the university of chicago press jun 2001 (19 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With this book, Frank Ninkovich offers a striking examination of Woodrow Wilson's influence on twentieth-century U.S. foreign policy. He argues that the Wilsonian outlook, far from being a crusading, utopian doctrine, was a creative, practical response to catastrophic great power wars that threatened to reverse the progressive course of modern history. Ninkovich shows how Wilsonian 'crisis internationalism' guided U.S. foreign relations through a century of global turbulence and made possible the emergence of today's globalizing society.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - We describe ourselves in terms of books whenever we refer to 'reading' another's mind or making a 'mental note.' Eric Jager expertly traces this self-text metaphor in Western literature and art from ancient to modern times, focusing especially on the Middle Ages, when the metaphor of a 'book of the heart' modeled on the manuscript codex attained its most vivid expressions. In a bold conclusion, Jager considers what the much-prophesied 'death of the book' might mean for twenty-first-century conceptions of the self.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - ''Liberace' . . . puts Darden Pyron in the very first rank of American biographers. His books are as exciting as the lives of his subjects.'-Tom Wolfe In this fascinating biography, Darden Asbury Pyron leads us through the public triumphs, private struggles, and numerous secrets of the man known to generations as 'Mr. Showmanship,' deftly placing Liberace's remarkable life in the rapidly changing cultural landscape of the United States in the twentieth century, and providing the far-ranging, insightful analysis necessary to understand one of the most popular entertainers in the nation's history.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One of the articles of faith of twentieth-century intellectual history is that the theory of relativity in physics sprang from the unaided genius of Albert Einstein in 1905; another is that scientific relativity has no significant connection with ethical, cultural, or epistemological relativism. 'Victorian Relativity' challenges these truisms, unearthing a forgotten tradition of avant-garde speculation that took as its guiding principle 'the negation of the absolute' and set itself under the banner of 'relativity.' Christopher Herbert shows that the principle that nothing exists but relations formed the basis of nineteenth-century speculation across a wide range of fields; he argues that this defining idea of intellectual modernism was linked from the moment of its emergence to political and cultural radicalism.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With 'Color Lines,' John David Skrentny brings us a collection of essays that reexamines the role of affirmative action and civil rights in light of recent shifts in American minority populations. The book explores issues of public policy, equal opportunity, diversity, multiculturalism, pathways to better work and higher learning, and attempts both within and outside the United States to protect minority civil rights.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this exhilarating and often hilarious book, David Crystal examines why we devote so much time and energy to language games, how professionals make a career of them, and how young children instinctively take to them. Crystal makes a simple argument-that since playing with language is so natural, a natural way to learn language is to play with it-while he discusses puns, crosswords, lipograms, comic alphabets, rhymes, funny voices taken from dialect and popular culture, limericks, anagrams, scat singing, and much more.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In recent years, combatants from one or the other of what C. P. Snow famously called 'the two cultures' (science versus the arts and humanities) have launched bitter attacks but have seldom engaged in constructive dialogue. In 'The One Culture ' Jay A. Labinger and Harry Collins have gathered together some of the world's foremost scientists and sociologists of science to exchange opinions and ideas rather than insults. The contributors find surprising areas of broad agreement in a genuine conversation about science, its legitimacy and authority as a means of understanding the world, and whether science studies undermines the practice and findings of science and scientists.Who has the right to speak about science What is the proper role of scientific knowledge How should scientists interact with the rest of society in decision making Because science occupies a central position in the world today, such questions are vitally important. Although there are no simple solutions, 'The One Culture ' shows the reader exactly what is at stake in the so-called Science Wars and provides a valuable framework for how to go about seeking the answers we so urgently need.Contributors include: Constance K. Barsky, Jean Bricmont, Harry Collins, Peter Dear, Jane Gregory, Jay A. Labinger, Michael Lynch, N. David Mermin, Steve Miller, Trevor Pinch, Peter R. Saulson, Steven Shapin, Alan Sokal, Steven Weinberg, Kenneth G. Wilson.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Beyond Solidarity' is an impassioned argument for a sharable morality in a world increasingly fractured along lines of difference. Giles Gunn asks how human solidarity can be reconceived when its expressions have become increasingly exceptionalist and outmoded, and when the pressures of globalization divide as much as they unify.He finds the terms for answering these questions in a more inclusive, cosmopolitan pragmatism--one willing to explore fundamental values without recourse to absolutist arguments. Drawing on the work of William and Henry James, John Dewey, Primo Levi, Richard Rorty, and many others, as well as postcolonial writing, Jewish literature of the Holocaust, and the cultural and religious experience of African Americans in slavery, Gunn points pragmatism in a transnational direction and shows how it can better account for the consequences of diversity. 'Beyond Solidarity,' then, is a study of the difference that difference makes in a globalized world.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The field of economics has always had an unstable reputation in the academic world, and in the public eye as well: some consider economists to be scientists, while others see them as disguised ideologues. The resulting insecurities have driven economists to continually redefine their discipline, from its scope and its methods to its content. 'Economics: The Culture of a Controversial Science' incisively describes the profession of economics as it has developed in response to these peculiar challenges.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Historical and anthropological studies of the practices of women use to affect their menses have largely failed to consider their perceptions of menstruation and their intentions over the course of time. Do women view their period as something negative--a 'curse,' or a failed conception--or as something to be celebrated because it signals either that they are not pregnant, or that they remain fecund This unique volume considers women's attitudes toward their menses and the ambiguities inherent in regulating them. Covering a wide range of topics from the impact of herbal substances to current views of reproduction and the Pill, this multidisciplinary work by historians, anthropologists, demographers, and health specialists sheds new light on the culture of reproduction.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - List of Illustrations Acknowledgments PART I: THE ROMANCING OF THE CIVIL SELF Introduction 1. Political Theories of the Self 2. The Romance of Navigation 3. Science and Collecting 4. Scurvy 5. The Polynesian Person and the Spread of Leprosy PART II: FROM JUAN FERNANDEZ TO NEW ZEALAND6. Void Contracts and Subtle Islands7. Patriots in Paradise 8. Starlings and Parrots; Keate and Sympathy 9. The Settlement of New Zealand References Index.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Irony, no longer simply a figure of speech, is increasingly viewed as an integral and pervasive force that shapes our understanding as well as our behavior. This idea of irony as one of the major modes of human experience is at the center of this provocative book. The result of a meeting where anthropologists were invited to explore the politics of irony and the moral responsibilities that accompany its recognition, this book looks at both the positive and negative aspects of irony and lends an anthropological perspective to this contemporary phenomenon, both within anthropology and without.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - List of Plates and Diagrams in TextPrefaceIntroduction by Professor Julian S. Huxley, M.A.New Introduction by Mathew A. Leibold and J. Timothy Wootton1. Introduction2. The Distribution of Animal Communities3. Ecological Succession4. Environmental Factors5. The Animal Community6. Parasites7. Time and Animal Communities8. The Numbers of Animals9. Variations in the Numbers of Animals10. Dispersal11. Ecological Methods12. Ecology and EvolutionConclusionList of ReferencesIndex.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Why has homosexuality always fascinated and vexed psychoanalysts This groundbreaking collection of original essays reconsiders the troubled relationship between same-sex desire and psychoanalysis, assessing homosexuality's status in psychoanalytic theory and practice, as well as the value of psychoanalytic ideas for queer theory. The contributors, each distinguished clinicians and specialists, reexamine works by Freud, Klein, Reich, Lacan, Laplanche, and their feminist and queer revisionists. Sharing a commitment to conscious and unconscious forms of homosexual desire, they offer new perspectives on pleasure, perversion, fetishism, disgust, psychosis, homophobia, AIDS, otherness, and love. Including two previously untranslated essays by Michel Foucault, Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis will interest cultural theorists, psychoanalysts, and anyone concerned with the fate of sexuality in our time.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are '--Edvard Munch Published in conjunction with a major exhibit at the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College, 'Edvard Munch: Psyche, Symbol and Expression' includes nine essays from scholars representing a variety of disciplines. From themes of love, sexuality, gender and anxiety to comparisons with Ibsen and Kierkegaard, the catalog explores the meanings of Munch's imagery, his sources in Symbolist art, and his legacy for German Expressionism within the context of his contemporaries' developments in psychology, literature, and philosophy. The volume of over 200 pages includes more than 60 color plates and 130 black and white illustrations, many from rarely seen private collections and some never exhibited before.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Although the economic boom of the 1990s helped the poor, the gap between the poor and the wealthy in the United States has continued to increase. Ample evidence exists to validate perceived trends in wage, income, and overall wealth disparity, but there is little agreement on the causes of such inequality and what might be done to alleviate it.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - List of Illustrations Acknowledgments PART I: THE ROMANCING OF THE CIVIL SELF Introduction 1. Political Theories of the Self 2. The Romance of Navigation 3. Science and Collecting 4. Scurvy 5. The Polynesian Person and the Spread of Leprosy PART II: FROM JUAN FERNANDEZ TO NEW ZEALAND6. Void Contracts and Subtle Islands7. Patriots in Paradise 8. Starlings and Parrots; Keate and Sympathy 9. The Settlement of New Zealand References Index.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Historical and anthropological studies of the practices of women use to affect their menses have largely failed to consider their perceptions of menstruation and their intentions over the course of time. Do women view their period as something negative--a 'curse,' or a failed conception--or as something to be celebrated because it signals either that they are not pregnant, or that they remain fecund This unique volume considers women's attitudes toward their menses and the ambiguities inherent in regulating them. Covering a wide range of topics from the impact of herbal substances to current views of reproduction and the Pill, this multidisciplinary work by historians, anthropologists, demographers, and health specialists sheds new light on the culture of reproduction.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Beyond Solidarity' is an impassioned argument for a sharable morality in a world increasingly fractured along lines of difference. Giles Gunn asks how human solidarity can be reconceived when its expressions have become increasingly exceptionalist and outmoded, and when the pressures of globalization divide as much as they unify.He finds the terms for answering these questions in a more inclusive, cosmopolitan pragmatism--one willing to explore fundamental values without recourse to absolutist arguments. Drawing on the work of William and Henry James, John Dewey, Primo Levi, Richard Rorty, and many others, as well as postcolonial writing, Jewish literature of the Holocaust, and the cultural and religious experience of African Americans in slavery, Gunn points pragmatism in a transnational direction and shows how it can better account for the consequences of diversity. 'Beyond Solidarity,' then, is a study of the difference that difference makes in a globalized world.