ISBN: 9780865475427 - where the roots reach for water: a personal & natural history of melancholia (25 resultados)

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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. Winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir Jeffery Smith was living in Missoula, Montana, working as a psychiatric case manager when his own clinical depression began. Eventually, all his prescribed antidepressant medications proved ineffective. Unlike so many personal accounts, Where the Roots Reach for Water tells the story of what happened to Smith after he decided to give them up. Trying to learn how to make a life with his illness, Smith sets out to get at the essence of--using the old term for depression--melancholia. Deftly woven into his personal history is a natural history of this ancient illness. Drawing on centuries of art, writing and medical treatises, Smith finds ancient links between melancholia and spirituality, love and sex, music and philosophy, gardening, and, importantly, our relationship with landscapes. …

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Condición: Very Good. Stated First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. …

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Hardback. Condición: Very Good. Winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir Jeffery Smith was living in Missoula, Montana, working as a psychiatric case manager when his own clinical depression began. Eventually, all his prescribed antidepressant medications proved ineffective. Unlike so many personal accounts, Where the Roots Reach for Water tells the story of what happened to Smith after he decided to give them up. Trying to learn how to make a life with his illness, Smith sets out to get at the essence of--using the old term for depression--melancholia. Deftly woven into his personal history is a natural history of this ancient illness. Drawing on centuries of art, writing and medical treatises, Smith finds ancient links between melancholia and spirituality, love and sex, music and philosophy, gardening, and, importantly, our relationship with landscapes. …

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First edition. Book is clean. Pages have no markings. Front of jacket is worn slightly. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. A writer's journey to psychological healing traces his decision to forgo medication for depression and pursue the roots of melancholia, a journey that leads him finally to a lasting relationship and healing with his family in Appalachia. Tour. Former library book. Mylar protector included. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Noticable fading due to exposure to sunlight. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library. …

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First edition. A fine book in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket has light wear around the extremities. Sec 37D.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine Dust Jacket. 2nd Printing. (10)292pp.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Where the Roots Reach for Water: A Personal & Natural History of Melancholia This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good.

Hard. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st. First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Published NY: North Point, 1999. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

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Hardback. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Signed by author on title page.

Hardcover. Condición: Like New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Like New. 1st Edition. 292 pp. Flawless, fresh, sharp, tight copy with crisp pages and clean text. Lynn Buckley (Jacket Design) (ilustrador).

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. A memoir encompassing a rich sampling of mythology, natural history, biography, cultural studies, and iconography, this book tells what happens when a psychiatric case manager decides to stop taking antidepressants and get at the essence of melancholia. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. New book, unmarked, in lightly rubbed DJ.; 1 x 9.4 x 6.4 Inches; 292 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good+. First Edition. Signed by the Author sticker on front dust jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Owner name.; 1 x 9.4 x 6.4 Inches; 292 pages.

First Edition. First Edition. Association Copy, INSCRIBED on the title page to author Chris Offutt: "For Chris / Neighbor, friend / with gratitude for all you've taught me [and] with thanks and admiration for all of your own books / All the best / Jeff / September 17th, 1999 / Iowa City." Offutt is the author of "Kentucky Straight" and other short story collections, novels, nonfiction, and memoirs. In 1996, he was named one of the twenty Best Young American Novelists by "Granta" magazine. He has also written for popular television shows and national publications, has been visiting faculty at numerous institutions including the Iowa Writer's Workshop, and has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and others. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Signed.…

hardcover. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.