stanford university press sep 2011 (13 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As students navigate learning and begin to establish a sense of self, local surroundings can have a major influence on the range of choices they make about who they are and who they want to be. This book investigates how various constructions of identity can influence educational achievement for African American students, both within and outside school.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Why has power in the West assumed the form of an 'economy,' that is, of a government of men and things If power is essentially government, why does it need glory, that is, the ceremonial and liturgical apparatus that has always accompanied it.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Rhacel Salazar Parre¿as is Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration, and Domestic Work (Stanford University Press, 2001) and Children of Global Migration: Transnational Families and Gendered Woes (Stanford University Press, 2005).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Literary studies in the postwar era have consistently barred attributing specific intentions to authors based on textual evidence or ascribing textual presences to the authors themselves. Obscure Invitations argues that this taboo has blinded us to fundamental elements of twentieth-century literature. Widiss focuses on the particularly self-conscious constructions of authorship that characterize modernist and postmodernist writing, elaborating the narrative strategies they demand and the reading practices they yield. He reveals that apparent manifestations of 'the death of the author' and of the 'free play' of language are performances that ultimately affirm authorial control of text and reader. The book significantly revises received understandings of central texts by Faulkner, Stein, and Nabokov. It then discusses Eggers' Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and the films Seven and The Usual Suspects, demonstrating that each is a highly self-aware rebuttal of the notion of authorial absence.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - After the fall of the Taliban, instability reigned across Afghanistan. However, in the small town of Istalif, located a little over an hour north of Kabul and not far from Bagram on the Shomali Plain, local politics remained relatively violence-free. Bazaar Politics examines this seemingly paradoxical situation, exploring how the town's local politics maintained peace despite a long, violent history in a country dealing with a growing insurgency.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is a revolutionary work in the study of Yiddish literature and post-colonial theory, offering a new methodology for comparative research, a new definition of literary modernism, and an unprecedented juxtaposition of Jewish Studies with African literature.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The exceptional experiences of South Korea and Taiwan in combining high growth and liberal democracy in a relatively short and similar timetable have brought scholarly attention to their economic and political transformations. This new work looks specifically at the operation of workers and unions in the decades since labor-repressive authoritarian rule ended, bringing Taiwan, in particular, into the literature on comparative labor politics.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 2004, the U.S. State Department declared Filipina hostesses in Japan the largest group of sex trafficked persons in the world. Since receiving this global attention, the number of hostesses entering Japan has dropped by nearly 90 percent-from more than 80,000 in 2004 to just over 8,000 today. To some, this might suggest a victory for the global anti-trafficking campaign, but Rhacel Parreñas counters that this drastic decline-which stripped thousands of migrants of their livelihoods-is in truth a setback.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - After the fall of the Taliban, instability reigned across Afghanistan. However, in the small town of Istalif, located a little over an hour north of Kabul and not far from Bagram on the Shomali Plain, local politics remained relatively violence-free. Bazaar Politics examines this seemingly paradoxical situation, exploring how the town's local politics maintained peace despite a long, violent history in a country dealing with a growing insurgency.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Giorgio Agamben, an Italian philosopher and political theorist, teaches at the IUAV University in Venice and holds the Baruch Spinoza Chair at the European Graduate School. His most recent works available in English translation from Stanford University Press include 'What is an Apparatus ' and Other Essays (2009), Nudities (2010), and The Sacrament of Language(2011).

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Between 1889 and 1919, Weetman Pearson became one of the world's most important engineering contractors, a pioneer in the international oil industry, and one of Britain's wealthiest men. At the center of his global business empire were his interests in Mexico.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book explores how various constructions of identity can influence educational achievement for African American students, both within and outside of school.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Obscure Invitations argues that the apparent instances of 'the death of the Author' in twentieth-century literature are in fact carefully staged performances that ultimately affirm authorial vitality and control of both text and reader.