Search Results: Authors starting with A from Palimpsest Scholarly Books

Penn State Series in the History of the Book. Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", and dust jacket are new, still in shrinkwrap. xiv/218 pages.A biography of the early American printer William Parks. Examines his early career in England as well as his later work in Colonial Maryland and Virginia. Focuses on the print culture on both sides of the Atlantic as well as the societal pressures on printing and publishing.

Second edition. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.75", is bound in original printed wrappers, with pictorial design depicting vase illustration on front cover. Book shows minor edge wear. Binding is sound. Blank pages at front and rear of volume display foxing. Previous owner's name appears at top of half title page. Pages are otherwise clean and bright. This work has numerous textual illustrations. 113 pages.

Edited by Usher Caplan and M. W. Steinberg. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.5", displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. xxix/424 pages."The passionately held views of A.M. Klein are focused in these essays on literature and the arts. Ranging from the formally theoretical to the intensely personal, they reflect the enthusiasm and the conviction characteristic of all Klein's writing. Among the subjects that come under the critic's unblinking eye are various genres of Jewish literature, illuminating not only on their own terms but also for what they reveal about Klein's Jewish poems. There are also essays on Canadian, American, English, and European literature as general subjects, and others on specific works and individual writers, including the acclaimed articles on James Joyce. Throughout this collection is heard a critical voice sharpened with erudition and enriched with emotion. The essays are framed with an introduction, which presents a… Read More

Second edition. Miniature volume, measuring approximately 3.5" x 4.5", is bound in dark blue leatherette, with stamped silver lettering to spine and front cover. Volume is in fine condition. Dust jacket displays minor wear. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. Illustrated with color reproductions of Russian icons. 223 pages.

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is like new. ix/200 pages."Colonized and coerced, raped and silenced - this has been the position of Haitian women within their own society, as well as how they have been seen by foreign occupiers. Romanticized symbols of nationhood, they have served, however unwillingly, as a politicized site of contestation between opposing forces. In this first book-length study in English devoted exclusively to Haitian women's literature, Myriam Chancy finds that Haitian women have their own history, traditions, and stories to tell, tales that they are unwilling to suppress or subordinate to narratives of national autonomy. Issues of race, class, color, caste, nationality, and sexuality are all central to their fiction - as is an urgent sense of the historical place of women between the two U.S. occupations of the country. Their novels interrogate women's social and political stances in Haiti from an explicitly female point of view, forcefully responding to… Read More

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is in fine condition. xxv/246 pages."Home. Exile. Return. Words heavy with meaning and passion. For Myriam Chancy, these three themes animate the lives and writings of dispossessed Afro-Caribbean women. Understanding exile as flight from political persecution or types of oppression that single out women, Chancy concentrates on diasporic writers and filmmakers who depict the vulnerability of women to poverty and exploitation in their homelands and their search for safe refuge. These Afro-Caribbean feminists probe the complex issues of race, nationality, gender, sexuality, and class that limit women's lives.They portray the harsh conditions that all too commonly drive women into exile, depriving them of security and a sense of belonging in their adopted countries the United States, Canada, or England. As they rework traditional literary forms, artists such as Joan Riley, Beryl Gilroy, M. Nourbese Philip, Dionne Brand, Makeda Silvera, Audre Lorde,… Read More

Large-format hardcover volume, measuring approximately 8.5" x 10.5", displays light shelfwear, with minor scuffing at top/bottom of spine and at outside corners. Binding is firm. Profusely illustrated with b&w photos. Text and captions are bilingual in Russian and English."Till recent time the Golden Gates in the Suzdal Cathedral of the Nativity were not studied in detail and the significance of this monument could not be fully understood. However the gates are important not only as a masterpiece of monumental art but also as a unique atlas of iconography of twelfth-thirteenth centuries" (sic).

Volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.75", is bound in white cloth, with stamped red lettering to spine. Book is in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright pages. Dustjacket exhibits light shelfwear. xiii/178 pages."Blowup," says Armando Prats, is one of the necessary movies.It is a "living expression of the transition into the newnarrative domains" in terms of man's "new vision of himselfas a narrative creature in a world whose very essense iscinematic narration." Prats's work on the new humanisminherent in postwar filmmaking is a rewarding work withimplications for the fields of esthetics and axiology as wellas film criticism. In his analyses of four films by threedirectors -- Fellini's "Director's Notebook" and "TheClowns," Wertmiller's "Seven Beauties," Antonioni's "Blowup"-- Prats shows the the contrasts between the conventional,world-bound narrative methods of the past and the newnarrative in which images are fre to display their energiesflly, to lead the eye beyond rational… Read More

Compiled by Elena Bonner. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5" x 8", displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. Illustrated with b&w photos. 335 pages.
"Книга академика, лауреата Нобелевской премии Мира, народного деятеля СССР А. Д. Сахарова содержит основные общественно-политические работы, написанные за 22 года активной публицистической и правозащитной деятельности. В разделе Интервью помещены интервью с А. Д. Сахаровым, опубликованные в советской прессе за последний год 1989."("This book by Soviet academic and Nobel Prize laureate Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (1921-1989) brings together the main socio-political works written over 22 years of active journalistic and human rights activities.… Read More

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.75", exhibits light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. Illustrated with b&w in-text illustrations and plates with color reproductions.Russian-language historical study of the taverns and restaurants of the former Russian capital. 285 pages.

This title is from the series "Russkii put". Volume is bound in green cloth, with bright stamped gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Book shows light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Pages are clean and without markings. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author. 871 pages.

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.5", is like new. 155 pages. This book presents the first comprehensive analysis of the debate over how the United States and its allies can counter China's rapidly growing military power.

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in black cloth, with stamped white lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xi/268 pages.
"Drawing from both familiar and overlooked sources, such as the personal diaries of Southern travelers, papers and letters from civil engineers, corporate records, and contemporary newspaper accounts, Aaron W. Marrs skillfully expands on the conventional business histories that have characterized scholarship in this field. He situates railroads in the fullness of antebellum life, examining how slavery, technology, labor, social convention, and the environment shaped their evolution.

Far from seeing the Old South as backward and premodern, Marrs finds evidence of urban life, industry, and entrepreneurship throughout the region. But these signs of progress existed alongside efforts to preserve traditional ways of life. Railroads exemplified Southerners' pursuit of progress on their own terms:… Read More

First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is like new. xiv/266 pages."As the U.S. experience in Iraq following the 2003 invasion made abundantly clear, failure to properly plan for risks associated with postconflict stabilization and reconstruction can have a devastating impact on the overall success of a military mission. In "Waging War, Planning Peace," Aaron Rapport investigates how U.S. presidents and their senior advisers have managed vital non-combat activities while the nation is in the midst of fighting or preparing to fight major wars. He argues that research from psychology--specifically, construal level theory--can help explain how individuals reason about the costs of postconflict noncombat operations that they perceive as lying in the distant future. In addition to preparations for "Phase IV" in the lead-up to the Iraq War, Rapport looks at the occupation of Germany after World War II, the planned occupation of North Korea in 1950, and noncombat operations in… Read More

International Initiative Edition. First printing. Foreword by John Holloway. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9", is in fine condition, with sound binding, clean and bright pages. xix/400 pages.""The Sociology of Freedom" is the fascinating third volume of a five-volume work titled "The Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization." The general aim of the two earlier volumes was to clarify what power and capitalist modernity entailed. Here, Öcalan presents his stunningly original thesis of the democratic civilization, based on his criticism of capitalist modernity."

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.75", is bound in maroon paper spine and boards, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xiii/271 pages"Abigail L. Swingen's insightful study provides a new framework for understanding the origins of the British empire while exploring how England's original imperial designs influenced contemporary English politics and debates about labor, economy, and overseas trade. Focusing on the ideological connections between the growth of unfree labor in the English colonies—particularly the use of enslaved Africans—and the development of British imperialism during the early modern period, the author examines the overlapping and often competing agendas of planters, merchants, privateers, colonial officials, and imperial authorities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries."

Volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9", is bound in pale green cloth spine and paper-covered boards. Book displays light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Pages are clean and without markings. This essay collection contains illustrations and maps. Dust jacket shows light sheflwear. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xiv/193 pages.
Text is in Hebrew, second title page and short summary are in English.Contents:"The Biblical Historiography of the Period of the Kingdom" by B. Dinur;"Aspects of the Foreign Policies of David and Solomon" by A. Malamat;"The Administration in Ancient Israel (under David)" by S. Yeivin;"Hazor, Gezer, and Megiddo in Solomon's Times" by Y. Yadin;"The Districts of Israel and Judah" by Y. Aharoni;"The Kingdom of Aram and Its Relation to Israel" by B. Mazar;"Azariah of Judah in Assyrian Inscriptions" by H. Tadmor.

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.5", displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. English-language title appears on copyright page. 213 pages.

Introduction by Joseph Klausner. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in green cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine and gold emblem stamped on front cover. Book is in near fine condition. Annotation in Hebrew appears at top of front flyleaf and owner's name can be seen at top of title page. Pages are clean and bright. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author. Dust jacket exhibits light shelfwear. Added title in German is printed on verso of title page. Text is in Hebrew. 40/368 pages.Abraham Geiger (1810 – 1874) was a German rabbi and scholar, considered the founding father of Reform Judaism.

Serie Ensayo. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.5", is like new. Book analyzes the development of Latin American cultural studies from their origins in the eighties to the present, with particular focus on the period of expansion experienced in the nineties and the period of reflux experienced by the field in the aftermath of the theoretical, ideological and methodological crisis that reached its climax in 2001. 314 pages.