Search Results: Authors starting with D from Palimpsest Scholarly Books

Second edition ("segunda edición, corregida"). Volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.75", is bound in blue cloth, with sunning to spine and edges of covers. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. Dust jacket displays loss of top portion and tearing to the midsection of spine panel. Dust jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 318 pages.
"El propósito del presente libro es suplir la falta, que hace tiempo viene sintiéndose, de una antología de textos lingüísticos representativos de los principales dialectos de la España medieval. Al escoger los textos que a continuación ofrecemos, hemos intentado reunir, dentro de los límites de un manual de proporciones relativamente modestas, una colección de textos que sirviera de punto de partida para los estudiantes universitarios que quieran conocer a fondo este interesantísimo aspecto de la filología española. Se trata, pues, de un libro hecho principalmente para estudiantes, por lo que hemos preferido omitir, salvo en algunos casos de… Read More

Studia historica.Volume, measuring approximately 7" x 9.75", is bound in light brown paper-covered boards, with black lettering to spine and front cover. Book is like new.Russian-language study on the social structure and conditions of Ancient Greece. 536 pages.

First edition. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in black paper spine and boards, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are like new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xvii/249 pages.""The Shahnameh," an epic poem recounting the foundation of Iran across mythical, heroic, and historical ages, is the beating heart of Persian literature and culture. Composed by Abu al-Qasem Ferdowsi over a thirty-year period and completed in the year 1010, the epic has entertained generations of readers and profoundly shaped Persian culture, society, and politics. For a millennium, Iranian and Persian-speaking people around the globe have read, memorized, discussed, performed, adapted, and loved the poem. In this book, Hamid Dabashi brings the Shahnameh to renewed global attention, encapsulating a lifetime of learning and teaching the Persian epic for a new generation of readers. Dabashi insightfully traces the epic's history, authorship, poetic significance, complicated legacy… Read More

Antique volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 8", has been rebound in quarter red cloth and red marbled paper-covered boards, with gilt-lettered leather spine. Book shows light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Volume has marbled yellow and green endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate is affixed to front pastedown. Pages are clean and without markings. This work is profusely illustrated, offering textual illustrations and plates. 496 pages.Henri d'Alméras (1861-1938) was a French historian andnovelist who authored a series of studies of the mores of Paris in various periods of history.

Collection Photo Poche, 3. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 7.75", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. 16 pages of text & 63 plates. This book provides a selection of the work of Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986), a French photographer and painter, known for his photographs of automobile races, planes and female Parisian fashion models.

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in green cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. viii/298 pages."With Joyce, Proust, and Faulkner in mind, we have come to understand the novel as a form with intimate ties to the impulses and processes of memory. This study contends that this common perception is an anachronism that distorts our view of the novel. Based on an investigation of representative novels, "Amnesiac Selves" shows that the Victorian novel bears no such secure relation to memory, and, in fact, it tries to hide, evade, and eliminate remembering. Dames argues that the notable scarcity and distinct unease of representations of remembrance in the nineteenth-century British novel signal an art form struggling to define and construct new concepts of memory. By placing nineteenth-century British fiction from Jane Austen to Wilkie Collins alongside a wide variety of Victorian psychologies and theories of mind,… Read More

Cornell Paperbacks. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.75", displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. x/352 pages."Drawing on the insights and methods of literary analysis, historical criticism, and comparative religion, David Damrosch here examines the origins and development of biblical narrative. He explores the links between narrative and ancient Near Eastern literature, and shows how an increased awareness of the historical sources of biblical literature can lead readers to perceive more clearly the power and beauty of the texts in their canonical form."

Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.75", is bound in brown cloth, with stamped blue lettering to spine. Book shows very light shelfwear. Previous owner's name is written at the top of front pastedown. Dust jacket displays light shelfwear. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xvi/219 pages."No river has kindled Man's imagination like the Ganges.From its icy origins high in the Himalayas, this sacred river flows through the holy cities and great plains of Northern India to the Bay of Bengal.In a country were the red heat of summer inspires prayer for the coming monsoon, the life-giving waters of the Ganges have assumed legendary powers in the form of the Hindu goddess Ganga, the source of creation and abundance. Pilgrims flock to her shores to cleanse and purify themselves to cure ailments, and to die that much closer to paradise.Steven Darian writes of the human experience and the legendary myths that surround the Ganges. The inspiration of poets and artists for centuries, the mysterious Ganga is the… Read More

First paperback printing. Translation by Lysander Kemp, prologue by Octavio Paz, and illustrations by John Guerin. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8", is in near fine condition, with the diminutive stamp of previous owner on front flyleaf. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 149 pages.
"Toward the close of the last century, the poetry of the Spanish-speaking world was pallid, feeble, almost a corpse. It needed new life and a new direction. The exotic, erratic, revolutionary poet who changed the course of Spanish poetry and brought it into the mainstream of twentieth-century Modernism was Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (1867-1916) of Nicaragua, who called himself Rubén Darío...The selection of poems is intended to represent the whole range of Darío's verse, from the stinging little poems of "Thistles" to the dark, brooding lines of "Songs of the Argentine and Other Poems." Also included, in the Epilogue, is a transcript of a radio dialogue between two other major poets,… Read More

Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is new. xv/242 pages.
"This book examines information reported within the media regarding the interaction between the Black Panther Party and government agents in the Bay Area of California (1967–1973). Christian Davenport argues that the geographic locale and political orientation of the newspaper influences how specific details are reported, including who starts and ends the conflict, who the Black Panthers target (government or non-government actors), and which part of the government responds (the police or court). Specifically, proximate and government-oriented sources provide one assessment of events, whereas proximate and dissident-oriented sources have another; both converge on specific aspects of the conflict. The methodological implications of the study are clear; Davenport's findings prove that in order to understand contentious events, it is crucial to understand who collects or distributes the… Read More

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.5", is in fine condition. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. Illustrated with in-text b&w photos, tables, glossary and chronology. xviii/113 pages.This work "describes current efforts to prevent the dangerous misuse or migration of nuclear bomb materials. The book offers a unique, across-the-board critique of the wasy in which the main fissile materials, plutonium and highly enriched uranium, are managed -- in both civil and military programs. Current initiatives to improve fissile-material controls, say the editors, have been disappointing, and much more needs to be done."

Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is new. xvi/227 pages."The story of U. S. nuclear testing between 1945 and 1963 is a vivid and exciting one, but also one of profound importance. It is a story of trailblazing scientific progress, weapons of mass destruction, superpower rivalry, accidents, radiological contamination, politics, and diplomacy. The testing of weapons that defined the course and consequences of the Cold War was itself a crucial dimension to the narrative of that conflict. Further, the central question - Why conduct nuclear tests? - was fully debated among American politicians, generals, civilians, and scientists, and ultimately it was victory for those who argued in favor of national security over diplomatic and environmental costs that normalized nuclear weapons tests. "A History of U. S. Nuclear Testing and Its Influence on Nuclear Thought, 1945–1963" is an examination of this question, beginning with the road to normalization and, later, de-normalization of… Read More

Volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 8", is bound in original printed and illustrated wrappers. Book displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and without markings. Illustrated with 16 unnumbered pages of plates. 110 pages.Russian-language essay ("subjective notes") on modern chess by Soviet chess player David Ionovich Bronstein (1924-2006). "Awarded the title of International Grandmaster by FIDE in 1950, he narrowly missed becoming World Chess Champion in 1951. Bronstein was one of the world's strongest players from the mid-1940s into the mid-1970s, and was described by his peers as a creative genius and master of tactics." (Wikipedia)

German Monitor No. 75. Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is new. 304 pages.
"Taking as its starting point the work of Professor Dennis Tate, this volume brings together essays which explore varieties of East German autobiographical writing before, during and after German unification. The volume examines the invention and re-invention of the self through literature in response to historical change, analysing how authors have negotiated social transition in the East German context. Many of the contributions also discuss how authors have sought to understand lives which have spanned the National Socialist, socialist and post-unification periods. This volume will be particularly valuable to students and researchers working on contemporary Germany and its culture, as well as to those with an interest in autobiographical writing."

.Norton/Library of Congress visual sourcebooks in architecture, design, and engineering. Large-format hardcover, measuring approximately 9.25" x 11.5", is new, still in shrinkwrap. 464 pages plus DVD-ROM."Through the eye of photographer Balthazar Korab, this book provides an insider's view of the buildings and working methods of Eero Saarinen. It joins iconic photographs of Modernist masterpieces in their prime with many rarely seen images of Saarinen's buildings and their design, construction, models, and details, enriched with intimate portraits of his professional colleagues, home, and family." "The photographs are grouped by project, and the projects are arranged in chronological order according to the date of the commission. Defining images for each building - often the famous and most published views - open the sections, accompanied by images of models and construction photographs (when they exist in the Korab archive), with exteriors, interiors, and, in some cases, related gardens and building… Read More

Rowohlt Berlin. First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.5", is in fine condition. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. 526 pages.On the Ministry for State Security, the official state security service of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany, GDR), with analysis of its structure and modalities of operation, and a chronicle of its dissolution in the aftermath of the collapse of the East German state. The final part presents various ministry documents.

The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World. First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.5", is bound in light blue cloth, with dark blue lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. viii/308 pages."In an attempt to counter the insular narratives of much of the sesquicentennial commemorations of the Civil War in the United States, editors David T. Gleeson and Simon Lewis present this collection of essays that examine the war as more than a North American conflict, one with transnational concerns. The book, while addressing the origins of the Civil War, places the struggle over slavery and sovereignty in the United States in the context of other conflicts in the Western hemisphere. Additionally Gleeson and Lewis offer an analysis of the impact of the war and its results overseas. Although the Civil War was the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history and arguably its single most defining event, this work underscores the reality that the war was by no… Read More

Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology, 3. Large-format volume, measuring approximately 9" x 11.5", is bound in red cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Pictorial design replicating antique script appears on front and rear cover. Book is new. xii/492 pages with 37 pages of plates.Sumerian texts in transliteration, with English commentary.This work contains an index."The Garshana archives detail the administration of various aspects of a household associated with the royal estate of the general and physician Shu-Kabta and his wife, the princess Simat-Ishtaran.This book discusses the history, personages, and economic functioning of the site, in addition to the transliteration of 1527 texts. Photographs of selected texts are included."

Author-signed first printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.5", is bound in red paper-covered boards, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are in excellent condition, with firm binding, clean and bright interior. "Best wishes" appears written at top of title page, with author's name written above his printed name on the same. Jacket is preserved in mylar. xvii/286 pages."Through the powerful stories of five enslaved people who were "owned" by four of our greatest presidents, this book helps set the record straight about the role slavery played in the founding of America. From Billy Lee, valet to George Washington, to Alfred Jackson, faithful servant of Andrew Jackson, these dramatic narratives explore our country's great tragedy—that a nation "conceived in liberty" was also born in shackles."

Antique volume, measuring approximately 5" x 6.75", is bound in brown cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book shows very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pocket, with stamp of "Jewish Community Center", is affixed to rear pastedown. Pages are clean and bright. 146 pages.