Mckinley william c (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. . No Dust Jacket Presumed First edition. Stamped on endpage with author's stamp. Writing inside. Spine cracked. (Gemstones).

Zustand: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (gems ) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 288 pages. 6.51x0.87x9.31 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Traditional biography often maintains a clinical distance between author and subject, leaving readers with a fragmented view of the emotional truths that shape a life. But what happens when the biographer steps into the frame-when the act of writing becomes a mirror for mourning, identity, and transformation In an era where memoir and creative nonfiction blur the boundaries between fact and feeling, the stakes of biography shift. Loss, trauma, and personal history are not just background-they are catalysts. The emotional investment of the biographer can deepen insight, but it also risks distorting the subject. This tension lies at the heart of psychobiography, a genre that demands both rigor and vulnerability.Examining Lives is a rich, interdisciplinary collection of essays from the San Francisco Bay Area Psychobiography Group, spanning over two decades. Contributors-psychologists, historians, literary scholars, and artists-explore the lives of figures like Mark Rothko, Emma Goldman, Glenn Gould, and Alfred Hitchcock, while simultaneously reflecting on their own emotional journeys. Through themes of death, identity, and the porous boundary between self and subject, these essays reveal how biography can become a therapeutic, even transformative act. Whether mourning a loved one, confronting childhood trauma, or wrestling with professional identity, each writer uses psychobiography to illuminate both their subject and themselves.Examining Lives invites readers to see biography not just as a study of others, but as a collaborative, imaginative process that can help us understand our own lives more deeply.…

8vo, pp. [3]-77, [1]; 7 color plates; bibliography and determination tables at the back; original black cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine; spine slightly worn but generally very good and sound.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. 617, [3] pages : illustrations (some color), portrait, color maps ; 45 cm ; OCLC 56519674. LCCN 00005457 LC E715 .L63; Folio; large format book; embossed pictorial dark red cloth with decorative endpapers ; tears to a few pages ; foxed ; damage to spine ; two-page maps ; "A pictorial and Dewcriptive Record of the Cuban Rebellion, the Causes that Involved the United States, and a Complete Narrative of our Conflict with Spain on Land and Sea, supplemented with fullest information respectinv Cuba, Porto Rico, The Philippines and Hawaii, their commerce, climate productions history and people. Embellished with 1500 original illustrations, by the great war artists of Leslie's Weekly, and pictures taken of actual scenes by its corps of correspondents and photographers sent to the front for the purpose, including such world-famous masters of the brush and camera as B. West Clinedinst, C. M. Sheldon, E. N. Blue, G. M. Tracer, H. Cresson Schell, G. W. Peters, Howard Chandler Christy, Charles Broughton, C. McKnight Smith, F. H. Schell, Dan Beard, Dan Smith, Burr McIntosh, James Burton, W. F. Hoffman, S. I. Wilkinson, C. Edward Graham, C. T. Rost, J. C. Hemment, W. H. Rau, J. F.J. Archibald, Edward Wilsman, Miss A. N. Benjamin, and illuminated by a series of double-page colored war maps of Cuba, Porto Rico, the Philippines and Hawaii, and chromatic prints of flags and seals of all nations, medals, signals, and insignia that represent all ranks of officers in the army and navy. Compiled and written directly from the Official Records at Washington, with the endorsement of the President, of the Secretary of War, and of the Commanding Officers of the Army and Navy." ; "This work is sold by subscription only, and will never be for sale in book stores" ; Ownership of Edward Fredrick Deichler (1875-1957), a descendent of pioneers Philip and Maximilian Deichler, enterprising shoemakers and stationers in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In 1905 E. F. Deichler was the proprietor of the Kinzler Shoe Co. , Lancaster, and by 1910 he became the manager of 20th Century Shoe Company, 7 South Market Square, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He also recruited agents to sell tea, coffee, and merchandise in the area. ; 12 ½ x 17 inches ; FAIR. Book. …