harvard university press sep 2004 (16 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This cultural and natural history of an intriguing member of the genome traces the journey toward our current understanding of the nature of X. From its chance discovery in the 19th century to the promise and implications of ongoing research, Bainbridge shows how the X evolved and where it and its counterpart Y are going.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With the unusual clarity, distinctive and engaging style, and penetrating insight that have drawn such a wide range of readers to his work, Ian Hacking here offers his reflections on the philosophical uses of history. The focus of this volume, which collects both recent and now-classic essays, is the historical emergence of concepts and objects, through new uses of words and sentences in specific settings, and new patterns or styles of reasoning within those sentences. In its lucid and thoroughgoing look at the historical dimension of concepts, the book is at once a systematic formulation of Hacking's approach and its relation to other types of intellectual history, and a valuable contribution to philosophical understanding.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What do we mean when we refer to our 'identity', and how do we represent it in the stories we tell about our lives Do we choose and maintain identity, like a job, or do we constantly change and rework it, like a potter's clay Is 'identity' a sustained private core, or does it change as circumstances and relationships change In this thoughtful and learned book, a founder of narrative studies in the human sciences and a recognized master of research interviewing explores these questions through analyses of in-depth interviews with five craftartists, who reflect on their lives and their efforts to sustain their form of work as committed artists in a world of mass production and standardization.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - No one has better explained how court practices, educational inequities, and police behavior ignited a 'brown power' movement that took its grievances to the courts as well as to the streets. A must read for those interested in the racial place of Hispanics in a black and white nation. -- Neil Foley, University of Texas Locating his argument in distinctly American ideas about racial identity, looks closely at pivotal events in the development of Chicano racial consciousness and illuminates the subversive role that common sense plays in racism and racial prejudice. This book is essential reading for people looking for a way out of the black-white conception of race that has dominated social discourse, without resorting to colorblindness. -- Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres, authors of The Miner's Canary Racism on Trial is an absolutely dazzling piece of legal scholarship that chronicles the rise of the Chicano movement in Los Angeles and explains the Mexicans' transformation into a brown race from one that had long asserted its whiteness. Haney Lopez deftly seeks the movement's roots in poverty, urban violence, segregation, and educational neglect, elaborating a robust theory of a common sense racism that greatly illuminates our understanding of discrimination. -- Ramon A. Gutierrez, University of California, San Diego An astonishingly lucid and significant contribution to current discussions of race, Racism on Trial underscores our common reliance on everyday racial ideas that remain unquestioned. This fine book could well blast through the racial impasse which our country faces and lead, in the end, to real transformation and equality. -- Gregory J. Boyle, S.J., Executive Director, Homeboy Industries, Los Angeles Haney Lopez invites us to confront our hauntingly evocative past and the pernicious nature of common sense racism in our legal institutions. He underscores just how much racial prejudice still greets Mexicans and Chicanos across the United States, and how it must be met by renewed efforts to gain fully equal citizenship. -- Gerald P. Lopez, New York University Law School In Racism on Trial, Ian Haney Lopez dissects two prominent legal cases handled by controversial lawyer-activist Oscar Zeta Acosta in the late 1960s--the trials of the East LA Thirteen and the Biltmore Six--in order to reconstruct and interpret the Chicano Movement period in Los Angeles. The result is a provocative and engaging mix of legal analysis, civil rights history, and the sociology of legal violence and racial identities. This is essential reading for those interested in Anglo-Mexican relations in California and the Southwest. -- David Montejano, University of California, Berkeley.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man,' Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote--and in this book, the leading scholar of New England literary culture looks at the long shadow Emerson himself has cast, and at his role and significance as a truly American institution. On the occasion of Emerson's 200th birthday, Lawrence Buell revisits the life of the nation's first public intellectual and discovers how he became a 'representative man.'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Delving into a subculture of St. Louis known as 'Deep Morgan,' Cecil Brown emerges with the facts behind the legend of 'Stagolee' to unfold the mystery of Stack Lee and the incident that led to murder in 1895. An 'Esquire' Best Book of 2003. (African-American Studies).

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Edward O'Neil's thorough index provides an invaluable roadmap for tracking the wealth of information and wisdom to be found in them.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The practical and artistic creations of native peoples permeate everyday life in settler nations, from the design elements on our clothing to the plot-lines of books we read to our children. Rarely, however, do native communities benefit materially from this use of their heritage, a situation that drives growing resistance to what some denounce as 'cultural theft.'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The writer,' according to Emerson, 'believes all that can be thought can be written.In his eyes a man is the faculty of reporting, and the universe is the possibility of being reported.' And what writer worth his name, E. L. Doctorow asks, will not seriously, however furtively, take on the universe Human consciousness, personal history, American literature, religion, and politics--these are the far-flung coordinates of the universe that Doctorow reports here, a universe that uniquely and brilliantly reflects our contemporary scene.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - controversial issue, the book makes its own substantial contribution to the ongoing debate about the relationship between science and religion, and between evolution and its religious critics.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Healy follows The Antidepressant Era with an even more ambitious and dramatic story: the discovery and development of antipsychotic medication. Once pharmaceutical companies recognized their commercial potential, financial as well as clinical pressures drove the development of ever more aggressively marketed medications.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this book the Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Lucas collects his writings on economic growth, from his seminal'On the Mechanics of Economic Development to his previously unpublished 1997 Kuznets Lectures.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Excerpt from Joe Camp's 'Confusion' After working late one night you walk to your car to drive home. Your car is parked in a dimly lit outdoor parking lot. There are several other cars in the lot. You are tired, and your mind is not really on what you are doing. . You go up to what you think is your car, and start to insert the key into the door lock. It won't go in. That annoys you, and for a moment you keep wiggling the key in the lock, wondering why it has decided to be so balky. Then you notice the stuffed panda in the back seat. You do not carry a stuffed panda in your back seat. It isn't your car. You look around, and quickly spot your car across the lot, where you now suddenly recall leaving it. . For a few seconds you thought this car was your car. You confused the two. You took one for the other. . It is perfectly obvious that when you confuse the car in front of you with your own car, you have made a mistake. Indeed you have made the paradigmatic 'mis-take.' It is perfectly obvious that you merit intellectual criticism-- some kind of intellectual criticism. . But it is not perfectly obvious what kind of intellectual criticism you deserve.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Handel wrote over 100 cantatas, compositions for voice and instruments that describe the joy and pain of love. In the first comprehensive study of the cantatas, Harris investigates their place in Handel's life as well as their extraordinary beauty. This work brings greater understanding of Handel's development as a composer and new insight into the role of sexuality in artistic expression.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - for a changed system that will make the most of every child and enable students and teachers to engage more meaningfully in learning.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - policies that have made the country more egalitarian but left it perhaps as divided as ever.