Search Results: Authors starting with T from Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller

Baldwin Gallery, 1999. First edition. Hard cover. Like New/Very Good. An exhibition catalog, with tipped in color reproductions. "An admirer of Matisse's cut-outs and of Synthetic Cubism, Taaffe's first solo exhibition was in New York in 1982. He has since been included in exhibitions at Carnegie International, two Sydney Biennials, and three Whitney Biennials. His work is held in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Scribner Book Company, 2006. Trade paperback. Very Good. 96x14x144. The Paris Tasting of 1976 will forever be remembered as the landmark event that transformed the wine industry. At this legendary contest—a blind tasting—a panel of top French wine experts shocked the industry by choosing unknown California wines over France’s best.George M. Taber, the only reporter present, recounts this seminal contest and its far-reaching effects, focusing on three gifted unknowns behind the winning wines: a college lecturer, a real estate lawyer, and a Yugoslavian immigrant. With unique access to the main players and a contagious passion for his subject, Taber renders this historic event and its tremendous aftershocks—repositioning the industry and sparking a golden age for viticulture across the globe. With an eclectic cast of characters and magnificent settings, Judgment of Paris is an illuminating tale and a story of the entrepreneurial… Read More

The Lyons Press, 2002. Softcover. Very Good. 9x6x0. Signed by Author. Signed Geoff Tabin on title page, and inscribed "To Julie and Michael, Kindred Spirits. With much admiration and best wishes for all your journeys. Always - yours on belay - Geoff". What is it like to have reached the tallest summits on the globe? Find out in Blind Corners, Geoff Tabin's fascinating book on his quest to find the ultimate adventure. Travel with Tabin across seven continents as he takes readers, from Kenya to Alaska to Nepal, where he begins his ascent of the most challenging mountain of all-Everest. He shares his experiences trekking up the daunting Kangshung Face, easily the mountain's most difficult route, as well as those of fellow climbers, including the first American woman to climb Everest. Filled with suspense, candor, keen insight, and mischievous humor, Blind Corners conveys both the terror and the exhilaration of nature's greatest challenges. Recounting everything from the… Read More

Random House, 2010. Hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. The deepest cave on earth was a prize that had remained unclaimed for centuries, long after every other ultimate discovery had been made. This is the story of the men and women who risked everything to find it, earning their place in history beside the likes of Peary, Amundsen, Hillary, and Armstrong. In 2004, two great scientist-explorers attempted to find the bottom of the world. Bold, American Bill Stone was committed to the vast Cheve Cave, located in southern Mexico and deadly even by supercave standards. On the other side of the globe, legendary Ukrainian explorer Alexander Klimchouk - Stone's opposite in temperament and style - had targeted Krubera, a freezing nightmare of a supercave in the Republic of Georgia.Blind Descent explores both the brightest and darkest aspects of the timeless human urge to discover - to be first. It is also a thrilling epic about a pursuit that makes even extreme mountaineering and ocean exploration pale by… Read More

Mondadori, 1968. Hard cover. Very Good/No Dustjacket as Issued. Text in Italian (translates to "Jewels And Precious Stones"). With color photos.

The Kyoto Chamber of Commerce, 1991. Trade paperback. Very Good. A photographic look at industry and it's connection with Kyoto's (Japan) natural scenery. Text in English. Scarce in any condition.

Dover Publications, 1964. Softcover. Very Good. 9x6x1. The basic book on American photography as art, recording form, 1839-1889. Development, influence on society, great photographers, types (portraits, war, frontier, etc.), Illustrated with 322 early photos, daguerreotypes, tintypes, stereo slides, and more.

Bonanza, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 400pages, 72 pages of photographic illustrations, sources and notes, index. A wide-ranging and scholarly survey of the original art of the West including sketches, water-colors, engravings, lithographs, and oil paintings that have historical significance. A key references for western art and artists.

Pismo Fine Art Glass, 2012. First edition. Softcover. Like New. Signed by Author. Inscribed "To Amie Lino Tagliapietra." An Exhibition Catalog. Lino Tagliapietra (born 1934) is an Italian glass artist originally from Venice, who has also worked extensively in the United States. As a teacher and mentor, he has played a key role in the international exchange of glassblowing processes and techniques between the principal American centers and his native Murano. Now in his 80s, with over 70 years of experience, Maestro Tagliapietra works as an independent artist, producing works that are renowned for their innovation and creativity. His unique pieces are present in some of the most prestigious museums throughout the world, as well as numerous galleries and private collections.

Anova Books, 2005. Hardcover. Good/Very Good+. 4x0x7. Library stamp top edge; no other library markings; else Very Good. From the serious (why vultures are dying out in Asia) and the informative (why waxwings have waxy wings) to the bizarre (the parrot that can read minds), The Birdwatcher’s Companion is a veritable aviary of notes, quotes, and facts, as well as some of the finest writing about birds over the centuries.

Climbing Magazine, 2000. Trade paperback. Good. A corner of the last page missing, not effecting text. Else in Very Good+ condition. For nearly a decade, Pete "Big Wall" Takeda has had climbing readers twisting in fear and howling in pain as they followed his escapades on and around the world's most fearsome big walls. Pete's Wicked Book captures those moments and takes it one step further. With 30 years of boulders, big walls and big mountains under his belt, Pete Takeda is an elite all-around rock, ice and alpine climber. He’s competed in the ESPN Winter X-Games and climbed in Alaska, Canada, Iceland, Peru, Mexico, Australia and Scotland. Takeda is veteran of eleven expeditions to the Indian, Nepal and Karakoram Himalayas. As an all-rounder, Takeda appreciates the quality, range and reliability of PMI ropes.Takeda is author of three books including National Geographic: Climb! and An Eye At The Top Of The World. He contributes to… Read More

Climbing Magazine, 2000. Softcover. Very Good. 9x6x0. In Very Good+ condition. For nearly a decade, Pete "Big Wall" Takeda has had climbing readers twisting in fear and howling in pain as they followed his escapades on and around the world's most fearsome big walls. Pete's Wicked Book captures those moments and takes it one step further. With 30 years of boulders, big walls and big mountains under his belt, Pete Takeda is an elite all-around rock, ice and alpine climber. He's competed in the ESPN Winter X-Games and climbed in Alaska, Canada, Iceland, Peru, Mexico, Australia and Scotland. Takeda is veteran of eleven expeditions to the Indian, Nepal and Karakoram Himalayas. As an all-rounder, Takeda appreciates the quality, range and reliability of PMI ropes. Takeda is author of three books including National Geographic: Climb! and An Eye At The Top Of The World. He contributes to Outside, Men’s Journal, Elevation Outdoors, Rock… Read More

Nan A. Talese, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Fine . 5x0x7. A Chinese ginseng hunter lives alone in the valley and spends his days up in the mountains looking for ginseng and preparing for winter. He is scarcely aware of the larger world until shadowy figures hiding in the fields, bodies floating in the river, and rumors of thievery and murder begin to intrude on his cherished solitude. On one of his monthly trips to Yanji, where he buys supplies and visits a brothel, he meets a young North Korean prostitute. Through her vivid tales, the tragedy occurring across the river unfolds, and over the course of the year the hunter unnervingly discovers that the fates of the young woman and four others rest in his hands.Spare, intimate, and strikingly atmospheric, The Ginseng Hunter takes us into the little-understood lives of North Koreans and confirms Jeff Talarigo's immense gift for storytelling.The Ginseng Hunter is based on actual events that are happening today in North Korea, also known… Read More

Lea & Febiger, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dustjacket . Some light foxing to inside covers and endpapers; else in Very good+ condition. Original red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 6 X 9 1/2 inches. 345 pages which includes 5 pages of index. Copy has 112 black and white photographs and illustrations. Chapter topics include, fruit growing as an occupation, fruit introduction and improvement, propagation-part 1, propagation-part II, soils, locations and plantings, irrigation and drainage, soil management and fertilization, pollination and fruit thinning, pruning deciduous fruit trees, insects of fruit crops. diseases of fruit crops, spraying and dusting, the pome fruit, the stone fruit, grape culture, strawberry culture, cane and bush fruit culture, nut culture, harvesting, grading and packing and marketing fruit.

Random House, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives.

Random House, 2007. Hardcover. Like New/Very Good+. 6x1x9. For years, Taleb has studied how we fool ourselves into thinking we know more than we actually do. We restrict our thinking to the irrelevant and inconsequential, while large events continue to surprise us and shape our world. In this revelatory book, Taleb explains everything we know about what we don’t know, and this second edition features a new philosophical and empirical essay, “On Robustness and Fragility,” which offers tools to navigate and exploit a Black Swan world. Elegant, startling, and universal in its applications, The Black Swan will change the way you look at the world. Taleb is a vastly entertaining writer, with wit, irreverence, and unusual stories to tell. He has a polymathic command of subjects ranging from cognitive science to business to probability theory. The Black Swan is a landmark book—itself a black swan.

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2005. Softcover. Like New. 5x0x7. Fooled by Randomness is the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. Nassim Nicholas Taleb–veteran trader, renowned risk expert, polymathic scholar, erudite raconteur, and New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan–has written a modern classic that turns on its head what we believe about luck and skill. This book is about luck–or more precisely, about how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business. Set against the backdrop of the most conspicuous forum in which luck is mistaken for skill–the world of trading–Fooled by Randomness provides captivating insight into one of the least understood factors in all our lives. Writing in an entertaining narrative style, the author tackles major intellectual issues related to the underestimation of the influence of happenstance on our lives.

Lyons Press, 1986. Hard cover. Like New/Very Good. An introduction to the tools, materials, and techniques of fly tying - by an acknowledged master.

Automobile Club of Southern California, 2000. Trade paperback. Very Good. In Very Good+ condition. .

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8x8x0. An x-library copy. A book on nature for children, from a prize winning etcher and artist. Describes a year in the life of a red squirrel as she mates twice and brings up two sets of babies.