Search Results: Titles starting with S from Zeno's

Kuala Lumpur. 1970. University Of Malaya Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket With Some Small Tears. Translated from the Portuguese by Edgar C. Knowlton Jr. 234 pages. hardcover. Inscribed by the Translator. keywords: Portugal Translated History Malaysia. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This is not so much a historical account of Albuquerque's conquest of Malacca, but rather a poem written just over a hundred years after the event. The main purpose was to inspire Portuguese of the 18th century to emulate the feats of their ancestors. A significant example of Western literature inspired by contact with the East, and it represents the vogue of epic poetry in sixteenth and seventeenth century Portugal. inventory #15018

Barcelona. 1990. Editorial Seix Barral. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 8432230030. 137 pages. paperback. Movie edition with Jane Seymour and Peter Weller on the cover. keywords: Literature Argentina Latin America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - IN SPANISH. An unforgettable psychological novel of obsessive love, The Tunnel was championed by Albert Camus, Thomas Mann, and Graham Greene upon its publication in 1948 and went on to become an international bestseller. At its center is an artist named Juan Pablo Castel, who recounts from his prison cell his murder of a woman named María Iribarne. Obsessed from the moment he sees her examining one of his paintings, Castel fantasizes for months about how they might meet again. When he happens upon her one day, a relationship develops that convinces him of their mutual love. But Castel's growing paranoia leads him to destroy the one thing he truly cares about. inventory #45097 ISBN: 8432230030.

New York. 1991. October 1991. Ballantine Books. 1st American Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0345360508. Translated from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley. 437 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by James R. Harris. Jacket photograph by Frederic L. Dodnick. keywords: Argentina Literature Latin America Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In the teeming, corrupt, endlessly fascinating city of Buenos Aires, in the watershed year of 1973, an idealistic, innocent, tenderly raised young man is tortured to death by a government goon squad for the crime of political hope. Far across the immensity of the Argentine capital, a drunken outcast named Loco sees a vision of a seven-headed dragon breathing fire across the night sky - a portent of the apocalypse revealed to him alone. In a shabby apartment littered with defaced pictures of famous writers, a fanatical youth named Nacho suffers the tortures of the damned because his beloved sister has betrayed him and his hero writer - Sabato - has sold out to the middle class.… Read More

Berkeley . 2005. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0520238869. 387 pages. hardcover. keywords: California. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This innovative history of California opens up new vistas on the interrelationship among culture, nature, and society by focusing on the state's signature export-the orange. From the 1870s onward, California oranges were packaged in crates bearing colorful images of an Edenic landscape. This book demystifies those lush images, revealing the orange as a manufactured product of the state's orange industry. Orange Empire brings together for the first time the full story of the orange industry-how growers, scientists, and workers transformed the natural and social landscape of California, turning it into a factory for the production of millions of oranges. That industry put up billboards in cities across the nation and placed enticing pictures of sun-kissed fruits into nearly every American's home. It convinced Americans… Read More

New York. 1997. January 1997. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0679451145. 301 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. keywords: Science Island Colorblindness. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Oliver Sacks has always been fascinated by islands - their remoteness, their mystery, above all the unique forms of life they harbor. For him, islands conjure up equally the romance of Melville and Stevenson, the adventure of Magellan and Cook, and the scientific wonder of Darwin and Wallace. Drawn to the tiny Pacific atoll of Pingelap by intriguing reports of an isolated, community of islanders born, totally color- blind, Sacks finds himself setting up a clinic in a one-room island dispensary, where he listens to these achromatopic islanders describe their colorless world in rich terms of pattern and tone, luminance and shadow. And on Guam, where he goes to investigate the puzzling neurodegenerative paralysis endemic there for a century he becomes, for a brief time, an island neurologist, making… Read More

Berkeley. 2007. University Of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780520245884. 376 pages. hardcover. keywords: Education America Class Race Sociology. FROM THE PUBLISHER - We often hear about the growing divide between rich and poor in America. This compelling exposE, backed by up-to-date research, locates the source of this trend where we might least expect to find it--in our schools. Written for a wide audience, Tearing Down the Gates is a powerful indictment of American education that shows how schools, colleges, and universities exacerbate inequality by providing ample opportunities for advantaged students while shutting the gates on the poor--and even the middle class. Peter Sacks tells the stories of young people and families as they struggle to negotiate the educational system. He introduces students like Ashlea, who grew up in a trailer park and who would like to attend college, though she faces constant obstacles that many of her more privileged classmates… Read More

New York. 1981. June 1981. Random House. 1st American Edition. Some Foxing On Top Edge, Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394505115. 223 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Bob Silverman. keywords: Literature Iran Translated . FROM THE PUBLISHER - This collection of Gholam-Hossein Sa'edi's stories opens a new vista into the understanding of Iranian life. A dissident writer who fled the Shah's rule, Sa'edi's fiction partakes of and reflects the customs, the religion and the way of life in Iran. The title story, ‘Dandil,' is about the pecuniary aspirations of the people in a poverty-stricken town, as they expose the charm and beauty of a young girl to an American soldier. In the second tale, ‘The Game Is Over,' an Iranian Tom Sawyer fakes his own death as revenge against his drunken, cruel father, but falls to the very death he staged a few days earlier. ‘The Rubbish Heap' tells of the harsh practice of selling blood to earn a few pennies.… Read More

New York. 1991. Basic Books. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket.Remainder Mark. 0465030580. 429 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Archie Ferguson. keywords: Democracy Greece America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Examining Athenian democracy as an object lesson for democracy in general, and invoking Freud as his guide in this task, Eli Sagan explores the startling contradictions in the society of Athens: its delicious honey and its deadly hemlock. inventory #17434 ISBN: 0465030580.

New York. 1985. May 1985. Knopf. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. Remainder Mark. 0394539222. 16 pages of line drawings. 422 pages. hardcover. Front-of jacket drawing: 'A Human Sacrifice in a Tahitian Temple,' by Weber,from the Atlas edition of Captain James Cook's Third Voyage. Photograph by Tony Holmes. Jacket design by Gun Larso. keywords: Politics Philosophy . FROM THE PUBLISHER - In this book, Eli Sagan looks for the origins of the political tyranny that has haunted human society through the centuries. He does this by exploring three societies-Hawaii, Tahiti, and Buganda-whose ancient customs and institutions still prevailed when they were first encountered by Western travelers and missionaries in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a phenomenon that enables us to see at close hand the world of our own ancient past. Drawing on the accounts of Stanley, Speke, Cook, Mariner, and others, Sagan shows that these cultures, still in a preliterate state usually equated with the… Read More

Middlesex. 1964. Penguin Books. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. Translated from the French by Irene Ash. 127 pages. paperback. Cover illustration by Robin Jacques. keywords: Literature France Translated Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Francoise Sagan's third novel, after BONJOUR TRISTESSE and A CERTAIN SMILE, that follows a group of artistic and intellectual Parisians in a tale of life and love among the Beat Generation in Paris. inventory #34587

Brooklyn. 2015. November 2015. Archipelago Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers With a Crease on the Front Cover. 9780914671268. Translated from the Catalan by Mary Ann Newman. 493 pages. paperback. Cover art - Ramon Casas. keywords: Literature Catalan Spain Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In 1932 Josep Maria de Sagarra set out to write the great Catalan novel, an urban antidote to the rural tales and timid novels of customs that prevailed in the Catalan literature of the time. Private Life is the result: a scathing critique of the decadent and disappearing aristocratic class of Catalonia. Private Life holds up a mirror to the moral corruption in the interstices of the Barcelona high society Sagarra was born into. Boudoirs of demimonde tramps, card games dilapidating the fortunes of milquetoast aristocrats - and how they scheme to conceal them - fading manors of selfish scions, and back rooms provided by social-climbing seamstresses are portrayed in vivid, sordid, and literary detail.… Read More

New York. 1951. February 1951. Pocket Books. 1st Pocket Books Paperback Edition. Good in Worn Wrappers With a Piece Coming Off Near The Bottom Spine. 246 pages. paperback. 775. Front cover illustration by Victor Kalin. keywords: Mystery Vintage Paperbacks. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Her eyes were an invitation to murder! WHEN THESE PEOPLE CAME TOGETHER - SOMEBODY HAD TO DIE!! Donald O'Keefe Adams III - Vicious plans for his murder were ready. Sancho - A barrel-chested Indian who would break a man in two for a false move . Basilio Victor - He would plunder, rob, and kill for his empire . Fernanda Victor - Beautiful and seductive, she could make a man kill for her love . Nicolas Hassim - An unscrupulous merchant, who carried a gun for anyone with the highest price . El Brujo - The legendary undercover agent, whom no one knew and everyone feared . and The 22 Brothers - their membership list was secret . their revenge was swift . and their methods were violent and explosive! inventory #37242

Berkeley. 2014. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket With Some Small Tears. 9780520276246. 222 pages. hardcover. Cover design by Sandy Drooker. keywords: Art Basquiat America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Before his death at the age of twenty-seven, Jean-Michel Basquiat completed nearly 2,000 works. These unique compositions-collages of text and gestural painting across a variety of media-quickly made Basquiat one of the most important and widely known artists of the 1980s. Reading Basquiat provides a new approach to understanding the range and impact of this artist's practice, as well as its complex relationship to several key artistic and ideological debates of the late twentieth century, including the instability of identity, the role of appropriation, and the boundaries of expressionism. Jordana Moore Saggese argues that Basquiat, once known as ?the black Picasso,' probes not only the boundaries of blackness but also the boundaries of American art. Weaving… Read More

New York. 1954. Knopf. 1st Edition. Previous Owner's Name Penned in Front, Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket . 236 pages. hardcover. keywords: India Literature Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Story of a wealthy politically active indian family and their struggles and accomplishments. Nayantara is daughter of Indian Ambassador to Moscow and niece of Nehru. inventory #11251

New York. 1991. Columbia University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0231073186. 109 pages. hardcover. keywords: Music Culture . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Music does not have meaning in the same way that words do, but it is not meaningless. Music can evoke powerful emotions, feelings, and memories in every listener. It has private meaning. When one attends or performs a concert, there is a new-public-aspect to our private music. Edward Said examines the intersection of the public and private meaning of music in this brilliant book. inventory #20884 ISBN: 0231073186.

New York. 2000. Pantheon Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0375409300. 368 pages. hardcover. keywords: Middle East Israel Palestine Politics History. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Edward Said demonstrates why he is considered the preeminent observer and critic of the Middle East peace process in this collection of fifty essays, written mostly for Arab and European newspapers in the last five years and previously not readily available to American readers. Said uncovers the political mechanism that advertises reconciliation in the Middle East while keeping peace out of the picture. He cites the imbalance of power that forces Palestinians and Arab states to accept the concessions of the United States and Israel, thus prohibiting real negotiations and promoting the second-class treatment of Palestinians. He critiques Arafat's self-interested leadership and the oppressive Palestinian Authority, criticizes the general quiescence of Palestinian life, and denounces Israel's refusal to… Read More

Westfield. 1991. Open Magazine Pamphlet Series. 1st Printing. Very Good in Wrappers. 16 pages. paperback. Pamphlet # 13. keywords: Politics Middle East. FROM THE PUBLISHER - From This Pamphlet: . My premise is that neither the Palestinians nor the Israelis have a military option against each other. Both peoples must learn to live in peace, and in mutual acknowledgment of each other's history and actuality. Yet we must also admit as a simple fact that today only one people, Israeli Jews, has sovereignty, has achieved self-determination, even as the other people, the Palestinian Arabs, live in a state of subordination and oppression. That the Palestinians struggle against and resist this state of affairs is a function of how injustice and sufferings do not defeat a people, nor compel it into submission, but rather drives that people to resist more, and to struggle further for political justice and rights. inventory #31271

Woodstock. 2001. November 2001. Overlook Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1585671738. Translated from the German by Jenia Graman. 280 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Yellowstone Ltd. keywords: Literature Germany Translated Islam Azerbaijan. FROM THE PUBLISHER - It is 1928 and Asiadeh Anbara and her father, members of the Turkish royal court, find themselves in exile in Berlin after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Years ago she had been promised to a Turkish prince but now, under the spell of the West, the nineteen-year-old Muslim girl falls in love and marries a Viennese doctor, an ‘unbeliever.' But when she again meets the prince - now a screenwriter living in exile in New York - and he decides he wants her as his wife, she is torn between the marriage she made in good faith and the promise made long ago. inventory #31227 ISBN: 1585671738.

New York. 1961. March 1961. Signet/New American Library. 4th Printing of This Edition. Previous Owner's Name Penned in Front & Some Pen Markings On Last Page And Back Cover, Otherwise Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers. Translated From The French By Stuart Gilbert.CD4Foreword By Andre Gide. 128 pages. paperback. CD46. keywords: Signet Classic Paperback France Aviation Translated Literature . FROM THE PUBLISHER - In a novel of rare beauty and power, Saint - ExupEry charts the perilous world of pioneer aviation. Night Flight is the story of hazardous flights made by night through the dangers of darkness and the destructive splendor of sudden Andean storms. It is a story of men who risk their lives to deliver mail in flimsy crates . Fabien, the youthful pilot, who sees in flying a chance for heroic action. Rivière, his superior, who believes that man's salvation lies not in freedom but in the acceptance of duty. 'Aviation, like the exploration of uncharted lands has its early heroic… Read More

New York. Signet/New American Library. 10th Printing of This Signet Classic Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0451503090. Translated From The French By Stuart Gilbert.Foreword By Andre Gide. 128 pages. paperback. CP309. keywords: Signet Classic Paperback France Translated Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In a novel of rare beauty and power, Saint - ExupEry charts the perilous world of pioneer aviation. Night Flight is the story of hazardous flights made by night through the dangers of darkness and the destructive splendor of sudden Andean storms. It is a story of men who risk their lives to deliver mail in flimsy crates . Fabien, the youthful pilot, who sees in flying a chance for heroic action. Rivière, his superior, who believes that man's salvation lies not in freedom but in the acceptance of duty. 'Aviation, like the exploration of uncharted lands has its early heroic age and Night Flight, which describes the tragic adventure of one of these pioneers of the air, sounds, naturally… Read More