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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Now available to an English-speaking audience, this book presents a groundbreaking theoretical analysis of memory, identity and culture. It investigates how cultures remember, arguing that human memory exists and is communicated in two ways, namely inter-human interaction and in external systems of notation, such as writing, which can span generations. Dr Assmann defines two theoretical concepts of cultural memory, differentiating between the long-term memory of societies, which can span up to 3,000 years, and communicative memory, which is typically restricted to 80 to 100 years. He applies this theoretical framework to case studies of four specific cultures, illustrating the function contexts and specific achievements, including the state, international law, religion and science. Ultimately, his research demonstrates that memory is not simply a means of retaining information, but rather a force that can shape cultural identity and allow cultures to respond creatively to both daily challenges and catastrophic changes. Now available to an English-speaking audience, this book presents a groundbreaking theoretical analysis of memory, identity and culture. Dr Assmann defines two theoretical concepts of cultural memory and applies this theoretical framework to case studies of four specific cultures, concluding that memory can be a powerful and dynamic tool in shaping culture.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A three-volume essay writing course for students in American English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A three-volume essay writing course for students in American English. Academic Writing Skills 2 takes students through a step-by-step process of writing expository, argumentative, and compare and contrast essays. It is appropriate for students wishing to focus on specific essay types that require the use and integration of sources to complete academic writing tasks.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Strategic Reading is a three-level series designed to develop reading, vocabulary-building, and critical-thinking skills.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Places Calvin in conversation with theologians such as Barth and Kierkegaard and reconsiders his understanding of judgment and love.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume examines variation in the ways Congress has engaged federal agencies overseeing our nation's national security.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is about preferences, principally as they figure in economics. It also explores their uses in everyday language and action, how they are understood in psychology and how they figure in philosophical reflection on action and morality. The book clarifies and for the most part defends the way in which economists invoke preferences to explain, predict and assess behavior and outcomes. Hausman argues, however, that the predictions and explanations economists offer rely on theories of preference formation that are in need of further development, and he criticizes attempts to define welfare in terms of preferences and to define preferences in terms of choices or self-interest. The analysis clarifies the relations between rational choice theory and philosophical accounts of human action. The book also assembles the materials out of which models of preference formation and modification can be constructed, and it comments on how reason and emotion shape preferences. This book is about preferences, principally as they figure in economics. It clarifies and for the most part defends the way in which economists invoke preferences to explain, predict and assess behavior and outcomes, although it criticizes attempts to define welfare in terms of preferences and to define preferences in terms of choices or self-interest.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World offers a broad exploration of the conceptual foundations for comparative analysis of media and politics globally. It takes as its point of departure the widely used framework of Hallin and Mancini's Comparing Media Systems, exploring how the concepts and methods of their analysis do and do not prove useful when applied beyond the original focus of their 'most similar systems' design and the West European and North American cases it encompassed. It is intended both to use a wider range of cases to interrogate and clarify the conceptual framework of Comparing Media Systems and to propose new models, concepts and approaches that will be useful for dealing with non-Western media systems and with processes of political transition. Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World covers, among other cases, Brazil, China, Israel, Lebanon, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Thailand. Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World explores the relation between media and political systems in a wide range of non-Western contexts, analyzing the variety of ways in which media interact with the state and with various political actors and the roles journalists play in these relationships.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is intended to provide the reader with a firm conceptual and empirical understanding of basic information-theoretic econometric models and methods. Because most data are observational, practitioners work with indirect noisy observations and ill-posed econometric models in the form of stochastic inverse problems. Consequently, traditional econometric methods in many cases are not applicable for answering many of the quantitative questions that analysts wish to ask. After initial chapters deal with parametric and semiparametric linear probability models, the focus turns to solving nonparametric stochastic inverse problems. In succeeding chapters, a family of power divergence measure-likelihood functions are introduced for a range of traditional and nontraditional econometric-model problems. Finally, within either an empirical maximum likelihood or loss context, Ron C. Mittelhammer and George G. Judge suggest a basis for choosing a member of the divergence family. Most econometric books do not recognize the ill-posed inverse nature of their econometric models and the indirect noisy characteristics of their sample data. This book focuses on these problems and provides a basis for dealing with estimation and inference issues that typically arise in a range of traditional and nontraditional econometric models.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This study of the great powers' expansionism encompasses the global events of the first half of the twentieth century.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Published in 1862, this two-volume work is Trollope's first-hand account of North American culture during the American Civil War.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A pioneering study, first published 1836-43, of the rise of the Hellenistic states after Alexander the Great.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book investigates the effects of fatherlessness on the societies, cultures, politics and families of the ancient Mediterranean world.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Mathematical ideas with aesthetic appeal for any mathematically minded person.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Impressions of the Australasian colonies, published in 1898 by Irish politician Michael Davitt, after a seven-month tour of the region.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A pioneering two-volume study, first published 1836-43, of the rise of the Hellenistic states after Alexander the Great.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Provides a comprehensive overview of intrapartum care for MRCOG candidates.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A biography from 1882 describing the life of Madame Necker and her brilliant salon in pre-Revolutionary France.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This comparative analysis of the constitutional law of religion-state relations in the United States and Germany focuses on the principle of state neutrality. A strong emphasis on state neutrality, a notoriously ambiguous concept, is a shared feature in the constitutional jurisprudence of the US Supreme Court and the German Federal Constitutional Court, but neutrality does not have the same meaning in both systems. In Germany neutrality tends to indicate more distance between church and state, whereas the opposite is the case in the United States. Neutrality also has other meanings in both systems, making straightforward comparison more difficult than it might seem. Although the underlying trajectory of neutrality is different in both countries, the discussion of neutrality breaks down into largely parallel themes. By examining those themes in a comparative perspective, the meaning of state neutrality in religion-state relations can be delineated. Claudia E. Haupt provides a comparative analysis of the constitutional law of religion-state relations in the United States and Germany. In Germany, neutrality means more distance between religion and the state, whereas the opposite is the case in the United States. But neutrality has multiple meanings in both countries.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Study of the reign of Claudius (AD 41 54), exploring what it can tell us about the developing Roman Empire.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Anglo-Saxon England embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The collected writings (1867) of the great classical-liberal theorist, campaigner for popular education, and advocate for international co-operation and peace.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book describes conditional games - a form of game theory that accommodates multiple stakeholder decision-making scenarios.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A unified account of the rapidly developing field of high-intensity laser-atom interactions, suitable for both graduate students and researchers.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Conversion is very common but often misdiagnosed; even when diagnosed, treatment is difficult. It is critical for physicians to have the necessary knowledge to manage these patients in the most effective way. This volume gives all of the available, up-to-date information on when to think about conversion in movement disorders, how to make a diagnosis, how to use the laboratory to support a clinical diagnosis and how to develop a therapeutic plan. Written by experts in neurology, psychiatry, psychology, neuroimaging, neurophysiology and genetics, this book covers psychogenic movement disorders and other conversion disorders from all of the most relevant clinical angles. An accompanying CD-ROM with a video library featuring over 100 real-life examples of movement disorders will aid diagnosis. Neurologists and psychiatrists, as well as others interested in brain pathophysiology at the boundary of neurology and psychiatry, will find this a useful aid to both clinical practice and research.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Complete set of colour images and transcriptions of the most important manuscripts discovered in the Archimedes Palimpsest.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Authoritative account of the ten years of conservation, imaging and scholarship on the world's greatest palimpsest.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Published between 1922 and 1923, the first comprehensive survey of foreign policy during Britain's emergence as a major international power.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Authoritative and fully illustrated account of the ten years of conservation, imaging and scholarship on the world's greatest palimpsest.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Extremely popular with KJV scholars, the Concord Wide-Margin Bible features wide margins all around the text for verse-by-verse annotations, as well as cross-references, a glossary, concordance, 15 color maps, and the Translators' Preface.