harvard university press sep 2021 (11 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An award-winning genetic researcher and a tenacious journalist examine each phase of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, the largest and deadliest of its kind. Their postmortem identifies factors that kept key information from reaching doctors, complicated the government's response to the crisis, and left responders unprepared for the next outbreak.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The cosmopolitan political tradition defines people not according to nationality, family, or class but as equally worthy citizens of the world. Martha Nussbaum pursues this 'noble but flawed vision, confronting its inherent tensions over material distribution, differential abilities, and the ideological conflicts inherent to pluralistic societies.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Americans increasingly believe the Supreme Court is a political body in disguise. But Justice Stephen Breyer disagrees. Arguing that judges are committed to their oath to do impartial justice, Breyer aims to restore trust in the Court. In the absence of that trust, he warns, the Court will lose its authority, imperiling our constitutional system.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In his final work, Richard Rorty provides the definitive statement of his political thought. Rorty equates pragmatism with anti-authoritarianism, arguing that because there is no authority we can rely on to ascertain truth, we can only do so intersubjectively. It follows that we must learn to think and care about what others think and care about.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1777, North Carolina farmers planned a coup against local patriots. Brendan McConville shows they were motivated not by Crown loyalty but by love of individual and religious liberty-as they understood them. Complicating revolutionary narratives, the plotters feared American independence would usher in the very tyranny it claimed to contest.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - During WWII, some American Catholics openly embraced Nazism. Their armed wing, the Christian Front, was to lead the violent revolution. Charles Gallagher unearths the history of these crusaders, the mainstream theological underpinnings of their activism, the spiritual and political leaders who protected them, and the suppression of their memory.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - New technologies are shaking the foundations of traditional finance. Leading economist Eswar Prasad foresees the end of cash, as central banks develop their own digital currencies to compete with Bitcoin and Meta's Diem. Money and finance are on the verge of dramatic transformations that will reshape their roles in the lives of ordinary people.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - During the Age of Revolution, the British Crown responded to crises in its colonies with a heavy hand. Lisa Ford shows how imperial peacekeeping methods, which blurred the line between the rule of law and the rule of the sword, transformed the imperial constitution and corroded colonial subjectivity.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Government¿s use of largess to secure consent to conditions all too often serves as an illicit pathway of power. This mode of control is part of the contemporary reality of American governance, and it therefore needs to be recognized alongside more familiar sorts of power, such as rule through law and administrative power.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In an age of pandemics, no country can achieve public health on its own. Health security expert Lawrence O. Gostin examines the key cross-border threats to our well-being, from infectious diseases to bioterrorism, and proposes pragmatic solutions: targeted research, robust international institutions, and tools for effective global action.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Utpaladeva on the Power of Action provides the first critical edition, annotated translation, and study of one of the chapters of the Recognition of the Lord, a landmark in the history of nondual ¿aivism by the Utpaladeva, that were recently recovered from marginal annotations in manuscripts of other commentaries on Utpaladeva's treatise.