princeton university press mär 2011 (14 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Mithradates should be a household name alongside his fellow rebels Hannibal, Cleopatra, Spartacus, and Attila. This detailed, juicy, entertaining, yet painstaking work of superb scholarship should finally give Mithradates the recognition he deserves.'--Margaret George, author of Helen of Troy: A Novel.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'As these two men find truer, deeper friendship through an exchange of letters on math, you may be surprised to find yourself, as I was, moved by powerful emotions. I never thought I'd get choked up by an equation--but these guys are plotting out the hardest kind of change to track: the movement from Me to Us.'--Alan Alda.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A wonderful read: well-written, well-constructed, well-argued, and highly significant. Lazreg addresses a controversial topic and takes intellectual risks. This little gem of a book is brilliant.'--Sondra Hale, University of California, Los Angeles.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Is Woodrow Wilson's legacy still alive in American foreign policy Has the Iraq War discredited intervention for liberal purposes These are key questions for the next president and they are debated here by some of our best thinkers. This book makes a fascinating read.'--Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Praise for the first edition: '[Clear and Simple as the Truth] has changed the way that I write and think about writing.'--Paul Bloom, Yale University.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Generations of Americans have debated the meaning of Abraham Lincoln's views on race and slavery. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation and supported a constitutional amendment to outlaw slavery. This book includes a complete collection of Lincoln's important writings on both race and slavery.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - It is impossible to understand Palestine today without a careful reading of its distant and recent past. But until now there has been no single volume in English that tells the history of the events--from the Ottoman Empire to the mid-twentieth century--that shaped modern Palestine. The first book of its kind, 'A History of Palestine' offers a richly detailed interpretation of this critical region's evolution.Starting with the prebiblical and biblical roots of Palestine, noted historian Gudrun Krmer examines the meanings ascribed to the land in the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions. Paying special attention to social and economic factors, she examines the gradual transformation of Palestine, following the history of the region through the Egyptian occupation of the mid-nineteenth century, the Ottoman reform era, and the British Mandate up to the founding of Israel in 1948. Focusing on the interactions of Arabs and Jews, 'A History of Palestine' tells how these connections affected the cultural and political evolution of each community and Palestine as a whole.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'C. S. Manegold's admirable clarity, dazzling intelligence, and resourceful reporting well serve the story of the North's participation in U.S. slavery. Ten Hills Farm is a feat of historical excavation, and Manegold's contribution to the study of this period of our nation's past is significant.'--Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A study of where mathematics and engineering meet, exploring some of the fundamental questions that working engineers deal with every day.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Commercial banks are among the oldest and most familiar financial institutions. When they work well, we hardly notice; when they do not, we rail against them. What are the historical forces that have shaped the modern banking system In 'Unsettled Account', Richard Grossman takes the first truly comparative look at the development of commercial banking systems over the past two centuries in Western Europe, the United States, Canada, Japan, and Australia. Grossman focuses on four major elements that have contributed to banking evolution: crises, bailouts, mergers, and regulations. He explores where banking crises come from and why certain banking systems are more resistant to crises than others, how governments and financial systems respond to crises, why merger movements suddenly take off, and what motivates governments to regulate banks. Grossman reveals that many of the same components underlying the history of banking evolution are at work today. The recent subprime mortgage crisis had its origins, like many earlier banking crises, in a boom-bust economic cycle. Grossman finds that important historical elements are also at play in modern bailouts, merger movements, and regulatory reforms. 'Unsettled Account' is a fascinating and informative must-read for anyone who wants to understand how the modern commercial banking system came to be, where it is headed, and how its development will affect global economic growth.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This book is a pleasure to read--smart, insightful, tragic, ironic, and funny. Eliasoph brings to life the complicated relationships and dilemmas that surface in youth programs, and the twists and turns of the author's analysis are extremely compelling. This book is a must-read for those participating in NGOs, those trumpeting the virtues of volunteer work, and those social scientists interested in questions of government, community building, and civic culture.'--Lynne Haney, New York University'This clear and engaging book shows how community organizations really work. Nina Eliasoph tackles tensions that run through well-meaning organizations and lives, and she illustrates how people struggle with inequality, differences, having to be nice, and wanting to promote community but accomplishing much less than they desire or realize.'--Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'There are few courses in the engineering curriculum that cause students more difficulty than rigid-body dynamics. By laying out the foundations of the subject with precision and clarity through unambiguous notation and rigorous definitions, Engineering Dynamics goes a long way toward remedying this situation. Numerous examples with motivating applications demonstrate the underlying ideas and solution techniques. This landmark text stands apart in the field, and will be welcomed by students and instructors alike.'--Dennis S. Bernstein, University of Michigan.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Finally, an appropriate general text to use in tropical biology courses. Other books on tropical rain forest ecology are either too general or too technical for use in undergraduate or even graduate courses, so this book definitely fills a need.'--Robert A. Askins, Connecticut College.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Bianchi and Canuel have done an extraordinary job of capturing the essence of biomarker geochemistry in their timely and important book. They give an in-depth overview of this discipline from its roots more than a half-century ago to the present day. In doing so, they explain the fundamentals of molecular and isotopic organic geochemistry, and they describe interesting applications of these tracers for improving understanding of organic matter origins and cycles in marine, estuarine, and freshwater settings.'--Philip A. Meyers, professor emeritus, University of Michigan.