harvard university press apr 2019 (19 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As Cemil Aydin explains in this provocative history, it is a misconception to think that the world's 1.5 billion Muslims constitute a single religio-political entity. How did this mistaken belief arise, why is it so widespread, and how can its grip be loosened so that a more fruitful discussion about politics in Muslim societies can begin.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - During a 3-year, 8-nation journey, Michael Ignatieff found that while human rights is the language of states and liberal elites, the moral language that resonates with most people is that of everyday virtues: tolerance, forgiveness, trust, and resilience. These ordinary virtues are the moral system of global cities and obscure shantytowns alike.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The miniscule motion of a butterfly¿s wings can trigger a tornado half a world away, according to chaos theory. Catharine A. MacKinnon¿s collected work on gender inequality¿including new pieces¿argues that the right seemingly minor interventions in the legal realm can have a butterfly effect that generates major social and cultural transformations.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Tamar Herzog offers a road map to European law across 2,500 years that reveals underlying patterns and unexpected connections. By showing what European law was, where its iterations were found, who made and implemented it, and what the results were, she ties legal norms to their historical circumstances and reveals the law's fragile malleability.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Number concepts are a human invention developed and refined over millennia. They allow us to grasp quantities precisely: recent research shows that most specific quantities are not perceived in the absence of a number system. Numbers are not innate or universal; yet without them, the world as we know it would not exist.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Many books offer information about the world's most populous country, but few make sense of what is truly at stake. Thirty-six of the world's leading China experts¿affiliates of Harvard's renowned Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies¿answer key questions about where this new superpower is headed and what makes its people and their leaders tick.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As a backyard naturalist and river enthusiast, Henry David Thoreau was keenly aware of the many ways in which humans had altered the waterways and meadows of his beloved Concord River Valley. A land surveyor by trade, he recognized that he was as complicit in these transformations as the bankers, builders, and elected officials who were his clients. The Boatman reveals the depth of his knowledge about the river as it elegantly chronicles his move from anger to lament to acceptance of how humans had changed a place he cherished even more than Walden Pond.¿A scrupulous account of the environment Thoreau loved most¿ Thorson argues convincingly¿sometimes beautifully¿that Thoreaüs thinking and writing were integrally connected to paddling and sailing.¿¿Wall Street Journal¿An in-depth account of Thoreaüs lifelong love of boats, his skill as a navigator, his intimate knowledge of the waterways around Concord, and his extensive survey of the Concord River.¿¿Robert Pogue Harrison, New York Review of Books¿An impressive feat of empirical research¿an important contribution to the scholarship on Thoreau as natural scientist.¿¿Los Angeles Review of Books¿The Boatman presents a whole new Thoreaüthe river rat. This is not just groundbreaking, but fun.¿¿David Gessner, author of All the Wild That Remains.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - If we want girls to succeed, we need to teach them the audacity to transgress. Through the lives of students at three very different schools, an award-winning scholar-activist makes the case for 'feminist schools' that orient girls toward a lifetime of achievement.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Keith Tribe¿s new translation presents Economy and Society as it stood when Max Weber died. One of the world¿s leading experts on Weber¿s thought, Tribe has produced a clear and faithful translation that will become the definitive English edition of one of the few indisputably great intellectual works of the past 150 years.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For 200 million years before humans developed a capacity to reason, the emotional centers of the brain were hard at work. Stephen Asma and Rami Gabriel help us understand the evolution of the mind by exploring this more primal capability that we share with other animals: the power to feel, which is the root of so much that makes us uniquely human.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Modern Japan is not only responding to threats from North Korea and China but is also reevaluating its dependence on the United States, Sheila Smith shows. No longer convinced they can rely on Americans to defend their country, Tokyo's political leaders are now confronting the possibility that they may need to prepare the nation's military for war.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An all-star cast of scholars and politicians from Europe and America propose and debate the creation of a new European parliament with substantial budgetary and legislative power to solve the crisis of governance in the Eurozone and promote social and fiscal justice and public investment.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Crime and punishment occur under extreme uncertainty. Offenders, victims, police, judges, and jurors make high-stakes decisions with limited information under severe time pressure. With compelling stories and data on how people act and react, O¿Flaherty and Sethi reveal the extent to which we rely on stereotypes as shortcuts in our decision making.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Society needs whistleblowers, yet to speak up and expose wrongdoing often results in professional and personal ruin. Drawing on the stories of men and women who reported unethical and illegal conduct in corporations, Kate Kenny explains why this is so, and what must be done to protect those who have the courage to expose the truth.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Popular culture assumes that women are born to shop and that cities invite their trade. But downtowns were not always welcoming to women. Emily Remus turns to Chicago at the turn of the last century to chronicle an unheralded revolution in women¿s rights that took place not at the ballot box but in the streets and stores of the business district.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Was there ever such a thing as Byzantium Certainly no emperor ever called himself Byzantine. While the identities of eastern minorities were clear, that of the ruling majority remains obscured behind a name made up by later generations. Anthony Kaldellis says it is time for the Romanness of these so-called Byzantines to be taken seriously.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - During the occupation American policymakers identified elections and education as the wellsprings of a democratic consciousness in Japan. But as the extent of Japan's economic recovery became clear, they placed prosperity at the core of a revised vision for their new ally's future, as Jennifer Miller shows in this fresh appraisal of the Cold War.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Known for his essays on culture, aesthetics, and literature, Walter Benjamin also wrote on the philosophy of language. For Alexander Stern, his famously obscure¿and, for some, hopelessly mystical¿early work contains important insights, anticipating and in some respects surpassing Wittgenstein's later thinking on the philosophy of language.

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