stanford university press aug 2002 (29 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Something of a historical event, this book combines loosely 'autobiographical' texts by two of the most influential French intellectuals of our time. 'Savoir,' by Hélène Cixous, is a brief but densely layered account of her experience of recovered sight after a lifetime of severe myopia, an experience that ends with the unexpected turn of grieving for what is lost. Her literary inventiveness mines the coincidence in French between the two verbs savoir (to know) and voir (to see). Jacques Derrida's 'A Silkworm of One's Own' complexly muses on a host of autobiographical, philosophical, and religious motifs-including his varied responses to 'Savoir.' The two texts are accompanied by six beautiful and evocative drawings that play on the theme of drapery over portions of the body.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book demonstrates the presence of literature within speech act theory and the utility of speech act theory in reading literary works. Though the founding text of speech act theory, J. L. Austin's How to Do Things with Words, repeatedly expels literature from the domain of felicitous speech acts, literature is an indispensable presence within Austin's book. It contains many literary references but also uses as essential tools literary devices of its own: imaginary stories that serve as examples and imaginary dialogues that forestall potential objections. How to Do Things with Words is not the triumphant establishment of a fully elaborated theory of speech acts, but the story of a failure to do that, the story of what Austin calls a 'bogging down.'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The question 'Who lost China ' has provoked political vituperation and academic controversy ever since the Chinese Communists drove the Nationalist regime of Chiang Kai-shek off the mainland in 1949. In this study based on a wide array of hitherto unused documentary sources, the author delves deeply into the inner workings of the Nationalist regime and concludes that the Nationalists collapsed largely as a result of their own failings. Most strikingly, he uses the records and memoirs of the Nationalists themselves to document the weaknesses of the Nationalist rule. For even Chiang Kai-shek said of the Kuomintang on the eve of its final defeat in 1949, 'This kind of party should long ago have been destroyed and swept away!'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This handbook is a comprehensive guide to the federal Endangered Species Act, the primary U.S. law aimed at protecting species of animals and plants from human threats to their survival. The Act protects not only threatened and endangered animals and plants, but their habitats as well, from direct and indirect threats such as hunting and development. Enacted in 1973 without opposition, the Act has over the past 27 years become a focal point for controversy, as efforts to protect species have clashed with traditional views of economic progress. Despite the often heated debate, the Act enters the 21st century essentially unchanged.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Until now, there has been no guidebook in English that covers the entire sweep of the Stone Age, Minoan, and Mycenaean cultures of Greece. The authors have made significant contributions both to our understanding of the earliest period of occupation of the Greek peninsula and to our understanding of the relationship between humans and their landscape through time. The book is engaging throughout and eminently readable.'--Karl M. Petruso, University of Texas, Arlington'Highly informative, pleasantly written and attractively designed and illustrated, Greece Before History provides helpful background for the discerning traveller, including a very good annotated bibliography.'--Antiquity.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One of the most important elements in the computer revolution has been agreement on technological standards. The advances in communication allowed by millions of computers connecting over various networks are based on these networks sharing a common language. This book tells the complete story of the battle between several competing technologies in the late 1970s and early 1980s to become the compatibility standard in one high-tech arena, the LAN (local area network) industry.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Romantic era in England and Germany saw a sudden renewal of prophetic modes of writing. Biblical prophecy and, to a lesser extent, classical oracle again became viable models for poetry and even for journalistic prose. Notably, this development arose out of the new-found freedom of biblical interpretation that began in the mid-eighteenth century, as the Bible was increasingly seen to be a literary and mythical text.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is the first comprehensive study of antebellum depictions of the non-European world. Drawing on well-known works and archival discoveries, both artistic and textual, it proposes that U.S. cultural history cannot be fully understood unless we take into account how Americans regarded tropical America, the Holy Land, Polynesia, and Africa.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The most up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of corruption and change in the Chinese Communist Party, Cadres and Corruption reveals the long history of the party's inability to maintain a corps of committed and disciplined cadres. Contrary to popular understanding of China's pervasive corruption as an administrative or ethical problem, the author argues that corruption is a reflection of political developments and the manner in which the regime has evolved.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book offers an innovative examination of the interactions of science and technology, art, and literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Scholars in the history of art, literature, architecture, computer science, and media studies focus on five historical themes in the transition from energy to information: thermodynamics, electromagnetism, inscription, information theory, and virtuality.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The only complete guide to the historical landmarks of California, this standard work has now been thoroughly revised and updated. The edition is enriched by some 200 photographs, most of which were taken by the reviser and all of which are new to this edition.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Scholars and popular writers have written a great deal about entrepreneurs and the formation of new companies, but they have not succeeded in predicting when and where large numbers of new organizations will emerge. This volume attempts, from the viewpoint of the interdisciplinary field of organization studies, to answer two major questions about entrepreneurship: First, what are the conditions that prompt the founding of large numbers of new organizations or entirely new industries Second, what are the real and significant effects of such entrepreneurial activities on existing industries, economies, and societies.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In recent decades, political scientists have produced an enormous body of scholarship dealing with the U.S. Congress, and in particular congressional organization. However, most of this research has focused on Congress in the twentieth century-especially the post-New Deal era-and the long history of Congress has been largely neglected. The contributors to this book demonstrate that this inattention to congressional history has denied us many rich opportunities to more fully understand the evolution and functioning of the modern Congress.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Few cars in history have grabbed the public's fancy as much as the ill-fated Edsel-the Titanic of automobiles, a marketing disaster whose magnitude has made it a household word. Remarkably, there has never before been a book that tells the whole story-how the Edsel was planned, created, produced, and marketed.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work presents a bold new theory of the cognitive circuitry of the brain, with emphasis on the functioning of human vision. Departing from conventional precepts in the fields of artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and visual psychophysics, the author has developed a computational theory that provides a unitary explanation for a wide range of visual capabilities and behaviors, most of which have no accepted theoretical explanation. He describes a cortical mechanism termed 'map-seeking' and demonstrates its explanatory power in areas as diverse as limb-motion planning and perceptual deficits associated with schizophrenia.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Krutikov's work is a welcome addition to the growing field of Yiddish literary studies.'--The Russian Review'In this remarkably readable book, Krutikov constructs, with elegance and rigor, sturdy bridges built out of the disparate offerings of Yiddish litterateurs spanning the turbulent, shifting historical terrain between the Russian revolution in 1905 and the onset of World War I in 1914 . . . .This book is requisite for scholars and students of history, literary theory and criticism, and twentieth-century Yiddish literature. It will undoubtedly be captivating for the general reader as well.'--Religious Studies Review.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1958, Stanford University Press published Studies in the Mathematical Theory of Inventory and Production (edited by Kenneth J. Arrow, Samuel Karlin, and Herbert Scarf), which became the pioneering road map for the next forty years of research in this area. One of the outgrowths of this research was development of the field of supply-chain management, which deals with the ways organizations can achieve competitive advantage by coordinating the activities involved in creating products-including designing, procuring, transforming, moving, storing, selling, providing after-sales service, and recycling. Following in this tradition, Foundations of Stochastic Inventory Theory has a dual purpose, serving as an advanced textbook designed to prepare doctoral students to do research on the mathematical foundations of inventory theory and as a reference work for those already engaged in such research.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book traces the historical trajectory of one of the most momentous confrontations in the intellectual life of the Soviet Union-the conflict between Einstein's theory of relativity and official Soviet ideology embodied in dialectical materialism.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book uncovers and explores the constant tension between the historical and the transcendental that lies at the heart of Michel Foucault's work. In the process, it also assesses the philosophical foundations of his thought by examining his theoretical borrowings from Kant, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, who each provided him with tools to critically rethink the status of the transcendental.Given Foucault's constant focus on the (Kantian) question of the possibility for knowledge, the author argues that his philosophical itinerary can be understood as a series of attempts to historicize the transcendental. In so doing, he seeks to uncover a specific level that would identify these conditions without falling either into an excess of idealism (a de-historicized, subject-centered perspective exemplified for Foucault by Husserlian phenomenology) or of materialism (which would amount to interpreting these conditions as ideological and thus as the effect of economic determination by the infrastructure).The author concludes that, although this problem does unify Foucault's work and gives it its specifically philosophical dimension, none of the concepts successively provided (such as the épistémè, the historical a priori, the regimes of truth, the games of truth, and problematizations) manages to name these conditions without falling into the pitfalls that Foucault originally denounced as characteristic of the 'anthropological sleep'--various forms of confusion between the historical and the transcendental. Although Foucault's work provides us with a highly illuminating analysis of the major problems of post-Kantian philosophies, ultimately it remains aporetic in that it also fails to overcome them.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As early as the Warring States period in China (fourth through third centuries B.C.), debates arose concerning how and under what circumstances new institutions could be formed and legitimated. But the debates quickly encompassed more than just legitimation. Larger issues came to the fore: Can a sage innovate If so, under what conditions Where did human culture originally come from Was it created by human sages Is it therefore an artificial fabrication, or was it based in part on natural patterns Is it possible for new sages to emerge who could create something better.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book demonstrates the presence of literature within speech act theory and the utility of speech act theory in reading literary works. Though the founding text of speech act theory, J. L. Austin's How to Do Things with Words, repeatedly expels literature from the domain of felicitous speech acts, literature is an indispensable presence within Austin's book. It contains many literary references but also uses as essential tools literary devices of its own: imaginary stories that serve as examples and imaginary dialogues that forestall potential objections. How to Do Things with Words is not the triumphant establishment of a fully elaborated theory of speech acts, but the story of a failure to do that, the story of what Austin calls a 'bogging down.' After an introductory chapter that explores Austin's book in detail, the two following chapters show how Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man in different ways challenge Austin's speech act theory generally and his expulsion of literature specifically. Derrida shows that literature cannot be expelled from speech acts--rather that what he calls 'iterability' means that any speech act may be literature. De Man asserts that speech act theory involves a radical dissociation between the cognitive and positing dimensions of language, what Austin calls language's 'constative' and 'performative' aspects. Both Derrida and de Man elaborate new speech act theories that form the basis of new notions of responsible and effective politico-ethical decision and action.The fourth chapter explores the role of strong emotion in effective speech acts through a discussion of passages in Derrida, Wittgenstein, and Austin. The final chapter demonstrates, through close readings of three passages in Proust, the way speech act theory can be employed in an illuminating way in the accurate reading of literary works.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This book is something of an event, since it is the first time in Castoriadis's multiverse and multivolume oeuvre that he focuses on a single text. Castoriadis's range of knowledge, both historical and epistemological, is legendary, but until now we have had only cursory and fragmented instances of his genius for close reading. The Statesman is arguably one of the most difficult and idiosyncratic of Plato's dialogues, and Castoriadis literally proceeds like a detective, peeling off the layers of this deliberately disorienting text and engaging the reader in a distinct intellectual dialogue, simultaneous with his dialogue with Plato.'--Stathis Gourgouris, Princeton University'This challenging study will richly reward any reader who wants to grapple with this important dialogue.'--D.J. Maletz, University of Oklahoma.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Fresh and compelling, this book develops a thesis about female 'creative negativity' that will be of great interest to scholars in the fields of Victorian literary culture and women's studies, performance and drama, and women's history generally. No other work brings comparable materials together into such a new but entirely natural whole; no one has previously attempted to provide a single workable template for Victorian femal creative activity.' - Joss Marsh, Indiana University.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The Chosen Body demonstrates that passionate scholarship is not an oxymoron . . . . [This] is a great ethnography of how societies shape bodies, but its importance as a work of moral testimony may be even greater.'--Canadian Journal of Sociology Online'The Chosen Body is thought-provoking and has far-reaching importance and relevance for all students of human behavior.'--The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Along with Husserl's Ideas and Heidegger's Being and Time, Being Given is one of the classic works of phenomenology in the twentieth century. Through readings of Kant, Husserl, Heidegger, Derrida, and twentieth-century French phenomenology (e.g., Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and Henry), it ventures a bold and decisive reappraisal of phenomenology and its possibilities. Its author's most original work to date, the book pushes phenomenology to its limits in an attempt to redefine and recover the phenomenological ideal, which the author argues has never been realized in any of the historical phenomenologies. Against Husserl's reduction to consciousness and Heidegger's reduction to Dasein, the author proposes a third reduction to givenness, wherein phenomena appear unconditionally and show themselves from themselves at their own initiative. Being Given is the clearest, most systematic response to questions that have occupied its author for the better part of two decades. The book articulates a powerful set of concepts that should provoke new research in philosophy, religion, and art, as well as at the intersection of these disciplines.Some of the significant issues it treats include the phenomenological definition of the phenomenon, the redefinition of the gift in terms not of economy but of givenness, the nature of saturated phenomena, and the question 'Who comes after the subject ' Throughout his consideration of these issues, the author carefully notes their significance for the increasingly popular fields of religious studies and philosophy of religion. Being Given is therefore indispensable reading for anyone interested in the question of the relation between the phenomenological and the theological in Marion and emergent French phenomenology.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'An important and defining look at the early days of local area networking. Von Burg has captured the interplay of science, people, money, and luck that defines the high-stakes technology business.'---Jim Swartz, founder, Accel Partners'Few people are aware of the intense battles that resulted in today's networking standards. Urs von Burg's engaging history of this tumultuous period, with its analysis of the technological ecosystems and marketing economics involved, contains valuable lessons for anyone interested in capturing a dominant market share for an innovation.'---Dr. Harry J. Saal, former chairman, Network General.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This is a work of major significance, a study that will not only contribute substantially to our understanding of each of the authors Balfour addresses, but also will change the very field of play in Romantic studies. A brilliant reader of literary and philosophical texts, Balfour has with this book crafted a bold and compelling argument of genuine historical force that will, I believe, be regarded as a landmark study.'--Forest Pyle, University of Oregon' [The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy] usefully recontextualizes some of the major poems and texts of the British and German Romantic movements by reminding us of the historical importance of biblical hermeneutics . . . [T]he book's most impressive accomplishment is to demonstrate the high philosophical, theological, and ideological states of arguments about voice, authority, and figurative language and thereby to recover for us a Romanticism that is not simply a thing of the past.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This outstanding work will be required reading for all entrepreneurship scholars.'--Andrew H. Van de Ven, University of Minnesota'A detailed and fresh look at the conceptual end of the business of making money in developed societies.'--Enterprise and Society.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'In a year with notable contributions to 'women's studies,' this book stands out for its haunting portrait of an eloquent woman, with complex desires and concomitant disappointments, living out a life intent on remaining relevant against indifferent social presures.'--Allen Reddick, Studies in English Literature.