harvard university press nov 2009 (19 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This enlarged edition of the most significant and celebrated slave narrative completes the Jacobs family saga, surely one of the most memorable in all of American history. John Jacobs's short slave narrative, 'A True Tale of Slavery,' published in London in 1861, adds a brother's perspective to Harriet Jacobs's autobiography. It is an exciting addition to this now classic work, as John Jacobs presents further historical information about family life so well described already by his sister. Once more, Jean Yellin, who discovered this long-lost document, supplies annotation and authentication. This is the standard edition of 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,' reissued here in the John Harvard Library and updated with a new bibliography.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Veron presents the geological history of the Great Barrier Reef, the biology of coral reef ecosystems, and a primer on what we know about climate change. He concludes that most coral reefs will be dead from mass bleaching and irreversible acidification within the coming century unless greenhouse gas emissions are curbed.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Can people coexist in peace when their basic beliefs are irreconcilable Kaplan responds by taking us back to early modern Europe, when the issue of religious toleration was no less pressing than it is today. This compelling story reveals that toleration has taken many guises in the past and suggests that it may well do the same in the future.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Schumpeter made his mark as the prophet of incessant change. Drawing on all of Schumpeter¿s writings, including many intimate diaries and letters never before used, this biography paints the full portrait of a magnetic figure who aspired to become the world¿s greatest economist, lover, and horseman¿and admitted to failure only with the horses.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In December 2002, environmental historian Tom Griffiths set sail with the Australian Antarctic Division to deliver the new team of winterers. In this beautifully written book, he reflects on the history of human experiences in Antarctica, taking the reader on a journey of discovery, exploration, and adventure in an unforgettable land.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Much of Bembo's work is devoted to the external affairs of Venice, principally conflicts with other European states and with the Turks in the East. The History of Venice was published after his death, in Latin and in his own Italian version. This edition, completed by this third volume, makes it available for the first time in English translation.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Filelfo (1398¿1481), one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance, was the principal humanist working in Lombardy in the middle of the Quattrocento and served as court poet to the Visconti and Sforza dukes of Milan. His Odes constitute the first complete cycle of Horatian odes since classical antiquity.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Frost notoriously resisted collecting his prose¿going so far as to halt the publication of a prepared compilation and to ¿lose¿ the transcripts of the Norton Lectures he delivered in 1936. This volume collects the prose he did make public¿in newspapers, magazines, journals, speeches, and books¿the wit, force, and grace that made his poetry famous.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jim Crow has long represented Americäs imperfect union. This edition of the earliest Jim Crow plays and songs presents essential performances assembling backtalk, banter, masquerade, and dance into the diagnostic American style. They celebrate blackness in a Republic that failed to unite until Americans agreed to disagree over Jim Crow¿s meaning.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For what purpose and for whom has biographical pursuit endured, and how does it play such a contested, popular role in contemporary Western culture Award-winning biographer Hamilton addresses these questions in an incisive and vivid narrative that will appeal to students of human nature and self-representation across the arts and sciences.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In a kaleidoscopic global tour of the decade, DeGroot reminds us that the ¿Ballad of the Green Beret¿ outsold ¿Give Peace a Chance,¿ that the Students for a Democratic Society were outnumbered by Young Americans for Freedom, that revolution was always a pipe dream, and that the Sixties belong to Reagan and de Gaulle more than to Kennedy and Dubcek.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Connelly tells the disturbing story of a quest to remake ourselves by policing national borders and breeding better people. With its transnational scope and exhaustive research, this critique uncovers the cost inflicted by a misguided humanitarian movement and urges renewed commitment to the reproductive rights of all people.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The assassination of President Kennedy was an appalling and grisly conspiracy. Kaiser shows that the events of November 22, 1963, cannot be understood without fully grasping the two larger stories of which they were a part: the U.S. government¿s campaign against organized crime; and the furtive quest of two administrations to eliminate Castro.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Offers a provocative account of the history of American civil rights law. Covering the lost challenges workers and their lawyers launched against Jim Crow in the 1940s, this title shows how Brown only partially fulfilled the promise of civil rights.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The mystery of inheritance has captivated thinkers since antiquity, and the unlocking of this mystery - the development of classical genetics - is one of humanity's greatest achievements. This book presents the history of genetics through the eyes of a dozen or so central players, beginning with Charles Darwin and ending with Hermann J Muller.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'No Small Matter' uses dazzling images and evocative descriptions to reveal the virtually invisible possibilities of nanoscience. Authors Frankel and Whitesides offer an overview of recent scientific advances that have contributed to this ever-shrinking microtechnology.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1973, not long after the last American combat troops returned from Vietnam, President Nixon fulfilled his campaign promise and ended the draft. Based on archival research, this title confronts the political, moral, and social issues a volunteer force raises for a democratic society as well as for the defense of our nation.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Marriages between close relatives were commonplace in nineteenth-century England. This title shows us just how the political networks of the eighteenth-century aristocracy were succeeded by hundreds of in-married bourgeois clans - in finance and industry, in local and national politics, in the church, and in intellectual life.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Arguing against the use of the term 'slavery' for any extreme form of social dependency, Rotman shows instead that slavery and freedom are unrelated concepts. His work offers a radical new understanding of the geopolitical and religious dynamics that have defined and redefined slavery and freedom, in the past and in our own time.