Search Results: Authors starting with Y from Palimpsest Scholarly Books

Collection Textes à l'appui. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 8.75", is like new. 188 pages.
"This book is an important contribution to the knowledge of Algerian culture and, more particularly, of the social, cultural and political transformations of Berber groups during colonization and since independence. Tassadit Yacine-Titouh mobilizes two complementary resources here: anthropological surveys carried out in the field during the 1980s, and written documents (public and private archives) or oral documents (founding stories, tales and legends). These materials reveal the inextricable relationship between kinship structures and the transmission of power, and allow the author to offer an original analysis of their evolution since the 19th century. This approach leads to a double questioning, through which Tassadit Yacine-Titouh explores two burning problems of contemporary Algerian society: the importance in the ways of thinking of the historico-mythical substrate of Berber origin,… Read More

Introductory essay by Vaseslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov and compiled by Mikhail Leonovich Gasparov. Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is bound in red cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine and front cover. Book is in fine condition, with soild binding, clean and bright pages. Illustrated with b&w photographic plate section. 460 pages.Russian-language compilation of works on poetics by Russian-American linguist and literary theorist Roman Osipovich Jakobson (1896-1982).

Author-signed first edition. Large-format softcover volume, measuring approximately 9.25" x 10.25", is new. Text is bilingual in Chinese and English. Author's signature, dated 9.22.2005, appears on title page.Chinese photographer's exploration of interiority through an image series depicting Shanghai people's homes, from the most luxurious to the shabbiest dwelling.

Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in gilt-lettered quarter red cloth and whtie paper-covered boards. Book and dust jacket are like new. xi/241 pages."In "The Petroleum Triangle," Steve A. Yetiv tells the interconnected story of oil, globalization, and terrorism. Yetiv asks how Al-Qaeda, a small band of terrorists, became such a real and perceived threat to American and global security, a threat viewed as profound enough to motivate the strongest power in world history to undertake extraordinary actions, including two very costly wars. Yetiv argues that Middle East oil and globalization have combined to augment the real and perceived threat of transnational terrorism. Globalization has allowed terrorists to do things that otherwise would be more difficult and costly: exploit technology, generate fear beyond their capabilities, target vulnerable economic and political nodes, and capitalize on socio-economic dislocation. Meanwhile, Middle East oil has fueled terrorism by helping to… Read More

The Cornell East Asia series, 136. Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", still in shrinkwrap. xiii/398 pages.This volume makes available for the first time in English a collection of the work of historian Yi Tae-Jin. Over the course of his career, he has done path-breaking research that covers virtually the entire Chosôn period (1392–1910) from the Koryô-Chosôn transition to the Kojong period and Korea's takeover by Japan in 1910. One of the focal points of his scholarship has been to reinterpret Neo-Confucianism as a dynamic force in Korean history.The first half of this volume is devoted to his seminal work on the historical factors behind the founding of the Chosôn dynasty. He has shown how the rise of Neo-Confucianism during the Koryô-Chosôn transition was tied to unprecedented advances in agriculture and medicine that led to a fundamental socio-economic transformation of Korea. A new social class emerged that became a leading force behind the new dynasty and adopted… Read More

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.5", displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. 300 pages.This work "tackles current issues facing the women of Asia. It paints a vivid picture of gender discrimination that exists today in some parts of Asia, where health care and education are distributed on the basis of gender."

Volume, measuring approximately 8.5" x 10.5", is bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xiii/226 pages.
"Explores the intersections between monarchy, gender, and art through an investigation of the visual and architectural culture of the eighteenth-century Habsburg empress Maria Theresa."

Foreword by Kevin Brownlow. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. xiii/388 pages."Greta Garbo proclaimed him as her favorite director. Actors, actresses, and even child stars were so at ease under his direction that they were able to deliver inspired and powerful performances. Academy--Award--nominated director Clarence Brown (1890--1987) worked with some of Hollywood's greatest stars, such as Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Mickey Rooney, Katharine Hepburn, and Spencer Tracy. Known as the "star maker," he helped guide the acting career of child sensation Elizabeth Taylor (of whom he once said, "she has a face that is an act of God") and discovered Academy--Award--winning child star Claude Jarman Jr. for "The Yearling" (1946). He directed more than fifty films, including "Possessed" (1931), "Anna Karenina" (1935), "National Velvet" (1944), and "Intruder in the Dust" (1949), winning his audiences over with… Read More

Cornell East Asia series, 187 / Book collections on Project MUSE. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is new.Anthology of 9 short stories and novellas by Korean women writers published between 1935 and 1998. Stories depict Korean women's lives from the mid-1930s to the end of the twentieth century. 328 pages.