Search Results: Authors starting with O from Palimpsest Scholarly Books

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.5", is bound in green cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Tiny knick appears at bottom of front cover. Book is otherwise in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright interior. Dust jacket, with price sticker at bottom of rear panel, displays light shelfwear. xxi/344 pages.

Cornell East Asia series, 160 / New Japanese horizons. Translation by Michiko N. Wilson & Michael K. Wilson of "Naku tori no" (Kodansha, 1985). Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is new, still in shrinkwrap.In this psychological novel, memories spawn tales within tales and seemingly disparate elements are woven into a tapestry of extraordinary moments that reveals the author's penetrating observations on the interdependency of humanity and nature in its wholeness. xiii/251 pages.

Volume is bound in dark blue cloth with white lettering to spine and front cover. Book and dust jacket are as new. Volume has map endpapers and is profusely illustrated with b&w photos and maps. 321 pages.

Collection "Essais". Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.5", shows light shelfwear. Binding is solid. Pages are clean and without markings. 149 pages."Le blockbuster, c'est de l'explosif. A l'origine du mot, une bombe utilisée pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, capable de détruire tout un pâté de maisons. Et il n'y a sans doute pas d'image plus typique du blockbuster que celle d'une gigantesque explosion. Les déflagrations dont il s'agit dans ce livre ne sont pas uniquement celles que racontent les films. Produit grand public, confectionné grâce à d'immenses investissements financiers, le blockbuster s'apparente à une bombe à fragmentation, pulvérisant l'objet filmique dans des contextes de consommation qui n'ont plus rien à voir avec le cinéma, se diffractant sur le marché mondial sous forme de produits dérivés, T-shirts, figurines et autres gadgets. Sept auteurs, philosophes et critiques, se sont penchés sur quelques blockbusters de leur choix. A chaque fois, les… Read More

First printing. Hardcover volume is bound in black cloth, with bright stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is well preserved. Previous owner's inscription appears on front flyleaf. Pages are clean and bright. Dust jacket is preserved in paper-backed mylar.

Large-format volume (10" x 13.25") is bound in white cloth, with stamped black lettering to spine and front cover. Color pastedown showing building can be seen on front cover. Book is as new. Numerous color illustrations, b&w sketches & plans. Title is in German; text is bilingual in Italian and English. 185 pages.Work on architects Heinz Hilmer (1931- ) and Christoph Sattler (1938- ) and their architecture firm in Munich, founded in 1974.

Collection Archives, 92. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 7.75", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and without markings. 235 pages.French-language study of the Muslim Brotherhood, a transnational Sunni Islamist organization founded in Egypt by Islamic scholar and schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna in 1928, as well as the Islamic movement in Syria from 1963-1982.

World Dramatist Series. First paperback edition. Translation from the German by Peter Tirner. Volume, measuring approximately, 5" x 8", is in fine condition. Eight pages of halftone illustrations. vii/150 pages.

First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", shows light shelfwear, with small white price sticker to bottom of rear cover. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. xiii/255 pages."Just four months after Richard Nixon's resignation, New York Times reporter Seymour Hersh unearthed a new case of government abuse of power: the CIA had launched a domestic spying program of Orwellian proportions against American dissidents during the Vietnam War. The country's best investigative journalists and members of Congress quickly mobilized to probe a scandal that seemed certain to rock the foundations of this secret government. Subsequent investigations disclosed that the CIA had plotted to kill foreign leaders and that the FBI had harassed civil rights and student groups. Some called the scandal 'son of Watergate.' Many observers predicted that the investigations would lead to far-reaching changes in the intelligence agencies. Yet, as Kathryn Olmsted shows, neither the media nor… Read More

Volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9", is bound in burgundy cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is in excellent condition, with firm binding, clean and bright pages. Text appears in double columns, with in-text and full-page illustrations. Dust jacket displays light shelfwear."Verzeichnisse fremdsprachiger Termini" appear on pages 452-479. 495 pages plus 48 unnumbered pages of plates.German-language reference work on the liturgy and art of the Orthodox Eastern Church.

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.25", is bound in cloth, with a red, white and blue checkered pattern. Book has a black marking to bottom edge of text block and is otherwise in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright interior. xxiii/753 pages."In this groundbreaking anthology, celebrated food writer Molly O'Neill gathers the very best from over 250 years of American culinary history. This literary feast includes classic accounts of iconic American foods: Henry David Thoreau on the delights of watermelon; Herman Melville, with a mouth-watering chapter on clam chowder; H. L. Mencken on the hot dog; M. F. K. Fisher in praise of the oyster; Ralph Ellison on the irresistible appeal of baked yam; William Styron on Southern fried chicken. American writers abroad, like A. J. Liebling, Waverly Root, and Craig Claiborne, describe the revelations they found in foreign restaurants; travellers to America, including the legendary French gourmet J. A. Brillat-Savarin, discover… Read More

Large-format volume, measuring approximately 9.75" x 12.5", is bound in pale green paper spine and boards, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Edges of text block display scattered light foxing. Book is otherwise in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright pages. Dust jacket, with price of $30 on front flap, shows light wear at edges. Jacket is preserved in mylar. 184 pages.
""The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam" provoked a fierce reaction from the moment of the publication of its earlier sections in 1773. Personalities as divergent as George III and Horace Walpole found its assertively self-confident tone intolerable, but however hostile this initial reception may have been, the importance of the first volume, issued in complete form in 1778, soon became apparent to all unbiased observers. A second volume appeared in 1779, followed by a third, posthumous one in 1822."The Works" set out clearly Robert and James Adam's aesthetic credo and stake their claim to having… Read More

Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.25", is bound inoriginal printed wrappers. This conference publication showsvery light shelfwear. Interior is clean and bright. 279 pages.Proceedings of an International Conference on Microbiologyand Conservation (ICMC '99) held June 16-19, 1999 at theTribuna di Galileo, Museo della Specola, Florence, Italy.

iblioteca de Bolsillo. Two volumes. Edition, introduction and annotations by José Lara Garrido. Softcover volumes, each measuring approximately 5" x 7.75", are new. 596/492 pages.
"En "San Juan de la Cruz y la mística del Barroco" se recogen los más relevantes estudios y ensayos de Emilio Orozco Díaz que versan sobre materias cohesionadas por el amplio concepto operativo de mística, como conjunto de "experiencias de la vida espiritual con todos sus grados y su correspondiente expresión", y organizados en torno a dos obras clásicas: Poesía y mística. Introducción a la lírica de San Juan de la Cruz y Mística, plástica y Barroco. La eficacia de una singular perspectiva que libera a la obra sanjuanista de la interpretación como sistema y de la polaridad reductora de las "laderas" es tan relevante como la percepción de su lírica en tanto que actividad enraizada en un ambiente y "autenticó cántico". Las estrechas conexiones de mística, literatura y plástica se desentrañan, con un… Read More

Cuadernos de Anuario Filosófico, Serie de Filosofía Española, No. 11. Issue inscribed by author to Cornell Hispanist Ciriaco Morón Arroyo. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.5", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 68 pages.Inscription appears on title page."José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) desarrolló una teoria del cuerpo humano, estrechamente vinculada a la de Max Scheler, aunque superior en amplitud y riqueza de matices. Exige el examen del cuerpo humano desde múltiples puntos de vista, y el perspectivismo matiza y enriquece sus meditaciones sobre el cuerpo desde 1911 hasta 1950. Ortega profetizó una "gigante reivindicación" del cuerpo humano en Occidente del siglo XX, y contribuyó a iniciar la filosofía actual de la corporalidad en España".

Collection Feuillets. Author-signed first edition. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.5", displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. Lengthy inscription to Professor Joan Ramon Resina, signed by author, appears on first blank page. 199 pages.

Third edition. Prologue by Alfonso Reyes. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.75", shows very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and without markings. 455 pages.
Contents: La socialidad de la música africanaLos bailes de los negrosLa pantomima entre los negrosEl teatro de los negros.

First printing of first US edition. Edited by Peter Davison. Introduction by Christopher Hitchens. Volume is bound in red paper-covered boards and red cloth spine with stamped dark lettering. Facsimile of Orwell's signature and publisher's emblem are stamped on front cover. Book and dust jacket are new. 597 pages.

First printing of first US edition. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in red cloth, with stamped gilt lettering and pictorial design to spine. Book is like new. Dust jacket exhibits very light shelfwear. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. x/851 pages."Richard Osborne draws on his own extensive conversations with Karajan, interviews with those who knew the conductor, and a treasure trove of primary sources to bring into focus the flamboyance and flaws of an extraordinary musician as well as the turbulent international music scene over six decades. The author debunks many legends about Karajan, particularly those relating to his membership in the Nazi Party, which he opportunistically joined in 1935 to obtain a conducting appointment. While the decision haunted him throughout his life, Karajan's career flourished after the war. A jet-setting superstar, he once held, simultaneously, six of the world's most prestigious musical posts, including director of the Salzburg Festival,… Read More

Second edition, revised and corrected. Prologue by Mariano Mores. Large-format softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 7.25" x 10.5" and shows light shelfwear. Bottom of spine is taped. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. Textual illustrations. 283 pages.This work offers commentary on the lyrics, musicians and lesser known aspects of the tango and its rich culture.