harvard university press aug 2022 (20 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The poems in The Voices of Babyn Yar convey the experiences of ordinary civilians going through unbearable events leading to the massacre at Kyiv's Babyn Yar. Conceived as a tribute to the fallen, the book raises difficult questions about memory, responsibility, and commemoration of those who had witnessed an evil that verges on the unspeakable.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An examination of the changes in the language used by the media in Greece since the fall of the dictatorship, Greek Media Discourse demonstrates the way language provokes critical debate, questions the forces that shape a discourse, and leaves unanswered: How pedagogical can a public discourse be when it loses its democracy as a social good.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Love in the Age of War explores soldier characters that were at the center of many of Menander¿s plays. While later traditions turned these characters into clowns, Wilfred Major details how Menander portrayed the soldiers as challenging and complex men who struggle to find a place in society, and whose stories may resonate more powerfully today.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - TA-U-RO-QO-RO takes up problems of script and language representation and textual interpretation, ranging from the use of punctuation marks and numbers in the Linear B to personal names and place names reflecting the ethnic composition of Mycenaean society and the dialects spoken during the proto-Homeric period of the late Bronze Age.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Childhood pain is a widespread problem, yet it often goes untreated. Drawing on the latest research, two leading voices on pediatric pain show parents and medical practitioners how to handle children's pain, from bumps and bruises to chronic illnesses, providing strategies that make a real difference in kids' lives.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - College still looks like it did a century ago, with instructors delivering lectures to silent rows of students. Yet research shows unambiguously that active learning is more effective and inclusive. The New College Classroom translates the evidence into hands-on guidance for teachers in every discipline and institution, so all students can excel.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The China Questions 2 assembles top experts to explore key issues in US-China relations today, including conflict over Taiwan, economic and military competition, public health concerns, and areas of cooperation. Rejecting a new Cold War mindset, the authors call for dealing with the world's most important bilateral relationship on its own terms.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The poems in The Voices of Babyn Yar convey the experiences of ordinary civilians going through unbearable events leading to the massacre at Kyiv's Babyn Yar. Conceived as a tribute to the fallen, the book raises difficult questions about memory, responsibility, and commemoration of those who had witnessed an evil that verges on the unspeakable.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Communist and capitalist states alike were scarred by the economic shocks of the 1970s. Why did only communist governments fall in their wake Fritz Bartel argues that Western democracies were insulated by neoliberalism. While austerity was fatal to the legitimacy of communism, democratic politicians could win votes by pushing market discipline.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Maura Dykstra shows how information overload resulting from the administrative revolution of China's eighteenth-century Qing state led to a discourse of crisis. Slowly but surely, the thicket of imperial standards binding local offices, provincial superiors, and central ministries shifted the very foundations of the state.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When Europeans came to the American continent in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, they were confronted with what they perceived as sacrificial practices. Sacrifice and Conversion in the Early Modern Atlantic World examines the encounter between European and American conceptions of sacrifice expressed in texts, music, rituals, and images.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The sixth edition of Chinese History: A New Manual, revised and expanded to two volumes, includes the latest developments in digital tools and the ancillary disciplines essential for work on Chinese history. Volume 1 covers topics ranging from Language to Technology. Volume 2 presents primary and secondary sources chronologically by period.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The sixth edition of Chinese History: A New Manual, revised and expanded to two volumes, includes the latest developments in digital tools and the ancillary disciplines essential for work on Chinese history. Volume 1 covers topics ranging from Language to Technology. Volume 2 presents primary and secondary sources chronologically by period.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Fifth Prap¿¿haka of the V¿dh¿la ¿rautas¿tra includes a critical edition, followed by a translation and a commentary, of the fifth chapter (prap¿¿haka) of the V¿dh¿la ¿rautas¿tra. This chapter is dedicated to the description of the so-called ¿independent¿ animal sacrifice (nir¿¿hapäubandha) in Vedic ritual.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ariosto and the Arabs sheds new light on Ludovico Ariosto's famous poem Orlando Furioso. The sixteen essays assembled here, produced by diverse scholars who work on Europe, Africa, and Asia, encompass several intertwined areas of analysis-philology, religious and social history, cartography, material and figurative arts, and performance.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Text and Interpretation examines the main characteristics of the legal thought of Imam Jäfar al-¿¿diq, preeminent religious scholar jurist of Medina in the first half of the second century of the Muslim calendar. This book presents an intellectual history of how the Jäfar¿ school began and examines the scholar's interpretive approach.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Pulitzer Prize¿winner Bert Hölldobler and behavioral ecologist Christina Kwapich reveal a universe of behavioral mechanisms whereby invaders known as myrmecophiles break into ant colonies. By decoding ants¿ sophisticated communication systems, these invaders disguise themselves as friendly, suppress ant aggression, and feast on colony resources.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Diagram as Paradigm explores medieval diagrams in Byzantium, the Islamicate world, and the Latin West. Case studies consider the theoretical dimensions of diagramming in historical disciplines ranging from philosophy to cosmology. Four introductory essays provide overviews of diagrammatic traditions of the regions explored in this volume.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The sixth edition of Chinese History: A New Manual, revised and expanded to two volumes, includes the latest developments in digital tools and the ancillary disciplines essential for work on Chinese history. Volume 1 covers topics ranging from Language to Technology. Volume 2 presents primary and secondary sources chronologically by period.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The sixth edition of Chinese History: A New Manual, revised and expanded to two volumes, includes the latest developments in digital tools and the ancillary disciplines essential for work on Chinese history. Volume 1 covers topics ranging from Language to Technology. Volume 2 presents primary and secondary sources chronologically by period.