Search Results: Authors starting with F from Palimpsest Scholarly Books

Volume, measuring approximately 5" x 7.5", is bound in dark blue cloth, with stamped gilt letterng to spine. Book shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Previous owner's name appears at top of front flyleaf. Interior is otherwise clean and without markings. 404 pages.

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and without markings. Text in Chinese. 231 pages.

First edition. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 4.75" x 7.25", is like new. 95 pages."In the twenty-first century, the idea of race in sports is rapidly changing. The National Basketball Association, for instance, was recently home to a new kind of racial conflict. After a recent playoff loss, Houston head coach Jeff Van Gundy alleged that Yao Ming, his Chinese star center, was the victim of phantom calls, or refereeing decisions that may have been ethnically biased. Grant Farred here shows how this incident can be seen as a pivotal moment in the globalization of the NBA. With some forty percent of its players coming from foreign nations, the idea of race in the NBA has become increasingly multifaceted. Farred explains how allegations of phantom calls such as Van Gundy's challenge the fiction that America is a post-racial society and compel us to think in new ways about the nexus of race and racism in America."

Volume is bound in dark gray cloth, with gilt-lettered black spine label. Book and dust jacket display very light shelfwear. Pages are clean and bright. 210 pages.

Biblioteca Románica Hispánica IV, Textos, 3. Enlarged second edition ("segunda edicion muy ampliada"). Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 6" x 8", and displays light shelfwear, with sunning to spine. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 408 pages.

Populyarnoe izdanie" Volume, measuring approximately 4.5" x 6.75", is bound in orange cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Ornamental design is blind stamped on front cover. Book shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and without markings. This edition has numerous b&w photographic illustrations. 173 pages.Russian-language biography of Russian composer and virtuoso pianist Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (1872-1915) by Soviet music historian and composer I. F. Belza (1904-1994).

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8", shows very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 276 pages.

A National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report. First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9.25", displays light shelfwear, with sunning and very mild creasing to spine. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. x/823 pages."Destined to become the standard guide to the economic policy of the United States during the Reagan era, this book provides an authoritative record of the economic reforms of the 1980s.In his introduction, Martin Feldstein provides compelling analysis of policies with which he was closely involved as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers during the Reagan administration: monetary and exchange rate policy, tax policy, and budget issues. Other leading economists and policymakers examine a variety of domestic and international issues, including monetary and exchange rate policy, regulation and antitrust, as well as trade, tax, and budget policies.The contributors to this volume are Alberto Alesina, Phillip Areeda, Elizabeth Bailey, William… Read More

Yale French Studies, 55/56. Second printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", shows moderate shelfwear, with crease along front spine edge and sunning to spine/cover edges. Binding is sound. Name and date of previous owner appear at top of title page. Pages are clean and bright. 507 pages.
Contents:"Desire and the Interpretation of Desire in "Hamlet"" by Jacques Lacan; ""Hamlet": A Writing-Effect" by Daniel Sibony; "Turning the Screw of Interpretation" by Shoshana Felman; "The Letter as Cutting Edge" by Gayatari Chakravorty Spivak; "The Double Play of Arnaut Daniel's "Sestina" and Dante's "Divina Commedia"" by Roger Dragonetti; "Perceval" by Charles Mela; "Freud's Masterplot: Questions of Narrative" by Peter Brooks; "Freud's Writing on Writing" by Jean-Michel Rey; "Freud's Hand" by Philippe Sollers; "Imaginary and Symbolic in Lacan: Marxism, Psychoanalytic Criticism, and the Problem of the Subject" by Frederic Jameson; "The Other and the One: Psychoanalysis, Reading, "The Symposium""… Read More

Large-format softcover volume, measuring approximately 9" x 10.25", is like new. 77 pages.
"Since the 1980s, with the advent of multiple public crises such as AIDS, homelessness, the politics of sexual identity and abortion rights, the bed has taken on a greater symbolic weight, becoming a pivotal metaphor for the intersection of private and public boundaries."Catalogue of a traveling exhibition organized and circulated by Independent Curators Incorporated; held at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, and other galleries or museums.Contributors include Perry BardJanet BiggsJames CasebereMel ChinLynne CohenCaryl DavisBob Flanagan and Sheree RoseRenʹee GreenOliver HerringDale KistemakerLauren LeskoDonald LipskiAntonio MartorellAnn MessnerCurtis MitchellLorie NovakRona PondickDavid ReedElaine ReichekCatherine Saalfield and Zoe LeonardJana SterbakRirkrit TiravanijaCarrie Mae WeemsTom Zwerver

Volume is bound in black cloth, with stamped white lettering to spine. Book shows light shelfwear. Pages are clean and bright. 176 pages.

Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 9.5" x 11.5", is new, with illustrated dust jacket, still in shrinkwrap. 192 pages.A celebration of the best of the National Trust's exquisite ceramic collection.

Serie Memoria y Testimonio. First edition. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 7.25", displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 119 pages.

Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 7.25" x 8.75", is in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright interior. Profusely illustrated.Discussion of middle class family life in Argentina in the late 19th and early 20th century, with chapters devoted to, among other topics, the cafes of Buenos Aires, Italian neighborhoods of the capital, homes and gardens as the construction of domesticity, childhood in urban spaces, the opera and circus in turn-of-the-century Buenos Aires, and the development of consumerism between 1860 and 1940. 364 pages.

Colección Narrativa. Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is like new. 250 pages.Initially published in 1997, this is the second novel by Argentine author J. Fernández Díaz (b. 1960)."Borges hace las veces de Watson en esta novela de aventuras, suspenso y humor en la que Sherlock Holmes debe desbaratar una extraña conspiración inspirada en José de San Martín y Juan Manuel de Rosas. El dilema de los próceres es un thriller sorprendente, plagado de vueltas de tuerca, con claves históricas y culturales. Aquí el detective de Baker Street debe buscar pistas en Londres, Boulogne Sur-Mer y, finalmente, en la Buenos Aires de principios del siglo pasado: una ciudad peligrosa acechada por cuchilleros, espadachines y militares capaces de todo, donde juegan roles inquietantes Victoria Ocampo, Evaristo Carriego y hasta Horacio Quiroga. Diez años después de su primera aparición, vuelve a la vida esta asombrosa trama que, como dijo Tomás Eloy Martínez, "es una formidable… Read More

Colección Narrativa. Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 6.25" x 9", is like new. 266 pages.Short story collection by Argentine journalist and writer J. Fernandez Diaz (b. 1960)."Los seis relatos del libro fueron escritos por Jorge Fernández Díaz en los años 80 a partir de los materiales que no le publicaban en los diarios y conforman un mosaico que concentra, acaso, lo más urgente y vertiginoso de su obra aunque reelaborado con toda su pericia narrativa. Una montaña rusa, una verdadera experiencia que retrata, desde la literatura, la siempre enigmática realidad argentina."

Biblioteca Románica Hispánica II: estudios y ensayos, 223. Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 6" x 8.25", displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. 272 pages.This study aims to examine the influence the poetry of Paul Verlaine had on Spanish writers at the turn of the century and considers the work of Rubén Darío, Unamuno, the Machado brothers, Azorín, Baroja, Benavente, Valle-Inclán, and others.

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in black paper spine and boards, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xi/314 pages."In the 1930s, the French Third Republic banned naturalized citizens from careers in law and medicine for up to ten years after they had obtained French nationality. In 1940, the Vichy regime permanently expelled all lawyers and doctors born of foreign fathers and imposed a 2 percent quota on Jews in both professions. On the basis of extensive archival research, Julie Fette shows in Exclusions that doctors and lawyers themselves, despite their claims to embody republican virtues, persuaded the French state to enact this exclusionary legislation. At the crossroads of knowledge and power, lawyers and doctors had long been dominant forces in French society: they ran hospitals and courts, doubled as university professors, held posts in parliament and government, and administered justice… Read More

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.75", is in fine condition, with sound binding, clean and bright interior. xi/219 pages."In the 1990s China embarked on a series of political reforms intended to increase, however modestly, political participation to reduce the abuse of power by local officials. Although there was initial progress, these reforms have largely stalled and, in many cases, gone backward. If there were sufficient incentives to inaugurate reform, why wasn't there enough momentum to continue and deepen them? This book approaches this question by looking at a number of promising reforms, understanding the incentives of officials at different levels, and the way the Chinese Communist Party operates at the local level. The short answer is that the sort of reforms necessary to make local officials more responsible to the citizens they govern cut too deeply into the organizational structure of the party."

Volume is bound in brown cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book shows light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Pages are clean and bright. Dust jacket displays very mild shelfwear. 264 pages.