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Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. No Jacket. Hardcover 1959 edition. Ex-library book with stamps and labels attached. Binding firm. Pages unmarked and clean. Patchy fading to covers. Text in good condition. [viii, 145 p. illus. 24 cm].

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good condition. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: good. 421p., illus. 24 cm.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. xiv, 207 p. Binding fresh, corners sharp; contents as new. Dust wrapper as new. 450 grams.

PAPERBACK, very good. previous owner's name inside front cover. SHERWIN, MARTIN J. A world destroyed: Hiroshima and the origins of the arms race. Foreword by Robert J. Lifton. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004, later printing of the Third Edition, xl, 375pp., . The assumptions and attitudes behind opposing views over nuclear weapons were formed in secret during World War II during the discussions about building the bombs and then using them against urban targets. Sherwin (history, Tufts U.) argues that many of the ideas that were originally intended to avert a nuclear arms race after the war were ironically responsible for nuclear proliferation. He examines the decision making process that resulted in the destruction of Hiroshima, suggesting that the use of the bomb was not considered the only option for Japanese surrender, but instead the best political option, especially vis-à-vis Soviet entry into the war. 9780804739573 ISBN 0804739579.

First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 196 pages; Description: vii, 196 p. Illus. 23 cm. Subjects: World War, 1914-1918--Soviet Union. Soviet Union--Foreign relations--1917-1945. Russia--History--February Revolution, 1917. 1 Kg.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 248 pages. Publisher's pictorial paper wrappers fresh, a trace of wear to edges; contents fine. 310 grams.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, somewhat dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 190 pages; Description: xvii, 190 p. Illus. , map, plan. 23 cm. Subjects: Agriculture, Cooperative--Mexico--Case studies. Notes: Bibliography: p. [183]-186. Abundantly chart & figure also photo illustrated throughout. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if slightly edge-nicked, edge-rubbed & dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 373 pages; Description: xiv, 373 p. ; 25 cm. Subjects: Sociolinguistics. Notes: "Bibliography of Allen D. Grimshaw's works"--P. [365]-373. - Series: Language science and national development. 1 Kg.

PAPERBACK, some ink underlining on a few pages, dog-eared, otherwise still quite good copy for reading. MEHLMAN, JEFFREY. Adventures in the French trade: fragments toward a life - SOME MARKINGS. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2010, xiv, 173pp., . Series: Cultural memory in the present. - This memoir is less a chronicle of the life of a leading scholar/critic of matters French (and a key figure in the naturalization of French "theory" in English) than a series of differently angled fragments, episodes, each with its attendant surprise, in what one commentator has called Jeffrey Mehlman's amour vache, his injured and occasionally injurious love, for France and the French. The reader will encounter a number of masters of the art of reading in these pages, the exhilaration elicited by their achievements, and the unexpected (and occasionally unsettling) resonances those achievements have had in the author's life. With all its idiosyncrasies, Adventures in the French Trade illustrates and illuminates an intellectual generation in ways that will attract not only people who recall the heady days of the rise and reign of French theory but also those who do not. A provocative response to the numerous my-life-in-France books published in recent years, it should also be of interest to students of intellectual history, literary criticism, Jewish studies, the history of American academia, and the genre of the memoir itself., "This wondrous memoir draws the reader into a unique career and `trade' that have been points of reference on the horizon of French letters since the middle 1960s. It is sensuous, engaging, of great sweep, and in its observations both cutting and entertaining. No one of his generation bears the same signature as Jeffrey Mehlman; Adventures in the French Trade tells us why."--Tom Conley, Harvard University., "This highly personal, remarkably irritating, and unmistakably brilliant memoir presents an intriguing variety of academic situations interwoven with certain crucial political and cultural affairs in France over the years and their repercussions in the United States. Its unmistakable voice (so very Mehlman) is the source of its fascination."--Mary Ann Caws, Graduate School, City University of New York - CONTENTS: Beginning and end -- Initiation -- Cities : New York/Angoulême ; Boston/Vichy -- Fathers : Hugo 2000 -- fiction ; Kandahar 2000 -- fact -- Teachers : Chiasmus ; Derrida ; Bellow in Boston ; Antinomian Steiner ; A professor retires -- Students : Genet in New Haven -- repercussions and resonances ; Mother Harvard ; The heart of the matter (a graduation speech) -- Semblables et frères : Louis Wolfson ; Walter Benjamin ; Afrancesado -- coda in Buenos Aires. ISBN 9780804769624.

PAPERBACK, very good, slightest wear to one corner. VATTIMO, GIANNI. Belief. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999, 98pp., . "In this book, Gianni Vattimo explores the theme of faith and religion which underlies much of his work. Written in a personal, conversational style, Vattimo examines such concepts as charity, truth, dogmatism, morality and sin through the lens of his own life and his own return to Christianity." "At the center of the book is the enigma of belief. Freed by modernity from its Platonic subordination to knowledge, belief is recovered as a crucial and inevitable feature of our cultural and personal lives. "Do you believe?" Vattimo is asked. "I believe so," he replies." "Through an analysis of his own responses to the work of Nietzsche and Heidegger, Vattimo explores the relationship between the nihilism and his own life as a devout Catholic, leading him to conclude that secularization stems from a Christian impulse, and that nihilism too could only have emerged from a Christian culture." "This original contribution to the contemporary debate on religion will be of interest to scholars and students of theology, religious studies and philosophy.". ISBN 0804739196.

Budick, Sanford / Iser, Wolfgang, ed. The Translatability of cultures: figurations of the space between. Edited by Sanford Budick and Wolfgang Iser. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1996, Original printing 1996, xiv, 348pp., PAPERBACK, top foredge soiled, and a few flecks on rear cover, otherwise very good copy. Irvine studies in the humanities. - Translation between any two languages sets in motion a tug-of-war around those aspects of each language that are least accessible to agreed-upon equivalents, around those aspects of expression and understanding that are unique to a given culture. This struggle - between possession and dispossession, or between reinscription and obliteration - is necessarily perilous for the culture that has less power to retain the usages of its language. Since translation wields powerful forces of cultural change, it is an arena both of the global coercions of national cultures and of the local dominations of everyday others by everyday selves. Thus the ethics of translation are both the ethics of cross-cultural discourse and the unit problem of ethical discourse itself., The fourteen essays in this volume - which consider a wide variety of cultures from ancient Egypt to contemporary Japan - address both sorts of discourse and elucidate the two-way or mutual conditioning of cultural positions as well as the illusions and exclusions created by mutuality. In short, the essays describe the conditions under which cultures that do not dominate each other may yet achieve a limited translatability of cultures. - CONTENTS: Crises of alterity : cultural untranslatability and the experience of secondary otherness / Sanford Budick -- Perspectives in history -- Translating gods : religion as a factor of cultural (un)translatability / Jan Assmann -- Visual syncretism : a case study / Moshe Barasch -- Translatio studii and Renaissance : from vertical to horizontal translation / Karlheinz Stierle -- Augustine, Chaucer, and the translation of biblical poetics / Lawrence Besserman -- The curse and blessing of Babel, or, looking back on universalisims / Aleida Assmann -- Emerson's constitutional amending : reading "fate" / Stanley Cavell -- The Holocaust and the construction of modern American literary criticism : the case of Lionel Trilling / Emily Miller Budick -- Discovering America : a cross-cultural perspective / Sacvan Bercovitch -- "It is time" : the Buber-Rosenzweig Bible translation in context / Klaus Reichert -- The black hole of culture : Japan, radical otherness, and the disappearance of difference (or, "in Japan everything normal") / Ludwig Pfeiffer -- Models of relationship -- Border crossings, translating theory : Ruth / J. Hillis Miller -- Cross-culture, chiasmus, and the manifold of mind / Sanford Budick -- The emergence of a cross-cultural discourse : Thomas Carlyle's Sartor resartus / Wolfgang Iser -- Memory and cultural translation / Gabriel Motzkin -- Remarks on the foreign (strange) as a figure of cultural ambivalence / Renate Lachmann -- Coda to the discussion / Wolfgang Iser. 9780804725613 ISBN 0804725616.

Second Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 274 pages; illustrations; 23 cm. Subjects: Constitutional history; Social conditions; Constitutional history Argentina; Political science Argentina History; Argentina Constitutional history; Argentina Social conditions. 1 Kg.

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; x, 238 pages ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Diderot, Denis 1713-1784 Criticism and interpretation. French literature. 1 Kg.

Reprint. Library copy. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 246 p.: illustrations, map. 24 cm. Subjects; Land tenure Japan; Agriculture Economic aspects Japan; Rural conditions; Markets and marketing Japan; Politics and government; Rural communities: society. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xii, 198 pages ; 23 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-193) and index. Contents: Prefatory authority : Renaissance authorship and the extratextual -- pt. 1. "A member incorporate " : public and private rhetoric in the Protestant preface -- In search of a public idiom : Pauline authority and Lutheran authorship -- Humanist individualism and the Puritan polity in Milton's antiprelatical tracts -- pt. 2. Prefatory method in the new science -- "A great city is a great solitude" : Descartes's urban pastoral -- An induction into nature's inner courts : empire and institution in Bacon's prefatory method -- From instauration to restoration : Hobbes, Sprat, Dryden, and the politics of common sense -- The end of the beginning : the decline of the Renaissance preface. Subjects: English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism Theory, etc.; English prose literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism; Prefaces History and criticism; Renaissance Great Britain; Authority in literature; Rhetoric, Renaissance; Authorship History. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xvi, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Bibliography, p. (253)-260. Subjects; Villages Japan ; Case studies. Family life surveys. Social change. Family life surveys. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xii, 285 pages illustrations 24 cm. Subject: Traditional medicine Mexico Zinacantán. Indians, South American. Medicine, Traditional. 1 Kg.

First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 364 pages; Subjects: Ireland--Politics and government--1922-1949. Ireland--Politics and government--1949-. Bibliography: p. [353]-356. Series: The Politics of the smaller European democracies. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xxviii, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Martineau, Harriet 1802-1876 ; Correspondence. Wedgwood, Fanny 1800-1889 ; Correspondence. Martineau, Harriet 1802-1876. Wedgwood, Fanny 1800-1889. Martineau, Harriet. Wedgwood, Fanny. 1800-1899. Authors, English 19th century ; Correspondence. Women social reformers Great Britain ; Correspondence. Authors, English. Women social reformers. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: x, 238 pages ; 23 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Diderot, Denis 1713-1784 Criticism and interpretation; Diderot, Denis 1713-1784 Critique et interprétation; French literature. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: xvi, 277 p. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Catholic Church History 19th century England; Catholic Church England History 19th century; Catholic Church; Great Britain Church history Victoria, 1837-1901; Catholic Church England Studies; England Church history 19th century; Great Britain Politics and government 1837-1901; Patronage, Political Great Britain History 19th century. 1 Kg.

1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 252 p., [16] p. of plates , ill ; 23 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-243) and index. Subjects: Socialism Great Britain; History; Popular culture; Socialism and culture Great Britain. 1 Kg.

1st American Edition - [. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 376 pages; Description: xii, 376 p. Maps. 24 cm. Subjects: Komeito. Soka Gakkai. Religion and state --Japan. Mass society. Notes: Bibliography: p. [355]-369. Series: Stanford studies in comparative politics, 4]. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 196 pages; Description: vii, 196 p. Illus. 23 cm. Subject: World War, 1914-1918 - Soviet Union. Peace. Foreign relations - 1917-1945. History - February Revolution, 1917. Russia - History. Politics and government - 1894-1917. 1 Kg.

First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 360 pages; Description: 360 p. 23 cm. Subjects: Political purges--Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovakia--Politics and government--1945-1992. Notes: German translation has title: Das unterdruckte Dossier. 1 Kg.

Softcover. XVIII, 268 S. Ehem. Bibliotheksexemplar mit Bibl.-Signatur und Stempel. GUTER Zustand, ein paar Gebrauchsspuren. Ex-library with stamp and catalognumber on spine. GOOD condition, some traces of use. FAIII99/10 0804720754 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 500.

Paperback. Zustand: Very good condition. c1958. 196 p. 22 cm.

sewn PAPERBACK, very good. VATTIMO, GIANNI. Beyond interpretation: the meaning of hermeneutics for philosophy. Translated by David Webb. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1997, x, 129pp., . This new book by one of Europe's foremost contemporary philosophers is a concise and lucidly argued account of the meaning of hermeneutics for philosophy today. Vattimo develops a new interpretation of hermeneutics that dispenses with the traditional bias toward aesthetic experience. His radical interpretation breaks the link between hermeneutics and metaphysical humanism, challenges the traditional opposition of the natural and human sciences, and opens up new perspectives on ethics, art and religion. Beyond Interpretation will be welcomed by students and researchers in philosophy and social theory. - CONTENTS: 1. The Nihilistic Vocation of Hermeneutics -- 2. Science -- 3. Ethics -- 4. Religion -- 5. Art -- Appendix 1. The Truth of Hermeneutics -- Appendix 2. The Reconstruction of Rationality. 9780804729949 ISBN 0804729948.

, Brandt, Joan Elizabeth. Geopoetics : the politics of mimesis in poststructuralist French poetry and theory. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997, xii, 288pp., 23 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good gray cloth. 9780804727600 ISBN 0804727600.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. x, 444 pages. A near fine copy in a good dust jacket. Publisher's cloth-covered boards fresh, corners sharp; contents fine. The price-clipped dust jacket shows shelfwear and edgewear.