state university of new york press suny albany ny (14 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: vg. Dust Jacket Condition: good. xiii + 957 pages including bibliography & index; brown cover; marbled endpages; tan price-clipped dust jacket has tape ghosts, tears along edges, is in new clear protective mylar. Hardcover (dj).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good -. Plastic spiral binding. Wraps have minimal wear, pencil notes and underlining throughout. 142 pages including extensive notes, bibliography and index.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1989 Edition.

Paperback octavo, very good plus condition, tiny spot fore-edge, minor edgewear corner tips. 399 pp. These essays provide a critical insight into the questions of race, gender, sexuality, and locality in sport and society. Topics include postmodern sport writing, sport and the postmodern deconstruction of gender and sexuality, virtual sport and the postmodern mediascape, discipline, normalization, rationalization, surveillance, panopticism, and other forms of power to "invest" postmodern sporting bodies, and new perspectives on sport and physical culture, consumer culture, and postmodern geography. Edited by Genevieve Rail, human kinetics, University of Ottawa.

Hardback octavo, no jacket as issued, very good condition, top edge little foxed, minor edgewear. 217 pp. Essays by distinguished writers in the continental tradition of transcendental philosophy, in particular the existentialist phenomenology of William Earle. This includes the nature of autobiography, and issues in aesthetics and ethics. The essays examine the influence of phenomenology and existentialism on academic philosophy in the U.S. Sections: Reason, Existence and Choice; Philosophical Vision, the Transcendental and the Mystical; Art, Ontology and Consciousness; Morality and War, Surrealism and Memory. Edited by Edward Casey and Donald Morano.

Soft Cover. Condition: fine. 9" tall; xiv + 365 pages including bibliography & index; in English with some Chinese text. Paperback.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1993 Edition. very clean internally and externally.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 6" x 9", xxiv + 265pp. Printed on off white alkaline paper and perfect bound in laminated printed card stock cover. Minor shelf wear to cover. Binding is square and tight. Pages are clean and bright and unmarked. Appears to be an unread copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. First edition. 8vo. 259pp. Paper covered boards lightly scuffed. Former owner's blind stamp on ffep. Text clean.

Reprint ed. Paperback octavo, very good condition, bottom corner rear cover creased, corner tips last few pages little creased, minor edgewear. 367 pp. Michael Washburn explains an innovative psychoanalytic foundation for transpersonal psychology. Using psychoanalytic theory, he explains how ego development both prepares for and creates obstacles to ego transcendence. Eastern and Western sources are used to discuss spiritual development. In rethinking transpersonal psychology in psychoanalytic terms, essential elements of Jungian thought can be grounded in psychoanalytic theory. .

Reprint ed. Paperback octavo, very good condition, bottom corner front cover creased (plus lightly several adjacent pages), otherwise excellent. 269 pp. Reinforcement is a very powerful tool for improving the human condition, despite often being dismissed as dehumanising people. Counters the myths, criticisms, and misrepresentations of reinforcement. This includes false claims that reinforcement is "rat psychology". Shows that building reinforcement theory on basic laboratory research is a strength, not a weakness, and allows unlimited applications to human situations as it promotes well-being and productivity. Also examined are reinforcement contingencies, planned or accidental, that can shape behavior in a positive way.

Reprint ed. Paperback octavo, very good plus condition, minor edgewear. 257 pp. Brant Cortright has written the first comprehensive textbook of transpersonal psychotherapy. He reviews the major transpersonal models of psychotherapy, including Wilber, Jung, Washburn, Grof, Ali, and existential, psychoanalytic and body-centered approaches, and assesses the strengths and limitations of each. The book also examines the key clinical issues in the field (for example, regarding meditation, spiritual emergency and altered states of consciousness). Clinical observations suggest greater complexity than described by theoretical models such as the spectrum model of Ken Wiuber. The author is a director of the California Institute of Integral Studies. (This copy is the 4th reprint.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover, 8vo, pp.237. English translation, in clothbound hardcover. Missing dust jacket, otherwise Very Good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, xxx+610pp, pictorial boards (no jacket, as issued). Massive and groundbreaking study of this important African-American spiritual practitioner. Includes index, notes and bibliography. An unmarked copy of the legitimate original 1997 hardcover first printing (not the later print-on-demand version) from the collection of poet and esotericist David Meltzer. Minor outer wear and erased resale markings to front free endpaper. Not Signed.