Cornell university press aug 2001 (18 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This edition of 'An Introduction to the Law of Employment Discrimination' summarizes the federal laws that prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, national origin, age and disability. Several major statutes, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Equal Pay Act, protect American workers from discrimination. In this handy reference guide, Michael Evan Gold discusses complex legislation in lucid, understandable terms.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Consisting of a rare memoir and also a diary, this title provides a glimpse into the domestic life of Russia's nobility in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Labzina's accounts of her spiritual development and her social sphere offers insights into male and female sensibilities of the time.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Katie Hogan is Associate Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies at Carlow University in Pittsburgh. She is coeditor of Gendered Epidemic: Representation of Women in the Age of AIDS.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Cynthia Willett is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Winship Distinguished Research Scholar at Emory University. She is the author of Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities and the editor of Theorizing Multiculturalism.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Vilma Santiago-Irizarry is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Do environmental problems and processes produce violence Current U.S. policy about environmental conflict and scholarly work on environmental security assume direct causal links between population growth, resource scarcity, and violence. This belief, a staple of governmental decision-making during both Clinton administrations and widely held in the environmental security field, depends on particular assumptions about the nature of the state, the role of population growth, and the causes of environmental degradation.…

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Fables of Modernity expands the territory for cultural and literary criticism by introducing the concept of the cultural fable. Laura Brown shows how cultural fables arise from material practices in eighteenth-century England. These fables, the author says, reveal the eighteenth-century origins of modernity and its connection with two related paradigms of difference-the woman and the 'native' or non-European.The collective narratives that Brown finds in the print culture of the period engage such prominent phenomena as the city sewer, trade and shipping, the stock market, the commercial printing industry, the 'native' visitor to London, and the household pet. In connecting imagination and history through the category of the cultural fable, Brown illuminates the nature of modern experience in the growing metropolitan centers, the national consequences of global expansion, the volatility of credit, the transforming effects of capital, and the domestic consequences of colonialism and slavery.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Daniel Engster challenges the common assertion that the state emerged from a new secular philosophy at the time of the Renaissance. He argues instead that early modern theorists legitimized state power by portraying it as a sanctified force for moral order within a secular and contigent world.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In this study, the author argues that the conflict between Russia and Japan came about because of St Petersburg's erratic and confused diplomacy. He explains the key to understanding tsarist involvement in East Asia is to examine the ideas of those who saw imperial destiny in the Pacific.…

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Terror of 1793-94, the Paris Commune of 1871, the Dreyfus Affair-explosions of violence punctuated French history from the start of the Revolution until the Liberation at the close of World War II. The distinguished scholar Richard D. E. Burton.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Michael McFaul traces Russia's tumultuous political history from Gorbachev's rise to power in 1985 through the 1999 resignation of Boris Yeltsin in favor of Vladimir Putin.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Consisting of a rare memoir and also a diary, this title provides a glimpse into the domestic life of Russia's nobility in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Labzina's accounts of her spiritual development and her social sphere offers insights into male and female sensibilities of the time.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.