university of california press feb 1999 (5 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Considering everything from Nike ads, amaciated models, and surgically altered breasts to the culture wars and the O.J. Simpson trial, author Susan Bordo deciphers the hidden life of cultural images and the impact they have on our lives. With compassion, honesty, and intelligence, Bordo questions the basis of our concepts of reality. 31 b&w photos.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Anthropologist Katherine Newman offers an ethnographic examination of the fall from middle class status by Americans who thought their lives were secure. In addition to brief revisions throughout the book, chapter two of the original edition has been rewritten and the data updated with reference to studies done in the 90s. Newman has also provided a new preface and a supplementary bibliography.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Tells the story of British expatriate Frank Calvert's development as an archaeologist, his adventures and discoveries. This book focuses on the twists and turns of his turbulent relationship with archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, the resulting gains for archaeology, and the successful conclusion of their common quest - discovering Homer's Troy.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The California Lectura Dantis is the long-awaited companion to the three-volume verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum of Dante's 'Divine Comedy.' Mandelbaum's translation, with facing original text and with illustrations by Barry Moser, has been praised by Robert Fagles as 'exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths,' and by the late James Merrill as 'lucid and strong . . . with rich orchestration . . . overall sweep and felicity . . . and countless free, brilliant, utterly Dantesque strokes.' Charles Simic called the work 'a miracle. A lesson in the art of translation and a model (an encyclopedia) for poets. The full range and richness of American English is displayed as perhaps never before.'This collection of commentaries on the first part of the 'Comedy' consists of commissioned essays, one for each canto, by a distinguished group of international scholar-critics. Readers of Dante will find this 'Inferno' volume an enlightening and indispensable guide, the kind of lucid commentary that is truly adapted to the general reader as well as the student and scholar.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Here is the first translation into English of the complete 'Yin-Hai Jing-Wei,' a classic fifteenth-century text on Chinese ophthalmology. As one of the few original manuscripts on traditional Chinese medicine translated into a Western language, this work offers an unprecedented view of the practice of medicine, and specifically eye care, in premodern China. Superbly rendered from the classical Chinese and extensively annotated by Paul U. Unschuld and Jurgen Kovacs, the text provides detailed descriptions of the etiology, symptomatology, and therapy of every eye disease known to fifteenth-century Chinese practitioners. The translators' introduction also provides the first in-depth analysis of the development of this specialty within Chinese medicine. As a source for comparative studies of Chinese and Western medicine and numerous other issues in the history of medicine and Chinese thought, the 'Yin-Hai Jing-Wei' has no equal in the Western world.