Eurospan sep 2017 (10 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The editors have selected 33 of the 100 tales, including at least two from each of the ten days of storytelling. Included as well are Boccaccio's general introduction and conclusion to the work, as well as the introduction and conclusion to the first day; the reader is thus provided with a real sense of the Decameron's framing narrative.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The sentimental antislavery novel Ida May appeared so like its predecessor in the genre, Uncle Tom's Cabin, that for the month of November 1854, reviewers looked for Harriet Beecher Stowe's hand in the narrative. Ida May explores the 'possibility' of white slavery from the safety of an exciting, romantic narrative: Ida is kidnapped on her fifth birthday from her white middle-class family in Pennsylvania, stained brown, and sold into slavery in the South. Traumatic amnesia brought about by a severe beating keeps her from knowing who she really is, until after five years in slavery her identity is recovered in a dramatic flash of recognition. To the abolitionists of the period, fictional narratives of white enslaved children offered a crucial possibility: to unsettle the legitimacy of a race-based system of enslavement.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Traces the philosophical relation between Georg Simmel and his one-time student Walter Benjamin, two of the most influential German thinkers of the twentieth century. Reading Simmel's work alongside Benjamin's concept of Unscheinbarkeit, More Than Life demonstrates that both Simmel and Benjamin conceive of art as the creation of something entirely new.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Richard Brinsley Sheridan's last play, an adaptation of August von Kotzebue's Die Spanier in Peru first performed in 1799, was one of the most popular of the entire century. Set during the Spanish Conquest of Peru, Pizarro dramatizes English fears of invasion by Revolutionary France, but it is also surprisingly and critically engaged with Britain's colonial exploits abroad. Pizarro is a play of firsts: the first use of music alongside action, the first collapsing set, the first production to inspire such celebratory ephemera as cartoons, portraits, postcards, even porcelain collector plates. Pizarro marks the end of eighteenth-century drama and the birth of a new theatrical culture.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Since the 1980 US presidential races, the term 'religious right' has come to signify a politically and socially conservative form of Christianity. This term implies a joining of socially conservative evangelical Christianity with conservative politics that continues to shape the Republican Party to this day. But this relationship is hardly new in American history; certain forms of Christianity have longshared space with the political and nationalist right in the United States. Less well known, however, are the various other religions that have influenced white racist activities in America. The recent popularity of these ideologies has caused a shift away from, and resulting hostility toward, Christianity among white nationalists. In Blood and Faith, Berry explores the causes of this shift, as well as the challenges it has created for contemporary white nationalists who seek access to the conservative American political mainstream. Building on Michael Barkun's landmark study of racist Christianity, Religion and the Racist Right, Berry takes a fresh look at the complex and evolvingrelationship between American white nationalists and religion.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Abraham Lincoln was the first president to make storytelling, jokes, and laughter tools of the office, and his natural sense of humor has become legendary. Lincoln's Sense of Humor registers the variety, complexity of purpose, and ethical dimension of Lincoln's humour and pinpoints the political risks Lincoln ran in telling jokes while the nation was engaged in a bloody struggle for existence.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What does censorship do to a culture How do censors justify their work What are the mechanisms by which censorship - and self-censorship - alter people's sense of time and memory, truth and reality Thomas Bass faced these questions when The Spy Who Loved Us was published in a Vietnamese edition. In Censorship in Vietnam, Bass examines how censorship works, both in Vietnam and elsewhere in the world.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Offers a case-based introduction to ethical issues in health care. Through seventy-eight compelling scenarios, the authors demonstrate the practical importance of ethics, showing how the concerns at issue bear on the lives of patients, health care providers, and others. Each chapter includes a selection of important legal cases as well as clinical case studies for critical analysis.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Central to the book are Gbigbil women's experiences with different 'reproductive interruptions": miscarriages, stillbirths, child deaths, induced abortions, and infertility. Rather than consider these events as inherently dissimilar, the Gbigbil women of eastern Cameroon see them all as instances of 'wasted wombs" that leave their reproductive trajectories hanging in the balance.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A two-volume hardcover set In The Heart of Torah, Rabbi Shai Held's Torah essays-two for each weekly portion-open new horizons in Jewish biblical commentary. Held probes the portions in bold, original, and provocative ways. He mines Talmud and midrashim, great writers of world literature, and astute commentators of other religious backgrounds to ponder fundamental questions about God, human nature, and what it means to be a religious person in the modern world. Along the way, he illuminates the centrality of empathy in Jewish ethics, the predominance of divine love in Jewish theology, the primacy of gratitude and generosity, and God's summoning of each of us-with all our limitations-into the dignity of a covenantal relationship.…