the university of chicago press mär 2014 (15 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Rooted in the age-old problem of the fraught relationship between fathers and sons, this title is about the power of books and theater, the excitement of stories in a young man's life, and the transformative magic of words and performance.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A collection of essays about the body.but don't let that put you off. Like the late Nora Ephron's fabulous book of reckoning with her aging body--I Hate My Neck--this witty, sometimes-hilarious manuscript turns the category of body books on its, well, ear. The essays have various points of departure--Jewish feet, posture, hair, autopsies. Some explore the problem of having a body; how to live in a woman's body; in a Jew's body. What does it mean to have the body as a proxy for the soul Some of the essays are interested in the disposition of the body under emotional or physical duress: for example, 'Pocketing' archly explores the myth that shoplifting is a distinctly female activity, even a mania linked to the womb. 'Debutante, Dowager, Beggar' is a sad, funny story about Shinner's uptight mother, a binge eater and Dr. Spock devotee, who, like many American women in the fifties, worried herself sick about posture, especially that of her daughter's and how rounded shoulders would undermine her ability to succeed in life. 'Family Feet' takes a look at feet through the often-skewed lens of history, and discovers that Shinner's flat-footed specimens are, according to some, decidedly and disturbingly Jewish, 'The Fitting(s)' breasts, and the storied bra fitte Ida Rosenthal, founder of Maidenform. 'Post-Mortem,' an essay about autopsies, looks at the body at rest, or presumably at rest, and asks the question, from a confused and grieving daughter's point of view, what does it mean to cut the body open To take a peek inside And 'Berenice's Hair' is a reeling time-trip through myth, culture, and history, looking at women's hair from ancient Rome to present-day India, with stops in Laos, France, Syria, Cuba, the United States.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The mystique of Wrigley Field perhaps America s most celebrated ballpark and among the most controversial comes under the microscope in Stuart Shea s meticulous examination of its history, culture, and meaning. Both loving and cold-eyed, Shea s history digs into the fiscal maneuverings that led to the rise and fall of various ownership regimes (and the decade upon decade of on-field failure), and it details the physical changes to the park over time. Shea elaborates on the cultural and social transformations evident in the evolution of Wrigley, tying them to changes in national food and alcohol cultures, labor relations, and conceptions of urban identity. Next year marks Wrigley s 100th anniversary.'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In The Common Cause, Leela Gandhi reconsiders the history of democracy in the first half of the twentieth century through the lens of ethics in the broad sense of disciplined self-fashioning. Gandhi recovers the stories of Indians and others who refused the spoils of anticolonial nationalism and spiritually embraced an alternative democracy, including the best that Europe itself had to offer. She identifies, on the one hand, a heroic ethic of moral perfectionism shared across imperialism, fascism, and new liberalism--an ethic notably contemptuous of the ordinary and the unexceptional. On the other hand, and the main focus of her book, is an ethic of moral imperfectionism --a set of anticolonial, antifascist practices devoted to ordinariness, indeed abnegation, and ranging from doomed mutinies in the Indian military to Mahatma Gandhi s spiritual discipline. These oppositional practices, Leela Gandhi argues, made common cause both with the victims and abettors of social injustice by defending the former and reforming the latter. Her book elegantly recovers the elusive history of moral imperfectionism, offering it to us as a lost tradition of democratic thought and as a key to its future elaboration. Euro-American opinion holds that democracy is a uniquely Western property and inheritance. In contrast, Gandhi s book claims a global provenance for democracy as a shared art of living on the other side of perfection. It mounts a postcolonial appeal for an ethics of becoming common.'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - African American men who have sex with men while maintaining a heterosexual lifestyle in public are commonly referred to as 'down low' or 'DL' men. This book explores the DL phenomenon, offering an innovative analysis of the significance of media, space, and ideals of black masculinity in understanding down low communities.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Reconstructing the influence of Rousseau on Kant's thought, the author demonstrates that the relationship between speculative philosophy and practical philosophy in Kant is far more intimate than generally has been perceived. He offers an unusually complete account of Kant's idea of moral culture.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How did Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, and Cubans become known as 'Hispanics' and 'Latinos' in the United States How did several distinct cultures and nationalities become portrayed as one The author answers both these questions and details the scope of this phenomenon.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Freemasonry has long been one of the most romanticized secret societies in the world. But a simple fact escapes most depictions of this elite brotherhood: there are women Freemasons, too. The author takes you inside Masonic lodges in contemporary Italy, where she observes the many ritualistic and fraternal bonds forged among women initiates.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Building its incisive narrative from a wide range of archival sources, interviews, and accounts of Puerto Rican life in New York, this book illuminates the history of a group that is still invisible to many scholars and transforms the way we understand this community's integral role in shaping our sense of citizenship in 20th-century America.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How is knowledge about religion and religions produced, and how is that knowledge authenticated and circulated The author aims to answer these questions. He shows that race, rather than theology, was formative in the emerging study of religion in Europe and North America.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Partheneion, or 'maiden song,' composed in the seventh century BCE by the Spartan poet Alcman, is the earliest substantial example of a choral lyric. This book excavates the poem's invocations of widespread and long-lived cosmological ideas that cast the universe as perfectly harmonious and invested its workings with an ethical dimension.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Common and destructive, limited wars are significant international events that pose a number of challenges to the states involved beyond simple victory or defeat. This book investigates a crucial and heretofore ignored factor in determining the nature and direction of limited war: information institutions.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The term 'civilization' comes with considerable baggage, setting up a dichotomy wherein people, cultures, and histories are 'civilized' - or not. This book examines how the idea of civilization has informed our thinking about international relations over the course of ten centuries.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 'Frontier Seaport,' Catherine Cangany looks at the economy, culture, and politics of colonial Detroit to better understand its coexistence in both the Atlantic world and the frontier. Although Detroit s frontier associations have been well documented, Cangany argues that Detroit s Atlantic connections were thoroughly established by the mid-eighteenth century despite the settlement s 650-mile separation from the east coast and rivaled those of more cosmopolitan spaces. Drawing on business records, customs and port papers, personal and commercial correspondence, visual images, and much else, Cangany demonstrates that Detroit s positioning as a successful yet remote fur-trading center in fact hastened its economic and cultural incorporation into the broader Atlantic world. Located at the heart of the Great Lakes, inhabited and fought over by three world powers, and within easy reach of furs and fur-suppliers, Detroit occupied a geographically desirable and financially profitable niche in the fur trade. This position in turn made it prone to regular influxes of eastern merchants and other transplants, who brought with them their transatlantic commercial networks and their desire for and access to popular culture and merchandise. By considering frontier and Atlantic together, and by parsing Detroit s political, commercial, and cultural ties to each, Canganyforces a reimagining of early America and its relationship with empire.'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume collects all the remaining essays by Seneca not already published in the series [Consolato ad Marciam (Hine), Consolato ad Polybium (Hine), Consolato ad Helviam (Williams), De otio (Williams), Brevitate (Williams), De tranquillitate animi (Fantham), De constantia (Ker), De providentia (Ker), De vita beata (Ker)]. In general, these pieces are intended to edify. They range from consolations to essays on how to achieve happiness or tranquility in the face of a difficult world. Many are quite popular in undergraduate philosophy courses. Fantham's translation is the jewel in the crown.'.