Cornell university press jun 2024 (17 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'This book brings together twelve essays by senior historians who, after decades of study, reflect on the 'hows' and 'whys' of Stalinism as an authoritarian dictatorship determined to build a version of socialism in the Soviet Union at all costs'--.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Byzantine Media Subjects invites readers into a world replete with images-icons, frescoes, and mosaics filling places of worship, politics, and community. Glenn Peers asks readers to think themselves into a world where representation reigned and humans followed, and indeed were formed. Interrogating the fundamental role of representation in the making of the Byzantine human, Peers argues that Byzantine culture was (already) posthuman. The Byzantine experience reveals the extent to which media like icons, manuscripts, music, animals, and mirrors fundamentally determine humans. In the Byzantine world, representation as such was deeply persuasive, even coercive; it had the power to affect human relationships, produce conflict, and form self-perception. Media studies has made its subject the modern world, but this book argues for media having made historical subjects. Here, it is shown that media long ago also made Byzantine humans, defining them, molding them, mediating their relationship to time, to nature, to God, and to themselves.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'This book concerns women of color and queer of color artist-activists-'artivists'-whose work challenges discriminatory and oppressive US laws. Written by a law professor and art critic, the book examines how artivists critique, protest against, and create new interpretations of law through their direct action and their art'--.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - What Work Means goes beyond the stereotypes and captures the diverse ways Americans view work as a part of a good life. Dispelling the notion of Americans as obsessive workaholics, Claudia Strauss presents a more nuanced perspective. While some live to work, others prefer a diligent 9-to-5 work ethic that is conscientious but preserves time for other interests. Her participants often enjoyed their jobs without making work the focus of their life. These findings challenge laborist views of waged work as central to a good life as well as post-work theories that treat work solely as exploitative and soul-crushing. Drawing upon the evocative stories of unemployed Americans from a wide range of occupations, from day laborers to corporate managers, both immigrant and native-born, Strauss explores how diverse Americans think about the place of work in a good life, gendered meanings of breadwinning, accepting financial support from family, friends, and the state, and what the ever-elusive American dream means to them. By considering how unemployment experiences diverge from joblessness earlier, What Work Means paves the way for a historically and culturally informed discussion of work meanings in a future of teleworking, greater automation, and increasing nonstandard employment. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'The book examines the discourse on attention emerging in the European Enlightenment (1650-1780) with a focus on German philosophy and literature. It argues that this discourse influenced the formation of aesthetic philosophy in the eighteenth century. Notable figures discussed include Renâe Descartes, G.W.F. Leibniz, Christian Wolff, and Alexander Baumgarten.'--.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'This edited volume brings together contributions across multiple disciplines, weaving broad theoretical and empirical insights from Mozambique to India, Indonesia, Ecuador, Tanzania, Liberia, Cambodia, Scotland, Canada, Transylvania, Brazil, and the colonial United States. The authors draw on original research to analyze the lived experiences of land dispossession and repossession'--.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Beginning with Anglo-Egyptian colonialism and ending with Barack Obama's presidency, Bounds of Blackness explores the history of Black America's engagements with modern Sudan.'--.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Seeks to understand the nature and global impact of the Chinese lending by looking at China's national policy banks -- the China Development Bank and the Export-Import Bank of China -- and the financial giants that capitalize China's overseas infrastructure and industrial projects'-.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'This book is about Presbyterian missionaries, other Americans with ideals, and their Iranian partners during the twentieth century. It analyzes the various ways in which their respective missions became manifest in Iran, particularly the national capital of Tehran, during the reign of the last Pahlavi shah'--. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'This book is a history of the idea of human equality in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature and culture. Looking primarily at literary authors like Shakespeare and Milton and contexts including the English Revolution and colonization, it argues that theories of equality in this period focus on bodily attributes'--.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Account of James H. Billington's influence on US policy toward Russia in 1987 to 2015 and of Library of Congress programs in Russia aimed at promoting reform based on the revival of traditional Russian culture combined with democratic reforms based on Western models. Draws lessons for future US policy in Eurasia'--.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'This book concerns women of color and queer of color artist-activists-'artivists'-whose work challenges discriminatory and oppressive US laws. Written by a law professor and art critic, the book examines how artivists critique, protest against, and create new interpretations of law through their direct action and their art'--.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'This book brings together twelve essays by senior historians who, after decades of study, reflect on the 'hows' and 'whys' of Stalinism as an authoritarian dictatorship determined to build a version of socialism in the Soviet Union at all costs'--.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'The book examines the discourse on attention emerging in the European Enlightenment (1650-1780) with a focus on German philosophy and literature. It argues that this discourse influenced the formation of aesthetic philosophy in the eighteenth century. Notable figures discussed include Renâe Descartes, G.W.F. Leibniz, Christian Wolff, and Alexander Baumgarten.'--.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Drawing on the evocative stories of unemployed Americans from a wide range of occupations, from day laborers to corporate managers, both immigrant and native-born, Strauss shows that the standard cultural description of workaholics driven by a Puritan work ethic homogenizes diverse work motivations'--.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'This edited volume brings together contributions across multiple disciplines, weaving broad theoretical and empirical insights from Mozambique to India, Indonesia, Ecuador, Tanzania, Liberia, Cambodia, Scotland, Canada, Transylvania, Brazil, and the colonial United States. The authors draw on original research to analyze the lived experiences of land dispossession and repossession'--.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'An innovative approach to the history of Byzantine art that applies media theory to Byzantines' relationship to representations of their culture, faith, and history'-.