harvard university press mär 2016 (17 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The transformation of the Roman world from polytheistic to Christian is one of the most sweeping ideological changes of premodern history. At the center was sex. Kyle Harper examines how Christianity changed the ethics of sexual behavior from shame to sin, and shows how the roots of modern sexuality are grounded in an ancient religious revolution.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Although eugenics is now widely discredited, some groups and individuals claim a new scientific basis for old racist assumptions. Pondering the continuing influence of racist research and thought, despite all evidence to the contrary, Robert Sussman explains why¿when it comes to race¿too many people still mistake bigotry for science.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Countless African Americans have passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and communities. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile. This history of passing explores the possibilities, challenges, and losses that racial indeterminacy presented to men and women living in a country obsessed with racial distinctions.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For the Internet generation, educational technology designed with the brain in mind offers a natural pathway to the pleasures and rewards of deep learning. Drawing on neuroscience and cognitive psychology, Michelle Miller shows how attention, memory, critical thinking, and analytical reasoning can be enhanced through technology-aided approaches.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Sets forth the 7 foundational ideas of statistics, a discipline related to but distinct from mathematics and computer science.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Charles Walker examines the largest rebellion in the history of Spain's American empire, led by Latin America's most iconic revolutionary, Tupac Amaru, and his wife. It began in 1780 as a multiclass alliance against European-born usurpers but degenerated into a vicious caste war, leaving a legacy that still influences South American politics today.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A biography of one of America's iconic folk instruments.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Seit Jahrhunderten wird in der Philosophie über die Natur der Sprache gestritten. Für die rationalistisch-empiristische Tradition in der Folge von Hobbes, Locke und Condillac ist sie ein Werkzeug, das Menschen erfunden haben, um Informationen auszutauschen. In seinem neuen Buch bekennt sich Charles Taylor zum gegnerischen Lager der Romantik um Hamann, Herder und Humboldt und zeigt, dass der rationalistisch-empiristische Ansatz etwas Entscheidendes übersieht: Sprache beschreibt nicht bloß, sie erschafft Bedeutung, formt alle menschliche Erfahrung und ist integraler Bestandteil unseres individuellen Selbst.Taylor geht jedoch noch einen Schritt über das Denken der deutschen Romantik hinaus und entwirft eine umfassende Theorie der Sprache im Sinne des linguistischen Holismus: Sprache ist ein geistiges Phänomen, aber sie kommt auch in künstlerischen Darstellungen, Gesten, Stimmen, Haltungen zum Ausdruck und kennt daher keinen Gegensatz von Körper und Geist. Indem er dieses grundlegende Vermögen des 'sprachbegabten Tiers' erhellt, wirft Taylor ein neues Licht darauf, was es heißt, ein Mensch zu sein.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Cultural Matrix seeks to unravel an American paradox: the socioeconomic crisis and social isolation of disadvantaged black youth, on the one hand, and their extraordinary integration and prominence in popular culture on the other. This interdisciplinary work explains how a complex matrix of cultures influences black youth.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Political theorists focus on the nature of justice, liberty, and equality while ignoring the institutions through which these ideals are achieved. Political scientists keep institutions in view but deploy a meager set of value-conceptions in analyzing them. A more political political theory is needed to address this gap, Jeremy Waldron argues.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Does America have a free press Many who say yes appeal to First Amendment protections against censorship. Sam Lebovic shows that free speech, on its own, is not sufficient to produce a free press and helps us understand the crises that beset the press amid media consolidation, a secretive national security state, and the daily newspaper¿s decline.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Despite declining prohibitions on sexual relationships, Americans are nearly unanimous in condemning marital infidelity. Deborah Rhode explores why. She exposes the harms that criminalizing adultery inflicts¿including civil lawsuits, job termination, and loss of child custody¿and makes a case for repealing laws against adultery and polygamy.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the bone rooms of the Smithsonian Institution and other museums in the late nineteenth century, a scientific revolution was unfolding, as collectors engaged in a global competition to recover the best human skeletons, mummies, fossils. Study of these remains led to the discrediting of racial theory and the search for human origins and evolution.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What if you were to discover that you were only one half of a whole¿that you had a divine double In the second and third centuries CE, Charles Stang shows, this idea gripped the religious imagination of the Eastern Mediterranean, offering a distinctive understanding of the self that has survived in various forms down to the present.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One of political philosophy¿s most trenchant and inventive critics challenges the field¿s normative turn, arguing that the study of politics should focus on real politics, where normative judgments arise from concrete configurations of power. Raymond Geuss shows how this can be done without succumbing to a toxic relativism or abandoning utopianism.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Lee Konstantinou examines irony in American literary and political life, showing how it migrated from the countercultural margins of the 1950s to the 1980s mainstream. Along the way, irony was absorbed into postmodern theory and ultimately became a target of recent writers who have moved beyond its limitations with a practice of ¿postirony.¿.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Challenging the conventional trope that French environmentalism arose after WWII, Caroline Ford argues that a broad environmental consciousness emerged in France much earlier. In response to war, natural disasters, and imperialism, the bourgeoisie, along with politicians, engineers, naturalists, writers, and painters, took up environmental causes.