stanford university press apr 2014 (31 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Why do most people never have sex with close relatives And why do they disapprove of other people doing so Incest Avoidance and Incest Taboos investigates our human inclination to avoid incest and the powerful taboo against incest found in all societies. Both subjects stir strong feelings and vigorous arguments within and beyond academic circles. With great clarity, Wolf lays out the modern assumptions about both, concluding that all previous approaches lack precision and balance on insecure evidence. Researchers he calls 'constitutionalists' explain human incest avoidance by biologically-based natural aversion, but fail to explain incest taboos as cultural universals. By contrast, 'conventionalists' ignore the evolutionary roots of avoidance and assume that incest avoidant behavior is guided solely by cultural taboos. Both theories are incomplete.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - We often assume that strategic negotiation requires us to wall off vulnerable parts of ourselves and act rationally to win. But, what if you could just be you in business Taking a positive approach, this brief distills years of research, teaching, and coaching into an integrated framework for negotiating genuinely.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In All I Want Is a Job!, Mary Gatta puts a human face on workforce development policy. An ethnographic sociologist, Gatta went undercover, posing as a client in a New Jersey One-Stop Career Center. One-Stop Centers, developed as part of the federal Workforce Investment Act, are supposed to be an unemployed worker's go-to resource on the way to re-employment. But, how well do these centers function With swarms of new clients coming through their doors, are they fit for the task of pairing America's workforce with new jobs.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Richard Swedberg is Professor of Sociology at Cornell University and author of numerous books, including The Max Weber Dictionary (SUP 2005) and Principles of Economic Sociology (2003), among others.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Every year migrants across the globe send more than $500 billion to relatives in their home countries, and this circulation of money has important personal, cultural, and emotional implications for the immigrants and their family members alike. Insufficient Funds tells the story of how low-wage Vietnamese immigrants in the United States and their poor, non-migrant family members give, receive, and spend money.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Kabir Tambar is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The last two decades have seen a slow but steady increase in nuclear armed states, and in the seemingly less constrained policy goals of some of the newer 'rogue' states in the international system. The authors ofOn Limited Nuclear War in the 21st Century argue that a time may come when one of these states makes the conscious decision that using a nuclear weapon against the United States, its allies, or forward deployed forces in the context of a crisis or a regional conventional conflict may be in its interests. They assert that we are unprepared for these types of limited nuclear wars and that it is urgent we rethink the theory, policy, and implementation of force related to our approaches to this type of engagement.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A critical revaluation of the humanist tradition, Borrowed Light makes the case that the 20th century is the 'anticolonial century.' The sparks of concerted resistance to colonial oppression were ignited in the gathering of intellectual malcontents from all over the world in interwar Europe. Many of this era's principal figures were formed by the experience of revolution on Europe's semi-developed Eastern periphery, making their ideas especially pertinent to current ideas about autonomy and sovereignty. Moreover, the debates most prominent then-human vs. inhuman, religions of the book vs. oral cultures, the authoritarian state vs. the representative state and, above all, scientific rationality vs. humanist reason-remain central today.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Andrew M. Dorman is a Professor in the Defence Studies Department, King's College London based at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, UK.Joyce P. Kaufman is Professor of Political Science and Director, Center for Engagement with Communities, Whittier College.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this provocative book, Peter Gries directly challenges the widely held view that partisan elites on Capitol Hill are out of touch with a moderate American public. Dissecting a new national survey, Gries shows how ideology powerfully divides Main Street over both domestic and foreign policy and reveals how and why, with the exception of attitudes toward Israel, liberals consistently feel warmer toward foreign countries and international organizations, and desire friendlier policies toward them, than conservatives do. And because most Congressional districts have become hyper-partisan, many politicians today cater not to the 'median voter' in their districts, but to the primary voters who elect them. The perverse incentives of the U.S. electoral system, therefore, are empowering the ideological extremes, contributing to elite partisanship over American foreign policy.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Right Spouse is an engaging investigation into Tamil (South Indian) preferential close kin marriages, so-called Dravidian Kinship. This book offers a description and an interpretation of preferential marriages with close kin in South India, as they used to be arranged and experienced in the recent past and as they are increasingly discontinued in the present.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Based on secret transcripts of top-level diplomacy undertaken by the number-two Soviet leader, Anastas Mikoyan, to settle the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, this book rewrites conventional history. The 'missiles of October' and '13 days' were only half the story: the nuclear crisis actually stretched well into November 1962 as the Soviets secretly planned to leave behind in Cuba over 100 tactical nuclear weapons, then reversed themselves because of obstreperous behavior by Fidel Castro. The highly-charged negotiations with the Cuban leadership, who bitterly felt sold out by Soviet concessions to the United States, were led by Mikoyan.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Samera Esmeir is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Venkat Ramaswamy is Hallman Fellow of Electronic Business and Professor of Marketing at the University of Michigan's Stephen M. Ross School of Business. He is co-author of the award-winning books The Future of Competition and The Power of Co-Creation. Kerimcan Ozcan teaches marketing at Marywood University. He conducts research on value co-creation, word-of-mouth and social media marketing, consumer networks, and complex adaptive systems. Learn more about co-creation and engage with the authors at .

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Scholars and military practitioners alike have long sought to understand why some country's militaries fight hard when facing defeat while others collapse. In Endurance and War, Jasen Castillo presents a new unifying theory-cohesion theory-to explain why national militaries differ in their staying power. His argument builds on insights from the literatures on group solidarity in general and military effectiveness in particular, which argue that the stronger the ties binding together individuals in a group of any kind, the higher the degree of cohesion that a group will exhibit when taking collective action, including fighting in war. Specifically, he argues that two types of ties determine the cohesion, and therefore the resilience, of a nation's armed forces during war: the degree of control a regime holds over its citizens and the amount of autonomy the armed forces possess to focus on training for warfighting.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Aaron Major is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York, Albany.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Narendra Subramanian is Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Making use of both documentary evidence and oral history, A Family of No Prominence addresses issues of identity, modernity, colonialism, memory, and historical agency through a multigenerational study of a hitherto unknown family, tracing their emergence in early modern Korea and the plight of their descendants in the modern era.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Author: John H. Barton was the George E. Osborne Professor of Law at the Stanford Law School. His many books include The Evolution of the Trade Regime: Politics, Law, and Economics of the GATT and the WTO (2006) and The Politics of Peace: An Evaluation of Arms Control (1981).Editors: Helen M. Stacy is Affiliated Faculty at the Stanford Law School and Senior Fellow of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford.Henry T. Greely is the Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law at the Stanford Law School.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Throughout the 20th century, electricity was considered to be the primary vehicle of modernity, as well as its quintessential symbol. In India, electrification was central to how early nationalists and planners conceptualized Indian development, and huge sums were spent on the project from then until now. Yet despite all this, sixty-five years after independence nearly 400 million Indians have no access to electricity. Electrifying India explores the political and historical puzzle of uneven development in India's vital electricity sector.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book focuses on how low-wage Vietnamese immigrants in the United States and their non-migrant family members in Vietnam give, receive, and spend money.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Kabir Tambar is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Focuses on a prominent Moroccan Islamic scholar of the early twentieth century, this book investigates the creative process of transforming Islamic law to guarantee the survival of a Muslim community in a changing world.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Right Spouse is an engaging investigation into Tamil (South Indian) preferential close kin marriages, so-called Dravidian Kinship. This book offers a description and an interpretation of preferential marriages with close kin in South India, as they used to be arranged and experienced in the recent past and as they are increasingly discontinued in the present.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Timothy Brennan is Professor of comparative literature, cultural studies, and English at the University of Minnesota. He is the author most recently of Secular Devotion: Afro-Latin Music and Imperial Jazz (Verso, 2008) and Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of Left and Right (Columbia, 2006).

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Peter Hays Gries is the Harold J. & Ruth Newman Chair & Director, Institute for US-China Issues and Professor in the Department of International and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of China's New Nationalism: Pride, Politics, and Diplomacy, and coeditor of Chinese Politics and State and Society in 21st-Century China.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Andrew M. Dorman is a Professor in the Defence Studies Department, King's College London based at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, UK.Joyce P. Kaufman is Professor of Political Science and Director, Center for Engagement with Communities, Whittier College.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - All social scientists learn the celebrated theories and frameworks of their predecessors, using them to inform their own research and observations. But before there can be theory, there must be theorizing. Theorizing in Social Science introduces the reader to the next generation of theory construction and suggests useful ways for creating social theory.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In All I Want Is a Job!, Mary Gatta puts a human face on workforce development policy. An ethnographic sociologist, Gatta went undercover, posing as a client in a New Jersey One-Stop Career Center. One-Stop Centers, developed as part of the federal Workforce Investment Act, are supposed to be an unemployed worker's go-to resource on the way to re-employment. But, how well do these centers function With swarms of new clients coming through their doors, are they fit for the task of pairing America's workforce with new jobs.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book contends that mainstream considerations of the economic and social force of culture, including theories of the creative class and of cognitive and immaterial labor, are indebted to historic conceptions of the art of literary authorship. It shows how contemporary literature has been involved in and has responded to creative-economy phenomena, including the presentation of artists as models of contentedly flexible and self-managed work, the treatment of training in and exposure to art as a pathway to social inclusion, the use of culture and cultural institutions to increase property values, and support for cultural diversity as a means of growing cultural markets.