university of california press mär 2007 (13 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A Seat At The Table is a valuable and insightful book about a too long overlooked topic - the right of Native American people to have their sacred sites and practices honored and protected. Let's hope it gets read far and wide, enough to bring about a real shift in policy and consciousness.'--Bonnie Raitt'Phil Cousineau has created a fine companion book to accompany the important film he and Gary Rhine have made in defense of the religious traditions of Native Americans. [Native Americans] are recognized the world over as keepers of a vital piece of the Creator's original orders, and yet they are regarded as little more than squatters at home. This book features impressive interviews, beautiful illustrations, and gives a voice to the voiceless.'--Peter Coyote.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'One of the great leaders of our time in American medicine tackles one of the great health-care issues of our generation: the design, fate, and principles of Medicare as a system. Care for our aging population and coverage through Medicare provide key testing grounds for our nation's moral and technical capacity to extend health and relieve suffering. Dr. Cassel is unique in her ability to bridge the worlds of clinical science, health-care policy, and social ethics as she helps us think through how best to meet that test. This book is a welcome guide and a clear charter for a nation that cares--or ought to care--deeply about addressing the needs of its aging population.'--Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1938 Wittgenstein delivered a short course of lectures on aesthetics to a small group of students at Cambridge. The present volume has been compiled from notes taken down at the time by three of the students: Rush Rhees, Yorick Smythies, and James Taylor. They have been supplemented by notes of conversations on Freud (to whom reference was made in the course on aesthetics) between Wittgenstein and Rush Rhees, and by notes of some lectures on religious belief. As very little is known of Wittgenstein's views on these subjects from his published works, these notes should be of considerable interest to students of contemporary philosophy. Further, their fresh and informal style should recommend Wittgenstein to those who find his 'Tractatus' and 'Philosophical Investigations' a little formidable.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Didier Fassin makes a compelling case against behaviorist approaches that dominate AIDS research. Using a vivid mosaic of public controversies and ethnographic vignettes, Fassin works through the controversial denials of South African President Thabo Mbeki and the precautionary policies of his Health Ministers within histories of apartheid, epidemics which justified segregation, and secret biological warfare plans of Project Coast, as well as wider battles over the ethical protocols of AIDS testing and widening inequalities. Fassin writes with compassion and deep moral inquietude.'--Michael M.J. Fischer, author of 'Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice'''When Bodies Remember' is an extraordinary exercise in counterpoint between the disquieting politics and the subjective experience of AIDS in South Africa. Didier Fassin deftly leads his readers into the 'heart of darkness' that we may comprehend this monstrous tragedy, literally unspeakable for so many, as one that touches our shared humanity. He insists that recognition of inequality rather than difference, and of embodied history rather than culture, are the keys to overcoming indifference, inciting in its place moral outrage and action. This brilliant, sensitive ethnography should be read by everyone who cares about the kind of world we live in.'--Margaret Lock, author of 'Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Provides a portrait of the dynamic role religion plays in the everyday experiences of Americans over the course of their lives. This book draws from a study of close to two hundred mostly Protestant and Catholic men and women who were born in the 1920s and interviewed in adolescence, and again in the 1950s, 1970s, 1980s, and late 1990s.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this enlightening and timely work, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo highlights the voices, experiences, and views of Mexican and Central American women who care for other people's children and homes, as well as the outlooks of the women who employ them in Los Angeles. The new preface looks at the current issues facing immigrant domestic workers in a global context.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Douglas Sackman peels an orange and finds inside nothing less than an American agricultural-industrial culture in all its inventive, exploitative, transformative, and destructive power. A beautifully researched and intellectually expansive book.'--Elliott West, author of 'The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book comprises material on colour which was written by Wittgenstein in the last eighteen months of his life. It is one of the few documents which shows him concentratedly at work on a single philosophical issue. The principal theme is the features of different colours, of different kinds of colour (metallic colour, the colours of flames, etc.) and of luminosity--a theme which Wittgenstein treats in such a way as to destroy the traditional idea that colour is a simple and logically uniform kind of thing.This edition consists of Wittgenstein's basic German text, together with an English translation.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South with new material that situates the book in the context of subsequent movement literature.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This compilation will prove highly useful in its assessment of figure and landscape painting; criticism and exhibition strategies; and social, economic, and political history. Distinct art historical voices are brought together, offering the reader a broad spectrum of approaches to the subject.'--Margaret Werth, author of 'The Joy of Life: The Idyllic in French Art, circa 1900' 'The texts that Lewis presents are knowledgeably and intelligently chosen and cover the basic revisionist trends in recent scholarship in a broad and admirably thoughtful way.'--Jack Flam, author of 'Matisse and Picasso: The Story of their Rivalry and Friendship' 'Mary Tompkins Lewis's anthology provides a welcome tool not only for courses on Impressionism itself, but also for anyone interested in teaching a methods course in art history.'--James Rubin, author of 'Impressionist Cats and Dogs: Pets in the Painting of Modern Life'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Comfortably intimate--classically adroit in its formal wit and invention--altogether unique yet in no way excluding, this meticulously edited edition of a master poet's collected works gives us the defining bridge from the 'New American Poetry' of the '50s to that poetry now contemporary on both coasts and in all conditions. No one ever recognized the people with whom he lived more particularly than did Ted Berrigan, and no one ever brought them home to a reader with such unaggressive and persistent power. This is a great, great book for all seasons of the mind and heart.'--Robert Creeley'Ted Berrigan was a leader of the New York School; his crazy energy embodied that movement and the city itself. It is wonderful to have his Collected Poems>'A comprehensive and carefully chronicled volume that puts Ted Berrigan in historical context as one of the most influential poets of his generation. His poems: deft, light, definitely humorous, irreverent, poignant, 'marvelous and tough.' The truth doing its work, 'the great man doing the ordinary thing, ' with a quick ear and a quick tongue, revealing the personal in the universal. He gives you his full attention--'about to be born again thinking of you.' '--Joanne Kyger'In a life devoted to experimental art, Ted Berrigan shaped his poetry and the space he occupied with a bold artistry based on his playful but powerfully skeptical view of the world. He wondered what might actually be captured within the pages of a book, but The Collected Poems>'A singular balance of personal-historical vision and sentiment both sweet and sour, developed within the fractured verbalism of the late twentieth century found lyric, creates in Ted Berrigan's poems the unique colors of a particularly lived (and still intensely living) ensemble of moments.'--Tom Clark, author of Late Returns: A Memoir of Ted Berrigan'Some people are just more real than others. I don't know another way to say it. Ted Berrigan is totally real and he has fashioned an important sound for all of us to listen to. He put it all together just before everyone else in his time, our time, got going. America is lucky to count him as one of its great poets.'--Peter Gizzi.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This indispensable guide for students of both Chinese and women's history synthesizes recent research on women in twentieth-century China. Written by a leading historian of China, it surveys more than 650 scholarly works, discussing Chinese women in the context of marriage, family, sexuality, labor, and national modernity. In the process, Hershatter offers keen analytic insights and judgments about the works themselves and the evolution of related academic fields. The result is both a practical bibliographic tool and a thoughtful reflection on how we approach the past.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Neotropical ant genus Linepithema is revised at the species level for the first time. Following extensive synonymy, nineteen species are recognized, including six new species. Taxonomic keys, diagnoses, illustrations, and discussions of the biology, distribution, natural history, and taxonomy are provided.