Search Results: Titles starting with U from Palimpsest Scholarly Books

Second edition. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 7" x 10", is like new. Illustrated with in-text b&w photos, tables and graphs. xvi/230 pages."This textbook provides an accessible overview of US defense politics for upper-level students. This new edition has been fully updated and revised, with a new chapter on intelligence and new material on unmanned drones, women in the military, the Tea Party, and other key issues. Analyzing the ways in which the United States prepares for war, the authors demonstrate how political and organizational interests determine US defense policy and warn against over-emphasis on planning, centralization, and technocracy. Emphasizing the process of defense policy-making rather than just the outcomes of that process, "US Defense Politics" departs from the traditional style of many existing textbooks. Designed to help students understand the practical side of American national security policy, the book examines the following key themes: US grand strategy; who joins… Read More

First printing. Softcover volume shows light shelfwear. Small price sticker is attached at lower left corner of rear cover. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 379 pages.

Cornell Studies in Security Affairs. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in black cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine Book displays very light shelfwear. Dust jacket shows light shelfwear. 303 pages."How realistically did the British government assess the threat from Nazi Germany during the 1930s? How accurate was British intelligence's understanding of Hitler's aims and Germany's military and industrial capabilities? In "The Ultimate Enemy," Wesley K. Wark catalogues the many misperceptions about Nazi Germany that were often fostered by British intelligence. This book, the product of exhaustive archival research, first looks at the goals of British intelligence in the 1930s. He explains the various views of German power held by the principal Whitehall authorities--including the various military intelligence directorates and the semi-clandestine Industrial Intelligence Centre--and he describes the efforts of senior officials to fit their perceptions of German power into… Read More

Revised and Enlarged edition. Large-format softcover volume, measuring approximately 7.25" x 10.25", displays light shelfwear, with sound binding, clean and bright pages. xviii/698 pages.
"Here substantially revised and expanded, Don Gifford's annotations to Joyce's great modern classic comprise a specialized encyclopedia that will inform any reading of "Ulysses." Annotations in this edition are keyed both to the reading text of the new critical edition of "Ulysses" published in 1984 and to the standard 1961 Random House edition and the current Modern Library and Vintage texts. Gifford has incorporated over 1,000 additions and corrections to the first edition. The introduction and headnotes to sections provide general geographical, biographical and historical background. The annotations gloss place names, define slang terms, give capsule histories of institutions and political and cultural movements and figures, supply bits of local and Irish legend and lore, explain religious nomenclature and… Read More

Collection Le Sens Commun. Volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 8.75", is bound in original printed wrappers displaying light wear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and without markings. Illustrated with b&w photographic plates. 360 pages.
"The everyday practice of photography by millions of amateur photographers may seem to be a spontaneous and highly personal activity. But France's leading sociologist and cultural theorist Pierre Bourdieu and his research associates show that few cultural activities are more structural and systematic than photography.

This perceptive and wide-ranging analysis of the practice of photography reveals the logic implicit in this cultural field. For some social groups, photography is primarily a means of preserving the present and reproducing moments of collective celebration, whereas for other groups it is the occasion of an aesthetic judgment in which photographs are endowed with the dignity of works of art. Bourdieu and his associates examine the socially… Read More

Collection Le Champ Freudien. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.25", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and without markings.Work by French psychoanalyst, philosopher and ethnologist Dominique-Octave Mannoni (1899-1989), who in 1964 he followed Lacan into the École Freudienne de Paris. 184 pages."Reconnaître la psychanalyse à sa place. On parle toujours de moins que d'elle si on oublie qu'elle est partie, dans la relation Freud-Fliess, du transfert. Que c'est seulement à partir du transfert que l'interprétation – celle que Freud engage alors sur les rêves – est possible. Et que c'est seulement sur la base de cette interprétation-là qu'une théorie – ainsi de la métapsychologie chez Freud – est, en analyse, possible.Symétriquement, ce serait demander à la psychanalyse plus qu'elle ne peut prétendre, que de vouloir lui assigner la solution de problèmes propres à d'autres pratiques, tel l'enseignement, ou à des sciences, même quand elles lui… Read More

Colección Mala Letra, 5. First edition inscribed by author. Introduction by José Manuel Ruiz Martínez. Volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 7.75", is bound in original printed and illustrated wrappers. Book and dust jacket are like new. 108 pages.
Inscription on title page reads "Para Gladys, en nuestro / lindo encuentro granadino, / cordialmente, / Antonio Carvajal / 19 octobre 2011".
This work by Spanish poet Antonio Carvajal (b. 1943) was awarded the 2012 Premio Nacional de Poesía and the 2012 Premio de la Crítica de Andalucía.

Softcover volume is new. Illustrated with color photos. 204 pages.

Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 5.5" x 9.5", is in fine condition. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. 94 pages."In "El amor en el tiempo de los dinosaurios," an election worker takes part in the Mexican election of 2000, and in "Sin Dios ni ley," a rich mother considers a notorious rape, in which the needy victim could not get an abortion."

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 7.5" , displays lightshelfwear. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. 388 pages.An examination and reevaluation of the life and work ofFrench philosopher Georges Bénézé (1888-1978)

Temas aragoneses, 40. Softcover volume displays light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Pages are clean and bright. 255 pages.

Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 5.5" x 8.5", displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 225 pages.

First printing. Premio Casa de las Américas (Teatro) 1973. Softcover volume and dust jacket display light shelfwear. 96 pages.

Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, Number 64. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", shows light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Pages are clean and bright. 527 pages.Work by Spanish chronicler and moralist Antonio de Guevara (c.1481-1545), published in 1539, on the lives of ten Roman emperors, in the manner of Plutarch and Suetonius. Introduction and footnotes are in English.

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 8.25", displays moderate wear, with small yellow price tag at bottom of rear cover, covering part of its color illustration. Binding is sound. Previous owner's name appears at top of title page. Pages are clean and bright. 149 pages.
"En estas tres crónicas sobre la visita papal, el caso del Cerro Maravilla y el show de Iris Chacón, el autor de "Las tribulaciones de Jonás," "El entierro de Cortijo" y "Album Familiar" se adentra nuevamente en las coordenadas del Puerto Rico de hoy, tomando como punto de partida tres manifestaciones de esas áreas peligrosas de cualquier cultura, es decir, los tabús respecto del sexo, de la política y la religión. "Una noche con Iris Chacón" es un libro que evoca aquellas frases tantas veces leídas en los rótolus de cafetinas y barberías de la Isla del Encanto: No hable malo, respete, que hay damas...Se prohiben las discusiones sobre religión, política...y sexo."

Biblioteca de Bolsillo. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 4.75" x 7.5", is in fine condition. This collection of short stories by Uruguayan author Cristina Peri Rossi (b. 1941) offer an exploration of sexual desire. 184 pages.

Second edition, revised and enlarged. Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 5.75" x 8.5", is in fine condition. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. 234 pages.Guide to García Márquez' novel "Cien años de soledad".""Estamos ante una lectura caribeña de la novela más celebrada de García Márquez: "Cien años de soledad". Con la utilidad de un manual o guía de lectura, que no descarta la ambición totalizadora, la erudición, la claridad y la pasión por la belleza, el libro se adentra en los mil y un hechizos de esta novela plural. Son múltiples las entradas con las que su autora intenta perforar el enigma de la novela emblemática de nuestras letras, pero el hilo conductor está claro: se trata de la lectura de un mito. La novela misma lo es, por ser un clásico cuyo poder de convocatoría es tan grande en Hispanoamérica como lo es el del Quijote en España. Pero, a la vez, "Cien años de soledad" oscila entre la novela moderna y el mito. Y éste le… Read More

Second printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.75", is in fine condition. xviii/162 pages."Drawing on Black intellectual and grassroots organizing traditions, including the Haitian Revolution, the US civil rights movement, and LGBTQ rights and feminist movements, Unapologetic challenges all of us engaged in the social justice struggle to make the movement for Black liberation more radical, more queer, and more feminist. This book provides a vision for how social justice movements can become sharper and more effective through principled struggle, healing justice, and leadership development. It also offers a flexible model of what deeply effective organizing can be, anchored in the Chicago model of activism, which features long-term commitment, cultural sensitivity, creative strategizing, and multiple cross-group alliances. And "Unapologetic" provides a clear framework for activists committed to building transformative power, encouraging young people to see themselves as visionaries… Read More

First MIT Press paperback edition. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 7" x 9", is in fine condition, with sound binding, clean and bright pages. Numerous in-text illustrations. xi/297 pages."Although both are central to architecture, siting and construction are often treated as separate domains. In "Uncommon Ground," David Leatherbarrow illuminates their relationship, focusing on the years between 1930 and 1960, when utopian ideas about the role of technology in building gave way to an awareness of its disruptive impact on cities and culture. He examines the work of three architects, Richard Neutra, Antonin Raymond, and Aris Konstantinidis, who practiced in the United States, Japan, and Greece respectively. Leatherbarrow rejects the assumption that buildings of the modern period, particularly those that used the latest technology, were designed without regard to their surroundings. Although the prefabricated elements used in the buildings were designed independent of siting considerations,… Read More

First printing of first US edition. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in black paper spine and dark blue paper-covered boards, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. viii/488 pages.""Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In "Underland," he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself.In this highly anticipated sequel to his international bestseller "The Old Ways," Macfarlane takes us on an extraordinary journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through "deep time"--the dizzying expanses of geologic time that stretch away from the present--he moves from the birth of the universe to a post-human future, from the prehistoric art of… Read More