Search Results: Authors starting with R from Palimpsest Scholarly Books

Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in brown cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Name of previous owner is written at top of front flyleaf. Book is otherwise in fine condition, with firm binding, clean and bright interior. Dust jacket had faded spine and mild rubbing. xiv/726 pages."In the first part of the book, the intrinsic properties of the materials have been presented, after the necessary introduction, with only limited comment. A much fuller account was necessary in the latter part of the book, which deals with parameters such as permeability, coercivity, resonance, linewidth and switching speeds, which depend upon a combination of the intrinsic properties and other factors, such as specimen size and shape, purity and microstructure."

Second edition. Edited from a unique Ms. with emendations, notes, introduction and indexes by I. Tishby. Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 6" x 9", displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. English-language title on added title page: "Commentary on Talmudic Aggadoth." 200 pages.

Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. Texte établi et annoté par Jacques Boulenger. Volume, measuring approximately 4.5" x 7.25", is bound in original gilt-lettered brown leather binding. Book is in fine condition. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright, with silver silk page marker. Includes bibliography. 1045 pages.

Two volumes. "Edition reproduisant le texte et les illustrations de la première édition donnée par Robida et ornée de 16 hors-texte en heliogravure. Introduction par Octave Uzanne." 494/484/viii pages.Two-volume set is bound in original printed wrappers. Books show mild external wear, with browning to upper portions of spines. Bindings are sound. Pages are clean and bright. Lavishly illustrated edition of the works of Rabelais.

Occasional Publications of the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Program of Jewish Studies, Cornell University. Edited with afterwords by Ross Brann and David I. Owen. Volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.5", is bound in red cloth, with gilt-lettered black compartments to spine and front cover. Front cover also displays lettering and characters stamped in gold. Book is new. xvii/148 pages.

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 8.5", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. xv/126 pages."Here is the first volume ever to focus on the issues of Jewish women in the context of counseling and psychotherapy. Through poignant reflection and observation, the authors convey the richness and variety of Jewish women's experiences and the Jewishness and femaleness of the concerns, issues, values, and attitudes that Jewish women--both clients and therapists--bring into the therapy room. "Jewish Women in Therapy" is a landmark book in many ways. It calls attention to the historical and political realities of the Jewish heritage and acknowledges the oppression of both Jews and women that therapists have typically ignored. And although Jewish women have participated in the therapeutic process, as clients, scholars, and therapists, seldom have they chosen to write about it. Never before have the writings of so many distinguished leaders in the field, including… Read More

Edited by P. Lamm. Large-format volume, measuring approximately 9.25" x 12", is bound in gray cloth, with dark blue stamped lettering to spine and front cover. Tear is visible along mid-section of front spine edge. Book is otherwise well preserved. Illustrated with a frontispiece photographic portrait of the author. 326 pages.This work contains the musical scores, with Russian lyrics, for all the songs for piano written by Russian composer and virtuoso pianist Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (1873-1943).

Volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.5", is bound in black paper spine and dark gray paper-covered boards, with stamped red lettering to spine. Book shows light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. Dust jacket, in mylar cover, is in fine condition. x/359 pages.""Washington and Cornwallis" is a gripping narrative of the defeats and narrow victories that won the States' independence from the English crown. Patterson chronicles the battles waged between General George Washington and Lieutenant General Charles Lord Cornwallis, and examines their methods of command and their controversial military decisions, and ultimately brings into focus the personalities of these two pivotal Revolutionary War generals."

Book Club edition. Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.75", is bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book displays light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. Intact dust jacket shows light soiling and very minor loss can be seen at bottom edge of spine panel. Small white price sticker appears in lower outside corner of front panel. xvi/460 pages.""My Soul Is Rested" grew from a Southern newspaperman's conviction that there is indeed a New South and that the Civil Rights movement created it. For a year and a half, political reporter Howell Raines tracked down and interviewed the people who had shaped the Movement as leaders and followers -- and as opponents. The result is an oral history that sweeps with stunning force from the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 to the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968."

Colección Historia. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9", displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. 187 pages.Study devoted to sanitation and public health in Argentina during the Peronist era.

Colección Ensayo/Biografía. First printing of revised and enlarged edition. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5" x 7.5", displays light shelfwear, with small crease to lower outside corner of front cover. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. Illustrated with a sixteen-page section of b&w photos. 760 pages."Numerous attempts have been made to get Fidel Castro to tell his own story. But it was only as he stepped down after five decades in power, that the Cuban leader finally decided to set out the detail of his life for the world to read. In these pages, he presents a compelling chronicle that spans the harshness of his school teachers; the early failures of the revolution; his comradeship with Che Guevara and their astonishing, against-all-odds victory over the dictator Batista; the Cuban perspective on the Bay of Pigs and the ensuing missile crisis; the active role of Cuba in African independence movements; his dealings with no fewer than ten successive American presidents, from… Read More

Colección El Escribente. First edition. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 8", displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and without markings.Work by Puerto Rican writer Julio Ramos (b. 1957), who is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and author of "Desencuentros de la modernidad: literatura y política en América Latina (1989) and "Paradojas de la letra" (1996), among other titles. 104 pages.

Second edition. Colección Ciencia y Tecnología. Large-format volume, measuring approximately 8.75" x 11.25", is bound in brown paper-covered spine and boards, with black and red lettering to spine and front cover. Book is in fine condition. Binding is firm, with brightly multicolor endpapers. Interior is clean and bright. Profusely illustrated with color photographs. Dust jacket displays very light shelfwear. 302 pages.A landmark Spanish-language work on lepidopterology.

Literary Conversations Series. First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is like new. xix/221 pages.
"Robert Morgan (b. 1944) is one of the most distinguished writers in southern and Appalachian literature, celebrated for his novels, poetry, short fiction, and historical and biographical writing, totaling more than thirty volumes. Morgan's work gives voice to the traditionally underrepresented people of southern Appalachia, and his appearances in such popular venues as The Oprah Winfrey Show, National Public Radio's Morning Edition, and the New York Times Bestseller List have contributed to his wide readership and successful dismantling of Hollywood stereotypes that still dog the region in the nation's larger consciousness. His writing makes a case for the dignity of work, the beauty and terror of the landscape, and the essential value of creating a community and learning to live in the world.
The interviews in "Conversations with Robert Morgan" provide readers and… Read More

Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 10" x 11.75", is new, still in shrinkwrap. Bilingual in French and English. 211 pages.
"Richly illustrated, this monograph is the first devoted to the work of the Babembe people, who live on the banks of Lake Tanganyika in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Their anthropomorphic statues, carved from wood, are characterized by incisions representing tattoos, scarifications, or skin decorations that the Babembe use during initiation ceremonies. These striking works, many of which have never been published before, are adorned with fabric, tools made of horn or stone jewels, and eyes made from faience or shell. The works represent ancestral spirits who link the sculpture's commissioner with supernatural forces of the Babembe's animist religion. Here, scholars analyze the aesthetic quality, style, and meaning of each fascinating sculpture."

Volume, measuring approximtely 6" x 8.75", is bound in blind-stamped burgundy cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is in near fine condition, with very minor abrasions at corners. Binding is firm. Ink stamp reading "Rezensionsexemplar des Romanischen Jahresberichts" appears at the bottom of front flyleaf. Pages are otherwise clean and bright. This work is illustrated with a tissue-guarded photograph frontispiece showing the tomb of Alfonso Tostado de Madrigal in the cathedral of Avila. xii/331 pages."It is my purpose in this volume to trace the development of Castilian allegory from its first appearance in the vernacular during the thirteenth to its culmination in the fifteenth century; but the history of the type may be better followed by some reference to precedents in the Latin literature of the peninsula. The Middle Ages, to which I have restricted myself, may be regarded as extending in Spain to the accession of Isabella the Catholic in 1474, although forewarnings of the Renaissance… Read More

Translation by Frances Padoor Brent and Carol J. Avins. Volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 9", is bound in black cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book displays very light shelwear. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. Dust jacket exhibits mild wear and is now in mylar cover. Bilingual in Russian and English. xvii/121 pages.""Beyond the Limit" is a cycle of forty-seven poems written during the first portion of Irina Ratushinskaya's term in the "strict regime" camp for women political prisoners at Barashevo in Mordovia. The poems bear witness to the disequilibrium of history while they record a resilient interior life. On 5 March 1983, Irina Ratushinskaya was sentenced to seven years of hard labor to be followed by five years of internal exile for "agitation carried on for the purpose of subverting the Soviet regime." Ratushinskaya was twenty-nine years old. During the years in the camp, despite deteriorating health, hunger strikes, and continual punishments in cold… Read More

Collection Les Grands Sculpteurs Français. Volume is bound in dark blue cloth, with bright stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is in excellent condition. Illustrated with a section of b&w photographs. Dust jacket shows light shelfwear. 187 pages.

Volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 8.75", is bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book shows light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Pages are clean and bright. Dust jacket also displays light shelfwear. xi/331 pages."This is the first full-length study of a neglected chapter in literary history - the surrealist movement in England and its impact on English literature in the 1930's and 1940's. After presenting a systematic account of surrealist doctrine as put forth by its founder, André Breton, Mr. Ray deals with the unique manifestation of the movement in England."

Historical Dictionaries of Europe, No. 64. Second edition. Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is new. liii/471 pages."From the construction of Notre Dame and the Eiffel Tower to the Fall of the Bastille and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen to Napoléon Bonaparte's defeat at Waterloo to Albert Camus' "L'Etranger" and the existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre, France has been a part of some of the greatest and most memorable events in human history. Author Gino Raymond relates the history of these events in the second edition of the "Historical Dictionary of France."Through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on kings, politicians, authors, architects, composers, artists, and philosophers, a thorough history of France is presented."