Search Results: Authors starting with L from Palimpsest Scholarly Books

First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", displays diagonal crease to rear cover. Book is otherwise in fine condition. Illustrated with tables and graphs. xvi/272 pages."China is now the world's fourth largest economy and growing very fast. India's economic salience is also on the rise. Together these two countries will profoundly influence the pace and nature of global economic change. Drawing upon the latest research, this volume analyzes the influences on the rapid future development of these two countries and examines how their growth is likely to impinge upon other countries. It considers international trade, industrialization, foreign investment and capital flows, and the implications of their broadening environmental footprints. It also discusses how the two countries have tackled poverty, inequality and governance issues and whether progress in these areas will be a key to rapid and stable growth."

Champ Freudien. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9.5", is like new. 245 pages."[On peut] trouver à justifier avec mes petits schémas, que l'étudiant n'est pas déplacé à se sentir frère, comme on dit, non pas avec le prolétariat, mais avec le sous-prolétariat.Le prolétariat, il est comme la plèbe romaine - c'étaient des gens très distingués. La lutte de classe contient peut-être cette petite source d'erreur au départ, que ça ne se passe absolument pas sur le plan de la vraie dialectique du discours du maître - ça se place sur le plan de l'identification. Senatus Populusque Romanus. Ils sont du même côté. Et tout l'Empire, c'est les autres en plus.Il s'agit de savoir pourquoi les étudiants se sentent avec les autres en plus. Ils ne semblent pas du tout voir clairement comment en sortir.Je voudrais leur faire remarquer qu'un point essentiel du système est la production - la production de la honte. Cela se traduit - c'est l'impudence.C'est pour cette raison que ce ne… Read More

Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 6.25" x 9.75". Book is like new. 389 pages."Jacques Lacan is widely recognized as a key figure in the history of psychoanalysis and one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th Century. In Anxiety, now available for the first time in English, he explores the nature of anxiety, suggesting that it is not nostalgia for the object that causes anxiety but rather its imminence.In what was to be the last of his year-long seminars at Saint-Anne hospital, Lacan's 1962-63 lessons form the keystone to this classic phase of his teaching. Here we meet for the first time the notorious a in its oral, anal, scopic and vociferated guises, alongside Lacan's exploration of the question of the 'analyst's desire'. Arriving at these concepts from a multitude of angles, Lacan leads his audience with great care through a range of recurring themes such as anxiety between jouissance and desire, counter-transference and interpretation, and the fantasy and its frame.This… Read More

Volume is bound in gray cloth, with black lettering to spine. Book shows light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Trace of label removal appears in upper outside corner of front flyleaf.

Volume, meauring approximately 6" x 9", is bound in original stiff brown wrappers. Book and dust jacket are new. Full- and double-page color illustrations. 28 pages.Catalogue of the exhibition at Providence College Galleries, November 30, 2017 - February 24, 2018."Providence College Galleries [PCG] presents "A Dialogue on Distortion," an exhibition that brings together Graham McDougal and Bayne Peterson, two artists whose making methodologies distort, exaggerate and expressionistically manipulate fabrication processes. This joint presentation features dozens of new and recent works, most of which have been created specifically for this show to emphasize the formal and conceptual commonalities of artists working in different dimensions and with drastically different materials."

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is new. 322 pages."From the visionary rebellion of "Easy Rider" to the reinvention of home in "The Straight Story," the road movie has emerged as a significant film genre since the late 1960s, able to cut across a wide variety of film styles and contexts. Yet, within the variety, a certain generic core remains constant: the journey as cultural critique, as exploration beyond society and within oneself. This book traces the generic evolution of the road movie with respect to its diverse presentations, emphasizing it as an "independent genre" that attempts to incorporate marginality and subversion on many levels. David Laderman begins by identifying the road movie's defining features and by establishing the literary, classical Hollywood, and 1950s highway culture antecedents that formatively influenced it. He then traces the historical and aesthetic evolution of the road movie decade by decade through detailed and lively discussions of key films.… Read More

Second printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.5", is bound in yellow cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Signature appears on front flyleaf. Book is in otherwise fine condition, with firm binding, clean and bright pages. Dust jacket displays light shelfwear. Jacket is in mylar cover. xxi/298 pages."This collection, based on the continuing influence of Prague School ideas, makes available in English essays that have contributed significantly not only to this circle but also to the international community of scholars. Among the distinguished authors included are Roman Jakobson, Jan Mukarovsky, Petr Bogatyrev, and Jiri Veltrusky. Reflecting a wide range of concerns, from a general consideration of semiotics and art to such specific forms as theater, poetry, folk song, cinema, and the fine arts, these articles demonstrate the diversity and scope of the Prague scholars' analyses. They also bring into focus the historical development of Prague Structuralism, especially its relation with… Read More

Preliminary study by Tulio Halperin Donghi. Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 6" x 9.5", and is like new. 422 pages.

Collection Noêsis. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright.Work devoted to Plato's analogy of the divided line, with an extensive bibliography. 275 pages.

Softcover volume is new. Numerous in-text color photos. 248 pages.

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", exhibits light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. xiii/252 pages."Since the early nineteenth century, 80 percent of the Yorubas have been converted to Christianity and Islam in approximately equal numbers. According to dominant theories and practical experience, the cultural changes brought about by this extensive conversion should have resulted in religiously-based political action or conflict. Yet Laitin shows that sharp religious differences within Yoruba society have not caused political division and are unlikely to do so in the future. From a theoretical point of view, he sees an "unnatural" religious toleration in the Yoruba political arena."

Volume, measuring approximately 8" x 10.25", is bound in red cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book has lightly bumped bottom outside corners and it otherwise in fine condition. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. Numerous color illustrations. Dust jacket shows very light shelfwear. 255 pages.
"Throughout the centuries there have been castles, great and small, for animals as diverse as goats and guinea pigs, deer and dogs, cows and bees, pigs and horses, bears and even salmon. In 1883, a Grecian temple with tapering Egyptian windows was built for pigs in Yorkshire and in the 1800s a red sandstone elephant with a castle on its back was designed for bees in Cheshire. With such architects as William Kent designing a cowshed and Sir John Soane devising classical 'canine residences,' these buildings are not mere curiosities; John Nash applied himself at his most picturesque to a dovecote, while Capability Brown was commissioned to create a classical menagerie and Henry Holland… Read More

Die Bauwerke und Kunstdenkmäler von Berlin, Beiheft 6. Second edition. Volume, measuring approximately 7.5" x 10", is bound in red cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine and the coat of arms of Berlin stamped in gold on front cover. Book shows very light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. Numerous textual illustrations, including maps and building plans. Dust jacket exhibits shelfwear, with loss visible at foot of spine and adjacent front corner from removal of attachment. Small closed tear is present at top edge of rear panel. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xi/239 pages.

Paperback shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Lightly age-toned pages are clean and without markings. 266 pages.

Author-signed first edition. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5" x 8", is like new. 83 pages.
Author's signature appears under printed name on title page.
"All that remains to us of Sappho's poems are fragments, sone only a handful of words. "Burn Lyrics" incorporates these extant fragments into fully-fleshed poems in entirely contemporary voices, underscoring the flexibility of language and the ways we make compelling meanings out of our limited experiences of the world."

National Film Traditions. Volume is bound in black cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine and front cover. Book shows light shelfwear. 434 pages.

First printing. Softcover is in excellent condition.553 pages.

Second edition. Large-format volume, measuring approximately 9.25" x 11.25", is new, still in shrinkwrap. 256 pages."A practical approach to all aspects of making porcelain pots and sculpture. The book includes information on clays, making processes (throwing, handbuilding and slipcasting), decorating and glazes. The photographs throughout make it a visual reference book as well as a useful guide. The book is lavishly illustrated with the work of an international group of artists."

Historical Dictionaries of Ancient Civilizations and Historical Eras, No. 5. Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is bound in dark green cloth, with gilt-lettered black compartments to spine and front cover. Book is new. xxxii/287 pages."History is full of surprises, but rarely has there been a turnaround as unexpected, and momentous as what occurred to a formative Russia during the medieval period. Attacked and invaded from all sides, it hardly looked as if the small Slavic principalities would survive. But they did and were eventually absorbed into Kiev Rus' and then Muscovy, which gradually expanded and laid the foundation for a huge empire. The author uncovers this extraordinary period, from the founding of the Kievan state to the accession of Peter the Great in 1682, describing both the times of danger and defeat and those of expansion and revitalization."

Bibliographies and Indexes in the Performing Arts, 18. Volume is bound in reddish brown cloth, with stamped white lettering on black fields to spine and front cover. Book shows light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. This work is ilustrated with double-page b&w illustrations. 347 pages.