harvard university press feb 2015 (17 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The lizard genus Anolis contains more species than any other genus of reptile, bird, or mammal. Caribbean members of this group have been intensively studied, but knowledge of Central and South American anoles has lagged behind. James R. McCranie and Gunther Kï¿¿hler begin to fill this gap with a detailed account of the anoles of Honduras.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Annotated Importance of Being Earnest provides facing-page commentary on Oscar Wilde¿s greatest play. Editor Nicholas Frankel highlights the play¿s relation to the author¿s homosexuality and to the climate of sexual repression that led to Wilde¿s imprisonment just months after the play¿s London opening in 1895.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Using full-color visualizations of key concepts and data, Mara Prentiss interprets government reports, technology, and basic physical laws to advance a bold claim: wind and solar power alone could generate 100% of the U.S. average energy demand, without lifestyle sacrifices. And meeting the actual U.S. energy demand with renewables is within reach.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - More than 50 years later the murky circumstances and tragic symbolism of Patrice Lumumbäs assassination trouble people around the world. Emmanuel Gerard and Bruce Kuklick reveal a tangled web of international politics in which many people¿black and white, well-meaning or ruthless, African, European, and American¿bear responsibility for this crime.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The unsolved riddle at the heart of Pudd¿nhead Wilson is less the identity of the murderer than the question of whether nature or nurture makes the man. In his introduction, Werner Sollors illuminates the complex web of uncertainty that is the switched-and-doubled-identity world of Mark Twain¿s novel.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Scholars have long claimed that the Eastern Roman Empire, a Christian theocracy, bore little resemblance to ancient Rome. Here, Anthony Kaldellis reconnects Byzantium to its Roman roots, arguing that it was essentially a republic, with power exercised on behalf of, and sometimes by, Greek-speaking citizens who considered themselves fully Roman.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - After Union forces captured New Orleans in 1862, Rose Hereräs owners fled to Havana, taking her three children with them. Adam Rothman tells the story of Hereräs quest to rescue her children from bondage after the war. As the kidnapping case made its way through the courts, it revealed the prospects and limits of justice during Reconstruction.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The man whose name is shorthand for all that is ugly in politics was more nuanced than his reputation suggests. Celenzäs portrait of Machiavelli removes the varnish to reveal not just the hard-nosed philosopher but the skilled diplomat, learned commentator on ancient history, comic playwright, tireless letter writer, and thwarted lover.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - At the center of Lincoln's political thought and career is an intense passion for equality that runs so deep in the speeches, messages, and letters that it has the force of religious conviction for Lincoln. George Kateb examines these writings to reveal that this passion explains Lincoln's reverence for both the Constitution and the Union.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Many legal theorists maintain that laws are effective because we internalize them, obeying even when not compelled to do so. In a comprehensive reassessment of the role of force in law, Frederick Schauer disagrees, demonstrating that coercion, more than internalized thinking and behaving, distinguishes law from society's other rules.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Using four notorious moments in the life of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga of Mantua, Valeria Finucci explores changing early modern concepts of sexuality, reproduction, beauty, and aging. She deftly marries salacious tales with historical analysis to tell a broader story of Italian Renaissance cultural adjustments and obsessions.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Steven I. Wilkinson explores how India has succeeded in keeping the military out of politics, when so many other countries have failed. He uncovers the command and control strategies, the careful ethnic balancing, and the political, foreign policy, and strategic decisions that have made the army safe for Indian democracy.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In a career that included Presidential Science Advisor to George W. Bush, John Marburger stood on the front line of battles that pulled science deep into the political arena. Science controversies, he discovered, are never just about science. As his reflections show, science can no longer be shielded from public scrutiny and government supervision.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For 60 million Americans a criminal record overshadows everything else about their identity. Citizens have a right to know when someone around them represents a threat. But convicted persons have rights too. James Jacobs examines the problem of erroneous records and proposes ways to eliminate discrimination for those who have been rehabilitated.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The idea that American education has been steered by progressivism is accepted as fact by liberals and conservatives alike. Adam Laats shows that this belief is wrong. Calling to center stage conservatives who shaped Americäs classrooms, he shows that in the long march of American public education, progressive reform has been a beleaguered dream.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - After World War II, the major powers faced social upheaval at home and anticolonial wars around the globe. Alarmed by conflict in Korea that could change U.S.¿Soviet relations from chilly to nuclear, ordinary people and policymakers created a fantasy of a bipolar Cold War world in which global and domestic order was paramount, Masuda Hajimu shows.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Sixty percent of infectious human diseases are shared with other vertebrates. Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode tell how innovations to combat livestock infections¿border control, food inspection, drug regulation, federal research labs¿turned the U.S. into a world leader in combatting communicable diseases, and remain central to public health policy.