cornell university press okt 2009 (32 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This gritty, noir novel set during a Chicago heat wave follows the life of Robert, who's stuck in his apartment alone and fears he is going to be the next victim of the heat wave. A chance encounter with Lucy leads him into a risky, short-lived relationship that leads to a chilling climax.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Lystra's coming-of-age tale set in rural northern Michigan tells the story of a teenage boy who lives alone with his father and befirends a troubled pregant teenage girl.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Intelligence operations face the challenging task of predicting the shape of future wars. This task is hindered by their limited ability to warn of peacetime foreign military innovation. Using formerly classified sources-in particular, the reports of military attachés and other diplomat-officers-Thomas G. Mahnken sheds light on the shadowy world of U.S. intelligence-gathering, tracing how America learned of military developments in Japan, Germany, and Great Britain in the period between the two world wars.The interwar period witnessed both a considerable shift in the balance of power in Europe and Asia and the emergence of new ways of war, such as carrier aviation, amphibious operations, and combined-arms armored warfare. American attempts to follow these developments, Mahnken says, illustrate the problems that intelligence organizations face in their efforts to bridge the gulf between prewar expectations and wartime reality. He finds three reasons for intelligence's relative lack of success: intelligence agencies are more inclined to monitor established weapons systems than to search for new ones; their attention is more likely to focus on technology and doctrine already demonstrated in combat; and they have more success identifying innovation in areas their own country is testing.Uncovering Ways of War substantially revises the perception of how American intelligence performed prior to World War II. Mahnken challenges the assumption that intelligence regarding foreign militaries had little influence on the development of U.S. weapons and doctrine. Finally, he explains the obstacles these agencies must still negotiate as they seek to understand foreign efforts to exploit the information revolution.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Following the Allied victory in World War II, the United States turned its efforts to preventing the spread of Communism beyond Eastern Europe. Gregory Mitrovich argues, however, that the policy of containment was only the first step in a clandestine campaign to destroy Soviet power. Drawing on recently declassified U.S. documents, Mitrovich reveals a range of previously unknown covert actions launched during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations. Through the aggressive use of psychological warfare, officials sought to provoke political crisis among key Soviet leaders, to incite nationalist tensions within the USSR, and to foment unrest across Eastern Europe.Mitrovich demonstrates that inspiration for these efforts did not originate within the intelligence community, but with individuals at the highest levels of policymaking in the U.S. government. National security advisors, Mitrovich asserts, were adamant that the Soviet threat must be eliminated so the United States could create a stable, prosperous international system. Only the shifting balance of power caused by the development of Soviet nuclear weapons forced U.S. leaders to abandon their goal of subverting the Soviet system and accept a world order with two rival superpowers.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Dutch involvement in North America started after Henry Hudson, sailing under a Dutch flag in 1609, traveled up the river that would later bear his name. The Dutch control of the region was short-lived, but had profound effects on the Hudson Valley region. In The Colony of New Netherland, Jaap Jacobs offers a comprehensive history of the Dutch colony on the Hudson from the first trading voyages in the 1610s to 1674, when the Dutch ceded the colony to the English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Marked by its superb natural beauty, Costa Rica has the greatest percentage of preserved land of any nation worldwide; nearly a third of the country is protected in national parks, reserves, and refuges.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Stephen Knight is Professor of English Literature at Cardiff University. Arguably the world's foremost authority on Robin Hood, he is the author of Robin Hood: A Complete Study of the English Outlaw and many other books, including several on the outlaw tradition.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Stephen Knight is Distinguished Research Professor in English Literature at Cardiff University. He is the author of books including Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography, also from Cornell.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Mario Del Pero is Associate Professor of History at the University of Bologna.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Explores the importance of and challenges surrounding accurately and fairly interpeting the household servants at historic house museums.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Caroline Winterer is Associate Professor of History at Stanford University. She is the author of The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780¿1910.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Laura Engelstein is Henry S. McNeil Professor of Russian History at Yale University. She is the author of Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian Folktale, The Keys to Happiness: Sex and the Search for Modernity in Fin-de-Si¿e Russia, both from Cornell, and Moscow, 1905: Working-Class Organization and Political Conflict. She is coeditor of Self and Story in Russian History, also from Cornell.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the popular imagination, the business media, and the schools of business and management that train new generations of entrepreneurs and executives, achieving extraordinary success in business is attributed to far-sighted individuals who have taken bold risks, provided innovative leadership, and introduced new products, services, or ideas superior to those of the competition. Amid the growing skepticism about the means by which vast amounts of wealth are accumulated and its consequences, however, this belief is long overdue for reevaluation.In From Predators to Icons, Michel Villette, a sociologist, and Catherine Vuillermot, a business historian, examine the careers of thirty-two of today's wealthiest global executives--including Warren Buffett, Ingvar Kamprad, Bernard Arnault, Jim Clark, and Richard Branson--in order to challenge the conventional explanations for their extreme success and come to a better understanding of modern business practices.In contrast to the familiar image of the entrepreneur as a visionary with a plan, Villette and Vuillermot instead discover a far less dramatic process of improvised adaptations gradually assembled into a coherent course of conduct. And rather than being risk-takers, those who are most successful in business are risk-minimizers. Huge gains, these case studies reveal, are most reliably obtained in circumstances where the entrepreneur has established careful provisions for risk reduction. As for the view that innovation makes success possible, the authors find that because innovation is an expensive process that takes a long time to produce profits, innovators first of all require capital; success makes innovation possible. The necessary resources, they show, are most often derived from what they provocatively term 'predation': ruthlessly taking advantage of imperfections, weaknesses, and vulnerabilities within the market or among competitors. Finally, From Predator to Icon considers the 'practical ethics' implemented during the phase in which capital is most rapidly accumulated, as well as the social consequences of these activities.Drawing on interviews with some of their subjects and, crucially, close readings of the authorized biographies and other hagiographic accounts of these figures, which eliminates the bias of malicious interpretations, Villette and Vuillermot provide revelatory insights about the creation and maintenance of business wealth that will be profitably read by both the captains and the critics of contemporary capitalism.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Laura Lee Downs is Professor of History at the ¿ole des Hautes ¿udes en Sciences Sociales. She is the author of Manufacturing Inequality: Gender Divisions in the French and British Metalworking Industries (also from Cornell), Childhood in the Promised Land: Working Class Movements and the Colonies de Vacances in France, and Writing Gender History. St¿ane Gerson is Associate Professor of French and French Studies at New York University. He is the author of The Pride of Place: Local Memories and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century France, also from Cornell. Roger Chartier is a member of the Coll¿ de France, Professor of History at the ¿ole des Hautes ¿udes en Sciences Sociales, and the author of many books, including The Order of Books and Cultural History: Between Practices and Representations.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - William Hansen is Professor of Classical Studies and Folklore at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Douglas Rogers is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. He is the author of The Old Faith and the Russian Land: A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals and The Depths of Russia: Oil, Power, and Culture after Socialism, both published by Cornell.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Provides a comprehensive examination of discipline in the Union Army, exploring issues of citizenship, masculinity, and hierarchy.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Examines how Soviet criminologists in the 1920s understood female crime and how their attitudes helped shape the development of social and behavioral standards.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Analyzes the development of Orthodox Christianity in Crimea. Provides a case study of religious nationalism in Eastern Europe and explores strategies of Church expansion, the importance of Byzantine history and the Greeks, assimilation of pagan and Tatar traditions, the crafting of Russian identity through print media, and Christianizing in post-Soviet Crimea.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Examines devotion to the cult of the saints by Russian Orthodox believers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Evidence from miracle stories, devotional literature, parish records, diocesan reports, religious publications, and archival documents demonstrates how believers sought to cultivate a direct and hands-on relationship with saints.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Addresses religious and cultural shifts in Belarusian and Ikrainian provinces as they passed from Polish to Russian political control. Highlights overlapping confessional and political pressures that impacted development of the region through the modern era.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Kathleen E. Smith is Assistant Professor of Government at Hamilton College.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - It is commonly assumed that Caribbean culture is split into elite highbrow culture-which is considered derivative of Europe and not rooted in the Caribbean-and authentic working-class culture, which is often identified with such iconic island.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Alexander Betts is Hedley Bull Research Fellow, University of Oxford, and the coauthor of UNHCR: The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection into the Twenty-First Century.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Engelstein asks how Russia's identity came to be defined in terms of an consensus opposed to Western-style liberalism, examining debates on religion and secularism, the role of culture and the law, and the status of the empire's ethnic peripheries.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the popular imagination, the business media, and the schools of business and management that train new generations of entrepreneurs and executives, achieving extraordinary success in business is attributed to far-sighted individuals who have taken.