harvard university press okt 2018 (17 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government Winner of the Tankard Book Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass CommunicationWinner of the Frank Luther Mott¿Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism & Mass Communication Research Award In democratic societies, investigative journalism holds government and private institutions accountable to the public. From firings and resignations to changes in budgets and laws, the impact of this reporting can be significant¿but so too are the costs. As newspapers confront shrinking subscriptions and advertising revenue, who is footing the bill for journalists to carry out their essential work Democracy¿s Detectives puts investigative journalism under a magnifying glass to clarify the challenges and opportunities facing news organizations today. ¿Hamilton¿s book presents a thoughtful and detailed case for the indispensability of investigative journalism¿and just at the time when we needed it. Now more than ever, reporters can play an essential role as society¿s watchdogs, working to expose corruption, greed, and injustice of the years to come. For this reason, Democracy¿s Detectives should be taken as both a call to arms and a bracing reminder, for readers and journalists alike, of the importance of the profession.¿¿Anya Schiffrin, The Nation¿A highly original look at exactly what the subtitle promises¿Has this topic ever been more important than this year ¿¿Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Winner of the John H. Dunning Prize, American Historical AssociationWinner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign RelationsWinner of the James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American RepublicWinner of the North Jersey Civil War Round Table Book AwardFinalist for the Harriet Tubman Prize, Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic SlaveryWhen the United States emerged as a world power in the years before the Civil War, the men who presided over the nation's triumphant territorial and economic expansion were largely southern slaveholders. As presidents, cabinet officers, and diplomats, slaveholding leaders controlled the main levers of foreign policy inside an increasingly powerful American state. This Vast Southern Empire explores the international vision and strategic operations of these southerners at the commanding heights of American politics.'At the close of the Civil War, more than Southern independence and the bones of the dead lay amid the smoking ruins of the Confederacy. Also lost was the memory of the prewar decades, when Southern politicians and pro-slavery ambitions shaped the foreign policy of the United States in order to protect slavery at home and advance its interests abroad. With This Vast Southern Empire, Matthew Karp recovers that forgotten history and presents it in fascinating and often surprising detail.'-Fergus Bordewich, Wall Street Journal'Matthew Karp's illuminating book This Vast Southern Empire shows that the South was interested not only in gaining new slave territory but also in promoting slavery throughout the Western Hemisphere.'-David S. Reynolds, New York Review of Books.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Patterson discusses the internal dynamics of slavery in 66 societies over time. These include Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, China, Korea, the Islamic kingdoms, Africa, the Caribbean islands, and the American South. Slavery, he argues, is a single process of recruitment, incorporation on the margin of society, and eventual manumission or death.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Taking her cue from W. E. B. Du Bois, Juliana Spahr explores how state interests have shaped U.S. literature. What is the relationship between literature and politics Can writing be revolutionary Can art be autonomous or is escape from nations and nationalisms impossible As her sobering study affirms, aesthetic resistance is easily domesticated.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The American founders did not endorse a citizen¿s right to know. More openness in government, more frankness in a doctor¿s communication with patients, more disclosure in a food manufacturer¿s package labeling, and more public notice of actions that might damage the environment emerged in our own time. As Michael Schudson shows in The Rise of the Right to Know, modern transparency dates to the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s¿well before the Internet¿as reform-oriented politicians, journalists, watchdog groups, and social movements won new leverage. At the same time, the rapid growth of higher education after 1945, together with its expansive ethos of inquiry and criticism, fostered both insight and oversight as public values. ¿One of the many strengths of The Rise of the Right To Know is its insistent emphasis on culture and its interaction with law¿What Schudson shows is that enforceable access to official information creates a momentum towards a better use of what is disclosed and a refinement of how disclosure is best done.¿¿George Brock, Times Literary Supplement¿This book is a reminder that the right to know is not an automatic right. It was hard-won, and fought for by many unknown political soldiers.¿¿Monica Horten, LSE Review of Books.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Despite declining stocks and health risks, island communities in the Caribbean and North Atlantic still use traditional methods to hunt whales and dolphins for food. Russell Fielding presents the art, history, and purpose of whaling in these different cultures and describes what their future might look like as modern realities take hold.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Eight percent of our DNA contains retroviruses that are millions of years old. Anna Marie Skalka explains how our evolving knowledge of these particles has advanced genetic engineering, gene delivery systems, and precision medicine. Retroviruses cause disease but also hold clues to prevention and treatment possibilities that are anything but retro.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Americäs commitment to public schooling once seemed unshakable. But today the movement to privatize K¿12 education is stronger than ever. Samuel E. Abrams examines the rise of market forces in public education and reveals how a commercial mindset has taken over.¿[An] outstanding book.¿¿Carol Burris, Washington Post¿Given the near-complete absence of public information and debate about the stealth effort to privatize public schools, this is the right time for the appearance of [this book]. Samuel E. Abrams, a veteran teacher and administrator, has written an elegant analysis of the workings of market forces in education.¿¿Diane Ravitch, New York Review of Books¿Education and the Commercial Mindset provides the most detailed and comprehensive analysis of the school privatization movement to date. Students of American education will learn a great deal from it.¿¿Leo Casey, Dissent.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Prostitute, apostle, evangelist-the conversion of Mary Magdalene from sinner to saint is one of the Christianity's most compelling stories. Less appreciated is the critical role the Magdalene played in remaking modern Christianity. Margaret Arnold shows that the Magdalene inspired devotees eager to find new ways to relate to God and the Church.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - China and India have been powerfully shaped by both transnational and subnational forces. Beyond Regimes explores local and global influences as they play out in the contemporary era with a focus on four intersecting topics: labor relations; legal reform and rights protest; public goods provision; and transnational migration and investment.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - David Wootton guides us through four centuries of Western thought to show how new ideas about politics, ethics, and economics stepped into a gap opened up by religious conflict and the Scientific Revolution. As ideas about godliness and Aristotelian virtue faded, theories about the rational pursuit of power, pleasure, and profit moved to the fore.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Americans widely believe that the U.S. Constitution was almost wholly created when it was drafted in 1787 and ratified in 1788. Jonathan Gienapp recovers the unknown story of the Constitution¿s second creation in the decade after its adoption¿a story with explosive implications for current debates over constitutional originalism and interpretation.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Does Silicon Valley deserve all the credit for digital creativity and social media Joy Rankin questions this triumphalism by revisiting a pre-PC time when schools were not the last stop for mature consumer technologies but flourishing sites of innovative collaboration¿when users taught computers and visionaries dreamed of networked access for all.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Icon of freedom and multiethnic democracy, memorial to Franco-American friendship-the lofty meanings we accord the Statue of Liberty today obscure its turbulent origins in 19th-century politics and art. Francesca Lidia Viano reveals that vibrant history in the fullest account yet of the people and ideas that brought the lady of the harbor to life.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jonathan Lusthaus lifts the veil on cybercriminals in the most extensive account yet of the lives they lead and the vast international industry they have created. Having traveled to hotspots around the world to meet with hundreds of law enforcement agents, security gurus, hackers, and criminals, he charts how this industry based on anonymity works.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - No nation was more deeply affected by Americäs rise to power than Japan. The price paid to end the most intrusive reconstruction of a nation in modern history was a cold war alliance with the U.S. that ensured American dominance in the region. Kenneth Pyle offers a thoughtful history of this relationship at a time when the alliance is changing.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Mongol conquest of north China inflicted terrible destruction, wiping out more than one-third of the population and dismantling the existing social order. Jinping Wang recounts the riveting story of how northern Chinese people adapted to these trying circumstances and interacted with their conquerors to create a drastically new social order.