Harvard university press jun 2016 (10 risultati)

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Biondo Flavio was a pioneering figure in the Renaissance discovery of antiquity and popularized the term Middle Age to describe the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the revival of antiquity in his own time. Rome in Triumph is the capstone of his research program, addressing the question: What made Rome great.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Heekyoung Cho investigates the meanings and functions that translation generated for modern national literatures during their formative period and reconsiders literature as part of a dynamic translational process of negotiating foreign values. Cho¿s study focuses on literary and cultural relations among Russia, Japan, and colonial Korea.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Who gets to speak for China During the interwar years, when American condescension toward 'barbarous' China yielded to a fascination with all things Chinese, a circle of writers sparked an unprecedented public conversation about American-Chinese relations. Hua Hsu tells the story of how they became ensnared in bitter rivalries over which one could claim the title of America's leading China expert.The rapturous reception that greeted The Good Earth-Pearl Buck's novel about a Chinese peasant family-spawned a literary market for sympathetic writings about China. Stories of enterprising Americans making their way in a land with 'four hundred million customers,' as Carl Crow said, found an eager audience as well. But on the margins-in Chinatowns, on Ellis Island, and inside FBI surveillance memos-a different conversation about the possibilities of a shared future was taking place.A Floating Chinaman takes its title from a lost manuscript by H. T. Tsiang, an eccentric Chinese immigrant writer who self-published a series of visionary novels during this time. Tsiang discovered the American literary market to be far less accommodating to his more skeptical view of U.S.-China relations. His 'floating Chinaman,' unmoored and in-between, imagines a critical vantage point from which to understand the new ideas of China circulating between the world wars-and today, as well.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Beheaded for plotting against the Qing empire, poet Qiu Jin would later be celebrated as a Republican martyr and China¿s first feminist. Hu Ying studies Qiu¿s enduring bond with Wu Zhiying and Xu Zihua, who braved political persecution to keep her legacy alive. In doing so, their friendship fulfilled its ultimate socially transformative potential.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Renowned for its madrassas and archives of rare Arabic manuscripts, Timbuktu is famous as a great center of Muslim learning from Islam¿s Golden Age. Yet Timbuktu is not unique. It was one among many scholarly centers to exist in precolonial West Africa. Beyond Timbuktu charts the rise of Muslim learning in West Africa from the beginning of Islam to the present day, examining the shifting contexts that have influenced the production and dissemination of Islamic knowledge¿and shaped the sometimes conflicting interpretations of Muslim intellectuals¿over the course of centuries.Highlighting the significant breadth and versatility of the Muslim intellectual tradition in sub-Saharan Africa, Ousmane Kane corrects lingering misconceptions in both the West and the Middle East that Africäs Muslim heritage represents a minor thread in Islam¿s larger tapestry. West African Muslims have never been isolated. To the contrary, their connection with Muslims worldwide is robust and longstanding. The Sahara was not an insuperable barrier but a bridge that allowed the Arabo-Berbers of the North to sustain relations with West African Muslims through trade, diplomacy, and intellectual and spiritual exchange.The West African tradition of Islamic learning has grown in tandem with the spread of Arabic literacy, making Arabic the most widely spoken language in Africa today. In the postcolonial period, dramatic transformations in West African education, together with the rise of media technologies and the ever-evolving public roles of African Muslim intellectuals, continue to spread knowledge of Islam throughout the continent.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In the 1960s Brooklyn¿s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood was labeled Americäs largest ghetto. But its brownstones housed a coterie of black professionals intent on bringing order and hope to the community. In telling their story Michael Woodsworth reinterprets the War on Poverty by revealing its roots in local activism and policy experiments.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A new therapeutic strategy could break the stalemate in the war on cancer by targeting not all cancerous cells but the small fraction that lie at the root of cancers. Lucie Laplane offers a comprehensive analysis of cancer stem cell theory, based on an original interdisciplinary approach that combines biology, biomedical history, and philosophy.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Science has transformed understandings of the mind, supplying physiological explanations for what once seemed transcendental. Nikki Skillman shows how lyric poets¿caught between a reductive scientific view and naïve literary metaphors¿struggled to articulate a vision of consciousness that was both scientifically informed and poetically truthful.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Trepanation is the oldest surgical procedure known from antiquity, but its origins, evolution, and the reasons for doing it remain unclear. Holes in the Head examines trepanation in ancient Peru and explores its origins and spread throughout the Central Andes, focusing on techniques, success rates, and possible motivations for trepanning. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Scholars have long separated a few privileged ¿religions of the Book¿ from faiths lacking sacred texts, including ancient Roman religion. Looking beyond this distinction, Duncan MacRae delves into Roman treatises on the nature of gods and rituals to grapple with a central question: what was the significance of books in a religion without scripture.…