Search Results: Authors starting with U from Palimpsest Scholarly Books

Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in light brown cloth, with stamped dark brown lettering to spine. Book displays very light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. Summary in English, with added title page, appears at rear of volume. 21/359/xxiii pages.

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 8.75", exhibits shelfwear, with white label to bottom of spine and diagonal crease to lower outside corner of rear cover. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. Illustrated with color photographs and maps. 211 pages.Writings by Bishop Alejandro Labaka Ugarte (1920-1987) on the Huaorani, an Indigenous people of the Amazonian region of Ecuador. Labaka studied the culture of the Huaorani from his arrival in Ecuador in 1953 until the time of his death. This book chronicles his travels among the Huaorani through the seventies and eighties.

Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume 146. Volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is bound in dark blue cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is like new. Dust jacket displays very light shelfwear. ix/293 pages."The essays and commentaries presented here are intended to strike a balance between the disciplines to which the Bar-Hillel Colloquium (formerly the Israel Colloquium) is dedicated. The historical and sociological vantage point is addressed in Krammick's and Mali's treatment of Priestley, in Vicker's and Feldhay's studies of the Renaissance occult and in Warnke's and Barasch's work on the imagination. From a philosophical angle several concepts, all material to the methodology of science, are taken up: rule following, by Smart and Margalit; analysis, by Ackerman, explanation, by Taylor; and the role of mathematics in physics, by Levy-Leblond and Pitowsky. In addition, the volume contains the proceedings of two symposia dedicated to two towering scientific… Read More

Volume is bound in dark blue cloth, with bright stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book shows very light shelfwear. Previous owner's name and date (1956) appear in upper corner of blank page opposite half title page. Interior is otherwise clean and bright. Dust jacket shows minor loss at top/bottom of spine panel, minor closed tears at edges, and small moisture marking at top of spine panel. Jacket is now preserved in paper-backed mylar. 164 pages.
"This is the first account of Russian versification available for the ordinary non-Russian reader. The author aims to describe the structure of Russian verse by establishing its fundamental principles and separating them from the mass of secondary detail."

Volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 7.75", is bound in dark blue cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is like new. Dust jacket shows very light shelfwear. xxix/319 pages.
"This descriptive grammar contains only the minimum necessary for the understanding of modern literary Russian, to the exclusion of any historical perspective.The present English version differs from the French edition in two respects: (a) the text has been adapted to the requirements of the English students; (b) the exposition has been improved in some places."

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is like new. viii/199 pages.
"In the mid-nineteenth century, the study of English literature began to be divided into courses that surveyed discrete "periods." Since that time, scholars' definitions of literature and their rationales for teaching it have changed radically. But the periodized structure of the curriculum has remained oddly unshaken, as if the exercise of contrasting one literary period with another has an importance that transcends the content of any individual course.
"Why Literary Periods Mattered" explains how historical contrast became central to literary study, and why it remained institutionally central in spite of critical controversy about literature itself. Organizing literary history around contrast rather than causal continuity helped literature departments separate themselves from departments of history. But critics' long reliance on a rhetoric of contrasted movements and fateful turns has produced important blind… Read More

Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in red cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine and front cover. Book and dust jacket, with price of $40 on front flap, are like new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xxii/703 pages.
"Here Updike considers many books, some in introductions—to such classics as "Walden," "The Portrait of a Lady," and "The Mabinogion"—and many more in reviews, usually for The New Yorker. Ralph Waldo Emerson and the five Biblical books of Moses come in for appraisal, along with "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and "The Wizard of Oz."
Contemporary American and English writers—Colson Whitehead, E. L. Doctorow, Don DeLillo, Norman Rush, William Trevor, A. S. Byatt, Muriel Spark, Ian McEwan—receive attentive and appreciative reviews, as do Rohinton Mistry, Salman Rushdie, Peter Carey, Margaret Atwood, Gabriel García Márquez, Haruki Murakami, Günter Grass, and Orhan Pamuk.
In factual waters, Mr. Updike ponders the sinking of the Lusitania and the "unsinkable career"… Read More

First trade edition. Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.5", is bound in yellow cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine and front cover. Book, with top edge of text block tinted red, is in fine condition, with firm binding, clean and bright interior. Dust jacket, with price of $25 on front flap, is also in fine condition. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 359 pages.
"The dozen short stories in John Updike's new collection revisit many of the locales of his fiction: the small Pennsylvania town of Olinger, the lonely farm to which the hero moves as an adolescent, the exurban New England of adult camaraderie and sexual mischief, the New York City of artistic ambition and taunting glamour. Love, including an old woman's for her cats and a boy's for his embattled father, exerts its spell in all twelve; the title derives from a story in which an American banjo virtuoso demonstrates his licks to an enthralled Soviet audience in the heart of the Cold War, while being hounded by the epistolary… Read More

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.5", is like new. Text is in Hebrew (Title translation from copyright page). 238 pages."A pioneering study about the Arab-Israeli conflict, this book surveys and analyzes hundreds of texts written by Islamists and Arab liberals from the late 19th century until the "Arab Spring". It presents a groundbreaking thesis that Arab Islamists and liberals developed a dual approach toward the Zionist project – perceiving it as both an enemy and a source of inspiration."

Large-format hardcover volume, measuring approximately 8.75" x 11.5", shows light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. Lavishly illustrated with full-page color photo for each recipe. This book offers sections devoted to major figures of contemporary Mexican culinary culture as well as a number of restaurants deemed to be emblematic of Mexican cooking. 312 pages.

Softcover volume, measuring approximately , is in fine condition. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. Several b&w illustrations. xii/281 pages. German-language essays (with one in English, one in French). xii/281 pages.On the work of Spanish-born Mexican filmmaker Luis Buñuel (1900-1983) relating his oeuvre to questions of the relation between theory and artistic activity.

Edited by Rex Edward Ballinger. Volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.25", is bound in red cloth, with stamped black lettering to spine and front cover. Small dent appears in upper inside quadrant of front cover. Book is otherwise in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright interior. xvi/164 pages."This textbook edition of "Corona de Sombra" by Rodolfo Usigli (1905- ) brings to English-speaking students of Spanish language and literature a play by Mexico's outstanding contemporary playwright. The late George Bernard Shaw, after reading the manuscript of the English version in 1954, wrote Usigli with typical Shavian humor, "If you ever need an Irish certificate of vocation as a dramatic poet I will sign it," and he ended his note with a terse comment, "Mexico can starve you; but it cannot deny your genius."The vocabulary of the play is simple; although somewhat idiomatic at times, it is within the range of the student in his third year of Spanish. For maximum use of the text, this… Read More