Search Results: Authors starting with T from Palimpsest Scholarly Books

Second printing. Softcover volume displays light shelfwear. 226 pages.

Collection Socio-histoires. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.75", shows very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 317 pages."The abolition of the death penalty in France in 1981 long overshadowed an equally significant event: the abolition of the public nature of executions in 1939. Since the Revolution, killing was a ritual of violence that could attract tens of thousands of curious people. And there was no shortage of opportunities, because under the Third Republic, there were hundreds of public executions in dozens of cities, including, of course, Paris. What did this bloody theater of the guillotine look like? And how did it end up being relegated to the inside of prisons? Based on judicial and police archives, the notebooks of the executioner Deibler and sources from an era haunted by crime and news items, this book analyzes the progressive contestation of the spectacle of execution. This solitary confinement took place under the impetus of several… Read More

Münchener Texte und Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters, Band 30. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in gray cloth, with stamped black lettering to spine. Book is in fine condition. Dust jacket displays sunning to spine panel. ix/243 pages.

Translation by Pellegrino d'Acierno and Robert Connolly of "La sfera e il laberinto: Avanguardia e architettura da Piranesi agli anni '70" (Giulio Einaudi, 1980). Volume, measuring approximately 7.5" x 10.5", is bound in orange cloth, with stamped black lettering to spine. Book is in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright interior. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, is preserved in mylar cover. 382 pages."Offers a survey of avant-garde architecture, looks at the work of Stirling, Rossi, Gregotti, Venturi, Eisenman, Graves, Hejuk, Argest, and Gandelsonas, and discusses futurism and expressionism".

Second printing. Two-volume set. Each volume, measuring approximately 7" x 9.75", is bound in blue cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine and front cover. First volume is in fine condition, with firm binding, clean interiors without markings. Second volume exhibits blemishes to rear cover and otherwise is in fine condition. Entries appear in double columns. Dust jackets display light shelfwear. Jackets are preserved in mylar cover. 688 pages.

Volume, measuring approximately 7.25" x 9.5", is bound in blind-stamped black cloth, with gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Book shows moderate external wear, with minor loss at upper outside corner of front cover, and rubbing at other outside corners. Rear hinge is cracked. Signature appear on front pastedown. Pages are clean and without markings. Text is in Hebrew. English-language title taken from the added title page at rear of volume. 556 pages.

Large square softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 8.75" x 8.75", is in fine condition. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 390 pages.
Catalogue of an exhibition devoted to the life and work of Cuban writer Jose Lezama Lema, organized by the Círculo de Bellas Artes of Madrid, in collaboration with the 'José Martí' National Library of Havana and held at the Sala Juana Mordó, Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid from December 11, 2001 to January 31, 2002.

Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is bound in black cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Top edge of text block displays foxing, with milder foxing to fore edge. Book is otherwise in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright interior. Dust jacket exhibits light shelfwear. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. x/203 pages.
"Greek tragedy has been the subject of a vast body of scholarly work, yet rarely have the plays been studied as works to be seen and heard. The idea, stemming from Aristotle, that the plays may best be treated as texts for reading has been so pervasive that they have so pervasive that they have been neglected as dramatic works for performance in the theater. This book redresses the balance with a new and exciting critique of the greatest Greek tragedies. Oliver Taplin concentrates on nine plays -- Aeschylus' "Agamennon," "Choephoroi" ("The Women Bearing Libations") and "Euminides" ("The Gracious Goddesses"); Sophocles' "Aias" ("Ajax"), "Oidipous Tyrannos"… Read More

Introduction and notes by Carlos Rodríguez Morales. Volume, measuring approximately 8.5" x 8.5", is bound in illustrated red and green boards. Book is like new. 243 pages. This work brings together the author's previously dispersed texts, mostly newspaper articles published in the early sixties, on the history of the convent of San Miguel the las Victorias in San Cristóbal de La Laguna on the Spanish island of Tenerife, with discussion of the religious sculpture known as "Cristo de la Laguna", considered one of the most important representations of the crucified Jesus of Nazareth.

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 7" x 10", shows very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. Numerous b&w illustrations. xv/176 pages."Clothing is the outward and visible sign of taste, discrimination, social attitude and status. In every culture, men and women pay enormous attention to the minutiae of dress and appearance. This authoritative study looks at both the social and physical aspects of clothes. It traces the history and development of clothing from the earliest times to the machine age, showing how fabrics, decoration, shape and structure, reflect and are affected by culture and technology. Drawing on first-hand experience of the exhibition of costume, this volume also covers the concepts, methods and practicalities of putting clothing on display and making it relevant and accessible to the general public."

Preface by Sabine Frommel. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.75", is new. This work contains textual illustrations and 16 pages of color photos, as well as a bibliography (pages 215-221) and an index.On the conservation and restoration of churches in Bruyères (Vosges region) of France. 233 pages.

Fichte-Studien-Supplementa, Band 21. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.75", is in fine condition. Binding is sound. Half title page shows excision of upper outside corner, without affecting content. Pages are clean and bright. 425 pages."Dieses Werk stellt das Denken zweier Geistesgrossen, Leibnizens und Fichtes sich gegenüber und vergleicht es. Fichte sieht in Leibniz einen Vorläufer und erwähnt ihn mit liebevoller Bewunderung. Fichtes Wissenschaftslehre von 1801/02 wird Leibnizens, Monadologie aufgreifen und Leibnizens Gedanken einer prästabilierten Harmonie. Beide Philosophen verstehen sich als Freiheitsapostel, wobei bei Leibniz Gott eine genaue Notion jedes Individuums hat, die Freiheit ein mentaler Akt ist, bei Fichte jedes Individuum ein je bestimmtes Soll hat, das es, Freiheit verwirklichend, im Leben zu erfüllen gilt. Fichte erkennt in Leibniz einen Vorläufer der eigenen Transzendentalphilosophie. Ein Unterschied zwischen den beiden Denkern besteht darin, dass Leibniz… Read More

Religion, Culture, and Public Life, 12. First printing.Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 8.5", is bound in black paper spine and boards, with stamped white lettering to spine. Book displays light shelfwear, with very small dent to fore edge of front board. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. Dust jacket, preserved in mylar cover, is like new. ix/322 pages."Digital and electronic technologies that act as extensions of our bodies and minds are changing how we live, think, act, and write. Some welcome these developments as bringing humans closer to unified consciousness and eternal life. Others worry that invasive globalized technologies threaten to destroy the self and the world. Whether feared or desired, these innovations provoke emotions that have long fueled the religious imagination, suggesting the presence of a latent spirituality in an era mistakenly deemed secular and posthuman.
William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo are American authors who explore… Read More

Princeton Studies in International History and Politics. First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.5", is new. xvi/376 pages."As China emerges as an international economic and military power, the world waits to see how the nation will assert itself globally. Yet, as M. Taylor Fravel shows in Strong Borders, Secure Nation, concerns that China might be prone to violent conflict over territory are overstated. The first comprehensive study of China's territorial disputes, "Strong Borders, Secure Nation" contends that China over the past sixty years has been more likely to compromise in these conflicts with its Asian neighbors and less likely to use force than many scholars or analysts might expect. By developing theories of cooperation and escalation in territorial disputes, Fravel explains China's willingness to either compromise or use force. When faced with internal threats to regime security, especially ethnic rebellion, China has been willing to offer concessions in exchange… Read More

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is like new. viii/446 pages."There is no rigorous and effective deconstruction without the faithful memory of philosophies and literatures, without the respectful and competent reading of texts of the past, as well as singular works of our own time. Deconstruction is also a certain thinking about tradition and context. Mark Taylor evokes this with great clarity in the course of a remarkable introduction. He reconstitutes a set of premises without which no deconstruction could have seen the light of day." – Jacques Derrida

KINO: The Russian Cinema Series. Second, revised edition. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. xii/266 pages."Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Hitler and Goebbels all regarded cinema as their most important weapon for mass political propaganda. This revised and expanded edition of "Film Propaganda" examines the ways in which cinema was used for political purposes by two of the most highly politicised societies in twentieth-century European history. "Film Propaganda" is still to date the only book in English to compare these two cinemas and examine both in depth. Richard Taylor demonstrates how cinema was brought under political control in each country and goes on to explore the themes and stereotypes projected by the feature films that were produced. In so doing, he highlights the means used by the authorities to condition and control the filmgoer as individual spectator and as member of a mass audience. This process is… Read More

Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in red cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book displays minor loss at head of spine and shows light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Previous owner's brief inscription appears at top of front pastedown. Interior is otherwise clean and without markings. Price-clipped dust jacket exhibits loss at top of spine panel. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. vii/323 pages.

Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 6" x 9.25", displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 336 pages.
"Cualquiera que conozca a Volodia puede pensar, sin leer el libro, que esta biografía se trata de un desquite o de un ajuste de cuentas hacia un Borges que llegó a apoyar los regímenes de Videla y de Pinochet. Nada más lejos, la biografía de Volodia, aunque afronte sin miedos ni endiosamientos las posturas más controvertidas de Borges, demuestra una profundización y una objetivida que es precisamente lo que engrandece este acercamiento a la vida y a la obra de Borges. Para ello Volodia ha divido la obra en seis partes que son en realidad seis núcleos temáticos: infancia y juventud de Borges ―formación del mito―, construcción poética y símbolos recurrentes, concepción y experiencias amorosas, ideario político ―y apolítico― y momentos finales ―muy polémicos por cierto― junto con su repercusión posterior. Queda claro que,… Read More

First printing. Volume (8.5" x 10.5")is bound in light blue cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book is in excellent condition. Dust jacket displays very light shelfwear. Interior is clean and bright. Errata card is laid in. 185 pages.

Colección Las puertas de lo posible, 7. Two volumes. Softcover volumes, each measuring approximately 5.5" x 8", are new, still in shrinkwrap. 327/359 pages.
The two volumes of this anthology outline a journey through science fiction written by Spanish women authors from the 19th century to the present day. The writers have imagined and speculated about the future, as well as about the political and social consequences of technological advances, about artificial intelligences, time machines, extraterrestrials, artificial beings and other worlds among the stars. This is a historical anthology that aims to make visible the work of Spanish women science fiction writers. Second volume is devoted to authors of twentieth-first-century.