stanford university press sep 2007 (17 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Digital technologies have given society an extraordinary cultural potential. If that potential is to be made real, we must reconcile it with the legitimate and important claims of copyright. In this beautifully written and careful work, Fisher, more completely than anyone else, maps the choices that we might make. He argues for a choice that would produce enormous social good. And while not everyone will agree with the conclusions he draws, no one who cares seriously about creators or culture can ignore the framework that he has set. There are choices that we as a society must make. And as Rawls did in political theory, or Milton Friedman did in economics, Fisher provides an understanding that will color policy analysis for the generations to come.'--Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law School'The strength of this book is Fisher's willingness to step above the political fray to solve problems. He has produced one of the most important books in media studies and law in some years. It is refreshing, bold, and provocative. We need it badly.' --Siva Vaidhyanathan, Director of Communication Studies, Department of Culture and Communication, New York University.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Arguing about sports is as old as the games people play. Over the years sports debates have become muddled by many myths that do not match the numbers generated by those playing the games. In The Wages of Wins, the authors use layman's language and easy to follow examples based on their own academic research to debunk many of the most commonly held beliefs about sports. >.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Sarah Kofman Reader is a comprehensive anthology of significant essays and book excerpts by the postwar French philosopher and theorist Sarah Kofman (1934-1994).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book argues that the Enlightenment created the intellectual foundations of modern anthropology, and cultivated the anthropological pursuit of cultural perspective.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Bench Press' is a first-of-its-kind collection of essays written by legal scholars, sitting judges, and working journalists assessing the state of judicial independence in the United States.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - China is inevitably becoming a giant in the world economy. All international companies in the United States have a presence in China, and many international Chinese companies have a presence in the United States. These companies face complex challenges in their global value chain: strategy, sales and marketing, supply chain management, information technology, and production. This book examines case studies from companies who have successfully navigated this new market environment. The book starts with strategy as a fundamental stage in the value chain. It then proceeds to explore globalization of sales and marketing, logistics and supply chain challenges of supporting global operations, necessary changes to the IT system capabilities as firms begin to address new markets, and finally, efficient and competitive production processes. The book will be valuable to managers who are looking for tools that have been used successfully by industry leaders, as well as to instructors who would like to use real-world practice to educate future managers and decision makers.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Written in a unique, lyrical Aramaic, this masterpiece of Kabbalah exceeds the dimensions of a normal book; it is virtually a body of literature, comprising over 20 discrete sections. The bulk of the 'Zohar'consists of a running commentary on the Torah, from Genesis through Deuteronomy. This fourth volume covers the first half of Exodus.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Peeren's book is a cultural analysis that brings the literary and social theories of Mikhail Bakhtin to bear on artifacts and events from contemporary popular culture in order to theorize gender, sexual, and racial identities as fundamentally intersubjective.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'One Time Fits All' tells the story of the development, integration, and obstacles overcome in setting an the International Date Line, establishing the worldwide system of Standard Time zones, and adopting Daylight Saving Time--including their global impacts on how the general public keeps time today.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Turning to Nature in Germany' traces the history of organized hiking, nudism, and conservation in the earlier twentieth century, showing how hundreds of thousands of Germans sought to find solutions to the nation's crises in nature.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Breitwieser's close readings reveal that the thwarting of mourning, partly linked to nationalist feeling, was a central issue for many American authors, but that those who successfully reclaimed mourning came to strange and fresh understandings of the actual world.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The Many Meanings of Poverty' is about poverty in a colonial context--it argues that the cultural meanings of poverty defined social compacts that served to bolster and undermine the sources of colonialism.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Rethinking Science, Technology, and Social Change' challenges prevailing notions that science and technology are socially shaped or constructed. The text puts forth a case for technological determinism, based on a realist and pragmatist account of science and technology, informed by historical comparisons.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Ambiguities of Witnessing' explores the complex relationship between law and literature in testimony before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the body that investigated crimes of the apartheid era in South Africa.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A survey and analysis of what Shari'a, or Islamic law, means for Muslims today.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Sarah Kofman Reader is a comprehensive anthology of significant essays and book excerpts by the postwar French philosopher and theorist Sarah Kofman (1934-1994).

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Larry Wolff is Professor of History at New York University. His books include Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment (Stanford, 1994), and Venice and the Slavs: The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment (Stanford, 2001).Marco Cipolloni is Professor and Chair of Spanish Language and Culture at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. His works include Il sovrano e la corte nelle 'cartas' della Conquista(1991), Tra memoria apostolica e racconto profetico: Il compromesso etnografico francescano e le 'cosas' della Nuova Spagna, (1994), and the critical edition of the Teatro completo of Miguel Angel Asturias (2003).