Ucal pod jun 2012 (20 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The best descriptions of the ideas and attitudes of the early Germanic peoples is represented in the literature of Iceland during the 12th and 13th centuries - before Christianity and foreign influences slowly took over. However, during Snorri's lifetime, the ancient art of Icelandic poetry and the stories of Icelandic culture that it contained was threatened by the narrow-minded clergy in their efforts to eradicate heathenism, and by a new fashion in Icelandic poetry called the dance. In the Edda, Snorri was attempting to educate young poets against narrow-mindedness of subject and disregard of older poetic styles.To his Poetic Diction, he added the Deluding of Gylfi and its Prologue. No one had ever told the Deluding of Gylfi as well as Snorri told it. He inspired a new attitude and understanding toward the pagan culture and philosophy of life, which is reflected in the sagas that were written after his day.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For Karen Garthe, poetry is a Molotov cocktail. A master of radical invention, Garthe combines brio of conception with linguistic virtuosity, bringing language to new life from the inside at breakneck speed. The Banjo Clock, her second collection, cultivates a luxuriant sensibility even as it interrupts poetic continuity with cuts, ironies, sharp wit, and wild recklessness. In poems that consider poetry itself, Garthe writes about preparing the medium, the ink, 'the motion of new utility.' She then turns to America's psychic maladies and the need to rehabilitate our democracy, now floundering in the glare of TV's blue depressive light.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Tibullus is considered one of the finest exponents of Latin lyric in the golden age of Rome, during the Emperor Augustuss reign, and his poetry retains its enduring beauty and appeal. Together these works provide an important document for anyone who seeks to understand Roman culture and sexuality and the origins of Western poetry.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Volcanic dust, climate change, tsunamis, earthquakes - geoscience explores phenomena that profoundly affect our lives. But more than that, as Doug Macdougall makes clear, the science also provides important clues to the future of the planet. He explores such questions as: What is the risk of an asteroid striking Earth Why does the temperature of the ocean millions of years ago matter today How are efforts to predict earthquakes progressing Macdougall also explains the legacy of greenhouse gases from Earths past and shows how that legacy shapes our understanding of todays human-caused climate change. We find that geoscience in fact illuminates many of todays most pressing issues - the availability of energy, access to fresh water, sustainable agriculture, maintaining biodiversity - and we discover how, by applying new technologies and ideas, we can use it to prepare for the future.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Coffee and the café in Japan reflect social history and create it as Japan became a leader in coffee consumption and café-sitting over the past 130 years: statesmen, flappers, philosophers and feminists and the ordinary worker have all found society and solace at the tables of the ubiquitous café and Japans coffee techniques are now evidence of a new 'liquid power' leading the world in a beverage that is not green tea.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the electronic age, documents appear to have escaped their paper confinement. But we are still surrounded by flows of paper with enormous consequences. In the planned city of Islamabad, order and disorder are produced through the ceaseless inscription and circulation of millions of paper artifacts among bureaucrats, politicians, property owners, villagers, imams (prayer leaders), businessmen, and builders. What are the implications of such a thorough paper mediation of relationships among people, things, places, and purposes Government of Paper explores this question in the routine yet unpredictable realm of the Pakistani urban bureaucracy, showing how the material forms of postcolonial bureaucratic documentation produce a distinctive political economy of paper that shapes how the city is constructed, regulated, and inhabited. Files, maps, petitions, and visiting cards constitute the enduring material infrastructure of more ephemeral classifications, laws, and institutional organizations. Matthew S. Hull develops a fresh approach to state governance as a material practice, explaining why writing practices designed during the colonial era to isolate the government from society have become a means of participation in it.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Nozière gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced 'medication,' which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of her parents died, the other barely survived. Almost immediately Violettes act of 'double parricide' became the most sensational private crime of the French interwar era - discussed and debated so passionately that it was compared to the Dreyfus Affair. Why would the beloved only child of respectable parents do such a thing To understand the motives behind this crime and the reasons for its extraordinary impact, Sarah Maza delves into the abundant case records, re-creating the daily existence of Parisians whose lives were touched by the affair. This compulsively readable book brilliantly evokes the texture of life in 1930s Paris. It also makes an important argument about French society and culture while proposing new understandings of crime and social class in the years before World War II. 'Sarah Maza has written a vivid, gripping and clear-eyed account of the celebrated Violette Nozière case, which captivated French society in the 1930s. A bold and imaginative story, Violette Nozière opens an unexpected and revealing window onto interwar Parisian life. -- Colin Jones, author of Paris: Biography of a City'Sarah Maza's absorbing new book on Violette Nozière--flapper, fantasist, and perpetrator of one of the most sordid and sensational French homicides of the 1930s--is a scholarly 'true crime' tale of the most intelligent sort. Why might a seemingly respectable little mademoiselle from a 'nice' bourgeois family want to poison her maman et papa at the breakfast table Alongside her riveting account of the crime and its aftermath, Maza investigates the various pathologies--familial, social, economic, cultural, psychosexual--that may have figured in the mayhem. (At her trial Nozière claimed, among other things, that her father had sexually abused her for years.) The result is both a fascinating case history--Greek tragedy rewritten as seedy policier--and a chilling glimpse into the less salubrious aspects of French lower middle-class life between the wars.' -- Terry Castle, author of The Professor'One of those rare and sophisticated works that tells a gripping story while evoking a complex historical period. There exist very few cultural histories of the interwar years.'--Carolyn Dean, author of Aversion and Erasure: The Fate of the Victim after the Holocaust'Sarah Maza's book tells an arresting story that deftly combines conventional social history with a subtle analysis of gender and culture. Using all the arts of the best storytellers, she is careful not to give too much away, and it is only with time and a remarkable conclusion that we realize that Violette Nozière is no ordinary tale.' -- Ruth Harris, author of Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Before countless audiences across the globe, the Dalai Lama has tried to refashion Tibetan Buddhism into a modern religion compatible with empirical science and founded on principles of nonviolence and 'universal compassion,' but how exactly has this project affected monastic education in exile This path-breaking study traces the career of the modern liberal subject in the Tibetan diaspora in India. Focusing on monastic debate and disciplinary practices such as corporeal punishment, Lempert shows how violence is used to make monks into educated, moral persons but in ways that trouble Tibetans who aspire to liberal ideals like individual autonomy and natural rights. He shows how efforts to act out liberal ideals - partially, fitfully and sometimes with acute ambivalence - are part of a broader drama of eliciting sympathy from spectators in the West and enlisting their aid in Tibets struggle with China.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Of the Big Five Studios of Hollywoods golden age, RKO had the most interesting and troubled history. The studio itself, rather than the films or stars, is the focus of this book, and RKOs pattern of rapid change and management turnover gives Jewell an opportunity to look at virtually every challenge a studio could face from the early days through the early 1940s. RKO was home to some of the greatest films and most glamourous stars, however, its management and finances were (even for Hollywood) unstable, and produced a 30-year roller-coaster of artistic gambles (not all of which paid off) and Punch-and-Judy management battles. Was it possible for a studio to have bankable properties like King Kong, Fred and Ginger, and Katherine Hepburn and still flirt regularly with bankruptcy It was. With access to now-off limits documents, Jewel creates a gripping narrative and definitive history from the studios trials and triumphs.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Kracauer, a prominent member of the Frankfurt School, was fascinated by film and visual culture and visual aesthetics. he left Europe, as many of his contemporaries were forced to, and settled in New York City, where he began to write for the first time in English to support himself. Most of these writings in English are articles that are relatively little-known; they have never been collected before. Spanning the 1940s-60s, this unknown Kracauer tackles everything from Disneys 'Dumbo,' the aesthetics of the American studio system, Bette Davis acting style, American versus French comic styles, and much more. This should be a welcome new angle on Kracauers aesthetics.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Violence has been a central feature of Americas history, culture, and place in the world. It has taken many forms: from state-sponsored uses of force such as war or law enforcement, to revolution, secession, terrorism and other actions with important political and cultural implications. Religion also holds a crucial place in the American experience of violence, particularly for those who have found order and meaning in their worlds through religious texts, symbols, rituals, and ideas. Yet too often the religious dimensions of violence, especially in the American context, are ignored or overstated - in either case, poorly understood. From Jeremiad to Jihad: Religion, Violence, and America corrects these misunderstandings. Charting and interpreting the tendrils of religion and violence, this book reveals how formative moments of their intersection in American history have influenced the ideas, institutions, and identities associated with the United States. Religion and violence provide crucial yet underutilized lenses for seeing America anew - including its outlook on, and relation to, the world.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As millions of women and girls left country towns to generate Korea's manufacturing boom, the factory girl emerged as an archetypal figure in twentieth-century popular culture. This book explores the factory girl in Korean literature from the 1920s to the 1990s, showing the complex ways in which she has embodied the sexual and class violence of industrial life. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this innovative ethnography of in vitro fertilization in Ecuador, Elizabeth Roberts shows how having children through biotechnological intervention is not only tolerated, it is embraced by the population, despite widespread poverty and official condemnation by the Catholic Church. Roberts takes us into clinics, laboratories, and homes, providing a textured picture of the integration of these biotechnologies into Andean life. Intimate portraits of patients, donors, and practitioners reveal profoundly different understandings of nature and the self compared with those found in other countries. Andean understanding of the body as malleable resonates with cutting-edge theories of the material world put forth by contemporary scholars of science and technology. The Ecuadorian embrace of reproductive technology, however, is less a reflection of a desire to be 'modern', than it is a product of colonial racial history, Catholic theologies, and kinship systems. This clearly written account offers a grounded introduction to debates in science studies and medical anthropology, as well as nuanced ethnography of the mingling of science, religion, and history in Andean family life.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Composers have been as invested as anyone in the myths of the American West. Levy looks at how American composers seized upon the West as a cornerstone on which to build a uniquely American identity. Levy looks at composers such as Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson, and Arthur Farwell - city born and bred, educated in Europe, with little personal experience of life on the range, yet deeply invested in exploring how music could embody the sounds of the west. Levys work combines analysis of the music (what was the West supposed to sound like ) with investigations of what these composers knew (or thought they knew) of actual Indian music, the real life of farmers and cowboys, and the history of western expansion. She ranges from Mexican music at the Chicago Worlds Fair of 1893, Dvorak composing symphonies in Iowa, Frederick Jackson Turners frontier thesis, the music of Buffalo Bills Wild West shows and Hollywood westerns, Agnes DeMilles 'cowboy ballets,' and what the American West means to composers living more than a century after the close of the frontier. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966), friend and colleague of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, was one of the most influential film critics of the mid-twentieth century. In this book, Johannes von Moltke and Kristy Rawson have, for the first time assembled essays in cultural criticism, film, literature, and media theory that Kracauer wrote during the quarter century he spent in America after fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe. In the decades following his arrival in the United States, Kracauer commented on developments in American and European cinema, wrote on film noir and neorealism, examined unsettling political trends in mainstream cinema, and reviewed the contemporary experiments of avant-garde filmmakers. As a cultural critic, he also ranged far beyond cinema, intervening in debates regarding Jewish culture, unraveling national and racial stereotypes, and reflecting on the state of arts and humanities in the 1950s. These essays, together with the editors' introductions and an afterward by Martin Jay offer illuminating insights into the films and culture of the postwar years and provide a unique perspective on this eminent émigré intellectual.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Assisted reproduction, with its test tubes, injections, and gamete donors, raises concerns about the nature of life and kinship. Yet these concerns do not take the same shape around the world. In this innovative ethnography of in vitro fertilization in Ecuador, Elizabeth F.S. Roberts explores how reproduction by way of biotechnological assistance is not only accepted but embraced despite widespread poverty and condemnation from the Catholic Church. Roberts' intimate portrait of IVF practitioners and their patients reveals how technological intervention is folded into an Andean understanding of reproduction as always assisted, whether through kin or God. She argues that the Ecuadorian incarnation of reproductive technology is less about a national desire for modernity than it is a product of colonial racial history, Catholic practice, and kinship configurations. God's Laboratory offers a grounded introduction to critical debates in medical anthropology and science studies, as well as a nuanced ethnography of the interplay between science, religion, race and history in the formation of Andean families. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One of the 'Big Five' studios of Hollywood's golden age, RKO is remembered today primarily for the famous films it produced, from King Kong and Citizen Kane to the Astaire-Rogers musicals. But its own story also provides a fascinating case study of film industry management during one of the most vexing periods in American social history. RKO Radio Pictures: A Titan is Born offers a vivid history of a thirty-year roller coaster of unstable finances, management battles, and artistic gambles. Richard Jewell has used unparalleled access to studio documents generally unavailable to scholars to produce the first business history of RKO, exploring its decision-making processes and illuminating the complex interplay between art and commerce during the heyday of the studio system. Behind the blockbuster films and the glamorous stars, the story of RKO often contained more drama than any of the movies it ever produced.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the 19th-century debate over whether the United States should be an explicitly Christian nation, California emerged as a central battleground. Racial groups that were perceived as godless and uncivilized were excluded from suffrage, and evangelism among Indians and the Chinese was seen as a politically incendiary act. Joshua Paddison sheds light on Reconstruction's impact on Indians and Asian Americans by illustrating how marginalized groups fought for a political voice, refuting racist assumptions with their lives, words, and faith. Reconstruction, he argues, was not merely a remaking of the South, but rather a multiracial and multiregional process of reimagining the nation.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Frontier Figures is a tour-de-force exploration of how the American West, both as physical space and inspiration, animated American music. Examining the work of such composers as Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson, Charles Wakefield Cadman, and Arthur Farwell, Beth E. Levy addresses questions of regionalism, race, and representation as well as changing relationships to the natural world to highlight the intersections between classical music and the diverse worlds of Indians, pioneers, and cowboys. Levy draws from an array of genres to show how different brands of western Americana were absorbed into American culture by way of sheet music, radio, lecture recitals, the concert hall, and film. Frontier Figures is a comprehensive illumination of what the West meant and still means to composers living and writing long after the close of the frontier. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Tibullus is considered one of the finest exponents of Latin lyric in the golden age of Rome, during the Emperor Augustus's reign, and his poetry retains its enduring beauty and appeal. Together these works provide an important document for anyone who seeks to understand Roman culture and sexuality and the origins of Western poetry.- The new translation by Rodney Dennis and Michael Putnam conveys to students the elegance and wit of the original poems.- Ideal for courses on classical literature, classical civilization, Roman history, comparative literature, and the classical tradition and reception.- The Latin verses will be printed side-by-side with the English text.- Explanatory notes and a glossary elucidate context and describe key names, places, and events.- An introduction by Julia Haig Gaisser provides the necessary historical and social background to the poet's life and works.- Includes the poems of Sulpicia and Lygdamus, transmitted with the text of Tibullus and formerly ascribed to him.…