bloomsbury publishing plc jan 2010 (21 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Since the death of his wife seven years ago, documentary maker Aoyama has not dated anyone else. Now even his teenage son, Shige, thinks that he should remarry and his best friend Yoshikawa comes up with a plan: to hold fake film auditions from which, he can choose a new bride. Of the thousands who apply, it is a beautiful ballerina, Yamasaki Asami, who captivates Aoyama. Infatuated by her fragile nature and nervous smile, he ignores his increasing sense of unease, putting aside his doubts about his new love, until it may be too late. In Audition, Ryu Murakami delivers his most subtly disturbing novel yet, confirming him as Japan's master of the psycho-thriller.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ava Gardner was the sex symbol who dazzled the other sex symbols. Elizabeth Taylor and Lana Turner thought her the most beautiful woman they had ever seen. She drove Frank Sinatra to the brink of suicide. Ernest Hemingway carried around one of her kidney stones as a sacred memento. Howard Hughes begged her to marry him: she punched out his front teeth. Her charismatic presence, jaw-dropping beauty and scandalous adventures fuelled the legend that she became. Yet she was a farmgirl who became a reluctant goddess, and who retreated from the world's gaze for the last years of her life. Filled with fresh insights gleaned from interviews with Ava's colleagues, friends and lovers, this is the definitive biography of Hollywood's most glamorous, restless and uninhibited star.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Disaster books traditionally feed on hype, sensationalism and bad science. Eden manages to redress the balance. What then is the place of weather disasters in our climate Are they freaks or a necessary part of the whole How rare are meteorological event does it take to cause chaos in our day-to-day lives Are we becoming more at risk and less capable of dealing with them Or do we just complain more These days we try and mitigate the effects of different hazards, by acquiring personal and property protection - individually, personally and politically. So what is the role of local and central government, the insurance industry, the media and the public And how do we actually measure disaster By rarity, insurance cost, death toll, recovery times etc Can we merge all these so we can compare -say- the 1976 drought with the 1891 blizzard Can we rank disasters 15,000 died in the European heatwave of August 2003. Is this the shape of things to come What will happen if the Gulf Stream/North Atlantic Drift stops flowing Here are just a few of Philip Eden's topics in a book which will be riveting to readers.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Literary Art in Digital Performance examines electronic works of literary art, a category integrating the visual+textual including interactive poetry, narrative computer games, filmic sculpture and projective art. Each case study/chapter is followed by a 'post-chapter' dialogue between editor and author - providing further entry points for theoretical analysis.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The suspension and expulsion of ethnic minority students, especially African American males , remains a critical issue in schools today. This book addresses the root causes of racial disparity in discipline. Dr. Bireda shows how culturally conditioned beliefs and cultural misunderstanding negatively impact teacher-student relationships and interactions in the classroom. In addition, factors in the school climate that may precipitate and escalate disciplinary events are examined. Ultimately, Cultures In Conflict provides a framework which assists administrators and teachers in establishing a dialogue on issues related to race and culture, and provides a set of strategies for reducing disciplinary events and referrals.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Taking Meeks's landmark book as its starting point, this new volume of essays examines the developments in social-scientific study of Pauline Christianity over the past twenty-five years and outlines directions for future research.>.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This study sheds new light on identity formation and maintenance in the world of the early Christians by drawing on neglected archaeological and epigraphic evidence. >.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Are finders keepers This most simple of questions has long evaded a satisfactory legal answer. Generally it seems to have been accepted that a finder acquires a property right in the object of her find and can protect it from subsequent interference, but even this turns out to be the baldest statement of principle, resting on obscure and confused authority.This first full-length treatment of finders sets them in their legal-historical context, and discovers a fascinating area of law lying at the crossroads of crime, obligations, and property. That on the same facts a finder might be thief, bailee, and/or property right holder has clouded our conceptual analysis, and prevented us from stating simply our rules about finding. Nonetheless, when the applicable doctrines and policies of our property law (particularly the central concept of possession) are explored and understood in the light of countervailing rules of crime and tort, we can argue confidently that, despite centuries of doubt and confusion, English law has succeeded in producing a body of law that is theoretically and practically coherent. Property and the Law of Finders makes this argument, and will appeal to anyone specifically interested in the law of personal property, and also to those with broader concerns about the evolution of common law concepts and their ability to yield workable, practical solutions.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The suspension and expulsion of ethnic minority students, especially African American males , remains a critical issue in schools today. This book addresses the root causes of racial disparity in discipline. Dr. Bireda shows how culturally conditioned beliefs and cultural misunderstanding negatively impact teacher-student relationships and interactions in the classroom. In addition, factors in the school climate that may precipitate and escalate disciplinary events are examined. Ultimately, Cultures In Conflict provides a framework which assists administrators and teachers in establishing a dialogue on issues related to race and culture, and provides a set of strategies for reducing disciplinary events and referrals.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A noted conflict expert shows how accelerating globalization is causing dangerous global insecurity that must be met by new security models and policies.The New Global Insecurity: How Terrorism, Environmental Collapse, Economic Inequalities, and Resource Shortages Are Changing Our World explores insecurity arising out of accelerating globalization. In this unique and forward-thinking work, psychologist Fathali M. Moghaddam, director of the Conflict Studies Program at Georgetown University, explains how and why worldwide insecurity is rising and what steps we must take to quell or reverse that insecurity to make the future of the world more peaceful.The book first analyzes the elements and roots of global insecurity, discussing it in relation to terrorism, torture, economic instability, threatened identity, and religious fundamentalism. It then puts forward a new model for understanding security, wherein 'soft security capital' serves as the enabling condition for 'hard security capital.' Finally, the current policies for managing diversity, 'multiculturalism' and 'assimilation' are both rejected in favor of an exciting new policy-'omniculturalism'. Drawing on his years of study and expertise, Moghaddam likewise proposes a new policy for better managing intergroup relations in an insecure age.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Banham Lectures presents a series of essays by leading critics on art, design, architecture and culture. All are inspired by the revolutionary work of Reyner Banham, who continues to be one of the greatest influences on Design and Architecture today. Integrating the study of pop art, industrial design and material culture for the first time, Banham's brilliant analyses of subjects - such as automobile styling, mobile homes, science fiction films, and our fondness for gadgets - anticipated many of our contemporary preoccupations. And just as Banham sought to overturn the views of previous generations, these critics aim to rethink the objects and buildings we use today. Provocative, engaged and inspired, The Banham Lectures is essential reading for anyone interested in the world we have made. CONTRIBUTORS: Mary Banham, Paul Barker, Tim Benton, Beatriz Colomina, Peter Cook, Elizabeth Collins Cromley, Frank Dudas, Adrian Forty, Christopher Frayling, Richard Hamilton, Mark Haworth-Booth, Tom Karen Pat Kirkham, Tomas Maldonado, Jeffrey L. Meikle, Gillian Naylor, Cedric Price, Ruth Schwartz-Cowan, Charles Saumarez Smith, Penny Sparke.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book assesses whether the 'war on terror' can be accommodated within the existing legal framework limiting the use of force.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - It is a matter of some difficulty for the English lawyer to predict the effect of a misapprehension upon the formation of a contract. The common law doctrine of mistake is a confused one, with contradictory theoretical underpinnings and seemingly irreconcilable cases. This book explains the common law doctrine through an examination of the historical development of the doctrine in English law. Beginning with an overview of contractual mistakes in Roman law, the book examines how theories of mistake were received at various points into English contract law from Roman and civil law sources. These transplants, made for pragmatic rather than principled reasons, combined in an uneasy manner with the pre-existing English contract law. The book also examines the substantive changes brought about in contractual mistake by the Judicature Act 1873 and the fusion of law and equity. Through its historical examination of mistake in contract law, the book provides not only insights into the nature of innovation and continuity within the common law but also the fate of legal transplants.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Compares the distinctive collective narratives that emerged within Britain and the Dominions in response to World War I. This book illuminates the differences as well as the similarities between different memories of war and offers insights into what this reveals about developing concepts of national identity in the aftermath of World War I.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A guide to the most challenging issues that face anyone studying theological anthropology.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How nationalists imagined the borders of their desired territory, and how they defined the 'nation' have determined the nature of the struggle. This book looks at the various aspects and stages of this process in Greece and Turkey - two states where alternative principles establishing the basis for territory and population compete.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A study that focuses on identity formation and maintenance in the world of the early Christians by drawing on archaeological and epigraphic evidence concerning associations and immigrant groups and by incorporating insights from the social sciences.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book explores the different dimensions of Christian love. It argues that all expressions of love are wrestling with the challenge of otherness.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Taking Meeks's landmark book as its starting point, this new volume of essays examines the developments in social-scientific study of Pauline Christianity over the past twenty-five years and outlines directions for future research.>.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A serious, scholarly analysis of liturgy combining historical, philosophical and musicological aspects. >.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Letters of credit have retained their role as an instrumentality for the financing of foreign trade. An understanding of the law and practice in point is imperative for lawyers advising business people and bank clients, as well as for the banking and trading communities. The book examines the topic on the basis of the common law system, primarily UK law, and adopts an approach that is analytical and not merely descriptive. Letter of credit transactions are, by their nature, international and most nations have adopted the Uniform Customs and Practices ('UCP') originally promulgated by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in 1933 and updated from time to time. Today, the UCP constitutes a code of internationally accepted rules governing letter of credit transactions. The authors have therefore selectively incorporated some comparative discussion, for instance, of the position in the USA and Europe. The book will be an essential work of reference for commercial lawyers in all the major financial centres of Europe, America and Asia.