Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc Sep 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 0197623794 ISBN 13: 9780197623794
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In The Power of Partisanship, Joshua J. Dyck and Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz argue that the growth in partisan polarization in the United States, and the resulting negativity voters feel towards their respective opposition party, has far-reaching effects on how Americans behave both inside and outside the realm of politics. Dyck and Pearson-Merkowitz show how partisanship influences the electorate's support for democratic norms, willingness to engage in risk related to financial and healthcare decisions, interracial interactions, and previously non-political decisions like what we like to eat for dinner. Drawing on a series of original surveys and experiments conducted between 2014 and 2020, Dyck and Pearson-Merkowitz show how the dominance of partisanship as a decision cue has fundamentally transformed our understanding of both political and non-political behavior.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc Sep 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 019768565X ISBN 13: 9780197685655
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How do we prepare an increasingly diverse generation of Americans for full participation in public life Drawing on lessons from students and teachers in Chicago, The Color of Civics reimagines the democratic purpose of civic education. Matthew D. Nelsen presents a new approach to civic education that aims to foster political empowerment, increase rates of intended political participation among young people of color, and heighten political empathy among white youth. Including novel empirical research and an evidence-based analysis, Nelsen provides practical and useful advice for policymakers that cuts through the noise to focus on what works.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc Sep 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 0197608833 ISBN 13: 9780197608838
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - There is much more to being a college professor than just teaching and doing research. Most new faculty struggle because they have to figure out how to juggle a complex mix of activities that are dominated by the human and institutional structures they live within--from departments up to international professional communities. Your Future as a Faculty Member: How to Survive and Thrive in Academia discusses these human elements that are core to surviving and thriving as a faculty member. It guides readers through lessons in building successful and supportive relationships with communities of students, campus colleagues, professional peers, and university administrative and support staff.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc Sep 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 0197661742 ISBN 13: 9780197661741
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Mindfulness' practices derived from Buddhist sources have become ubiquitous. Meditation teachers will sometimes say that this is the same practice that the Buddha taught over 2500 years ago. David McMahan shows that the standard articulation of mindfulness is, rather, a distillation of particular strands of Buddhist thought that have combined with western ideas to create a unique practice tailored to modern life. Rethinking Meditation asks how and why these practices coalesced into the version we have today.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc Sep 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 0197627943 ISBN 13: 9780197627945
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Claims about the activities of fifth columns are experiencing an upsurge in our era of democratic erosion and geopolitical uncertainty. This pathbreaking multidisciplinary volume brings together leading scholars to break new ground in the study of fifth columns and the politics that surround them. It uses an original theoretical framework within the tradition of qualitative social science and analyzes cases from three continents. Enemies Within offers a unique perspective to better understand contemporary challenges including the rise of populism and authoritarianism, the return of chauvinistic nationalism, the weakening of democratic norms, and the persecution of ethnic or religious minorities and political dissidents.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc Sep 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 0197675263 ISBN 13: 9780197675267
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare System, Alan J. Dettlaff presents a call to abolish the American child welfare system due to the harm and destruction it causes Black families. Dettlaff provides evidence of the vast harms that result from family separations and placement in foster care to make a case that the child welfare system is beyond reform. Rather, the only solution to ending this harm is complete abolition of the child welfare system and a fundamental reimagining of the way society cares for children and families.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc Sep 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 0197662390 ISBN 13: 9780197662397
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Stories of Survival explores the paradox of suicide vulnerability and resiliency among Asian American college students and how to improve care for this frequently overlooked population in mental health research.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc Sep 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 0197683029 ISBN 13: 9780197683026
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this book, Atalia Omer argues that the efforts of western religious organizations in peacebuilding campaigns often reinforce neocolonial practices and disempower local religious actors. Focusing on Kenya and the Philippines, she shows that religious peacebuilding practices are both empowering and depoliticizing. Further, she argues that these religious actors generate decolonial openings regardless of how closed or open their religious communities are. The book not only uses decolonial and intersectional prisms to expose the entrenched and ongoing colonial dynamics operative in religion and the practices of peacebuilding and development in the global South, but it also speaks to decolonial theory through stories of transformation and survival.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc Sep 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 0197657699 ISBN 13: 9780197657690
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In War, Work, and Want, Randall Hansen focuses on how the oil shock transformed not just the economy proper and the geopolitics of the Middle East region, but also the global circulation of people and capital for decades afterward. Hansen asks why, against all expectations, global migration tripled after 1970. Arguing that the OPEC oil crisis explains everything, he shows how war, migration, and the desire for ever cheaper products made by migrants led to a massive upsurge in global migration after 1973.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc Sep 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 0197683398 ISBN 13: 9780197683392
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture examines how the avant-garde embraced small-gauge media technologies such as the Bolex camera, 16mm reversal film stocks, commercial film laboratories, and low-budget optical printers, investing them with meaning and value. This book uses technology as a lens for examining the process of making: where ideas come from, how they are put into practice, and how arguments about those ideas foster cultural and artistic commitments and communities.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc Sep 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 0190637730 ISBN 13: 9780190637736
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The dominant policy response to economic crises over the past four decades has been the introduction of austerity--a mix of budget cuts and reforms to downsize the role of the state. In A Thousand Cuts, Alexandros Kentikelenis and Thomas Stubbs examine the activities of the world's leading advocate of austerity: the International Monetary Fund. As one of the first systematic assessments of the impact of austerity on people's lives around the world, A Thousand Cuts makes an important contribution to the continuing debate on how to foster social protection in light of economic crises and IMF-mandated policy reforms.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc Sep 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 0197677711 ISBN 13: 9780197677711
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Israel and the Cyber Threat, Charles D. Freilich, Matthew S. Cohen, and Gabi Siboni provide a detailed and comprehensive overview of Israeli's cyber strategy, tracing it from its origins to the present. They analyze Israel's defensive and offensive capabilities, both of which are prodigious, to offer insights into what other countries can learn from Israel's experience and actions. The most authoritative work to date on Israeli cyber strategy, this book provides an in-depth look at the major actions Israel has taken in cyberspace and places them in the broader context to help readers understand state behavior in cyberspace.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc Sep 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 0197649262 ISBN 13: 9780197649268
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Digital Empires, Anu Bradford examines the ideological origins, societal implications, and the relative global influence of three contrasting regulatory approaches towards the digital economy. Throughout, she compares the EU's approach with both the US-based techno-libertarian model and China's authoritarian approach. At a moment of time when digital societies are at an inflection point, this book lays bare the choices we face as societies and individuals, explains the forces that shape those choices, and spells out the stakes involved in making those choices.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc Sep 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 0197670490 ISBN 13: 9780197670491
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Civics textbooks focus on how Congress makes policy through the legislative process, but the reality is that members of Congress have limited opportunities to advance their policy priorities. In fact, less than five percent of the bills that are introduced in Congress become law. What strategies do lawmakers have for navigating obstacles in Congress In this book, Melinda N. Ritchie reveals how members of Congress use the federal bureaucracy as a backdoor for policymaking. Drawing on an original dataset constructed from records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, Ritchie traces the interactions between members of Congress and federal agencies to illustrate how these communications function as part of a lawmaker's overarching strategy for policymaking.
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc Sep 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 019008488X ISBN 13: 9780190084882
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - .
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc Sep 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 0197564917 ISBN 13: 9780197564912
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A comparative and integrative overview of how and why animals as diverse as insects and humans behave the way that they do, linking behaviors to the brain, genes, and hormones, as well as to the surrounding ecological and social environments. The new edition, now in enhanced Elektronisches Buch format, brings animal behavior and research to life like never before.