Ithaca cornell university press 2001 (15 resultados)

Hb. Condición: VG+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: VG+. 1st. Hb. Fine/VG+. 1st. 474pp. Index, Biblio., Notes, Illus. DJ: light wear.

Rhodes, Frank H. T. The creation of the future: the role of the American university. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001, xv, 265pp., very good dust-jacket, very good. "Is the university a dinosaur: huge, lumbering, endearing in its own way, yet unsuited to today's world? Is it a thing of the past, unnecessary in an age of the Internet and on-line learning? In a book likely to provoke people who are loyal to the ideal of the university as well as those who foresee its demise, Frank H.T. Rhodes acknowledges that the university is an imperfect institution but argues that it plays an essential role in modern society. In the process, he articulates strong opinions on a range of difficult issues.", "The Creation of the Future is no defense or promotion of the status quo. Focusing on American research universities, Rhodes makes the case that they are an irreplaceable treasure, whose value must be preserved through judicious renewal and reform, beginning with a rededication to teaching as a moral vocation."-- CONTENTS: The rise of the American university -- The American research university today -- Transforming professionalism -- Restoring community -- Teaching as a moral vocation -- Undergraduate education : recapturing the curriculum -- Professional and graduate education -- The cost of higher education -- Research : a public trust -- Service as a societal obligation : from farms to corporate America to inner cities -- Information technology -- Governance and leadership -- The new university. 9780801439377 ISBN 080143937X.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine with fine dust jacket. 474 pages with index, bibliography, nine maps, and illustrations. A volume in the series Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past.

Cheyette, Fredric L. Ermengard of Narbonne and the world of the troubadours. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001, 1st printing number line ending in 1, xiii, 474pp., very good dust-jacket, very good black half-cloth with light blue boards. INSCRIBED on title page to recipient with first name only, with love, and SIGNED Fred. Conjunctions of religion & power in the medieval past. - "Before France became France its territories included Occitania, roughly the present-day province of Languedoc. The city of Narbonne was a center of Occitanian commerce and culture during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. For most of the second half of the twelfth century, that city and its environs were ruled by a remarkable woman, Ermengard, who negotiated her city's way through a maze of everchanging dynastic alliances.". - "Fredric L. Cheyette's illustrated book is a biography of an extraordinary warrior woman and of a unique, vulnerable, doomed society. Throughout her long reign, viscountess Ermengard roamed Occitania receiving oaths of fidelity, negotiating treaties, settling disputes among the lords of her lands, and camping with her armies before the walls of besieged cities. She was born into a world of politics and warfare, but from the Mediterranean to the North Sea her name echoed in songs that treated the arts of love."-- CONTENTS: The viscountess comes of age -- Names and titles, histories and myths -- The urban marketplace -- City and countryside -- Cities of mammon, cities of Mars -- The bishop in the city -- Lordship -- Serfdom and the dues of domination -- Ermengard's entourage -- Oaths and oath takers -- Anger, conflict, and reconciliation -- Giving and taking -- Love and fidelity -- Raymond V builds his empire -- The ravaging of Occitania -- Sowing the seeds of crusade -- A war like an omen -- Impatient heirs -- The undoing of Occitania. 9780801439520 ISBN 0801439523.…

Octavo, dustwrapper,317 pp.,colour photographs, black and white illustrations. WAS $80.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. No Dustjacket. First Edition. ISBN 0801434688. Hardcover copy in fine condition, no dustjacket as issued. First printing. Tight clean copy. C 24-4 4. No Signature.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Sharp & solid, tidy underlining or marginalia on 8 pages, very nice. No jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Firm binding, unmarked text, almost as new. No jacket.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. 8vo. x, 241 pp. Original illustrated light green wrappers. Association copy: INSCRIBED by the author to noted Kant and Dilthey scholar, Rudolf "Rudi" Makkreel; they were colleagues at Emory's Philosophy Department. Makkreel has underlined in pencil approx. 7 pp. else this is a tight, fine book. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Octavo,470 pp.,colour photographs, maps, other illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Detailed accounts for 205 species of frogs and toads (and 2 species of caecilian) accompanied by colour illustrations, distribution maps, details of breeding and tadpole behaviour, and call descriptions; illustrations and tadpole identification keys for each genus; and an overview of fossil frogs, a discussion of humankind and frogs in Africa, and a bibliography of African frog biology. …

Hardback, 16.5x24cm, 328pp. Very good condition, in very good dustwrapper (light wear; creased edges). ISBN: 0801439531.

near fine dust-jacket, fresh attractive black hardcover, book appears unused but printed on somewhat cheap paper which has lightly tanned already. but with previous owner's gift inscription in ink on front endpaper. FORD, MARK. Raymond Roussel and the republic of dreams. Foreword by John Ashbery. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001, 1st printing number line ending with 1, xxviii, 312pp., . Printed in Great Britain. - "This is the first-length account of Roussel's life and oeuvre in English. Mark Ford, himself a poet, traces the evolution of Roussel's bizarre compositional methods, and describes the idiosyncrasies of a life structured as obsessively as his work. The story he tells is at once enchanting, heart-breaking and scarcely credible. Could even Proust or Nabokov, one feels at its conclusion, have invented a character as peculiar and unforgettable as the exquisite dandy and compulsive writer this book brings to life?". 9780801438646 ISBN 0801438640. …

xiii + 181pp.with ills., 25cm., hardback (cart.cover), dustwrapper, VG, ISBN 0-8014-3764-4, F70860.

Condición: Minor rubbing. VG. orig.cloth Minor rubbing. VG. 24x15cm, xii,200 pp Contents : Situating the subject -- Panopticism and shame : Foucault, Beauvoir, and feminism -- The politics of recognition : Sartre, Fanon, and identity politics -- Identity politics and dialectical reason : beyond an epistemology of provenance -- Going beyond discourse : feminism, phenomenology, and "women's experience" -- Phenomenology and difference : on the possibility of feminist "world-travelling".…

orig.boards Minor rubbing. A label to rear cover. VG. Textual maps. 24x15cm, x,262 pp, Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs. Contents: Stories About Ethnic War; The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War; Karabagh & the Fears of Minorities; Georgia & the Fears of Majorities; Elite Conspiracy in Moldova's Civil War; Government Jingoism & the Fall of Yugoslavia; The Power of Symbols. Minor rubbing. A label to rear cover. VG.…