Search Results: Authors starting with R from Underground Books, ABAA

Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2009. Hardcover. Good +. Hardcover. 10 1/2" X 7 1/2". xiii, 332pp. Rubbing and bumps to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. A spot of toning to edge of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This volume investigates the implications of how our brain directs our movements on decision making. An extensive body of knowledge in chapters from international experts is presented as well as integrative group reports discussing new directions for future research. The understanding of how people make decisions is of central interest to experts working in fields such as psychology, economics, movement science, cognitive neuroscience, neuroinformatics, robotics, and sport science. For the first time the current volume provides a multidisciplinary overview of how action and cognition are integrated in the planning of and decisions about action. -Offers intense, focused, and genuine interdisciplinary perspective -Conveys state-of-the-art… Read More

New York: Research Centre of Kabbalah, 1973. Hardcover. Good/good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6". xvii, 186pp. Rubbing, creasing, toning, chipping, and tears to covers, corners, and edges of price-clipped dust jacket. Mild rubbing and bumps to covers and edges of blue paper over boards. Boards are slightly warped. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Toning to endpapers. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Before our universe came into existence there existed an infinite endless realm of total fulfillment and perfection. Suddenly it all seemed to vanish and the Big Bang was born leaving behind a finite realm of existence where chaos suffering and pain would apparently be the rule. The most profound mystic of the 20th century Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag reveals the process of creation leading up to the Big Bang origins of our universe.(Publisher).

New York: Basic Books, 1990. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". xii, 402pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Light rubbing and toning to edges of paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Science once had an unshakable faith in its ability to bring the forces of nature even human nature under control. In this wide-ranging book Anson Rabinbach examines how developments in physics, biology, medicine, psychology, politics, and art employed the metaphor of the working body as a human motor. From nineteenth-century theories of thermodynamics and political economy to the twentieth-century ideals of Taylorism and Fordism, Rabinbach demonstrates how the utopian obsession with energy and fatigue shaped social thought across the ideological spectrum.(Publisher).

New York: Blue Rider Press, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by author in ink to title page. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 284pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Black paper over boards with spine backed in white and lettered in metallic red. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: What kind of doctor puts his patients on display? This is the spellbinding tale of a mysterious Coney Island doctor who revolutionized neonatal care more than one hundred years ago and saved some seven thousand babies. Dr. Martin Couney's story is a kaleidoscopic ride through the intersection of ebullient entrepreneurship, enlightened pediatric care, and the wild culture of world's fairs at the beginning of the American Century. As Dawn Raffel recounts, Dr. Couney used incubators and careful nursing to keep previously doomed infants… Read More

Helsinki, Finland: Lamentations of the Flame Princess, 2010. First Printing, Limited to 500 copies. Paperback. Very good +. First Printing, Limited to 500 copies. Paperback. 8 1/4" X 5 7/8". 36pp. Staplebound text block within loose wraps, as issued, with verso of wraps acting as a gameboard. Slight wear to edges of wraps, else fine. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean, bright, and unmarked. This is a highly presentable 2010 first printing, limited to 500 copies, of Hammers of the God, an RPG adventure in the Weird Fantasy Role-Playing Game Lamentations of the Flame Princess. ABOUT LAMENTATIONS OF THE FLAME PRINCESS, HAMMERS OF THE GOD: By the Sign of the Hammer! A mysterious map and a promise treasure to be won are all that are required to set any adventurer worth the name into the wilderness. But sometimes what is found is far more than treasure. Many that are good and noble will kill to make sure the secrets to be found under the old mountain stay buried. Many that enter the darkness… Read More

Helsinki, Finland: Lamentations of the Flame Princess, 2014. First Printing, limited to 3800 copies. Paperback. Very good +. First Printing, limited to 3800 copies. Paperback. 8 1/4" X 5 7/8". 36pp. Staplebound text block within detached glossy heavy-stock covers, as issued, with verso of covers acting as map. Slight wear to edges of wraps, else fine. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. This is a highly presentable 2014 first printing, limited to 3800 copies, of The Doom-Cave of the Crystal-Headed Children, an RPG adventure in the Weird Fantasy Role-Playing Game Lamentations of the Flame Princess. ABOUT LAMENTATIONS OF THE FLAME PRINCESS, THE DOOM-CAVE OF THE CRYSTAL-HEADED CHILDREN: LotFP's 2013 Free RPG Day adventure, Better Than Any Man, was banned by many game stores around the world. The adventure was even accused by one participating store as being about "killing children." It wasn't; but people see what they want to see, and because LotFP wants to work with retailers… Read More

Helsinki, Finland: Lamentations of the Flame Princess, 2016. First Printing, limited to 3750 copies. Paperback. Very good +. First Printing, limited to 3750 copies. Paperback. 8 1/4" X 5 7/8". 36pp. Staplebound wraps. Slight wear to edges of wraps, else fine. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. This is a highly presentable 2016 first printing, limited to 3750 copies, of SLUGS!, "a themed bestiary designed to infuse weirdness and chaos into role-playing games" in the Weird Fantasy Role-Playing Game Lamentations of the Flame Princess, originally a Free RPG Day release.

Helsinki, Finland: Lamentations of the Flame Princess, 2012. First Printing, limited to 1800 copies. Paperback. Very good +. First Printing, limited to 1800 copies. Paperback. 8 1/4" X 5 7/8". 48pp plus fold-out map and artwork. Bound in wraps. Slight wear to edges of wraps, else fine. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. This is a highly presentable 2012 first printing, limited to 1800 copies, of The God that Crawls, an RPG adventure in the Weird Fantasy Role-Playing Game Lamentations of the Flame Princess. ABOUT LAMENTATIONS OF THE FLAME PRINCESS, THE GOD THAT CRAWLS: A murdering cult. A religious order dedicated to protecting sacred history. An ancient catacomb full of danger and reward. The God that Crawls A dungeon chase adventure for characters of levels 1-2 for use with Lamentations of the Flame Princess Weird Fantasy Role-Playing and other traditional role-playing games.

Helsinki, Finland: Lamentations of the Flame Princess, 2012. First Printing, limited to 2000 copies. Paperback. Very good +. First Printing, limited to 2000 copies. Paperback. 8 1/4" X 5 7/8". 48pp. Bound in glossy wraps. Slight wear to edges of wraps, else fine. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. This is a highly presentable 2012 first printing, limited to 2000 copies, of The Monolith from Beyond Space and Time, an RPG adventure in the Weird Fantasy Role-Playing Game Lamentations of the Flame Princess. ABOUT LAMENTATIONS OF THE FLAME PRINCESS, THE MONOLITH FROM BEYOND SPACE AND TIME: In the center of a valley that should not be stands a thing that cannot be. Those that go before the Monolith do not return the same as they left. Sometimes they do not return at all. An adventure for characters of any level, from zero to infinity, for use with Lamentations of the Flame Princess Weird Fantasy Role-Playing and other traditional role-playing games. Written by James Edward Raggi… Read More

Helsinki, Finland: Lamentations of the Flame Princess, 2014. Second Printing, limited to 2000 copies. Paperback. Very good +. Second Printing, limited to 2000 copies. Paperback. 8 1/4" X 5 7/8". 32pp. Bound in glossy pictorial wraps. Slight wear to edges of wraps, else fine. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. This is a highly presentable 2014 second printing, limited to 2000 copies, of Tower of the Stargazer, an RPG adventure in the Weird Fantasy Role-Playing Game Lamentations of the Flame Princess. ABOUT LAMENTATIONS OF THE FLAME PRINCESS, TOWER OF THE STARGAZER: Legends tell of a wizard so arrogant that he felt the entire sky was naught but a lens for him to view the stars. So great was the hubris and defiance of this man that the gods smote him with the power of storm and fire. Oh did the wizard laugh at such a pathetic gesture. He did not fear the gods, for he drew his knowledge from something greater. Something darker. The legend of this wizard grew, first whispered by… Read More

Helsinki, Finland: Lamentations of the Flame Princess, 2009. First Printing, Limited to 500 copies. Paperback. Very good +. First Printing, Limited to 500 copies. Paperback. 8 1/4" X 5 7/8". 16pp. Staplebound text block within three detached glossy heavy-stock covers, as issued, featuring maps, artwork, and the player handout. Slight wear to edges of wraps, else fine. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean, bright, and unmarked. This is a highly presentable 2009 first printing, limited to 500 copies, of The Grinding Gear, an RPG adventure in the Weird Fantasy Role-Playing Game Lamentations of the Flame Princess. ABOUT LAMENTATIONS OF THE FLAME PRINCESS, THE GRINDING GEAR: The Grinding Gear If this adventure does not drain every drop of your blood, then it will disintegrate you. If it does not disintegrate you, it will electrocute you. If it does not electrocute you, it will starve you. If it does not starve you, it still will defeat you in a battle of wits. You very well may survive. But only… Read More

Mangalore: Sri Ramakrishna Ashrama, 1979. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 7" X 4 3/4". xxv, 213pp. Wear to paper wraps with rubbing and toning to covers. Creasing to corners and edges. Bump to bottom corner of text block. Faint dust-spotting to top edge of text block. Toning to gutters of endpapers. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. An overall solid copy of this collection of essays on the Gita based on the commentary of Sri Ramanuja.

New York: Routledge, 2023. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 10" X 7". x, 472pp. Mild rubbing, bumps, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Handbook of Waterfront Cities and Urbanism is the first resource to address cities' transformations of their coastlines and riverbanks and the resulting effects on environment, culture, and identity in a genuinely global context. Spanning cities from Gda sk to Georgetown, this reference for design, development, and planning explores the transition of waterfronts from industrial and port zones to crowd-drawing urban spectacles within the frameworks of urban development, economics, ecology, governance, globalization, preservation, and sustainability. A collection of contextual studies, local perspectives, project reviews, and analyses of evolution and emerging trends provides critical insight into the phenomenon of waterfront development and urbanism in cities from the… Read More

New South Wales: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2017. Hardcover. As new. Hardcover. 11 1/4" X 9 3/4". 203pp. Book is As New in publisher's shrink wrap. This book is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This book features over eighty artworks by more than seventy artists that represent the glory of British watercolors from the Victorian period. Artists include: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne Jones, George John Pinwell and Myles Birket Foster. Peter Raissis explores the social, cultural, and technical background to watercolor painting in nineteenth century Victorian Britain, as well as the reception and appreciation of the medium both in Britain and Australia. Entries on each of the works give insights into the painters' lives and the differing subject matter, ranging from everyday life and landscape to the worlds of fantasy and imagination. The book brings to light… Read More

Romford: L.N. Fowler & Co. Ltd. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 7" X 4 3/4". 289pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: "The Yogi Philosophy may be divided into several great branches, or fields. What is known as "Hatha Yoga" deals with the physical body and its control; its welfare; its health; its preservation; its laws, etc. What is known as 'Raja Yoga' deals with the Mind; its control; its development; its unfoldment, etc. What is known as 'Bhakti Yoga' deals with the Love of the Absolute-God. What is known as 'Gnani Yoga' deals with the scientific and intellectual knowing of the great questions regarding Life and what lies back of Life-the Riddle of the Universe." So begins "A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga (The Yoga of Wisdom)" by Yogi Ramacharaka.(Publisher).

Chicago: Yogi Publication Society, 1935. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. 7 1/4" X 5 1/4". 268pp. Rubbing, toning, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges of blue cloth over boards. Lean to spine. Toning to edges of text block and to endpapers. Blind stamp to front free endpaper. Inked notation and highlighting with colored pencils to pages. Notation does not obscure text. Hinges feel tender, hoever, binding remains sound. "Mystic Christianity" is a valuable resource for wisdom and serenity. It gives insights on the mystical teachings of Jesus Christ, on who he really was, doctrinal questions and much more.(Publisher).

Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2005. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 10 1/2" X 10 1/2". 59pp. Mild wear to pictorial paper wraps with light rubbing and creasing to covers and edges. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. A solid, clean copy of this work depicting the art of Dada with accompanying text in English and French.

Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1982. Hardcover. Good/good. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". 494pp. Mild wear to unclipped dust jacket with toning and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Sunning to spine. Red cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Light rubbing to covers and gentle bump to head of spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This book analyses and evaluates the mystical trends observable in the writings of mystics in Medieval India with particular emphasis on the mystics of Maharashtra. We get a fair idea of the spiritual heaven introduced into Indian thought by the writers such as Ramananda, Kabir, Gauranga, Jnanesvara, Namadeva, Ekanatha, Tukarama, Ramadasa and others. The list exhausts all types of mysticism that are known to exist. The book is rather a study of comparative mysticism and it draws striking parallelism between the mystics of Maharashtra and the Western mystics like Plotinus, Eckhart, Dante and others.(Publisher).

New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2019. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 273pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Black cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. Includes 14 illustrations. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A spine-chilling saga of virulent racism, human folly, and the ultimate triumph of scientific progress. For Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His passing on March 6, 1900, would have been unremarkable if a city health officer hadn't noticed a swollen black lymph node on his groin a sign of bubonic plague. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown while doctors examined Wong's tissue for telltale bacteria. If the devastating disease was not contained, San… Read More

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965. Hardcover. Good/good. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". xiv, 287pp. Rubbing, toning, chipping, and tears to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Sunning to spine of jacket. Rubbing, toning, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges of cloth over boards. Slight lean to spine. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Most Americans are more worried than they care to admit by the growth in our society of an official intelligence apparatus. The possible threat to our institutions from a highly centralized new military authority would be at least visible and measurable, but the conceivable danger represented by an autonomous intelligence agency is by nature imponderable. Even the necessity of such a function of government is a matter for uneasy and uninformed speculation.(Publisher).