Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Dez 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0199586799 ISBN 13: 9780199586790
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Gothic is wildly diverse. It can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror films, and a distinctive style of rock music. It has influenced political theorists and social reformers, as well as Victorian home décor and contemporary fashion. Nick Groom shows how the Gothic has come to encompass so many meanings by telling the story of the Gothic from the ancient tribe who sacked Rome to the alternative subculture of the present day.This unique Very Short Introduction reveals that the Gothic has predominantly been a way of understanding and responding to the past. Time after time, the Gothic has been invoked in order to reveal what lies behind conventional history. It is a way of disclosing secrets, whether in the constitutional politics of seventeenth-century England or the racial politics of the United States. While contexts change, the Gothic perpetually regards the past with fascination, both yearning and horrified. It reminds us that neither societies nor individuals can escape the consequences of their actions.The anatomy of the Gothic is richly complex and perversely contradictory, and so the thirteen chapters here range deliberately widely. This is the first time that the entire story of the Gothic has been written as a continuous history: from the historians of late antiquity to the gardens of Georgian England, from the mediaeval cult of the macabre to German Expressionist cinema, from Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy to American consumer society, from folk ballads to vampires, from the past to the present. 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.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Dez 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0199916357 ISBN 13: 9780199916351
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What makes life most worth living In Pursuing the Good Life, Christopher Peterson, one of the founders and leaders of positive psychology, compiles for the first time a collection of his reflections on what positive psychologists have learned about the good life, with meditations on how to engage in it. With the humor and wisdom that have made him an award-winning teacher, Peterson explores a range of concerns on the groundswell of positive psychology and the lessons it embraces. There is no one correct form of the good life, but the masterful insight collected here offers the mindfulness to chase it.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Dez 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0199755868 ISBN 13: 9780199755868
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An authoritative and vibrant new account of the extraordinary life of Constantine.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Dez 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0199931186 ISBN 13: 9780199931187
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On April 14, 1861, the day Fort Sumter fell to Confederate forces, Washington, DC was ripe for invasion. Only a few hundred soldiers were stationed in the city, and a rebel army rumored at 20,000 men was not far off. In The Siege of Washington, John and Charles Lockwood offer a minute-by-minute account of the twelve days when the fate of the Union hung in the balance. Drawing from rarely seen primary documents, this compelling history places the reader onthe scene, brilliantly capturing the tense, precarious first days of America's Civil War.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Dez 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0199844291 ISBN 13: 9780199844296
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Hepatitis C is a practical, evidence-based handbook that provides a comprehensive overview of the disease. It is an ideal resource for clinicians directly involved in the care of patients with hepatitis C.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Dez 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 1849041660 ISBN 13: 9781849041669
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Written by a London police officer with a background in counter-terrorism, this book convincingly demonstrates that Western governments must listen to its Muslim citizens' grievances in order to combat terrorism.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Dez 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0199920303 ISBN 13: 9780199920303
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A critical look at American Ambassador to the UN Daniel Patrick Moynihan's valiant stand against its 1975 declaration of Zionism as a form of racism shows just how much -- and how little -- Moynihan's moment accomplished, and how relevant it remains today.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Dez 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0199942366 ISBN 13: 9780199942367
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Argues that a new dialogue between truths of science and religion provides a basis for articulating and disseminating an environmental ethos which could result in the fairly rapid emergence of well organized and highly effective worldwide movement in religious environmentalism.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Dez 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0199931887 ISBN 13: 9780199931880
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Drawing on an extensive survey of 1,200 Christian men and women across the United States, as well as 120 in-depth interviews, Matthew T. Lee, Margaret M. Poloma, and Stephen G. Post offer a deeper and more nuanced study of religion and benevolence, finding that it is the experience of God as loving that activates religious networks and moves people to do good for others.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Dez 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0199942196 ISBN 13: 9780199942190
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Yvonne C. Zimmerman offers a groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between freedom and sexual regulation in American approaches to human trafficking.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Dez 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0199327912 ISBN 13: 9780199327911
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A compelling reconsideration of how massive injections of Soviet aid failed to win round the Afghan people or stabilise the country.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Dez 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0199930317 ISBN 13: 9780199930319
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When the U.S. military began its 'surge ' in Iraq in 2006, counterinsurgency effectively became its dominant approach for fighting wars. Yet many of the major controversies and debates surrounding counterinsurgency operations have turned not on military questions but on legal ones: Who can the U.S. military attack with drones Is the occupation of Iraq legitimate What tradeoffs should the military make between self-protection and civilian casualties What is the right framework for negotiating with the Taliban How can we build the rule of law in Afghanistan The Counterinsurgent's Constitution tackles this wide range of legal issues from the vantage point of counterinsurgency strategy. It explains why law matters in counterinsurgency, how law operates during counterinsurgency, and how law and counterinsurgency strategy can be better integrated. As Ganesh Sitaraman shows, far from being opposed, law and strategy are aligned and reinforcing. Following the laws of war is not just the right thing to do, it is strategically beneficial. Reconciliation with enemies can both end the conflict and preserve the possibility of justice for war crimes. Building the rule of law is not simply altruistic 'nation-building, ' but an important strategy for success. The first book on law and counterinsurgency strategy, The Counterinsurgent's Constitution seamlessly integrates law and military strategy to illuminate some of the most pressing issues in warfare and the transition from war to peace.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Dez 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0199732590 ISBN 13: 9780199732593
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A biography of the complex and fascinating Dorothy Wrinch, her much publicized scientific feud with Linus Pauling, and her contributions to science.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Dez 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0195576993 ISBN 13: 9780195576993
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Written to assist pre-service teachers to understand how drama can be used in an integrated learning approach, Drama: Learning Connections in Primary Schools examines approaches for involving students in drama and presents strategies for using drama as a base for social learning.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Dez 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0199327955 ISBN 13: 9780199327959
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An absorbing reflection on the Caliphate and the re-imagining of the Muslim ummah as a diverse multi-ethnic community.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Dez 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0199739706 ISBN 13: 9780199739707
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The 1866 Civil Rights Act is one of the most monumental pieces of legislation in American history, figuring into almost every subsequent piece of legislation dealing with civil rights for the next century. While numerous scholars have looked at it in the larger social and political context of Reconstruction and its relationship with the Fourteenth Amendment, this will be the first book that focuses on its central role in the long history of civil rights.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Dez 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 019993195X ISBN 13: 9780199931958
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The first ever biography of Demosthenes written in English for a popular audience, set against the rich backdrop of late classical Greece and Macedonia.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Dez 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0195176669 ISBN 13: 9780195176667
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Understanding Parricide is the most comprehensive book available about juvenile and adult sons and daughters who kill their parents.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Dez 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0199579911 ISBN 13: 9780199579914
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume explores emotion in medieval and early modern thought, and opens a contemporary debate on the way emotions figure in our cognitive lives. Thirteen original essays explore the key themes of emotion within the mind; the intentionality of emotions; emotions and action; and the role of emotion in self-understanding and social situations.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Dez 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 019966840X ISBN 13: 9780199668403
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is the first comprehensive biography of one of the greatest and most careful observational astronomers of all time. He mapped the southern sky and named many of the constellations. In addition, he contributed to geodesy, navigation, and celestial mechanics.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Dez 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0199662924 ISBN 13: 9780199662920
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is intended for graduate students in Physics, especially Elementary Particle Physics. It gives an introduction to group theory for physicists with a focus on Lie groups and Lie algebras.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Dez 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0199547041 ISBN 13: 9780199547043
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Considers the nature of Muslim-Christian relations within a multi-ethnic empire and draws on popular memory to investigate coexistence at the grass-roots level. Demonstrates the essential role of state-perpetrated political violence in hardening identity boundaries and in transforming Ottoman subjects into Turkish and Greek nationals.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Dez 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 019536905X ISBN 13: 9780195369052
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this book, Eric Cassell explores what sickness is, what persons are, and how to understand function and its impairments. He explains healing skills and actions, as well as the nature of healing for sick and suffering patients. This book concludes with a discussion of the moral basis of the relationship between patient and healer. explores what sickness is, what persons are, and how to understand function and its impairments. He explains healing skills and actions, as well as the nature of healing for sick and suffering patients. This book concludes with a discussion of the moral basis of the relationship between patient and healer, as well as the goals of healing.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Dez 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0195183029 ISBN 13: 9780195183023
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Mental Health Informatics offers a comprehensive examination of contemporary issues in mental health that focuses on the innovative use of computers and other information technology in support of patient care, education, services delivery, and research in the field of mental health services. This text deals with resources, devices, and formalized methods for optimizing the storage, retrieval, and management of information for problem solving and decision-making in mental health.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Dez 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0199691509 ISBN 13: 9780199691500
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Shaping the Normative Landscape is an investigation of the value of obligations and of rights, of forgiveness, of consent and refusal, of promise and request. David Owens shows that these are all instruments by which we exercise control over our normative environment.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Dez 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0199657548 ISBN 13: 9780199657544
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Joshua Gert offers an original account of normative facts and properties, those which have implications for how we ought to behave. He argues that our ability to think and talk about normative notions such as reasons and benefits is dependent on how we respond to the world around us, including how we respond to the actions of other people.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Dez 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0199560471 ISBN 13: 9780199560479
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Imaging tests are integral to the management of patients with suspected lung disease. Staggering advances in radiological technology have been associated with an ever-increasing complexity, and so keeping up with terminology, understanding the significance of basic radiological signs, and appreciating the prognostic impact of findings on imaging tests, is not an easy undertaking for the physician. Until now, there has been a lack of practical, pocket-sized, but authoritative texts dealing principally with the imaging features of pulmonary disease. Covering the essential elements of pulmonary imaging in a concise and digestible format, Thoracic Imaging deals with both the key principles of thoracic imaging, including a separate section on the common radiological terms used to describe pulmonary pathology, and the principal pathological compartments that are affected in specific disease processes. It is packed with over 600 high quality illustrations to highlight the important radiological features in the different diseases, with an emphasis on chest radiography (CXR) and computed tomography (CT) to mirror routine clinical practice.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Dez 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0199660646 ISBN 13: 9780199660643
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Private law governs our most pervasive relationships: the wrongs we do one another, the contracts we make and break, and the property we own. This book analyses the deepest questions about the law's foundations, showing how a distinctive notion of justice, 'corrective justice', describes the special morality intrinsic to private law.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Dez 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0199757860 ISBN 13: 9780199757862
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Just Sentencing is the first book in over forty years to present a fully developed punishment theory which incorporates both utilitarian and retributive sentencing purposes.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Dez 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0199652139 ISBN 13: 9780199652136
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Oxford Textbook of Medicine: Infection is selected from the infection section of the renowned Oxford Textbook of Medicine, Fifth Edition. The book is an authoritative resource on infectious diseases. Comprehensive in its coverage and beautifully illustrated in full colour, it is an essential guide to the present-day management and prevention of a wide variety of infectious diseases. Covering diseases that are both familiar and tropical as well as those that continue to emerge, medical professionals will find it immensely valuable when diagnosing and preventing infection in their day-to-day practice. In 121 chapters, experts in infectious diseases from across the world review the essentials of current infectious disease practice and provide a wealth of practical advice that medical professionals can use in clinical situations. In addition, background information on epidemiology, pathogenesis and pathophysiology encourages a fuller understanding of conditions, and over 250 full colour images help with diagnosis when treating patients. A commanding discussion of infectious diseases from both Western and tropical countries, the Oxford Textbook of Medicine: Infection provides detailed information on a extensive range of viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa and helminths. Vast in scope and truly global in reach, chapters span a variety of topics including, pathogenic microorganisms and the host, the patient with suspected infection, travel and expedition medicine, and non-venomous arthropods. They reflect the globalization of disease that has resulted from the unprecedented increase in international travel and immigration, as well as natural/man-made disasters that demand massive international aid efforts. This up-to-date and essential reference tool, supports all medical professionals in the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases. It will be of particular value to clinicians working in, or seeing patients from the developing world, due to the wide range of pathogens discussed. It also supports those taking diploma courses in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and HIV medicine. No infectious disease specialist or trainee should be without a copy of this definitive resource.