harvard university press jun 2019 (15 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From 1820 to 1990 the share of world income going to today's wealthy nations soared from 20% to 70%. That share has recently plummeted. Richard Baldwin shows how the combination of high tech with low wages propelled industrialization in developing nations, deindustrialization in developed nations, and a commodity supercycle that is petering out.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The white power movement has declared war against the United States and has carried out¿with military precision¿an escalating campaign of terror against the American public. Kathleen Belew gives the first full history of a movement that consolidated around a sense of betrayal over Vietnam and made tragic headlines with the Oklahoma City bombing.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A New York Times Book Review Editors¿ ChoiceResponsibility¿which once meant the moral duty to help and support others¿has come to be equated with an obligation to be self-sufficient. This has guided recent reforms of the welfare state, making key entitlements conditional on good behavior. Drawing on political theory and moral philosophy, Yascha Mounk shows why this re-imagining of personal responsibility is pernicious¿and suggests how it might be overcome.¿This important book prompts us to reconsider the role of luck and choice in debates about welfare, and to rethink our mutual responsibilities as citizens.¿¿Michael J. Sandel, author of Justice¿A smart and engaging book¿ Do we so value holding people accountable that we are willing to jeopardize our own welfare for a proper comeuppance ¿¿New York Times Book Review¿An important new book¿ [Mounk] mounts a compelling case that political rhetoric¿has shifted over the last half century toward a markedly punitive vision of social welfare.¿¿Los Angeles Review of Books¿A terrific book. The insight at its heart¿that the conception of responsibility now at work in much public rhetoric and policy is both punitive and ill-conceived¿is very important and should be widely heeded.¿¿Jedediah Purdy, author of After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From India to Turkey, from Poland to the United States, authoritarian populists have seized power. Two core components of liberal democracy¿individual rights and the popular will¿are at war, putting democracy itself at risk. In plain language, Yascha Mounk describes how we got here, where we need to go, and why there is little time left to waste.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Philosopher Daniel Milo offers a vigorous critique of the quasi-monopoly that Darwin¿s natural selection has on our idea of the natural world. In popular thought, Darwinism has even acquired the trappings of an ethical system, focused on optimization, competition, and innovation. Yet in nature, imperfect creatures often have the evolutionary edge.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The instructional treatises of Menander Rhetor and the Ars Rhetorica, deriving from the schools of rhetoric that flourished in the Greek East from the 2nd through 4th centuries AD, provide a window into the literary culture, educational practices, and social concerns of these Greeks under Roman rule, in both public and private life.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From hidden connections in big data to bots spreading fake news, journalism is increasingly computer-generated. Nicholas Diakopoulos explains the present and future of a world in which algorithms have changed how the news is created, disseminated, and received, and he shows why journalists¿and their values¿are at little risk of being replaced.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Lukas Rieppel shows how dinosaurs gripped the popular imagination and became emblems of Americäs industrial power and economic prosperity during the Gilded Age. Spectacular fossils were displayed in museums financed by North Americäs wealthiest tycoons, to cement their reputation as both benefactors of science and fierce capitalists.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - We often think of the Balkans as a region beset by turmoil and backwardness, but from late antiquity to the present it has been a dynamic meeting place of cultures and religions. Marie-Janine Calic invites us to reconsider the history of this intriguing, diverse region as essential to the story of global Europe.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For most of human history, paternity was uncertain. Blood types, fingerprinting, and, recently, DNA analysis promised to solve the riddle of paternity. But even genetic certainty did not end the quest for the father. Rather, as Nara Milanich reveals, it confirms the social, cultural, and political nature of the age-old question: Whös your father.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In a new retelling of the romantic rationalist adventure of ideas that is Hegel's classic The Phenomenology of Spirit, Robert Brandom argues that when our self-conscious recognitive attitudes take Hegel's radical form of magnanimity and trust, we can overcome a troubled modernity and enter a new age of spirit.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Adam Kern offers a close reading of the vibrant popular imagination through kibyoshi, a genre of sophisticated pictorial fiction from late-eighteenth-century Japan. Illustrated with rare prints from Japanese archival collections, these entertaining works will appeal to the general reader as well as to the student of Japanese cultural history.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Based on the critical edition of Malcovati, this three-volume Loeb edition of Roman Republican oratory begins with Ap. Claudius Caecus (340¿273 BC) and with the exceptions of Cato the Elder and Cicero includes all individuals for whom speech-making is attested and for whose speeches quotations, testimonia, or historiographic recreations survive.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Based on the critical edition of Malcovati, this three-volume Loeb edition of Roman Republican oratory begins with Ap. Claudius Caecus (340¿273 BC) and with the exceptions of Cato the Elder and Cicero includes all individuals for whom speech-making is attested and for whose speeches quotations, testimonia, or historiographic recreations survive.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Despite an enduring belief that science should be taught, there has been no enduring consensus about how or why. This is especially true when it comes to teaching scientific process. John Rudolph shows that how we think about and teach science will either sustain or thwart future innovation, and determine how science is perceived by the public.