harvard university press mär 1996 (12 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Why is it that business in California's Silicon Valley flourished while along Route 128 in Massachusetts declined in the 90s The answer, Saxenian suggests, has to do with the fact that despite similar histories and technologies, Silicon Valley developed a decentralized but cooperative industrial system while Route 128 came to be dominated by independent, self-sufficient corporations. The result of more than one hundred interviews, this compelling analysis highlights the importance of local sources of competitive advantage in a volatile world economy.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The author of On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored illuminates the possibilities of flirtation--its risks and instructive amusements--and the spaces flirtation opens in the stories we tell ourselves, particularly within the framework of psychoanalysis. The book reveals the virtues of being committed to the open-endedness of life.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - MacKinnon contends that pornography, racial and sexual harassment, and racial hate speech are acts of intimidation, subordination, terrorism, and discrimination, and should be legally treated as such.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Drawing on his rich experience within psychiatry, Leston Havens takes the reader on an extraordinary journey through the vast and changing landscape of psychotherapy and psychiatry today. Closely examining the dynamics of the doctor-patient exchange, he seeks to locate and describe the elusive therapeutic environment within which psychological healing most effectively takes place.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Steele offers a devastating critique of a high-stakes game of foreign policy played by rules that no longer apply, and then proposes a more realistic and pragmatic view of the world and our place in it. Steel argues that a renewed foreign policy must address not only the changes in the world order, but the presssing, unmet needs within America. Certain to provoke controversy.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From Paris to Peking, from Saigon to Washington, the pillars of the postwar world tottered on the brink of collapse in 1968. 'Year of the Heroic Guerrilla' is the first global analysis of that universal upheaval.Daniels vividly depicts the great crises of that era: the Tet offensive and the abdication of Lyndon Johnson; the denouncement of the counterculture; the fissuring of the civil rights movement and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.; the student revolt at Columbia University; the May uprising in France that nearly overthrew the Fifth Republic; the 'cultural revolution' in China; the chilling of the Prague Spring by the Soviet army; and, finally, the convention and riots in Mayor Daley's Chicago, signaling the downturn of the revolutionary spirit in America.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this illuminating study of the 'crucial century' (1830-1930), Alfred Kazin views the major figures in American writing, beginning in the 1830s when Ralph Waldo Emerson founded a national literature on the basis of a religious revolution, and ending on the eve of the 1930s with modernism--Eliot, Pound, Hemingway, Fitzgerald--and with the revelation of the 'postponed power' of those who had been modern before their time--Henry Adams, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This fifth volume in the world-acclaimed series brings the history of women up to the present, placing it in the context of momentous events and profound social changes that have marked our time.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the paint-by-numbers fad, to the public fascination with Mamie Eisenhower's apparel, to the visual explosion that was Elvis Presley on stage, As Seen On TV explores what Americans saw and what they looked for during television's first golden era, the 1950s.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Stephen Holmes uses the tools of the political theorist and the intellectual historian to expose the philosophical underpinnings of antiliberalism in it nonmarxist guise.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This collection of essays explores the ways in which Confucian traditions have shaped styles of being modern in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. It questions assumptions about the rise of industrial East Asia, at the same time exploring its ideas, norms and values.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Offering a guided tour through the maze of the late-twentieth-century legal world, in which even lawyers themselves can lose their bearings, Glendon depicts the legal profession as a system in turbulence, where a variety of beliefs and ideals are vying for dominance. 'Glendon's analysis has historical depth and ideologial subtlety'.--Publishers Weekly. 8 illustrations.