cornell university press nov 2012 (25 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Chekitan S. Dev is Associate Professor of Strategic Marketing and Brand Management at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - It's 1974 in DeKalb County, Illinois and the planets have failed to align for Roy Conlon. Widowed and broke, his eight-year-old son Eric is suddenly a mystery to him. The boy has become aware of a sky awhirl with stars and of the universe outside his small-Midwestern town. And as powerful forces pull Eric away, Roy's efforts to hold onto his.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Shedding the turn-of-the-century social confines she felt existed for women in America, Edith Wharton set out in the newly invented 'motor-car' to explore the cities and countryside of France. In A Motor-Flight Through France, originally published in 1908, Wharton combines the power of her prose, her love for travel, and her affinity for France to produce this compelling travelogue. Now back in print, this edition of will interest students of American literature as well as those who wish to see France through the eyes of a great American writer. The introduction analyzes Wharton's use of the genre of travel writing and places Wharton's work in the context of her life and times.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Narcyza Zmichowska (1819-76) was the most accomplished female writer to come out of Poland in the mid-nineteenth century. In terms of influence and popularity, she was the George Eliot of East European letters, but her fiction was written less in the realist style than in the Romantic one. Her novel The Heathen, rendered here in a crystalline.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'There is no attempt here to lay down as inviolable or to legislate certain ways of looking at things or ways of proceeding for philosophers of religion, only proposals for how to deal with a range of basic issues-proposals that I hope will ignite much fruitful discussion and which, in any case, I shall take as a basis for my own ongoing work in the field.'-from the Preface.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Neom the laws of physics are lax and everyone still gets high. The city squares do it so they can keep working non-stop. The hipsters do it so they can accept things as they are and not how they want them to be. And for a thousand years, Alison has done it to cope with the burdens of immortality. If you can't die, she says, at least you can.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Wisdom to Doubt is a major contribution to the contemporary literature on the epistemology of religious belief. Continuing the inquiry begun in his previous book, Prolegomena to a Philosophy of Religion, J. L. Schellenberg here argues that given our limitations and especially our immaturity as a species, there is no reasonable choice but to withhold judgment about the existence of an ultimate salvific reality.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The world's nearly 7,000 species of crabs are immediately recognizable by their claws, sideways movement, stalked eyes, and thick outer shells. These common crustaceans are found internationally, thriving in various habitats from the edge of the sea to the depths of the ocean, in fresh water or on land. Despite having the same basic body type as decapod crustaceans-true crabs have heavy exoskeletons and ten limbs with front pincer claws-crabs come in an enormous variety of shapes and sizes, from the near microscopic to the giant Japanese spider crab.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the informative, entertaining, and generously illustrated Spartak Moscow, a book that will be cheered by soccer fans worldwide, Robert Edelman finds in the stands and on the pitch keys to understanding everyday life under Stalin, Khrushchev, and their successors. Millions attended matches and obsessed about their favorite club, and their rowdiness on game day stood out as a moment of relative freedom in a society that championed conformity. This was particularly the case for the supporters of Spartak, which emerged from the rough proletarian Presnia district of Moscow and spent much of its history in fierce rivalry with Dinamo, the team of the secret police. To cheer for Spartak, Edelman shows, was a small and safe way of saying 'no' to the fears and absurdities of high Stalinism; to understand Spartak is to understand how soccer explains Soviet life.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Alexander I was a ruler with high aspirations for the people of Russia. Cosseted as a young grand duke by Catherine the Great, he ascended to the throne in 1801 after the brutal assassination of his father. In this magisterial biography, Marie-Pierre Rey illuminates the complex forces that shaped Alexander's tumultuous reign and sheds brilliant new light on the handsome ruler known to his people as 'the Sphinx.'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Looks at the colonization of Muslim subjects during the early years of American rule in the southern Philippines. This book argues that the ethnological discovery, organization, and colonial engineering of Moros was highly contingent on developing notions of time, history, and evolution, which ultimately superseded simplistic notions about race.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Christopher B. Chapp is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin¿Whitewater.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - R. Scott Appleby is Professor of History and the John M. Regan Jr. Director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence, and Reconciliation and 'Church and Age Unite!': The Modernist Impulse in American Catholicism. Kathleen Sprows Cummings is Director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism and Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of New Women of the Old Faith: Gender and American Catholic Identity in the Progressive Era.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The metaphor of the nomad may at first seem surprising for Russia given its history of serfdom, travel restrictions, and strict social hierarchy. But as the imperial center struggled to tame a vast territory with ever-expanding borders, ideas of mobility, motion, travel, wandering, and homelessness came to constitute important elements in the.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Lord Acton (1834-1902) is often called a historian of liberty. Acton is mainly known for a single maxim, 'Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely'. In this title, the author presents an indepth consideration of Acton's thought.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Recounting the creation of the West German Foreign Office, this study explores three of the central themes in the early history of the Federal Republic: the integration of the new state into the international community, the cooptation of German elites by the new political system, and the creation of government in a state under foreign occupation.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Through an examination of religious life in a typical northern rural locale Cortland County, New York from 1790 to 1860, Curtis D. Johnson adds to our understanding of the Second Great Awakening.'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Hiroshi Masuda is Dean of the Faculty of Social Science and Professor of Japan¿s Diplomatic History at Toyo Eiwa University. Reiko Yamamoto is a diplomatic historian and lives in Yokohama.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Daniel C. Kurtzer is the S. Daniel Abraham Professor in Middle East Policy Studies at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University. He retired in 2005 from the U.S. Foreign Service, having served as U.S. ambassador to Egypt (1997¿2001) and Israel (2001¿2005). He is coauthor with Scott B. Lasensky of Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East. Scott B. Lasensky served as a senior researcher at the U.S. Institute of Peace from 2004 to 2011 and is coauthor (with Daniel C. Kurtzer) of Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East. William B. Quandt is Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia. His books include Peace Process: American Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict since 1967. Steven L. Spiegel is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Middle East Development at UCLA. He is the author of The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict: Making America's Middle East Policy, from Truman to Reagan. Shibley Z. Telhami is the Anwar Sadat Professor of Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of The Stakes: America in the Middle East and coeditor of Identity and Foreign Policy in the Middle East.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - R. Scott Appleby is Professor of History and the John M. Regan Jr. Director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence, and Reconciliation and 'Church and Age Unite!': The Modernist Impulse in American Catholicism. Kathleen Sprows Cummings is Director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism and Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of New Women of the Old Faith: Gender and American Catholic Identity in the Progressive Era.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Skillfully blending the knowledge of recent history, the wisdom of new research, and promise of future trends, this book offers hospitality organizations the advice they need to survive and thrive in today's competitive global business environment.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Examining how since 1947 a regime of psychological operations and covert action has made the conflation of reality and fiction a central feature of both U.S. foreign policy and American culture.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - CHIFUMI SHIMAZAKI worked as a translator, lecturer, script writer and marketing researcher, and studied Noh as a performing art under leading Noh actors and musicians for more than fifty years.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - CHIFUMI SHIMAZAKI worked as a translator, lecturer, script writer and marketing researcher, and studied Noh as a performing art under leading Noh actors and musicians for more than fifty years.