the university of chicago press okt 2007 (21 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Optimists believe this is the best of all possible worlds, and pessimists fear that might really be the case. There was a time, during the 17th and 18th centuries, when scientists and mathematicians felt they could provide the answer. This book is their story.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - McCloskey's sweeping, charming, and even humorous survey of ethical thought and economic realities--from Plato to Barbara Ehrenreich--overturns assumptions about being bourgeois. Applying a new tradition of 'virtue ethics,' she affirms American capitalism without ignoring its faults.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Lavishly illustrated with nearly 300 color illustrations and masterfully rendered black and white drawings throughout, 'Life in the Soil' invites naturalists and gardeners alike to dig in and discover the diverse community of creatures living in the dirt below us.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Featuring a rereading of Aristotle, Seneca, Thomas Hobbes, and Judith Butler, this book considers emotions as psychosocial phenomena. It offers insight into the reasons why political passions are distributed to some people but not to others. It explains how psyches are shaped by power.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Race is a factor in government efforts to control dangerous drugs, but the precise ways that race affects drug laws remain difficult to pinpoint. Illuminating this relationship, this book lays out how decades of racism helped shape a punitive US drug policy whose onerous impact on racial minorities has been ignored by Congress and the courts.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Responding to international interest in Yoruba culture, practitioners of bata performance have presented themselves as an emblem of traditional Nigeria. Locally, however, the market for bata has been declining. This work explores this disjunction, revealing the world of bata artists and the global culture market that helps to sustain their art.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In recent years the news media have been awash in stories about increasingly close ties between college campuses and multimillion-dollar corporations. Our nation's universities, the story goes, reap enormous windfalls patenting products of scientific research that have been primarily funded by taxpayers. Meanwhile, hoping for new streams of revenue from their innovations, the same universities are allowing their research--and their very principles--to become compromised by quests for profit. But is that really the case Is money really hopelessly corrupting science.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On a hot summer day in 1876, George Armstrong Custer led the Seventh Cavalry to the most famous defeat in U.S. military history. In this in-depth study, the author tackles the far more complicated question of why the battle of Little Bighorn retains such power for Americans today.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Government spending has increased in the United States since World War II despite the many rules intended to rein in the insatiable appetite for tax revenue most politicians seem to share. This book explains why these budget rules tend to fail, and proposes alternatives for imposing the fiscal discipline on our legislators.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Same-sex marriage emerged in 2004 as one of the hottest issues of the campaign season. This work explores various facets of this issue, including the ideologies and strategies on both sides of the argument, the public's response, and how same-sex marriage fits into the context of policy cycles and windows of political opportunity.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Recounts the massive reconfiguration of Paris' museum world that resulted from Jacques Chirac's dream, set against a backdrop of personal and national politics, intellectual life, and the role of culture in French society.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Caribbean 'market woman' is ingrained in the popular imagination as the archetype of black womanhood in the region. Challenging this stereotype, this work offers a complex picture by documenting the history of international traders who travel abroad to import and export consumer goods sold in the public markets of Kingston, Jamaica.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When middle-class residents fled American cities in the 1960s and '70s, government services and investment capital left too. Countless urban neighborhoods entered phases of precipitous decline, prompting the creation of community-based organizations to bring resources back to the city. This book examines such organizations that drive urban life.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Widely considered the standard history of the profession of literary studies, 'Professing Literature' unearths the long-forgotten ideas and debates that created the literature department as we know it today. In a readable and often-amusing narrative, Gerald Graff shows that the heated conflicts of our recent culture wars echo--and often recycle--controversies over how literature should be taught that began more than a century ago. Updated with a new preface by the author that addresses many of the provocative arguments raised by its initial publication, 'Professing Literature' remains an essential history of literary pedagogy and a critical classic. 'Graff's history. . . is a pathbreaking investigation showing how our institutions shape literary thought and proposing how they might be changed.'-- 'The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Erotic and urbane, distinguished by formal skill yet marked by the subtlest shades of feeling, Guy Goffette's lyrical poems pay homage to both Verlaine and Rimbaud, whom he counts as his important forebears. This title includes a selection of Goffette's poems, all centering around the notion of 'blue' - the color and the emotion.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Nearly every job application asks it: have you ever been convicted of a crime For the hundreds of thousands of young men leaving American prisons each year, their answer to that question may determine whether they can find work. This book offers a glimpse into the tremendous difficulties facing ex-offenders in the job market.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The nineteenth century was an age of transformation in science, when scientists were rewarded for their startling new discoveries with increased social status and authority. But it was also a time when ordinary people from across the social spectrum were given the opportunity to participate in science, for education, entertainment, or both. In Victorian Britain science could be encountered in myriad forms and in countless locations: in panoramic shows, exhibitions, and galleries; in city museums and country houses; in popular lectures; and even in domestic conversations that revolved around the latest books and periodicals. Science in the Marketplace reveals this other side of Victorian scientific life by placing the sciences in the wider cultural marketplace, ultimately showing that the creation of new sites and audiences was just as crucial to the growing public interest in science as were the scientists themselves. By focusing attention on the scientific audience, as opposed to the scientific community or self-styled popularizers, Science in the Marketplace ably links larger societal changes--in literacy, in industrial technologies, and in leisure--to the evolution of 'popular science.'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World' represents the second stage of an ongoing research project studying the relationship between social security and labor. In the first volume, Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise revealed enormous disincentives to continued work at older ages in developed countries. Provisions of many social security programs typically encourage retirement by reducing pay for work, inducing older employees to leave the labor force early and magnifying the financial burden caused by an aging population. At a certain age there is simply no financial benefit to continuing to work.In this volume, the authors turn to a country-by-country analysis of retirement behavior based on micro-data. The result of research compiled by teams in twelve countries, the volume shows an almost uniform correlation between levels of social security incentives and retirement behavior in each country. The estimates also show that the effect is strikingly uniform in countries with very different cultural histories, labor market institutions, and other social characteristics.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Comprises Giuseppe Verdi's two surviving secular choral works: 'Inno popolare', or 'Hymn of the People', for unaccompanied male chorus, and 'Inno delle nazioni', or 'Hymn of the Nations', for tenor solo, chorus, and orchestra.