the university of chicago press apr 2014 (33 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - As the only child of a renowned Russian Jewish pianist, Gordon grew up in the cosmopolitan world of the concert tour, then--fleeing her home in Vienna with the onset of Nazism--settled with her parents in Japan of the 1930s. She worked in General MacArthur's headquarters; helped draft the women's rights section in Japan's new Constitution; and later carved out a career bringing to America some of the more exotic performing arts of Asia. 36 photos.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - With this handbook, award-winning advisor and former Dean of Students at McGill University Bruce Shore sets out to explain and demystify the human dimension of graduate supervision. The handbook is not about how to write or to help students write a dissertation; rather, Shore explores the relationships between advisors and students and the responsibilities of both parties, including the joys of a productive match and how to avoid the many possible pitfalls. In six short chapters offering pithy advice on how to conduct a productive and happy advisory relationship, Shore provides an essential guide to this often neglected dimension of professional development in academic life.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - For years, we have assumed that among the most fundamental lines between humans and other animals is the way we respond to death. But with videos of scrub jay funerals, accounts of elephant mourning, and baboon's carrying their dead, the science of animal grief has opened the proverbial floodgates. And there is no better guide to the kingdom of animal grief and mourning than Barbara King. In this book she takes us to the Serengeti, to duck farms, and sanctuaries, and into the homes and hearts of those who have watched their pets mourn loss. The stories and science she shares range from chimpanzees to sea turtles, to horses and dogs, and her compassion and curiosity bring to life a range of emotions, in the animals and in those who will read this book. The human experience of grief may still be unique, but this book shows that around loss lies yet another connection between us and the living world around us.'.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Named after Appius Claudius Caecus, a Roman censor who built the first section in 312 BCE in order to move troops to the south during the Samnite Wars, the road served both Rome s military and its provincial citizenry, providing a way for them to travel to and from the capital for business, politics, and religious pilgrimages. For centuries carts and wagons laden with produce and rare merchandise rumbled along the Via Appia. Tiny towns sprang up alongside, as did inns, spas, markets, and lavish monuments. Even today, as one travels the road, one encounters the magnificent ruins of tombs, memorials, villas, and temples erected by Rome s elite.'.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Jean-Jacques Rousseau is one of the most important and influential thinkers in the history of political philosophy. This edition brings together in one volume, superb new translations of the three works upon which that reputation rests: the 'Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts,' the 'Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men,' and 'On the Social Contract.' Rousseau s political thought rests on the conception of human nature and society developed in the two discourses: that human beings are by nature good and are corrupted in society. With the Social Contract, Rousseau became the first major thinker to argue that democracy is the only legitimate form of government. Rousseau s French is both literary and philosophical, seamlessly combining the lyrical and the technical. John T. Scott, one of the world s pre-eminent Rousseau scholars, has given us with translations that are faithful to the originals while capturing the harmony of Rousseau s prose and conveying an idea of the effect on the reader of reading him in the original. This edition also has a substantial introduction that provides background on Rousseau s life and context for the political writings, as well as some guidance in their interpretation. There also editorial and translation notes to clarify or explain ideas or terms not familiar to most readers. '.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Just as the internet has, over past decades, prompted reconsiderations of the nature of human sociability (among other things), the water systems of the nineteenth century represented a new way of both bonding and dividing people, and urban dwellers thought actively about the implications. As Smith moves from Philadelphia to Boston to Chicago, Smithexamines a staggeringly broad range of sources from public health reports to poetry, demonstrating that water delivery was not just a core urban technology it was at the very core of the American imagination. This book will be of great interest to those interested in the history of culture, technology, and the environment, as well as to those who are concerned about rights and sustainability in the cities of today.'.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In sheer numbers, no form of government control comes close to the police stop. Police stops are among the most frequently criticized incidences of racial profiling, and studies have shown that minorities are pulled over at higher rates. This book deftly traces the strange history of the investigatory police stop.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Bob Gluck s'You'll Know When You Get There'is an in-depth exploration into the creative work of pianist Herbie Hancock from 1969-1973. These were the pivotal years of the Herbie Hancock Sextet, Hancock s first touring band, which in 1971 became informally known as the 'Mwandishi' band. This book offers a window into the evolution of the musical elements that coalesced during Hancock's career as a young sideman during the 1960s and pointed towards Hancock's mature approach with the Mwandishi band. In particular, Gluck explores how this forward-looking young musician developed the stylistic, aesthetic, and cultural ingredients that together represented the underlying musical values of his new endeavor, with special attention given to Hancock s technological experimentation. Relying on extensive interview material and original musical description and analysis by the author, 'You'll Know When You Get There'traces the development of this highly unusual and rarely predictable band, contextualizes the band and its music within contemporaneous musical, cultural, and political events and trends, and considers how and why it came to an end. '.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - What did the Romans know about their world How are we to understand their science when it features some seemingly unmanageable aspects, those we would flag as fundamentally foreign the umbrella-footed monsters, the dog-headed people, the spontaneous generation, the three-foot long grasshoppers, the divination Here Daryn Lehoux contends that Roman science is not as incongruous or isolated as we might have thought. He explores the complex interrelationships between the objects of their scientific inquiry, and the norms, processes, and structures of that inquiry. This includes not only the tools and methods the Romans used in their investigations of nature but also their cultural, intellectual, political, and religious contexts. What emerges from looking to the contemporary Roman scene to explain the interdependencies and range of Roman knowledge is a view of science that shows a strong interaction between theories, objects, and investigative frameworks.'.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Through frank discussions of sex and intimacy, the author explores the consequence of sexual violence on love and relationships, and she illustrates the steep personal cost of sexual violence and the obstacles faced by individual survivors in its aftermath.

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Sometimes it seems like you need a PhD just to open a book of philosophy. Exploring the works of some of history's most important thinkers in the context of the everyday struggles of his students, the author guides us through the most vexing quandaries of our existence - and shows just how enriching the examined life can be.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In his notes on the natural history of Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau records the first open flowers of highbush blueberry on May 11, 1853. In the 160 years since his writings, warming temperatures have pushed blueberry flowering three weeks earlier. This book tracks the effects of a warming climate on Concord's plants and animals.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Deals with the challenge of how to design and put into practice strategies for inquiring into the intersections of philosophy and anthropology. The authors explore the contemporary from past works: how to conceptualize, test, and give form to breakdowns of truth and conduct, and how to open up possibilities for the remediation of such breakdowns.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Helps you explore how practitioners established a new style of practice, at the center of which lies the cancer clinical trial. Far from mere testing devices, this book features trials that have become full-fledged experiments that have redefined the practices of clinicians, statisticians, and biologists.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A companionable guide to the geology and soil ('terroir') of the best vineyards in France. There exist only a handful of technical books about the'terroir'of France, and experts tell us there is always room for one moreespecially if it is written in accessible prose. Charles Frankel is a geologist, adventurer, and science writer who has published books about geology, history of the earth (dinosaurs!), and outer space. Here, he deciphers the influence of the land on the aroma and quality of wines. Although the grape variety, climate, and skill of the winemaker are essential components, Frankel ably demonstrates how the geology also has a notable influence on the vineyard, the flavors and qualities of wine. The book takes us on a journey to experience the land of France, to admire the landscape, tracing the ancient history of its soil and subsoil, meeting the proprietors of vineyards, and enjoying some of the best wines along the way. The journey begins 445 million years ago and traces the development of the area that is now continental France up to the present day. We come to understand why the Beaujolais region produces its distinctive flavors and aromas (thanks to preponderances of manganese, sodium, and certain rotten rocks ). We tour Alsace and Touraine, Provence and Languedoc, Champagne, Bordeaux, the Rhone Valley, and other areas. Frankel proves an able and interesting tour guide. He also provides maps, detailed compositional tables of specific vintages, technical drawings of regional geologies, a glossary of terms, and an index of useful websites.'.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Man is a political animal,' Aristotle asserts near the beginning of the Politics. In this reading of one of the foundational texts of political philosophy, the author traces the surprising implications of Aristotle's claim and explores the treatise's relevance to ongoing political concerns.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Shows how Jane Austen became 'Jane Austen'. The author begins by exploring the most important monuments and portraits of Austen, then passes through the four critical phases of Austen's reception - the Victorian era, the First and Second World Wars, and the establishment of the Austen House and Museum in 1949.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - AIDS and Africa are indelibly linked in popular consciousness, but despite widespread awareness of the epidemic, much of the story remains hidden beneath a superficial focus on condoms, sex workers, and antiretrovirals. Africa gets lost in this equation. The author offers a powerful reversal, using AIDS as a lens through which to view Africa.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Dissecting twenty years of educational politics in our nation's largest cities, this book evaluates the half-billion-dollar Annenberg Challenge - launched in 1994 - alongside many other large-scale reform efforts that have taken place in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - From the Suzuki method to calculus-based physics, from AP tests all the way back to early-learning Kumon courses, students are increasingly pushed to excel, with that Harvard or Yale acceptance letter held tantalizingly in front of them. The authors unveil a formidable process of class positioning at the heart of the college admissions process.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Today, the moving image is ubiquitous in global contemporary art. This book tells the story of the postwar expanded cinema. It travels back to the 1950s and 1960s when the rise of television caused movie theaters to lose their monopoly over the moving image, leading cinema to be installed directly alongside other forms of modern art.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Algaze s first book, 'The Uruk World System'(Chicago 1993, 2nd ed. 2005), is the story of how an urban based power expanded outward to become the largest empire in the early civilized world for almost a thousand years beginning around 4000 BC. There Algaze focuses on the dynamics of this expansion and shows how Uruk s increasing economic dependence on the periphery of the empire for essential materials and as a source of cheap labor ultimately led to the whole empire s demise, though its influence lived on in northern European kingdoms. Here, in'Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization,' Algaze focuses instead on the dynamics within the city of Uruk itself during the same time period. Combining original archaeological research on the history of ancient rivers east of the Euphrates with sophisticated political economic theory, Algaze argues that cities and states arose in southern Mesopotamia earlier than anywhere else because the rivers there enabled a greater degree of trade which in turn led to important innovations in organizing labor as well as information processing. While not downplaying the role of individual actors in this drama, Algaze emphasizes the centrality of geography in the earliest known development of urban civilization.'.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This comprehensive biography tells the compelling story of how Mies and his students and followers created some of the most significant buildings of the twentieth century. It traces Mies's European career in its progression to avant-garde modernism, where his work was materially rich but of modest scale, to his second maturity and world renown in the United States, where he invented a new architectural language of 'objective' structural expression. Reveals new information about his relationships with women, and gives voice to dozens of architects who knew and worked with (and sometimes against) Mies-- many of them from the unique oral history collection of the Art Institute of Chicago's Department of Architecture.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In the Guangdong province in southeastern China lies Dafen, a village that houses thousands of workers who paint Van Goghs, Da Vincis, and Warhols. The author shows how Dafen's workers force us to reexamine our expectations about the cultural function of creativity and imitation, and the role of Chinese workers in redefining global art.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Dealing with the forgotten comic literature of eighteenth-century Britain, this book uncovers a rich vein of cruel humor beneath the surface of Enlightenment civility that forces us to recognize just how slowly ordinary human sufferings became worthy of sympathy.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'The Oldest Living Things in the World' is an epic journey through time and space. Over the past decade, artist Rachel Sussman has researched, worked with biologists, and traveled the world from Antarctica to the Mojave Desert in order to photograph continuously living organisms that are at least 2,000 years old. The result is a stunning and unique visual collection of species unlike anything that has been created in the arts or sciences before.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Combining a deep knowledge of psychology, cultural anthropology, art history, and the history of religions - not to mention philosophy, this book demonstrates the unpredictability of writing and thought and how they can teach us about our experiences.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Examines the turbulent history of the ideas, people, and institutions of French colonial and tropical medicine from their early modern origins through World War I. This book demonstrates that regions, more so than a coherent nation, built the empire and specific medical concepts and practices.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Offers a study of Verdi's operas in Florence in 1859, in the middle of the composer's career. This title features a systematic examination of Verdi's operas, it covered the twenty works produced between 1842 and 1857 - from Nabucco and Macbeth to Il trovatore, La traviata, and Aroldo.