Search Results: Authors starting with M from Palimpsest Scholarly Books

Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 8.25", is like new. Endpapers display genealogical tables. 285 pages plus 16 pages of plates.
Memoir by the daughter of Russian scholar, literary historian, philosopher and editor Mikhail Osipovich Gershenzon (1869-1925).

Large-format softcover volume, measuring approximately 8.25" x 10.75", displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. Text appears in double columns. This work contains textual illustrations, tables, graphs, map. Bilingual in Spanish and English, with captions in Spanish only. 129 pages.Publication that resulted from two colloquia organized by the UNAM on Mexican indigenous fermented foods, with two lectures from the first (January, 1988) and the presentations from the second (December, 1990).

Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idées, 78. Author-signed first edition. Volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.75", is bound in green cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine and blind-stamped publisher's device on front cover. Book displays very light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. Dust jacket exhibits very light shelfwear. Jacket is now preserved in mylar cover. xiv/260 pages.Inscription on front flyleaf reads "Au professeur Herbert Dieckmann, / cet hommage d'admiration / respecteuse / J Macary".

First printing of first US edition. Volume is bound in black paper-covered boards, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book shows light shelfwear, with small black dot to top edge of text block. Interior is clean and bright. Dust jacket also displays light shelfwear. 432 pages

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

Third edition. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", shows light shelfwear, with faint stains to fore edge of text block. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. xii/675 pages."Thirty years ago, China was emerging from one of the most traumatic periods in its history. The Chinese people had been ravaged by long years of domestic struggle, terrible famine and economic and political isolation. Today, China has the world's second largest economy and is a major player in global diplomacy. This volume, written by some of the leading experts in the field, tracks China's extraordinary transformation from the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, through the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the death of Chairman Mao, to its dynamic rise as a superpower in the twenty-first century. The latest edition of the book includes a new introduction and a seventh chapter which focuses on the legacy of Deng Xiaoping, the godfather of China's transformation,… Read More

First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is new. xvii/164 pages plus 32 unnumbered pages of plates."Utilizing a variety of examples from the artistic production of medieval and Renaissance Europe, Looking at the Renaissance presents a holistic interpretation of the origins and characteristics of the threshold period to our modern age. Charles R. Mack illustrates the Middle Ages as a time of fragmentation in which the world was comprehended in piecemeal fashion. However, he states that the Renaissance advanced a unified idea made possible by the resurrection of a melioristic vision of man's role within a Divine Plan. Looking at the Renaissance argues in favor of the now-disputed notion of "historical periods" while continuing to uphold the importance of the antique revival in shaping the cultural character of the age.Mack offers a new contextual approach to appreciating not only the art but also the cultural entirety of the Renaissance period. By suggesting certain key… Read More

Russell Sage Foundation Book. First Harvard University Press paperback edition. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.5", is new. xii/454 pages."In the 1950s, the exclusion of women and of black and Latino men from higher-paying jobs was so universal as to seem normal to most Americans. Today, diversity in the workforce is a point of pride. How did such a transformation come about? In this bold and groundbreaking work, Nancy MacLeanshows how African-American and later Mexican-American civil rights activists and feminists concluded that freedom alone would not suffice: access to jobs at all levels is a requisite of full citizenship. Tracing the struggle to open the American workplace to all, MacLean chronicles the cultural and political advances that have irrevocably changed our nation over the past fifty years. "Freedom Is Not Enough" reveals the fundamental role jobs play in the struggle for equality. We meet the grassroots activists—rank-and-file workers, community leaders,… Read More

Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in black leatherette, with stamped gray lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are like new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 265 pages.""Making War at Fort Hood" offers an illuminating look at war through the daily lives of the people whose job it is to produce it. Kenneth MacLeish conducted a year of intensive fieldwork among soldiers and their families at and around the US Army's Fort Hood in central Texas. He shows how war's reach extends far beyond the battlefield into military communities where violence is as routine, boring, and normal as it is shocking and traumatic.Fort Hood is one of the largest military installations in the world, and many of the 55,000 personnel based there have served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. MacLeish provides intimate portraits of Fort Hood's soldiers and those closest to them, drawing on numerous in-depth interviews and diverse ethnographic material. He explores the exceptional position that… Read More

Large-format hardcover volume, measuring approximately 9.5" x 11.5", is new. Dust jacket is also new. Volume is preserved in shrinkwrap. xiii/189 pages."The image of Eugène Delacroix as an august artist with an august oeuvre was initially frozen into place by posthumous tributes and it has continued to the present. He was one of the finest yet least understood painters of the nineteenth century, the golden age of the French Romantic movement. He is remembered best for his masterpiece, 'La Liberté guidant le people', but few of his works have received the kind of constant, fascinated revisiting that has sealed the iconic status of Théodore Géricault's 'Le Radeau de la Méduse', for example. This book is one of the first to look carefully at individual paintings by Delacroix, especially at one of his most important works - a crucial but often overlooked painting from early Romanticism's heyday, 'Scène des massacres de Scio'. The Scio ostensibly depicts an episodic aftermath of violent events… Read More

Hispanic Monographs. Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is new. 223 pages.
"La raíz y el eco del verbo de la escritora y filósofa María Zambrano (1904-1991) es lo que nos interesa en esta antología. Reunimos estudios sobre sus años de formación en España, el aprendizaje del exilio, y la repercusión de su regreso, para compartir[los] con todos/as los que hasta hoy siguen interesados por la obra de una andaluza universal...Se discuten aquí las influencias que recibió de Maestros: sus diálogos con Zubiri, (Serantes), las coincidencias con Paz (Moreno) y sus desavenencias con Ortega (Gutiérrez); todo ello dentro de las "circunstancias" de aquella España suya entre el "alba" de una república, la "agonía" de una Europa en crisis, y atrapada en el "nudo estrangulado" del fascismo. Va gestándose en este periodo el concepto clave de "razón poética," que Zambrano nos legara.La seguimos luego en su ruta a un exilio que le toma 40 años, especialmente nos detenemos en las… Read More

Colección Narrativas hispánicas, 295. Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 5.5" x 8.75", shows very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 342 pages.Spanish writer and translator (b. 1960) was awarded the Premio Herralde de Novela for this work.

Author-signed first edition. Volume is bound in full dark blue leather decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, with ribbon marker and a frontispiece illustration by Alan E. Cober. Book is new and still in publisher's box (7.5" x 13.25"). xxxvii/791 pages.
Norman Mailer's 1995 non-fiction book is an exhaustive examination of Oswald's movements over the years, and particularly in the months, leading up to Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963, and Oswald's own death two days later.

Large-format volume, measuring approximately 10.5" x 12.5", is bound in gray cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is in fine condition. Binding is firm. Small red dot appears at bottom edge of text block. Interior is clean and bright. Lavishly illustrated with color photographs, including many full-page photos. Illustrated dust jacket displays very light shelfwear, with minor wear at top/bottom of spine panel. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 272 pages.""Great Houses of Havana" celebrates one hundred years of creativity, design, and style that made the city "the Paris of the Caribbean." For four hundred years, Havana was the center of Spanish trade in the western hemisphere. With the expansion of the sugar industry, independence from Spain, and North American investment, Havana became a city of great wealth, great style, and great houses in a vocabulary that was a unique amalgam of European, American, and Caribbean elements. "Great Houses of Havana" traces the evolution of the Cuban… Read More

Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 6.5" x 8.5", displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. About twenty pages display (unobtrusive/marginal) markings. Section of b&w photographs appears at rear of volume. 275 pages.

Large-format two-volume set in slipcase measuring approximately 9.5" x 12" is new, still in shrinkwrap, with tear. 390/478 pages."This two-volume set is an essential reference work dedicated to clock companies that have kept time for us from the late 1600s through the early 2000s. The comprehensive text explores mechanical and electric clock companies; clock retail and part supplier firms; clock related foundry companies; clock label printers; and trademarks, trade names, and brand names. Volume One covers several hundred companies with biographical entries and histories, augmented with over 400 trademarks and lists of their trade names. Clock companies from the U.S. and 20 countries around the globe are discussed. Volume Two contains appendices including clock trade names that cross-reference trademarks, trade names, and brand names alphabetically by text and symbols to the company using them; clock patent time lines; production time lines encompassing over 4,000 company names with dates in business… Read More

American Studies Series. Volume is bound in yellow cloth, with stamped red lettering to spine. Book is in excellent condition. Dust jacket shows light shelfwear. 215 pages.

Well-preserved volume is bound in dark blue cloth, with gilt spine lettering. 357 pages.

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.5", shows light shelfwear, with vertical crease to spine. Binding is sound. Previous owner's name and date (1972) appear on half title page. Pages are otherwise clean and bright. Index has pencil markings noting chapter numbers relating to the Haywood translation, including notation next to one that was omitted. 429 pages.

Biblioteka Poeta, Bol'shaya Seriya. Vstupitel'naya stat'ya A.L. Dymshitsa; Sostavlenie, podgotovka teksta i primechaniya N.I. Khardshieva. Volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 8.25", is bound in dark blue cloth, with ornamentals designs to spine, blindstamping and stamped gilt lettering to front cover. Book is in fine condition, with firm binding, clean and bright interior. Work is illustrated with portait of the author. 333 pages.