Verlag: University Of California Press Jun 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0520383389 ISBN 13: 9780520383388
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Triest, Shirley (illustrator). Neuware - An elegant translation of the beloved epic tale of Prince Rama Few works of literature have inspired so vast an audience across so many radically different languages and cultures as the Ramayana, written in Sanskrit over 2,000 years ago by a poet known to us as Valmiki. William Buck has retold the story of Prince Ramaâ¿with all its nobility of spirit, courtly intrigue, heroic renunciation, fierce battles, and triumph of good over evilâ¿in a length and with a style that make the great epic accessible without compromising the spirit and lyricism of the original.
Verlag: University Of California Press Jun 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0520380622 ISBN 13: 9780520380622
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This is a must-read. Catalina de Onís offers conceptual tools that will inspire energy and environmental-justice actors for years to come while providing models for community-action scholarship. Energy is broadly construed in her analysis: the energy spent by humans creating 'energy infrastructures, ' the emotional labor of those advocating for energy justice, the physical labor of producing energy, and the energy mobilized by coalitional politics. She provocatively reframes Puerto Rico's place in worldwide energy-justice advocacy. The archipelago is simultaneously Global North and Global South, a heterogeneous place in terms of class and race. Onís centers the work of black-identified, women, feminist, and queer environmental organizing and is deeply invested in Latin American notions of horizontal solidarities.'--Alaí Reyes-Santos, author of Our Caribbean Kin: Race and Nation in the Neoliberal Antilles.
Verlag: University Of California Press Jun 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0520306368 ISBN 13: 9780520306363
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A Long Dark Shadow tackles an extraordinarily difficult topic--one that is misunderstood by the public, debated by scientific researchers, and contentious in clinical circles. Walker skillfully navigates the complex and delicate web of social, moral, and psychological issues in a narrative woven together with facts, personal accounts, compassion, and evidence-based recommendations. This book will help prevent harm and enhance well-being.'--Jill Levenson, Professor of Social Work, Barry University.
Verlag: University Of California Press Jun 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0520300114 ISBN 13: 9780520300118
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Arrangers are the hidden heroes of popular music, and this is their story, told by a pop musicologist as comfortable with orchestral charts as the Billboard charts. John Howland's deft delineation of the swanky sounds that link symphonic jazz, mood music, easy listening, adult contemporary, baroque pop, soft rock, orchestral soul, and aspirational hip-hop is masterful and full of wit. Mix yourself a dry martini, put on your headphones and your best reading glasses, and enter the lush world of luxe pop!'--Robert Fink, author of Repeating Ourselves: American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice.
Verlag: University Of California Press Jun 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0520382978 ISBN 13: 9780520382978
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Lawrence Kramer has been a pivotal figure in the development of the controversial new musicology, integrating the study of music with social and cultural issues. This accessible and eloquently written book continues and deepens the trajectory of Kramer's thinking as it boldly argues that humanistic, not just technical, meaning is a basic force in music history and an indispensable factor in how, where, and when music is heard. Kramer draws on a broad range of music and theory to show that the problem of musical meaning is not just an intellectual puzzle, but a musical phenomenon in its own right.
Verlag: University Of California Press Jun 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0520383133 ISBN 13: 9780520383135
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Written by one of the world's most distinguished historians of psychiatry, Psychiatry and Its Discontents provides a wide-ranging and critical perspective on the profession that dominates the treatment of mental illness. Andrew Scull traces the rise of the field, the midcentury hegemony of psychoanalytic methods, and the paradigm's decline with the ascendance of biological and pharmaceutical approaches to mental illness. The book's historical sweep is broad, ranging from the age of the asylum to the rise of psychopharmacology and the dubious triumphs of 'community care.' The essays in Psychiatry and Its Discontents provide a vivid and compelling portrait of the recurring crises of legitimacy experienced by 'mad-doctors,' as psychiatrists were once called, and illustrates the impact of psychiatry's ideas and interventions on the lives of those afflicted with mental illness.
Verlag: University Of California Press Jun 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0520382900 ISBN 13: 9780520382909
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'There is a growing literature on the perils as well as harm prevention potential of police regulation by recording. As a scholar of information studies, Bryce Newell offers intriguing theoretical and philosophical frames attentive to information politics and informed by fieldwork.'--Mary D. Fan, author of Camera Power: Policing, Proof, Privacy, and Audiovisual Big Data.
Verlag: University Of California Press Jun 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0520325028 ISBN 13: 9780520325029
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Zhao's fresh ideas, arguments, and methods are important and well done.''--Stephen C. Angle, Wesleyan University.
Verlag: University Of California Press Jun 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0520379403 ISBN 13: 9780520379404
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Spanning the period from the presidency of Woodrow Wilson to that of Donald Trump, American Health Crisis illuminates how despite the elevation of health care as a human right throughout the world vulnerable communities in the United States continue to be victimized by structural inequalities across disparate geographies, income levels, and ethnic groups. Martin Halliwell views contemporary public health crises through the lens of historical and cultural revisionings, suturing individual events together into a narrative of calamity that has brought us to our current crisis in health politics. American Health Crisis considers the future of public health in the United States and, presenting a reinvigorated concept of health citizenship, argues that now is the moment to act for lasting change.
Verlag: University Of California Press Jun 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0520343379 ISBN 13: 9780520343375
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Hungry for Revolution is a terrific history of the importance of food in struggles over national modernization and democracy in twentieth-century Chile. It radically reframes debates about consumption to show how food was central to empowering poor people as Chilean citizens.'--Heidi Tinsman, author of Buying into the Regime: Grapes and Consumption in Cold War Chile and the United States.
Verlag: University Of California Press Jun 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0520379756 ISBN 13: 9780520379756
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This book is a godsend. More than that, it's a perfect example of precisely the kind of research that is most needed now, at a moment when human rights have never been more delegitimized on the international stage and abuses more rampant across the Middle East and North Africa.'--Mark LeVine, author of Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam.
Verlag: University Of California Press Jun 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 0520295366 ISBN 13: 9780520295360
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Known as the 'Father of Church History,' Eusebius was bishop of Caesarea in Palestine and the leading Christian scholar of his day. His Ecclesiastical History is an irreplaceable chronicle of Christianity's early development, from its origin in Judaism, through two and a half centuries of illegality and occasional persecution, into a new era of tolerance and favor under the Emperor Constantine. In this book, Michael J. Hollerich recovers the reception of this text across time. As he shows, Eusebius adapted classical historical writing for a new 'nation,' the Christians, with a distinctive theo-political vision. Eusebius's book left its mark on Christian historical writing from late antiquity to the early modern period, across linguistic, cultural, political, and religious boundaries, until its encounter with modern historicism and postmodernism. Making Christian History demonstrates Eusebius's vast influence throughout history, not simply in shaping Christian culture but also as his work itself has become contested territory as that culture has been constantly reevaluated, reformed, and resisted over the past 1,700 years'.