bloomsbury publishing plc feb 2006 (14 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Contains Ancient history: the prologue; The golden age of motoring; The post-war years: changing times, change, and change again: the arrival of computers; Modern times: a fresh start; Collectors' gold; Islands and Ireland; Curiosities and eccentricities, auctions and anomalies; and further reading.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A rollercoaster ride from the cult master of the psycho-thriller'A blistering portrait of contemporary Japan, its nihilism and decadence wrapped up within one of the most savage thrillers since The Silence of the Lambs' Kirkus'Deft and fascinating . . . A grisly tour of the darkness and confusion of the human mind' New York TimesIt's just before New Year, and Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo's red light district.As Frank's behaviour becomes increasingly unsettling, Kenji begins to entertain a horrible suspicion: his client may in fact have murderous intentions.Although Kenji is far from innocent himself, he unwillingly descends into the troubling waters of Frank's mind, from which only his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Jun, can possibly save him.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Autism (or Autistic Spectrum Disorder) is a condition which affects a child's ability to socialise and to develop speech and language. It is a particularly challenging SEN facing teachers today. This informative guide equips teachers with a wide variety of strategies for teaching and managing pupils who are diagnosed with Autism. Well-written and engaging, this book will prove invaluable reading for teachers everywhere.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A practical and engaging guide for teachers on tackling boys' behaviour problems. The author analyses the many factors that can lead to boys' misbehaving in class - including SEN, giftedness, peer pressure etc - and shows how their full potential can be unleashed and exploited by teachers. Packed with innovative strategies and useful suggestions, this book should be a must-read for every teacher.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - '.But what will be the place of white males in a multicultural US This is the question that independent scholar Pulera explores in his fascinating book.The author examines every conceivable dimension of white male experience, from politics, business, and guns to sports, entertainment, religion, and sexual orientation. He offers a lucid analysis of fears and perceptions that affirmative action, quotas, and preferences might bring gains for racial minorities and women at the expense of individual white men.Pulera challenges readers to envision the place of white men in a shared multicultural society of the future. His text is useful and informative without being overly polemical.Highly recommended.' -Choice From the reviews of Visible Differences.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In a pluralistic world where the tendency is to dismiss or silence ethnic and racial differences, Africentric Approaches to Christian Ministry offers valuable insight into the ordering of urban congregational life, Christian ministry, and urban missiology from a worldview perspective that values the centrality of African people.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Homing Devices is a collection of ethnographies that address the central problem affecting not only the United States but also other developed and developing nations around the globe-affordable housing. These ethnographies cut across national and cultural borders, offering a diverse look at housing policies and practices as well as addressing the problems associated with providing or obtaining affordable housing.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Winner of the Society for Economic Anthropology Annual Book Prize 2008.Belize, a tiny corner of the Caribbean wedged into Central America, has been a fast food nation since buccaneers and pirates first stole ashore. As early as the 1600s it was already caught in the great paradox of globalization: how can you stay local and relish your own home cooking, while tasting the delights of the global marketplace Menus, recipes and bad colonial poetry combine with Wilk's sharp anthropological insight to give an important new perspective on the perils and problems of globalization.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Hong Kong was one of the last outposts of Empire, remaining a Crown Colony until handover to the Chinese in 1997. Here, the author paints a picture of the social life in Hong Kong - a merger between British officials and local business and commercial communities. He gives a picture of the nature and structure of classic Crown Colony government.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Perhaps more than any other social theorist in recent history, Niklas Luhmann's work has aroused extreme, and often antagonistic, responses. It has generated controversies about its political implications, its resolute anti-humanism, and its ambitious critique of more established definitions of society, social theory, and sociology. Now, however, a steadily growing number of scholars working in many different disciplines have begun to use aspects of Luhmann's sociology as an important methodological stimulus and as a theoretical framework for reorientating their studies. This collection of essays includes critical and reconstructive contributions by a number of distinguished social theorists, political theorists, legal scholars, and empirical sociologists. Together, they provide evidence of Luhmann's extensive and diverse relevance to the issues facing contemporary society, and, at the same time, they enhance our understanding of the challenges posed by his theoretical paradigm to more.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Thomas Carlyle was a major figure in Victorian literature and a unique commentator on nineteenth-century life. Born in humble circumstances in the Scottish village of Ecclefechan in 1795, his rise to fame was marked by fierce determination and the development of a highly distinctive literary voice. In this clear, authoritative and readable biography, John Morrow traces Carlyle's personal and intellectual career. Wide-ranging, prophetic and invariably challenging, his work ranged from the astonishing pseudo-autobiography Sartor Resartus to major historical works on the French Revolution and Frederick the Great, and to radical political manifestos such as Latter Day Pamphlets. Thomas Carlyle is an account of his work and of his life, including celebrity as the Sage of Chelsea and his tempestuous marriage to Jane Welsh Carlyle.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - France's opposition to the Iraq war in 2003 was greeted with surprise and outrage by Anglo-American politicans. But as David Styan argues in his penetrating new book, Chirac's stance was consistent with a decades-long reorientation of French foreign policy. Styan dissects the processes by which a country, notorious for its suppression of Algerian independence, came to cast itself as the anti-imperialist champion of the Arab world.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Migration from the British 'Celtic fringe' since the eighteenth century has had a significant impact on the politics, economics, demography, sociology and culture of the New World, as forces shaping international politics and even war. The authors use new material to explore Scottish migrant networks and personal experiences in areas such as the Caribbean, New Zealand and Australia.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Starting from a careful definition of mysticism, this volume argues that there is clear evidence for the practice of mysticism in the Community of the Dead Sea Scrolls. It offers a close reading of the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice, the Self-Glorification Hymn, and related texts, which constitute the Qumran mystical corpus. It discusses the nature of the mystical experience at Qumran, which was centred on union with the angels in offering praise to God in the celestial temple, and the means by which this union was achieved, through the communal chanting of highly-charged numinous hymns. It also argues that that the presence of mysticism at Qumran has important implications for the history of western mysticism. It means that Jewish mysticism began in priestly circles in Second Temple times, several centuries before the commonly accepted date. And the important form of Christian mysticism involving speculation on the angelic hierarchies, classically associated with Dionysius the Areopagite, had a pre-Christian Jewish forebear. Consequently Qumran mysticism belongs to the genealogy of Christian as well as of Jewish mysticism.This volume synthesizes and makes accessible a mass of technical research widely scattered in monographs and articles, and offers the reader a clear guide to the most recent scholarly work in the field.