Search Results: Titles starting with R from Palimpsest Scholarly Books

Classics of Western Spirituality. First edition. Preface by Shaye J. D. Cohen. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is like new. xxi/315 pages. "This volume provides translations of over fifty of the most important rabbinic stories. Each story is preceded by an introduction that sets wider context and explains technical terms and references. Both the introduction and notes pay careful attention to the literary aspects and narrative art of the stories, including the use of irony, wordplays, symbolic names, repetition and the integration of biblical verses."

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).

Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.25", is bound in quarter black cloth and blue paper-covered boards, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is in near fine condition, with small green mark in margin of page 47. Interior is otherwise clean and bright. Illustrated with full-page b&w photos. Dust jacket displays light shelfwear. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 228 pages."Who are the "race men" standing for black America? It is a question Hazel Carby rejects, along with its long-standing assumption: that a particular type of black male can represent the race. A searing critique of definitions of black masculinity at work in American culture, "Race Men" shows how these defining images play out socially, culturally, and politically for black and white society--and how they exclude women altogether. Carby begins by looking at images of black masculinity in the work of W. E. B. Du Bois. Her analysis of "The Souls of Black Folk" reveals the narrow and rigid code of masculinity that Du Bois… Read More

The Master Musicians. First US edition. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in gilt-lettered quarter black cloth and red paper-covered boards. Small red mark appears on bottom edge of text block. Book and dust jacket are otherwise in fine condition. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xi/194 pages."Sergey Rachmaninoff in his lifetime knew equal success as composer, performer, and conductor. From his youth until weeks before his death, his subtle and richly imaginative pianism thrilled and absorbed audiences, but it was for his compositions that he wanted above all to be remembered - a body of work that carried the lyricism of Tchaikovsky and the technical brilliance of Liszt into the twentieth century.Born in 1873, Rachmaninoff graduated from the Moscow Conservatory both as a pianist and as a composer. He became world-famous at 19 with the composition of his Prelude in C sharp minor but then, discouraged by the failure of his First Symphony in 1897, he concentrated for a time on a… Read More

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in black cloth, with stamped white lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xi/268 pages.
"Drawing from both familiar and overlooked sources, such as the personal diaries of Southern travelers, papers and letters from civil engineers, corporate records, and contemporary newspaper accounts, Aaron W. Marrs skillfully expands on the conventional business histories that have characterized scholarship in this field. He situates railroads in the fullness of antebellum life, examining how slavery, technology, labor, social convention, and the environment shaped their evolution.

Far from seeing the Old South as backward and premodern, Marrs finds evidence of urban life, industry, and entrepreneurship throughout the region. But these signs of progress existed alongside efforts to preserve traditional ways of life. Railroads exemplified Southerners' pursuit of progress on their own terms:… Read More

Volume is bound in black cloth, with stamped white lettering to spine. Book shows light shelfwear. Pages are clean and bright. 176 pages.

Author-signed first printing. Photography by Gozen Koshida and Steven Needham, with wine notes by Shields Hood. Volume, measuring approximately 7.75" x 9.5", is bound in glossy covers, with white lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xi/219 pages.Inscription appears on dedication page and reads "Dear Mary, / Fine food / wine / & company - / Key to happiness of life! / Raji". "When Raji Jallepalli was a child growing up in India, she loved to sneak into the kitchen to carefully observe the cook and ask questions about whatever happened to be on the stove. Her parents discouraged such behavior--since Indian ladies did not cook. With a career in the kitchen unthinkable, Raji immersed herself in a career in microbiology. Years later, she visited France and fell in love with French food and wine. On first tasting the food she thought, "This is nice, but it could use some of the assertive flavors of my homeland as well as some lightening up."Three important… Read More

Second edition. Softcover volume shows light wear to top of rear cover. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. The author's semi-autobiographical novel was completed in 1966, distributed in Russia that year in samizdat, and banned there the following year. In appeared in 1968 in Western Europe. 446 pages.

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.5", is in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright interior. 102 pages."In this remarkable and arresting study, Terry Eagleton seeks to reclaim Richardson for our own time, as one of the most pioneering and revolutionary authors of English literature. He shows how the concern of "Clarissa" with the oppression of women graphically prefigures the feminism of today. Using a combination of Marxist, post-structuralist and psychoanalytic approaches, Eagleton examines Richardson's obsession with the act of writing, his role as an aggressive spokesman for the middle class and his unparalleled insights into sexual politics."

Large-format hardcover volume, measuring approximately 9" x 11.5", is new. Dust-jacketed book is preserved in mylar cover. xxii/487 pages.
"This exhibition (until 11 January, 2004) concentrates on a patron rather than a single artist; it traces the patronage of Renaissance banker, Bindo Altoviti. A staunch opponent of the Medici family, Altoviti was himself one of the most affluent and influential men in Italy. Born into wealth and already a prominent figure at the age of 16 when he inherited his father's bank, Altoviti maintained a dynamic relationship with the arts. Most of the 24 pieces in the show come from Altoviti's personal collection, which has been scattered across museums in Europe and the US. Brought together, the show reveals Altoviti's vast and varied appreciation of celebrated artists such as Raphael, Michelangelo, Cellini and Vasari, while in turn displaying the artists' own admiration of a generous benefactor. The highlights of the show are two equally striking portraits of the patron,… Read More

The Great Fresco Cycles of the Renaissance. Oblong volume, measuring approximately 10.5" x 7.75", is bound in blue cloth, with stamped white lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 95 pages.The four Raphael Rooms ("Stanze di Raffaello") form a suite of reception rooms in the Apostolic Palace, now part of the Vatican Museums, in Vatican City. They are famous for their frescoes, painted by Raphael and his workshop. Together with Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes, they are the grand fresco sequences that mark the High Renaissance in Rome."Recognising the precocious talent of Raphael, then aged twenty-six. Pope Julius II commissioned him to paint scenes based on the four branches of learning: Theology, Poetry, Jurisprudence and Philosophy. He created monumental works that attempted to unite the worlds of science, philosophy and art."

.Volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.25", is bound in original printed wrappers. Book displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 193 pages.Collection of stories by Soviet author and satirist Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko (1894-1958)

Colección de Ciencias Sociales, Serie de Ciencia Política. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.5", is like new. Card signed by the director of the publishing house is laid in. 297 pages.

Collection "Textes et non-textes". Softcover volume shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 223 pages.

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. Texts in German and English. 266 pages.

With STRESS, an image essay by Bruce Mau with texts by André Lepecki. Softcover volume, bound in pictorial stiff boards, is excellent condition. Profusely illustrated. Published an the occasion of the exhibition STRESS at the MAK, Vienna. 382 pages.

First US edition. Volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.5", is bound in glossy paper spine and boards. Book is new. 199 pages.
"Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in Marx's "Capital" inspired, in particular, by the crisis of 2008-9 and the period of slow growth that has followed. Marx was capitalism's greatest critic and his work retains its relevance 150 years after its initial publication. Here, Choonara breaks down the thousand-page text, making it inviting and accessible for the reader. "A Reader's Guide to Capital" is an essential tool for students, activists, and others looking to read this classic text today. Joseph Choonara teaches international political economy at King's College London. He is the author of "Unravelling Capitalism", a columnist for Socialist Review, and an editorial board member of International Socialism."

Softcover, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.25", displays creasing to spine and vertical crease along front spine edge. Book is otherwise in very good condition, with solid sewn binding, clean and bright interior. 308 pages."One of the most widely discussed modern authors who wrote in English, Joseph Conrad was a persistent experimenter in the form of the novel; his many innovations in structure have become the technical heritage of the 20th-century writer of fiction. In this extended analysis of Conrad's novels and shorter fiction, special attention is given to the significance of the work today and to the ways in which Conrad used his techniques to implement his literary ideas."

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book shows very light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Pages are clean and bright. Dust jacket is well preserved in mylar cover. 303 pages,"Perhaps nothing is more revealing about a person than what he or she reads. In 1938, when Freud was forced by the Nazis to flee Vienna, he brought with him to London a large portion of his annotated library. "Reading Freud's Reading" is a guided tour of this library, the intellectual tools of the genius of Freud. Specialists from a wide range of areas -- from the history of medicine, to literary scholarship, to the history of classical scholarship -- spent two months working on questions raised by Freud's reading and hi s library at the Freud Museum in London. Such internationally renowned scholars as Harold P. Blum, Ned Lukacher, Phillip McCaffrey, Robin N. Mitchell-Boyask, Michael Molnar, Ursula Reidel-Schrewe, Ritchie Robertson, and Peter L.… Read More

First printing. Volume is bound in black cloth, with gilt lettering to spine. Book is in excellent condition. Dust jacket exhibits very light shelfwear. 197 pages.