harvard university press feb 2018 (21 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions. Understanding assemblies as plural forms of performative action, she extends her theory of performativity to show why precarity¿destruction of the conditions of livability¿is a galvanizing force and theme in today's highly visible protests.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Despite American education¿s recent mania for standardized tests, testing misses what really matters about learning: the desire to learn in the first place. Curiosity is vital, but it remains a surprisingly understudied characteristic. The Hungry Mind is a deeply researched, highly readable exploration of what curiosity is, how it can be measured, how it develops in childhood, and how it can be fostered in school.¿Engel draws on the latest social science research and incidents from her own life to understand why curiosity is nearly universal in babies, pervasive in early childhood, and less evident in school¿Engel¿s most important finding is that most classroom environments discourage curiosity¿In an era that prizes quantifiable results, a pedagogy that privileges curiosity is not likely to be a priority.¿¿Glenn C. Altschuler, Psychology Today¿Susan Engel¿s The Hungry Mind, a book which engages in depth with how our interest and desire to explore the world evolves, makes a valuable contribution not only to the body of academic literature on the developmental and educational psychology of children, but also to our knowledge on why and how we learn.¿¿Inez von Weitershausen, LSE Review of Books.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. The world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists call this epoch the Anthropocene, Age of Humans. The facts of the Anthropocene are scientific¿emissions, pollens, extinctions¿but its shape and meaning are questions for politics. Jedediah Purdy develops a politics for this post-natural world.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How College Works reveals the decisive role personal relationships play in undergraduate success, and puts forward small, inexpensive interventions that improve students' education. Great teachers are more important than topics studied, and a small number of good friends make a significant difference academically as well as socially.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Cuban Economy in a New Era diagnoses the ills afflicting Cuba's economy and examines seven areas: macroeconomic policy, central planning, small and medium private enterprises, nonagricultural cooperatives, financing options for the new private sector, state enterprise management, and relations with international financial institutions.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Winner of the Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History, Organization of American HistoriansCo-Winner of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History Book AwardThinking Small tells the story of how the United States sought to rescue the world from poverty through small-scale, community-based approaches. And it also sounds a warning: such strategies, now again in vogue, have been tried before, with often disastrous consequences.¿Unfortunately, far from eliminating deprivation and attacking the social status quo, bottom-up community development projects often reinforced them¿This is a history with real stakes. If that prior campaign¿s record is as checkered as Thinking Small argues, then its intellectual descendants must do some serious rethinking¿ How might those in twenty-first-century development and anti-poverty work forge a better path They can start by reading Thinking Small.¿¿Merlin Chowkwanyun, Boston Review¿As the historian Daniel Immerwahr demonstrates brilliantly in Thinking Small, the history of development has seen constant experimentation with community-based and participatory approaches to economic and social improvement¿Immerwahr¿s account of these failures should give pause to those who insist that going small is always better than going big.¿¿Jamie Martin, The Nation.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Reconstructions of Jesus occurred in Asia long before the Western search for the historical Jesus began in earnest. Asians remade Jesus at times appreciatively and at other times critically. R. S. Sugirtharajah situates the historical Jesus beyond the narrow confines of the West and offers an eye-opening chapter in the story of global Christianity.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Southern bus boycotts and lunch counter sit-ins were famous acts of civil disobedience but were also demands for jobs in the very services being denied blacks. Gavin Wright shows that the civil rights struggle was of economic benefit to all parties: the wages of southern blacks increased dramatically but not at the expense of southern whites.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.¿s, assassination, his political thought remains underappreciated. Tommie Shelby and Brandon Terry, along with a cast of distinguished contributors, engage critically with King¿s understudied writings on a wide range of compelling, challenging topics and rethink the legacy of this towering figure.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1900 the Catholic Church stood staunchly against human rights, religious freedom, and the secular state-disastrous concepts unleashed by the French Revolution. Yet by the 1960s its position was reversed. How did the world's largest religious organization become modern James Chappel finds answers in the shattering experiences of the 1930s.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Qing Empire in the early nineteenth century faced bureaucratic corruption, food shortages, infrastructure decay, domestic rebellion, adverse balances of trade, and a previously inconceivable foreign threat from the West. William T. Rowe uses literati reformer Bao Shichen as a prism to understand contemporary response to this general crisis.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Building for Oil is a historical account of the oil town of Daqing in northeastern China during the formative years of the People's Republic and describes Daqing's rise and fall as a national model city. Hou Li traces the roots of the Chinese socialist state and its early industrialization and modernization policies.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Richard Fallon offers theories of constitutional law and judicial legitimacy that accept many tenets of legal realism but reject its corrosive cynicism. Based on an ideal of good faith, his account both illuminates current practice and prescribes urgently needed responses to a legitimacy crisis in which the Supreme Court is increasingly enmeshed.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Cryptology, the science of ciphers and codes, and philology, the study of languages, are typically understood as separate domains. But Brian Lennon contends that computing¿s humanistic applications, no less than its technical ones, are marked by the priorities of security and military institutions devoted to fighting wars and decoding intelligence.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Tara McPherson asks what might it mean to design-from conception-digital tools and applications that emerge from contextual concerns of cultural theory and from a feminist concern for difference. This question leads to the Vectors Lab, which for a dozen years has experimented with digital scholarship at the intersection of theory and praxis.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With the rise of drones and computer-controlled weapons, the line between war and video games has blurred. The Military-Entertainment Complex traces how the realities of war are inflected by their representation in entertainment. War games, in turn, feature an increasing number of weapons, tactics, and scenarios from the War on Terror.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Michael A. Fuller's innovative textbook for learning classical Chinese poetry moves beyond the traditional anthology of poems translated into English and instead brings readers including those with no knowledge of Chinese as close as possible to the texture of the poems in their original language.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Modern political culture features a deep-seated faith in the power of numbers. But quantitative evidence has not always been revered, as William Deringer shows. After the 1688 Revolution, as Britons learned to fight by the numbers, their enthusiasm for figures arose not from efforts to find objective truths but from the turmoil of politics itself.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Bannermen Tales is the first book in English to offer a comprehensive study of zidishu-a popular storytelling genre created by the Manchus in early eighteenth-century Beijing. With original translations, musical score, and numerous illustrations of hand-copied and printed texts, this study opens a new window into Qing literature.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Michael A. Fuller's innovative textbook for learning classical Chinese poetry moves beyond the traditional anthology of poems translated into English and instead brings readers-including those with no knowledge of Chinese-as close as possible to the texture of the poems in their original language.