oxford university press nov 1997 (13 Ergebnisse)

Notenblatt. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Students From The Harlem School Of The Arts (illustrator). Neuware - The Langston Hughes classic, now in paperback, includes an Introduction by Ben Vereen and Afterword by George P. Cunningham. In 26 short and wonderful poems--never-before published--acclaimed Harlem Renaissance writer Langston Hughes (1902-1967) takes children through both the alphabet and the animal world. Color and b&w illustrations.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A highly readable and balanced work that weaves the major political, cultural, and economic events of the period into a superb portrait of America from 1945 through Watergate, 'Grand Expectations' offers a brilliant summation of the years which created the America we know today. 48 illustrations. 4 maps.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A riveting history of child kidnapping in America, from the first ransom abduction in 1874, vividly retells the stories of some of America's most famous crimes, including the Leopold and Loeb murder trial and the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby. Author Paula Fass skillfully illuminates our national obsession with kidnapping and provides new insights into parenting, the media and celebrity, law enforcement, and much more. Photos.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Based on three years of ethnographic work in New York City, this book provides the first detailed account of the economic lives of women drug users. Set in a neighborhood plagued with AIDS, Sexed Work reveals the economic lives of a group of women whose options have been severely circumscribed, not only by drug use, but also by poverty, racism, violence, and enduring marginality. Maher draws extensively on the women's own words to describe how structures and relations of gender, race and class are articulated by divisions of labor in the street-level drug economy. This rich, nuanced and theoretically sophisticated study of 'crime as work' will be compelling reading for all those interested in the way in which women deal with the intersection of gender, race, and work.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book provides an integral but an intellectually accessible interpretation of the Republic for readers who lack prior preparation in philosophy or political theory. The author contrasts Plato's responses to perennial issues with those of key subsequent thinkers and introduces readers to some of the technical terminology in which philosophy and political theory are still conducted. The book will provoke lively discussion in any course that assigns theRepublic as a primary text.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this controversial new book O'Hear takes a stand against the fashion for explaining human behavior in terms of evolution. He contends that while the theory of evolution is successful in explaining the development of the natural world in general, it is of limited value when applied to thehuman world. Because of our reflectiveness and our rationality we take on goals and ideals which cannot be justified in terms of survival-promotion or reproductive advantage. O'Hear examines the nature of human self-consciousness, and argues that evolutionary theory cannot give a satisfactoryaccount of such distinctive facets of human life as the quest for knowledge, moral sense, and the appreciation of beauty; in these we transcend our biological origins. It is our rationality that allows each of us to go beyond not only our biological but also our cultural inheritance: as the authorsays in the Preface, 'we are prisoners neither of our genes nor of the ideas we encounter as we each make our personal and individual way through life.'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book describes the use of smoothing techniques in statistics and includes both density estimation and nonparametric regression. Incorporating recent advances, it describes a variety of ways to apply these methods to practical problems. Although the emphasis is on using smoothing techniques to explore data graphically, the discussion also covers data analysis with nonparametric curves, as an extension of more standard parametric models. Intended as an introduction, with a focus on applications rather than on detailed theory, the book will be equally valuable for undergraduate and graduate students in statistics and for a wide range of scientists interested in statistical techniques. The text makes extensive reference to S-Plus, a powerful computing environment for exploring data, and provides many S-Plus functions and example scripts. This material, however, is independent of the main body of text and may be skipped by readers not interested in S-Plus.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Greek prose literature evolved much later than poetry, and rapidly became a sophisticated art-form. The book examines how this evolution progressed, from about 500 BC down to the time of Plato and Demosthenes. Stylistic choice is treated from the point of view of the relations between speaker and hearer and the balance between innovation and the hearer's expectations.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Migrant workers and their families outnumber refugees and displaced persons, but are given far less attention when it comes to the international protection of their rights. Indeed, to be an economic migrant today carries with it a stigma in a word where barriers to voluntary internationalmigration are growing ever higher. This timely work evaluates the international protection of the rights of migrant workers and their families in countries of employment focusing on their economic, social, cultural, political, and residence rights. The book begins with an overview of internationallabor migration and its relationship to the right to development. It examines the rights of migrant workers as aliens in general international human rights law as well as the specific efforts and measures of the International Labour Organization and the United Nations. The final part contains acomprehensive case study of the multifarious standards adopted under the auspices of the Council of Europe and the European Union to protect this increasingly vulnerable group of human beings.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The book contains an overview of unfair competition law for the protection of intellectual and industrial creations in the EU, the US, and other jurisdictions, such as Canada, Australia, and South Africa. It also contains a comparative theoretical study of the legal and economic justification of the law.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Classical Arab civilization produced the most extensive and highly developed bacchic tradition in world literature, In this book, Kennedy traces the history of wine poetry from its origins in sixth century Arabia to its heyday in Baghdad at the turn of the ninth century. He focusses on the work of the great Ab=u Nuw=as (d. c.813), placing his wine songs in context with those of his contemporaries and with other poetic genres such as amatory, invective, ascetic, and gnomic verse.