harvard university press mär 2018 (15 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The United States has two separate banking systems¿one serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else. Deserted by banks and lacking credit, many people are forced to wander through a Wild West of payday lenders and check-cashing services thanks to the effects of deregulation in the 1970s that continue today, Mehrsa Baradaran shows.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Through a series of vivid case studies, Authors in Court charts the 300-year-long dance between authorship and copyright that has shaped each institution¿s response to changing social norms of identity, privacy, and celebrity. ¿A literary historian by training, Rose is completely at home in the world of law, as well as the history of photography and art. This is the work of an interdisciplinary scholar at the height of his powers. The arguments are sophisticated and the elegant text is a work of real craftsmanship. It is superb.¿¿Lionel Bently, University of Cambridge¿Authors in Court is well-written, erudite, informative, and engaging throughout. As the chapters go along, we see the way that personalities inflect the supposedly impartial law; we see the role of gender in authorial self-fashioning; we see some of the fault lines which produce litigation; and we get a nice history of the evolution of the fair use doctrine. This is a book that should at least be on reserve for any IP¿related course. Going forward, no one writing about any of the cases Rose discusses can afford to ignore his contribution.¿¿Lewis Hyde, Kenyon College.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearIn Minds on Fire, Mark C. Carnes shows how role-immersion games channel students¿ competitive (and sometimes mischievous) impulses into transformative learning experiences. His discussion is based on interviews with scores of students and faculty who have used a pedagogy called Reacting to the Past, which features month-long games set during the French Revolution, Galileös trial, the partition of India, and dozens of other epochal moments in disciplines ranging from art history to the sciences. These games have spread to over three hundred campuses around the world, where many of their benefits defy expectations.¿[Minds on Fire is] Carnes¿s beautifully written apologia for this fascinating and powerful approach to teaching and learning in higher education. If we are willing to open our minds and explore student-centered approaches like Reacting [to the Past], we might just find that the spark of student engagement we have been searching for in higher education¿s mythical past can catch fire in the classrooms of the present.¿¿James M. Lang, Chronicle of Higher Education¿This book is a highly engaging and inspirational study of a `new¿ technique that just might change the way educators bring students to learning in the 21st century.¿¿D. D. Bouchard, Choice.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey argue that in India the removal and reuse of waste lays waste to human lives. People at the bottom are injured and stigmatized as they work with sewage, toxic chemicals, and rotting garbage. If India is to emerge as a model for the world, its policies will have to reach beyond the environment, to encompass empathy.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A single species of fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has been the subject of scientific research for more than one hundred years. Stephanie Elizabeth Mohr explains why this tiny insect merits such intense scrutiny, and how laboratory findings made first in flies have expanded our understanding of human health and disease.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Drawing on extensive observations of wild chimpanzees¿ behavior and social dynamics, Craig Stanford portrays a complex and more humanlike ape than the chimps Jane Goodall popularized more than a half century agöone that plots political coups, strategizes for resources, and passes on cultural traditions to younger generations.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Zbigniew Brzezinski's impact on America's role in the world extends far beyond his years in the Carter White House. Justin Vaïsse offers the first biography of the Polish immigrant and grand strategist whose geopolitical vision, scholarly writings, and policy advice to many presidents brought lasting changes to America's conduct of foreign policy.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Faced with government¿s ineptitude, people are attracted to strong leaders and bold action. As Pierre Rosanvallon demonstrates, ¿presidentialism¿ may reflect the particular concerns of today, but its many precursors show that democracy has always struggled with tension between popular government and concentrated authority.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ge Zhaoguang addresses sensitive questions of identity that shape the politics of the world¿s most populous country. This insider¿s account teases out nuances of Chinäs encounter with the contemporary world, using its past to explain its present and to provide insight into paths the nation might follow as the current century unfolds.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Christopher White points to ways that both spiritual practices and scientific speculation about multiverses and invisible dimensions are efforts to peer into the hidden elements and even existential meaning of the universe. Creatively appropriated, these ideas can restore a spiritual sense that the world is greater than anything our eyes can see.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Early in World War II, thousands of refugees traveled from France to Vichy-controlled Martinique, en route to safer shores in North, Central, and South America. While awaiting transfer, the exiles formed influential ties¿with one another and with local black dissidents. As Eric T. Jennings shows, what began as expulsion became a kind of rescue.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. DeGregori, Michael (illustrator). Neuware - James DeGregori proposes a way of thinking about cancer as a disease of evolution-one in which mutated cells outcompete healthy cells in the ecosystem of the body's tissues. By tying cancer's progression to natural selection and evolved strategies for reproductive success, his theory goes far in explaining who gets cancer, when it appears, and why.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - It is commonly believed that international law originated in respectful relations among free and equal European states. But as Jennifer Pitts shows, international law was forged as much through Europeans' domineering relations with non-European states and empires, leaving a legacy visible in the unequal structures of today's international order.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Joel Perlmann traces the history of U.S. classification of immigrants, from Ellis Island to the present day, showing how slippery and contested ideas about racial, national, and ethnic difference have been. His focus ranges from the 1897 List of Races and Peoples, through changes in the civil rights era, to proposals for reform of the 2020 Census.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When István Hont died in 2013, the world lost a giant of intellectual history. A leader of the Cambridge School of Political Thought, Hont argued passionately for a global-historical approach to political ideas. To better understand the development of liberalism, he looked not only to the works of great thinkers but also to their reception and use amid revolution and interstate competition. His innovative program of study culminated in the landmark 2005 book Jealousy of Trade, which explores the birth of economic nationalism and other social effects of expanding eighteenth-century markets. Markets, Morals, Politics brings together a celebrated cast of Hont¿s contemporaries to assess his influence, ideas, and methods.Richard Tuck, John Pocock, John Dunn, Raymond Geuss, Gareth Stedman Jones, Michael Sonenscher, John Robertson, Keith Tribe, Pasquale Pasquino, and Peter N. Miller contribute original essays on themes Hont treated with penetrating insight: the politics of commerce, debt, and luxury; the morality of markets; and economic limits on state power. The authors delve into questions about the relationship between states and markets, politics and economics, through examinations of key Enlightenment and pre-Enlightenment figures in context¿Hobbes, Rousseau, Spinoza, and many others. The contributors also add depth to Hont¿s lifelong, if sometimes veiled, engagement with Marx.The result is a work of interpretation that does justice to Hont¿s influence while developing its own provocative and illuminating arguments. Markets, Morals, Politics will be a valuable companion to readers of Hont and anyone concerned with political economy and the history of ideas.