Ucal pod aug 2022 (141 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Mallin brings an astute and historically informed critical mind to bear on the numerous ways in which contagion resonates throughout the period. . . . The book is also a lucid, witty, and engaging performance in its own right, a genuine pleasure to read.'--Steven Mullaney, author of The P…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'This elegant and original study adds greatly to our understanding of national and regional identities in modern German history and the ways that these were constructed. It is imaginatively researched, intelligently argued, and written with panache. A Nation of Provincials is a major histo…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'An entirely original, illuminating work of critical scholarship. Wagner brings to bear a formidable familiarity with the Chinese practice of allusion, together with a good understanding of the issues confronting Mao, the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese nation since 1949. An import…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Combining a broad analysis of political culture with a particular focus on rhetoric and strategy, Jeffrey Sawyer analyzes the role of pamphlets in the political arena in seventeenth-century France. During the years 1614-1617 a series of conflicts occurred in France, resulting from the struggle fo…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Diseases of the heart are the leading cause of death in the Western world. Health professionals and the general public alike eagerly watch advances in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of heart disease. Yet the more spectacular aspects of medical progress in the field are often reported pr…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Written from widely different perspectives, these essays characterize the Great Revolution as the dawn of the modern age, the grand narrative of modernity. The scope of issues under scrutiny is extremely broad, ranging from the analyses of the hotly debated class character of 1789 and the problem…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The last major work of the giant of the field. Martin P. Nilsson set himself the task of tracing the elements of Greekmythology, as they appear in Homer's Iliad, to their source in Mycenaean culture, a much earlier period. His conclusions, drawn from a very limited empirical material - archaeolog…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'A piece of work erudite and inspiring . . . for it abandons the well-trodden path and ventures into the difficult territory of Roman religion and its turbulent intersection with Roman politics. It is astounding that nobody has ever treated this subject systematically and in detail.'--Jerzy Linde…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'This elegant and original study adds greatly to our understanding of national and regional identities in modern German history and the ways that these were constructed. It is imaginatively researched, intelligently argued, and written with panache. A Nation of Provincials is a major historical w…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Drawing on case studies of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in West Bengal and Shramik Sangathana in Maharashtra, this ground-breaking new work examines Indian women's political activism. Investigating institutional change at the state level and protest at the village level, Amrita Basu tra…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'This is an extraordinary, provocative, and informative book which covers a wide range of aspects of the theatre of the time and touches upon a large number of individual artists and personalities. The book locates a theatrical phenomenon in the larger culture, drawing upon documents around and b…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Patterson follows the fortunes of Virgil's Eclogues from the Middle Ages to our own century. She argues that Virgilian pastoral spoke to the intellectuals of each place and time of their own condition. The study reinspects our standard system of periodization in literary and art history and chall…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'She shows us things we have not seen before. . . . This is a sophisticated, elegant, and important text. It demonstrates clearly, and for the first time, how women helped to shape Spanish Romantic discourse--both as subject and as object--and how prevailing attitudes shaped their writings.'--Dav…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Singular for its breadth and balance, Winners in Peace chronicles the American Occupation of Japan, an episode that profoundly shaped the postwar world. Richard B. Finn, who participated in the Occupation as a young naval officer and diplomat, tells the full story of the activities from 1945 to 1…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'German--and particularly French--sources of the revolution that has occurred in literary theory during the past thirty years have long been recognized. The Russian contribution to these events has been hinted at previously, but Cassedy documents in detail the extraordinary work of Potebnya, Vese…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Mallin brings an astute and historically informed critical mind to bear on the numerous ways in which contagion resonates throughout the period. . . . The book is also a lucid, witty, and engaging performance in its own right, a genuine pleasure to read.'--Steven Mullaney, author of The Place of…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Millions upon millions of salmon and steelhead once filled California streams, providing a plentiful and sustainable food resource for the original peoples of the region. But over the years, dams and irrigation diversions have reduced natural spawning habitat from an estimated 6,000 miles to fewe…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'An entirely original, illuminating work of critical scholarship. Wagner brings to bear a formidable familiarity with the Chinese practice of allusion, together with a good understanding of the issues confronting Mao, the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese nation since 1949. An important con…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Will be welcomed by many communities--academic, federal, and industrial. With new and little-known information on high-performance computing, it is the great compendium describing the last seven years of activities and looking to the future.'--Charles Bender, Director, The Ohio Supercomputer Cen…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Although the study of traditional Chinese medicine has attracted unprecedented attention in recent years, Western knowledge of it has been limited because, until now, not a single Chinese classical medical text has been available in a serious philological translation. The present book offers, for…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed…