the university of chicago press feb 2014 (17 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1955, Maxine Kumin submitted a poem to the Saturday Evening Post. This book brings together Kumin, Julia Alvarez, Jane Smiley, Erica Jong, and fifteen other accomplished women of this generation to reflect on their writing lives.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Foreign Exchange raises critical questions around the scientific and educational remit of an ethnographic museum in Germany and highlights its unspoken relationship to global trade. This publication investigates the historical accumulation and commodification of artefacts and the representation of the human body as seen on ethnographic photographs. New material developed out of artistic research in the Weltkulturen Labor is presented together with unpublished scientific photography. Extended conversations between internationally renowned anthropologists, art historians, curators and artists offer new connections between past and present. Foreign Exchange responds to current interest in the remediation of ethnographic collections, colonial history, historical archives, and interdisciplinary curatorial practice.Contributing authors and artists: Peggy Buth, Minerva Cuevas, Tom McCarthy, Gabriel Gbadamosi, David Lau, David Weber-Krebs, Luke Willis-Thompson.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For centuries, people have been thinking and writing - and fiercely debating - about the meaning of marriage. This book offers a new account of marriage as it appeared in fiction, journalism, legal decisions, scholarly work, and private correspondence at the start of the twentieth century.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Who is a citizen What is a person Who is my neighbor Turning to the potent idea of political theology to recover the strange mix of political and religious thinking during the Renaissance, the author unveils the figure of the citizensaint, who represents at once divine messenger and civil servant, both norm and exception.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - States that the relationship between Britain and its colonies was primarily oppositional, based on contrasts between conquest abroad and domestic order at home. Revealing that romanticism provided a way to resist imperial logic about improvement and moral virtue, this book offers a study of both British literature and colonialism.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With US soldiers stationed around the world and engaged in multiple conflicts, Americans will be forced for the foreseeable future to come to terms with those permanently disabled in battle. This book explains how, before entering World War I, the United States sought a way to avoid the enormous cost of providing injured soldiers with pensions.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When we think of composers like Mozart or Beethoven, we usually envision an isolated artist separate from the orchestra. For most of Japan's musical history, however, no such role existed - composition and performance were deeply intertwined. This book offers fresh insights not just into Japanese music but Japanese modernity at large.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Brings to life science's efforts to detect cosmic gravitational waves. This title offers readers an unprecedented view of gravitational wave research and explains what it means for an analyst to do work of this kind.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Draws on publicly available records and interviews with scientists and healers in Ghana, Madagascar, and South Africa to interpret how African scientists and healers, rural communities, and drug companies have sought since the 1880s to develop drugs from Africa's medicinal plants.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Looks closely at the debates occasioned by modern Western scholarship on Islam to throw new light on the social and political status of medieval Jews and Christians in various Islamic lands from the seventh to the thirteenth centuries.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For centuries, botanists and physicists have mutually benefitted from collaborations. Galileo used the hollow stalks of grass to illustrate the idea that peripheral rather than centrally located construction materials provide most of the resistance to bending forces. Leonardo da Vinci s interest in fluid mechanics was inspired by observing the cross-sectional areas of tree trunks, and his drawings illustrating the concept of a parachute and an auto-gyroscopic propeller are alleged to be based on his study of the dandelion s pappus and the maple tree s samara.'Plant Physics'explores the contemporary insights that emerge when plants are studied with the aid of physics, mathematics, engineering, and chemistry. It starts with such fundamental topics as the importance of plant life, the relationship between organic form and function, plant reproduction and development, the importance of multicellularity, and the developmental basis of the basic plant body plans. The work then explores how fundamental physical principles and processes affect plant growth and ecology. Specific topics addressed include plant water relations, solid and fluid mechanics, electrophysiology, and optics in relation to plant form, function, and ecology. Written by one of the world s best known botanists, it is destined to inspire students and professionals alike to traverse disciplinary membranes.'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How should we speak of bodies and souls Drawing on new and classical understandings of perception, consciousness, memory, agency, and creativity, this book frames a convincing argument for a dynamic and integrated self capable of language, thought, discovery, caring, and love.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Long celebrated as one of 'the Three Crowns' of Florence, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-75) experimented widely with the forms of literature. This title offers a collection of essays that presents Boccaccio's life and creative output in its encyclopedic diversity.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Takes us on a well-researched journey across America - from Augusta to Sacramento, Albany to Baton Rouge - shedding light along the way on the historical circumstances that led to their appointment, their success or failure, and their evolution over time.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One of the challenges facing education reformers in the US is how to devise a consistent and intelligent framework for instruction that will work across the nation's notoriously fragmented and politically conflicted school systems. This book offers guidance for state and local school systems as they attempt to respond to future reform proposals.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Draws on theorists such as Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss, Walter Benjamin, and Hannah Arendt and their readings of Shakespeare, Hobbes, Machiavelli, and Spinoza to illustrate that the dialogue between these modern and early modern figures can help us rethink the contemporary problem of political theology.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Markus Raetz (1941-2020) war einer der renommiertesten Schweizer Künstler der Gegenwart. Sein vielgestaltiges Werk kreist um das prozesshafte Erfahren von Wirklichkeit, wobei es mittels Zeichnungen, rund 350 druckgrafischen Werken, zahlreichen Skulpturen und Installationen spielerisch und poetisch bewusst macht, dass sich die Realität je nach Standpunkt anders darstellt. Das lange vergriffene Werkverzeichnis zu Raetz' Druckgrafik wurde nun vom Kunsthistoriker Rainer Michael Mason revidiert und erweitert. Band I umfasst den neuen Catalogue raisonné mit ausführlichen Kommentaren und zahlreichen Farbabbildungen. Band II enthält neben den Aufsätzen aus dem vergriffenen Buch von 1991 neu verfasste Essays. Das vollständige Referenzwerk zu Raetz' Druckgrafik von 1951 bis 2013. Das Buch erscheint zu den Ausstellungen Markus Raetz Druckgraphik Skulptur im Kunstmuseum Bern (31. Januar bis 18. Mai 2014) und im Musée Jenisch in Vevey (26. Juni bis 14. Oktober 2014).