university of california press jun 2012 (21 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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, and property owners. What are the implications of such paper mediation of relationships among people, things, places, and purposes This book explores this question.

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 - This is a hugely successful text which may have trade crossover. Known as the greatest traveler of premodern times, Abu Abdallah ibn Battuta was born in Morocco in 1304 and educated in Islamic law. At the age of twenty-one, he left home to make the holy pilgrimage to Mecca. This was only the first of a series of extraordinary journeys that spanned nearly three decades and took him not only eastward to India and China, but also north to the Volga River valley and south to Tanzania . By the time he returned to his home in Tangier, he had covered three times the distance allegedly covered by Marca Polo. Then he wrote about these adventures. This narrative has been known to specialists in Islamic and medieval history for years. Ross E. Dunns 1986 retelling of these tales, however, was the first work of scholarship to make the legendary travelers story accessible to a general audience. Now updated with revisions, a new preface, new illustrations, and an updated bibliography.

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 - This book looks at the documentary photography commissioned by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in the 1930s - works by Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, and Aaron Siskind, among others. Essays by the literary scholar Sara Blair and the art historian Eric Rosenberg delve deeply into the conceptions of trauma generally associated with the Great Depression. While the FSA photographers are often understood as socially conscious artists who intended to publicize the traumas suffered by average Americans during the Depression, the co-authors address how trauma and photography fit together and how, in the midst of that uneasy alliance, competing ideas of the documentary form took shape.

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.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Featuring essays by a multidisciplinary group of leading scholars and writers, this volume investigates the intersection of aerospace and Southern California through the lenses of anthropology, history of science and technology, labor, business, ethnicity and gender, architecture, and the environment.

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 - 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.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 showing the complex ways in which she as embodied the sexual and class violence of industrial life.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Shorebirds are model organisms for illustrating the principles of ecology and excellent subjects for research. Their mating systems are as diverse as any avian group, their migrations push the limits of endurance, and their foraging is easily studied in the open habitats of estuaries and freshwater wetlands. This text explores the ecology, conservation, and management of these fascinating birds. Beginning chapters examine phylogenetic relationships between shorebirds and other birds, and cover shorebird morphology, anatomy, and physiology. A section on breeding biology looks in detail at their reproductive biology. Because shorebirds spend much of their time away from breeding areas, a substantial section on non-breeding biology covers migration, foraging ecology, and social behavior. The text also covers shorebird demography, population size, and management issues related to habitat, predators, and human disturbances. Throughout, it emphasizes applying scientific knowledge to the conservation of shorebird populations, many of which are unfortunately in decline.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Declining bird populations, especially those that breed in North American grasslands, have stimulated extensive research on factors that affect nest failure and reduced reproductive success. Until now, this research has been hampered by the difficulties inherent in observing nest activities. Video Surveillance of Nesting Birds highlights the use of miniature video cameras and recording equipment yielding new important and some unanticipated insights into breeding bird biology, including previously undocumented observations of hatching, incubation, fledging, diurnal and nocturnal activity patterns, predator identification, predator-prey interactions, and cause-specific rates of nest loss. This seminal contribution to bird reproductive biology uses tools capable of generating astonishing results with the potential for fresh insights into bird conservation, management, and theory.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An overview of current research in the environmental and public health effects of mercury, a powerful neurotoxin and increasingly prevalent pollutant. Chapters cover methods for detecting and monitoring the presence of mercury in water, soil, and tissues, mercurys effects in a range of ecosystems, and matters of public policy, including the first thorough coverage of mercury risk in American reservoirs and on tribal lands. By integrating the diverse fields involved in studying mercury cycling (e.g. physics, biogeochemistry, public health, economics, sociology, global change biology, etc.), this volume fosters a more holistic, integrative approach to studying and understanding this important environmental problem that is attracting increasing political attention.

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. This book sheds light on reconstruction's impact on Indians and Asian Americans by illustrating how groups fought for a political voice, refuting racist assumptions with their lives, words, and faith.