harvard university press apr 2001 (14 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444), the leading civic humanist of the Italian Renaissance, served as apostolic secretary to four popes (1405-1414) and chancellor of Florence (1427-1444). He was famous in his day as a translator, orator, and historian, and was the best-selling author of the fifteenth century. Bruni's 'History of the Florentine People' in twelve books is generally considered the first modern work of history, and was widely imitated by humanist historians for two centuries after its official publication by the Florentine Signoria in 1442. This edition makes it available for the first time in English translation.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The 'Platonic Theology' is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. A student of the Neoplatonic schools of Plotinus and Proclus, he was committed to reconciling Platonism with Christianity, in the hope that such a reconciliation would initiate a spiritual revival and return of the golden age. His Platonic evangelizing was eminently successful and widely influential, and his 'Platonic Theology,' translated into English for the first time in this edition, is one of the keys to understanding the art, thought, culture, and spirituality of the Renaissance.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This recipient of the 1999 Bancroft Prize for American History presents the story of 40 Irish orphans who were transported from New York to Arizona in 1904 by nuns to be placed with Mexican Catholic families, and of the vigilante squad, furious at the 'interracial transgression', who kidnapped the children. 36 halftones.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Between 1650 and 1750, four Catholic churches were the best solar observatories in the world. This book tells how these observatories came to be, how they worked, and what they accomplished, providing a magnificent corrective to long-standing oversimplified accounts of the hostility between science and religion.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Abortion, affirmative action, the 'right to die,' pornography and free speech, homosexuality and sex discrimination: as eagerly as the Supreme Court's rulings on these hot issues are awaited and as intently as they're studied, they never seem to settle anything once and for all. But something is settled in the process--in the incremental approach--as Cass Sunstein shows us in this instructive book.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Do women express their feelings more than men Popular stereotypes say they do, but in this provocative book, Leslie Brody breaks with conventional wisdom. Integrating a wealth of perspectives and research--biological, sociocultural, developmental--her work explores the nature and extent of gender differences in emotional expression, as well as the endlessly complex question of how such differences come about.Nurture, far more than nature, emerges here as the stronger force in fashioning gender differences in emotional expression. Brody shows that whether and how men and women express their feelings varies widely from situation to situation and from culture to culture, and depends on a number of particular characteristics including age, ethnicity, cultural background, power, and status.Especially pertinent is the organization of the family, in which boys and girls elicit and absorb different emotional strategies. Brody also examines the importance of gender roles, whether in the family, the peer group, or the culture at large, as men and women use various patterns of emotional expression to adapt to power and status imbalances.Lucid and level-headed, Gender, Emotion, and the Family offers an unusually rich and nuanced picture of the great range of male and female emotional styles, and the variety of the human character.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With the recent Sokal hoax--the publication of a prominent physicist's pseudo-article in a leading journal of cultural studies--the status of science moved sharply from debate to dispute. Is science objective, a disinterested reflection of reality, as Karl Popper and his followers believed Or is it subjective, a social construction, as Thomas Kuhn and his students maintained Into the fray comes.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Just 30 minutes a day of exercise can save a life. This four-step practical plan helps readers avoid excuses and get on the track to fitness. Includes an illustrated program guide, sensible activities, a weight-loss plan and more. Illustrations.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - biology. She also shows that feminist scientists have developed new theories, asked new questions, and opened new fields in many of these areas.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Drawing on letters, poems, not Elektronisches Buch, and secret diaries, Lisbet Koerner tells the moving story of one of the most famous naturalists who ever lived, the Swedish-born botanist and systematizer, Carl Linnaeus. The first scholarly biography of this great Enlightenment scientist in almost one hundred years, Linnaeus also recounts for the first time Linnaeus' grand and bizarre economic projects: to 'teach' tea, saffron, and rice to grow on the Arctic tundra and to domesticate buffaloes, guinea pigs, and elks as Swedish farm animals. Linnaeus hoped to reproduce the economy of empire and colony within the borders of his family home by growing cash crops in Northern Europe. Koerner shows us the often surprising ways he embarked on this project. Her narrative goes against the grain of Linnaean scholarship old and new by analyzing not how modern Linnaeus was, but how he understood science in his time. At the same time, his attempts to organize a state economy according to principles of science prefigured an idea that has become one of the defining features of modernity. Meticulously researched, and based on archival data, Linnaeus will be of compelling interest to historians of the Enlightenment, historians of economics, and historians of science. But this engaging, often funny, and sometimes tragic portrait of a great man will be valued by general readers as well.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Rejecting the view of modern Middle Eastern history as an offshoot of global power politics, the authors argue that the main impetus for the developments of the momentous long 19th century (1789-1923) came from local actors. They see a pattern of pragmatic cooperation and conflict between the Middle East and the West during the past two centuries.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Is Lucan's brilliant and grotesque epic Civil War an example of ideological poetry at its most flagrant, or is it a work that despairingly proclaims the meaninglessness of ideology Shadi Bartsch offers a startlingly new answer to this split debate on the Roman poet's magnum opus.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Through detailed and trenchant criticism of standard interpretations of some of the key arguments in analytical philosophy over the last sixty years, this book arrives at a new conception of the proper starting point and task of the philosophy of language.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - service. Her fine study maps the intersection of these debates with political forces, their impact on hospital nursing and nursing education, and on the shaping of a feminine version of citizenship in France.