cornell university press jul 2008 (18 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - De Alvarez discovers a neglected argument in Machiavelli's masterpiece that encompasses much more than the education of a prince for the salvation of Italy. Building on a wealth of insight, he shows how Machiavelli, the 'first political philosopher to turn to the many instead of the few as the basis of rule,' sought to replace the domination of the Christian Rome with a civil, secular, and egalitarian state.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Challenging the prevailing wisdom, Straus provides substantial new evidence about local patterns of violence, using original research to assess competing theories about about the causes and dynamics of the genocide.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Mary Jo Maynes is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Taking the Hard Road: Life Course and Class Identity in French and German Workers' Autobiographies of the Industrial Era and author or coeditor of several other books. Jennifer L. Pierce is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Gender Trials: Emotional Lives in Contemporary Law Firms and coeditor of two books. Barbara Laslett is Professor of Sociology Emerita at the University of Minnesota. She is the coeditor of several books, including Feminist Sociology: Life Histories of a Movement.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Delves into the world of bond rating agencies, an often-overlooked aspect of the dynamics of modern global capitalism.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Carolina Bank Mu¿oz is Associate Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College¿City University of New York.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Rebecca Krug argues that in the later Middle Ages, people defined themselves in terms of family relationships but increasingly saw their social circumstances as being connected to the written word. Complex family dynamics and social configurations motivated women to engage in text-based activities. Although not all or even the majority of women could read and write, it became natural for women to think of writing as a part of everyday life.Reading Families looks at the literate practice of two individual women, Margaret Paston and Margaret Beaufort, and of two communities in which women were central, the Norwich Lollards and the Bridgettines at Syon Abbey. The book begins with Paston's letters, which were written at her husband's request, and ends with devotional texts that describe the spiritual daughterhood of the Bridgettine readers.Scholars often assume that medieval women's participation in literate culture constituted a rejection of patriarchal authority. Krug maintains, however, that for most women learning to engage with the written word served as a practical response to social changes and was not necessarily a revolutionary act.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Richard J. Samuels is Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also Chairman of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission and founding director of the MIT Japan Program. He is author of several award-winning books, including Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan and'Rich Nation, Strong Army': National Security and the Technological Transformation of Japan, also from Cornell.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ulrike Schaede is Professor of Japanese Business at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Cooperative Capitalism: Self-Regulation, Trade Associations, and the Antimonopoly Law in Japan and coeditor of Japan's Managed Globalization: Adapting to the 21st Century.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Through press coverage, U.S. first ladies have become some of the most prominent and recognized figures in American politics. While the U.S. Constitution doesn't enumerate the responsibilities of the first lady, a succession of dynamic women, beginning with Martha Washington, have shaped this post into a highly visible public office. First ladies have performed a variety of public and private roles, from hostess, escort, and social advocate to advisor and policymaker. The gendered nature of the position, however, has always influenced first ladies' performance as they balanced their institutional duties with high expectations from the press and the public that they serve as role models for American women.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Mexican leaders eagerly anticipated the attention that hosting the world's most visible sporting event would bring, yet they could not have predicted the array of conflicts that would play out before the eyes of the world during the notorious 1968 Mexico City Olympics. Following twenty years of economic growth and political stability¿known as the 'Mexican miracle'¿Mexican policy makers escaped their prior image of being economically underdeveloped to successfully craft an image of a nation that was both modern and cosmopolitan but also steeped in culture and tradition. Buoyed by this new image, they set their sights on the Olympic bid, and they not only won but also prepared impressive facilities.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Alex Bontemps is Assistant Professor of History at Dartmouth College.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Offers a comprehensive look at Jimmy Carter's aggregate foreign policy record. This book argues that the diplomatic performance of the thirty-ninth president was mediocre, primarily because of Carter's own doing.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Literary historians have long held the view that the plays of the Greek dramatist Sophocles deal purely with archetypes of the heroic past and that any resemblance to contemporary events or individuals is purely coincidental. In this book, Michael.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A new perspective on the factional conflict between two medieval Jewish sects: the Rabbanites and the Qaraites.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Bruce E. Kaufman is Professor of Economics and Senior Associate of the W. T. Beebe Institute of Personnel and Employment Relations at Georgia State University. He is the author most recently of The Global Evolution of Industrial Relations and coeditor of What Do Unions Do : A Twenty Year Perspective. He is the editor of Theoretical Perspectives on Work and the Employment Relationship, also from Cornell.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Carolina Bank Mu¿oz is Associate Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College¿City University of New York.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Explores why and how personal narratives should be used as evidence, and the methods and pitfalls of their use.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Duncan McCargo is Professor of Southeast Asian Politics at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Chamlong Srimuang and the New Thai Politics, Politics and the Press in Thailand, Media and Politics in Pacific Asia, coauthor of The Thaksinization of Thailand, and editor of Rethinking Thailand's Southern Violence.