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By: N/A
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press: 1977
Seller ID: 2270173
Top edge of jacket front previously mended with tape, front jacket flap clipped, jacket spine very faintly toned. 1977 Hard Cover. 62 pp. Far-Eastern proverbs covering a range of topics including: advice, business, caution, children, contention, education, friendship, honor, house, inclination, justice, labor, learning, opportunity, riches and poverty, satisfaction, sin, speech and silence, strength and power, time, virtue and piety. View more info
By: Albom, Mitch
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1997
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2268450
A very nice copy. 1997 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 192 pp. Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost ... View more info
By: Albom, Mitch
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1997
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2269926
Jacket edges very lightly rubbed. Sticker on front endpaper. 1997 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 192 pp. Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twe... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Indianaopolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company: 1926
Seller ID: 2119198
Lightly foxed, minor pencil marginalia, flaps of absent jacket laid in, ink name & address on front endpaper. 1926 Hard Cover. 281, [1] pp. 8vo. A religious study of the afterlife. View more info
By: Berkus, Rusty
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Red Rose Press: 1988
Seller ID: 1500930
Front cover corners creased. 1988 Soft Cover. 52 pp. Once in a great while a person comes along whose view of reality works harmoniously with the universe. Such a person is Nell the Nebbish. As Nell grew up, she did not fit into the American ideal of what a child is supposed to be like or look like. She was gangly, awkward, and did not excel in school or sports. Yet her parents had waited a decade for her arrival and viewed her as a treasure; they bestowed upon her uncon... View more info
By: Carnegie, Dale
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Simon and Schuster: 1948
Seller ID: 1532280
Reprint. Lacks jacket. Boards a bit spotted, edge wear. 1948 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 306 pp. CONTENTS: Preface; Part One. Fundamental Facts You Should KNow About Worry; Part Two. Basic Techniques in Analyzing Worry; Part Three. How to Break the Worry Habit Before It Breaks You; Part Four. Seven Ways to Cultivate a Mental Attitude That Will Bring You Peace and Happiness; Part Five. The Perfect Way to Conquer Worry; Part Six. How to Keep F... View more info
By: Chan, Luke
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Benefactor Press: 1993
Seller ID: 2276227
Highlighting, newspaper clipping taped to front wrapper verso. 1993 Trade Paperback. 132 pp. This story of a student's spiritual journey as he studies with a Tai Chi Grandmaster weaves many anecdotes and lessons of Tao, Zen, Confucius, and I Ching into a cohesive whole. With kidness and love, this book leads readers to forgive themselves for past mistakes and shortcomings--to try again, instead of feeling guilty and giving up. This is a great therapeutic book for those w... View more info
By: Cousins, Norman
Price: $3.00
Publisher: A Dutton Book: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1536763
First edition. Includes original jacket. Gift note on title page.Very Good. 1989 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 368 pp. People tell me not to offer hope unless I know hope to be real, but I don't have the power not to respond to an outstretched hand. I don't know enough to say that hope can't be real. I'm not sure anyone knows enough to deny hope. I have seen too many cases these past ten years when death predictions were delivered from high pr... View more info
By: Crain, Mary Beth
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Harper San Francisco: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1295447
First edition. Dust jacket edge wear, ink gift note on front free endpaper.Good. 2000 Hard Cover. 201 pp. When Mary Beth Crain lost her husband of only three years to cancer, she though she would never again know the meaning of the word happiness. Inconsolable, she couldn't imagine anything with the power to draw her out of the seemingly bottomless pit of grief. But there was a savior - or two - on the horizon, in the form of President Harry S. Truman, Mary Beth's idol, ... View more info
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Stormblock Publishing: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2268377
First edition. An exceptional copy. 2003 Hard Cover. The Crow and the Eagle describes the struggle for success that every person with vision has had to face, and how a Cy Young-winning baseball pitcher overcame those obstacles - both in the New York Yankee's golden fifties and through to his own golden years. View more info
By: De La Vega, Reena; Oyer, Deanna
Price: $2.00
Publisher: Bridges Publishing: 1998
Seller ID: 1509028
Lightly rubbed. 1998 Trade Paperback. xvi, 116 pp. A book designed to inspire women to discover their own inner power and beauty, drawing from the author's own experience in her transition from fear to wholeness. View more info
By: Fritz, Robert
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Fawcett Columbine: 1989
Edition: Revised Edition
Seller ID: 2268601
Revised and expanded edition. Ink marginalia, pages lightly toned. 1989 Trade Paperback. xxvii, 285 pp. A revolutionary program for creating anything, from a functional kitchen to a computer program, to a work of art, Robert Fritz demonstrates that any of us has the innate power to create. Discover the steps of creating; the importance of creating what you truly love, how to focus on the creative process to move from where you are to where you want to be, and much more. View more info
By: Gay, Francis
Price: $3.00
Publisher: D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.: 1979
Seller ID: 1294942
Pages slightly toned, light wear.Very Good. 1979 Hard Cover. A thought for each day in 1980 - a nice gift for anyone born in that year. View more info
By: His Holiness the Dalai Lama; Cutler, Howard C.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Riverhead Books / Penguin Putnam Inc.: 2009
Edition: 10th Anniversary Edition
Seller ID: 2283218
10th anniversary edition. An exceptional copy. 2009 Hard Cover. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, the very purpose of our life is happiness, the very motion of our life is towards happiness.' -- H.H. the Dalai Lama, from The Art of Happiness. So popular and so rarely understood, this Nobel Peace Prize winner and man of great inner peace brings to a general audience the key to a happy life. In collaboration wi... View more info
By: Johnson, Blanche Wynne (Editor)
Price: $30.00
Publisher: B.F. Johnson Publishing Co.: 1894
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2200540
First edition. Front hinge weak, page ridges foxed & stained, ink marks inside front cover. 1894 Large Hardcover. 552 pp. 102 illustrations throughout. A collection of literary excerpts with a focus on self-development. CONTENTS: APPLES OF GOLD FOR CHILDREN: Tot's Selfishness; Chubby Dixon's Prayer; Emily's Picnic; A Little Maid of the Revolution; Tom's Make-Up Party; Our Band of Mercy Story; A Real Knight; Frightened Prayers; A Labor of Love; Can't Help it; Her Name; A ... View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Harlo Press: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1296938
First edition. Dust jacket edge wear, ink gift note on front free endpaper.Good. 1973 Hard Cover. 63 pp. In an age that honors abstraction and gloom it is good to discover JOY'EMS, a book that communicated gladness, and to find here only clean words - whatever their number of syllables. Happily, there is a retreat from the tortured and unintelligible (best witnessed in the appointment of Sir John Betjeman as England's seventeenth Poet Laureate) and renewed respect for pe... View more info
Price: $250.00
Publisher: Harper & Row: 1963
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2281574
First edition (stated, with $3.50 price on jacket). Owner bookplate remnant on front endpaper, reverse of jacket foxed, jacket a bit rubbed. 1963 Hard Cover. x, [2], 146, [2] pp. 8vo. King's second book, a collection of sermons preaching the value of love and nonviolence, and urging the sort of mutual understanding and respect King spoke about during his speeches as a civil right activist. If there is one book Martin Luther King, Jr. has written that people consistently ... View more info
Price: $2.00
Publisher: ALTI Publishing: 1991
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 1510704
Signed by author. Page ridges & inside covers foxed. 1991 Trade Paperback. 208 pp. Many of us give up our lives by the time we reach twenty-one. We don't go to an early grave, thanks to medical science, but far too many of us lose our life force, our direction, our purpose. The challenge is age-old: how are we to live and enjoy our lives fully? The threefold approach set forth in this book is one practical solution to that dilemma. View more info
By: Pausch, Randy; Zaslow, Jeffrey
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Hyperion: 2008
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2201736
Reprint. Includes original jacket. An exceptional copy. 2008 Hard Cover. 206 pp. A lot of professors give talks titled The Last Lecture. Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy When Randy Pausch, a computer scienc... View more info
By: Pausch, Randy; Zaslow, Jeffrey
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Hyperion: 2008
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2199866
First edition. Includes original jacket. An exceptional copy.Fine. 2008 Hard Cover. 206 pp. A lot of professors give talks titled The Last Lecture. Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy When Randy Pausch, a comp... View more info
By: Peck, M. Scott
Price: $2.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 1978
Seller ID: 1500055
Spine & front cover corner creased, cover & pages toned. 1978 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 320 pp. 'Life is difficult.' With this first sentence, Dr. M. Scott Peck revolutionized the way we live our lives, and it is no less true today than when it was written twenty years ago. In this guide to confronting and resolving our problems-and suffering through the changes-we learn that we can reach a higher level of self knowledge. Written in a... View more info
By: Peck, M. Scott
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Hyperion: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1295433
First edition. Minor jacket edge wear.Near Fine. 1995 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 422 pp. From the acclaimed author of The Road Less Traveled comes the personal story of his own journey of self-discovery. On a three-week spiritual quest with his wife to see the ancient megalithic stones in the countryside of Wales, England, and Scotland, he gained insight into such issues as parenthood, holiness, romance, art, and his own shortcomings. View more info
By: Pelzer, Dave
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Omaha Press: 1995
Seller ID: 2201239
Minor wear to corners. 1995 Trade Paperback. xi, 184 pp., 4-page terminal publisher ad. This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games--games that left him nearly dead. He had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because... View more info
By: Quindlen, Anna
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Random House: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2275960
First edition. A fine copy. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 50 pp. “Life is made of moments, small pieces of silver amidst long stretches of tedium. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that won’t happen. We have to teach ourselves now to live, really live . . . to love the journey, not the destination.” In this treasure of a book, Anna Quindlen, the be... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Compassionate Creativity: 2016
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2276015
First edition - a paperback original. Inscribed and signed by author on title page ('For Peter! With joy! Kali Q.'). 2016 Trade Paperback. xii, 470 pp. 111 stories, 111 values, one million miles, infinite connections all asking: What is Compassion? What is Creativity? And what happens when we put them together? Part memoir, part field guide, part curriculum, through her life's work in Compassionate Creativity, Kali Quinn weaves a tapestry of experiences into an inspiring... View more info
By: Richmond, Lewis
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Broadway Books: 1999
Seller ID: 1506367
Jacket edge wear, cover corners bumped, large stain causes pages and jacket to wrinkle, moderate shelf wear, light page toning.Fair. 1999 Hard Cover. 272 pp. A guide to developing and maintaining a spiritual life on the job, drawn from the teachings and practices of Buddhist tradition. Most people associate Buddhism with developing calm, kindness, and compassion through meditation. Lewis Richmond's Work as a Spiritual Practice shows us another aspect of Buddhism: the act... View more info
By: Root, Wayne Allyn; Pease, Paul
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1313183
First edition. Remainder mark on page base, 1/2 inch jacket tear.Very Good. 2004 Hard Cover. 336 pp. In The Zen of Gambling, the star of Spike TV's Wayne Allyn Root's WinningEDGE(tm) shows readers why -- be it in the casino, on the playing field, or in the boardroom -- it is so vital to take risks in life. Wayne Allyn Root lives an American Dream: he makes tons of money sitting on his couch watching sports on television. In fact, as CEO of GWIN Inc., America's only publi... View more info
By: Roth, Geneen
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Scribner: 2010
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2200556
Pages lightly toned.Fine. 2010 Hard Cover. viii, 211 pp. After three decades of studying, teaching, and writing about our compulsions with food, bestselling author Geneen Roth adds a powerful new dimension to her work in Women Food and God. She begins with her most basic concept: the way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. Your relationship with food is an exact mirror of your feelings about love, fear, anger, meaning, transformation and, ye... View more info
Price: $4.00
Publisher: HarperCollins: 1990
Seller ID: 2283929
A fine copy. 1990 Mass Market Paperback. Unpaginated. Daily meditations to help women break the cycle of doing too much--for workaholics, busyaholics, rushaholics, and careaholics. Many of today's women are overextende--addicted to working, rushing, taking care of other people's needs. With wisdom, insight, and humor, these 365 meditaations--combined with quotations from women of different ages, cultures, and perspectives--will help women recognize that cycle. In a welco... View more info
By: Schultz, Charles M.; Cohen, Andy
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Running Press: 2014
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2284755
First edition. Light stain on front jacket panel. Ink gift note on front endpaper. 2014 Hard Cover. 126 pp. Foreword by Andy Cohen. What do cartoon characters know about life? Plenty, if they reflect the sentiments of the world's most beloved cartoonist. The late Charles Schulz was the first to use the human condition—rather than action and adventure—as the basis for a comic strip. Peanuts Guide to Life presents Schulz' classic observations, his most charming counsel... View more info
