harvard university press feb 2009 (9 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From Jim Crow to the early 21st century, struggles over racism persist despite court decisions and legislation. Although a painful history to confront, this book inspires as it probes the enduring story of racial inequality and the ongoing fight for freedom in black America.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the Constitution's adoption, presidents, Congress, judges, scholars, the press, and the public have debated the appropriate scope of presidential power during a crisis, especially when presidents see bending or breaking the rules as necessary to protect the country from serious, even irreparable, harm. This book examines this quandary.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As the cold war took shape during the late 1940s, policymakers in the United States and Great Britain displayed a marked tendency to regard international communism as a 'monolithic' conspiratorial movement. This book explains the cold war mindset that determined global policy for much of the twentieth century.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Even after 150 years, Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is irresistibly compelling. But, how can this idea - in which competition prevails - be consistent with all that we know about the thoroughly cooperative nature of life at the genetic and cellular level This book reconciles these discrepancies.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Seen as vermin that spoiled valuable rangeland, prairie dogs were long the subject of eradication campaigns and are threatened by habitat loss and the loss of genetic diversity. This book presents a study of Gunnison's prairie dogs (Cynomys gunnisoni), one of the keystone species of the short-grass prairie ecosystem.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Explains the phenomenon and scope of government outsourcing and sets an agenda for research attentive to workforce capacities, as well as legal, economic, and political concerns.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Fifty years ago, a troop of Japanese macaques was observed washing sandy sweet potatoes in a stream, sending ripples through the fields of ethology, comparative psychology, and cultural anthropology. The issue of animal culture has been hotly debated ever since. Now Kevin Laland and Bennett Galef have gathered key voices in the often rancorous debate to summarize the views along the continuum from 'Culture Of course!' to 'Culture Of course not!' The result is essential reading for anyone interested in the validity of animal culture, and what it might say about our own.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - New Orleans has always captured our imagination as an exotic city in its racial ambiguity and pursuit of 'les bons temps.' Despite its image as a place apart, the city played a key role in nineteenth-century America as a site for immigration and pluralism, the quest for equality, and the centrality of self-making.In both the literary imagination and the law, creoles of color navigated life on a shifting color line. As they passed among various racial categories and through different social spaces, they filtered for a national audience the meaning of the French Revolution, the Haitian Revolution of 1804, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and de jure segregation.Shirley Thompson offers a moving study of a world defined by racial and cultural double consciousness. In tracing the experiences of creoles of color, she illuminates the role ordinary Americans played in shaping an understanding of identity and belonging.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this landmark volume, an international group of scientists has synthesized their collective expertise and insight into a newly unified vision of insect societies and what they can reveal about how sociality has arisen as an evolutionary strategy.Jurgen Gadau and Jennifer Fewell have assembled leading researchers from the fields of molecular biology, evolutionary genetics, neurophysiology, behavioral ecology, and evolutionary theory to reexamine the question of sociality in insects. Recent advances in social complexity theory and the sequencing of the honeybee genome ensure that this book will be valued by anyone working on sociality in insects. At the same time, the theoretical ideas presented will be of broad-ranging significance to those interested in social evolution and complex systems.