harvard university press okt 2007 (24 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this history of 20th-century technology, Slade explains how disposability was a necessary condition for Americäs rejection of tradition and our acceptance of change and impermanence. But by choosing to support ever-shorter product lives, he argues, we may well be shortening the future of our way of life.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is a profound reexamination of the role of the German army, the Wehrmacht, in World War II. Until recently, the standard story avowed that the ordinary German soldier in World War II was a good soldier and not an accomplice to massacres of civilians. Wette explodes this myth of a ¿clean¿ Wehrmacht with devastating clarity.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This dramatic reappraisal of one of the most significant and least understood presidents in American history is based on extraordinary interviews and documents, revealing a Lyndon Baines Johnson as never seen before.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In retelling success stories from Benjamin Franklin to Andrew Carnegie to Bill Gates, Laird goes beyond personality, upbringing, and social skills to reveal the critical common key--access to circles that control and distribute opportunity and information. She contrasts how Americans have prospered--or not--with how we have talked about prospering.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A study of contemporary Arab political poetry, this book provides a wide range of insights into the ways that modern media aesthetics are shaped by language and culture. It investigates the audio-recording industry in southern Yemen, showing how various forms of political activism emerge through sensory engagements with Arabic poetry and song.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - More than half a century after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights defined what a human being is and is entitled to, Catharine MacKinnon asks: Are women human yet If women were regarded as human, would they be sold into sexual slavery worldwide; veiled, silenced, and imprisoned in homes; bred, and worked as menials for little or no pay; stoned for sex outside marriage or burned within it; mutilated genitally, impoverished economically, and mired in illiteracy--all as a matter of course and without effective recourse The cutting edge is where law and culture hurts, which is where MacKinnon operates in these essays on the transnational status and treatment of women. Taking her gendered critique of the state to the international plane, ranging widely intellectually and concretely, she exposes the consequences and significance of the systematic maltreatment of women and its systemic condonation. And she points toward fresh ways--social, legal, and political--of targeting its toxic orthodoxies. MacKinnon takes us inside the workings of nation-states, where the oppression of women defines community life and distributes power in society and government. She takes us to Bosnia-Herzogovina for a harrowing look at how the wholesale rape and murder of women and girls there was an act of genocide, not a side effect of war. She takes us into the heart of the international law of conflict to ask--and reveal--why the international community can rally against terrorists' violence, but not against violence against women. A critique of the transnational status quo that also envisions the transforming possibilities of human rights, this bracing book makes us look as never before at an ongoing war too long undeclared.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Karp explores the relationship between pills and personhood. Through the honest and vivid stories of patients, he provides unflinching portraits of people attempting to make sense of a process far more complex and mysterious than doctors or pharmaceutical companies generally admit.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Sartre has written a long overdue and comprehensive history of the Semitic Near East (modern Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Israel) from the eve of the Roman conquest to the end of the third century C.E. and the rise of Christianity. His perspective takes in all aspects of this history-political, military, economic, social, cultural, and religious.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Today, evolutionary biology is more than an explanatory concept. It is indispensable to our world. This book provides the first truly accessible and balanced account of how evolution has become a tool with applications that are thoroughly integrated, and deeply useful, in our everyday lives and our societies, often in ways that we do not realize.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1645, Matthew Hopkins and John Stearne exploited the anxiety and lawlessness of the time and initiated a brutal campaign to drive out the presumed evil in their midst. Gaskill recounts the most savage witch-hunt in English history. By the fall of 1647 at least 250 people had been captured, interrogated, and tried, with more than 100 hanged.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ranging from Plato to writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Proust, Forster, Beckett, Huxley, and Lawrence, Reeve brings the vast resources of Western literature and philosophy to bear on the question of love. He invites us to think more broadly about love, and to find the confusions that inevitably result to be creative rather than disturbing.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Describes how a cadre of World War II American planners inaugurated the ideas and institutions that underlie our modern international human rights regime.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book tells the story of the foreign-born, technically skilled investors and entrepreneurs who return home to start new companies while remaining tied to powerful economic and professional communities in the U.S. This research brings a fresh perspective to the way technology entrepreneurs build regional advantage to compete in global markets.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With passion and compassion, Gillick chronicles the stories of elders who have struggled with housing options, with medical care decisions, and with finding meaning in life. Skillfully incorporating insights from medicine, health policy, and economics, she lays out action plans for individuals and for communities.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Though best known as an adventurer who entered Mecca in disguise and sought the source of the White Nile, Richard Burton contributed so forcefully to his generation that he provides us with a singularly panoramic perspective of the Victorian world. This book is an important contribution to our understanding of a remarkable man and a crucial era.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Using pioneering camera techniques that allow readers to see the world of very small organisms--the little known, overlooked, or even reviled creatures that are critical to the life of our planet--this book exposes the environment in which they live, the threats they face, and the devastating impact their disappearance may have. 400 full-color photo.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Contains stories of faithful slaves that expose the power and reach of the myth, not only in advertising, films, and literature about the South, but also in national monument proposals, child custody cases, white women's minstrelsy, New Negro activism, anti-lynching campaigns, and the civil rights movement.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Examination of three critical responses to the disappearance of film in relation to other time-based media, and to the study of contemporary visual culture.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Since 1892, Harvard University, like many distinguished academic institutions, has compiled a hymnal for use in its own worship services. The fourth edition of 'The Harvard University Hymn Book' represents the culmination of a ten-year process of revision and re-creation based on the 1964 third edition. Containing over 370 hymns, over 100 more than its predecessor, the book includes many that have become a regular part of worship at The Memorial Church in the years since the publication of the previous edition.In addition to many familiar hymns old and new, the fourth edition includes selections that were unique to the previous editions, hymns previously unpublished, and other noteworthy 'discoveries' that have not appeared in print for many years.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the growing and dynamic economy of nineteenth-century America, businesses sold vast quantities of goods to one another, mostly on credit. This book explains how business people solved the problem of whom to trust--how they determined who was deserving of credit, and for how much. In the process, a business system based largely on information circulating through personal networks became dependent on more formalized methods and institutions. First to appear in the 1830s was the credit reporting agency, whose pioneers included the abolitionist Lewis Tappan, and businessmen John Bradstreet and Robert G. Dun (whose firms merged in 1933 to form Dun & Bradstreet). Later, groups of business creditors formed interchanges and bureaus to share information on their customers' payment records. In 1896, the National Association of Credit Men was established, and by 1920, credit men had established both a national credit information clearinghouse and a bureau for American exporters.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Showcased in nearly 400 spectacular color photographs, the natural beauty of Hispaniola is unveiled in this volume of essays--in both English and Spanish--that make known the islands fungi, plants, and animals by the experts who know them best.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the Taiping Rebellion to the Chinese Communist movement, no province in China gave rise to as many reformers, military officers, and revolutionaries as did Hunan. Platt offers the first comprehensive study of why this province wielded such disproportionate influence.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In a perspective on the formation of national identity in Central Europe, this book analyzes what many historians have treated separately - the construction of the Czech and German nations - as a larger single phenomenon.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) has been an important policy tool of government since the 1980s, when the Reagan administration ordered that all major new regulations be subjected to a rigorous test of whether their projected benefits would outweigh their costs. Not surprisingly, CBA has been criticized by many who claim that it neglects, especially on the benefit side, important values that are hard to measure.In this book, the authors reconceptualize cost-benefit analysis, arguing that its objective should be overall well-being rather than economic efficiency. They show why the link between preferences and well-being is more complicated than economists have thought. Satisfying a person's preference for some outcome is welfare-enhancing only if he or she is self-interested and well-informed. Also, cost-benefit analysis is not a super-procedure but simply a way to identify welfare-maximizing policies. A separate kind of analysis is required to weigh rights and equal treatment.This book not only places cost-benefit analysis on a firmer theoretical foundation, but also has many practical implications for how government agencies should undertake cost-benefit studies.