Verlag: Princeton University Press Aug 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 0691196818 ISBN 13: 9780691196817
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The former faith adviser to Barack Obama draws on his personal experience as a Muslim in America to examine the importance of religious diversity in the nation's cultural, political, and economic life. He explores how religious language has given the United States some of its most enduring symbols and inspired its most vital civic institutions.
Verlag: Princeton University Press Aug 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 0691196435 ISBN 13: 9780691196435
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this gripping in-depth account of the 2016 presidential election, authors Sides, Michael Tesler, and Lynn Vavreck reveal how Trump's victory was foreshadowed by changes in the Democratic and Republican coalitions that were driven by people's racial and ethnic identities.
Verlag: Princeton University Press Aug 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 0691196087 ISBN 13: 9780691196084
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Straight Talk on Trade, Dani Rodrik, an early and outspoken critic of economic globalization taken too far, goes beyond the populist backlash and offers a more reasoned explanation for why our elites' and technocrats' obsession with hyper-globalization made it more difficult for nations to achieve legitimate economic and social objectives at home: economic prosperity, financial stability, and equity. Rodrik takes globalization's cheerleaders to task, not for emphasizing economics over other values, but for practicing bad economics and ignoring the discipline's own nuances that should have called for caution. He makes a case for a pluralist world economy where nation-states retain sufficient autonomy to fashion their own social contracts and develop economic strategies tailored to their needs. Rather than calling for closed borders or defending protectionists, Rodrik shows how we can restore a sensible balance between national and global governance. Ranging over the recent experiences of advanced countries, the eurozone, and developing nations, Rodrik charts a way forward with new ideas about how to reconcile today's inequitable economic and technological trends with liberal democracy and social inclusion.
Verlag: Princeton University Press Aug 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 0691197083 ISBN 13: 9780691197081
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This is an extremely important book, not just for the light it sheds on a movement that has confounded many but also for the approach it takes in attempting to make sense of seemingly senseless violence based on religious ideology. Students of other such movements around the world will have much to learn from this rich and careful account of Boko Haram's origins and transformation.'--Leonardo Villalon, University of Florida.
Verlag: Princeton University Press Aug 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 0691196451 ISBN 13: 9780691196459
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Few would disagree that our education system needs reform. While most call for more--more government subsidies, more time in school, more students attending college--Caplan provocatively argues for less. The Case against Education urges a radical rethinking about why we've been unsuccessful to date--and why more of the same won't work.'--Vicki Alger, Independent Institute.
Verlag: Princeton University Press Aug 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 0691197288 ISBN 13: 9780691197289
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Now fully revised and updated--a carefully designed and beautifully illustrated photographic field guide helps readers to identify the day-flying moths most likely to be seen in Great Britain and Ireland. Includes individual accounts for 158 species and full-color photos of 28 others.hers.
Verlag: Princeton University Press Aug 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 069119646X ISBN 13: 9780691196466
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 2013, just two years after the popular overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian military ousted the country's first democratically elected president--Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood--and subsequently led a brutal repression of the Islamist group. These bloody events echoed an older political rift in Egypt and the Middle East: the splitting of nationalists and Islamists during the rule of Egyptian president and Arab nationalist leader Gamal Abdel Nasser. In Making the Arab World, Fawaz Gerges, one of the world's leading authorities on the Middle East, tells how the clash between pan-Arab nationalism and pan-Islamism has shaped the history of the region from the 1920s to the present. Gerges tells this story through an unprecedented dual biography of Nasser and another of the twentieth-century Arab world's most influential figures--Sayyid Qutb, a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood and the father of many branches of radical political Islam. Their deeply intertwined lives embody and dramatize the divide between Arabism and Islamism. Yet, as Gerges shows, beyond the ideological and existential rhetoric, this is a struggle over the state, its role, and its power.
Verlag: Princeton University Press Aug 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 0691195919 ISBN 13: 9780691195919
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From one of America's most important cultural critics comes this collection of the best of his provocative New York Times essays, pieces that have generated passionate discussion and debate.
Verlag: Princeton University Press Aug 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 0691149151 ISBN 13: 9780691149158
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Robert J. Lewis (illustrator). Neuware - Prime Suspects is a graphic novel that takes you on a voyage of forensic discovery, exploring some of the most fundamental ideas in mathematics.Travel with Detective von Neumann as he leaves no clue unturned, from shepherds' huts in the Pyrenees to secret societies in the cafés of Paris, from the hidden codes in the music of the stones to the grisly discoveries in Finite Fields. Tremble at the ferocity of the believers in deep and rigid abstraction. Feel the pain as you work with our young heroine, Emmy Germain, as she blazes a trail for women in mathematical research and learns from Professor Gauss, the greatest forensic detective of them all. Beautifully drawn and wittily and exquisitely detailed, Prime Suspects is unique, astonishing, and outrageous--a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience mathematics like never before.
Verlag: Princeton University Press Aug 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 0691196338 ISBN 13: 9780691196336
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Drawing on a range of evidence using large-scale data from various countries, the authors consider the key factors that affect human well-being, including income, education, employment, family conflict, health, childcare, and crime.
Verlag: Princeton University Press Aug 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 0691192804 ISBN 13: 9780691192802
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Krishan Kumar provides panoramic and multifaceted portraits of five major European empires--Ottoman, Habsburg, Russian/Soviet, British, and French--showing how each, like ancient Rome, saw itself as the carrier of universal civilization to the rest of the world. Sometimes these aims were couched in religious terms, as with Islam for the Ottomans or Catholicism for the Habsburgs. Later, the imperial missions took more secular forms, as with British political traditions or the world communism of the Soviets. Visions of Empire offers new insights into the interactions between rulers and ruled, revealing how empire was as much a shared enterprise as a clash of oppositional interests. It explores how these empires differed from nation-states, particularly in how the ruling peoples of empires were forced to downplay or suppress their own national or ethnic identities in the interests of the long-term preservation of their rule. This compelling and in-depth book demonstrates how the rulers of empire, in their quest for a universal world order, left behind a legacy of multiculturalism and diversity that is uniquely relevant for us today.
Verlag: Princeton University Press Aug 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 0691196877 ISBN 13: 9780691196879
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Hopkins has written a remarkable, learned work that makes its central point well and provides numerous leads for future scholarship. He argues that American empire can be understood only within the dynamics of globalization and worldwide imperial formation and contestation. American Empire is likely to become a standard book in U.S. and world history.'--Ian Tyrrell, author of Crisis of the Wasteful Nation: Empire and Conservation in Theodore Roosevelt's America.
Verlag: Princeton University Press Aug 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 0691191824 ISBN 13: 9780691191829
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Rivers are essential to civilization and even life itself, yet how many of us truly understand how they work Why do rivers run where they do Where do their waters actually come from How can the same river flood one year and then dry up the next Where the River Flows takes you on a majestic journey along the planet's waterways, providing a scientist's reflections on the vital interconnections that rivers share with the land, the sky, and us. Sean Fleming draws on examples ranging from common backyard creeks to powerful and evocative rivers like the Mississippi, Yangtze, Thames, and Congo. Each chapter looks at a particular aspect of rivers through the lens of applied physics, using abundant graphics and intuitive analogies to explore the surprising connections between watershed hydrology and the world around us. Fleming explains how river flows fluctuate like stock markets, what 'digital rainbows' can tell us about climate change and its effects on water supply, how building virtual watersheds in silicon may help avoid the predicted water wars of the twenty-first century, and much more. Along the way, you will learn what some of the most exciting ideas in science--such as communications theory, fractals, and even artificial life--reveal about the life of rivers.
Verlag: Princeton University Press Aug 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 0691196826 ISBN 13: 9780691196824
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A masterful account of early West African history, this authoritative book fills a major gap. It will long remain one of the most important works on--and be essential to debates about--precolonial West Africa.'--Andreas Eckert, Humboldt University of Berlin.
Verlag: Princeton University Press Aug 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 0691196117 ISBN 13: 9780691196114
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A criminal defense attorney, sociologist, and legal scholar takes readers inside New York City's lower criminal courts.
Verlag: Princeton University Press Aug 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 0691196176 ISBN 13: 9780691196176
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'David Vogel's thoughtful, engaging historical work explains how California evolved into an environmental policy leader, as competing economic interests and unusual alliances came together in reaction to serious pollution problems and threats to California's scenic beauty. This is a timely book for all who want to understand why California is at the forefront of current national efforts to slow climate change and protect the environment.'--Bruce Cain, Stanford University.
Verlag: Princeton University Press Aug 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 0691196508 ISBN 13: 9780691196503
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This concise user's manual to the international rule of law teaches a broad audience--starting with international lawyers themselves--how to think about an increasingly prominent set of norms and field of study. International law, Hurd shows, authorizes and depoliticizes; it does not only constrain and improve.'--Samuel Moyn, Yale University.
Verlag: Princeton University Press Aug 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 0691191581 ISBN 13: 9780691191584
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Remarkable. Schuck covers a number of especially hard issues with unusual sophistication, care, and balance.'--R. Shep Melnick, author of Between the Lines: Interpreting Welfare Rights.
Verlag: Princeton University Press Aug 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 0691161526 ISBN 13: 9780691161525
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The author presents an accessible, clear introduction to dynamical systems and chaos theory, important and exciting areas that have shaped many scientific fields. While the rules governing dynamical systems are well-specified and simple, the behavior of many dynamical systems is remarkably complex.
Verlag: Princeton University Press Aug 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 0691197113 ISBN 13: 9780691197111
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A textured and insightful look into the lives of young American Muslim men.'--Eboo Patel, author of Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation.
Verlag: Princeton University Press Aug 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 0691198292 ISBN 13: 9780691198293
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) was the last compositional prodigy to emerge from the Austro-German tradition of Mozart and Mendelssohn. He was lauded in his youth by everyone from Mahler to Puccini and his auspicious career in the early 1900s spanned chamber music, opera, and musical theater. Today, he is best known for his Hollywood film scores, composed between 1935 and 1947.
Verlag: Princeton University Press Aug 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 0691162646 ISBN 13: 9780691162645
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Egyptian Revolution of 2011 began with immense hope, but was defeated in two and a half years, ushering in the most brutal and corrupt regime in modern Egyptian history. How was the passage from utmost euphoria into abject despair experienced, not only by those committed to revolutionary change, but also by people indifferent or even hostile to the revolution.
Verlag: Princeton University Press Aug 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 0691182299 ISBN 13: 9780691182292
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Presents the foundation for a new understanding of how news stories often propel economic events as much as report on them, establishing economic confidence or panic. From Nobel Prize winner Robert Shiller.
Verlag: Princeton University Press Aug 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 0691197245 ISBN 13: 9780691197241
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This astute and powerful blend of micro- and macrohistory pursued over the longue durée explores how resistance infuses apparent compliance. The magnifying lens of this book focuses on conscription throughout the Ming Dynasty, but the intellectual quarry is nothing less than the illumination of the strategic maneuvering between subject and state.'--James C. Scott, Yale University.
Verlag: Princeton University Press Aug 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 0691195978 ISBN 13: 9780691195971
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the first comprehensive account of status in ancient democratic Athens, Kamen illuminates the complexity of Athenian social structure, uncovers tensions between democratic ideology and practice, and contributes to larger questions about the relationship between citizenship and democracy.
Verlag: Princeton University Press Aug 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 0691196133 ISBN 13: 9780691196138
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Exploring the impact of an affordable housing development in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, this book provides new and innovative methodologies for examining key theoretical and public policy issues that have been the subject of intensive debate. It will be useful to scholars, public officials, and others interested in the way American communities develop in the face of increasing diversity and inequalities.'--Gregory Squires, George Washington University.
Verlag: Princeton University Press Aug 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 0691182582 ISBN 13: 9780691182582
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume brings together authors from a variety of specialties to present fascinating problems and solutions in recreational mathematics.
Verlag: Princeton University Press Aug 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 0691190712 ISBN 13: 9780691190716
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book describes the latest advances in the theory of mean field games, which are optimal control problems with a continuum of players, each of them interacting with the whole statistical distribution of a population.
Verlag: Princeton University Press Aug 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 0691200734 ISBN 13: 9780691200736
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Verlag: Princeton University Press Aug 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 0691655928 ISBN 13: 9780691655925
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Volume 1 of 3. This monumental three-volume work on the Italian madrigal from its beginnings about 1500 to its decline in the 17th century is based on the research of 40 years, and is a cultural history of the development of Italian music. Mr. Einstein, renowned musicologist, supplies a background and a sense of proportion to the field: he gives the right order to the single composers in the evolution fo the madrigal, attaches new values to old names, and places in the foreground the outstanding, but until now rather neglected, personality of Cipriano de Rore. His work is not, however, purely musicological; his object is to inquire into the functions of secular music in Italian life during the Cinquecento, and to contribute to our knowledge and understanding of that great century in general. Translated from the German by Oliver Strunk, Roger Sessions and Alexander H. Krappe.