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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This product was produced by the Northern Forest Atlas Foundation.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jerry Jenkins directs the Northern Forest Atlas Project. He is author of Climate Change in the Adirondacks: The Path to Sustainability and The Adirondack Atlas: A Geographic Portrait of the Adirondack Park and coauthor of Acid Rain in the Adirondacks: An Environmental History.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When Eric Wendel was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 1966, the survival rate was 10 percent. Today, it is 90 percent. Even as politicians call for a 'Cancer Moonshot,' this accomplishment remains a pinnacle in cancer research.The author's daughter, then a medical student at Georgetown Medical School, told her father about this.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What is mindfulness, and how does it vary as a concept across different cultures How does mindfulness find expression in practice in the Buddhist cultures of Southeast Asia What role does mindfulness play in everyday life J. L. Cassaniti answers these fundamental questions and more in her engaged ethnographic investigation of what it means to 'remember the present' in a region strongly influenced by Buddhist thought.Focusing on Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar, Remembering the Present examines the meanings, practices, and purposes of mindfulness. Using the experiences of people in Buddhist monasteries, hospitals, markets, and homes in the region, Cassaniti shows how an attention to memory informs how people live today and how mindfulness is intimately tied to local constructions of time, affect, power, emotion, and selfhood. By looking at how these people incorporate Theravada Buddhism into their daily lives, Cassaniti provides a signal contribution to the psychological anthropology of religious experience. Remembering the Present heeds the call made by researchers in the psychological sciences and the Buddhist side of mindfulness studies for better understandings of what mindfulness is and can be. Cassaniti addresses fundamental questions about selfhood, identity, and how a deeper appreciation of the many contexts and complexities intrinsic in sati (mindfulness in the Pali language) can help people lead richer, fuller, and healthier lives. Remembering the Present shows how mindfulness needs to be understood within the cultural and historical influences from which it has emerged.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ryan Schram explores the experiences of living in intercultural and historical conjunctures among Auhelawa people of Papua New Guinea in Harvests, Feasts, and Graves. In this ethnographic investigation, Schram ponders how Auhelawa question the meaning of social forms and through this questioning seek paths to establish a new sense of their collective self.Harvests, Feasts, and Graves describes the ways in which Auhelawa people, and by extension many others, produce knowledge of themselves as historical subjects in the aftermath of diverse and incomplete encounters with Christianity, capitalism, and Western values. Using the contemporary setting of Papua New Guinea, Schram presents a new take on essential topics and foundational questions of social and cultural anthropology.If, as Marx writes, 'the tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living,' Harvests, Feasts, and Graves asks: Which history weighs the most And how does the weight of history become salient as a ground for subjective consciousness Taking cues from postcolonial theory and indigenous studies, Schram rethinks the 'ontological turn' in anthropology and develops a new way to think about the nature of historical consciousness.Rather than seeing the present as either tragedy or farce, Schram argues that contemporary historical consciousness is produced through reflexive sociality. Like all societies, Auhelawa is located in an intercultural conjuncture, yet their contemporary life is not a story of worlds colliding, but a shattered mirror in which multiple Auhelawa subjectivities are possible.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Eric Downing is Professor of German, English, and Comparative Literature and Adjunct Professor of Classics at the University of North Carolina.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dace Dzenovska is Associate Professor in the Anthropology of Migration at the University of Oxford Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jessica M. Chapman is Assistant Professor of History at Williams College.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Daniel Bessner is the Anne H. H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Assistant Professor in American Foreign Policy in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this bold new perspective on the United States-China power transition, Paul K. MacDonald and Joseph M. Parent examine all great power transitions since 1870. They find that declining and rising powers have strong incentives to moderate their behavior at moments when the hierarchy of great powers is shifting. How do great powers respond to decline they ask. What options do great powers have to slow or reverse their descent In Twilight of the Titans, MacDonald and Parent challenge claims that policymakers for great powers, unwilling to manage decline through moderation, will be pushed to extreme measures. Tough talk, intimidation, provocation, and preventive war, they write, are not the only alternatives to defeat. Surprisingly, retrenchment tends not to make declining states tempting prey for other states nor does it promote domestic dysfunction. What retrenchment does encourage is resurrection. Only states that retrench have recovered their former position.MacDonald and Parent show how declining states tend to behave, what policy options they have to choose from, how rising states respond to decline, and what conditions reward which strategies. Using case studies that include Great Britain in 1872 and 1908, Russia in 1888 and 1903, and France in 1893 and 1924, Twilight of the Titans offers clear evidence that declining powers have a wide array of options at their disposal and offers guidance on how to use the right tools at the right time. The result is a comprehensive rethinking of power transition and hegemonic war theories and a different approach to the policy problems that declining states face. What matters most, the authors write, is the strategic choices made by the great powers.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Matthew Ambrose received a Ph.D in History from The Ohio State University. He previously worked in the Office of the Secretary of Defense's Historical Office, and is is currently a Defense Analyst for the Government Accountability Office. He lives with his family in Arlington, Virginia.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Stopping the Bomb examines the historical development and effectiveness of American efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. Nicholas L. Miller offers here a novel theory that argues changes in American nonproliferation policy are the keys to understanding the nuclear landscape from the 1960s onward. The Chinese and Indian nuclear.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What is mindfulness, and how does it vary as a concept across different cultures How does mindfulness find expression in practice in the Buddhist cultures of Southeast Asia What role does mindfulness play in everyday life J. L. Cassaniti answers these fundamental questions and more through an engaged ethnographic investigation of what it.

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