Search Results: Authors starting with W from Palimpsest Scholarly Books

With introduction and appendixes. Volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 7.75", is bound in red cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book shows light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. Map entitled "The Countries round the Aegean" is present as frontispiece.

Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 7.5" x 11.5", is new, still in shrinkwrap. 87 pages."In 2013 the Dallas Museum of Art acquired an exceptional silver vitrine originally owned by the Wittgenstein family of Vienna and designed by Carl Otto Czeschka of the Wiener Werkstätte. This masterpiece is one of the most important objects of the 20th century, marking the apogee of ornamental richness in Viennese Secessionist art and questioning the very direction of early modern design. Since its arrival in Dallas, the vitrine has been the subject of an intensive research and conservation program. This publication will explore the conservation effort and chart the context and history of this masterwork's design and fabrication, iconography, and provenance"

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is like new. xiii/240 pages.
""The Logic of Connective Action" explains the rise of a personalized digitally networked politics in which diverse individuals address the common problems of our times such as economic fairness and climate change. Rich case studies from the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany illustrate a theoretical framework for understanding how large-scale connective action is coordinated using inclusive discourses such as "We Are the 99%" that travel easily through social media. In many of these mobilizations, communication operates as an organizational process that may replace or supplement familiar forms of collective action based on organizational resource mobilization, leadership, and collective action framing. In some cases, connective action emerges from crowds that shun leaders, as when Occupy protesters created media networks to channel resources and create loose ties among dispersed physical groups. In other… Read More

Volume, measuring approximately 8.5" x 10.5", is bound in green cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xiii/456 pages.
""Buildings have lives in time," observes Patricia Waddy in this pioneering study of the relation between plan and use in the palaces of the Borghese, Barberini, and Chigi families. Waddy reconstructs what was done at precise moments in a building's life, relating these acts of building to the needs and purposes of the owners and offering a rich understanding of architectural activity in seventeenth-century Rome.
In its analysis of the relation between plan and use over the course of several decades, "Seventeenth-Century Roman Palaces" provides a valuable measure for estimating architectural changes over time and a basis for reevaluating seventeenth-century design skills. It is also a fascinating account that shows how the requirements of a hierarchical diplomatic society, whose leaders were celibate churchmen,… Read More

First US edition. Translated and edited by Stewart Spencer and Barry Millington. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in half black cloth and black paper-covered boards, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright interior. Dust jacket, with price of $35 on front flap, is also well preserved. ix/1030 pages.
"The nineteenth century spawned many geniuses in the creative arts, but none has proven more influential or controversial than the behemoth of Bayreuth, Richard Wagner. In his lifetime, he wrote over 10,000 letters, 500 of which have been freshly translated and annotated by two outstanding Wagnerites, Stewart Spencer and Barry Millington. The letters are arranged chronologically into six sections, each preceded by a substantial essay in which their historical and biographical context is established. Subjects covered range from Wagner's compositional procedures to his political theories, from his racism to his love affairs,… Read More

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", exhibits foxing to top edge of text blocks and is otherwise in fine condition. xiv/329 pages."Carlos Waisman has pinpointed the specific beliefs that led the Peronists unwittingly to transform their country from a relatively prosperous land of recent settlement, like Australia and Canada, to an impoverished and underdeveloped society resembling the rest of Latin America."

Third printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.5", is bound in black cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are like new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. x/215 pages."The technologically tethered, iPhone-addicted figure is an image we can easily conjure. Most of us complain that there aren't enough hours in the day and too many e-mails in our thumb-accessible inboxes. This widespread perception that life is faster than it used to be is now ingrained in our culture, and smartphones and the Internet are continually being blamed. But isn't the sole purpose of the smartphone to give us such quick access to people and information that we'll be free to do other things? Isn't technology supposed to make our lives easier? "In Pressed for Time," Judy Wajcman explains why we immediately interpret our experiences with digital technology as inexorably accelerating everyday life. She argues that we are not mere hostages to communication devices, and the sense of always… Read More

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in gilt-lettered quarter red cloth and black paper boards. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 401 pages."Presents an account of the fate of Paris' public spaces in the years following Nazi occupation and joyful liberation. Countering the traditional narrative that Paris' public landscape became sterile and dehumanized in the 1940s and '50s, this book instead finds that the city's streets overflowed with ritual, drama, and spectacle."

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.75", is bound in gray cloth, with stamped black lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. viii/226 pages."In the years since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, African-American women have contemplated the struggle for racial justice in an outpouring of novels. this book offers interpretations of 18 of these novels - including works by Margaret Walker, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange and others - examining how they relate to the movement, to the conditions that fostered it and to its failure to achieve educational, economic and social equality."

Author-signed first printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.75", is bound in quarter black cloth and black paper-covered boards, with stamped red lettering and author's initials stamped in red on front cover. Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. Author's signature and drawing of flower appear on title page. 320 pages."When Mel Leventhal married Alice Walker during the civil rights movement in the late 1960s, his mother declared him dead and did not reconcile until after the birth of her first grandchild. After Mel and Alice divorced, their daughter, Rebecca, alternated homes every two years, spending time in Mississippi, Brooklyn, San Francisco's Haight Ashbury, Washington, D.C., the Bronx, and suburban Westchester. With each new place came a new identity and desperate attempts to fit in: as white or black, as Puerto Rican or Jewish, as a party girl, a fighter, or a lover. Confused, and mostly alone, she turned to sex, drugs, books, and a cast of dangerous and thrilling characters.… Read More

Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", quarter black cloth and black paper-covered boards, with embossed black lettering to silver spine compartment. Book is in fine condition. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xvii/698 pages."Widely regarded the greatest composer of the twentieth century, Igor Stravinsky was central to the development of modernism in art. Deeply influential and wonderfully productive, he is remembered for dozens of masterworks, from "The Firebird" and "The Rite of Spring" to "The Rake's Progress," but no dependable biography of him exists. Previous studies have relied too heavily on his own unreliable memoirs and conversations, and until now no biographer has possessed both the musical knowledge to evaluate his art and the linguistic proficiency needed to explore the documentary background of his life--a life whose span extended from tsarist Russia to Switzerland, France, and ultimately the United States.In this revealing volume, the first of two, Stephen Walsh follows… Read More

Volume, measuring approximately 8.75" x 10.5", is bound in cream cloth, with black lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 199 pages.
The older prints (1493-1938) from the "Brod Collection" are presented, most of which are on loan to the Wurzburg University Library. 278 pieces are described here, 205 of them illustrated. This book is aimed at the large circle of collectors, enthusiasts and those interested in old graphics and the history of Wurzburg.

Well-preserved volume is bound in dark blue cloth, with stamped spine lettering. Like new. 319 pages.

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is like new. xi/311 pages."To understand a city fully, writes Di Wang, we must observe its most basic units of social life. In "The Teahouse under Socialism," Wang does just that, arguing that the teahouses of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, are some of the most important public spaces―perfect sites for examining the social and economic activities of everyday Chinese.Wang looks at the transformation of these teahouses from private businesses to collective ownership and how state policy and the proprietors' response to it changed the overall economic and social structure of the city. He uses this transformation to illuminate broader trends in China's urban public life from 1950 through the end of the Cultural Revolution and into the post-Mao reform era. In doing so, "The Teahouse under Socialism" charts the fluctuations in fortune of this ancient cultural institution and analyzes how it survived, and even thrived, under bleak… Read More

Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 5.75" x 8.5", and is new. Text is in Chinese. 232 pages.Poetry collection by Chinese poet Wang Guozhen (1956-2015).

Cornell Paperbacks. First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is like new. xi/283 pages."After Mao Zedong's Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957-58, Chinese intellectuals were subjected to "re-education" by the state. In "Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness," Ning Wang draws on labor farm archives, interviews, and memoirs to provide a remarkable look at the suffering and complex psychological world of these banished Beijing intellectuals. Wang's use of newly uncovered Chinese-language sources challenges the concept of the intellectual as renegade martyr, showing how exiles often declared allegiance to the state for self-preservation. While Mao's campaign victimized the banished, many of those same people also turned against their comrades. Wang describes the ways in which the state sought to remold the intellectuals, and he illuminates the strategies the exiles used to deal with camp officials and improve their chances of survival."

Harvard East Asian Monographs, 360. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in glossy spine and boards, with yellow lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xiii/359 pages.
"The year 1949 witnessed China divided into multiple political and cultural entities. How did this momentous shift affect Chinese literary topography? Modernity with a Cold War Face examines the competing, converging, and conflicting modes of envisioning a modern nation in mid-twentieth century Chinese literature. Bridging the 1949 divide in both literary historical periodization and political demarcation, Xiaojue Wang proposes a new framework to consider Chinese literature beyond national boundaries, as something arising out of the larger global geopolitical and cultural conflict of the Cold War.

Examining a body of heretofore understudied literary and cultural production in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and overseas during a crucial period after World War II, Wang… Read More

Volume, is bound in traditional Asian stitched binding, measures approximately 9.25" x 9.75", and has gray paper-covered boards. Book is like new. Pictorial dust jacket has two small, closed tears at bottom edge. Jacket, preserved in mylar, is otherwise in fine condition. Text is in Chinese. v/239 pages."For the students, enthusiasts and young designers of architecture, this collection of the thoughts of young designers is a bright touch against the dull background full of masters and classical cases. Even though these young designers are not heavy-weight masters with decades of experience, they are undoubtedly the most promising young designers who have received education at top universities and are now working at top studios. To learn from masters is to experience the ultimate charm of buildings. And to learn from this book is to understand the amazing style of young front-runners. Architecture requires not only practical test, but also collision of ideas. This book aims to fill in this blank."

First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", shows very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. x/99 pages."Selected from more than 900 manuscripts, this collection possesses unusual thematic coherence and intimacy. Many poems are set in the author's-native China. They explore family history and dynamics set against the oppressive Cultural Revolution. Yun Wang, born in a small town in Southwest China in 1964, came to the U.S. to study physics in 1985. She is an assistant professor specializing in theoretical cosmology at the University of Oklahoma. This is her first full-length collection."

The Food Series. Author-signed first printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in dark green cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. 206 pages.Inscription in upper inside corner of front flyleaf reads " My best, / Brian Wansink"."Although encouraging people to eat more nutritiously can promote better health, most efforts by companies, health professionals, and even parents are disappointingly ineffective. Consumer confusion has lead to floundering sales for soy foods; embarrassing results for expensive Five-a-Day for Better Health programs; and uneaten mountains of vegetables at homes and in school cafeterias. Brian Wansink's "Marketing Nutrition" focuses on why people eat the foods they do, and what can be done to improve their nutrition.Wansink argues that the true challenge in marketing nutrition lies in leveraging new tools of consumer psychology (which he specifically demonstrates) and by applying lessons from other products' failures and… Read More