harvard university press apr 2007 (23 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - No account is more critical to our understanding of Joan of Arc than the contemporary record of her 1431 trial. The record, which sometimes preserves Joan's very words, unveils her life, character, visions, and motives in fascinating detail. This new translation, the first in 50 years, is based on the full record of the trial proceedings in Latin.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Clancy argues that abductees are sane, intelligent people who have unwittingly created vivid false memories from a mélange of nightmares, culturally available texts, and a drive for meaning that science is unable to satisfy. This book is not only a subtle exploration of the workings of memory, but a sensitive inquiry into the nature of belief.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ancestors' is the first scholarly study of traditional feast spoons and a valuable contribution to our knowledge of Pacific Northwest Coast peoples and their art.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - detail, Tyack lets us see that debates about the civic purposes of schools are an essential part of a democratic culture, and integral to its future.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - in the early United States. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in an honest look at America's troubled past.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457) was the most important theorist of the humanist movement. He wrote a major work on Latin style, 'On Elegance in the Latin Language,' which became a battle-standard in the struggle for the reform of Latin across Europe, and 'Dialectical Disputations,' a wide-ranging attack on scholastic logic. His most famous work is 'On the Donation of Constantine,' an oration in which Valla uses new philological methods to attack the authenticity of the most important document justifying the papacy's claims to temporal rule. It appears here in a new translation with introduction and notes by G. W. Bowersock, based on the critical text of Wolfram Setz (1976). This volume also includes a text and translation of the 'Constitutum Constantini,' commonly known as the 'Donation of Constantine.'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The main literary dispute of the Renaissance pitted those Neo-Latin writers favoring Cicero alone as the apotheosis of Latin prose against those following an eclectic array of literary models. This Ciceronian controversy pervades the texts and letters collected for the first time in this volume.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book traverses the ancient world¿s three great centers of cultural exchange¿Babylonian Nineveh, Egyptian Memphis, and Iranian Persepolis¿to situate classical Greece at the Western margin of a more comprehensive Near Eastern-Aegean cultural community that emerged in the Bronze Age and expanded westward in the first millennium B.C.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Utilizing a myriad of tales of war to offer a remarkable look at the essence of war and its evolution through the words and thoughts of those who led--and were led--into battle, from the perspective of an ancient Chinese emperor to today's wars.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Richmond and Fein recount the fraught history of health care in America since the 1960s. As a new crisis looms, and the existing patchwork of insurance is poised to unravel, American leaders must again take up the question of health care. This book brings the voice of reason and the promise of compromise to that debate.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the past 25 years, no one has been more instrumental than MacKinnon in making equal rights real for women. This collection brings together previously uncollected and unpublished work in the national arena from 1980 to the present, defining her clear, coherent, consistent approach to reframing the law of men on the basis of the lives of women.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book revisits the electoral college crisis of 1800, offering a new understanding of the early plebiscitarian presidency and a Supreme Court struggling to put the presidency's claims of a popular mandate into constitutional perspective. Ackerman shows how the early court integrated Federalist and Republican themes into the Constitution.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Folengo (1491-1544) was a native of Mantua and a member of the Benedictine order, later to become a runaway monk and satirist. Blending Latin and various Italian dialects in a deliberately droll manner, Baldo follows a sort of French royal juvenile delinquent through imprisonment, fantastical adventures, and a journey to the underworld.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1992 Gordon founded the Workplace Project to help immigrant workers in the underground suburban economy of Long Island. She weaves together Latino immigrant life and legal activism to tell the tale of how the most vulnerable workers in society came together to demand fair wages, safe working conditions, and respect from employers.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Between the early 17th century and the early 20th, nearly all U.S. land was transferred from American Indians to whites. Banner argues that neither simple coercion nor simple consent reflects the complicated legal history of land transfers¿time, place, and the balance of power between Indians and settlers decided the outcome of land struggles.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - the key to success in battle. Palmer's exciting and enlightening history reveals the myriad efforts of naval commanders to navigate the fog of war.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1898 the American Regular Army was a small frontier constabulary engaged in skirmishes with Indians and protesting workers; 43 years later, it was a large modern army ready to wage war against the Germans and the Japanese. In this social history of America's standing army, a military historian tells how that transformation was accomplished.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When did the West discover Chinese healing traditions Most people might point to the 'rediscovery' of Chinese acupuncture in the 1970s. In Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts, Linda Barnes leads us back, instead, to the thirteenth century to uncover the story of the West's earliest known encounters with Chinese understandings of illness and healing. As Westerners struggled to understand new peoples unfamiliar to them, how did they make sense of equally unfamiliar concepts and practices of healing Barnes traces this story through the mid-nineteenth century, in both Europe and, eventually, the United States. She has unearthed numerous examples of Western missionaries, merchants, diplomats, and physicians in China, Europe, and America encountering and interpreting both Chinese people and their healing practices, and sometimes adopting their own versions of these practices. A medical anthropologist with a degree in comparative religion, Barnes illuminates the way constructions of medicine, religion, race, and the body informed Westerners' understanding of the Chinese and their healing traditions.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Like no other nation on earth, Americans eagerly blend their religion and sports. This work traces this dynamic relationship from the Puritan condemnation of games as sinful in the 17th Century to the near deification of athletic contests in our own day.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the 1960s, a number of Catholic women religious in the United States abandoned traditional apostolic works to experiment with new and often unprecedented forms of service among non-Catholics. This work explores the phenomenon of the 'new nun' through close examination of one of its most visible forms.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book explores how the processes and practices of politics shape political values, such as liberty, justice, equality, and democracy. Mining the history of political episodes and political thinkers, including Caesar and Machiavelli, Mark Philp argues that it is through political activity that 'values are articulated and embraced, and they become powerful motivating forces.'Political Conduct is thus an attempt to inform and enrich political theory--to show that its principles would be more relevant to actual politics if they were immersed in history and practice. Philp argues for a separation between moral and political philosophy and proposes that a less abstract and ideal approach to political philosophy than that provided by Rawls, Dworkin, Nagel, and Cohen would be more useful in illuminating the conduct of politicians and the limitations on what they can achieve.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Vol. : Margaret A. Hogan . (et al.), editors.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - advances, the book yields fascinating insights into how politicians exploit social issues to advance their economic agenda.