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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is a critical study of visual representations of José Martí The National Hero of Cuba, and the discourses of power that make it possible for Martí's images to be perceived as icons today. It argues that an observer of Martí's icons who is immersed in the Cuban national narrative experiences a retrospective reconstruction of those images by means of ideologically formed national discourses of power. Also, the obsessive reproduction of Martí's icons signals a melancholia for the loss of the martyr-hero. But instead of attempting to 'forget Martí,' the book concludes that the utopian impulse of his memory should serve to resist melancholia and to visualize new forms of creative re-significations of Martí and, by extension, the nation.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -When students are self-motivated, they work harder at learning even if resources are inadequate. This book argues that students and teachers waste time and energy because the curriculum rests on flawed mental models. Change requires theories of motivation and learning based on advances in neurobiology and cognitive studies. 230 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book argues that the right-wing revolution in the United States has created deepening inequality and will lead to economic catastrophe. The author makes the case that over the past three decades the rich have confiscated wealth and income from the poor and middle class to a far greater extent than many realize, and he explores in detail important but commonly unmeasured dimensions of inequality. He also takes aim at the economics profession, criticising the analytical blinders that leave economists incapable of seeing the coming crisis. 239 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Rethinking Popular Representation starts out from the deep concern with contemporary tendencies towards depoliticization of public issues and popular interests. It argues that the root cause of this is flawed representation, due to both elitist institution building and fragmented citizen participation. Hence the book makes a case for the need to rethink more democratic popular representation. Toward this end, the book outlines an overarching analytical framework for popular representation, examines key theoretical issues and empirical experiences of popular representation, and provides a policy-oriented conclusion. 273 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The 'existential' drama at the heart of the modern world is the result of a truly cataclysmic transformation in our institutions and modes of belief. It rivals in scope and significance, if it does not surpass, the transformation occasioned by the 'Scientific Revolution' of the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Few can still doubt - even if they do not yet appreciate - the comprehensive and global scope of this 'Second Scientific Revolution.' Our fundamental modes of thought and action, institutional structure, personal identity, economic development, and relation to nature, all require radical revision if human life on this planet (and beyond) is to survive and prosper. We are thus confronted with a world whose structures of meaning and corresponding institutional foundations are being undermined, thus presaging a revolutionary transformation. That transformation, however unclear at present, cannot fail to be radical and comprehensive. This work critically evaluates its nature, outlines the structures of an alternative world view and then develops the contours of the social and institutional order it suggests. It concludes with a discussion of practical strategies by which we may reasonably hope to meet the challenges confronting our civilization. 287 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Through fifty-two interviews with New York City parents in gentrifying neighborhoods, this book examines the school choice process to determine how, through the compounding effect of these parents' many individual choices, a segregated urban school in a gentrifying neighborhood is able to transform into an integrated school. 200 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Revisiting the dominant scientific method, 'coding,' with which investigators from sociology to literary criticism have sampled texts and catalogued their cultural messages, the author demonstrates that the celebrated hard outputs rest on misleading samples and on unfeasible classifying of the texts' meanings. 199 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Humor in the Caribbean Literary Canonintimately examines Caribbean writers who engage canonical Western texts and forms, while using humor to challenge Western representations of people of African descent. 212 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This study compares modern and contemporary literary works from around the globe that have translation as a central theme, and that treat one of four of said black-box issues: language as embodiment; unknown language; conversion; and postcolonial derivations. 266 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The book provides a comprehensive sociological and cultural explanation of Israel's politics toward the Palestinians, covering the period of the Oslo Accords and the Second Intifada and focusing on the concept of a 'new war' that is an outgrowth of internal relations within Israel itself and the diversionary politics of its leadership. 280 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The book explains the interaction of dream and landscape on America's urban borderlands. 271 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The status quo of the modern world order, a diplomatic entente best characterized as 'connivance diplomacy,' is limited in its performances, defensive of its privileges, midway between competition and cooperation. It is examined here through its history, its functions, and its failures. 200 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -State Power and Democracy is the first book to show that the Bush police state didn't commence when Bush was inaugurated. It proves, instead, that the seeds of an American police state can be traced all the way back to the founding of the republic. 251 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Through readings of postcolonial theory and examination of post-9/11 novels, film, and hip-hop music, this book studies how North African immigrants to Spain translate and transfer cultural and political memory from one land to another. 189 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The fourteen essays featured here focus on series such as Space Patrol, Tom Corbett, and Captain Z-Ro, exploring their roles in the day-to-day lives of their fans through topics such as mentoring, promotion of the real-world space program, merchandising, gender issues, and ranger clubs - all the while promoting the fledgling medium of television. 270 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In 1845, John Franklin's Northwest Passage expedition disappeared. The expedition left an archive of performative remains that entice one to consider the tension between material remains and memory and reflect on how substitution and surrogation work alongside mourning and melancholia as responses to loss. 234 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book engages with the most urgent philosophical questions pertaining to the problem of terrorism. What is terrorism Could it ever be justified Assuming that terrorism is just one of many kinds of political violence, the book denies that it is necessarily wrong and worse than war. In fact, it may be justifiable under certain circumstances. 191 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Walmsley offers a succinct introduction to major philosophical issues in artificial intelligence for advanced students of philosophy of mind, cognitive science and psychology. Whilst covering essential topics, it also provides the student with the chance to engage with cutting edge debates. 216 pp. Englisch. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Through a series of case studies and surveys, the authors examine current sustainability trends in outsourcing and recommend how providers should prepare for increasing buyer demands in this area, suggesting buyers and providers can work together to build successful outsourcing relationships through collaborative sustainability projects. 151 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Negin Nabavi brings together essays written by experts and scholars that shed light on the many transformations that Iran has experienced in the thirty years under the Islamic Republic and speculate on the import of the developments of 2009 and beyond. 186 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Discusses crucial moments in the historical development of natural theology in England from the time of Francis Bacon to that of Charles Darwin. While the argument from design remains the rhetorical method of choice for natural theologians throughout the three centuries in question, the locus and object of design undergo a change. 193 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Between 1980 and 2000, Peru suffered an armed conflict, massive human rights violations, and the destruction of its democracy. This book examines Peru's struggle to restore human rights accountability and the political factors that have shaped its fate. 216 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Risse takes a refreshingly different approach to understanding the important and topical debates in the subject through the lens of issues of global reach such as justice, human rights, fair trade and immigration, focusing on normative questions that arise about globalization. 218 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -How has the media since the First Gulf War altered political analysis and how has this alteration has in turn affected socially-critical art Colleran examines more than forty plays, many written in direct response to the 1991 war in Iraq as well as to the 9/11 attacks and the retaliatory actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. 241 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -There are currently no books on Catholic higher education that offer a theological foundation for academic freedom. This book presents a theologically grounded understanding of academic freedom that builds on, extends, and completes the prevailing secular understanding for Catholic higher education. 216 pp. Englisch. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Exploring the performance of masculinity on and off the nineteenth-century American stage, this book looks at the shift from the passionate muscularity to intellectual restraint as not a linear journey toward national refinement; buta multitude of masculinities fighting simultaneously for dominance and recognition. 251 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book examines the careers of Liao Chengzhi and Takasaki Tatsunosuke, who were not only the architects of Sino-Japanese economic relations, but also pioneers of contemporary Sino-Japanese relations. Their visions and initiatives offer many insights into the current contentious relations among China, Japan, Russia, and the United States. 259 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Introductory Address.- Introductory Address.- General Aspects of the Crystallization of Glass.- Sequence of Separation of Crystalline Phases of Different Compositions from Silicate Melts.- Initial Stages in the Crystallization of Glasses and Formation of Glass-Ceramics.- Influence of Crystal-Chemical Similarity on Heterogeneous Crystallization of Glasses.- The Precrystallization Period in Glass and Its Significance.- The Connection Between Phase Diagrams of Silicate Systemsand the Structure and Crystallizability of Glasses.- Establishment of Phase Separation in Systems Composed of Fluorine-Containing Slags and Rare-Earth Silicates.- Electron Microscope Investigation of Microcrystallization of Glasses.- Discussion.- Two-Component Systems.- Detection and Study of Very Small Heterogeneities with the Aid of a New Low-Angle X-Ray Apparatus.- Chemically Heterogeneous Structure of Two-Component Sodium and Lithium Silicate Glasses.- Crystallization Products of Lithium Silicate Glasses.- Microstructure of Two-Component Lithium Silicate Glasses at Various Crystallization Stages.- Lithium Glasses and Some of Their Crystallization Characteristics.- The Lithium Aluminosilicate System.- Mechanism of the Catalyzed Crystallization of Glasses in the Li2O-Al2O3-SiO2 System with Titanium Dioxide.- Use of the #x00C9;M-7 Electron Microscope for Investigation of Crystal Lattices and Observation of Dislocations in Them.- Electron Microscope Investigation of the Catalyzed Crystallization of Glasses.- X-Ray Diffraction Investigation of the Catalyzed Crystallization of Glasses.- Investigation of Catalyzed Crystallization by Means of Raman Spectroscopy.- Infrared Spectra of Glassy and Crystallized Silicates of the Li2O3-Al2O3-SiO2 + TiO2 System, and Their Relationship to Structure.- Investigation of the Catalyzed Crystallization of Certain Glasses by Means of Infrared Spectroscopy.- Investigation of Catalyzed Crystallization by Absorption Changes.- Investigation of the Products of Catalyzed Crystallization by Optical Crystallography.- Investigation of the Crystallization Process by the Colored Indicator Method and by the Leaching Method.- Viscosimetric Investigation of the Kinetics of Catalyzed Submicrocrystallization.- Theoretical Investigation of the Possibility of Using Differential Thermal Analysis for Quantitative Studies of Crystallization.- Study of Catalyzed Crystallization by Differential Thermal Analysis.- Investigation of Changes in the Physical Properties of Glass in the Li2O-Al2O3-SiO2 System During Crystallization.- Variations of the Physical Properties During Heat Treatment of Glasses in the Li2O-Al2O3-SiO2 System Mineralized by Titanium Dioxide.- Investigation of the Phase Composition of Crystalline Glass Materials Obtained from the Li2O-Al2O3-SiO2 and Li2O-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2 Systems.- Investigation of the Electrical Properties of Certain Glasses and Crystalline Glass Materials Based on the Li2O3-Al2O3-SiO2 System.- Microcrystalline Materials with Positive, Negative, and Zero Coefficients of Thermal Expansion.- Discussion.- Other Three-Component and Multicomponent Systems.- Certain Properties of the Latent Image in Photosensitive Glasses.- Image Formation in Photosensitive Glass Containing Gold and Silver.- Optical Investigations of Photosensitive Glasses.- Action of Dilute Hydrofluoric Acid Solutions on Lithium Silicates.- Study of Crystallization Products in the Magnesium Aluminosilicate System with Additions of TiO2.- Crystallized Glasses Based on Cordierite.- Catalyzed Crystallization of Glasses in the Lithium Gallosilicate System.- Crystallization of Glasses of the Na2O-Fe2O3-SiO2 System.- Electron Microscope Investigation of the Structure of Certain Crystalline Glass Materials.- Investigation of the Catalyzed Crystallization of Alkali-Free Glasses.- Crystallization of Glasses of the Composition CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2 in the Presence of Cr2O3 with Formation of a Stable Pyr.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Metaethics is an engaging and argumentative textbook introducing advanced students to the cutting edge of the debate in one of the most exciting areas of contemporary philosophy. Kirchin covers key topics, including varieties of moral realism, error theory, noncognitivism, and a brand new position; metaethical pluralism. 228 pp. Englisch.…