harvard university press jul 2022 (16 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Smaro Nikolaidou-Arampatzi analyzes the direct and indirect evidence of Euripides¿ fragmentary play, the Ino, and reexamines matters of reconstruction and interpretation. This work is a full-scale commentary on Euripides¿ Ino, with a new arrangement of the fragments, an English translation in prose, and an extensive bibliography.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Before the Communists came to power, China lay broken. Today it is a global force, but its leaders are haunted by the past. Sulmaan Wasif Khan chronicles the grand strategies that have sought to protect China from aggression and ensure it would never again experience the powerlessness of the late Qing and Republican eras.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Historia Augusta is a biographical collection written by a single author under six pseudonyms that covers the lives of the Roman emperors from Hadrian (r. 117¿138) to Carinus (r. 283¿285). While it is our most detailed surviving source for this period, it has more value as an enigmatic work of literary fiction than as history.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Historia Augusta is a biographical collection written by a single author under six pseudonyms that covers the lives of the Roman emperors from Hadrian (r. 117¿138) to Carinus (r. 283¿285). While it is our most detailed surviving source for this period, it has more value as an enigmatic work of literary fiction than as history.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Works in this volume explore the relationship between two people known as love (er¿s) or friendship (philia). In Lysis, Socrates meets two young men at a wrestling school; in Symposium, he joins a company of accomplished men at a drinking party; and in Phaedrus, experimental speeches about love lead to a discussion of rhetoric.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Volume I of the Loeb Hippocrates presents an exemplary selection of works by or attributed to the 'Father of Medicine' that illustrate his fundamental contributions to the theory, philosophy, and practice of medicine. Included are Ancient Medicine; Airs, Waters, Places; Epidemics 1 and 3; Precepts; Nutriment; and the famous Hippocratic Oath.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Historia Augusta is a biographical collection written by a single author under six pseudonyms that covers the lives of the Roman emperors from Hadrian (r. 117¿138) to Carinus (r. 283¿285). While it is our most detailed surviving source for this period, it has more value as an enigmatic work of literary fiction than as history.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Formulaic phraseology presents the epitome of words worn and weathered by trial and the tests of time. Weathered Words concentrates on verbal art, which makes Oral-Formulaic Theory (OFT) a major point of reference. Each of the eighteen essays gathered here brings particular aspects of formulaic language into focus.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1699, Cotton Mather authored the first Spanish-language text in the English New World: a religious tract aimed at evangelizing readers across the Spanish Americas. Kirsten Silva Gruesz uses Mather's text to explore complex overlaps of race, ethnicity, and language in the early Americas, which continue to govern Latina/o/x belonging today.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The United States is the global leader in higher education, but this was not always the case and may not remain so. William Kirby examines sources of-and threats to-US higher education supremacy and charts the rise of Chinese competitors. Yet Chinese institutions also face problems, including a state that challenges the commitment to free inquiry.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Do democratic citizens have equal right to rule Is it enough that they have equal standing before the law, or must there also be economic and social equality Aldo Schiavone traces these questions and their diverse answers from the ancient world to the present and urges a new course to rescue democracies now suffering from excesses of inequality.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Close Association is the first English-language study of the local networks of women and men who built modern Japan in the Meiji period (1868¿1912). Placing gender analysis at its core, the book offers fresh perspectives on what women did beyond domestic boundaries, while showing men¿s lives, too, were embedded in home and kin.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Juliane Noth shows how art and discussions about the future of ink painting were linked to the reshaping of the country, leading to the creation of a uniquely modern Chinese landscape imagery. Noth offers a new understanding of these experiments by studying them as transmedial practice, at once shaped by and integral to the modern global art world.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In post-1917 Russian and Yiddish literature, films, and reportage, Sasha Senderovich finds a new cultural figure: the Soviet Jew. Suddenly mobile after more than a century of restrictions under the tsars, Jewish authors created characters who traversed space and history, carrying with them the dislodged practices and archetypes of a lost world.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Making the Gods Speak presents a comprehensive accounting for the processes of divine revelations. Focusing the bulk of his analysis on spirit-writing, Vincent Goossaert offers a ritual-centered framework to study revelation in Chinese cultural history and comparatively with the revelatory practices of other religious traditions.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Defeat in World War II profoundly shaped how the Japanese reconstructed national identity and reengaged with Asia. In Asia and Postwar Japan, Simon Avenell reveals the critical importance of Asia in Japanese thought, activism, and politics-as a symbolic geography, as a space for grassroots engagement, and as the source of a new politics of hope.