Zustand: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. Writing inside. Stamped on inside. (french painting).
Verlag: Cambridge Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1988
ISBN 10: 0674391764 ISBN 13: 9780674391765
Zustand: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
Zustand: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. Owner's name on inside.
Verlag: Cambridge: Harvard University Pr, 1966
Anbieter: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, USA
hardcover. Zustand: Good.
Verlag: Harvard University Press, United States, Cambridge, Mass, 1995
ISBN 10: 0674452259 ISBN 13: 9780674452251
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. This work looks at the success of the Republic of Korea's heavy and chemical industry development (HCI). It reviews the history of the policy decisions that started and then ended the HCI drive. It also examines government intervention in the Korean economy. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Harvard University Press, United States, Cambridge, Mass, 1971
ISBN 10: 0674689607 ISBN 13: 9780674689602
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Harvard Educational Publishing Group, United States, Cambridge, 2007
ISBN 10: 1891792350 ISBN 13: 9781891792359
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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. For more than a decade, the debate over high-stakes testing has dominated the field of education. This passionate and provocative book provides a fresh perspective on the issue and powerful ammunition for opponents of high-stakes tests. Drawing on their extensive research, Nichols and Berliner document and categorize the ways that high-stakes testing threatens the purposes and ideals of the American education system. Their analysis is grounded in the application of Campbell's Law, which posits that the greater the social consequences associated with a quantitative indicator (such as test scores), the more likely it is that the indicator itself will become corrupted-and the more likely it is that the use of the indicator will corrupt the social processes it was intended to monitor. Nichols and Berliner illustrate both aspects of this corruption, showing how the pressures of high-stakes testing erode the validity of test scores and distort the integrity of the education system. Their analysis provides a coherent and comprehensive intellectual framework for the wide-ranging arguments against high-stakes testing, while putting a compelling human face on the data marshalled in support of those arguments. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.
Verlag: Harvard University Press, United States, Cambridge, Mass, 1994
ISBN 10: 0674116429 ISBN 13: 9780674116429
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Three-year old Emily greets her grandfather at the front door: Were having a surprise party for your birthday! And its a secret! We may smile at incidents like these, but they illustrate the beginning of an important transition in childrens livestheir development of a theory of mind. Emily certainly has some sense of her grandfathers feelings, but she clearly doesnt understand much about what he knows, and surpriseslike secrets, tricks, and ties all depend on understanding and manipulating what others think and know. Jean Piaget investigated childrens discovery of the mind in the 1920s and concluded that they had little understanding before the age of six. But over the last twenty years, researchers have begun to challenge his methods and revise his conclusions. In The Childs Discovery of the Mind, Janet Astington surveys this lively area of research in developmental psychology. Sometime between the ages of two and five, children begin to have insights into their own mental life and those of others. They begin to understand mental representationthat there is a difference between thoughts in the mind and things in the world, between thinking about eating a cookie and eating a cookie. This breakthrough reflects their emerging capacity to infer other peoples thoughts, wants, feelings, and perceptions from words and actions. They come to understand why people act the way they do and can predict how they will act in the future, so that by the age of five, they are knowing participants in social interaction. Astington highlights how crucial childrens discovery of the mind is in their social and intellectual development by including a chapter on autistic children, who fail to make this breakthrough. Mind is a cultural construct that children discover as they acquire the language and social practices of their culture, enabling them to make sense of the world. Astington provides a valuable overview of current research and of the consequences of this discovery for intellectual and social development. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
Verlag: Harvard University Press, United States, Cambridge, Mass, 1989
ISBN 10: 0674156161 ISBN 13: 9780674156166
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: [Cambridge]: Dept. of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College Library, (1978), 1978
ISBN 10: 0713618795 ISBN 13: 9780713618792
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
Verlag: Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996, 1996
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
Bruner, Jerome S., 1915-2016. The process of education. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996, 24th printing, xxvi, 97pp., PAPERBACK, very good. CONTENTS: The importance of structure -- Readiness for learning -- Intuitive and analytic thinking -- Motives for learning -- Aids to teaching. 9780674710016 ISBN 0674710010.
Verlag: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1981, 1981
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
, Hillgruber, Andreas, 1925-1989. Germany and the two World Wars. Translated by William C. Kirby. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1981, later printing, viii, 120pp., PAPERBACK, very good with light bump at top right corner of front cover. Translation of Deutschlands Rolle in der Vorgeschichte der beiden Weltkriege, with a preface to the 1981 edition. - Translator Kirby was at the time Associate Professor of History at Washington University, now Professor at the Harvard Business School, specialist in China and world history. 9780674353220 ISBN 0674353226.
Verlag: Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999, 1999
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
, Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005. This is biology. The science of the living world. Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999, later printing, xv, 327pp., PAPERBACK, good used copy, but bottom corner of pages lightly curved from shelving, bottom and top foredges lightly dented. 9780674884694 ISBN 0674884698.
Verlag: Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995, 1995
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
, Marcus, Greil, 1945-. The dustbin of history. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995, later printing, 274pp. . 24 cm, PAPERBACK, very good copy.
Verlag: Harvard University Press, United States, Cambridge, Mass, 1998
ISBN 10: 0674116739 ISBN 13: 9780674116733
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Bringing to bear 60 years of research, travel, and teaching, Fairbank weaves a detailed history that reaches from China's neolithic days to its troubled present. He depicts a country ever-changing and yet constant in its effort to achieve a cohesive identity, an enormous and enormously complex nation perpetually balancing between the imperatives of force and the power of ideas. Here are the Chinese autocrats in their various times and guises, maintaining Confucian civility and order through - paradoxically - the perpetual threat of irrational imperial violence. Here is the intellectual class, revered for its wisdom and counsel and yet - as events from the Cultural Revolution to the massacre in Tiananmen Square demonstrate - eminently expendable. And here are China's farmers engaged in a never-ending attempt to tame their countryside only to face repeated famine as China's agrarian-based economy fails to develop. At the centre of all stands the Chinese family, until recently the model for both obedience and tyranny in society at large. Fairbank traces the growth of a civilization that could embrace so many contradictions and disruptions and yet retain a strong sense of its identity. Following China's ambivalent relations with the West and with the forces of modernization, he identifies, even in the great leap forward signaled by the Communist Revolution, the assumptions that have informed Chinese society for thousands of years. From the influences of Buddhism through the flowering of Song China to the reforms of Deng Xiaoping, this illustrated history unfolds. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996, 1996
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
PAPERBACK, pencil lines and some pencil underlining in last chapter, a few minor marks on other pages, still good copy for reading and study. HERMAN, BARBARA. The practice of moral judgment - COPY WITH MARKINGS. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996, 2d printing, xii, 252pp., . CONTENTS: 1. On the Value of Acting from the Motive of Duty -- 2. Integrity and Impartiality -- 3. Mutual Aid and Respect for Persons -- 4. The Practice of Moral Judgment -- 5. What Happens to the Consequences? -- 6. Murder and Mayhem -- 7. Moral Deliberation and the Derivation of Duties -- 8. Obligation and Performance -- 9. Agency, Attachment, and Difference -- 10. Leaving Deontology Behind. 9780674697188 ISBN 0674697189.
Verlag: Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1949, 1949
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
Pepper, Stephen C., 1891-1972. The basis of criticism in the arts. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1949, 3d printing, viii, 171pp., dust-jacket badly scuffed, scratched, and torn around edges, price-clipped, good black cloth, a bit scuffed, binding solid, text clean, previous owner's name. CONTENTS: Introduction -- A theory of empirical criticism -- Mechanistic criticism -- Contextualistic criticism -- Organisitic criticism -- Formistic criticism -- How the four types of criteria operate together -- Supplementary essay: the aesthetic work of art.
Verlag: Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008, 2008
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
Appiah, Anthony. Experiments in ethics. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008, 274pp., PAPERBACK, very good. ISBN 9780674034570.
Verlag: Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988, 1988
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
Maier, Charles S. The unmasterable past: history, holocaust, and German national identity. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988, 3d printing number line, xi, 227pp., PAPERBACK, cover price $9.95, very good but one page dog-eared and covers lightly curled outwards. Amidst a Society seeking to forget the atrocities of the past, an ongoing debate rages as to the role that should be given to historical study of the Holocaust. Maier presents an objective study of German efforts to deal with ., The tragic lessons of the past. for advanced students of the Holocaust and adult readers. - CONTENTS: 1. The stakes of the controversy -- 2. Habermas among the historians -- 3. A holocaust like the others? Problems of comparative history -- 4. German history as case history -- 5. A usable past? Museums, memory, and identity -- Epilogue: Whose holocaust? Whose history? 9780674929760 ISBN 0674929764.
Verlag: Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005, 2005
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
Jenkyns, Richard, 1949-. Westminster Abbey. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005, 215pp., half-sized dust-jacket is torn along bottom edge on both sides, repaired from behind with archival tape, very good small dark red cloth. "Westminster Abbey is both an appreciation of an architectural masterpiece and an exploration of the building's shifting meanings. We hear the voices of those who have described its forms, moods, and ceremonies, from Shakespeare and Voltaire to Dickens and Henry James, we see how rulers have made use of it, from medieval kings to modern prime ministers. In a highly original book, classicist and cultural historian Richard Jenkyns teaches us to look at this microcosm of history with new eyes.". 9780674017160 ISBN 0674017161.
Verlag: Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002, 2002
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
Kingston, Maxine Hong. To be the poet. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002, 111pp., very good dust-jacket, price crossed out, very good small gray half-cloth, old price in ink on rear endpaper. William E. Massey, Sr. lectures in the history of American civilization. 9780674007918 ISBN 0674007913.
Verlag: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996, 1996
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
, Geertz, Clifford J., 1926-2006. After the fact. Two countries, four decades, one anthropologist. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996, 3d printing, 198pp., PAPERBACK, very good but with some light wear around edges, and slight ding to a few page corners, old price label residue on rear cover. 9780674008724 ISBN 0674008723.
Verlag: Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964, 1964
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
, Woodworth, G. Wallace, 1902-1969. The world of music. Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964, 207pp., very good dust-jacket, very good red half-cloth, BUT ink checkmarks and a few ink lines in margins on about 8 pages. Main work by choral conductor, organist, and music educator, M.A. Harvard 1926. Became Prof. of Music at Harvard in 1954. Conductor of the Radcliffe Choral Society, the Pierian Sodality Orchestra (1928-32), the Harvard Glee Club.
Verlag: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996, 1996
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
, Geertz, Clifford J., 1926-2006. After the fact. Two countries, four decades, one anthropologist. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996, 3d printing, 198pp., PAPERBACK, good used copy, edges of the covers are curled and lightly worn, text clean, binding solid. 9780674008724 ISBN 0674008723.
Verlag: Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985, 1985
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
large PAPERBACK, very good, appears little used if at all, spine slighlty scuffed along edges. TRIBE, LAURENCE H. Constitutional choices. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985, 4th printing number line, xiv, 458pp., . 9780674165397 ISBN 067416539X.
Verlag: Harvard University Press, United States, Cambridge, Mass, 1999
ISBN 10: 0674155157 ISBN 13: 9780674155152
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Since the late 1980s the international relief community has seen its resources and personnel stressed beyond capacity by humanitarian crises--large-scale, man-made catastrophes such as the conflicts in Somalia, Bosnia, Rwanda, Chechnya, Zaire, and elsewhere. Waged within collapsing states, political and ethnic strife targets civilians, causes mass population dislocation and widespread human rights abuses, and impedes the efforts of relief organizations to respond effectively. Covering topics ranging from emergency public health measures to the psychological trauma of relief workers, this volume presents both a seasoned assessment of current practice and proposals for improving operational efforts in the future. The discussion also raises important questions relating to the definition and direction of the overall humanitarian mission. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Harvard University Press, United States, Cambridge, Mass, 1961
ISBN 10: 0674307518 ISBN 13: 9780674307513
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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. What was a carpetbagger? Albion W. Tourgee was called one, and he wrote, To the southern mind it meant a scion of the North, a son of an 'abolitionist,' a creature of the conqueror, a witness to their defeat, a mark of their degradation: to them he was hateful, because he recalled all of evil or of shame they had ever known . To the Northern mind, however, the word had no vicarious significance. To their apprehension, the hatred was purely personal, and without regard to race or nativity. They thought (foolish creatures!) that it was meant to apply solely to those, who, without any visible means of support, lingering in the wake of a victorious army, preyed upon the conquered people. Tourgee's novel, originally published in 1879 anonymously as A Fool's Errand, By One of the Fools, is not strictly autobiographical, though it draws on Tourgee's own experiences in the South. In the story Comfort Servosse, a Northerner of French ancestry, moves to a Southern state for his health and in the hope of making his fortune. These were also Tourgee's motives for moving South. Servosse is caught up in a variety of experiences that make apparent the deep misunderstanding between North and South, and expresses opinions on the South's intolerance, the treatment of the Negro, Reconstruction, and other issues that probably are the opinions of Tourgee himself. Reconstruction was a failure, he said, so far as it attempted to unify the nation, to make one people in fact of what had been one only in name before the convulsion of Civil War. It was a failure, too, so far as it attempted to fix and secure the position and rights of the colored race. Though the discussion of sectional and racial problems is an important element in the book, A Fool's Errand has merit as a dramatic narrative-with its love affair, and its moments of pathos, suffering, and tragedy. This combination of tract and melodrama made it a bestseller in its day. Total sales have been estimated as 200,000, a remarkable record in the l880's for a book of this kind. Though Tourgee later disavowed his early optimism about the role national education could play in remedying the race problem in the South, calling this a genuine fool's notion, he might have been less pessimistic had he been alive in 1960, when the student sit-in movement began in the South. At any rate, today in what has been called the second phase of the modern revolution in race relations in this country, Tourgee's novel about the first phase has an added relevance and interest for thinking American readers. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.
Verlag: Harvard University Press, United States, Cambridge, Mass, 2016
ISBN 10: 0674545478 ISBN 13: 9780674545472
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Shoppers with Internet access and a bargain-hunting impulse can find a universe of products at their fingertips. In this thought-provoking expose, Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice Stucke invite us to take a harder look at todays app-assisted paradise of digital shopping. While consumers reap many benefits from online purchasing, the sophisticated algorithms and data-crunching that make browsing so convenient are also changing the nature of market competition, and not always for the better. Computers colluding is one danger. Although long-standing laws prevent companies from fixing prices, data-driven algorithms can now quickly monitor competitors prices and adjust their own prices accordingly. So what is seemingly beneficialincreased price transparencyironically can end up harming consumers. A second danger is behavioral discrimination. Here, companies track and profile consumers to get them to buy goods at the highest price they are willing to pay. The rise of super-platforms and their frenemy relationship with independent app developers raises a third danger. By controlling key platforms (such as the operating system of smartphones), data-driven monopolies dictate the flow of personal data and determine who gets to exploit potential buyers. Virtual Competition raises timely questions. To what extent does the invisible hand still hold sway? In markets continually manipulated by bots and algorithms, is competitive pricing an illusion? Can our current laws protect consumers? The changing market reality is already shifting power into the hands of the few. Ezrachi and Stucke explore the resulting risks to competition, our democratic ideals, and our economic and overall well-being. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. Cover torn. Insecting on cover. (Illuminated books).
Verlag: Harvard University Press, United States, Cambridge, Mass, 2017
ISBN 10: 0674983793 ISBN 13: 9780674983793
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. As Benjamin Franklin famously put it, Americans have a republic, if we can keep it. Preserving the Constitution and the democratic system it supports is the public's responsibility. One route the Constitution provides for discharging that duty-a route rarely traveled-is impeachment. Cass R. Sunstein provides a succinct citizens' guide to an essential tool of self-government. He illuminates the constitutional design behind impeachment and emphasizes the people's role in holding presidents accountable. Despite intense interest in the subject, impeachment is widely misunderstood. Sunstein identifies and corrects a number of misconceptions. For example, he shows that the Constitution, not the House of Representatives, establishes grounds for impeachment, and that the president can be impeached for abuses of power that do not violate the law. Even neglect of duty counts among the high crimes and misdemeanors delineated in the republic's foundational document. Sunstein describes how impeachment helps make sense of our constitutional order, particularly the framers' controversial decision to install an empowered executive in a nation deeply fearful of kings. With an eye toward the past and the future, Impeachment: A Citizen's Guide considers a host of actual and imaginable arguments for a president's removal, explaining why some cases are easy and others hard, why some arguments for impeachment have been judicious and others not. In direct and approachable terms, it dispels the fog surrounding impeachment so that Americans of all political convictions may use their ultimate civic authority wisely. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.