oxford university press apr 2020 (66 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Crow is on a journey to find happiness-meeting an elegant swan, a gentle dove, and a famous cockerel. His journey soon leads him to a magnificent peacock locked in a cage, this is when Crow realizes that happiness may not come from how you look, but how you feel.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jack and Bear were best friends. They did everything together. They went everywhere together. But one day, Bear just disappeared. . . A beautiful story of love, loss, and moving forward. Inspired by the true story of Jack and his beloved Bear.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - International relations affects everyone's lives: their security, economic well-being, rights and freedoms, and the environment they share. Recently we have seen the transformation from a world of empires to today's world of sovereign states, which are enmeshed in a complex array of international institutions, all exercising degrees of political authority. The new global organization of political authority has far-reaching consequences.This Very Short Introduction untangles this complex world, providing an accessible framework for understanding the contours of global political change. Christian Reus-Smit treats theory as an indispensable tool for grasping international relations, but demystifies theorizing, introducing it as an everyday human practice. He surveys a range of theories, from realism to feminism: reading them as contrasting perspectives on the global organization of political authority. Historically, such organization has been shaped by diverse social forces, four of which are discussed in detail: shifting patterns of warfare, changing economic conditions, struggles for rights, and the politics of culture. Reus-Smit concludes with a reflection on the future of international relations in an era of profound global change.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Sun, as our nearest star, is of enormous importance for life on Earth - providing the warm radiation and light which allowed complex life to evolve. The Sun plays a key role in influencing our climate, whilst solar storms and high-energy events can threaten our communication infrastructure and satellites.This Very Short Introduction explores what we know about the Sun, its physics, its structure, origins, and future evolution. Philip Judge explains some of the remaining puzzles about the Sun that still confound us, using elementary physics, and mathematical concepts. Why does the Sun form spots Why does it flare As he shows, these and other nagging difficulties relate to the Sun's continually variable magnetism, which converts an otherwise dull star into a machine for flooding interplanetary space with variable radiation, high-energy particles and magnetic ejections. Throughout, Judge highlights the many reasons that the Sun is important, and why scientists engage in solar research.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A provocative and propulsive look at American history, and the myth that the Civil War's 'new birth of freedom' ended oligarchy. It just moved westward.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Recent elections in the advanced western democracies have undermined the basic foundations of political systems that had previously beaten back all challenges-from both the left and the right. The election of Donald Trump to the US Presidency, only months after the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, signaled a dramatic shift in the politics of the rich democracies.In Anti-System Politics, Jonathan Hopkin traces the evolution of this shift and argues that it is a long-term result of abandoning the post-war model of egalitarian capitalism in the 1970s. That shift entailed weakening the democratic process in favor of an opaque, technocratic form of governance that allows voters little opportunity to influence policy. With the financial crisis of the late 2000s these arrangements became unsustainable, as incumbent politicians were unable to provide solutions to economic hardship. Electorates demanded change, and it had to come from outside the system. Using a comparative approach, Hopkin explains why different kinds of anti-system politics emerge in different countries and how political and economic factors impact the degree of electoral instability that emerges. Finally, he discusses the implications of these changes, arguing that the only way for mainstream political forces to survive is for them to embrace a more activist role for government in protecting societies from economic turbulence.A deeply-rooted historical analysis of arguably the most important political phenomenon in the world at present, Anti-System Politics illuminates how and why the world seems upside down.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Over five decades of research has made clear that social networks can have an important impact on our political behavior. Yet, most studies only examine the effects of political networks on White Americans. This book draws on quantitative and qualitative analyses of 4000 White American, African American, Latino, and Asian American people to explore inter and intra-ethnoracial differences in social network composition, size, partisanship, policy attitudes, and homophily in political and civic engagement.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Swarm behaviour and swarm intelligence have in recent years attracted much attention. However, by applying techniques of physics to the swarm behaviour of animal communities, we can begin to understand how such collective patterns can emerge in a self-organized way.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Some children are lucky to be born into the top of the class structure, but that does not mean they'll stay there. In Privilege Lost, Jessi Streib traces the lives of over 100 youth born into the upper-middle-class to reveal who is downwardly mobile, how they fall, and why they rarely see it coming.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From Herodotus to H-Net: The Story of Historiography, Second Edition, offers a concise but comprehensive and up-to-date account of the many ways history has been studied and recounted, from the ancient world to the new universe of the Internet. Clearly written and organized, it shows how the same issues that historians debate today were already recognized in past centuries, and how the efforts of historians in the past remain relevant today.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When and why do countries seek to enact major changes to international order, the broad set of rules that condition behavior in world politics This book argues that great powers' motivation to build order has historically been exclusionary, centered on combatting others rather than cooperating with them. When great powers seek to enact fundamentally new order principles, they do so for the purpose of targeting a perceived threat. The goal of order building is weakening, opposing, and-above all-excluding the enemy from amassing further influence. Thus, Lascurettes concludes that order building is the continuation of traditional statecraft.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Human Factor focuses on the main figures involved in the Cold War--Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher--examining them both in their own right and as proxies for larger economic, social, and political forces at play in their respective countries.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Climate change is rapidly melting Arctic ice unlocking natural resources in contestable areas. This disruption has led to warnings of a return of the Great Game in which states scramble to project power to the ends of the earth to engage in militarized resource competition. Which states will have the strongest interest in securing control over these resources and will they pursue these interests by projecting military force In Perils of Plenty, Jonathan N. Markowitz answers this question and sheds light on the prospects for the future of resource competition in the Arctic and beyond from the deserts of the Middle East to the tropic of the South China Sea.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is the story of a demonstration for food organized by the underground French Communist party that took place at a central Parisian marketplace on May 31, 1942. The incident, known as the 'women's demonstration on the rue de Buci,' became a cause célèbre. In this microhistory of the event, Schwartz examines the many moving parts of an underground operation; the lives and deaths of the protesters, both women and men; and the ways in which the incident has been remembered, commemorated, or forgotten. The study is based on interviews with surviving resisters and on a rich documentary record.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Philosophical Imagination is a collection of essays ranging over a wide range of philosophical themes: from the emotional engagement with fictions, to the functioning of metaphor in poetry and in rhetoric, to the concept of beauty in Kant and in Proust, and the nature of the first-person perspective in thought and action.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In The Value of Science in Space Exploration, James S.J. Schwartz provides a thoughtful and rigorous defense of the view that space exploration activities should focus primarily on science, and that the knowledge and understanding we will gain from expanded space science activities will benefit humanity more over the next century than any attempts to settle Mars or mine asteroids.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - At a time of rapid social, economic, and organizational change, community benefit organizations (CBO) have a nearly unprecedented need for managers and leaders who are not just ethical and mission-centric, but also competent-managers and leaders who have the whole picture of the CBO landscape and the skills to efficiently and effectively guide it in its mission, increase value, and achieve lasting impact.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - We live in a period of uncertainty about the fate of America's global leadership. Many believe that Donald Trump's presidency marks the end of liberal international order: the very system of global institutions, rules, and values that shaped the international system since the end of World War II. In Exit from Hegemony, Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon develop a new approach to understanding the rise and decline of hegemonic orders. They identify three ways in which the liberal international order is transforming. The Trump administration, declaring 'America First,' accelerates all three processes, lessening America's position as a world power.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The culmination of a decade-long project, in which researchers followed a set of young people as they grew from teenagers into adults, Back Pocket God challenges some popular assumptions about young people and religion. Melinda Denton and Richard Flory find that young adults are indeed moving away from organized religion. Yet, they don't seem so much opposed to religion or to religious organizations, at least in the abstract, as they are uninterested in religion, at least as they have experienced it. Religion is like the ubiquitous smartphones in our back pockets: there to be used, when convenient, to accomplish a particular task.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Authoritative, analytical, and concise, McFarlane, Hopkins and Nield's Land Law provides succinct coverage on the core areas without sacrificing depth or detail. The authors' unique approach to land law arms students with the tools to apply an independent, critical thought process to the content covered in classes and assessments.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Contesting Conformity investigates the writings of Tocqueville, Mill, and Nietzsche in order to examine the relationship between non-conformity and modern democracy. Jennie Ikuta argues that non-conformity is an intractable issue for democracy while non-conformity is often important for cultivating a just polity, non-conformity can also undermine democracy. Democracy therefore needs non-conformity, but not in an unconditional way. This book examines this intractable relationship, and offers resources for navigating the relationship in contemporary democracies in ways that promote justice and freedom.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Drawing on an extensive review of the literature and statistical sources, The Business of Scholarly Publishing examines the changing environment of scholarly publishing in the United States. Albert N. Greco analyzes the product, price, placement, promotion, and costs (including some P & L statements) of scholarly books and journals from 1945 to the present, with a primary emphasis on the period after 2010.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book reveals the method by which the British army organized their land forces throughout the empire to make an army of standardized pieces that could be multiplied, expanded, and joined together in time of war; a military coalition that worked throughout the early twentieth century, even as the dominions and India became more autonomous.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A textbook describing the physical environment of soil, including the movement of heat, water and gases. Transport problems are described mathematically, and methods for solving the problems, using original computer programs written in Python, are presented.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As man-made machines become more powerful and smarter, will their intelligence eventually exceed our own To accurately predict how the relationship between human and artificial intelligence will change in the future, it is essential to understand the origin and limits of human intelligence. In Birth of Intelligence, distinguished neuroscientist Daeyeol Lee tackles these pressing fundamental issues. Lee reveals how intelligence is the ability of a biological agent to solve complex decision-making problems in diverse and unpredictable environments. Furthermore, understanding how intelligent behavior emerges from interaction among multiple learning systems will provide valuable insights into the ultimate nature of human intelligence.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Despite current population movement towards urban areas, rural people remain a significant yet under-served population. These communities share a rich and distinctive culture, but also face specific problems including higher rates of poverty, increased rates of obesity, and decreased access to health coverage and social services. Rural Social Work in the 21st Century, Second Edition provides a comprehensive overview of the knowledge, skills, values, ethics, andissues central to the practice of social work in small towns and rural communities.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This engaging book is a must-read for anyone embarking on the study of leadership. Enriched by a broad range of real-world case studies (featuring figures such as PewDiePie, Jacinda Ardern, and Harvey Weinstein), Leadership will not only guide you through the main theories, issues, and themes underpinning the subject, but will also help you to develop your understanding of leadership in a variety of contexts.