Verlag: Harvard University Press Jan 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1934510459 ISBN 13: 9781934510452
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As a metaphor, the island has been a fecund source of inspiration across many domains. Yet the concept seems to contradict trends toward interconnectedness in the geographic and design fields. An 'atlas' of islands, New Geographies, 8 explores the new limits of islandness and gathers examples to reassert its relevance for design disciplines.
Verlag: Harvard University Press Jan 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0674737121 ISBN 13: 9780674737129
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How did Europeans three centuries apart respond to two mysterious beasts-a living rhinoceros previously known only from ancient texts and a nameless monster's massive bones Juan Pimentel shows that their reactions reflect deep cultural changes but also the enduring power of image and imagination to shape our understanding of the natural world.
Verlag: Harvard University Press Jan 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0674660420 ISBN 13: 9780674660427
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Praise of Annada, Bharatchandra Ray¿s long narrative poem dedicated to the glory of Annada, translated here into English for the first time, is a major achievement and a treasure of Bengali literature. This volume describes the origins of the goddess, the building of her city and temple, and the spread of her worship.
Verlag: Harvard University Press Jan 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0674659821 ISBN 13: 9780674659827
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The History of Akbar by Abu'l-Fazl is one of the most important works of Indo-Persian history and a touchstone of prose artistry, and is both a biography and a chronicle of sixteenth-century India. In this volume, the Mughal Emperor Akbar quells a rebellion, conquers Malwa, and marries a Rajput princess.
Verlag: Harvard University Press Jan 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0674545664 ISBN 13: 9780674545663
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Raghavankäs poetic masterpiece The Life of Harishchandra, a powerful sage tests King Harishchandräs commitment to truth. He suffers utter deprivation but refuses to yield. This spirited translation, the first from Kannada into any language, brings one of ancient Indiäs most enduring legends to a global readership.
Verlag: Harvard University Press Jan 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0674660390 ISBN 13: 9780674660397
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Maghäs The Killing of Shishupala is a celebrated seventh-century Sanskrit poem that tells the story of Shishupaläs refusal to honor the divine Krishna at the coronation of Yudhishthira. Through this translation, the first into English, readers gain access to a sophisticated work that has dazzled Indian audiences for a thousand years.
Verlag: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS Jan 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0674416112 ISBN 13: 9780674416116
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How can human beings, who are liable to error, possess knowledge, since the grounds on which we believe do not rule out that we are wrong Andrea Kern argues that we can disarm this skeptical doubt by conceiving knowledge as an act of a ratio nal capacity. In this book, she develops a metaphysics of the mind as existing through knowledge of itself.
Verlag: Harvard University Press Jan 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0674088956 ISBN 13: 9780674088955
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Groping around a familiar room in the dark, relearning to read after a brain injury, navigating a virtual landscape through an avatar: all are expressions of vicariance¿when the brain substitutes one process or function for another. Alain Berthoz shows that this capacity allows humans to think creatively in an increasingly complex world.
Verlag: Harvard University Press Jan 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 067465966X ISBN 13: 9780674659667
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Enlightenment thinkers, searching for ancient models to understand contemporary affairs, were the first to critically interpret Alexander the Great's achievements. As Pierre Briant shows, in their minds Alexander was the first European: an empire builder who welcomed trade with the 'Orient' and brought Western civilization to its oppressed peoples.
Verlag: Harvard University Press Jan 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0674971132 ISBN 13: 9780674971134
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With Deng Xiaoping's blessing, Mao's successors scoured the globe for fresh ideas to launch domestic prosperity and global economic power. Yet China's government did not publicize its engagement with Western-style innovations, claiming instead that economic reinvention was the Party's achievement alone. Julian Gewirtz sets forth the truer story.
Verlag: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS Jan 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0674725522 ISBN 13: 9780674725522
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Kennedy, Sarah (illustrator). Neuware.
Verlag: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS Jan 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0674971396 ISBN 13: 9780674971394
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Chinäs leaders aspire to the prosperity, political legitimacy, and stability that flowed from Americäs New Deal, but they are irrevocably opposed to the independent trade unions and mass mobilization that brought it about. Cynthia Estlund¿s crisp comparative analysis makes Chinäs labor unrest and reform legible to Western readers.
Verlag: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS Jan 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0674660072 ISBN 13: 9780674660076
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Challenging the modern belief that democracy and bondage are incompatible, Paulin Ismard directs our attention to ancient Athens, where the functioning of civic government depended on skilled, knowledgeable experts who were literally public servants¿slaves owned by the city-state rather than by private citizens.
Verlag: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS Jan 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0674971469 ISBN 13: 9780674971462
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Noam Maggor shows how the moneyed elite in Gilded Age Boston leveraged their wealth to forge transcontinental networks of commodities, labor, and transportation. With the decline of cotton-based textile manufacturing, these gentleman bankers found new business opportunities in the mines, railroads, and industries of the Great West.
Verlag: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS Jan 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0674545737 ISBN 13: 9780674545731
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The U.S. Army has always regarded preparing for war as its peacetime role, but how it fulfilled that duty has changed dramatically between the War of 1812 and World War I. J. P. Clark shows how differing personal experiences of war and peace among successive generations of professional soldiers left their mark upon the Army and its ways.
Verlag: Harvard University Press Jan 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0674967844 ISBN 13: 9780674967847
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Can reason absorb the psyche¿s nonrational elements into a conception of the fully realized human being Without a good answer to that question, Jonathan Lear says, philosophy is cut from its moorings in human life. He brings into conversation psychoanalysis and moral philosophy, which together form a basis for ethical thought about how to live.
Verlag: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS Jan 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0674333721 ISBN 13: 9780674333727
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In his theory of the novel, Guido Mazzoni explains that novels consist of stories told in any way whatsoever about the experiences of ordinary men and women who exist as contingent beings within time and space. Novels allow readers to step into other lives and other versions of truth, each a small, local world, absolute in its particularity.
Verlag: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS Jan 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0674971434 ISBN 13: 9780674971431
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Nelson Tebbe shows how a method called social coherence offers a way to resolve conflicts between advocates of religious freedom and proponents of equality law. Based on the way people reason through moral problems in everyday life, it can lead to workable solutions in a wide range of issues, including gay rights and women¿s reproductive choice.
Verlag: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS Jan 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 0674971361 ISBN 13: 9780674971363
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Michel Chaouli invites novice and expert alike to set out on the path of thinking, with help from Kant¿s Critique of Judgment, about the force of aesthetic experience, the essence of art, and the relationship of beauty and meaning. Each chapter unfolds the significance of a key concept for Kant¿s thought and our own ideas.