Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Palimpsest Scholarly Books

Author-inscribed edition. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.5", is like new. 314 pages.Lengthy inscription, dated 2005, appears on half title page and is signed Rodrigo."Rodrigo Bazán Bonfil señala el nacimiento del bolero en México en 1921, Este género ocupará las siguientes ocho décadas en la historia de la música en nuestro país. No hay un solo criterio que permita determinar una lista incuestionable de los mejores boleros; sin embargo, el autor procura conciliar criterios y adoptar un punto de vista objetivo para seleccionar poco más de cien boleros fundamentales."

Second printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.75", is bound in orange paper spine and boards, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xi/249 pages.
"In nineteenth-century Eastern Europe, the Jewish-run tavern was often the center of leisure, hospitality, business, and even religious festivities. This unusual situation came about because the nobles who owned taverns throughout the formerly Polish lands believed that only Jews were sober enough to run taverns profitably, a belief so ingrained as to endure even the rise of Hasidism's robust drinking culture. As liquor became the region's boom industry, Jewish tavernkeepers became integral to both local economies and local social life, presiding over Christian celebrations and dispensing advice, medical remedies and loans. Nevertheless, reformers and government officials, blaming Jewish tavernkeepers for epidemic peasant drunkenness, sought to drive Jews out of the liquor trade.… Read More

First printing. 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. xxvi/870 pages."With "The Years of Extermination," Saul Friedländer completes his major historical work on Nazi Germany and the Jews. The book describes and interprets the persecution and murder of the Jews throughout occupied Europe. The enactment of German extermination policies and measures depended on the cooperation of local authorities, the assistance of police forces, and the passivity of the populations, primarily of their political and spiritual elites. This implementation depended as well on the victims' readiness to submit to orders, often with the hope of attenuating them or of surviving long enough to escape the German vise.This multifaceted study—at all levels and in different places—enhances the perception of the magnitude, complexity, and interrelatedness of the many… Read More

Cornell East Asia Series, 147. First printing. Translated by Wang Lingzhen and Mary Ann O'Donnell, with an introduction by Wang Lingzhen. Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 9", is new. vii/190 pages."This anthology focuses on autobiographical works by Wang Anyi, the most prolific and critically acclaimed woman writer in contemporary China, highlighting a personal and emotional dimension of her writing that is essential to a deeper understanding of her creativity and productivity. The three pieces selected for this volume―"A Woman Writer's Sense of Self," "Utopian Verses," and "Years of Sadness"―explore some of the most fundamental and complex issues concerning Wang's identity as a woman and as a writer in early post-socialist China, the creative and emotional challenges she faced during her sojourn in the United States in the early 1980s, and her memories of adolescent years, a period of obsession, uncertainty, and loneliness during the Cultural Revolution."

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and without markings. Text in Chinese. 231 pages.

Reprint of 1912 edition. Volume is bound in brown cloth, with black lettering to spine. Book is in excellent condition. Dust jacket displays moderate shelfwear, with minor loss at top/bottom of spine panel and mild rubbing at edges of covers. 599 pages.Contributions by I. L. Peretz, Mordecai Spektor, Scholem Aleichem, Eliezer David Rosenthal, Isaiah Lerner, Judah Steinberg, David Frischmann, Abraham Raisin, and Shalom Asch, among others.

Volume is bound in black cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book is in excellent condition. Price-clipped dust jacket, now preserved in mylar, displays light shelfwear. 281 pages.

Large-format hardcover volume, measuring approximately 7.5" x 10.5", is in fine condition, with firm binding, clean and bright interior. Wrap-around paper band displays very light wear. Text is in Korean. 251 pages.
Translation of "Old Korea" (Philosophical Library, 1946). This translation includes additional reproductions of artist's color prints and articles.
Elizabeth Keith (1887 – 1956) was a Scottish artist and writer. She was a printmaker and watercolorist whose works were significantly influenced by her travels to Japan, China, Korea and the Philippines. n 1946 she and her sister Elspet published a book titled "Old Korea: The Land of the Morning Calm," which included criticism of Japan's colonization of Korea before and during the war and was dedicated to General Douglas MacArthur, Lord Louis Mountbatten, and Admiral Chester Nimitz.

Large-format volume, measuring approximately 11.25" x 15.5", with illustrated dust jacket, is new, preserved in shrinkwrap. 256 pages."Yoshitoshi (1839-1892) was the last virtuoso of the Japanese woodblock print, and the "One Hundred Aspects of the Moon", published between 1885 and 1892, were his crowning achievement. This series-mainly illustrating stories from history and legend, unified by the motif of the moon-is charged with paradox. In order to carry forward the tradition of ukiyo-e, Yoshitoshi drew stylistic inspiration from the very forces that were rendering it obsolete-namely, Western art and mass media like photography and lithography. As if they realized they were witnessing the end of an era, the artist's public responded enthusiastically to his innovative series-many of the individual prints were sold out on the morning of their publication. This magnificent facsimile of "One Hundred Aspects of the Moon" reproduces each print at its original size, facing an explanation of the subject. A… Read More

Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are like new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. x/220 pages."Has China in the 1980s gone through a phase of "youth rebellion" comparable with that represented in films such as "Rebel Without a Cause" (1954), "Look Back in Anger" (1959) or "Easy Rider" (1969)? The present study is an attempt to look for evidence in the "youth-rebellion" films produced over that period of time that may help to answer the question. In the last twenty years of the twentieth century, the People's Republic of China underwent profound transformations, of which the changing situation of youth was particularly striking. In a society that has traditionally assumed respect for age, the prominence of youth and their new autonomy were conspicuous. A young generation born on the eve of and growing up during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) came to depart from the established social norms by the… Read More

Facsimile edition. Volume, measuring approximately 4.25" x 6.25", is bound in cloth reproducing the original binding of the 1717 Saint Petersburg edition. Book is in fine condition, with paper wrap around well preserved. 29/88 pages.This is a facsimile reproduction of a rare, early Russian-language treatise on the education of the young.