hurst co feb 2016 (14 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy's classic and celebrated anthology spans centuries of human experience of war, from Homer's Iliad, through the First and Second World Wars, the Vietnam War, and the wars fought since. This new edition, published to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, includes a new introduction additonal poems from David Harsent and Peter Wyton amongst others. The new selection provides improved coverage of the two World Wars and the Vietnam War, and new coverage of the wars of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is a revealing account of the Hindustani classical music maestro Bharat Ratna Pandit Bhimsen Joshi's (1922-2011) little-known personal life, as told by his eldest son, Raghavendra Bhimsen Joshi.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 2014 was a 'Red Year' - massacres and beheadings, fallen cities, collapsed and collapsing states, the unravelling of a decade of foreign policy and military strategy. In David Kilcullen's words, 'What the hell happened ' Read this book to find out.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The book contains a great deal of primary source material gleaned from three years of engagement and contacts within the Islamist and jihadist communities active in Syria. This includes much information never before made public by any source.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Fascinating ethnography of women in the Caucasus living through a period of Islamic revivalism.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - David Birmingham begins this short history of Angola in 1820 with the Portuguese attempt to create a third, African, empire after the virtual loss of Asia and America. In the 19th century the most valuable resource extracted from Angola was agricultural labour. The colony was managed by a few marine officers, white political convicts and black Angolans who had adopted Portuguese language and culture. The hub was the harbour city of Luanda which grew to be a dynamic metropolis of several million people. The export of labour was gradually replaced when an agrarian revolution enabled white Portuguese immigrants to drive black Angolan labourers to produce sugar-cane, cotton, maize and above all coffee. During the 20th century this wealth was supplemented by Congo copper, by gem-quality diamonds, and by off-shore oil. The generation of warfare finally ended in 2002 when national reconstruction could begin on Portuguese colonial foundations.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A discussion of how Muslim NGOs function and their global impact in disaster relief and development.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A sober, unsettling reflection on the ethics of non-combatant deaths and how a once little-known term entered the global vocabulary of conflict.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This textbook offers comprehensive coverage for senior undergraduate students who are studying Organisational Behaviour as part of a degree or diploma at a university or university of technology.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This fourth edition of Fran Baum's The New Public Health is the most comprehensive book available on the new public health. It offers readers the opportunity to gain a sense of the scope of the new public health visions, and combines theoretical and practical material to assist with understanding the social and economic determinants of health.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the last decade, there have been an increasing convergence of interest and methods between theoretical physics and fields as diverse as probability, machine learning, optimization and compressed sensing. In particular, many theoretical and applied works in statistical physics and computer science have relied on the use of message passing algorithms and their connection to statistical physics of spin glasses. The aim of this book, especially adapted to PhD students, post-docs, and young researchers, is to present the background necessary for entering this fast developing field.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Some eighty per cent of Muslims in the contemporary world speak languages other than Arabic, the language of the Qur'an. To respond to the needs of their communities, Muslim scholars and laypersons must increasingly explain and communicate the meanings of the Qur'an in their own languages -- including through the medium of Qur'an commentary and translation. The Qur'an and its Readers Worldwide provides an introduction to this rich and expanding field of endeavour. It brings together a selection of Qur'an commentaries and translations produced across the twentieth century to the present day, and ranging in provenance from the regions of the traditional Islamic heartlands to the new loci of global Islam. Individual chapters examine works in Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese, English, German, Malay, Persian, Swahili, Turkish and Urdu, each viewed in terms of the impact of modernity on the encounter with the Qur'an, providing an English readership with an exceptionally broad overview.Situating these works in their cultural and national settings, this volume focuses attention on the relationship between language, culture and sociopolitical environment in Qur'an commentary and translation. It highlights the linkages between the Qur'an translations and commentaries studied and the developments and debates that generated them, and to which they respond, whether associated with colonial realities, the challenges of nation building, or the search for ways to reconstruct Islamic culture in the face of new legal frameworks or societal models.Through a detailed introduction and a series of case studies this book illustrates the defining trends in Qur'an commentary worldwide, addressing evolving questions of authorship, message, intended readership and media of communication. It highlights the continued relevance of Qurâan commentary as an authoritative Islamic tradition in a period of growing direct engagement with the sacred text. It also samples debates concerning Qur'anic meaning in translation that are pertinent for many millions of Muslims today, and that look set to grow in tandem with globalisation.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Otherworlds offers a new perspective on the otherworlds depicted in British and Irish medieval literature.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book argues that, though not always recognised as such, S¿ren Kierkegaard was an important influence on Catholic theologians in the twentieth century, especially those associated with the ressourcement movement which heavily influenced the Second Vatican Council.