harvard university press mär 2019 (17 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Idealization is a basic feature of human thought. We proceed 'as if¿ our representations were true, while knowing they are not. Kwame Anthony Appiah defends the centrality of the imagination in science, morality, and everyday life and shows that our best chance for accessing reality is to open our minds to a plurality of idealized depictions.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one percent of the United States' total wealth. More than one hundred and fifty years later, that number has barely budged. The Color of Money seeks to explain the stubborn persistence of this racial wealth gap by focusing on the generators of wealth in the black community: black banks. With the civil rights movement in full swing, President Nixon promoted 'black capitalism,' a plan to support black banks and minority-owned businesses. But the catch-22 of black banking is that the very institutions needed to help communities escape the deep poverty caused by discrimination and segregation inevitably became victims of that same poverty. In this timely and eye-opening account, Baradaran challenges the long-standing belief that black communities could ever really hope to accumulate wealth in a segregated economy'--Back cover.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The detection of gravitational waves¿ripples in spacetime¿has already been called the scientific coup of this century. Govert Schilling recounts the struggles that threatened to derail the quest and describes the detector's astounding precision, weaving far-reaching discoveries about the universe into a gripping story of ambition and perseverance.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Cyrus the Great re-contextualizes Cyrus's epoch in light of recent scholarship. Themes include: Mesopotamian antecedents of his religious policy, the idiosyncratic genesis of Persian imperial art; Babylonian exile and the Bible; Hellenistic and Arsacid genealogical constructs; and his enigmatic evanescence in Sasanian and Muslim traditions.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Brilliant.Timely and necessary.' -Financial Times'Especially timely as we struggle to make sense of how it is that individuals and communities persist in holding beliefs that have been thoroughly discredited.' -Darren Frey, Science If reason is what makes us human, why do we behave so irrationally And if it is so useful, why didn't it evolve in other animals This groundbreaking account of the evolution of reason by two renowned cognitive scientists seeks to solve this double enigma. Reason, they argue, helps us justify our beliefs, convince others, and evaluate arguments. It makes it easier to cooperate and communicate and to live together in groups. Provocative, entertaining, and undeniably relevant, The Enigma of Reason will make many reasonable people rethink their beliefs.'Reasonable-seeming people are often totally irrational. Rarely has this insight seemed more relevant.Still, an essential puzzle remains: How did we come to be this way .Cognitive scientists Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber [argue that] reason developed not to enable us to solve abstract, logical problems.[but] to resolve the problems posed by living in collaborative groups.' -Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker 'Turns reason's weaknesses into strengths, arguing that its supposed flaws are actually design features that work remarkably well.' -Financial Times'The best thing I have read about human reasoning. It is extremely well written, interesting, and very enjoyable to read.'-Gilbert Harman, Princeton University.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Cornelia Dean draws on her 30 years as a science journalist with the New York Times to expose the flawed reasoning and knowledge gaps that handicap readers when they try to make sense of science. She calls attention to conflicts of interest in research and the price society pays when science journalism declines and funding dries up.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The steady accretion of public policies over the decades has fundamentally changed how America is governed. The formulation and delivery of policy have emerged as the government¿s entire raison d¿être, redefining rights and reconfiguring institutional structures. The Policy State looks closely at this massive unnoticed fact of modern politics and addresses the controversies swirling around it. Government has become more responsive and inclusive, but the shift has also polarized politics and sowed a deep distrust of institutions. These developments demand a thorough reconsideration of historical governance.¿A sterling example of political science at its best: analytically rigorous, historically informed, and targeted at questions of undeniable contemporary significance¿ Orren and Skowronek uncover a transformation that revolutionized American politics and now threatens to tear it apart.¿¿Timothy Shenk, New Republic¿Wherever you start out in our politics, this book will turn your sense of things sideways and make you rethink deeply held assumptions. It¿s a model of what political science could be, but so rarely is.¿¿Yuval Levin, National Review¿A gripping narrative¿opening up new avenues for reflection along methodological, conceptual, and normative lines.¿¿Bernardo Zacka, Contemporary Political Theory.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - George Washington Prize FinalistWinner of the Society of the Cincinnati Prize¿Fascinating¿ Hinderaker¿s meticulous research shows that the Boston Massacre was contested from the beginning¿ [Its] meanings have plenty to tell us about Americäs identity, past and present.¿¿Wall Street JournalOn the night of March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd gathered in front of Boston¿s Custom House, killing five people. Denounced as an act of unprovoked violence and villainy, the event that came to be known as the Boston Massacre is one of the most famous and least understood incidents in American history. Eric Hinderaker revisits this dramatic confrontation, examining in forensic detail the facts of that fateful night, the competing narratives that molded public perceptions at the time, and the long campaign to transform the tragedy into a touchstone of American identity.¿Hinderaker brilliantly unpacks the creation of competing narratives around a traumatic and confusing episode of violence. With deft insight, careful research, and lucid writing, he shows how the bloodshed in one Boston street became pivotal to making and remembering a revolution that created a nation.¿¿Alan Taylor, author of American Revolutions¿Seldom does a book appear that compels its readers to rethink a signal event in American history. It¿s even rarer¿to accomplish so formidable a feat in prose of sparkling clarity and grace. Boston¿s Massacre is a gem.¿¿Fred Anderson, author of Crucible of War.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Historian David Moss adapts the case study method made famous by Harvard Business School to revitalize our conversations about governance and democracy and show how the United States has often thrived on political conflict. These 19 cases ask us to weigh choices and consequences, wrestle with momentous decisions, and come to our own conclusions.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in the Florence during the Age of the Medici. This I Tatti edition contains all of his Greek and Latin poetry (with the exception of the Silvae in ITRL 14) translated into English for the first time.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In On Human Worth and Excellence, celebrated diplomat, historian, philosopher, and scholar Giannozzo Manetti (1396-1459) asks: what are the moral, intellectual, and spiritual capabilities of the unique amalgam of body and soul that constitutes human nature This I Tatti edition contains the first complete translation into English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Voting as a Rite examines China's experiments with elections from the perspective of intellectual and cultural history. Rather than arguing that such exercises were either successful or failed attempts at political democracy, Hill instead asks: how did those who participated in Chinese elections define success or failure for themselves.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Heidi Tworek's innovative history reveals how, across two devastating wars, Germany attempted to build a powerful communication empire¿and how the Nazis manipulated the news to rise to dominance in Europe and further their global agenda. When the news became a form of international power, it changed the course of history.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - After 2008, private-sector spending took a decade to recover. Yair Listokin thinks we can respond more quickly to the next meltdown by reviving and refashioning a policy approach, used in the New Deal, to harness law's ability to function as a macroeconomic tool, stimulating or relieving demand as required under certain crisis conditions.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the final volume of Asia Inside Out, a stellar interdisciplinary team of scholars shows the ways that itinerant groups criss-crossing the continent have transformed their culture and surroundings. Going beyond time and place, which animated the first two books, this third one looks at human beings on the move.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jacob Lee offers a new understanding of the conquest of the American West based on the long history of warfare and resistance in the Mississippi River valley. The river and its tributaries were never simply a backdrop to unfolding events but advanced and thwarted the aspirations of Native nations, European imperialists, and American settlers alike.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Elizabeth Foster examines how French imperialists and the Africans they ruled imagined the religious future of sub-Saharan Africa in the years just before and after decolonization. The story encompasses the transition to independence, Catholic contributions to black intellectual currents, and efforts to create an authentically 'African¿ church.