harvard university press apr 2009 (27 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - No book more vividly explains the horror of American slavery and the emotional impetus behind the antislavery movement than Douglass's 'Narrative.' Stepto's Introduction re-examines the extraordinary life and achievement of one of the nation's most important writers.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Pulitzer Prize-winner Hahn challenges deep-rooted views in the writing of American and African-American history. Moving from 18th-century slave emancipations through slave activity during the Civil War and on to the black power movements of the 20th century, he asks us to rethink African-American history and politics in bolder, more dynamic terms.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One of the first non-romantic novels of the Civil War--and the first non-romantic account to gain wide popularity--is introduced to a new generation of readers.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Chandler argues that only with consistent attention to research and development and an emphasis on long-term corporate strategies could firms remain successful over time. He details these processes for nearly every major chemical and pharmaceutical firm, demonstrating why some companies forged ahead while others failed.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Historians of science and Sinologists have long needed a unified narrative to describe the Chinese development of modern science, medicine, and technology since 1600. They welcomed the appearance in 2005 of Benjamin Elman's masterwork, 'On Their Own Terms.' Now Elman has retold the story of the Jesuit impact on late imperial China, circa 1600-1800, and the Protestant era in early modern China from the 1840s to 1900 in a concise and accessible form ideal for the classroom. This coherent account of the emergence of modern science in China places that emergence in historical context for both general students of modern science and specialists of China.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The Common Law' is a classic work from the great Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, in which he examines liability, criminal law, torts, contracts, and successions. Extensively annotated throughout.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Kagan and Snidman summarize the results of this unique inquiry into human temperaments, one of the best-known longitudinal studies in developmental psychology. These results reveal how deeply certain fundamental temperamental biases can be preserved over development.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - There is perhaps no superior edition of Donne's 'Songs and Sonets' than Theodore Redpath's wonderful annotated volume. Out of print for a decade, the book is reprinted here in its second, revised edition. The book's twofold origin is evident on every page of Redpath's limpid commentary: it arises partly out of a life of scholarship and partly from Redpath's experiences and concerns as a teacher. The volume contains notes 'on every point likely to cause difficulty to a reader of average intelligence.'.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The synthesis of Cleopatra's and Rome's defining moments is revealed through surviving works of art and other remnants of what was once an opulent material culture: architecture, statuary, portraiture, villa paintings, tombstones, coinage, and displays of clothing, perfume, and highly styled hair.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Revolution on My Mind is a stunning revelation of the inner world of Stalin¿s Russia, showing us the minds and hearts of Soviet citizens who recorded their lives in diaries during an extraordinary period of revolutionary fervor and state terror.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This third edition, extensively revised and enlarged, emphasizes essential differences between law and literature, rooted in the different social functions of legal and literary texts. It also explores new topics: cruel and unusual punishments, illegal immigration, surveillance, global warming and bioterrorism, and plagiarism.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book offers a radical new understanding of the context-dependent nature of female sexuality. Diamond argues that for some women, love and desire are not rigidly heterosexual or homosexual but fluid, changing as women move through the stages of life, various social groups, and, most important, different love relationships.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Long before the U.S. became a major force in global affairs, U.S. expansionists assumed a mandate to ¿civilize¿ non-Western peoples by demanding submission to American technological prowess and design. Adas pursues the history of this mission through America's foreign relations over nearly four centuries.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The salmagundi of prose poems, musings, criticism, and reflections that is Divagations is a treasure trove for students of aesthetics and modern poetry. The only book of prose Mallarmé published in his lifetime, it is now available for the first time in English just as he arranged it, in all of its languor and musicality.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Bowler doesn¿t minimize the hostility of many of the faithful toward evolution, but he reveals the less well-known existence of a long tradition within the churches that sought to reconcile Christian beliefs with evolution by finding reflections of the divine in scientific explanations for the origin of life.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Yiddish socialist movement shaped Jewish communities across the U.S. well into the 20th century and left a political legacy that extends to the rise of neoconservatism. A story of hopeful successes and bitter disappointments, A Fire in Their Hearts brings to vivid life this formative period for American Jews and the American left.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Golumbia, who worked as a software designer for more than ten years, argues that computers are cultural ¿all the way down¿¿that there is no part of the apparent technological transformation that is not shaped by historical and cultural processes, or that escapes existing cultural politics.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The scribes of ancient Israel are the main figures behind the Hebrew Bible, and this book tells their story for the first time. Drawing comparisons with the scribal practices of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, van der Toorn details the methods, assumptions, and material means that gave rise to biblical texts.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Levi takes us inside nuclear terrorism and behind the decisions a terrorist leader would confront in pursuing a nuclear plot. He shows how a defense integrating weapon and materials security, law enforcement, intelligence, border controls, diplomacy, and the military can compound the possibility that nuclear terrorists will fail.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book takes us to the shores of the Indian Ocean, in a brilliant reinterpretation of how culture developed and history was made at the height of the British raj. Bose explores the social and economic webs of these shores from 1850-1950, finding evidence of the interdependence of the peoples from the Middle East to East Africa to Southeast Asia.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Examines the criminal justice system in modern China, an institution deeply rooted in politics, society, and culture. This book also reveals the broad contours of criminal justice from late imperial China to the Deng reform era and details the underlying values, successes and failures, and ultimate human costs of the system.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Shachar argues that birthright citizenship in an affluent society can be thought of as a form of property inheritance: that is, a valuable entitlement transmitted by law to a restricted group of recipients under conditions that perpetuate the transfer of this prerogative to their heirs.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Immanuel Kant's claim that the categorical imperative of morality is based in practical reason has long been a source of puzzlement and doubt, even for sympathetic interpreters. This title provides an illuminating interpretation of the categorical imperative, arguing that we have exaggerated and misconceived Kant's break with tradition.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Terada revisits debates about appearance and reality in order to make a startling claim: that the purpose of such debates is to police feelings of dissatisfaction with the given world.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Representations of Indian economic life have played an integral role in discourses about poverty, social policy, and cultural difference but have received surprisingly little attention. Daniel Usner dismantles ideological characterizations of Indian livelihood to reveal the intricacy of economic adaptations in American Indian history.Officials, reformers, anthropologists, and artists produced images that exacerbated Indians¿ economic uncertainty and vulnerability. From Jeffersonian agrarianism to Jazz Age primitivism, European American ideologies not only obscured Indian struggles for survival but also operated as obstacles to their success. Diversification and itinerancy became economic strategies for many Indians, but were generally maligned in the early United States. Indians repeatedly found themselves working in spaces that reinforced misrepresentation and exploitation. Taking advantage of narrow economic opportunities often meant risking cultural integrity and personal dignity: while sales of baskets made by Louisiana Indian women contributed to their identity and community, it encouraged white perceptions of passivity and dependence. When non-Indian consumption of Indian culture emerged in the early twentieth century, even this friendlier market posed challenges to Indian labor and enterprise. The consequences of this dilemma persist today.Usner reveals that Indian engagement with commerce has consistently defied the narrow choices that observers insisted upon seeing.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Autonomy for Kant is not just a synonym for the capacity to choose, whether simple or deliberative. It is what the word implies: the imposition of a law on one's own authority and out of one's own rational resources. This title explores the limits of Kantian autonomy - both the force of its claims and the complications to which they give rise.