harvard university press okt 1999 (10 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A brief history of chance, from the ancients' first readings of bird innards to the neighbor's last bout with the lottery to the reliability of DNA findings as legal evidence. 30 line drawings.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A journey into the verdant reaches of the Vermont hills, where in the last century humans tried their hand and where bear and moose now find shelter--an 'extended homage, a memoir and meditation' ('Los Angeles Times'). 12 line illustrations. 2 maps.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This classic study, first published in 1942, helped to revolutionize evolutionary biology by offering a new approach to taxonomic principles and correlating the ideas and findings of modern systematics with those of other life science disciplines. This book is one of the foundational documents of the 'Evolutionary Synthesis.'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book, filled with the voices of teenage girls, corrects the misperceptions that have crept into our picture of female adolescence. Based on the author's yearlong conversation with white junior high and middle school girls -- from the working poor and the middle class -- Raising Their Voices allows us to hear how girls adopt some expectations about gender but strenuously resist others, how they use traditionally feminine means to maintain their independence, and how they recognize and resist pressures to ignore their own needs and wishes.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - No matter what we do, however kind or generous our deeds may seem, a hidden motive of selfishness lurks--or so science has claimed for years. This book, whose publication promises to be a major scientific event, tells us differently. In.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Why can a 'white' woman give birth to a 'black' baby, while a 'black' woman can never give birth to a 'white' baby in the United States What makes racial 'passing' so different from social mobility Why are interracial and incestuous relations often confused or conflated in literature, making 'miscegenation' appear as if it were incest Werner Sollors examines these questions and others in 'Neither Black nor White yet Both,' a fully researched investigation of literary works that, in the past, have been read more for a black-white contrast of 'either-or' than for an interracial realm of 'neither, nor, both, and in-between.' From the origins of the term 'race' to the cultural sources of the 'Tragic Mulatto,' and from the calculus of color to the retellings of various plots, Sollors examines what we know about race, analyzing recurrent motifs in scientific and legal works as well as in fiction, drama, and poetry.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Cognitive science addresses cognition on two levels: the individual and the universal. To fill the gap between the Romantic vision of the solitary thinker, whose thoughts are the product of unique experience, and the cognitive-psychological view that revolves around the search for the universal foundations of human cognition, Zerubavel charts an expansive social realm of mind -- a domain that focuses on the conventional, normative aspects of the way we think.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ancient Greeks and Romans often turned to magic to achieve personal goals. Magical rites were seen as a route for direct access to the gods, for material gains as well as spiritual satisfaction. In this fascinating survey of magical beliefs and practices from the sixth century B.C.E. through late antiquity, Fritz Graf sheds new light on ancient religion.Evidence of widespread belief in the efficacy of magic is pervasive: the contemporaries of Plato and Aristotle placed voodoo dolls on graves in order to harm business rivals or attract lovers. The Twelve Tables of Roman Law forbids the magical transference of crops from one field to another. Graves, wells, and springs throughout the Mediterranean have yielded vast numbers of Greek and Latin curse tablets. And ancient literature abounds with scenes of magic, from necromancy to love spells. Graf explores the important types of magic in Greco-Roman antiquity, describing rites and explaining the theory behind them. And he characterizes the ancient magician: his training and initiation, social status, and presumed connections with the divine world. With trenchant analysis of underlying conceptions and vivid account of illustrative cases, Graf gives a full picture of the practice of magic and its implications. He concludes with an evaluation of the relation of magic to religion. Magic in the Ancient World offers an unusual look at ancient Greek and Roman thought and a new understanding of popular recourse to the supernatural.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Already famous throughout Europe, this international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the actual, practical accomplishments of Communism around the world: terror, torture, famine, mass deportations, and massacres. Astonishing in the sheer detail it amasses, the book is the first comprehensive attempt to catalogue and analyze the crimes of Communism over seventy years.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 858 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Already famous throughout Europe, this international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the actual, practical accomplishments of Communism around the world: terror, torture, famine, mass deportations, and massacres. Astonishing in the sheer detail it amasses, the book is the first comprehensive attempt to catalogue and analyze the crimes of Communism over seventy years.