harvard university press sep 2011 (14 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this volume, prominent Buddhist scholar Donald Swearer posits that the future requires a radical shift toward living in recognition of the interdependence of all life forms and the consequent ethic of communality and a life style of moderation or 'enoughness' that flows from that recognition, which he calls 'an ecology of human flourishing.'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As they immerse themselves in foreign cultures, trained anthropologists find that accepting difference is one thing, experiencing it is quite another. In tales that entertain as well as illuminate, these writers show how the moral and intellectual challenges of living cross-culturally revealed to them the limits of their perception and understanding.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The global prominence of snakes in religion, myth, and folklore underscores our deep connection to them-but why, when few of us have firsthand experience The answer, Isbell suggests, lies in snakes' singular impact on primate evolution; predation pressure from snakes is ultimately responsible for the superior vision and large brains of primates.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Between 1880 and 1930, some 200 women were murdered by lynch mobs in the American South. Many more were tarred and feathered, burned, whipped, or raped. In this brutal world, women defended themselves and challenged male power brokers. Feimster explores the racial politics of the postbellum South, focusing on the volatile issue of sexual violence.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In a comparative study of law and imperialism, Ford argues that modern settler sovereignty emerged when settlers in North America and Australia defined indigenous theft and violence as crime. Ford traces the emergence of modern settler sovereignty in contests between settlers and indigenous people in Georgia and the colony of New South Wales.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - C.P. Cavafy (Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis) is one of the most important Greek poets since antiquity. He was born, lived, and died in Alexandria (1863-1933), with brief periods spent in England, Constantinople, and Athens. Cavafy set in motion the most powerful modernism in early twentieth-century European poetry, exhibiting simple truths about eroticism, history, and philosophy-an inscrutable triumvirate that informs the Greek language and culture in all their diachrony. The Cavafy 'Canon' plays with the complexities of ironic Socratic thought, suffused with the honesty of unadorned iambic verse. Based on a fifty-year continuous scholarly and literary interaction with Cavafy's poetry and its Greek and western European intertexts, John Chioles has produced an authoritative and exceptionally nuanced translation of the complex linguistic registers of Cavafy's 'Canon' into English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In a tumultuous era of Atlantic revolutions, a remarkable group of African-born and African-descended individuals transformed themselves from slaves into active agents of their lives and times. Through prodigious archival research, Landers alters our vision of the breadth and extent of the Age of Revolution, and our understanding of its actors.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What does it mean for scientists to truly understand, rather than to merely describe, how the world works Michael Strevens proposes a novel theory of scientific explanation and understanding that overhauls and augments the familiar causal approach to explanation. What is replaced is the test for explanatorily relevant causal information: Strevens discards the usual criterion of counterfactual dependence in favor of a criterion that turns on a process of progressive abstraction away from a fully detailed, physical causal story. The augmentations include the introduction of a new, non-causal explanatory relevance relation¿entanglement¿and an independent theory of the role of black-boxing and functional specification in explanation.The abstraction-centered notion of difference-making leads to a rich causal treatment of many aspects of explanation that have been either ignored or handled inadequately by earlier causal approaches, including the explanation of laws and other regularities, with particular attention to the explanation of physically contingent high-level laws, idealization in explanation, and probabilistic explanation in deterministic systems, as in statistical physics, evolutionary biology, and medicine.The result is an account of explanation that has especially significant consequences for the higher-level sciences: biology, psychology, economics, and other social sciences.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Why do so many evangelicals follow leaders with dubious credentials when they have other options in their own faith Exploring intellectual authority within evangelicalism, the authors reveal how the concept of anointing--being chosen by God to speak for him--established a conservative evangelical leadership isolated from secular arts and sciences.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In September 1755, the most famous Indian in the world-a Mohawk leader known in English as King Hendrick-died in the Battle of Lake George. Half a century earlier, another Hendrick worked with leaders in the frontier town of Albany. Until recently the two Hendricks were thought to be the same person. Here, Eric Hinderaker sets the record straight.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Drawn together in a comprehensive Introduction, these essays include analyses of the climate and ecology underlying the slave trade, pan-Atlantic networks of religion and commerce, inter-ethnic collaboration in the development of tropical medicine, science as a product of imperial relations, and awareness of the Atlantic world in the mind of Hume.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Syntactic Development presents a broad critical survey of the research literature on child language development.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the 1920s - a decade marked by racism and nativism - through World War II, hundreds of thousands of Americans took part in a vibrant campaign to overcome racial, ethnic, and religious prejudices. This title reminds us the debates over difference and unity that remain at the heart of American society.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With an extraordinary mix of technical, scholarly, corporate, and governmental expertise, John Deutch offers an eye-opening history of the muddled practices that have passed for energy policy over the past thirty years, and a cogent account of what we can learn from so many breakdowns of strategy and execution.