harvard university press jan 1980 (7 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book contains eight complete epics from four traditional singers of tales. Four of the epics are transcribed from audio recordings belonging to the Parry Collection.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The monumental 'Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups' is the most authoritative single source available on the history, culture, and distinctive characteristics of ethnic groups in the United States. 'Concepts of Ethnicity' is designed to make this landmark scholarship available to everyone in a series of handy paperbound student editions. Selections in this series will include outstanding articles that illuminate the social dynamics of a pluralistic nation or masterfully summarize the experience of key groups. Written by the best-qualified scholars in each field, 'Concepts of Ethnicity' will reflect the complex interplay between assimilation and pluralism that is a central theme of the American experience.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The monumental 'Harvard Encyclopedia' of American Ethnic Groups is the most authoritative single source available on the history, culture, and distinctive characteristics of ethnic groups in the United States. 'Dimensions of Ethnicity' is designed to make this landmark scholarship available to everyone in a series of handy paperbound student editions. Selections in this series will include outstanding articles that illuminate the social dynamics of a pluralistic nation or masterfully summarize the experience of key groups.Written by the best-qualified scholars in each field, Dimensions of Ethnicity will reflect the complex interplay between assimilation and pluralism that is a central theme of the American experience.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The monumental 'Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups' is the most authoritative single source available on the history, culture, and distinctive characteristics of ethnic groups in the United States. 'Dimensions of Ethnicity' is designed to make this landmark scholarship available to everyone in a series of handy paperbound student editions. Selections in this series will include outstanding articles that illuminate the social dynamics of a pluralistic nation or masterfully summarize the experience of key groups. Written by the best-qualified scholars in each field, Dimensions Ethnicity will reflect the complex interplay between assimilation and pluralism that is a central theme of the American experience.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Sexual combat is not a monopoly of the human species. As Sarah Blaffer Hrdy argues in this spellbinding book, war between male and female animals has deep roots in evolutionary history. Her account of family life among hanuman langurs--the black-faced, gray monkeys inhabiting much of the Indian subcontinent--is written with force, wit, and, at times, sorrow.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Join Professor Helen Vendler in her course lecture on the Yeats poem 'Among School Children.' View her insightful and passionate analysis along with a condensed reading and student comments on the course.The poets nearest to us in time often seem the most remote and difficult. Helen Vendler closes the distance. She keeps the poet in view not only as thinker and artist, but as a man or woman whose humanity never disappears in her analysis. With her penetrating critical gift, Vendler assesses American poets from T. S. Eliot to Charles Wright.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As the American colonies grew more restive, and a break with the mother country ceased to be unthinkable, John Adams was forced to spend less and less time with his beloved family. Although burdened by ever expanding responsibilities in the Second Continental Congress, he found time for an amazing amount of correspondence.