harvard university press apr 2008 (29 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, told his story-up to a certain point. 'When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground,' he said, 'and they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened.' It is precisely this point-that of a people faced with the end of their way of life-that prompts the philosophical and ethical inquiry pursued in Radical Hope. In Jonathan Lear's view, Plenty Coups's story raises a profound ethical question that transcends his time and challenges us all: how should one face the possibility that one's culture might collapse This is a vulnerability that affects us all-insofar as we are all inhabitants of a civilization, and civilizations are themselves vulnerable to historical forces. How should we live with this vulnerability Can we make any sense of facing up to such a challenge courageously Using the available anthropology and history of the Indian tribes during their confinement to reservations, and drawing on philosophy and psychoanalytic theory, Lear explores the story of the Crow Nation at an impasse as it bears upon these questions-and these questions as they bear upon our own place in the world. His book is a deeply revealing, and deeply moving, philosophical inquiry into a peculiar vulnerability that goes to the heart of the human condition.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book could be called ¿The Intelligent Person¿s Guide to Economics.¿ The title expresses Duncan Foley¿s belief that economics at its most abstract and interesting level is a speculative philosophical discourse, not a deductive or inductive science.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Cultural Revolution was a watershed event in the history of the People¿s Republic of China, the defining decade of half a century of communist rule. Before 1966, China was a typical communist state, with a command economy and a powerful party able to keep the population under control. But during the Cultural Revolution, in a move unprecedented in any communist country, Mao unleashed the Red Guards against the party. Tens of thousands of officials were humiliated, tortured, and even killed. Order had to be restored by the military, whose methods were often equally brutal. In a masterly book, Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals explain why Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and show his Machiavellian role in masterminding it (which Chinese publications conceal). In often horrifying detail, they document the Hobbesian state that ensued. The movement veered out of control and terror paralyzed the country. Power struggles raged among Lin Biao, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and Jiang Qing¿Maös wife and leader of the Gang of Four¿while Mao often played one against the other.After Maös death, in reaction to the killing and the chaos, Deng Xiaoping led China into a reform era in which capitalism flourishes and the party has lost its former authority. In its invaluable critical analysis of Chairman Mao and its brilliant portrait of a culture in turmoil, Maös Last Revolution offers the most authoritative and compelling account to date of this seminal event in the history of China.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Waldbauer introduces us to the aquatic insects that have colonized ponds, lakes, streams, and rivers, especially those in North America. Along the way we learn about the diverse forms these arthropods take, as well as their remarkable modes of life¿and more than a little about the scientists who study them.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Women have long needed a book devoted to their unique issues with diabetes. This up-to-date and practical guide advocates simple lifestyle changes that can help women reduce their risk of getting diabetes or, if already diagnosed, prevent the disease's most serious complications.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this ambitious book that ranges across the Great Basin, Blackhawk places Native peoples at the center of a dynamic story as he chronicles two centuries of Indian and imperial history that shaped the American West. This book is a passionate reminder of the high costs that the making of American history occasioned for many indigenous peoples.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Twenty years scouring American culture has made Hampton a uniquely hard-nosed guide to the heart of pop darkness. Bridging the space between Apocalypse Now Redux and Nirvanäs ¿Smells Like Teen Spirit,¿ his writing breaks down barriers of ignorance and arrogance that have segregated art forms from each other and from the world at large.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the fourth century a new narrative genre captured the imagination of the faithful - the moving accounts of the lives of Christian saints. This work argues that the saints' stories of medieval Europe were more than edifying entertainment; they retain an alternative theology, often quite different from the formal theology of the Church.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How should a judge¿s moral convictions bear on his judgments about what the law is In Justice in Robes, Ronald Dworkin argues that this question is much more complex than it has often been taken to be and charts a variety of dimensions in which law and morals are undoubtedly interwoven.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'I like a little rebellion now and then' - so wrote Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, enlisting in a tradition that throughout American history has led writers to rage and reason, prophesy and provoke. This is the first anthology to collect and examine an American literature that holds the nation to its highest ideals, castigating it when it falls short and pointing the way to a better collective future. American Protest Literature presents sources from eleven protest movements - political, social, and cultural - from the Revolution to abolition to gay rights to antiwar protest. Each section reprints documents from the original phase of the movement as well as evidence of its legacy in later times. Informative headnotes place the selections in historical context and draw connections with other writings within the anthology and beyond. Sources include a wide variety of genres - pamphlets, letters, speeches, sermons, legal documents, poems, short stories, photographs, posters - and a range of voices from prophetic to outraged to sorrowful, from U.S. Presidents to the disenfranchised. Together they provide an enlightening and inspiring survey of this most American form of literature.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Representative of Quine at his best, these readings are fundamental not only to an appreciation of the philosopher and his work, but also to an understanding of the philosophical tradition that he so materially advanced.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Venice emerged on mudflats at the edge of the habitable world. Protected in a tidal estuary from invaders and Byzantine overlords, the fishermen and traders who settled there crafted a way of life unique in the Roman Empire. McGregor recreates this world, with its waterways rather than roads and its livelihood harvested from the sea.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Hovenkamp confronts not only the problems of poorly designed, overly complex, and inconsistent antitrust rules but also the current disarray of antitrust's rule of reason, offering an antitrust policy faithful to the consumer welfare principle and more readily manageable by the federal courts and other antitrust tribunals.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The meeting captured headlines; the waiting list contained nearly 2000 names. If you were unable to attend, this book will take you there. Including both the conference papers and the animated discussion and debate they generated, it reveals scientists and monks reaching across a cultural divide to share insights, studies, and enduring questions.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Since the Civil War whites and blacks have struggled over the meanings and uses of the Southern past. The Southern Past argues that these battles are ultimately about who has the power to determine what we remember of the past, and whether that remembrance will honor all Southerners or only select groups.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Americans today ¿know¿ that a majority of the population supports the death penalty and that half of all marriages end in divorce. But such data became common currency only in the last century. Igo demonstrates the power of scientific surveys to shape Americans¿ sense of themselves as individuals, members of communities, and citizens of a nation.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Now that the welfare system has been largely dismantled, the fate of Americäs poor depends on what happens to them in the low-wage labor market. In this timely volume, Newman explores whether the poorest families benefited from the tight labor markets and good economy in the late 1990s.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Seventy deeply troubled teenagers spend weeks, months, even years in a locked psychiatric ward. They are out of control - violent or suicidal, in trouble with the law, unpredictable, and dangerous. Twenty years later, most of them still struggle. This title portrays edgy teenagers developing into thoughtful, responsible adults.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As Louisiana and Cuba emerged from slavery in the late nineteenth century, each faced the question of what rights former slaves could claim. This title compares and contrasts these two societies in which slavery was destroyed by war, and citizenship was redefined through social and political upheaval.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The eighteenth century witnessed the rise of the China market and the changes that resulted in global consumption patterns, from opium smoking to tea drinking. This book chronicles the economic and cultural transformations in East Asia through the three cities, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Yokohama.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When the ochre-stained bones were unearthed in a Welsh cave in 1823, they inspired unsettling questions regarding their origin. Their discoverer interpreted the bones as those of a female fortune-teller in Roman Britain - and so began the casting and recasting of the Red Lady. This book reflects the ambitions of those who studied the Red Lady.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Abraham explores the development and interdependency of the tort liability regime and the insurance system in the United States during the twentieth century and beyond, including the events of September 11, 2001.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The rapid growth of Taiwan¿s postwar ¿miracle¿ economy is most frequently credited to the leading role of the state in promoting economic development. Megan Greene challenges this standard interpretation in the first in-depth examination of the origins of Taiwan¿s developmental state.Greene examines the ways in which the Guomindang state planned and promoted scientific and technical development both in mainland China between 1927 and 1949 and on Taiwan after 1949. Using industrial science policy as a lens, she shows that the state, even during its most authoritarian periods, did not function as a monolithic entity. State planners were concerned with maximizing the use of Taiwan¿s limited resources for industrial development. Political leaders, on the other hand, were most concerned with the state¿s political survival. The developmental state emerged gradually as a result of the combined efforts of technocrats and outsiders, including academicians and foreign advisors. Only when the political leadership put its authority and weight behind the vision of these early planners did Taiwan¿s developmental state fully come into being. In Taiwan¿s combination of technocratic expertise and political authoritarianism lie implications for our understanding of changes taking place in mainland China today.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Searching for grasp of the features of their objects of investigation, philosophers are often driven to exaggerations. According to Ludwig Wittgenstein's suggestion, this has to do with confusions relating to the status of philosophical statements. This book elucidates his view that there are no theses, doctrines, or theories in philosophy.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - John Adams reached Paris on October 26, 1782, for the final act of the American Revolution: the peace treaty. This volume chronicles his role in the negotiations and the decision to conclude a peace separate from France.