harvard university press okt 2012 (24 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In this practical and funny book, an experienced teaching consultant offers many creative strategies for dealing with typical problems. Original, useful, and hopeful, this book reminds you that teaching what you don¿t know, to students whom you may not understand, is not just a job. It¿s an adventure.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Here in a newly annotated edition are the two founding documents of the United States of America: the Declaration of Independence (1776), our great revolutionary manifesto, and the Constitution (1787-88). A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian serves as a guide to these texts, providing historical contexts and offering interpretive commentary.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The unrivaled doyenne of close reading offers an interpretive introduction to Emily Dickinson's brilliant, enigmatic verse. In commentaries accompanying 150 selected poems, Helen Vendler explores Dickinson's major thematic preoccupations while highlighting the poet's startling imagination and the ingenuity of her linguistic invention.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Following his recent Biography: A Brief History (from Harvard), award-winning biographer and teacher Nigel Hamilton tackles the practicalities of doing biography in the first succinct primer to elucidate the tools of the biographer¿s craft.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In this new interpretation of the Education of Cyrus, in which Xenophon theorized about leadership, Sandridge considers Xenophon's portrait of Cyrus as sincerely laudatory though not idealized. He explores the wider context in which Xenophon's Theory of Leadership was conceived, as well as the problems of leadership he sought to address.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This volume, the tenth of Hippocrates' invaluable texts on the practice of medicine in antiquity, provides essential information about human reproduction and reproductive disorders and expounds a general theory of physiology and pathology, in five Greek treatises presented with facing English translation.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Am I Making Myself Clear shows scientists how to speak to the public, handle the media, and describe their work to a lay audience on paper, online, and over the airwaves. It is a book that will improve the tone and content of debate over critical issues and will serve the interests of science and society.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - As a young anthropologist, the author undertook fieldwork in Jamaica, Haiti, and Puerto Rico. This title presents a summation of his work in the region and is a reminder of how anthropology allows people to explore the deep truths that history may leave unexamined.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Migration Miracle humanizes the immigration controversy by exploring the harsh realities of the migrants¿ desperate journeys. Drawing on over 300 interviews with men, women, and children, Hagan focuses on an unexplored dimension of the migration undertaking¿the role of religion and faith in surviving the journey.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Even before the emergence of the civil rights movement, African American religion and progressive politics were assumed to be inextricably intertwined. Savage counters this assumption with the story of a highly diversified religious community whose debates over engagement in the struggle for racial equality were as vigorous as they were persistent.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Hewitt, Paul (illustratore). Neuware - This reader-friendly, richly illustrated book provides an engaging overview of quantum physics, from ¿big ideas¿ like probability and uncertainty and conservation laws to the behavior of quarks and photons and neutrinos, and on to explanations of how a laser works and why black holes evaporate.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Harold James examines the vulnerability and fragility of processes of globalization, both historically and in the present. This book applies lessons from past breakdowns of globalization¿above all in the Great Depression¿to show how financial crises provoke backlashes against global integration.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Exploring the functions of space in the Iliad, Christos Tsagalis shows how active spatial representation in similes and descriptive passages influences characterization and narrative action. He also analyzes Homeric modes of visual memory, implicit knowledge, and mnemonic formats in order to better understand descriptive and ekphrastic passages.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Published in 1818, 'Frankenstein' has spellbound readers for generations and has inspired numerous retellings and sequels in every medium. This freshly annotated, illustrated edition illuminates the novel and its electrifying afterlife.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Shows how death penalty practice has come to bear the distinctive hallmarks of America's political institutions and cultural conflicts. This title brings clarity to our understanding of this peculiar institution - and a challenge to supporters and opponents alike.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the court was the crucial site where expanding Eurasian states and empires met and made sense of one another. Richly illustrated, Courtly Encounters provides a fresh cross-cultural perspective on early modern Islam, Counter-Reformation Catholicism, Protestantism, and a newly emergent Hindu sphere.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book makes the bold claim that intellectual sophistication was born worldwide during the middle centuries of the first millennium bce. From Axial Age thinkers we inherited a sense of the world as a place not just to experience but to investigate, envision, and alter. A variety of utopian visions emerged and led to both reform and repression.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - What Indiäs founders derived from Western political traditions is widely understood. Less well-known is how Indiäs own rich knowledge traditions of 2,500 years influenced these men. Ananya Vajpeyi furnishes this missing account, showing how five founders turned to classical texts to fashion an original sense of Indian selfhood.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - When Britain abandoned its attempt to eradicate difference between conqueror and conquered and introduced a new idea of governance as the definition and management of difference, lines of political identity were drawn between settler and native, and between natives according to tribe. Out of this colonial experience arose a language of pluralism.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Paper Memory tells of one man's mission to preserve for posterity the memory of everyday life in sixteenth-century Germany. Lundin takes us inside the mind of an undistinguished German burgher, Hermann Weinsberg, whose early-modern writings sought to make sense of changes that were unsettling the foundations of his world.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This landmark anthology collects speeches, letters, newspapers, journals, poems, and songs to demonstrate that John Brown's actions at Harpers Ferry altered the course of history. Without Brown, the Civil War probably would have been delayed by four years and emancipation movements in Brazil, Cuba, even Russia might have been disrupted.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - An Arab-centric perspective dominates the West's understanding of Islam. Purohit presses for a view of Islam as a heterogeneous religion that has found a variety of expressions in local contexts. The Ismaili community in colonial India illustrates how much more complex Muslim identity is, and always has been, than the media would have us believe.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Novels by Proust, Woolf, and Nabokov have been read as expressions of a desire to transcend time. Hägglund gives them another reading entirely: fear of time and death is generated by investment in temporal life. Engaging with Freud and Lacan, he opens a new way of reading the dramas of desire as they are staged in both philosophy and literature.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Russian Citizenship is the first book to trace the Russian state¿s citizenship policy throughout its history. Focusing on the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the consolidation of Stalin¿s power in the 1930s, Eric Lohr considers whom the state counted among its citizens and whom it took pains to exclude. His research reveals that the Russian attitude toward citizenship was less xenophobic and isolationist and more similar to European attitudes than has been previously thought¿until the drive toward autarky after 1914 eventually sealed the state off and set it apart.Drawing on untapped sources in the Russian police and foreign affairs archives, Lohr¿s research is grounded in case studies of immigration, emigration, naturalization, and loss of citizenship among individuals and groups, including Jews, Muslims, Germans, and other minority populations. Lohr explores how reform of citizenship laws in the 1860s encouraged foreigners to immigrate and conduct business in Russia. For the next half century, citizenship policy was driven by attempts to modernize Russia through intensifying its interaction with the outside world. But growing suspicion toward non-Russian minorities, particularly Jews, led to a reversal of this openness during the First World War and to a Soviet regime that deprived whole categories of inhabitants of their citizenship rights.Lohr sees these Soviet policies as dramatically divergent from longstanding Russian traditions and suggests that in order to understand the citizenship dilemmas Russia faces today¿including how to manage an influx of Chinese laborers in Siberiäwe must return to pre-Stalin history.