Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0192777505 ISBN 13: 9780192777508
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A new adventure is afoot for the Super Happy Magic Forest heroes when Foam, a merperson, asks for help saving the underwater city of Fishopolis. Our heroes will have to try their best to not get too distracted by pirate frolicking and roasted marshmallows to succeed in this swashbuckling quest and defeat the Sea Witch threatening Fishopolis.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0198784600 ISBN 13: 9780198784609
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Disrupt and Deny, Rory Cormac tells the remarkable true story of Britain's secret scheming against its enemies, as well as its friends.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1496730674 ISBN 13: 9781496730671
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This friends-to-lovers rom-com from the inimitable duo Tash Skilton, authors of Ghosting: A Love Story, explores the hilarious highs and lows of adulting, Hollywood, and what happens when BFFs are forced to take a hard second look at their favorite fandoms and each other.ONE PERFECT FRIENDSHIP ABRUPTLY CANCELEDAll through college, Nina and Sebastian were sentence-finishing, secret-sharing BFFs, and absolute super fans of Castles of Rust and Bone. It was the kind of show and the kind of friendship that demands you re all in, for the plot twists, the unresolved sexual tension, the weekly coup d etat and ultimately, the heartbreak.At least until the big cliffhanger But when Castles season finale turned into the unceremoniously axed show s awkward farewell, Nina and Sebastian s friendship ended just as suddenly and just as awkwardly. And Sebastian s longed-for chance to woo Nina into something more than friendship was written out of their story. In Hollywood, there s always a comeback.Five years later, Nina and Sebastian are living their best lives in L.A. and Castles is being reboot-ed. Nina s a social media coordinator for the streaming service that will air the show, and Sebastian is a PA for the production company. What could be more perfect How about running into each other on set Fingers crossed for a happy ending Turns out even the most dedicated fans are due for a wake-up call when they get to peek behind-the-scenes. And suddenly Nina and Sebastian are remembering when they were super fans of each other instead. Will flipping the script from buddy comedy to real romance ruin everything or deliver the happily-ever-after they both crave Hip, hot, hilarious . . . Hollywood Ending is delightful! New York Times bestselling author Lori Wilde Absolute rom-com PERFECTION! A hilarious & angsty, slow-burning friends-to-lovers romance brilliantly set in the world of TV series fandom. USA Today bestselling author Priscilla Oliveras.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0198841078 ISBN 13: 9780198841074
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The People's Peace: Britain since 1945 is the first comprehensive study by a professional historian of British history from 1945 to the present day. It examines the transformation of post-war Britain from the planning enthusiasm of 1945 to the rise of New Labour. Its themes include the troubles of the British economy; public criticism of the legitimacy of the state and its instruments of authority; the co-existence of growing personal prosperity with widespread social inequality; and the debates aroused by decolonization, and Britain's relationship to the Commonwealth, the US and Europe. Changes in cultural life, from the puritanical 'austerity' of the 1940's, through the 'permissiveness' of the 1960s, to the tensions and achievements of recent years are also charted.Using a wide variety of sources, including the records of political parties and the most recently released documents from the Public Records Office, Kenneth Morgan brings the story right up to date and draws comparisons with the post-war history of other nations. This penetrating analysis by a leading twentieth-century historian will prove invaluable to anyone interested in the development of the Britain of today.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 9697340153 ISBN 13: 9789697340156
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is about Pakistans most popular Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar whose shrine in Sehwan Sharif is one of the most fascinating sanctuaries in the Muslim world. At the time of pilgrimage, this flourishing cult centre becomes a vibrant place of ecstatic religiosity marked by intense forms of devotion. The present ethnographic study is organized around three themes: piety, pilgrimage, and ritual. Thus, its focus is first on visual culture and material religion as well as various aspects of religious aesthetics which highlight how sacred spaces are constructed and shaped. Secondly, it deals with the year-round pilgrimage, mainly investigating pilgrims from Punjab (including a unique life history of a female Sufi lineage from Lahore), but also discussing remarkable ritual agents in the cult. The third theme is the spectacular trance dance known as dham¿l. On February 16, 2017, a suicide bomber executed a horrible massacre among the dancing devotees.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0190704241 ISBN 13: 9780190704247
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work relates the first-hand impressions of the author, which he gathered during his illustrious career, starting with Quaid-i-Azam M.A. Jinnah up until the rule of General Pervez Musharraf. A lifetime in the diplomatic service of Pakistan gave Jamsheed Marker a unique vantage point-in cricket terms, he was at cover point, i.e. near enough to the wicket to follow the action around the stumps.yet sufficiently distant for a general overview of the state of play.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0199402213 ISBN 13: 9780199402212
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is the first comprehensive and critical study of the life and political career of Liaquat Ali Khan, the first Prime Minister of Pakistan and Honorary Secretary of the All India Muslim League. This book covers the early life and political career of Liaquat Ali Khan. Additionally, his historical role in dividing the armed forces prior to Partition and heading off a coup by the Indian Army in April 1945 are some of the other aspects which have been highlighted in this book for the first time.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0190687452 ISBN 13: 9780190687458
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Rome. A Empire's Story traces a millennium and a half of Roman history from the first Iron Age settlements around the Tiber bend to the Arab Invasions that shattered the unity of the Mediterranean World. In chapters that alternate narrative and thematic discussions it presents the most recent research on topics from slavery to environmental change. The first edition was successful in classrooms and for general readers. This second edition is completely revised and updated and includes expanded discussions of material culture and late antiquity.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0198845405 ISBN 13: 9780198845409
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Simone Marchi presents the emerging story of how cosmic collisions shaped both the solar system and our own planet, from the creation of the Moon to influencing the evolution of life on Earth. The Earth emerged out of the upheaval and chaos of massive collisions in the infancy of the Solar System, more than four billion years ago. The largest of these events sent into orbit a spray of molten rocks out of which the Moon coalesced. As in ancient mythological tales, this giant catastrophe marks the birth of our planet as we know it. Space exploration has shown that signs of ancient collisions are widespread in the Solar System, from the barren and once-habitable Mars to the rugged asteroids. On Earth these signs are more subtle, but still cataclysmic, such as the massive asteroid strike which likely sparked the demise of the dinosaurs and many other forms of life some 66 million years ago. Signatures of even more dramatic catastrophes are concealed in ancient rocks. These events wreaked havoc on our planet's surface, influencing global climate and topography, while also enriching the Earth with gold and other rare elements. And recently, modern science is finding that they could even have contributed to developing the conditions conducive to life. In Colliding Worlds, Simone Marchi explores the key role that collisions in space have played in the formation and evolution of our solar system, the development of planets, and possibly even the origin of life on Earth. Analysing our latest understanding of the surfaces of Mars and Venus, gleaned from recent space missions, Marchi presents the dramatic story of cosmic collisions and their legacies.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0197581803 ISBN 13: 9780197581803
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Irony and Outrage explores the aesthetics, underlying logics, and histories of two seemingly distinct genres: liberal political satire and conservative talk radio. While the audiences for conservative outrage and liberal satire come from opposing political ideologies, they both tend to have high rates of political interest and knowledge, engagement, and a lack of trust in core democratic institutions. While journalists and pundits have asked why there is no successful political satire on the right and why there is no successful opinion talk on the left, this book turns that question on its head. Perhaps opinion talk is the political satire of the right. Perhaps political satire is the opinion programming of the left. They look and feel like two different animals because their audiences are.literally, two different animals.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1496734068 ISBN 13: 9781496734068
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In a powerful Civil War epic coursing with raw human drama, award-winning author and master historian Jim R. Woolard forges a young man's harrowing coming-of-age journey from Confederate captive to Union prisoner to unchained force of vengeance during the most controversial episode in American history?Autumn, 1864. Rebel bushwhackers have seized and looted a small town in Missouri. Wounded and left for dead by his half-brother, seventeen-year-old Owen Wainwright is captured and conscripted by the Confederate Army. As the troops' blacksmith, he witnesses the horrors of war firsthand: the savagery of General Selby's Iron Brigade, the massacres of Union troops, the bloody battles at Lexington, Westport, and Mine Creek. Against all odds, Owen survives with the help of an unlikely allya new friend in arms and the only person he trusts. But if fate is cruel, war can be crueler. Caught in the crossfire of a deadly Yankee ambush, Owen is arrested and jailed in a Union prison. Beaten and brutalized by guards, he begins to give up hopeuntil a U.S. Marshal comes to him with an unusual offer. Owen's traitorous half-brother is wanted for murder. If Owen agrees to help the U.S. Marshal infiltrate the Texas winter camp of Confederate guerillasand bring his brother to justiceOwen will have both his freedom and his revenge. But the risks are great. The price of getting caught is death. Filled with raw human drama, blistering battle scenes, and vivid historical details, When the Missouri Ran Red is destined to be a classic in the field and a treasure for Civil War buffs.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1496732502 ISBN 13: 9781496732507
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'One advantage of being caught up in a whirl of dress fittings and decisions about flower arrangements and breakfast menus is that Charlotte Sloane has little time for any pre-wedding qualms. Her love for Wrexford isn't in question. But will being a wife--and a Countess--make it difficult for her to maintain her independence--not to mention, her secret identity as famed satirical artist A.J. Quill Despite those concerns, there are soon even more urgent matters to attend to during Charlotte and Wrexford's first public outing as an engaged couple. At a symposium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, a visiting botanist suffers a fatal collapse. The traces of white powder near his mouth reveal the dark truth--he was murdered. Drawn into the investigation, Charlotte and the Earl learn of the victim's involvement in a momentous medical discovery. With fame and immense fortune at stake, there's no shortage of suspects, including some whose ruthlessness is already known. But neither Charlotte nor her husband-to-be can realize how close the danger is about to get--or to what lengths this villain is prepared to go'.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1496731190 ISBN 13: 9781496731197
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'At Ridgewood High, Amy, Frankie, Rachael, and Nina formed a deep bond. Now, fifteen years after leaving school behind, they're back for a reunion, laughing, reminiscing, and chatting how much has changed--and how much hasn't . All four are strong, successful, and somehow, still looking for the right partner. But Frankie has an idea to help solve that: a singles cruise for the holidays'.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0197549705 ISBN 13: 9780197549704
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The world's experience with the COVID-19 pandemic has vividly demonstrated not only the untold cost on human and economic health associated with a failure to prepare, but also the significant power of collective action to alter the spread of the disease. The Fight for Climate after COVID-19 uses the lessons of 2020 to argue, unequivocally, why the time to scale up resilience to the mounting effects of climate change is now.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0190096845 ISBN 13: 9780190096847
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From bestselling biographer Kate Clifford Larson comes the first full portrait of Fannie Lou Hamer and her galvanic part in the greatest social movement of our era.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0190877952 ISBN 13: 9780190877958
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Pick a Pocket Or Two, acclaimed author Ethan Mordden brings his wit and wisdom to bear in telling the full history of the British musical, from The Beggar's Opera (1728) to the present, with an interest in isolating the unique qualities of the form and its influence on the American model.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0197579671 ISBN 13: 9780197579671
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In The Rise and Demise of World Communism, George Breslauer explores the nature of communist regimes-what they shared in common, how they differed from each other, and how they differentially evolved over time. He offers the most accessible and readable account of the evolution of communism in sixteen states. Half the size of more detailed and encyclopedic books on the rise and fall of communism, it engages the reader with short chapters and a ready understanding of the historical flow from Karl Marx to the present day.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0197577784 ISBN 13: 9780197577783
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Is the Commonwealth little more than a mirage--as lacking in substance as the emperor's new clothes.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 019750762X ISBN 13: 9780197507629
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Antitrust laws are traditionally used to attack monopolies like Facebook and Google who are able to either charge high prices or degrade the quality of their services because customers cannot switch to competitors. Antitrust laws are also used to attack cartels of businesses, which fix prices. In recent years, it has become clear that firms with market power not only charge higher prices. They also suppress wages, injuring workers. In this book, Eric Posner describes how workers can use antitrust law to counter employer market power and obtain higher wages as a result.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0198844964 ISBN 13: 9780198844969
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The first book to look at a succession of British general elections in significant detail. By starting the survey in 1964 rather than the traditional date of 1945, it can also focus more rigorously on the changes which began in the 1960s and still affect general elections today.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0197578802 ISBN 13: 9780197578803
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Fake Saint and the True Church offers the remarkable story of a fake saint to contemplate the meaning of truth. It follows the efforts made by the supposed saint's (real) seventeenth-century descendant to promote his cult in Naples and Rome. This story reminds us that distinguishing the true from the false is a matter of commitment and belief, not simply research ability. Compared with our early modern predecessors, we are more skilled at verifying facts and less willing to let supernatural truths regulate our behaviors. Yet, the relationship between truth and authenticity is still a challenge for us, as it was for them.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0190944838 ISBN 13: 9780190944834
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Words and language have a powerful impact on interactions between physicians and patients. Words may heal or harm and language shapes how we see the world. For example, metaphors of wars and the military are ubiquitous and the militarized discourse has unforeseen effects on doctors and patients. Doctors are cast as fighters and patients become passive battlefields. Words must be managed as carefully as drugs, tailored to provide benefits to the individual, and prescribed with care to avoid toxicity. The book emphasizes the importance of physicians who listen, clinical presence, and a relational model of medical care.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0197614396 ISBN 13: 9780197614396
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How should we think about immigration and what policies should democratic societies pursue Sarah Song offers a political theory of immigration that takes seriously both the claims of receiving countries and the claims of prospective migrants. What is required, she argues, is not a policy of open or closed borders but open doors.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0192843540 ISBN 13: 9780192843548
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Elinor Mason draws on both ethics and responsibility theory to present a pluralistic view of both wrongness and blameworthiness. She identifies three different ways to be blameworthy, corresponding to different ways of acting wrongly.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0198856970 ISBN 13: 9780198856979
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A selection of essays, written over Alastair Fowler's prestigious career, combining celebrated works of literary criticism and previously unpublished pieces that reflect on developments in literary criticism over the last sixty years.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0197611699 ISBN 13: 9780197611692
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An engrossing look at the new frontier in AI and how it will change war forever.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0197566642 ISBN 13: 9780197566640
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A full-length study and new translation of the great Sanskrit poet K lid sa's famed Meghad ta (literally 'The Cloud Messenger,') The Cloud of Longing focuses on the poem's interfacing of nature, feeling, figurative language, and mythic memory.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0197556450 ISBN 13: 9780197556450
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Democracy is not only a form of government. It is also the moral aspiration for a society of self-governing political equals who disagree about politics. Citizens are called on to be active democratic participants, but they must also acknowledge one another's political equality. Democracy thus involves an ethic of civility among opposed citizens. Upholding this ethic is more difficult than it may look. When the political stakes are high, the opposition seems to us to be advocating injustice. Sustaining Democracy poses the question: why should we uphold democratic relations with those whose politics we despise.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0197575390 ISBN 13: 9780197575390
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - COVID's Impact on Health and Healthcare Workers highlights the most critical issues in COVID-19's impact on healthcare providers and on hospitals. This includes factors associated with disease severity, hospitalizations and death and the effect on other medical conditions. The book explores changes brought about during the pandemic to primary and specialty care, including the rapid employment of telemedicine and the many innovations in care delivery.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0197582273 ISBN 13: 9780197582275
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Social media is changing the business of representation in the Senate. If you want to know what your senator is up to, you don't need a newspaper, just your phone. Drawing on a unique dataset of almost 200,000 senator tweets, Tweeting is Leading offers a critical analysis of senators' communication on Twitter, the individual and constituent forces that shape it, and the agendas that result.