Search Results: Titles starting with G from Palimpsest Scholarly Books

Essay Index Reprint Series. Selected and edited by J. P. de Fonseka. Volume is bound in blue cloth, with bright stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is well preserved. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. Originally published in 1929. 273 pages.

Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 5" x 8.25", is in excellent condition. 633 pages.Most recent novel by Swiss author and playwright Sibylle Berg (b. 1968), who in 2020 was recipient of the Schweizer Grand Prix Literatur, the Bertolt-Brecht-Literaturpreis, and the Johann-Peter-Hebel-Preis. This novel was awarded the 2019 Swiss Book Prize (Schweizer Buchpreis).

Coleccion Nova Scholar. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 7.75", shows very light shelfweear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 249 pages. A study of "Cien años de soledad" from the perspective of C. G. Jung's analytic psychology, starting with a review of Jung's observations on the relation between literary creativity and the unconscious, and then reviewing the biography and opinions of Gabriel Garcia Marquez as they relate to psychology, with chapters devoted to the "history as psychic evolution" in "Cien años de soledad", its concept of reality, as well as the "circular structure" of the novel.

Dresdner Beitrage zur Kunstgeschichte, Band 1. Mit bauteschnischen und zeichnerischen Beitragen von Walter Kronert. Volume, measuring approximately 9" x 12", is bound in gray cloth, with silver-lettered black spine label and letters "C" and "G" stamped in black. Book is in fine condition, with firm binding, clean and bright interior. Profusely illustrated with textual and full-page illustrations, as well as plates. 263 pages.
Work on Italian architect Gaetano Chiaveri (1689-1770) by German art historian Eberhard Hempel (1886-1967). This study focuses on Chiaveri's part in the building of the Dresden Cathedral (1739-1755), one of the main works of the Dresden Baroque and still one of that city's most famous landmarks.

Electronic Meditations, 29. First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.75", is in fine condition, with sound binding, clean and bright interior. xxxv/298 pages."In the first decade of the twenty-first century, video games are an integral part of global media culture, rivaling Hollywood in revenue and influence. No longer confined to a subculture of adolescent males, video games today are played by adults around the world. At the same time, video games have become major sites of corporate exploitation and military recruitment. In "Games of Empire," Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter offer a radical political critique of such video games and virtual environments as "Second Life," "World of Warcraft," and "Grand Theft Auto," analyzing them as the exemplary media of Empire, the twenty-first-century hypercapitalist complex theorized by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. The authors trace the ascent of virtual gaming, assess its impact on creators and players alike, and delineate… Read More

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 printing. Volume, measuring approximately 7.25" x 9.5", is bound in dark gray cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 208 pages."For four hundred years there has been a special relationship between Britain and what is now the United States of America in many aspects of life, not least in gardening. From the early settlers taking their familiar English plants to the New World and early plant-hunters bringing back exciting new plants for English gardens to the twenty-first-century English infatuation with "prairie gardening," ideas and plants have been crossing and re-crossing the Atlantic. In "Gardening Across the Pond," Richard Bisgrove explores four centuries of translantic influences, from the Tradescants, plant-hunting in seventeenth century Virginia, to the prairie landscapes of the 2012 London Olympic Park, and attempts to answer that thorny question--is the English cottage garden an American invention?"

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."

Volume, measuring approximately 4.5" x 7.25", is bound in original printed stiff wrappers.. Book shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and without markings. Red just jacket displays small, closed tears at top of spine panel. 168 pages.

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is like new. x/304 pages."Peacekeeping has become a major international undertaking throughout the world, from Africa to the Americas, from Europe to Southeast Asia. Yet until now, there has been no systematic analysis of the key role of gender in post-cold war conflicts and of post-conflict peacekeeping efforts. This groundbreaking volume explores how gender has become a central factor in shaping current thinking about the causes and consequences of armed conflict, complex emergencies, and reconstruction. Drawing on expertise ranging from the highest levels of international policymaking down to the daily struggle to implement peacekeeping operations, this work represents the full span of knowledge and experience about international intervention in local crises. Presenting a rich array of examples from Angola, Bosnia Herzegovina, East Timor, El Salvador, the former Yugoslavia, Guatemala, Haiti, Kosovo, Liberia, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, and Serbia,… Read More

New Directions in German Studies, Book 27. Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 9", is new. xii/332 pages.
""Gender, Collaboration, and Authorship in German Culture" challenges a model of literary production that persists in literary studies: the so-called Geniekult or the idea of the solitary male author as genius that emerged around 1800 in German lands. A closer look at creative practices during this time indicates that collaborative creative endeavors, specifically joint ventures between women and men, were an important mode of literary production during this era. This volume surveys a variety of such collaborations and proves that male and female spheres of creation were not as distinct as has been previously thought. It demonstrates that the model of the male genius that dominated literary studies for centuries was not inevitable, that viable alternatives to it existed. Finally, it demands that we rethink definitions of an author and a literary work in ways that account for the… Read More

Volume, measuring approximately 7.75" x 11", is bound in stapled wrappers, showing light shelfwear. Interior is clean and bright. 44 unnumbered pages.
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas, October 31-November 29, 1992. Contributing artists include Eric Avery, James Matthew Behan, Alain Gérard Clement, Jean Goehring, Susan Kae Grant, R. Alexander Labry, Annette Lawrence, Holly Moe, Celia Muñoz, Kenda North, Colette Veasey, Marilyn Waligore.

Author-inscribed first edition. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9" , displays light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Pages are clean and bright. xiii/289 pages.Inscription on title page reads "To Diane, / with thanks for / your engagement / Matt"."Virginia Woolf famously wrote 'as a woman I have no country', suggesting that women had little stake in defending countries where they are considered second-class citizens, and should instead be forces for peace. Yet women have been perpetrators as well as victims of violence in nationalist conflicts. This unique book generates insights into the role of gender in nationalist violence by examining feature films from a range of conflict zones. In "The Battle of Algiers," female bombers destroy civilians while men dress in women's clothes to prevent the French army from capturing and torturing them. "Prisoner of the Mountains" shows a Chechen girl falling in love with her Russian captive as his mother tries to rescue him. Providing historical and… Read More

Cornell East Asia series, 187 / Book collections on Project MUSE. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is new.Anthology of 9 short stories and novellas by Korean women writers published between 1935 and 1998. Stories depict Korean women's lives from the mid-1930s to the end of the twentieth century. 328 pages.

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 new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. viii/239 pages."This is the first full-length biography of the Civil War general who saved the Union army from catastrophic defeat at the Battle of Chickamauga, and went on to play major roles in the Chattanooga and Mobile campaigns. Immediately after the war, as commander of U.S. troops in Texas, his actions sparked the "Juneteenth" celebrations of slavery's end, which continue to this day. Granger's first battle was at Wilson's Creek, Missouri, and he soon thereafter rose through the ranks—cavalry, then infantry—in early 1863 vying with Forrest and Van Dorn for control of central Tennessee. The artillery platform he erected at Franklin, dubbed Fort Granger, would soon overlook the death knell of the main Confederate army in the west. Granger's first fame, however, came at Chickamauga, when the Rebel Army of… Read More

Pamphlet, measuring approximately 4.5"x 6.5") displays light wear. Red stamp reading "Ludendorff-Buchhandlung / Stuttgart / Gymnasiumstrasse 9" appears at the bottom of the title page. Final three pages contain publisher's advertisements. 13 pages.

Large-format volume, measuring approximately 10.25" x 11.75", is bound in dark gray cloth, with stamped black lettering to spine and artist's name blind stamped on front cover. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 335 pages."This wide-ranging retrospective of an American genius covers, for the first time, every stage of George Bellows' short but prolific career and is destined to become the definitive work for Bellows scholarship. Published in conjunction with a major retrospective exhibition, this book documents the artist's career from his youthful meteoric rise to the largely unexplored period preceding his death. Mentored by Robert Henri, leader of the Ashcan school in New York in the early part of the twentieth century, Bellows skillfully and audaciously painted the world around him: street children, tenements, boxers, urban and rural landscapes, seascapes, war scenes, and family portraiture. He was also an accomplished graphic artist whose illustrations and… Read More

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in black-lettered white cloth spine and black cloth boards. Book shows very light shelfwear. Price-clipped dust jacket is well preserved in mylar cover. xviii/328 pages.

Large-format oblong volume, measuring approximately 12.5" x 9.5", is, together with dust jacket, new. Profusely illustrated. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 256 pages."This book is an unprecedented view of the Western Front in World War I from the perspective of German amateur photographers. While fighting in the trenches tens of thousands of German soldiers had their cameras with them in their field packs and took shots of the surrounding reality of war. Largely forgotten since the 1920s, German amateur photographs show the trench war at the Western Front as the infantry man or the company officer captured it spontaneously with his camera. In this way an intimate, moving and authentic view of the Western Front evolved that allows the tragedy of trench war to be viewed from a very different angle than that of professional press and propaganda photographers. The rediscovery of German WWI amateur photography is a long overdue step towards the revival of a piece of men's visualized war memory that… Read More

Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare. First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.75", is bound in black cloth, with stamped red lettering and black lettering in red spine compartment. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xii/303 pages.
"Since 2007, the German jihadist scene has become Europe's most dynamic, characterized by an extreme anti-Americanism, impressive international networks, and spectacularly effective propaganda. German jihadists travel to Turkey, Chechnya, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, trading jihadist ideologies and allying themselves with virulent organizations. Mapping the complicated interplay between jihadists' personal motivations and the goals and strategies of the world's major terrorist groups, Guido W. Steinberg provides the first analysis of German jihadism, its links to Turkey, and its growing, global operational importance.

Steinberg follows the formation of German-born militant networks in German cities and their… Read More