Search Results: Titles starting with B from Palimpsest Scholarly Books

Second printing. Volume, measuring approximately 7.5" x 10.5", is bound in burnt orange cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book displays very light shelfwear. Previous owner's name appears at top outside corner of front flyleaf. Interior is otherwise clean and bright. Dust jacket exhibits light shelfwear. 270 pages."In this major new interpretation of the music of J. S. Bach, we gain a striking picture of the composer as a unique critic of his age. By reading Bach's music "against the grain" of contemporaries such as Vivaldi and Telemann, Laurence Dreyfus explains how Bach's approach to musical invention in a variety of genres posed a fundamental challenge to Baroque aesthetics."Invention"--the word Bach and his contemporaries used for the musical idea that is behind or that generates a composition--emerges as an invaluable key in Dreyfus's analysis. Looking at important pieces in a range of genres, including concertos, sonatas, fugues, and vocal works, he focuses on the fascinating… Read More

Serie Piper, Band 367. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5" x 7.75", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and without markings. 131 pages.

Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.75", is bound in dark blue cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine and author's facsimile signature stamped in silver on front cover. Book and dust jacket, with price of $25 on front flap, are in fine condition. Dust jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 713 pages.
"Armistead Maupin's uproarious and moving "Tales of the City" novels have earned a unique niche in American literature and are considered indelible documents of cultural change from the seventies through the first two decades of the new millennium. The nine classic comedies, some of which originally appeared as serials in San Francisco newspapers, won Maupin critical acclaim around the world and enthralled legions of devoted fans.
"Back to Barbary Lane" comprises the second omnibus of the series—"Babycakes" (1984), "Significant Others" (1987), and "Sure of You" (1989)—continuing the saga of the tenants, past and present, of Mrs. Madrigal's beloved apartment house on Russian Hill. While the… Read More

First Cornell Paperbacks printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.5", displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. Illustrated with graphs, tables, and photos. xv/316 pages."Chinese entrepreneurs have founded more than thirty million private businesses since Beijing instituted economic reforms in the late 1970s. Most of these private ventures, however, have been denied access to official sources of credit. State banks continue to serve state-owned enterprises, yet most private financing remains illegal. How have Chinese entrepreneurs managed to fund their operations? In defiance of the national banking laws, small business owners have created a dizzying variety of informal financing mechanisms, including rotating credit associations and private banks disguised as other types of organizations. "Back-Alley Banking" includes lively biographical sketches of individual entrepreneurs; telling quotations from official documents, policy statements, and… Read More

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 8.25", displays light shelfwear, with small scuff mark to rear cover. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 180 pages.A collection of 35 hunting and fishing stories originally appearing on the back pages of outdoor sports magazines.

Letras Hispánicas. Softcover volume displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. Critical edition of this 1985 "costumbrista" play made into a film in 1989. 193 pages.

Original Russian screenplay by V. Yezhov and G. Chukhari, with introductory text and marginal gloss in English. Softcover volume shows shelfwear, with creasing to the area of the lower right corner of front cover. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and without markings. Illustrated with b&w photos from the prize-winning 1959 Soviet film. 137 pages.

DuMont Taschenbücher, 184. Third printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 4.5" x 7.25", shows very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. Numerous illustrations, including color plates. 302 pages.
"Balthasar Neumann (1687-1753) zählt zu den großen Barockbaumeistern des 18. Jahrhunderts. Die Würzburger Residenz, ihr Treppenhaus und ihre Hofkirche, die Wallfahrtskirche Vierzehnheiligen und die Abteikirche Neresheim, die Treppenhäuser der Schlösser in Bruchsal und Brühl, das Würzburger Käppele: sie alle sind Inbegriffe für die Einzigartigkeit seiner Architektur.Der vorliegende Band versucht, den Menschen Neumann in schwerpunktartig gewählten Themen lebendig werden zu lassen. Er entwirft dabei ein wesentlich reicheres Neumann-Bild, als es in den bislang erschienenen Monographien zu finden ist. Hauptquellen sind die Briefe des Baumeisters und Zeugnisse seiner Auftraggeber. Das Buch will aber auch zum Erleben Neumannscher Bauwerke ermuntern."

Kunstwissenschaftliche Studien, Band XX. Volume, measuring approximately 7" x 9.75", is bound in burlap, with stamped black lettering to spine and front cover. Book is in near fine condition, with previous owner's name on title page. Binding is firm. Pages are clean and bright. This book contains 64 illustrations on plates. Dust jacket displays light shelfwear. 126 pages plus plates.
Originally published in 1937, this work a chronological account of architect Balthasar Neumann's projects and buildings in Würzburg and Bamberg, presents Neumann's memorandum ("Denkschrift") of 1720, commentary, index and a genealogical table illustrating the Neumann family relations and ties to Franconian architects and public officials.

Large-format volume, measuring approximately 8.75" x 11.75", is bound in red cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book shows light external wear. Binding is firm. Previous owner's name appears on title page. Interior is otherwise clean and bright. Dust jacket displays light shelfwear. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 184 pages.
Collection of essays on German architect Balthasar Neumann (1687-1753), one of the most important builders of the baroque and rococo periods in southern Germany.Contents:"Über Rang und Bedeutung der Architektur Neumanns in der Kunstgeschichte" by Erich Hubala;"Balthasar Neumanns kurvierte Räume und ihre Vorstufen bei Borromini, Guarini und in Böhmen" by Heinrich Gerhard Franz;"Der Raum der Schönbornkapelle am Würzburger Dom" by Thomas Korth;"Balthasar Neumann und die frühe Planungsphase der Würzburger Residenz" by Stefan Kummer;"Fassaden als Weltarchhitektur" by Bernhard Schütz;"Balthasar Neumanns Schlosskirche von Werneck" by Erich… Read More

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.5", is like new. 185 pages.

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."

Volume, measuring approximately 7.5" x 10", is bound in light brown cloth, with stamped black and white lettering to spine and front cover. A small black spot appears on spine. Book is otherwise in fine condition, with firm binding, clean and bright pages. 164 pages.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition "All in the Present Must be Transformed: Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys" held at Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Oct. 28, 2006-Jan. 12, 2007, and Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, June 6-Sept. 2, 2007.This exhibition "...draws attention to the similarities between two artists, despite their different backgrounds. These two dramatic personalities share aesthetic and conceptual ideas, and this exhibition examines the metaphors, use of materials, and performative sensibilities."Contents:"In Potentia: Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys" by Nancy SpectorDrawings;"Forgery" by Mark C. Taylor;"Notes from the Laboratory" by Christian Scheidemann;"Ritual Space/Sculptural Time" by Nat Trotman.

Volume, measuring approximately 8.5" x 10.5", is bound in light brown cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xvii/209 pages.
"Baroque art flourished in seventeenth-century Seville during a tumultuous period of economic decline, social conflict, and natural disasters. This volume explores the patronage that fueled this frenzy of religious artistic and architectural activity and the lasting effects it had on the city and its citizens.Amanda Wunder investigates the great public projects of sacred artwork that were originally conceived as "medios divinos"-divine solutions to the problems that plagued Seville. These commissions included new polychromed wooden sculptures and richly embroidered clothing for venerable old images, gilded altarpieces and monumental paintings for church interiors, elaborate ephemeral decorations and festival books by which to remember them, and the gut renovation or rebuilding of major… Read More

Viewpoints/Puntos de Vista. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.5", is in fine condition. xv/188 pages"This is a short history of the age of exploration and the conquest of the Americas told through the experience of Bartolomé de las Casas, a Dominican friar who fervently defended the American Indians, and the single most important figure of the period after Columbus. Explores the period known as the Encounter, which was characterized by intensive conflict between Europeans and the people of the Americas following Columbus's voyages. Argues that Las Casas, 'protector of Indians,' was primarily motivated by Scripture in his crusade for justice and equality for American Indians. Draws on the 14-volume Complete Works of Las Casas as a window into his mind and actions."

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in black paper spine and orange paper-covered boards, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. vi/294 pages."Everyone knows that baseball is a game of intricate regulations, but it turns out to be even more complicated than we realize. All aspects of baseball—hitting, pitching, and baserunning—are affected by the Code, a set of unwritten rules that governs the Major League game. Some of these rules are openly discussed (don't steal a base with a big lead late in the game), while others are known only to a minority of players (don't cross between the catcher and the pitcher on the way to the batter's box). In "The Baseball Codes," old-timers and all-time greats share their insights into the game's most hallowed—and least known—traditions. For the learned and the casual baseball fan alike, the result is illuminating and thoroughly entertaining. At the heart of this book are… Read More

Studies in Continental Thought. First printing. Translation by Robert D. Metcalf and Mark B. Tanzer of "Grundbegriffe der aristotelischen Philosophie" (Vittorio Klostermann, 2002), published volume 18 of the Gesamtausgabe. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in light blue cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are like new. xii/279 pages.
"Volume 18 of Martin Heidegger's collected works presents his important 1924 Marburg lectures which anticipate much of the revolutionary thinking that he subsequently articulated in "Being and Time." Here are the seeds of the ideas that would become Heidegger's unique phenomenology. Heidegger interprets Aristotle's "Rhetoric" and looks closely at the Greek notion of pathos. These lectures offer special insight into the development of his concepts of care and concern, being-at-hand, being-in-the-world, and attunement, which were later elaborated in "Being and Time." Available in English for the first time, they make a… Read More

Softcover volume is in excellent condition. "Presents essays, artworks, and research related to "Story of the Eye". It is the only anthology to reproduce the original prints created by André Masson and Hans Bellmer for the first two editions of "Story of the Eye". In addition, a new set of prints commissioned from 13 international artists especially for this volume continues the tradition of "Story of the Eye" as an illustrated text. Also included are a detailed new publishing history that discusses the various appearances of the tale since 1928 and a lengthy "excavation: project comparing key passages from four known versions of Bataille's tale, including a now-rare 1953 translation." (From text on rear cover)

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 8.25", displays shelfwear. Binding is sound. Final blank page shows foxing. Pages are otherwise clean and bright. Numerous b&w in-text illustrations. 104 pages.
A Spanish-language history of the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, a decisive naval engagement that occurred on July 3, 1898, which occurred during the Spanish–American War.

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. Textual illustrations. xxxi/538 pages."Battling for Hearts and Minds" is the story of the dramatic struggle to define collective memory in Chile during the violent, repressive dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, from the 1973 military coup in which he seized power through his defeat in a 1988 plebiscite. Steve J. Stern provides a riveting narration of Chile's political history during this period. At the same time, he analyzes Chileans' conflicting interpretations of events as they unfolded. Drawing on testimonios, archives, Truth Commission documents, radio addresses, memoirs, and written and oral histories, Stern identifies four distinct perspectives on life and events under the dictatorship. He describes how some Chileans viewed the regime as salvation from ruin by Leftists (the narrative favored by Pinochet's junta), some as a wound repeatedly reopened by the… Read More