harvard university press sep 2007 (28 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Drawing on extensive clinical and epidemiological evidence, as well as personal experience, Thomas Joiner provides the most coherent and persuasive explanation ever given of why and how people overcome life's strongest instinct, self-preservation.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Kinzer interviewed people at every level of the Somoza, Sandinistas and contra hierarchies, as well as dissidents, heads of state, and countless ordinary citizens. This is his dramatic story of the centuries-old power struggle that made headlines in 1979 with the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship, and a vibrant portrait of the Nicaraguan people.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Drawing on a comparative inquiry into the political origins and legal consequences of recent constitutional revolutions in Canada, Israel, New Zealand, and South Africa, Hirschl shows that the trend toward constitutionalization is best understood as the product of strategic interplay among hegemonic yet threatened economic and political elites.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In The Science and Fiction of Autism, one of the country's leading experts in behavioral treatments approaches autism through the context of its controversies, showing where extraordinary and unfounded claims have falsely raised hopes, stirred fears, and ruined lives.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this provocative new book, Cuban takes aim at the alluring cliché that schools should be more businesslike, and shows that in its long history in business-minded America, no one has shown that a business model can be successfully applied to education.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Are scientific expert witnesses partisans, or spokesmen for objective science This ambiguity has troubled the relations between scientists and the legal system for more than 200 years. Modern expert testimony first appeared in the late eighteenth century, and while its use steadily increased throughout the nineteenth century, in cases involving everything from patents to X-rays, the respect paid to it steadily declined, inside and outside of the courtroom. With deep learning and wry humor, Tal Golan tells stories of courtroom drama and confusion and media jeering on both sides of the Atlantic, until the start of the twenty-first century, as the courts still search for ways that will allow them to distinguish between good and bad science.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Maier examines the structure and impact of empires and asks whether the U.S. shares their traits and behavior. He outlines the essentials of empire throughout history, then explores the exercise of U.S. power in the 19th and 20th centuries. With dispassion and clarity, this book offers bold comparisons and an original account of American power.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How and why did the promise of oil fail Galicia and the Austrian Empire, which at the beginning of the 20th century ranked third among the world's oil-producing states Alison Frank traces the interaction of technology, nationalist rhetoric, social tensions, provincial politics, and entrepreneurial vision in shaping the Galician oil industry.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Religious beliefs and practices, which permeated all aspects of life in antiquity, traveled well-worn routes throughout the Mediterranean: itinerant charismatic practitioners journeying from place to place peddled their skills as healers, purifiers, cursers, and initiators; and vessels decorated with illustrations of myths traveled with them. New gods encountered in foreign lands by merchants and conquerors were sometimes taken home to be adapted and adopted. This collection of essays by a distinguished international group of scholars, drawn from the groundbreaking reference work 'Religion in the Ancient World,' offers an expansive, comparative perspective on this complex spiritual world.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A leading expert on twins delves into the stories behind her research to reveal the profound joys and real-life traumas of twelve remarkable sets of twins, triplets, and quadruplets. Segal unravels these stories with an eye for the challenges that life as a twin can pose to parents, friends, spouses, and the twins themselves.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - After the worst thing in the world happens, then what What is left to the survivors, the witnesses, those who tried to help What can we do to prevent more atrocities from happening in the future, and to stop the ones that are happening right now This work tells the story of the successes and failures of the modern human rights movement.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Beaumont chronicles the history of the Irish and offers up a national portrait on the eve of the Great Famine. This rediscovered masterpiece includes an introduction on Beaumont and his world. This volume also presents Beaumont¿s impassioned preface in which he portrays the appalling effects of the Great Famine.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the New Testament, Most traces Thomas's many permutations: Gnostic saint, missionary to India, paragon of Christian orthodoxy, hero of skepticism, and example of doubt, blasphemy, and violence. Most shows how Thomas's story, in its many guises, touches upon central questions of religion, philosophy, hermeneutics, and, not least, life.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - African-American history resounds with calls for black unity. Yet today, many believe that black solidarity is unnecessary, irrational, and rooted in the illusion of 'racial' difference. A response to such critics, 'We Who Are Dark' provides the first extended philosophical defense of black political solidarity.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Since the 1970s a gulf has opened between the pay of low-paid workers and the pay of the middle class. No longer able to earn a decent wage in respectable work, many have left the labor force, and the job attachment of those remaining has weakened. For Edmund Phelps, this is a failure of political economy whose widespread effects are undermining the free-enterprise system. His solution is a graduated schedule of tax subsidies to enterprises for every low-wage worker they employ. As firms hire more of these workers, the labor market would tighten, driving up their pay levels as well as their employment.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Most of us regard the Constitution as the foundation of American democracy. How, then, are we to understand the restrictions that it imposes on legislatures and voters How can we call ourselves a democracy when we are bound by an entrenched, and sometimes counter-majoritarian, constitution This work covers this topic.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Around 1500 A.D., an African farmer planted a maize seed imported from the New World. That act set in motion the remarkable saga of one of the world's most influential crops. This compelling history offers insight into the profound influence of maize on African culture, health, technological innovation, and the future of the world's food supply.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Examines the changing relationship between the Chinese people and the state. Correcting the conventional view of China as having instituted extraordinary economic changes but having experienced few political reforms in the post-Mao period, the author details efforts by individuals and groups to assert their political rights.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the early decades of the nineteenth century, New York City's black community strove to realize what freedom meant, to find a new sense of itself, and, in the process, created a vibrant urban culture. This work re-creates the experience of black New Yorkers as they moved from slavery to freedom.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the almshouses of 17th century Puritans to the massive housing projects of the mid-20th century, the struggle over housing assistance in the United States has exposed a deep-seated ambivalence about the place of the urban poor. This book provides a comprehensive institutional history of public housing.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Smith argues that our legal vocabulary and methods of reasoning presuppose classical ontological commitments that were articulated by thinkers from Aquinas to Coke to Blackstone to Story. But these commitments are out of sync with the world view that now prevails in academic and professional thinking. So our law-talk degenerates into 'just words.'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Rebuilding Buddhism' describes in evocative detail the experiences and achievements of Nepalis who have adopted Theravada Buddhism. This form of Buddhism was introduced into Nepal from Burma and Sri Lanka in the 1930s, and its adherents have struggled for recognition and acceptance ever since. With its focus on the austere figure of the monk and the biography of the historical Buddha, and more recently with its emphasis on individualizing meditation and on gender equality, Theravada Buddhism contrasts sharply with the highly ritualized Tantric Buddhism traditionally practiced in the Kathmandu Valley.Based on extensive fieldwork, interviews, and historical reconstruction, the book provides a rich portrait of the different ways of being a Nepali Buddhist over the past seventy years. At the same time it explores the impact of the Theravada movement and what its gradual success has meant for Buddhism, for society, and for men and women in Nepal.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Taylor takes up the question of what happens when a society in which it is virtually impossible not to believe in God becomes one in which faith, even for the staunchest believer, is only one human possibility among others.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This compact and original exposition of optimal control theory and applications is designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in economics. It presents a new elementary yet rigorous proof of the maximum principle and a new way of applying the principle that will enable students to solve any one-dimensional problem routinely. Its unified framework illuminates many famous economic examples and models.This work also emphasizes the connection between optimal control theory and the classical themes of capital theory. It offers a fresh approach to fundamental questions such as: What is income How should it be measured What is its relation to wealth The book will be valuable to students who want to formulate and solve dynamic allocation problems. It will also be of interest to any economist who wants to understand results of the latest research on the relationship between comprehensive income accounting and wealth or welfare.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the 18th century, bioprospectors sponsored by European imperial powers brought back medicines, luxuries, and staples from the New World to their king and country. This book explores the movement, triumph, and extinction of knowledge in the course of encounters between Europeans and the Caribbean populations.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Markets are widely believed to make products available to suit any individual, regardless of what others want. But the argument is not generally correct. In markets, you can't always get what you want. This book explores why this is so and its consequences for consumers with atypical preferences.