young Shoshoni Indian girl named Sacajawea is famed as a guide and interpreter for the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Far Northwest between 1804 and 1806. Her fame rests upon her contributions to the expedition. In guiding them through the wilderness, in gathering wild foods, and, above all, in serving as an ambassadress to Indian tribes along the way she helped to assure the success of the expedition. This book retraces Sacajawea’s path across the Northwest, from the Mandan Indian villages in present-day South Dakota to the Pacific Ocean, and back. On the journey Sacajawea was accompanied by her ne’er-do-well French-Canadian husband, Toussaint Charboneau, and her infant son, Baptiste, who became a favorite of the members of the expedition, especially Captain William Clark. The author presents a colorful account of… Read More

Apricot Press, 2004. Softcover. Like New. 5x0x8. Except for Lewis and Clark, she was the most widely traveled North American of her time. She was born a Shoshone in the Rocky Mountains. As a girl, she was captured by the Minnetarees and taken to live on the plains of the Upper Missouri. Still a teenager, she joined the Lewis and Clark expedition, and traveled to the Pacific and back.

Element Books, 1993. Trade paperback. Very good.

BenBella Books, 2020. Hardcover. Like New/Fine . 6x1x9. Beef is framed as the most environmentally destructive and least healthy of meats. We're often told that the only solution is to reduce or quit red meat entirely. But despite what anti-meat groups, vegan celebrities, and some health experts say, plant-based agriculture is far from a perfect solution. In Sacred Cow, registered dietitian Diana Rodgers and former research biochemist and New York Times bestselling author Robb Wolf explore the quandaries we face in raising and eating animals—focusing on the largest (and most maligned) of farmed animals, the cow.Taking a critical look at the assumptions and misinformation about meat, Sacred Cow points out the flaws in our current food system and in the proposed "solutions." Inside, Rodgers and Wolf reveal contrarian but science-based findings, such as: • Meat and animal fat are essential for our bodies. • A sustainable food… Read More

Continuum, 1998. Hardcover. Like New/Fine . 5x0x8. Pain and loss are not only the products of chaos. They produce chaos. Chaos can have gentle beginnings, such as an inner tug within our souls that awakens us to the realization that the life we are leading is not fulfilling. Chaos can also begin in more dramatic ways - the death of a loved one, a divorce, the loss of a job. Whatever the impetus, chaos is uncomfortable. It moves us out of familiar patterns and known ways, and causes us to reevaluate what is important; and, if we heed the signs, its sets us on a journey of seeking more of what is missing. In this extraordinary book, James R. Newby tells us of his own spiritual journey and emotional chaos - of the death of his father, the breakdown of his marriage, and his own bouts with debilitating depression. He shows how chaos such as this, or chaos that simply whirls around inside us, becomes sacred when it pushes us on the quest for spiritual intimacy. What that quest looks like, says Newby, very… Read More

Nelson Gallery Foundation, 1977. Softcover. Good. Great exhibition catalog featuring art and artifacts of Native American Indian cultures. 730 mostly black and white illustrations / photographs of objects (12 color illustrations) including: pottery, hide paintings, leather garments / clothing, beadwork, beading, ceremonial objects, baskets, weaving, weapons, tools, and other objects. Includes notes / bibliography. Softcover. 252 pages.

Synergy Associates, 1992. Softcover. Very Good. 9x6x0. A few sentences have been underlined. Introducing a new science of spiritual evolution, this book considers the 35,000 year history of Soul, with emphasis upon the Soul's current transformation only the second in humanity's entire evolutionary history and the new deep-value system emerging to condition and shape all of human culture.

Walker and Company, 1998. Softcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Miranda Lundy gives us a beautiful glimpse into the world of shapes and the geometry behind some of mankind's most famous creations.Geometry is one of a group of special sciences - Number, Music and Cosmology are the others - found identically in nearly every culture on earth. In this small volume, Miranda Lundy presents a unique introduction to this most ancient and timeless of universal sciences.Sacred Geometry demonstrates what happens to space in two dimensions - a subject last flowering in the art, science and architecture of the Renaissance and seen in the designs of Stonehenge, mosque decorations and church windows. With exquisite hand-drawn images throughout showing the relationship between shapes, the patterns of coin circles, and the definition of the golden section, it will forever alter the way in which you look at a triangle, hexagon, arch, or spiral.

Inner Traditions, 1990. Softcover. Good. 10x0x13. Some roll to lower corner of text block.

W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. Flowing across the limestone plateaus and tropical forests of Mexico and Guatemala, the Usamacinta River was the cradle of ancient Mayan civilization, heavily traveled and lined with palaces and huge cities. In the aftermath of the European conquest, the rugged Usamacinta country became a remote afterthought, a place where few travelers dared to venture.Christopher Shaw, an American writer and canoeist, makes a journey down the Maya's "watery path," reporting his sightings from this broad stream of "pale jade shot with turquoise and slightly clouded with silt." Sacred Monkey River (whose title translates the Maya name for the great watercourse) is a spiritually charged quest into once-sacred geography--but a land profaned in recent years by warfare and ethnic division. Traveling by kayak, a craft he explains to locals as a canoe of the winik, or native people, of the far north, Shaw takes us through… Read More

Penguin Books, 1996. Softcover. Like New. 6x1x9. In this enlightening and entertaining work, Charles Panati explores the origins of hundreds of religious rituals, customs, and practices in many faiths, the reasons for religious holidays and sacred symbols, and the meanings of vestments, sacraments, devotions, and prayers. An indispensable resource for all those interested in the history of religion and the history of ideas--and an inspiring guide to those seeking to understand their faith.

People's Fine Arts Publishing House, 2000. First edition. Softcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Text in Chinese and English. Photographs of the sacred place of the Naxi, of Snow Mountain, Baishui Mesa, Dongba of Baidi's Culture, Dongba Ceremonies, Baidi Folk Culture, E-ya, and more. "I was very impressed by each photo. In the photos the artist depicted his beautiful land, ancient culture and kind people. He found grandeur in daily life, beauty in the simplexes and solemnity in the ancient customs. This collection is a valuable collection of photos and aesthetic record of culture. The creation of each piece of works is a moving story. They derive from the artist's life and work. They are the record which the artist examined his own people and culture... I am deeply moved by the beauty, its cultural of the works and the sincerity and love of the artist." (Bai Gengsheng: Intro and postscript) A scarce title.

University of Oklahoma Press. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 5x1x8. The wakan Mysteries of the Siouan peoples have been a subject of interest and study by explorers and scholars from the period of earliest contact between whites and Indians in North America, but Black Elk's account is without doubt the most highly developed on this religion and cosmography. The Sacred Pipe, published as volume thirty-six in the Civilization of the American Indian Series, will be greeted enthusiastically by students of comparative religion, ethnologists, historians, philosophers, and everyone interested in American Indian life.Joseph Epes Brown (1920-2000) was an American scholar whose lifelong dedication to Native American traditions helped bring the study of American Indian religious traditions into higher education. His book, The Sacred Pipe, is an account of his discussions with the Lakota holy man, Black Elk. "I traveled among many of the prairie Indians," Brown said, "and after meeting the… Read More

Chrysalis Books, 2000. Hardcover. Like New/Fine . 5x1x8. What is the history of the human soul? What is its future? And what is our individual role within the collective whole, particularly in today's world of unprecedented change? Sacred Quest is not just a theoretical construct, but is a call for the engagement of one's whole life. Keck shares his own personal struggles to embody the emergent values of Epoch III -- reconnection to nature, democratization of power, respect for diversity and inclusivity, and the expansion of self, to name a few.

Grand Central Press / Last Gasp, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dustjacket as Issued. 11x11x0. In Very Good+ condition. Brief inscription by previous owner. Camille Rose Garcia (born November 18, 1970) is a California-based lowbrow/pop surrealism artist. She produces paintings in a gothic, "creepy" cartoon style. She cites as influences Walt Disney and Philip K. Dick. Her world is a beautiful place. It is the ballroom of an Empire, a forest of aquamarine jewels, a place where cream-layered cakes, crystal castles and opiate abundance serve to sedate the masses. but as the telescope retracts, the glossy veneer of privilege falls away to reveal another reality. Machine guns and machetes decorate the landscape alongside exploding poppies. Deer and princesses land in a cloud of malaise and disbelief becomes the ether of the living. Camille Rose Garcia draws inspiration for her creepy dystopias from her upbringing in the generic suburbs of Orange County. Her disenchantment with… Read More

Orange Judd Company, 1882. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dustjacket . Bound in dark brown pressed cloth with a lovely gilt illustration on front cover of a horse head and neck, and gilt spine title. Some small spots of light rubbing at edges. 2/3 of the last page missing, not affecting text, but removing that area of the ad on reverse side. Otherwise, in Very Good+ condition and a solid, attractive copy of a scarce Orange Judd title. Chapters include how to use a horse, in the saddle, bits and bitting, the mount, reins, etc., horse gymnastics, hands and legs, the walk, trot, gallop, vices, tricks, and faults, early education of the horse, French Method of training, when ladies ride, and more.