harvard university press nov 2014 (17 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - More than 50 years after independence, 'Algerian Chronicles, ' with its prescient analysis of the dead end of terrorism, appears here in English for the first time. Published in France in 1958 the year the war caused the collapse of the Fourth French Republic it is one of Albert Camus most political works: an exploration of his commitment to Algeria.'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A searching meditation on our all-too-human capacity for inhumanity, 'Evil Men' confronts atrocity head-on how it looks and feels, what motivates it, how it can be stopped. James Dawes s unflinchingly honest account, drawing on firsthand interviews, is not just about the things Japanese war criminals did, but about what it means to befriend them.'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Monarchical presidential regimes in the Arab world looked as though they would last indefinitely-until events in Tunisia and Egypt made clear their time was up. This is the first book to lay bare the dynamics of a governmental system that largely defined the Arab Middle East in the twentieth century, and the popular opposition they engendered.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Explores a new way to connect the primary Sanskrit epics Ramayana and Mahabharata with their Greek analogues, the Iliad and Odyssey. This cross-cultural comparative study provides a more comprehensive perspective on the poems' religiosity than the vantage points of Hellenists or of Indologists alone.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'When planes crash, bridges collapse, and automobile gas tanks explode, we are quick to blame poor design. But Henry Petroski says we must look beyond design for causes and corrections. Known for his masterly explanations of engineering successes and failures, Petroski here takes his analysis a step further, to consider the larger context in which accidents occur'--P. [4] of cover.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A contentious debate lingers over whether Franklin Delano Roosevelt turned his back on the Jews of Hitler s Europe. 'FDR and the Jews' reveals a concerned leader whose efforts on behalf of Jews were far greater than those of any other world figure but whose moral leadership was tempered by the political realities of depression and war.'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Between Thucydides and Polybius focuses on the contribution of fourth-century authors such as Ephorus, Theopompus, and Xenophon to the development of Greek historiography. Essays examine the interface between historiography and rhetoric, while undermining the claim that historians after Thucydides allowed rhetoric to prevail over research.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Slaughter in battle was once seen as a legitimate way to settle disputes. When pitched battles ceased to exist, the law of victory gave way to the rule of unbridled force. Whitman explains why ritualized violence was more effective in ending carnage, and why humanitarian laws that view war as evil have led to longer, more barbaric conflicts.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Can we live with the consequences of wiping our closest relatives off the face of the Earth, and all the biological knowledge about ourselves that would die along with them Extinction of the great apes threatens to become a reality within a few human generations. Stanford tells us how we can redirect the course of an otherwise bleak future.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Europe¿s financial crisis cannot be blamed on the Euro, Harold James contends in this probing exploration of the whys, whens, whos, and what-ifs of European monetary union. The current crisis goes deeper, to a series of problems that were debated but not resolved at the time of the Eurös invention.Since the 1960s, Europeans had been looking for a way to address two conundrums simultaneously: the dollar¿s privileged position in the international monetary system, and Germany¿s persistent current account surpluses in Europe. The Euro was created under a politically independent central bank to meet the primary goal of price stability. But while the monetary side of union was clearly conceived, other prerequisites of stability were beyond the reach of technocratic central bankers. Issues such as fiscal rules and Europe-wide banking supervision and regulation were thoroughly discussed during planning in the late 1980s and 1990s, but remained in the hands of member states. That omission proved to be a cause of crisis decades later.Here is an account that helps readers understand the European monetary crisis in depth, by tracing behind-the-scenes negotiations using an array of sources unavailable until now, notably from the European Community¿s Committee of Central Bank Governors and the Delors Committee of 1988¿89, which set out the plan for how Europe could reach its goal of monetary union. As this foundational study makes clear, it was the constant friction between politicians and technocrats that shaped the Euro. And, Euro or no Euro, this clash will continue into the future.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Indiäs Rabindranath Tagore was the first Asian Nobel Laureate and possibly the most prolific and diverse serious writer ever known. The largest single volume of his work available in English, this collection includes poetry, songs, autobiographical works, letters, travel writings, prose, novels, short stories, humorous pieces, and plays.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Coluccio Salutati was chancellor of the Florentine Republic and leader of the humanist movement in Italy in the generation after Petrarch and Boccaccio. He was among the first to apply his classical learning to political theory and his rhetorical skills to the defense of liberty. This volume contains a new English version of his political writings.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1889 Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman met in a Lower East Side coffee shop. Over the next fifty years they became fast friends, fleeting lovers, and loyal comrades. This dual biography offers a glimpse into their intertwined lives, the influence of the anarchist movement they shaped, and their unyielding commitment to equality and justice.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was at once a highly competent taxonomist in a traditional mold and a bold, almost visionary, philosopher of nature who aspired to contrive an all-embracing 'physics of the earth' by sheer force of intellect. In this first modern book-length study of Lamarck, Richard Burkhardt examines the origin and development of his theory of organic evolution, the major theory prior to Darwin. 320 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - More than a conventional biography, Grant Wacker¿s interpretive study deepens our understanding of why Billy Graham has mattered so much to so many, and how his uncanny ability to appropriate trends in the wider culture allowed him to transform his born-again theology into a moral vocabulary capturing the aspirations and fears of average Americans.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Katherine Grandjean shows that the English conquest of New England was not just a matter of consuming territory, of transforming woods into farms. It entailed a struggle to control the flow of information¿who could travel where, what news could be sent, over which routes winding through the woods along the early American communications frontier.