Eurospan apr 2011 (6 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - First published in 1865, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland began as a story told to Alice Liddell and her two sisters on a boating trip in July 1862. The novel follows Alice down a rabbit-hole and into a world of strange and wonderful characters who constantly turn everything upside down with their mind-boggling logic, word play, and fantastic parodies.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Explores the turbulent rift that forced the author from his family. This groundbreaking memoir covers Kao's time as a professor and Vice Chancellor of The Chinese University of Hong Kong up until 2009 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When the UN adopted the Declaration on the Rights of IndigenousPeoples in 2007, it brought the negative effect of globalization on thelives of Indigenous peoples to the centre of public debate.Thecontributors to this innovative collection extend the discussion byasking 'what can Indigenous peoples' experiences with andthoughts on globalization tell us about the relationship betweenglobalization and autonomy and the meaning of the conceptsthemselves ' 'Indigenous Peoples and Autonomy' brings together scholarsfrom multiple disciplines and backgrounds who seek answers to thisquestion in grounded case studies. Whether the focus is on searights among Torres Strait Islanders, James Bay Cree co-governance, thetransformation of East Cree spirituality, or the co-optation oflinguistics by Mayan activists, each chapter opens a window to view howindigenous people are engaging with and challenging globalization andWestern views of autonomy. Taken together, these insightful studies reveal that concepts suchas globalization and autonomy neither encapsulate nor explainIndigenous peoples' experiences. This book will play a criticalin role in public debate as non-state actors take a more prominent roleon the global stage.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume is based on PDE courses given by the authors at the Courant Institute and at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Presented are basic methods for obtaining various a priori estimates for second-order equations of elliptic type with particular emphasis on maximal principles, Harnack inequalities, and their applications. The equations considered in the book are linear; however, the presented methods also apply to nonlinear problems.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - We are living in the midst of the Earth's sixth great extinction event, the first one caused by a single species: our own. In 'Wild Dog Dreaming, ' Deborah Bird Rose explores what constitutes an ethical relationship with nonhuman others in this era of loss. She asks, Who are we, as a species How do we fit into the Earth's systems Amidst so much change, how do we find our way into new stories to guide us Rose explores these questions in the form of a dialogue between science and the humanities. Drawing on her conversations with Aboriginal people, for whom questions of extinction are up-close and very personal, Rose develops a mode of exposition that is dialogical, philosophical, and open-ended.An inspiration for Rose--and a touchstone throughout her book--is the endangered dingo of Australia. The dingo is not the first animal to face extinction, but its story is particularly disturbing because the threat to its future is being actively engineered by humans. The brazenness with which the dingo is being wiped out sheds valuable, and chilling, light on the likely fate of countless other animal and plant species.'People save what they love,' observed Michael Soule, the great conservation biologist. We must ask whether we, as humans, are capable of loving--and therefore capable of caring for--the animals and plants that are disappearing in a cascade of extinctions. Wild Dog Dreaming engages this question, and the result is a bold account of the entangled ethics of love, contingency, and desire. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Henry James was the final survivor of a remarkable family, and his memoir, written at the end of a long and tireless career, was prompted initially by the death of his 'ideal Elder Brother,' the psychologist and philosopher William James. 'A Small Boy and Others' recounts the novelist's earliest years in Albany and, more importantly, New York City, where he was allowed to wander at will. He evokes the theatrical entertainments he enjoyed, the varied social scene in which the family mixed, and the piecemeal nature of his education. With the first of several extended trips, the 'romance' of Europe begins as the small boy becomes acquainted with a British culture already familiar from his precocious reading of the great Victorian novelists. And it is in France, in the Louvre's Galerie d'Apollon, that he undergoes an initiation into the aesthetic power of great art and an intimation of all the 'fun' it might bring him. Yet the child also registered, within this privileged and extended family group, signs of dysfunction and failure. James's autobiography has significantly determined the nature and even the terms of the extensive biographical and critical interest he continues to enjoy. This first fully annotated critical edition of 'A Small Boy and Others, ' which guides the reader through the allusive complexities of James's prose, also offers fresh insights into the formative years of one of literature's most influential figures. …