Search Results: Titles starting with A from Palimpsest Scholarly Books

"...unabridged and unaltered republication of the work originally published by David McKay Company in 1934". Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.5", is in fine condition. 56 pages.
"The 1934 World's Championship brought Alekhine and Bogoljubow together for the second time. For the second time, Alekhine emerged very much the winner. The special interest that these 26 games hold for chess enthusiasts (aside from the important fact that Alekhine was involved in them) lies largely in the psychology of the opponents. Alekhine thought little of Bogoljubow's ability; Bogoljubow was certain he was the world's finest player.As a result, these are very exciting games, marked with unexpected risks and surprising attacks. Reinfeld and Fine annotated the games in exhaustive detail, filling as much as five pages (and rarely as little as one) with notes on a single game. They also provided biographies of the two masters, their tournament and match records as of 1934, and a summary chart of the 26… Read More

Twayne's Theatrical Arts Series. First printing. Volume is bound in gray cloth, with gilt-lettered black spine. Book shows light shelfwear, with rubbing to spine. Interior is clean and bright. 200 pages.

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is bound in black cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xx/214 pages.
"As the first African-American fiction writer to achieve a national reputation, Ohio native Charles W. Chesnutt (1858–1932) in many ways established the terms of the black literary tradition now exemplified by such writers as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Charles Johnson."

Volume is bound in gray cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book displays moderate wear. Dust jacket displays light shelfwear. 384 pages.
An analysis of the routines and practices of the Imperial German Army argues that the military regime increasingly sought the absolute destruction of its enemies, including civilian property and lives, as the only guarantee of the nation's security.

First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.5", shows light shelfwear. Binding is solid. Red mark appears across bottom edge of text block. Pages are clean and bright. viii/436 pages."Philosophical materialism in all its forms – from scientific naturalism to Deleuzian New Materialism – has failed to meet the key theoretical and political challenges of the modern world. This is the burden of philosopher Slavoj Žižek's argument in this pathbreaking and eclectic new work. Recent history has seen developments such as quantum physics and Freudian psychoanalysis, not to speak of the failure of twentieth-century communism, shake our understanding of existence.In the process, the dominant tradition in Western philosophy lost its moorings. To bring materialism up to date, Žižek – himself a committed materialist and communist – proposes a radical revision of our intellectual heritage. He argues that dialectical materialism is the only true philosophical inheritor of what… Read More

Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 7.5" x 10.5", is new, still in shrinkwrap. x/309 pages."During the mid-twentieth century, Latin American artists working in several different cities radically altered the nature of modern art. Reimagining the relationship of art to its public, these artists granted the spectator an unprecedented role in the realization of the artwork. The first book to explore this phenomenon on an international scale, "Abstraction in Reverse" traces the movement as it evolved across South America and parts of Europe.Alexander Alberro demonstrates that artists such as Tomás Maldonado, Jesús Soto, Julio Le Parc, and Lygia Clark, in breaking with the core tenets of the form of abstract art known as Concrete art, redefined the role of both the artist and the spectator. Instead of manufacturing autonomous art, these artists produced artworks that required the presence of the spectator to be complete. Alberro also shows the various ways these artists strategically demoted… Read More

First printing. Volume is bound in dark pink cloth, with black lettering to spine. Book is in excellent condition. Dust jacket displays light shelfwear. 281 pages.

Volume is bound in leatherette, with bright stamped gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Embossed stamp of private library appears in lower outside corner of title page. Book is otherwise in excellent condition. Bilingual table of contents and title page (from which translation above).Contains a number of b&w illustrations. Dust jacket exhibits light shelfwear. On the life and work of Soviet physicist Leontovich (1903-1981). 511 pages.

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

Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in gray cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xv/374 pages.
"England during the Middle Ages was at the forefront of European antisemitism. It was in medieval Norwich that the notorious "blood libel" was first introduced when a resident accused the city's Jewish leaders of abducting and ritually murdering a local boy. England also enforced legislation demanding that Jews wear a badge of infamy, and in 1290, it became the first European nation to expel forcibly all of its Jewish residents. In "The Accommodated Jew," Kathy Lavezzo rethinks the complex and contradictory relation between England's rejection of "the Jew" and the centrality of Jews to classic English literature. Drawing on literary, historical, and cartographic texts, she charts an entangled Jewish imaginative presence in English culture.
In a sweeping view that extends from the Anglo-Saxon period to the late… Read More

First printing. Translation of "L'effectif et le rationnel: Hegel et l'esprit objectif" (J Vrin, 2008) by Daniela Ginsburg & Martin Shuster. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in black paper spine and boards, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xxxiii/384 pages."One of Hegel's most controversial and confounding claims is that "the real is rational and the rational is real." In this book, one of the world's leading scholars of Hegel, Jean-François Kervégan, offers a thorough analysis and explanation of that claim, along the way delivering a compelling account of modern social, political, and ethical life.​Kervégan begins with Hegel's term "objective spirit," the public manifestation of our deepest commitments, the binding norms that shape our existence as subjects and agents. He examines objective spirit in three realms: the notion of right, the theory of society, and the state. In conversation with… Read More

Colección Literatura o muerte. Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 5.75" x 8.5", shows very light shelfwear, with sound binding, clean and bright pages. 181 pages."Padura Fuentes — one of Cuba's best-known and most widely acclaimed writers — has written a first-rate detective story set against the backdrop of Hemingway's Cuba. Part fascinating examination of Hemingway the man in his trying final years and part nifty postmodern procedural, Adios Hemingway will engross Hemingway fans while keeping them in suspense until the final pages.When the skeletal remains of a man brought down by two buckshots forty years earlier surface on the Havana estate of Ernest Hemingway, writer, drinker, and ex-cop Mario Conte reluctantly accepts a reinstatement to investigate. As the truth of the night of October 3, 1958, slowly reveals itself, Conte must come to terms with his idealistic memory of Papa Hemingway on Cuba's sun-drenched docks from when he was a child tagging along with his… Read More

First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", shows shelfwear, with diagonal crease at lower outside corner of front cover. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. xxi/413 pages."The 1984 explosion of the Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India was undisputedly one of the world's worst industrial disasters. Some have argued that the resulting litigation provided an "innovative model" for dealing with the global distribution of technological risk; others consider the disaster a turning point in environmental legislation; still others argue that Bhopal is what globalization looks like on the ground.Kim Fortun explores these claims by focusing on the dynamics and paradoxes of advocacy in competing power domains. She moves from hospitals in India to meetings with lawyers, corporate executives, and environmental justice activists in the United States to show how the disaster and its effects remain with us. Spiraling outward from the victims' stories, the innovative… Read More

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is like new. Facsimile edition of the work of Greek orator and author Aelius Aristides (117-181 AD). 700 pages.

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in dark brown cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book is in excellent condition. Dust jacket displays light shelfwear. viii/469 pages."In "The Aesthetics of the Total Artwork", artists, curators, and scholars from many countries and fields offer new ways of understanding the history and contemporary importance of the idea of the total artwork, or Gesamtkunstwerk. The term " Gesamtkunstwerk" was introduced in the romantic period. It describes the desire for and practice of combining various art forms into a whole, such as performances that combine text, visual arts, music, dance, and architecture. Richard Wagner was one of the early theorists of the concept, inspiring many modernist artists; yet, due to his ideological significance for the Third Reich, the concept has frequently been associated with totalitarianism since the Second World War. Nonetheless, artistic practice has continued to incorporate all-inclusive… Read More

Anejos de Revista de Literatura, 17. Large-format softcover volume, measuring approximately 7" x 9.75", is in fine condition. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 218 pages.
"Las objeciones que se han hecho al arte dramático de Lope de Vega y demás dramaturgos del siglo XVII responden a una imperdonable incomprensión ante la técnica barroca de los aludidos autores. Esta técnica de hacer "la carpintería" del mundo dramático para los espectadores -y no para lectores- representa una gran revolución estética en los anales del teatro y corresponde a otra gran revolución estética en la pintura del arte moderno, creada por la escuela de arte abstracto. A nadie se le ocurre decir seriamente que Picasso y demás pintores abstractos no saben pintar, es decir, componer. Las objeciones que se hagan al arte abstracto no son necesariamente de índole técnica, de composición. En general, se cree todavía que Lope y sus contemporáneos barrocos construían sus dramas sin reglas, sin "arte", con… Read More

Large-format hardcover volume, measuring approximately 10" x 12.25", is, together with dust jacket, new, still in shrinkwrap. 318 pages."Celebrating African costumes and textiles, this volume draws on historical and modern pieces from the Zaira and Marcel Mis Collection. The extraordinary works exemplify the craftsmanship of highly skilled African weavers and provide insight into the lives and culture of various ethnic groups.The book presents a variety of costumes, textiles, and accessories used for everyday wear and for special celebrations, and explores the different techniques, influences, and meanings behind these colorful works of art. The essays describe the history of the development of these techniques and the richness of the symbolism in this form of cultural heritage. The superb photography showcases the splendor of these intricate and exquisite textiles."

Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in black leatherette, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xix/163 pages."Drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and research, Neil A. Wynn combines narrative history and primary sources as he locates the World War II years within the long-term struggle for African Americans' equal rights. It is now widely accepted that these years were crucial in the development of the emerging Civil Rights movement through the economic and social impact of the war, as well as the military service itself. Wynn examines the period within the broader context of the New Deal era of the 1930s and the Cold War of the 1950s, concluding that the war years were neither simply a continuation of earlier developments nor a prelude to later change. Rather, this period was characterized by an intense transformation of black hopes and expectations, encouraged by real socio-economic shifts and departures… Read More

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in white cloth, with stamped black lettering to spine. Book is like new. Dust jacket shows shelfwear, with faded spine panel and wear at edges. xiv/384 pages.
""After the New Criticism" is the first history and evaluation of contemporary American critical theory within its European philosophical contexts. The historical intention of Frank Lentricchia's book is evident in its structure. In the first part, "A Critical Thematics, 1957-1977," Lentricchia analyzes the impact of our critical thought of Frye, Stevens, Kermode, Sartre, Poulet, Heidegger, Saussure, Barthes, Levi-Strauss, Derrida, and Foucault, among others, less central figures. Having exposed the significant themes and problems, and gauged the influence of archetypalist, existentialist, phenomenological, structuralist, and poststructuralist perspectives, the author turns, in the second part, to four exemplary theorists on the American scene -- Murray Krieger, E. D. Hirsch,… Read More

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.5"x 9.5", is like new. xii/244 pages.