Search Results: Titles starting with E from Palimpsest Scholarly Books

Translation by Stuart Gilbert and James Emmons. Large-format volume, measuring approximately 9.25" x 11.25", is bound in red cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine and publisher's emblem stamped in gold on front cover. Book is new. Price-clipped dust jacket is in fine condition. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white and color, including fold-out plates, plus fold-out map at rear. Volume is housed in cardboard slipcase (9.25" x 12"). 325 pages.This is the ninth volume of this series."The beginnings of any historical movement are bound to be mysterious. So it is with Christianity, and so it is with Christian art. Into the ordered world of late classicism came the arresting voice and disturbing gaze of men "heavy with a conscience" for whom art was only a medium to a higher truth. André Grabar, the foremost living authority on the subject, traces the emergence of this art from its pagan background and shows the social and spiritual forces that governed its growth. The actual process of this… Read More

Volume, measuring approximately 9.75" x 10.5", is bound in green silk, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book is as new. Dust jacket shows light shelfwear. xv/189 pages."Although the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is well known for its extensive holdings of Chinese ceramics, many of the outstanding pieces in the collection have received little or no attention in print. This book remedies that omission. Designed for the general reader, it offers a selection of 78 objects, beautifully photographed in full color, with individual entries focusing on the aesthetic experiece they evoke and the cultural context that produced them. Featuring an essay on the history of the collection of Chinese ceramics, the book also includes brief sketches on the principal types as well as short texts about the archaeology of the tombs and kiln sites. An illustrated time line and a kiln map fill in the historical and geographical settings for nearly 5,000 years of Chinese ceramic art."

First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", displays (a sliver of a) moisture marking to bottom edge of final pages of text and index, without affecting text. Pages are otherwise clean and bright. xv/382 pages."From henna tattoo kits available at your local mall to "faux Asian" fashions, housewares and fusion cuisine; from the new visibility of Asian film, music, video games and anime to the current popularity of martial arts motifs in hip hop, Asian influences have thoroughly saturated the U.S. cultural landscape and have now become an integral part of the vernacular of popular culture.By tracing cross-cultural influences and global cultural trends, the essays in East Main Street bring Asian American studies, in all its interdisciplinary richness, to bear on a broad spectrum of cultural artifacts. Contributors consider topics ranging from early Asian American movie stars to the influences of South Asian iconography on rave culture, and from the marketing of Asian culture… Read More

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 4.25" x 7", shows very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 299 pages.
Five interviews with French philosopher Michel Serres (1930-2019) conducted by French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist Bruno Latour (1947-2022), covering the former's intellectual training and published work."L'oeuvre de Michel Serres passe parfois pour difficile, ardue, en dépit de sa séduction. Elle est incomprise et critiquée même en raison de sa séduction. D'où ces Éclaircissements ; leur but : chercher la compréhension et la limpidité. Quoique proche, Bruno Latour a su ne pas être un interrogateur complaisant. Il pose de vraies questions et ne se satisfait pas des fausses réponses ; il persévère. Voilà donc deux paroles loyales, libres et sans apprêts, un vrai dialogue, entêté à la fois et de bonne volonté. On apprend donc beaucoup sur Michel Serres, sur sa formation intellectuelle (la guerre, les sciences renouvelées), sur ses… Read More

Social Movements, Protest, and Contention, Volume 1. Volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is bound in green cloth, with white lettering to spine and front cover. Book displays light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. x/216 pages.
"This book reconstructs the growth of a powerful movement around the question of toxic waste, following the issue as it moves from the world of "official" policymaking in Washington, onto the nation's television screens and into popular consciousness, and then into America's neighborhoods, spurring the formation of thousands of local, community-based groups. Szasz shows how, in less than a decade, a rich infrastructure of more permanent social organizations emerged from this movement, expanding its focus to include issues like municipal waste, military toxics, and pesticides. In its success, Szasz suggests, this movement may even prove to be the vehicle for reinvigorating progressive politics in the United States."

Foreword by Rudiger Dornbusch. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in green cloth, with stamped white lettering to spine. Book is like new. Illustrated with tables, graphs and diagrams. xviii/547 pages."In 1973, the world moved from fixed exchange rates, pegged to the gold standard or an agreed-upon currency, to the floating system of flexible exchange rates, constrained only by the occasional intervention of the central banks of various nations. The eighteen essays in this book explore what the shift has meant for world economic interdependence and seek to clarify what has become an extremely complex system. All but two are published here for the first time. Following Rudiger Dornbusch's foreword, Jacob A. Frenkel reviews the history of flexible exchange rates. Remaining sections of the book take up exchange rate determination, the transmission of disturbances as exemplified by the oil crises of the 1970s, the policy implications of economic interdependence, and a selection of… Read More

Policy Analyses in Internationl Economics, 30. First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", exhibits very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. xii/162 pages.

Murphy Institute Studies in Political Economy. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is like new. Dust jacket displays very light shelfwear. x/226 pages."The central problem of modern government and political action is how to choose and implement effective economic policies. For this reason, the economic considerations of public policy have assumed a more prominent place in contemporary political thought. Despite efforts among political scientists, economists, and sociologists to fathom the complexities of this added dimension, none of these solid sciences offers a satisfying approach to the problem. This volume attempts to display the historical novelty and intellectual importance of this dilemma, to uncover its origins, and to procure a remedy through a clearer and steadier focus. The book's contributors range from historians of ideas to economic theorists, who bring the approach of their own intellectual discipline to bear… Read More

Reprint of second edition of 1957, with new appendices and bibliography. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.75", displays wear at top/bottom of spine cover, with small tears and very minor loss. Covers display light soiling. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and without markings. 427 pages.

Second edition. Softcover volume displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. xiv/528 pages."Economic activities are not concentrated on the head of a pin, nor are they spread evenly over a featureless plane. On the contrary, they are distributed very unequally across locations, regions, and countries. Even though economic activities are, to some extent, spatially concentrated because of natural features, economic mechanisms that rely on the trade-off between various forms of increasing returns and different types of mobility costs are more fundamental. This book is a study of the economic reasons for the existence of a large variety of agglomerations arising from the global to the local. This second edition combines a comprehensive analysis of the fundamentals of spatial economics and an in-depth discussion of the most recent theoretical developments in new economic geography and urban economics. It aims to highlight several of the major economic trends observed in… Read More

Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.75", is bound in brown cloth, with stamped black lettering to spine. Book is in near fine condition, with black marking to bottom edge of text block. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. xvi/532 pages."Presents an account and technical assessment of Marx's economic analysis in Capital, with particular reference to the transformation and the surplus-value doctrine, the reproduction schemes, the falling real-wage and profit rates, and the trade cycle. The focus is on criticisms that Marx himself might have been expected to face in his day and age. In addition, it offers a chronological study of the evolution of that analysis from the early 1840s through three 'drafts': documents of the late 1840s, the Grundrisse of 1857–1858, and the Economic Manuscripts of 1861–1863. It also provides three studies in application, focusing on Marx's 'evolutionary' orientation in his evaluation of the transition to… Read More

Collection "Critique". Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.75", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. 314 pages."First published in 1974, "Libidinal Economy" is a major work of twentieth century continental philosophy. In it, Lyotard develops the idea of economies driven by libidinal 'energies' or 'intensities' which he claims flow through all structures, such as the human body and political or social events. He uses this idea to interpret a diverse range of subjects including political economy, Marxism, sexual politics, semiotics and psychoanalysis. Lyotard also carries out a broad critique of philosophies of desire, as expounded by Deleuze and Guattari, Nietzsche, Bataille, Foucault and de Sade."

Softcover volume shows very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and without markings. 227 pages.

Edited and annotated by Gilles Thérien. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 4.5" x 7.5", is in fine condition. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright.Work by French Jesuit missionary Jean de Brebeuf (1593-1649) on the Hurons-Wyandot people. 357 pages."Dans la présente édition, établie et présentée par le professeur Gilles Thérien, ces textes prennent un relief nouveau, qui en font un document ethnologique précieux à un moment où l'on s'efforce de redonner aux peuples autochtones d'Amérique leur juste place dans l'histoire culturelle du continent. De tous les missionnaires français qui ont participé à l'évangélisation des Amérindiens au XVIIe siècle, la figure du père Jean de Brébeuf (1593-1649) se détache avec le plus de netteté. Né à Condé-sur-Vire, en Normandie, Jean de Brébeuf débarque en Nouvelle-France en 1625. Il y séjourne pendant une vingtaine d'années, dont quinze qu'il passe parmi les Hurons. Homme d'action, curieux, intelligent, ethnologue avant la… Read More

Volume is bound in dark green cloth, with stamped lettering to spine. Title is blind stamped on front cover. Book is in excellent condition. Dust jacket shows very light shelfwear. Numerous color plates. 252 pages.

.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

Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 5.5" x 8.75", shows very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 245 pages.This novel by Spanish author Manuel Pérez Subirana (b. 1971) was a Premio Herralde de Novela finalist.

Folio, measuring approximately 13.25" x 18.75", is new, still in shrink-wrapped publisher's box. 608 pages.
"After Egon Schiele (1890-1918) freed himself from the shadow of his mentor and role model Gustav Klimt, he had just ten years to inscribe his signature style into the annals of modernity before the Spanish flu claimed his life. Being a child prodigy quite aware of his own genius and a passionate provocateur, this didn't prove to be too big a challenge. His haggard, overstretched figures, drastic depiction of sexuality, and self-portraits in which he staged himself with emaciated facial expressions bordering between brilliance and madness, had none of the decorative quality of Klimt's hymns of love, sexuality, and yearning devotion. Instead, Schiele's work spoke of a brutal honesty, one that would upset and irreversibly change Viennese society."
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Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. xi/304 pages."In the first comprehensive study of American working-class recreation, Professor Rosenzweig takes us to the saloons, the ethnic and church picnics, the parks and playgrounds, the amusement parks, and the movie houses where industrial workers spent their leisure hours. Focusing on the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, he describes the profound changes that popular leisure underwent. Explaining what these pastimes and amusements tell us about the nature of working-class culture and class relations in this era, he demonstrates that in order fully to understand the working class experience it is necessary to explore the realm of leisure. For what workers did in the corner saloon, the neighbourhood park, the fraternal lodge hall, the amusement park, and the nickelodeon had a good deal of bearing on what happened inside the factories, the union halls, and the… Read More

Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.5", is bound in original printed wrappers, with French flaps. Booklet displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. This publication offers five b&w photo illustrations, including three of ancient busts depicting Plato. 29 pages.