Search Results: Authors starting with B from Palimpsest Scholarly Books

First printing of revised and expanded edition. Large-format volume, measuring approximately 8.5" x 10.5", is bound in dark gray cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are like new. Lavishly illustrated. xx/506 pages."First published in 1984, "Silver Cities" rapidly became a classic in the history of photography and in the then-nascent field of visual culture studies. Now this vastly expanded edition presents a lively interdisciplinary history of the first century of urban photography in America. "Silver Cities" envisions the transformation of American civilization via mass-produced and mass-disseminated photography of cities made between 1839 and the onset of World War II.In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, urban photographers were visual explorers of the rapidly evolving urban sphere, but their understanding of that environment was defined by the prevailing cultural prejudices. To examine their visual products is to educate ourselves in the deepest concerns… Read More

Large-format hardcover volume, measuring approximately 9.25" x 11.5", is, together with dust jacket, new, still in shrinkwrap. 378 pages.
"The historic Carson & Colorado Railroad began life as a subsidiary of the famous Virginia & Truckee Railroad in 1880. In 1900 the Southern Pacific bought the line. This book presents a collection of detailed rosters, newly drawn plans, diagrams, and a very large collection of photographs of the narrow gauge locomotives of the C&S, the Nevada & California and the Southern Pacific narrow Gauge. Includes 563 photos, 83 of which are in color."

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.5", is in near fine condition, with two small dents at bottom of front cover. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. 204 pages.

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.75", is new. viii/199 pages.
"Although the body has been a vast subject for postcolonial studies, few theorists have attempted to go beyond the simple mixing of races in examining the impact of colonialism on the colonized body. However, as Deepika Bahri argues, it is essential to see the postcolonial body in a variety of forms: as capable of transformation not only in psyche and outward behavior but also in flesh and blood.
European colonizers brought new ways of seeing the body in matters as basic as how to eat, speak, sit, shit, or spit. As nations decolonized, these imperialistic ideas remained, becoming part of the global economy of the body. In "Postcolonial Biology," Bahri argues that the political challenges of the twenty-first century require that we deconstruct these imperial notions of the body, as they are fundamental to power structures governing today's globalized world.
"Postcolonial Biology" investigates how minds and bodies have been… Read More

Indiana Studies in Biblical Literature. Revised translation of "Femmes imaginaires: l'Ancien Testament au risque d'une narratologie critique" (HES, 1986). Second printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", displays mild shelfwear, with lightly bumped lower outside corner. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. vii/141 pages.""Lethal Love" is, in Mieke Bal's words, "first and foremost a study of biblical love stories and how we read them." Bal reads five familiar love stories from the Bible -- David and Bathsheba, Samson and Delilah, Ruth and Boaz, Judah and Tamar, and Adam and Eve. -- differently. In the past, readings of these stories have represented woman' love as lethal -- women are victimizers to be avoided lest one be killed by their love. Ball calls into question these interpretations of the past, revealinga patriarchal ideology of nterpretation that has dominated.Borrowing interpretive tools from semiotics and pyschoanalysis, Bal deconstructs this dominant… Read More

Lisson Gallery publication number 39. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.5", displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. Illustrated with plates with color illustrations. 191 pages.Catalogue published on occasion of the exhibition "Lili Dujourie: Early Works, 1969-1983.Lili Dujourie (b. 1941) is a Flemish visual artist who works primarily in sculptures, paintings, and video.

Bibliothèque de sociologie contemporaine. Revised and enlarged second edition. Volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 9.25", is bound in original printed wrappers. Book displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Previous owner's name appears at top of half title page. Partially-uncut pages are clean and without markings. xii/532 pages.

First printing.Voume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are in excellent condition, with firm binding, and clean, bright interior. xi/273 pages."Trade policy issues are no longer solely the concern of a few government specialists and academics. Manufacturers, businesspeople, educators, and government officials must keep abreast of laws and regulations relating to trade, the economic consequences of various trade measures, and current trends in policy, but there have been few coherent sources for such information. "Trade Policy in a Changing World Economy" provides a clear introduction to complex trade issues, covering theoretical issues of trade policy, the changing nature of American trade policy, the changing nature of American trade policy since World War II, multilateral trade negotiations, and trade strategies. The volume is particularly timely as the world's nations enter a new round of GATT negotiations for… Read More

Softcover volume displays light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Pages are clean and bright. 226 pages.

First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6,25" x 9.25", is new. xiii/222 pages.""Undoing the Revolution" looks at the way rural underclasses ally with out-of-power elites to overthrow their governments—only to be shut out of power when the new regime assumes control. Vasabjit Banerjee first examines why peasants need to ally with dissenting elites in order to rebel. He then shows how conflict resolution and subsequent bargains to form new state institutions re-empower allied elites and re-marginalize peasants. Banerjee evaluates three different agrarian societies during distinct time periods spanning the twentieth century: revolutionary Mexico from 1910 to 1930; late-colonial India from 1920 until 1947; and White-dominated Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) from the mid-1960s to 1980. This comparative approach also allows examination of both the underclass need for elite participation and the variety of causes that elites use to incentivize peasant classes to participate, extending from… Read More

First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is new. xii/200 pages.
"This book is concerned with the aporias, or impasses, of forgiveness, especially in relation to the legacy of the crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II. Banki argues that, while forgiveness of the Holocaust is and will remain impossible, we cannot rest upon that impossibility. Rather, the impossibility of forgiveness must be thought in another way. In an epoch of "worldwidization," we may not be able simply to escape the violence of scenes and rhetoric that repeatedly portray apology, reconciliation, and forgiveness as accomplishable acts.

Accompanied by Jacques Derrida's thought of forgiveness of the unforgivable, and its elaboration in relation to crimes against humanity, the book undertakes close readings of literary, philosophical, and cinematic texts by Simon Wiesenthal, Jean Améry, Vladimir Jankélévitch, Robert Antelme and Eva Mozes Kor.… Read More

Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in light gray cloth, with orange lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. xvii/253 pages.This work "sets out to recapture the creole speech of early Jamaican society by analyzing rare 18th- and 19th-century documents in their sociohistorical contexts and calls for a reconsideration of some entrenched approaches to creole linguistics."

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.75", is bound in gray paper spine and boards, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xv/416 pages."In the face of the most perilous challenges of our time—climate change, terrorism, poverty, and trafficking of drugs, guns, and people—the nations of the world seem paralyzed. The problems are too big, too interdependent, too divisive for the nation-state. Is the nation-state, once democracy's best hope, today democratically dysfunctional? Obsolete? The answer, says Benjamin Barber in this highly provocative and original book, is yes. Cities and the mayors who run them can do and are doing a better job. Barber cites the unique qualities cities worldwide share: pragmatism, civic trust, participation, indifference to borders and sovereignty, and a democratic penchant for networking, creativity, innovation, and cooperation. He demonstrates how city mayors, singly and jointly, are… Read More

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.25", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 359 pages.
Second book by French novelist Muriel Barbery (b. 1969), which was awarded numerous prizes, including the 2007 French Booksellers Prize. This title quickly sold more than a million copies in several countries and was turned into a 2009 film called "Le Hérisson" (in English "The Hedgehog"), directed by Mona Achache.

Twentieth Century Views. Second printing. Volume is bound in black cloth, with faded gilt lettering to spine. Book shows light shelfwear. Top edge of text block is lightly soiled. Binding is firm. Title page has minor foxing. Pages are clean and bright. Dust jacket exhibits shelfwear. 180 pages.

First edition ("Erstes bis drittes Tausend"). With an introduction by Paul Fechter. Large-format volume, measuring approximately 8.25" x 11", is bound in oatmeal cloth, with stamped dark brown lettering to spine and front cover. Title appears stamped in black on front cover. Book displays moderate shelfwear, with sunning to spine and edges of covers. Binding is firm. Endpapers, half title page and verso of final plate show (significant) foxing. Scattered light foxing can be seen in pages following or preceding the above. Introductory text and plates are largely devoid of foxing and have no markings. Leaf with relevant titles in publisher's catalogue is laid in. 22 pages plus 56 plates with full-page reproductions.
Though German sculptor, writer and graphic artist Ernst Barlach (1870-1938) is particularly known for its wooden sculptures and bronzes, he also left behind a diverse range of prints, drawings and literature. His work has been characterized as being influenced by both realism and expressionism.

Die Bücher der Neunzehn, Band 71. "Einmalige Sonderausgabe". Volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.75", is bound in light green cloth, with yellow lettering to dark green spine label. Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 479 pages.
"This comprehensive selection from Ernst Barlach's complete poetic works aims to provide the reader with a work that is one of the belated discoveries of our century in the field of literature: in terms of rank, fullness and originality, it is one of the great achievements in the German language, on a par with Barlach's artistic work. The texts reproduced here are based on the three-volume complete edition published by Piper Verlag...The selection offers the main pieces of Barlach's poetry and at the same time aims to make certain stages of its development visible."

Softcover is as new. Contributions by Barnard, Fernando Birri, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar, Edgardo Cozarinksy, Octavio Getino, Alfonso Gumucio Dagron. 177 pages.

Contributions by Barnard, Fernando Birri, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar, Edgardo Cozarinksy, Octavio Getino, Alfonso Gumucio Dagron. 177 pages.

Wege der Forschung, Volume CCCLVIII. Volume is bound in light gray cloth with stamped green lettering to spine and front cover. Book is well preserved. Pages are clean and bright. 597 pages.