bloomsbury publishing plc feb 2007 (22 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - _______________'Part memoir, part rant and part joke . as elusive as it is beguiling' - Sunday Times'If Vonnegut isn't the enduring Good Humor man, who is ' - John Irving, The Times'One of the greatest writers of the past 50 years' - Daily Telegraph_______________Comic riffs and diatribes on the America of G.W. Bush from the author of Slaughterhouse 5This is vintage Vonnegut - hilariously funny and razor-sharp as he fixes his gaze on art, politics, himself and the condition of the soul of America today. Written over five years in the form of a loose memoir, A Man Without a Country is an intimate and tender communication to us all, sometimes despairing, always searching and ultimately wise and compassionate.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A student edition of this challenging and popular tragedy with notes and commentary.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Balthasar - Baz - a Montague mob foot soldier and Romeo's right hand man - narrates the tragic tale of Romeo and Juliet. The story unfolds on a Nottingham estate, where trouble is brewing between the Montague Mob and the Capulet Crew. A modern retelling of one of Shakespeare's key plays, but there are still no happy endings.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This title takes a skills-based approach, with each section suggesting general ideas to use in everyday classroom teaching, including specific examples of how these can be used with a variety of modules fromelementaryschoolthrough to high school.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book contains invaluable reference tables and maths formulae for trainee and professional marine engineers.Focussing on subjects most commonly required in mechanical and marineengineering (including a section on naval architecture), the formulaeare graduated to cover the subjects at all stages from technician levelto degree, from cadet level to the Extra First Class Certificate. After each subject, there are blank pages in which extra design dataand formulae can be added, and where the understanding of basicconcepts is particularly essential, the text includes extra definitionsand notes, all of which helps to create a user-friendly and practicalresource.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Measure for Measure generates much debate and is strikingly modern. This introductory guide offers a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, a brief history of the text and first performance, studies of influential performances, a survey of film and TV adaptation, a wide sampling of critical opinion and annotated further reading.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Reader's Guides provide a comprehensive starting point for any advanced student, giving an overview of the context, criticism and influence of key works. Each guide also offers students fresh critical insights and provides a practical introduction to close reading and to analysing literary language and form. They provide up-to-date, authoritative but accessible guides to the most commonly studied classic texts. Great Expectations (1861) is not only one of the last great novels to be written by Dickens but is also one which centres around his primary themes: the importance of childhood in relationship to adult life, concepts of guilt and imprisonment and an analysis of individualism as opposed to the increasing bureaucracy of nineteenth-century England.This guide isan ideal introduction tothe textincluding its contexts, Dickens's style and imagery, its critical reception from the time of publication to the present, a guide to illustrated editions and film adaptations and a guide to further reading.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Professor Black traverses social, religious and geographical boundaries in a comprehensive account of one of Britain's richest historical periods.>.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech has become an icon of American public culture, its imagery and words profoundly influencing the civil rights debate. In The Rhetoric of Redemption Bobbitt applies Kenneth Burke's theory of guilt-purification-redemption in a close, critical analysis of the speech, developing and examining the implications of Burke's redemption drama in contemporary public discourse. He studies the impact of the speech over time, arguing that, while King's speech contains an inspirational vision of national redemption, it does so by omitting the real difficulties of overcoming America's racial divisions.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Based on the true story of Martin Schiller, a child survivor of the Holocaust, this gripping memoir describes the unfolding horror of the Nazi genocide seen through the eyes of a child. 'Menek' (Schiller's childhood nickname) was six-years-old when the Nazis invaded Poland, and his family fled eastward from their native Tarnobrzeg. He was nine when he and his family were interned as slave laborers at the Skarzysko concentration camp, where his father perished. As the Russian army advanced, Menek and his brother were deported to Buchenwald, where Menek survived with the help of a sympathetic Block Elder (a German political prisoner) who placed him in a barrack for Russian POWs. The story of his journey continues after liberation, with their harrowing escape from postwar Poland; the brothers' travels through war-ravaged Germany to find their mother; and the anxiety of the DP camps where the family must decide between Israel or America. This memoir covers the now-emblematic features of a survivor's journey both during and after the war with the intimacy of a young boy's point-of-view, recalling his own thoughts and reactions to events as he tries to make sense of an irrational world.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Working with the underlying premise that America's founding principles continue to be vital in the modern era, Erler, Marini, and West take a conservative look at immigration, one of today's most pressing political issues. Character-the capacity to live a life befitting republican citizens-is, as the Founders knew, crucial to the debate about immigration. The Founders on Citizenship and Immigration seeks to revive the issue of republican character in the current immigration debate and to elucidate the constitutional foundations of American citizenship.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Videogames are one of the most culturally, socially and economically significant, not to mention pervasive, media forms. The global videogames industry is worth billions of dollars and growing year on year as it releases yet more innovative products that synthesize cutting edge technology, ease of use, accessibility and, most importantly, fun. It is hardly surprising then that every day, millions of adults and children around the globe dedicate countless hours to exploring virtual worlds, assuming alternative identities and engaging in digital play. Yet for all this, there is relatively little critical discussion of videogames and they remain the poor relation of contemporary media criticism, leaving those new to videogames struggling to find information about key titles and the cognoscenti hungry for insight into their favourite titles. James Newman and Iain Simons' guide provides a map of the most important games from the 1960s to the present day that will satisfy both novices and acolytes alike as it journeys through the most interesting, innovative and entertaining titles of the first forty years of videogames.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book examines Directive 93/13 on Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts and its implementation with a twofold aim: first, to understand the extent to which the Directive has influenced and will influence fundamental notions and principles of contract law in the domestic legal systems of the Member States; and second, to examine the extent to which the domestic legal traditions of the Member States have influenced the process of drafting of the Directive and, more importantly, how it will affect that the way that the Directive is interpreted and applied in national courts. The focus is mainly on English law (including the 2005 Unfair Terms in Contracts Bill) and on Italian law, but frequent references are made to the French and the German systems. The book also has a broader, more 'European' concern, in that it distills from the existing Community acquis and from the history and rationale of Directive 93/13 notions and concepts that could guide its interpretation. It is well known that.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - W. E. B. Du Bois and the Problems of the Twenty-First Century utilizes Du Bois's thought and texts to develop an informed critical theory of contemporary society. This book broadens the base of critical theory, making it more multicultural, transethnic, transgender, and non-Western European philosophy focused by placing it in dialogue with theory and phenomena that had been heretofore woefully neglected. Taking the preeminent black intellectual of the twentieth century as his primary point of departure, Reiland Rabaka identifies and analyzes several key contributions that Du Bois and the black racial tradition offer to those interested in redeveloping and racially revising contemporary critical social theory. With chapters on critical race theory, postcolonial theory, feminism, and Marxism, this volume builds bridges from Africana Studies to disparate discursive communities, accessibly demonstrating Du Bois's, and the black radical tradition's, contributions to, and the potential impact on, a wide-range of new social scientific research and radical political struggles.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The purpose of this book is to inform and to explore the issues raised by Directive 2005/29, issues which are of academic and practical interest, in helping to understand the evolution of European consumer law within the broader programme of European market regulation.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When France Was King of Cartography investigates over a thousand maps and nearly two dozen map producers, analyzes the map as a cultural artifact, map producers as a group, and the array of map viewers over the course of two centuries in France. The book focuses on situated knowledge or 'localized' interests reflected in these geographical productions. Through the lens of mapmaking, it examines the relationship between power and the practice of patronage, geography, and commerce in early modern France.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This collection explores the importance of magic within Early Christianity >.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book follows and complements the previous volume Biotechnology and International Law (Hart 2006) bringing a specific focus on human rights.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jane Puts It in a Box.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - There is a growing awareness among biblical scholars and others of the potential value of modern and postmodern fantasy theory for the study of biblical texts. This fantastic reading is a 'reading from the outside,' inspired by the parable 'theory' of Isaiah 6:9-10 and Mark 4:11-12.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Corruption in Africa makes a significant contribution to the study of the impacts and eradication of corruption in African societies. John Mukum Mbaku offers a comprehensive analysis of the causes of public malfeasance in African countries and provides a number of practical and effective policy options for change.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this volume the European Seminar in Historical Methodology uses the period of the 9th and 8th centuries as a field for investigating the question of writing a history of Israel. This period provides a striking example in which the biblical text can be compared with other written and artifactual sources. Contributors explore a variety of aspects of the history of the period of Omri and Ahab and the following Jehu dynasty. As a volume it provides a comprehensive picture of the sources, the historical problems, and the areas of major debate. >.