harvard university press nov 2012 (22 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Whether in family life, social interactions, or business negotiations, half the people in the world speak more than one language every day. Yet many myths persist about bilingualism and bilinguals. In a lively and entertaining book, an international authority on bilingualism explores the many facets of life with two or more languages.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As the rest of the world worries about what a future might look like under Chinese supremacy, Luttwak worries about Chinäs own future prospects. Applying the logic of strategy for which he is well known, he argues that the world¿s second largest economy may be headed for a fall unless Chinäs leaders check their military ambitions.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - According to a major health survey, nearly half of all Americans have been mentally ill at some point in their lives¿more than a quarter in the last year. Can this be true What exactly does it mean, anyway What¿s a disorder, and what¿s just a struggle with real life This lucid and incisive book cuts through both professional jargon and polemical hot air, to describe the intense political and intellectual struggles over what counts as a ¿real¿ disorder, and what goes into the ¿DSM,¿ the psychiatric bible. Is schizophrenia a disorder Absolutely. Is homosexuality It was¿till gay rights activists drove it out of the DSM a generation ago. What about new and controversial diagnoses Is ¿social anxiety disorder¿ a way of saying that it¿s sick to be shy, or ¿female sexual arousal disorder¿ that it¿s sick to be tired An advisor to the DSM, but also a fierce critic of exaggerated overuse, McNally defends the careful approach of describing disorders by patterns of symptoms that can be seen, and illustrates how often the system medicalizes everyday emotional life. Neuroscience, genetics, and evolutionary psychology may illuminate the biological bases of mental illness, but at this point, McNally argues, no science can draw a bright line between disorder and distress. In a pragmatic and humane conclusion, he offers questions for patients and professionals alike to help understand, and cope with, the sorrows and psychopathologies of everyday life.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For this six-volume edition of The Histories, W. R. Paton's 1922 translation has been thoroughly revised, the Buttner-Wobst Greek text corrected, and explanatory notes and a new introduction added. All but the first five of forty volumes survive in an incomplete state. Volume VI includes fragments unattributed to particular books of The Histories.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This definitive biography of Subhas Chandra Bose, the revered and controversial Indian nationalist who struggled to liberate his country from British rule before and during World War II, moves beyond the legend to reveal the impassioned life and times of the private and public man.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The meaning of the Taj Mahal, the perceptions and responses it prompts, ideas about the building and the history that shape them: these form the subject of Tillotson?s book. More than a richly illustrated history, this book is an eloquent meditation on the place of the Taj Mahal in the cultural imagination of India and the wider world.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One of the most visited sites in Italy, the Roman Forum is also one of the best-known wonders of the Roman world. Watkin examines the roles of the ancient remains while revealing what the standing structures embody¿including the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque churches, as well as the nearby monuments that have important histories of their own.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Giovanni Pontano (1426-1503), whose academic name was Gioviano, was the most important Latin poet of the fifteenth century as well as a leading statesman who served as prime minister to the Aragonese kings of Naples. His Dialogues are our best source for the humanist academy of Naples which Pontano led for several decades.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1039 Byzantium was the most powerful empire in Europe and the Near East. By 1079 it was a politically unstable state half the size, menaced by enemies on all sides. The History of Michael Attaleiates is our main source for this astonishing reversal. This translation, based on the most recent critical edition, includes notes, maps, and glossary.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - These essays examine a millennium of humorous and satirical writing in the Islamic world. Humor in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish narrative emerges here as a culturally modulated phenomenon that demands examination with reference to its historical framework and that, in turn, communicates as much about its producers as it does about its audience.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Most kids in the developed world finish high school¿but not in the United States. More than a million drop out every year, and the numbers are rising. Dropping Out provides answers to fundamental questions: Who drops out, and why What happens to them when they do How can we prevent at-risk kids from short-circuiting their futures.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Piazza San Marco, one of the most famous, instantly recognizable townscapes in the West, has been described as a stage set, Europe's drawing room, a painter's canvas. This book traces its changing shape and function, from its beginnings in the ninth century to its present day ubiquity in the Venetian, European, as well as global imagination.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Michael Marullus (c. 1453/4-1500), born in Greece, began life as a mercenary soldier but became a prominent Neo-Latin poet and scholar in Italy. Later poets imitated him in vernacular love poetry, especially Ronsard. This edition contains Marullus' complete Latin poetry. All of these works appear in English translation for the first time.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Boethius? Consolation of Philosophy, a 6th century meditation on fate, free will, and virtue, was translated from Latin to Old English around 900, bringing it to a vernacular audience for the first time. This edition, translated from Old English by Susan Irvine and Malcolm Godden, includes verse prologues and epilogues associated with King Alfred.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume collects one hundred of the most important and beloved Late Antique and Medieval Latin hymns from Western Europe. Ranging from Ambrose in the late fourth century to Bonaventure in the thirteenth, the authors meditate on the ineffable, from Passion to Paradise, and cover a broad gamut of poetic forms and meters.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - It is widely believed that the free market is the best mechanism ever invented to efficiently allocate resources in society. This book argues that our faith in 'free markets' has severely distorted American politics and punishment practices.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Between 1870 and 1945, advances in communication and transportation simultaneously expanded and shrank the world. In five interpretive essays, A World Connecting goes beyond nations, empires, and world wars to capture the era's defining feature: the profound and disruptive shift toward an ever more rapidly integrating world.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This comic, serious inquiry into the nature of art takes its technical vocabulary from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. It is ridiculous to think of poems, paintings, or films as distinct from other things in the world, including people. Talking about art should be contiguous with talking about other relevant matters.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Volume V of a projected six-volume Vulgate Bible presents the twelve minor prophetical books of the Old Testament, as well as two deuterocanonical books, 1 and 2 Maccabees. The major prophets' themes of judgment and redemption are further developed here by the minor prophets. Influential martyrdom narratives anticipate Christian hagiography.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Westerners have a strong impression that Islam does not allow religious imagery. Elias corrects this view. Unearthing shades of meaning in Islamic thought throughout history, he argues that Islamic perspectives on representation and perception should be sought in diverse areas such as optics, alchemy, dreaming, vehicle decoration, Sufi metaphysics.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Humanism has mostly considered the question 'What does it mean to be human ' from a Western perspective. Dabashi asks it anew from a non-European perspective, in a groundbreaking study of 1,400 years of Persian literary humanism. He presents the unfolding of this vast tradition as the creative and subversive subconscious of Islamic civilization.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Consumers feel powerless in the face of big industry, and the dominant view of economic regulators agrees with them. Trumbull argues that this represents a misreading of the historical record and the core logic of interest representation. Weak interests, he reveals, quite often emerge the victors in policy battles, by forging unlikely alliances.