Search Results for: “Claude Lévi-Strauss”

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imagePart memoir, part philosophical meditation, and part ethnographic masterpiece, Tristes Tropiques chronicles Claude Lévi-Strauss's formative expeditions...

Author: Claude Lévi-StraussBinding: HardbackPublished: Basil Blackwell, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis academic collection presents the foundational theories of structural anthropology through a series of illuminating lectures. It...

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Join Neil Strauss as he: - Makes Lady Gaga cry - Tries to keep Moetley Crue out of jail - Gets kidnapped by Courtney Love - Goes to church with...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew composers embodied the twilight of the Romantic era with the blazing intensity of Richard Strauss, and Michael...

Author: Adrien Bosc Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'A beautiful book about the best minds of a generation and the devastation of war - an outrageous voyage from the...

Combining wit and journalistic detail, "Emergency" follows Strauss' search for an escape plan from the seemingly ever-more unstable United States and world, eventually obtaining a second citizenship in a small...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of linguistics, philosophy, and literary criticism stands Structuralist Poetics, a landmark work that forever changed...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of philosophy, linguistics, and cultural criticism, The Structural Allegory: Reconstructive Encounters with the New French...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerThis compelling biography chronicles the extraordinary life and artistic achievements of the renowned composer Richard Strauss. It presents a detailed...

Nausea is both the story of the troubled life of a young writer, Antoine Roquentin, and an exposition of one of the most influential and significant philosophical attitudes of modern...

In this powerful, unforgettable memoir, acclaimed novelist Darin Strauss examines the far-reaching consequences of the tragic moment that has shadowed his whole life. In his last month of high school,...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis comprehensive musicological work presents a detailed analysis of every opera composed by Richard Strauss. Charles Osborne, a...

Author: Richard Strauss; Story Adaptation by Anthony BurgessBinding: HardbackPublished: London : Michael Joseph, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Cloth in good condition. Clean and bright text....

Since its first publication in 1762, Of the Social Contract has shaped political thinking. Viewed by some as a revolutionary statement of democratic freedoms and by others as a precursor...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA celebrated collection of Australian poetry, Children and Other Strangers presents Jennifer Strauss's deeply...

In his fascinating last book, Edward Said looks at a selection of essays, poems, novels, films, and operas to determine what late style may explain about the evolution of the...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with some chipping and wear to edges and corners. No major tears but yellowing and age-related fading visible on the dust jacket; price clipped....

Author: Edward Sackville-WestBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins, 1961Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis book presents a collection of letters exchanged between composer Richard Strauss and playwright Hugo Von Hofmannsthal....

From the moment they met in 1940 in Ravensbruck concentration camp, Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann were inseparable. Czech Milena was Kafka's first translator and epistolary lover, and a journalist...

Author: Barry Strauss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers "an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire...much of Ten Caesars reads like a script...

Edition: Revised editionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: Tears repaired with non-acidic tape. Jacket still structural One of the most penetrating and enduring works in the...

Penguin Classics relaunch 'Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains' These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate...

From the moment they met in 1940 in Ravensbruck concentration camp, Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann were inseparable. Czech Milena was Kafka's first translator and epistolary lover, and a journalist...

The book titled Adventures on the Freedom Road by the author Bernard-Henry Levy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does equality truly look like when a state commands it by decree? In The End of Inequality?,...

In this unprecedented critique, Bernard-Henri Levy, one of the world's leading intellectuals revisits his political roots, scrutinizes the totalitarianisms of the past as well as those on the horizon, and...

Author: Lucy Moore (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In the late nineteenth century when non-European societies were seen merely as 'living fossils' offering an insight into how civilisation...

These fascinating, never-before-published early diaries of Count Harry Kessler--patron, museum director, publisher, cultural critic, soldier, secret agent, and diplomat--present a sweeping panorama of the arts and politics of Belle epoque...

Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 248 A Brief Welcome to the Universe offers a breathtaking tour of the cosmos, from planets, stars, and galaxies to black...

"All is true," realist writers would say of their work, to which critics now respond: All is art and artifice. Offering a new approach to reading nineteenth-century realist fiction, Lilian...

Author: Charles Weiss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A torrent of recent studies have attempted to set the record straight about the Holocaust, the most horrendous atrocity...

A major new translation of Goethe's Faust, Part Two - one of the greatest dramatic-poetic works in all of German literature - by award-winning poet and translator David Constantine In...

First Modern Classics publication of this landmark work of social anthropology Tristes Tropiques begins with the line 'I hate travelling and explorers', yet during his life Claude Levi-Strauss travelled from...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to forge a truly Australian aesthetic in the shadow of European tradition —...

What does it mean to be a philosopher? Being a deep thinker? Taking a stand against the norms of society? Being really good at winning an argument? The beauty of...

The unique and adventurous sounds that German bands like Can, Neu! or Kraftwerk produced in post-war 60s Germany, now known as Krautrock, are considered a blueprint for modern rock music....

Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer, welcome to a luxury hotel at the end of the world in this post-apocalyptic 1967 dystopia ... 'Chilling and prescient.' - Andrew Hunter Murray 'Elemental and...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodWhat does it mean to bear witness to an art movement as it unfolds around you? Recent Past:...

The illustrator behind the highly-acclaimed books NYC Storefronts, London Shopfronts, and Brooklyn Storefronts turns his eye-and pen-to the City of Light. Brimming with joie de vivre and delightful detail, this...

Storytelling-how to catch and hold a reader's interest through artful narration of factual material William E. Blundell, one of the best writers on one of America's best-written papers-The Wall Street...