harvard university press apr 2003 (17 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - investigating literal and literary images of the Promised Land, these essays underscore that place is constructed in the intersection of material conditions, political realities, narrative, and ritual performance.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Stories pervade our daily lives, from human interest news items, to a business strategy described to a colleague, to daydreams between chores. Stories are what we use to make sense of the world. But how does this work In 'Making Stories,' the eminent psychologist Jerome Bruner examines this pervasive human habit and suggests new and deeper ways to think about how we use stories to make sense of lives and the great moral and psychological problems that animate them. Looking at legal cases and autobiography as well as literature, Bruner warns us not to be seduced by overly tidy stories and shows how doubt and double meaning can lie beneath the most seemingly simple case.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - translations are fully annotated; his freshly edited texts offer new solutions to a number of textual puzzles.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted exclusively to women.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Like the canaries that alerted miners to a poisonous atmosphere, issues of race point to underlying problems in society that ultimately affect everyone, not just minorities. Now, in a powerful and challenging book, the authors propose a radical new way to confront race in the 21st century.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Alongside the 'hadiths, ' the stories of the Prophet's sayings and actions, appear stories of Jesus' sayings and actions, 303 of which Khalidi has collected and translated to produce, for the first time, a Muslim gospel. Illustrations.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Wacker gives an in-depth account of the practices of American pentecostal churches. He examines aspects of pentecostal culture, including rituals, speaking in tongues, the authority of the Bible, the central role of Jesus in everyday life, the gifts of prophecy and healing, ideas about personal appearance, women¿s roles, and race relations.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Last Revolutionaries follows the lives of German communists across the tumultuous twentieth century. Epstein offers an unparalleled portrait of the most enduring and influential generation of Central European communists.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This biographical study illuminates one of the most important yet misunderstood figures in the history of science. Barbara McClintock (1902P1992), a geneticist who integrated classical genetics with microscopic observations of the behavior of chromosomes, was regarded as a genius and as an unorthodox, nearly incomprehensible thinker. In 1946, she discovered mobile genetic elements, which she called 'controlling elements.' Thirty-seven years later, she won a Nobel Prize for this work, becoming the third woman to receive an unshared Nobel in science. Since then, McClintock has become an emblem of feminine scientific thinking and the tragedy of narrow-mindedness and bias in science.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Greek epics of the archaic period include poems that narrate a particular heroic episode or series of episodes and poems that recount the long-term history of families or peoples. They are an important source of mythological record. Here is a new text and translation of the examples of this poetry that have come down to us. The heroic epic is represented by poems about Heracles and Theseus, and by two great epic cycles: the Theban Cycle, which tells of the failed assault on Thebes by the Seven and the subsequent successful assault by their sons; and the Trojan Cycle, which includes 'Cypria,' 'Little Iliad,' and 'The Sack of Ilion.' Among the genealogical epics are poems in which Eumelus creates a prehistory for Corinth and Asius creates one for Samos. In presenting the extant fragments of these early epic poems, Martin West provides very helpful notes. His Introduction places the epics in historical context.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Impelled by a demand for increasing American strength in the new global economy, many educators, public officials, business leaders, and parents argue that school computers and Internet access will improve academic learning and prepare students for an information-based workplace.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dissatisfied with a Victorian culture focused on domesticity and threatened by physical decline in sedentary office jobs, American men in the late nineteenth century sought masculine company in fraternal lodges and engaged in exercise to invigorate their bodies. One form of this new manly culture, developed out of the Protestant churches, was known as muscular Christianity. In this fascinating study, Clifford Putney details how Protestant leaders promoted competitive sports and physical education to create an ideal of Christian manliness.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Millions of immigrants were drawn to American shores, not by the mythic streets paved with gold, but rather by its tables heaped with food. How they experienced the realities of AmericaUs abundant food--its meat and white bread, its butter and cheese, fruits and vegetables, coffee and beer--reflected their earlier deprivations and shaped their ethnic practices in the new land.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - W. S. Gilbert, renowned author of the 'Savoy Operas, was also the creator of the 'Bab Ballads--'possibly the best comic verse--and surely the best illustrated--in the English language,' according to James Ellis. Gilbert published these poems, together with his own, grotesque drawings signed 'Bab,' a childhood nickname, in 'Fun and other magazines in the late nineteenth century. In 1898, the older and by then distinguished Gilbert substituted pallid and inoffensive drawings for the originals, which he had come to believe 'erred gravely in the direction of unnecessary extravagance.' Since then the ballads have been collected and published in various editions, most of which have featured the revised drawings and only a selection of the poems. This is the only book to offer the complete collection of ballads with all original illustrations, a tribute to the comic genius of a writer known as 'the most original dramatist of his generation.'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Each of these essays, which span 15 years, struggles in one way or another with the necessity of facing up to the discovery that the laws of nature are impersonal, with no hint of a special status for human beings.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - for some of Mexican society's most powerless members.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Frederick Neuhouser's task is to understand the conceptions of freedom on which Hegel's theory rests and to show how they ground his arguments in defense of the modern social world. In doing so, the author focuses on Hegel's most important and least understood contribution to social philosophy, the idea of 'social freedom.'.