columbia university press apr 2020 (32 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Alexander Griboedov's Woe from Wit is one of the masterpieces of Russian drama. A verse comedy set in Moscow high society after the Napoleonic wars, it offers sharply drawn characters and clever repartee, mixing meticulously crafted banter and biting social critique.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Why do Peace Corps volunteers often return having lost their idealism In The Death of Idealism, Meghan Elizabeth Kallman details the combination of social forces and organizational pressures that depoliticizes Peace Corps volunteers, channels their idealism toward professionalization, and leads to cynicism or disengagement.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Will the use of artificial intelligence, algorithms, and smart machines be the end of journalism as we know it-or its savior Francesco Marconi, who has led the development of the Associated Press and Wall Street Journal's use of AI in journalism, offers a new perspective on the potential of these technologies.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In China's Green Religion, James Miller shows how Daoism orients individuals toward a holistic understanding of religion and nature. Explicitly connecting human flourishing to the thriving of nature, Daoism fosters a 'green' subjectivity and agency that transforms what it means to live a flourishing life on earth.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Keith Mako Woodhouse offers a nuanced history of radical environmentalism in the late-twentieth-century United States. Focusing especially on the group Earth First!, The Ecocentrists explores how it challenged civilization but glossed over the ways economic inequality and social difference defined people¿s relationships to the nonhuman world.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Socialist Cosmopolitanism offers an innovative interpretation of literary works from the Mao era that reads Chinese socialist literature as world literature. Nicolai Volland demonstrates that Chinese socialist literature was not driven solely by politics but by an ambitious¿but ultimately doomed¿attempt to redraw the literary world map.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Alexander Griboedov¿s Woe from Wit is one of the masterpieces of Russian drama. A verse comedy set in Moscow high society after the Napoleonic wars, it offers sharply drawn characters and clever repartee, mixing meticulously crafted banter and biting social critique.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Focusing on Baltimore's wealthiest, whitest neighborhoods, Paige Glotzer offers a new understanding of the deeper roots of suburban segregation. She argues that the mid-twentieth-century policies that favored exclusionary housing were the culmination of a long-term effort by developers to use racism to structure suburban real estate markets.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Mike Chasar rebuts claims that poetry has become a marginal art form, exploring how it has played a vibrant and culturally significant role by adapting to and shaping new media technologies. Beginning with the magic lantern and continuing through the dominance of the internet, he follows poetry¿s travels off the page into new media formats.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - B. R. Ambedkar spent his life battling Untouchability and instigating the end of the caste system. In his 1948 book The Untouchables, he sought to trace the origin of Untouchability. Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men is an annotated selection from this work, produced in a time when the oppression of and discrimination against Dalits remains pervasive.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The advent of new screening practices and viewing habits in the twenty-first century has spurred debate over what it means to be a ¿cinephile.¿ Sarah Keller places these competing visions in historical and theoretical perspective, tracing how the love of movies intertwines with anxieties over the content and impermanence of cinematic images.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the Spirit of '68 tells the story of how a unique blend of local circumstance and global influence transformed Acadian New Brunswick's youth culture, spawning one of the most influential revolutionary student movements in Canada.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Belief in wizard-saints who protect their devotees and intervene in the world is widespread among Burmese Buddhists. The Buddha's Wizards is a historically informed, ethnographic study that explores the supernatural landscape of Buddhism in Myanmar to explain the persistence of wizardry as a form of lived religion in the modern era.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This revisionist account of Henri Bourassa's writings and times reshapes our understanding of why Quebec diverged from the rest of Canada when it came to war.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Spaces Mapped and Monstrous explores the paradoxical nature of 3D cinema and its place in today¿s visual landscape. Considering 3D¿s distinctive visual qualities and its connections to wider digital culture, Nick Jones situates the production and exhibition of 3D cinema within a web of aesthetic, technological, and historical contexts.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Claudia Breger argues that contemporary European cinema provides ways of thinking about and feeling collectivity that can challenge the twenty-first century's political trends. Through a new model of cinematic worldmaking, Making Worldsexamines how films produce unexpected and destabilizing affects that invite viewers to imagine new connections.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Lily Wong studies the transpacific mobility and mobilization of the sex worker figure, illuminating the intersectional politics of racial, sexual, and class structures. Transpacific Attachments examines shifting depictions of Chinese sex workers in popular media from the early twentieth century to the present.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Alex Sayf Cummings reveals the significance of North Carolinäs Research Triangle Park to the emergence of the high-tech economy in a postindustrial United States. Brain Magnet pinpoints how it sheds new light on the origins of today¿s urban landscape, in which innovation is lauded as the engine of economic growth against a backdrop of inequality.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Eric Mykhalovskiy is a professor in the Sociology Department at York University and is internationally recognized for his work on the criminalization of HIV non-disclosure. He is a senior editor of the Canadian Journal of Public Health and has published in a wide range of journals. He is a co-author of Global Public Health Vigilance: Creating a World on Alert and ¿Heal Thyself¿: Managing Health Care Reform, among other works, and is a fellow of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, Yale School of Public Health. Viviane Namaste is a professor at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University. She is the author of Imprim¿interdits: La censure des journaux jaunes au Qu¿c, 1955¿1975; Oversight: Critical Reflections on Feminist Research and Politics; Sex Change, Social Change: Reflections on Identity, Institutions, and Imperialism; C¿¿it du spectacle! L¿histoire des artistes transsexuelles ¿ontr¿, 1955¿1985; and Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People. She has co-authored several other works and received numerous awards for her scholarship and activism on HIV/AIDS.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Hugo Marcus (1880¿1966) was a man of many names and many identities. In German, Jew, Muslim, Gay, Marc David Baer uses Marcus¿s life and work to shed new light on a striking range of subjects, including German Jewish history and anti-Semitism, Islam in Europe, Muslim-Jewish relations, and the history of the gay rights struggle.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Staging Personhood uncovers a hidden history of the Ming-Qing transition by exploring what it meant for the clothing of a deposed dynasty to survive onstage. Reading dramatic texts and performances against Qing sartorial regulations, Guojun Wang offers an interdisciplinary lens on the entanglements between Chinese drama and nascent Manchu rule.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - B. R. Ambedkar spent his life battling Untouchability and instigating the end of the caste system. In his 1948 book The Untouchables, he sought to trace the origin of Untouchability. Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men is an annotated selection from this work, produced in a time when the oppression of and discrimination against Dalits remains pervasive.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Mike Chasar rebuts claims that poetry has become a marginal art form, exploring how it has played a vibrant and culturally significant role by adapting to and shaping new media technologies. Beginning with the magic lantern and continuing through the dominance of the internet, he follows poetry¿s travels off the page into new media formats.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The advent of new screening practices and viewing habits in the twenty-first century has spurred debate over what it means to be a ¿cinephile.¿ Sarah Keller places these competing visions in historical and theoretical perspective, tracing how the love of movies intertwines with anxieties over the content and impermanence of cinematic images.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Hugo Marcus (1880-1966) was a man of many names and many identities. In German, Jew, Muslim, Gay, Marc David Baer uses Marcus's life and work to shed new light on a striking range of subjects, including German Jewish history and anti-Semitism, Islam in Europe, Muslim-Jewish relations, and the history of the gay rights struggle.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Why do Peace Corps volunteers often return having lost their idealism In The Death of Idealism, Meghan Elizabeth Kallman details the combination of social forces and organizational pressures that depoliticizes Peace Corps volunteers, channels their idealism toward professionalization, and leads to cynicism or disengagement.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Focusing on Baltimore's wealthiest, whitest neighborhoods, Paige Glotzer offers a new understanding of the deeper roots of suburban segregation. She argues that the mid-twentieth-century policies that favored exclusionary housing were the culmination of a long-term effort by developers to use racism to structure suburban real estate markets.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Alex Sayf Cummings reveals the significance of North Carolina's Research Triangle Park to the emergence of the high-tech economy in a postindustrial United States. Brain Magnet pinpoints how it sheds new light on the origins of today's urban landscape, in which innovation is lauded as the engine of economic growth against a backdrop of inequality.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Spaces Mapped and Monstrous explores the paradoxical nature of 3D cinema and its place in today's visual landscape. Considering 3D's distinctive visual qualities and its connections to wider digital culture, Nick Jones situates the production and exhibition of 3D cinema within a web of aesthetic, technological, and historical contexts.