harvard university press mär 2009 (23 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The scientific, political, and economic policy debates about the global environmental crisis have tended to ignore its historical, ethical, religious, and aesthetic dimensions. This book addresses that omission by highlighting these humanistic components that are integral to the fabric of our ecological understanding.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Threatened on all sides by relentless enemies for a thousand years, the Byzantines needed ready armies and secure borders. To this end, experienced commanders compiled practical handbooks of military strategy. Three such manuals are presented here.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Love weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While widening tolerance for same-sex marriage and gay-themed media brings clear benefits, assimilation entails losses hard to identify or mourn, since many aspects of historical gay culture are so closely associated with the pain and shame of the closet.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The shift in Southern political allegiance from Democratic to Republican has been explained, by scholars and journalists, as a white backlash to the civil rights revolution. Here, the authors refute that view: The true story, they argue, is instead one of dramatic class reversal, beginning in the 1950s and pulling everything else in its wake.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Hugh Heclo proposes that Christianity, not religion in general, has been important for American democracy. Responding to his challenging argument, Mary Jo Bane, Michael Kazin, and Alan Wolfe criticize, qualify, and amend it. The result is a lively debate about a momentous tension in American public life.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this wide-ranging book, one of the boldest thinkers in modern neuroscience confronts an ancient philosophical problem: can we know the world as it really is Drawing on provocative new findings about the psychophysiology of perception and judgment in both human and nonhuman primates, and also on the cultural history of science, Jean-Pierre Changeux makes a powerful case for the reality of scientific progress and argues that it forms the basis for a coherent and universal theory of human rights. On this view, belief in objective knowledge is not a mere ideological slogan or a naive confusion; it is a characteristic feature of human cognition throughout evolution, and the scientific method its most sophisticated embodiment. Seeking to reconcile science and humanism, Changeux holds that the capacity to recognize truths that are independent of subjective personal experience constitutes the foundation of a human civil society.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Based on two studies of marital quality in America 20 years apart, the authors argue that marriage is an adaptable institution, and in accommodating the changes that have occurred in society, it has become a less cohesive, yet less confining arrangement.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The intellectual drama will attract readers who are interested in mystical religion and the foundations of mathematics. The personal drama will attract readers who are interested in a human tragedy with characters who met their fates with exceptional courage--Freeman Dyson.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Presents a study of the transformation of New Russia - the region north of the Black and Azov seas - from its conquest by the Russian Empire in the late 18th Century to the revolutionary tumult of 1905. This book talks about the dynamic and multifaceted relations between the region's peasants, European colonists, and Russian estate owners.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - During his career at Harvard, Morton Horwitz changed the questions legal historians ask. In this book, Horwitz's students re-examine legal history from America's colonial era to the late twentieth century. They ask classic Horwitzian questions, of how legal doctrine, thought, and practice are shaped by the interests of the powerful.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Saving Persuasion, Bryan Garsten uncovers the early modern origins of today's suspicious attitude toward rhetoric and seeks to loosen its grip on contemporary political theory. He argues that the artful practice of persuasion ought to be viewed as a crucial part of democratic politics.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Featuring interviews with major figures in evolutionary biology, this book offers an account of evolutionary theory.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With Comeuppance, William Flesch delivers the freshest, most generous thinking about the novel since Walter Benjamin wrote on the storyteller and Wayne C. Booth on the rhetoric of fiction. In clear and engaging prose, Flesch integrates evolutionary psychology into literary studies, creating a new theory of fiction in which form and content flawlessly intermesh.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One of the leading humanists of Quattrocento Italy, Lorenzo Valla (1406-1457) has been praised as a brilliant debunker of medieval scholastic philosophy. In this book, the author seeks a more balanced assessment, presenting us with a comprehensive analysis of the humanist's attempt at radical reform of Aristotelian scholasticism.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Compelling and humane, this book reveals the lives of the 300,000 child soldiers around the world, challenging stereotypes of them as predators or a lost generation. Based mainly on participatory research and interviews with hundreds of former child soldiers worldwide, Wessells allows these ex-soldiers to speak for themselves.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Liu Zhi (ca 1670-1724) was one of the most important scholars of Islam in traditional China. This title translates his 'Tianfang xingli' ('Nature and Principle in Islam'), the Chinese-language text that focuses on the roots or principles of Islam. It explores both the Chinese and the Islamic intellectual traditions behind Liu's work.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Shows how the field of astrobiology investigates the nature of life in space. This book explores how the presence of planets around other stars affects our knowledge of our own; how water, carbon, and electrons interact to form life as we know it; and, how the processes of evolution and entropy act upon various living things.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Kimmage tells the story of postwar America's political evolution through Trilling and Chambers, who went on to intellectual prominence, sharing the questions, crises, and challenges of their generation. Kimmage argues that the divergent careers of these two men exemplify the emergence of modern conservatism and the rise of moderate liberalism.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On July 10, 1940, by a 570 to 80 margin, the representatives in the French parliament voted full powers to Philippe Petain, ending the Third Republic and paving the way for the collaborationist Vichy regime. This work offers a nuanced portrait of the individuals who determined the fate of France at this critical moment.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Joshua Fogel offers an incisive historical look at Sino-Japanese relations from three different perspectives. Using first a wide lens, he suggests a new way to capture the relationship between China and Japan by characterizing the nature of their contact. From the first century CE, the primary reasons for contact moved from political and ceremonial to cultural, and on to commercial ties. This period ends at the dawn of the modern age, when contacts involved treaties, consulates, and international law.Switching to a microhistorical view, Fogel examines several important behind-the-scenes players in the launching of the countries¿ modern diplomatic relations. He focuses on the voyage of the Senzaimaru from Nagasaki to Shanghai in 1862¿the first official meeting of Chinese and Japanese in the modern eräand the Dutchman who played an important intermediary role. Finally, he examines the first expatriate Japanese community in the modern era, in Shanghai from the 1860s to the mid-1890s, when the first Sino-Japanese War erupted.Introducing the concept of ¿Sinosphere¿ to capture the nature of Sino-foreign relations both spatially and temporally, Fogel presents an original and thought-provoking study on the long, complex relationship between China and Japan.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 2000, the United States census allowed respondents for the first time to tick a box marked ¿African American¿ in the race category. The new option marked official recognition of a term that had been gaining currency for some decades. Africa has always played a role in black identity, but it was in the tumultuous period between the two world wars that black Americans first began to embrace a modern African American identity.Following the great migration of black southerners to northern cities after World War I, the search for roots and for meaningful affiliations became subjects of debate and display in a growing black public sphere. Throwing off the legacy of slavery and segregation, black intellectuals, activists, and organizations sought a prouder past in ancient Egypt and forged links to contemporary Africa. In plays, pageants, dance, music, film, literature, and the visual arts, they aimed to give stature and solidity to the American black community through a new awareness of the African past and the international black world. Their consciousness of a dual identity anticipated the hyphenated identities of new immigrants in the years after World War II, and an emerging sense of what it means to be a modern American.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Richard explores the enshrinement of the classics in American antebellum culture. For the first time, knowledge of the classics extended beyond aristocratic males to the middle class, women, African Americans, and frontier settlers, but the Civil War led to a radical alteration of the educational system that steadily eroded their preeminence.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Contends that Western democracies face novel challenges demanding our reexamination of the role of citizens. This work offers an incisive interpretation of our late-modern ethical-political condition and explains how a distinctive 'ethos', or spirit, of citizenship might constitute part of an exemplary response.