harvard university press jan 2020 (19 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The End of Middle East History and Other Conjectures is an unapologetic collection of imaginative essays from thought-provoking Middle East scholar Richard W. Bulliet. Not your ordinary think pieces, this volume collects for the first time Bulliet's Big Bang-Big Crunch theory of Islamic history and his illuminating conception of the 'Muslim South.' Speculations range from future political events to counterfactual histories of how reversal of the outcome of a 1529 battle might have profoundly altered history. After fifty years of posing and answering daring historical questions, Bulliet happily tackles an array of conjectures on subjects as diverse as the origin of civilization, the end of Middle East history, and future interpretations of the twentieth century.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Guardian ¿Favourite Reads¿as Chosen by Scientists¿ Selection¿Tackles some of science¿s most enduring misconceptions.¿¿DiscoverA falling apple inspired Isaac Newton¿s insight into the law of gravity¿or did it really Among the many myths debunked in this refreshingly irreverent book are the idea that alchemy was a superstitious pursuit, that Darwin put off publishing his theory of evolution for fear of public reprisal, and that Gregor Mendel was ahead of his time as a pioneer of genetics. More recent myths about particle physics and Einstein¿s theory of relativity are discredited too, and a number of dubious generalizations, like the notion that science and religion are antithetical, or that science can neatly be distinguished from pseudoscience, go under the microscope of history.Newton¿s Apple and Other Myths about Science brushes away popular fictions and refutes the widespread belief that science advances when individual geniuses experience ¿Eureka!¿ moments and suddenly grasp what those around them could never imagine.¿Delightful¿thought-provoking¿Every reader should find something to surprise them.¿¿Jim Endersby, Science¿Better than just countering the myths, the book explains when they arose and why they stuck.¿¿The Guardian.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An engaging study of the partitions of Poland that paints a vivid portrait of conflict, accommodation, and survival in a church subject to the grand designs of the late eighteenth century's premier absolutist powers.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Martin Luther King, Jr., may be America's most revered political figure, commemorated in statues, celebrations, and streets names around the world. On the fiftieth anniversary of King's assassination, the man and his activism are as close to public consciousness as ever. But despite his stature, the significance of King's writings and political thought remains underappreciated. In To Shape a New World, Tommie Shelby and Brandon Terry write that the marginalization of King's ideas reflects a romantic, consensus history that renders the civil rights movement inherently conservative--an effort not at radical reform but at 'living up to' enduring ideals laid down by the nation's founders. On this view, King marshaled lofty rhetoric to help redeem the ideas of universal (white) heroes, but produced little original thought. This failure to engage deeply and honestly with King's writings allows him to be conscripted into political projects he would not endorse, including the pernicious form of 'color blindness' that insists, amid glaring race-based injustice, that racism has been overcome. Cornel West, Danielle Allen, Martha Nussbaum, Robert Gooding-Williams, and other authors join Shelby and Terry in careful, critical engagement with King's understudied writings on labor and welfare rights, voting rights, racism, civil disobedience, nonviolence, economic inequality, poverty, love, just-war theory, virtue ethics, political theology, imperialism, nationalism, reparations, and social justice. In King's exciting and learned work, the authors find an array of compelling challenges to some of the most pressing political dilemmas of our present, and rethink the legacy of this towering figure.'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The ancient Greeks¿ concept of ¿the herö was very different from what we understand by the term today. In 24 installments, based on the Harvard course Nagy has taught and refined since the 1970s, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours explores civilization¿s roots in Classical literature¿a lineage that continues to challenge and inspire us.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As Spang explains, during the 1760s and 1770s, sensitive, self-described sufferers made public show of their delicacy by going to the new establishments known as 'restaurateurs' rooms' to sip bouillons. But these locations soon became sites for extending frugal, politically correct hospitality and later became symbols of aristocratic greed.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dara Shukoh was the heir-apparent to the Mughal throne in 1659, when he was executed by his brother Aurangzeb. Today Dara is lionized in South Asia, while Aurangzeb, who presided over the beginnings of imperial disintegration, is scorned. Supriya Gandhi's nuanced biography asks whether the story really would have been different with Dara in power.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The History of Akbar, Volume 6 by Abu'l-Fazl details the twenty-third to twenty-eighth years of Akbar's reign, including accounts of the quelling of rebellions in Bihar, Bengal, and Kabul, and final victory in Gujarat. The Persian text, presented in the Naskh script, is based on a careful reassessment of primary sources.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A rural borderland just forty years ago, today Shenzhen is a city of twenty million and a technology hub. This success is attributed to its status as a Special Economic Zone, but no other SEZs compare. Juan Du looks to the past to understand why. It turns out that Shenzhen is no prefab ¿instant city,¿ but a place influenced by deep local history.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Epic of Ram, Volume 5 relates the story¿s three middle episodes¿Ram¿s battles with demons, the kidnapping of his wife, and his alliance with a race of marvelous monkeys¿and climaxes in Hanuman¿s journey to the island of Lanka to find Sita. This edition features the Avadhi text in the Devanagari script alongside the English translation.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Europe and Russia are pushing against each other in a contest of economic doctrines and political ambitions, seemingly erasing the vision of cooperation that emerged from the end of the Cold War. Thane Gustafson argues that natural gas serves as a bridge over troubled geopolitical waters, uniting the region through common economic interests.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume of Bharatchandra Ray's narrative poem In Praise of Annada recounts the clandestine love affair of Princess Vidya and Prince Sundar, and how Bhavananda stopped a rebellion and became a king. The translation, the first in English, features the original text in the Bangla script of this treasure of Bengali literature.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Westerners tend to equate political action with revolution and open criticism, leading to concerns that the less outspoken citizens of nonliberal societies are brainwashed, complicit, or paralyzed by fear. Jing Wang shatters this myth, showing how online activists in China are quietly building powerful coalitions for incremental social change.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The novel was born religious, alongside Protestant texts produced in the same format by the same publishers. Novels borrowed features of these texts but over the years distinguished themselves, becoming the genre we know today. Jordan Alexander Stein traces this history, showing how the physical object of the book shaped the stories it contained.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Drawing on sources in eight countries and ten languages, Magda Teter tells the history of the antisemitic blood libel myth, whose long shadow extends from premodern monastic chronicles to Facebook. The vocabulary and images that crystallized and spread with the invention of the printing press are still with us, as are their pernicious consequences.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Looking back to the evolution of foreign aid during the Cold War, David C. Engerman invites us to recognize the strategic thinking at the heart of development assistance¿along with the political costs. Indiäs history provides an instructive model, as China spends freely in Africa and the political stakes of foreign aid start to rise again.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Gordon Teskey restores Edmund Spenser to prominence, revealing his epic The Faerie Queene as a grand, improvisatory project on human nature. Teskey compares Spenser to Milton, an avowed follower. While Milton¿s rigid ideology is now stale, Spenser¿s allegories remain vital, inviting new questions and visions, heralding a constantly changing future.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Nearly everything we treasure in the world's most beautiful cities was built over a century ago. Yet the ideas and practices underlying these achievements have been abandoned. Nir Buras documents the humane design methods that held sway before the reign of Modernism and encourages us to relearn the time-tested principles of classic urban planning.