harvard university press apr 2023 (19 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Young people have the potential to educate and inspire their communities, if only adults will listen to them. Felton Earls and Mary Carlson have spent decades listening to children and encouraging them to use their voices for social change.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The American working class didn't disappear with the manufacturing economy. It transformed. Instead of unionized blue-collar men, today's working class is dominated by underpaid women in service jobs-especially health care. With recognition of this shift, Gabriel Winant argues, may come political clout.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - During the Cold War, the United States shook off its traditional aversion to alliances and built the most impressive peacetime treaty structure in history. Yet today politicians argue that the country is so secure it gains nothing paying the cost of mutual defense. In doing so, they threaten a key source of that security: the alliances themselves.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The 10th anniversary editionA Guardian Best Book about DeforestationA New Scientist Best Book of the YearA Taipei Times Best Book of the Year¿A perfectly grounded account of what it is like to live an indigenous life in communion with one¿s personal spirits. We are losing worlds upon worlds.¿¿Louise Erdrich, New York Times Book Review¿The Yanomami of the Amazon, like all the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Australia, have experienced the end of what was once their world. Yet they have survived and somehow succeeded in making sense of a wounded existence. They have a lot to teach us.¿¿Amitav Ghosh, The Guardian¿A literary treasure¿a must for anyone who wants to understand more of the diverse beauty and wonder of existence.¿¿New ScientistA now classic account of the life and thought of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami, The Falling Sky paints an unforgettable picture of an indigenous culture living in harmony with the Amazon forest and its creatures, and its devastating encounter with the global mining industry. In richly evocative language, Kopenawa recounts his initiation as a shaman and first experience of outsiders: missionaries, cattle ranchers, government officials, and gold prospectors seeking to extract the riches of the Amazon. A coming-of-age story entwined with a rare first-person articulation of shamanic philosophy, this impassioned plea to respect indigenous peoples¿ rights is a powerful rebuke to the accelerating depredation of the Amazon and other natural treasures threatened by climate change and development.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 622 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The 10th anniversary editionA Guardian Best Book about DeforestationA New Scientist Best Book of the YearA Taipei Times Best Book of the Year¿A perfectly grounded account of what it is like to live an indigenous life in communion with one¿s personal spirits. We are losing worlds upon worlds.¿¿Louise Erdrich, New York Times Book Review¿The Yanomami of the Amazon, like all the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Australia, have experienced the end of what was once their world. Yet they have survived and somehow succeeded in making sense of a wounded existence. They have a lot to teach us.¿¿Amitav Ghosh, The Guardian¿A literary treasure¿a must for anyone who wants to understand more of the diverse beauty and wonder of existence.¿¿New ScientistA now classic account of the life and thought of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami, The Falling Sky paints an unforgettable picture of an indigenous culture living in harmony with the Amazon forest and its creatures, and its devastating encounter with the global mining industry. In richly evocative language, Kopenawa recounts his initiation as a shaman and first experience of outsiders: missionaries, cattle ranchers, government officials, and gold prospectors seeking to extract the riches of the Amazon. A coming-of-age story entwined with a rare first-person articulation of shamanic philosophy, this impassioned plea to respect indigenous peoples¿ rights is a powerful rebuke to the accelerating depredation of the Amazon and other natural treasures threatened by climate change and development.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Eli Black was the immigrant rabbi-turned-CEO who transformed the notoriously corrupt United Fruit into a model of ethical business. Then he died by suicide. How did it all go wrong Matt Garcia traces Black's own descent into corruption and despair-the unraveling, and the deliberate forgetting, of one of America's most enigmatic business leaders.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Tim Harper shows on an epic scale how Asia's anti-imperial movements depended on global revolutionary networks, and he traces the lingering power of internationalist utopian dreams in the postcolonial world.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Drawing on alchemical theory, Édouard Laugier and Auguste Laurent set out to find the vital essence of life through the craft of perfumes. While drawing the ire of enlightened Bohemian Paris, they discovered fundamental differences in the structures of naturally occurring and synthetic molecules, inaugurating a persistent scientific mystery.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Dreaming and Self-Cultivation in China, 300 BCE-800 CE, Robert Ford Campany examines how dreaming was addressed in texts produced and circulated by practitioners of Daoist, Buddhist, Confucian, and other self-cultivational disciplines. He uncovers paradigms by which dreams are viewed and shows how they underlay diverse religious texts.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts contain early versions of six episodes later included in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Discovered in 2018 and presented here for the first time in English, the folios reveal the autobiographical extent of Proust's work and the 'sacred moment' when his genius blossomed.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind chart ideas about economic scarcity across centuries of European intellectual history. Showing how ideologies of infinite desire and infinite growth came to dominate capitalist societies, they argue for alternative modes of economic thought that respect nature's boundaries in the face of climate crisis.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - During the Aegean Bronze Age, the spread of woolen textiles triggered an increased demand for color. In The Purpled World, Silver reveals how Minoan and Mycenaean textile producers embedded commercial motivation into traditional rituals, and considers collapse of the Mycenaean Palaces as a manifestation of disintegration in the textile industry.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - After WWII, Ilse Koch became known worldwide as the 'Bitch of Buchenwald.' She was assuredly guilty of atrocities, but the most sensational crimes ascribed to her by prosecutors and newspapers went unproven. Tomaz Jardim reveals how Koch's perceived betrayal of womanhood sealed her fate as a scapegoat for a society seeking absolution.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 40 features Máire Ní Mhaonaigh on Irish chronicles, Ruairí Ó hUiginn assessing the Irish genealogical corpus in its sociological context, Georgia Henley on the reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth's work in Norman Ireland and Wales, and other articles centered on Irish and Welsh.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, world-historic political, economic, and technological developments transformed everyday life in places like Zhenjiang, a midsize Chinese river town. Xin Zhang explores the local negotiation of globalization through the experience of Zhenjiang's merchants, entrepreneurs, and ordinary residents.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Threshold, a study of the culture of historiography in early medieval China, explores the History of Liu-Song, a dynastic history of the fifth century compiled in 488. Zeb Raft shows how history was constructed through rhetorical elements including the narration of officialdom, the anecdote, and, above all, the historical document.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The essays in Literary History in and beyond China examine the anthological histories that shape the concept of a particular genre, the interpretive positions that impel our aesthetic judgments, the conceptual categories that determine how literary history is framed, and the history of literary historiography itself.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Dreaming and Self-Cultivation in China, 300 BCE-800 CE, Robert Ford Campany examines how dreaming was addressed in texts produced and circulated by practitioners of Daoist, Buddhist, Confucian, and other self-cultivational disciplines. He uncovers paradigms by which dreams are viewed and shows how they underlay diverse religious texts.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Zuni, Hopi, Copan publishes one hundred annotated letters from John Gundy Owens-one of the first graduate students in anthropology at Harvard-to Deborah Harker Stratton. They offer vivid, highly entertaining accounts of his fieldwork at Zuni pueblo in New Mexico, Hopi mesa villages in Arizona, and the Maya site of Copan in Honduras.