Search Results: Authors starting with C from Palimpsest Scholarly Books

Inscribed by author. Agriculture Handbook, Number 651.Large-format volume, measuring approximately 8.75" x 11.25", is bound in red cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to front cover. Book shows moderate external wear, with small nick to rear cover. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. Numerous color illustrations. 83 pages.Inscription on front flyleaf reads "To / Don / with / compliments / by / J. P. Dubey""This atlas illustrates protozoan parasites in animal tissues. To facilitate identification, it provides a brief description of parasites, hosts, transmission, and pathogenesis of the most important protozoans and simplified life-cycle drawings. Also included are 257 color photographs of protozoans and associated lesions, recorded using optimal conditions for identification, and 36 color photomicrographs of fungi that are commonly confused with protozoans."

Letras Hispánicas, 280. Softcover volume displays light shelfwear. Pages are clean and bright. Critical edition of a medieval Spanish epic poem about Alexander the Great written between 1178 and c. 1250. 667 pages.

The Documents of 20th Century Art. A translation of "Entretiens avec Marcel Duchamp" (Editions Pierre Belfond, 1967). Softcover volume shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 136 pages.

Biblioteca Breve de Bolsillo. Stated first edition. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 4.75" x 7.5", shows shelfwear, with light soiling and mild creasing to covers. Binding is sound. Small red stain appears at the fore edge of half title page. Interior is otherwise clean and without markings. Map of Havana is present at rear of volume. 451 pages.The landmark novel was first published in Spain in 1967.

Princeton Essays on the Arts. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in purple and brick red cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is in fine condition. 53 illustrations on plates at rear of volume. Dust jacket exhibits wear, with rubbing to panels and mild creasing at top of front panel. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 168 pages plus 53 illustrations on plates.
"Tracing the history and critical function of the most hallowed word in the vocabulary of praise, Walter Cahn studies - through numerous illustrations - the changes in the meaning of the term 'masterpiece' from the earliest use of the expression 'chef d'oeuvre' in the Middle Ages to the effects of Romanticism and other influences in the nineteenth century. In the process, he illuminates the change in status of the visual arts from that of mechanical arts, which originated in antiquity and projected into the medieval period, to that of fine arts, which took shape in the Renaissance and was carried forward into… Read More

First printings. Volumes, each measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75" and bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spines. Books are new. Dust jacket of second volume has small closed tear at top edge of spine panel. Jackets are preserved in mylar cover. xxiv/647/xi/895 pages."This biography of composer Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) describes with unprecedented intimacy, affection, and respect the life of one of France's greatest artists. After long being regarded as an oddity and an eccentric figure, Berlioz is now being accepted into the ranks of the great composers. Based on a wealth of previously unpublished sources, and on a profound understanding of the humanity of his subject...these two volumes together comprise a monumental biographical achievement, sure to stand as the definitive Berlioz biography.In researching Berlioz's life, Cairns has had access to unpublished family papers, and in Volume I he is able to portray all the people close to Berlioz in his boyhood, and to evoke a… Read More

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.

Author-signed first printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is new. 197 pages."The title of this collection echoes Siegfried Kracauer's statement that the lavish movie palaces of 1920s Germany served to stimulate peripheral vision and thus prevent the audience from being absorbed by the spectacle itself. In consideration of questions concerning spatial transformations in and around Weimar cinema, the eight essays in this volume, though some more explicitly than others, have Kracauer as their interlocutor. The first major critic of classic German cinema, Kracauer is patron of the optics that seeks insight on the periphery, inviting the analysis of those other spaces that are implicated, if not present, in the films themselves.The films treated in this volume include such Expressionist mainstays as Lang's Metropolis and Murnau's "Nosferatu" as well as generally less familiar works, e.g., Ruttman's "Berlin, Symphony of a City," Jessner's "Backstairs," Berger's "Day and Night," and… Read More

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in burnt orange paper spine and boards, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are like new. Work is illustrated with tables and graphs. x/420 pages."China's increasing role in global economic affairs has placed the country at a crossroads: how many and what types of international capital-market transactions will China permit? How will China's financial system change internally? What kind of relationships will the Chinese government develop with foreign financial institutions, especially with those based in the United States? Can China broker a sustainable partnership with America that will avoid sending economic shock waves throughout the world?Drawing on the contemporary research of prominent international scholars, the experts in this volume outline the trajectory of China's financial markets since the advent of reform and anticipate their uncertain future. Chapter authors and commentators include Geert… Read More

Petitle Bibliotheque Payot, 352. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 4.5" x 7.25", shows moderate wear, with foxing to top edge of text block. Binding is sound. Previous owner's name and date appears on first preliminary page. Lightly age-toned pages are otherwise clean and without markings. 236 pages.
French linguist Louis-Jean Calvet's first publication (1974), in which introduced his concept of glottophagy, and analyzed the relationships between linguistic discourse and colonial discourse on languages, as well as the links between language and power.
"Le propos de ce livre est de montrer comment l'étude des langues a toujours proposé, au bout du compte, une certaine vision des communautés linguistiques et de leurs rapports, et comment cette vision a pu être ultilisée pour justifier l'entreprise coloniale. Les sciences humaines sont en effet enfermées dans un carcan séculier: qu'elles le veuillent ou non, elles parlent de nous, de nos conflits, de nos luttes. Et la traduction qu'elles… Read More

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. viii/232 pages.
"In the United States, few issues are more socially divisive than the location of hazardous waste facilities and other environmentally harmful enterprises. Do the negative impacts of such polluters fall disproportionately on African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Asian Americans? "Environmental Injustices, Political Struggles" discusses how political, economic, social, and cultural factors contribute to local government officials' consistent location of hazardous and toxic waste facilities in low-income neighborhoods and how, as a result, low-income groups suffer disproportionately from the regressive impacts of environmental policy.David E. Camacho's collection of essays examines the value-laden choices behind the public policy that determines placement of commercial environmental hazards, points to the underrepresentation of people of… Read More

First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9.25", is in fine condition. xx/260 pages."Philosophers have long debated the subjects of person and personhood. Sharon Cameron ushers this debate into the literary realm by considering impersonality in the works of major American writers and figures of international modernism, writers for whom personal identity is inconsequential and even imaginary. In essays on William Empson, Jonathan Edwards, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, T. S. Eliot, and Simone Weil, Cameron examines the impulse to hollow out the core of human distinctiveness, to construct a voice that is no one's voice, to fashion a character without meaningful attributes, a being that is virtually anonymous. "To consent to being anonymous," Weil wrote, "is to bear witness to the truth. But how is this compatible with social life and its labels? " Throughout these essays Cameron examines the friction, even violence, set in motion from such incompatibility? from a "truth" that… Read More

Large-format volume, measuring approximately 9.25" x 11.75", is bound in brown cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is in fine condition. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. Dust jacket, with price on front flap partially removed, displays very light shelfwear. Jacket is in preserved in mylar cover. Profusely illustrated. 694 pages."Widely considered the classic book in the field, George Cameron Stone's "A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor in All Countries and in All Times" is an indispensable resource and reference tool for anyone interested in arms and armor. Originally published in 1934, it remains an essential guide to the field. To describe the worldwide range and variety of weaponry, Stone drew upon the more than 4,000 items in his private collection of Eastern arms and armor, as well as the European arms collection of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a variety of other sources. Since the author subsequently bequeathed his entire… Read More

Studies in the History and Society of the Maghrib, Volume 4. Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.75", is new. 246 pages.
"This work "traces the development of the postcolonial Arabic-language Moroccan novel from its roots in travel narratives and autobiography into its more mature period of stylistic and thematic diversity in the early 1970s. This study first undertakes an exploration of the political, social and artistic conditions under which the genre developed, then moves to close readings fo each of the formative texts, grouped by theme. The analysis of these texts centers around their spatial practices: there is a tension between the labyrinthine space of the street, which deflects legibility, and the sacred interior within the blank walls, wherein a certain equality of the gaze and power can be perceived."

Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.75", is bound in blue cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is new. Dust jacket displays very light shelfwear. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. x/205 pages.""Border Capitalism, Disrupted" presents an insightful ethnography of migrant labor regulation at the Mae Sot Special Border Economic Zone on the Myanmar border in northwest Thailand. By bringing a new deployment of workerist and autonomist theory to bear on his fieldwork, Stephen Campbell highlights the ways in which workers' struggles have catalyzed transformations in labor regulation at the frontiers of capital in the global south.Looking outwards from Mae Sot, Campbell engages extant scholarship on flexibilization and precarious labor, which, typically, is based on the development experiences of the global north. Campbell emphasizes the everyday practices of migrants, the police, employers, NGOs, and private passport brokers to understand the "politics of precarity" and the new forms of… Read More

Cornell Studies in Political Economy. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9.25", displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. xiii/231 pages."The commercial nuclear power industry was flourishing in the United States in the early 1970s; fifteen years later, the enterprise has collapsed. John L. Campbell examines the history of this debacle in order to explore how state and market shape each other under modern capitalism. In "Collapse of an Industry," Campbell confronts controversial issues whose implications range far beyond the specifics of the nuclear power industry; the relative merits of free and controlled markets, the reliability of industrial planning, and the appropriate role of the state in managing economic activity. Ultimately, Campbell sheds light on the central question of whether modern democracy and capitalism may be essentially incompatible."

Estudios de literatura y pensamiento hispánicos, 4. Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 5.5" x 8.25", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 327 pages.Study of religious conflicts in Spain in the late 19th century, in the aftermath of the Bourbon Restoration, and, within that context, of the significance of "La historia de heterodoxos españoles" (1880-1886), the work of Spanish scholar and historian Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo (1856-1912).

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", displays minor tear at top of spine cover and very light soiing to covers. Binding is sound. Partially uncut pages are clean and without markings.This work, published on occasion of the XXXV Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, is devoted to questions of miscegenation in Latin America. 104 pages.

The Haymarket Series. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. vi/282 pages."For a decade and a half, since she first appeared in the Birmingham Centre's collective volume "The Empire Strikes Back," Hazel Carby has been on the frontline of the debate over multicultural education in Britain and the US. This book brings together her most important and influential essays, ranging over such topics as the necessity for racially diverse school curricula, the construction of literary canons, Zora Neale Hurston's portraits of "the Folk," C.L.R. James and Trinidadian nationalism and black women blues artists, and the necessity for racially diverse school curricula. Carby's analyses of diverse aspects of contemporary culture are invariably sharp and provocative, her political insights shrewd and often against the grain. A powerful intervention, "Culture in Babylon" will become a standard reference point in future… Read More

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