Search Results: Authors starting with S from Palimpsest Scholarly Books

Volume is bound in original printed stiff wrappers. Book shows moderate shelfwear, with minor fraying at top/bottom of spine. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and without markings. 363 pages.

First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is new. xi/213 pages.
"During the twentieth century, the rise of the concept of Americanization―shedding ethnic origins and signs of "otherness" to embrace a constructed American identity―was accompanied by a rhetoric of personal transformation that would ultimately characterize the American Dream. The theme of self-transformation has remained a central cultural narrative in American literary, political, and sociological texts ranging from Jamestown narratives to immigrant memoirs, from slave narratives to "Gone with the Wind," and from the rags-to-riches stories of Horatio Alger to the writings of Barack Obama. Such rhetoric feeds American myths of progress, upward mobility, and personal reinvention.
In "Fashion and Fiction," Lauren S. Cardon draws a correlation between the American fashion industry and early twentieth-century literature. As American fashion diverged from a class-conscious industry governed by Parisian designers… Read More

Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts, No. 12. Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is new. xl/394 pages."On 4 July, 1910, in 100-degree heat at an outdoor boxing ring near Reno, Nevada, film cameras recorded_and thousands of fans witnessed_former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries' reluctant return from retirement to fight Jack Johnson, a black man. After 14 grueling rounds, Johnson knocked out Jeffries and for the first time in history, there was a black heavyweight champion of the world. At least 10 people lost their lives because of Johnson's victory and hundreds more were injured due to white retaliation and wild celebrations in the streets. Public screenings received instantaneous protests and hundreds of cities barred the film from being shown. Congress even passed a law making it a federal offense to transport moving pictures of prizefights across state lines, and thus the most powerful portrayal of a black man ever recorded on film was made virtually invisible. This… Read More

Well-preserved volume is bound in dark blue cloth, with gilt spine lettering. 262 pages.

Fourth edition. Volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8", is bound in printed wrappers. Book shows light wear at edges. Binding is sound. Previous owner's gift inscription appears on initial blank page. Lightly age-toned pages are clean and without markings. 269 pages.
""El escritor y sus fantasmas" es el producto de muchos años de experiencia literaria, el resultado de reflexiones, dudas, teorías y búsquedas de un novelista a lo largo de su obra creadora. Desde el existencialismo hasta el objetivismo, desde el compromiso hasta la gratuidad, no hay un solo problema que preocupe al lector o al joven escritor de nuestro tiempo que aquí no se halle discutido con pasión y hasta con violencia. La reedición del libro a tan poco tiempo de su salida es la mejor prueba del vivísimo interés que ofrece en cada una de sus paginas."

First paperback edition. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is new. xiv/277 pages."Recent developments such as Sweden's Feminist Foreign Policy, the "Hillary Doctrine," and the integration of women into combat roles in the U.S. have propelled gender equality to the forefront of international politics. The UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations, however, has been integrating gender equality into peacekeeping missions for nearly two decades as part of the women, peace, and security agenda that has been most clearly articulated in UNSC Resolution 1325. To what extent have peacekeeping operations achieved gender equality in peacekeeping operations and beenvehicles for promoting gender equality in post-conflict states?While there have been major improvements related to women's participation and protection, there is still much left to be desired. Sabrina Karim and Kyle Beardsley argue that gender power imbalances between the sexes and among genders place restrictions on the… Read More

Flat-signed first printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 10", is bound in black paper spine and boards, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are like new. Jacket is preserved in mylar. Author's signature appears above his printed name on title page. xiii/386 pages."From one of the world's greatest economic minds, author of The New York Times bestseller "The End of Poverty," a clear and vivid map of the road to sustainable and equitable global prosperity and an augury of the global economic collapse that lies ahead if we don't follow it The global economic system now faces a sustainability crisis, Jeffrey Sachs argues, one that will overturn many of our basic assumptions about economic life. The changes will be deeper than a rebalancing of economics and politics among different parts of the world; the very idea of competing nation-states scrambling for power, resources, and markets will in some crucial respects become passé. The only question is how bad it will have to… Read More

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 8.5" x 8.5", displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. This monograph contains numerous color reproductions of the artist's paintings. A chronology as well as lists of solo and group exhibitions appear at rear of volume. 56 pages.
Devoted to the work of Thomas S. Buechner (1926-2010), American artist and founding director of the Corning Museum of Glass and director of the Brooklyn Museum.

Volume is bound in original printed wrappers. Book shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Lightly age-toned pages are clean and without markings. Illustrated with b&w photos. 493 pages.

Edited by Réal Quellet, with introduction and notes by Réal Ouellet and Jack Warwick. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 4.5" x 7.5", is in fine condition. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 403 pages.An early work on New France and the Hurons-Wyandot people by French missionary G. Sagard (1590-1640), originally published in Paris in 1632.

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is in fine condition, with firm binding, clean pages without markings. Dust jacket shows very light shelfwear. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xi/167 pages."An intimate view of the influences, encounters and defining historical moments that forged the vision of India's first prime minister Written by Nayantara Sahgal, prize-winning novelist and political commentator, "Jawaharlal Nehru" presents an intimate view of the influences, encounters and defining historical moments that forged the vision of India's first prime minister. Drawing from the Nehru and the Vijayalakshmi Pandit Papers, and from Nehru's letters to Sahgal, his niece, this book combines history with personal recollections to show how Nehru helped navigate India's transition from a colony to an influential, modern nation. Discussing the significant issue of independent India's foreign policy characterized by the… Read More

Volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.75", is bound in light brown cloth, with stamped black lettering to spine. Book is like new. Dust jacket displays mild creasing to front flap. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 309 pages.
"This work of Vojtech Sailer, "Doctor in Terezin" ("Byli Jsme Tri Lekari") is the chronicle of a prisoner-doctor. It is a testimony in which we discover a dramatic picture of that era, etched by the monstruous and deformed epoch of German fascism. The author gives a detailed narrative of the effort of the prison doctors who provided health care in Terezin's Small Fortress in conditions vastly different from those in times of peace. It was not just an effort, but a battle against the consequences of Nazi terror. In this book we find no false sentiment, but rather a sober description of the methods which mitigated the cruelty of the mighty Nazi machine."

Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.75", is bound in gray cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book is in fine condition. Dust jacket has small closed tear at top edge of front panel. Dust jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xvi/281 pages."The neo-liberalism that dominated economic thinking since the advent of Thatcher and Reagan is now seen to have serious flaws. "Progressive Capitalism" seeks to replace it with a new Progressive political economy, based on an analysis of why the growth rates of countries differ, and what firms have to do to achieve competitive advantage in today's global economy." The author was former Minister of Science and Innovation under Tony Blair.

Modernism/modernity, Volume 25, Number Three, September 2018, Special Issue. Pages [437] - 602. Large-format softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 10", is new.
Contents:"Introduction: Weak Theory, Weak Modernism" by Paul K. Saint-Amour; "The Agonies of Ambivalence: Anna Mendelssohn, la poetesse maudite" by Sara Crangle; "On Being Criticized" by Grace Lavery; "Obliterature: Toward an Amateur Criticism" by Melanie Micir and Aarthi Vadde; "Volitional Etiologies: Toward a Weak Theory of Etiology" by Benjamin Kahan; "The Weak Powers of Digital Modernist Studies" by Gabriel Hankins; "Weak Network: Faulkner's Transpacific Reparations" by Wai Chee Dimock.

Collection Pratiques theoriques. Third edition. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.5", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 292 pages.On laws and legislation relating to slavery in French colonies of Louisiana and the Caribbean placed within historical, theological and legal contexts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Includes the philosophical critique of slavery articulated during the Enlightenment and French Revolution.

Colección Literna mágica, 2. First edition. Translation and notes by Joaquín García Icazbalceta. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. Numerous illustrations offering views/depictions of colonial Mexico City. 128 pages.

Wisconsin Project on American Writers. First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9.25", displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. xii/250 pages.
"In struggling to retain their cultural unity, the Mexican–American communities of the American Southwest in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have produced a significant body of literature. "Chicano Narrative" examines representative narratives—including the novel, short story, narrative verse, and autobiography—that have been excluded from the American canon."

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5" x 7.5", is new, still in shrinkwrap. 169 pages.
"After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of "Season of Migration" to the North returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan. It is the 1960s, and he is eager to make a contribution to the new postcolonial life of his country. Back home, he discovers a stranger among the familiar faces of childhood—the enigmatic Mustafa Sa'eed. Mustafa takes the young man into his confidence, telling him the story of his own years in London, of his brilliant career as an economist, and of the series of fraught and deadly relationships with European women that led to a terrible public reckoning and his return to his native land.
But what is the meaning of Mustafa's shocking confession? Mustafa disappears without explanation, leaving the young man—whom he has asked to look after his wife—in an unsettled and violent no-man's-land between Europe and Africa, tradition and innovation, holiness and defilement,… Read More

Letras Hispánicas, 431. Edited by Alfonso I. Sotelo. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 4.5" x 7.25", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 523 pages.
""Las "Fábulas" (1781) de Samaniego obtuvieron gran éxito desde su publicación y han sido utilizadas como texto escolar durante muchos años. Toman su asunto de Esopo, Fedro, La Fontaine y John Gay y lo adaptan en un estilo natural y gracioso. Despojadas de metáforas y recursos literarios difíciles, van directas a la mente del destinatario infantil. Las "Fábulas" ha sido un clásico permanente y por ello era imprescindible su publicación en Letras Hispánicas. La aportación más notable de esta edición es la deuda que Samaniego tiene con el fabulista inglés John Gay."

Volume, measuring approximately 8" x 10.5", is bound in dark brown cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xv/854 pages."The publication of the "Encyclopedia of Religion in the South" in 1984 signaled the rise in the scholarly interest in the study of Religion in the South. Religion has always been part of the cultural heritage of that region, but scholarly investigation had been sporadic. Since the original publication of the ERS, however, the South has changed significantly in that Christianity is no longer the primary religion observed. Other religions like Judaism, Buddhism, and Hinduism have begun to have very important voices in Southern life. This one-volume reference, the only one of its kind, takes this expansion into consideration by updating older relevant articles and by adding new ones. After more than 20 years, the only reference book in the field of the Religion in the South has been totally revised and updated. Each… Read More