Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Mär 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0198809077 ISBN 13: 9780198809074
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - Philosophy of Mind: A Very Short Introduction probes some of the great philosophical questions about the mind: What is the relationship between mind and matter Can science unravel the mystery of consciousness How can our thoughts represent things in the world Are computers genuinely intelligent In the book, Barbara Gail Montero highlights key thought experiments used by philosophers to explore the nature of mind and how mind and body relate to each other (the mind-body problem). She leads readers through the strengths and weaknesses of the proposed solutions to the mind-body problem and explores the philosophical conundrums associated with sensation, perception, cognition, and emotion. While keeping an eye on the contemporary philosophical debate, Montero also considers the cross-cultural roots of philosophy of mind, and its connections to psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and physics. 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 Mär 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0190093382 ISBN 13: 9780190093389
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - An accessible overview of the power of women in the economy and the obstacles they faceWomen are joining the workforce in increasing numbers, making inroads as entrepreneurs and leaders, acquiring more education, marrying later, and having fewer children - all trends consistent with spending a far greater fraction of their adult lives in the labor force. And yet, even as women break the glass ceiling and challenge gender and sexual norms, they are told they need to 'lean in' and powerful movements like #TimesUP and #MeToo are still necessary to expose and overcome endemic discrimination, exploitation, harassment, and worse. Women in the Workforce: What Everyone Needs to Know ® provides an essential and accessible introduction to the significance of women in the economy and the obstacles they face in claiming equal status. Economists Laura M. Argys and Susan L. Averett tackle timely topics like the wage gap, 'women's work,' and gendered workplace interactions in an easy-to-read question and answer format. The book focuses on the choices people make and how these are framed by institutional impediments that create inequalities in the options available to men and women. Argys and Averett highlight how the experience of being a woman in the labor market varies, sometimes dramatically, by race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status. They also explore how living in cities, towns, and rural areas influence choices and outcomes.Covering a range of topics, from breastfeeding and work, earnings penalties for women who have taken time away from work, and childcare while women work, to the gender pay gap and the distinctive challenges women face as they age and transition to retirement, this book answers the essential questions surrounding women in the workforce.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Mär 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0190647329 ISBN 13: 9780190647322
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - The word 'jihad' is everywhere in the global media. It generally appears in the context of violence waged against the West by militants in or from Muslim-majority societies. This usage overwhelmingly colors popular discourse about Islam and Muslims and it has resulted in highly simplistic, distorted, and ahistorical understandings of the concept of jihad. For most Muslims, jihad refers to the continuous human struggle to promote and implement what is morally good and noble in all walks of life, as well as to resist and prevent what is morally wrong and unjust. This book addresses the great need for a discussion of jihad that explores its various dimensions without fear-mongering or sensationalism. Here it is examined from multiple perspectives: scriptural, theological, moral and ethical, legal and socio-political. Asma Afsaruddin looks at the key questions about jihad and provides concise yet thorough answers. Jihad: What Everyone Needs to Know® provides a historically-grounded, scholarly yet accessible treatment of the meanings of jihad from the formative period of Islam until the contemporary period.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Mär 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0190937416 ISBN 13: 9780190937416
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Buch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - An authoritative new history of the Roman conquest of BritainWhy did Julius Caesar come to Britain His own account suggests that he invaded to quell a resistance of Gallic sympathizers in the region of modern-day Kent -- but there must have been personal and divine aspirations behind the expeditions in 55 and 54 BCE. To the ancients, the Ocean was a body of water that circumscribed the known world, separating places like Britain from terra cognita, and no one, not even Alexander the Great, had crossed it. While Caesar came and saw, he did not conquer. In the words of the historian Tacitus, 'he revealed, rather than bequeathed, Britain to Rome.' For the next five hundred years, Caesar's revelation was Rome's remotest imperial bequest.Conquering the Ocean provides a new narrative of the Roman conquest of Britain, from the two campaigns of Caesar up until the construction of Hadrian's Wall across the Tyne-Solway isthmus during the 120s CE. Much of the ancient literary record portrays this period as a long march of Roman progress but recent archaeological discoveries reveal that there existed a strong resistance in Britain, Boudica's short lived revolt being the most celebrated of them, and that Roman success was by no means inevitable. Richard Hingley here draws upon an impressive array of new information from archaeological research and recent scholarship on the classical sources to provide a balanced picture of the military activities and strategies that led to the conquest and subjugation of Britain. Conquering the Ocean is the fullest picture to date of a chapter in Roman military history that continues to captivate the public.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Mär 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0197622755 ISBN 13: 9780197622759
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - This book, a free-standing companion to Bernstein's masterly 2003 biography of Thomas Jefferson, responds to the public curiosity about Adams, his life, and his work for those intrigued by popular-culture portrayals of Adams in the Broadway musical 1776 and the HBO television miniseries John Adams. Focusing on Adams's mind and his fascination with the law, Bernstein presents Adams as a constitutional thinker and learned politician in a time when ideas pervaded our politics and shaped the origins of the United States.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Mär 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0197579809 ISBN 13: 9780197579800
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Buch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - This unique book is an exciting global journey into the origins, technologies, and recipes of ancient beer as well as into beer's continued importance today in diet, ritual, and economics.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Mär 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0198808828 ISBN 13: 9780198808824
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - At a time when literature is thought to have limited value in a world dominated by scientific thinking, this volume offers close readings of John Milton's major works to argue that poetry is a vital means of knowing the world and answering the most fundamental questions.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Mär 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0197537618 ISBN 13: 9780197537619
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Buch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - Spreading Hate examines the evolution of the white power movement around the world, explaining its appeal and the threat it poses as well as many failures.The modern white power movement is now a global, transnational phenomenon. In this sweeping, authoritative account, Daniel Byman traces the key moments in the white power movement's evolution in the United States and around the world and then details its many facets today. Using a wide range of sources, Byman explodes several myths about white power terrorism and exposes dangerous gaps in current policies.For almost two decades since 9/11, white supremacist terrorism has been relegated to a secondary concern in the US and Europe despite the fact that it was clearly metastasizing. This neglect has led to shocking episodes of violence from New Zealand to Norway to South Carolina and has eroded faith in Western democratic institutions. Because white power terrorists' grievances echo mainstream debates and their violence often exacerbates polarization, their political impact can be inordinately high even if the body count is low. As Byman stresses, they are not a hide-bound movement seeking to turn back the clock, but are dynamic, drawing on ideas from around the world and exploiting the most cutting-edge technologies, especially social media.White power terrorists, however, have many weaknesses. They are divided, with poor leadership, and often attract the incompetent and the criminal as well as the dangerous and deluded. If governments act decisively and treat white power terrorism with the same urgency they use to manage jihadist violence, then the threat can be reduced. This will require aggressive law enforcement, international intelligence cooperation, crackdowns by technology companies, and other forceful steps. Considering policy solutions as well as synthesizing a vast body of scholarly research, Spreading Hate will be essential reading for anyone worried about this an increasingly networked movement that threatens to grow more dangerous in the years to come.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Mär 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0190940557 ISBN 13: 9780190940553
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Buch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - Despite the passage of countless data security laws, data breaches are increasing at a record pace. Why is the law failing to stop them In Breached!, Daniel Solove and Woodrow Hartzog argue that, ironically, the law is failing because it is too focused on individual breaches and not the larger context, in which many actors contribute to poor data security and make breaches much more harmful. Drawing insights from many fascinating stories about data breaches, the authors explain why the law fails and even worsens the problem. Engaging and accessible, Breached! will reshape our thinking about one of the most thorny problems in business and consumer life today.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Mär 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0197636640 ISBN 13: 9780197636640
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - The Group is inspired by Single Fathers Due to Cancer Program, an innovative program at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. This book integrates for the lay reader poignant narratives from the fathers in the support group with the latest advances in grief resolution, resilience, positive psychology, meaning-making, and post-traumatic growth.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Mär 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0190060476 ISBN 13: 9780190060473
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Buch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - Prophets without Honor tells the story of the grueling attempts to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and presents an in-depth examination of the reasons for its resilience. In what is the most non-partisan, comprehensive, and balanced account by an insider representing one of the parties, Shlomo Ben-Ami describes the specific factors that impede a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and sheds light on the dilemmas that stand at the center of any peace enterprise.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Mär 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0190877243 ISBN 13: 9780190877248
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Buch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - How did democracy become so vulnerable in America Donald Trump is a shrill warning of the political system's fragility, but he alone is not the problem. The vulnerability is broader and deeper-and looms still. Even before Trump ran for president, his disdain for the rules and norms of democracy and the US Constitution was well-known by many prominent Republicans who were unable to stop his nomination. Trump's presidency is the culmination of a series of political decisions since the late 18th century that ceded party nominations to small cliques of ideologues. Democracy Under Fire provides a readable, if disturbing, history of American democracy and proposes recommendations to restore it.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Mär 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0192859641 ISBN 13: 9780192859648
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - John Perry offers a rethinking of Frege's seminal contributions to philosophy of language, which had a dominant influence on the subject in the twentieth century. He argues that Frege's famous doctrine of indirect reference led philosophers on a detour, and he advocates a move to a new framework for understanding reference.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Mär 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0192856928 ISBN 13: 9780192856920
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad offers illuminating new perspectives on contemporary phenomenological theories of body and subjectivity, based on studies of diverse classical Indian texts. He argues for a 'phenomenological ecology' of bodily subjectivity in health, gender, contemplation, and lovemaking.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Mär 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0192859102 ISBN 13: 9780192859105
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. This volume explores the vast cultural, literary, social, and political transformations which characterized the period 1000-1350.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Mär 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0190876387 ISBN 13: 9780190876388
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - This volume investigates what it means to be human. Is there something that makes us distinct from computers, other great apes, Martians, and gods And what are the ethical and political consequences of how we answer this question How have our views on this changed from the times of the ancient Greek and Chinese philosophers What do contemporary evolutionary biologists and advocates of uploading human consciousness onto computers think about it This volume collects new essays from leading scholars in philosophy, history, and other disciplines to explore these and numerous other questions related to human nature and its significance throughout history.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Mär 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0192843737 ISBN 13: 9780192843739
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Buch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - A multi-level and multi-faceted exploration of a century of remembering, forgetting, and rediscovering the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, arguably the greatest catastrophe in human history. Twenty-three researchers chart the worldwide historiographical neglect and silences, and trace vestiges of social and cultural memories of this pandemic.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Mär 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0197626637 ISBN 13: 9780197626634
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - In Ground War, Nicholas Goedert tackles the controversies, litigation, and effects surrounding partisan gerrymandering of Congress. He contends that the appropriate actors to address the fairness of a map are nonpartisan commissions within each state, not the US courts. Using multiple empirical approaches, Goedert shows that nonpartisan commissions, adopted state-by-state, represent the best alternative to legislative districting. A rigorous account that explains how our system works and provides practical solutions for improving it, Ground War is an essential work for all scholars of US elections.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Mär 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0197617611 ISBN 13: 9780197617618
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - This book explores how data-opolies colonize and dominate markets, identifying shortcomings in the proposed remedies and providing solutions that can promote privacy, deter the toxic competition caused by behavioral advertising, and balance privacy and healthy competition when they conflict.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Mär 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0197641792 ISBN 13: 9780197641798
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Buch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - How do societies respond to great demographic change This question lingers over the contemporary politics of the United States and other countries where persistent immigration has altered populations and may soon produce a majority minority milestone. Wielding historical analysis, fieldwork, and polling data, Majority Minority shows how states can leverage political institutions and rhetoric to deepen social divisions or evolve public understandings of the nation.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Mär 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0197512410 ISBN 13: 9780197512418
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Buch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - Through firsthand quantitative and qualitative empirical research, plus a wealth of research reviewed, The Caregiving Ambition brings together psychological theories and cutting-edge management research to illuminate how ignoring caregiving as an ambition perpetuates the status quo. This book shows the path forward by arguing that an honest discussion about caregiving ambition will make our individual and collective lives more humane, caring, and productive.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Mär 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0198851529 ISBN 13: 9780198851523
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - Structured clinical management (SCM) is a unified approach to the treatment of people with personality disorder, which is within reach of general mental health professionals without extensive additional training. This book provides a practical, and detailed guide on how mental health services can implement SCM in their clinical practice.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Mär 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0197598498 ISBN 13: 9780197598498
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - In a time marked by profound polarization, this volume draws our attention to a virtue that is of key importance in many non-Western cultures but is largely neglected in modern Western thought: the virtue of harmony. The book comprises thirteen chapters that examine harmony from a particular cultural or disciplinary perspective. A broad variety of cultural traditions are represented, including the Confucian, Daoist, Buddhist, Judaist, Greek, Christian, Islamic, African, and Native American traditions, as well as different disciplinary approaches, such as philosophy, religious studies, linguistics, psychology, and political theory. This is the first book in English that has assembled such diversity of cultural and disciplinary perspectives on harmony in one place. It is suitable for general readers, students, as well as researchers interested in this flourishing topic of research.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Mär 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0192855778 ISBN 13: 9780192855770
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constructions, in which several verbs combine to form a single predicate. It uses an inductively-based framework for the analysis and draws on data from languages with different typological profiles and genetic affiliations.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Mär 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0192859129 ISBN 13: 9780192859129
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. This volume covers 1645 to 1714, which saw the rise of new media forms, and transformations in performance spaces, bookselling, and the concept of authorship.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Mär 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 019884784X ISBN 13: 9780198847847
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - This volume provides a broad introduction to Chinese linguistics. It offers an accessible synthesis of the most relevant topics in the field both for researchers and scholars on China studies and for linguists, including those with little or no previous knowledge of Chinese.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Mär 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0197619967 ISBN 13: 9780197619964
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Buch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - An original and comprehensive examination of the politics of cybersecurity in the MENA region.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Mär 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0197613837 ISBN 13: 9780197613832
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Buch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - Since the time of Hippocrates, madness has typically been viewed through the lens of disease, dysfunction, and defect. In Madness, philosopher of science Justin Garson presents a radically different paradigm for conceiving of madness and the forms that it takes. In this paradigm, which he calls madness-as-strategy, madness is neither a disease nor a defect, but a designed feature, like the heart or lungs. The book will be essential reading for philosophers of medicine and psychiatry, historians and sociologists of medicine, and mental health service users, survivors, and activists, for its alternative and liberating vision of what it means to be mad.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Mär 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0192856960 ISBN 13: 9780192856968
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - The book presents a collection of short, self-contained introductions to important topics in modern theoretical physics, as presented at universities worldwide in seminars and short courses.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Mär 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0197602517 ISBN 13: 9780197602515
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies gathers contributions from more than sixty authors pioneering new scholarly approaches to improvisation in the arts, humanities, social, and natural sciences.