yale university press feb 2012 (12 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An innovative approach to standing up for your values in the workplace--inspired by a popular program from the Aspen Institute.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Published in association with the International Sacred Literature Trust.'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A wide-ranging historical account of the significance of scientific knowledge, situating the culture of science in relation to other cultural forces in Muslim societies.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Provides an account of the author's quest to reconstruct the lives of her nineteenth-century ancestors. This title challenges many of the accepted truths about African-American history, including the assumption that the phrase nineteenth-century black Americans means enslaved people.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Spiders, objects of eternal human fascination, are found in many places: on the ground, in the air, and even under water. This book tells the intriguing story of how spiders evolved over 400 million years. It describes the trials and triumphs of spiders as they use silk to negotiate an ever-changing environment.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A biography of the 1930s heavyweight champion which explores his impact on sport, and his country, and his significance to African-Americans. Richly researched, it presents the full range of Louis's power, in and out of the boxing ring.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Through the means of four powerful and extraordinary narratives from the nineteenth-century German underworld, this book deftly explores an intriguing array of questions about criminality, punishment and social exclusion in modern German history. Drawing on hitherto unexplored legal documents and police files, Richard J. Evans recounts the epic adventures of an art teacher imprisoned for forging bank notes, then transported to Siberia with a gang of violent Prussian felons in 1802; the tragic sufferings of a drunken female vagrant whipped repeatedly by the authorities in Bremen in the 1820s and 30s for the crime of persistently returning to the city after being expelled; the comical and fantastic personal and political deceptions of a con man arrested in the 1860s for not paying his hotel bill; and the ironic career of a young woman who drifts into prostitution after bearing an illegitimate child and discovers the underworld to be much less cruel and immoral than the 'respectable' society from which she was rejected.Each of these narratives sheds light on the qualities of German penal policy in the nineteenth century, when a regime of public and often symbolic physical punishment was transformed into one of silent, regimented incarceration. Evans investigates the complexity of the relations between deviance and control, the ambiguities of criminality in modern German history, and the ways literary models influenced perceptions of - and behaviour in - the criminal world. Richard J. Evans, formerly Professor of History and Vice-Master, Birkbeck College, University of London, is now Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. Among his books are the landmark studies 'Death in Hamburg', 'Rituals of Retribution' and 'In Defence of History'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Focuses on the transformation of Soho between the late Victorian era and the end of WWII.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Kenneth Tynan (1927-1980) lived one of the most intriguing theatre lives of the twentieth century. A brilliant writer, critic and agent provocateur he made friends or enemies of nearly every major actor, playwright, impresario and movie mogul of the 1950s, 60s and 70s. Working on each side of the Atlantic during various periods in his career, Tynan wrote for the 'Evening Standard', the 'Observer' and the 'New Yorker'; was lured by Laurence Olivier in the early 1960s to become dramaturge of Britain's newly formed National Theatre; and spent his final years in Los Angeles. This biography offers the first complete appraisal of Tynan's powerful contribution to post-war British theatre, set against the context of the fifties, sixties and seventies and of his own turbulent life. Shellard probes beneath the celebrity myths to uncover Tynan the private man and theatre genius. He draws on Tynan's own extensive personal papers and diaries, taped interviews with theatre professionals who knew him and fascinating letters to such correspondents as Tennessee Williams, Marlene Dietrich, George Devine, Peter Brook, Alec Guinness and Terence Rattigan.Shellard highlights Tynan's early writings, when the brilliant young critic came to national prominence, and discusses how Tynan gained a left-wing readership, took his place at the vanguard of the new realist movement, and helped to establish subsidized theatre. He shows how, through indefatigable battles against theatre censorship and railings against the myopia of a politically and culturally insular Britain, Tynan helped create some of the most controversial theatrical events of the 1960s and 70s, including 'Oh Calcutta!'. Exploring the public and private sides of Tynan, Shellard reveals an outspoken, explicit and sometimes savage critic who ranks among the most influential theatre figures of the twentieth century. Dominic Shellard was Reader in English Literature at the University of Sheffield. Educated at Oxford, he is the author of 'Shakespeare: A Writer's Life' (1998), 'British Theatre Since the War' (1999) and two volumes on the critic Harold Hobson (1995).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The legal and technical rules governing flows of information are out of balance, argues Julie E. Cohen in this original analysis of information law and policy. Flows of cultural and technical information are overly restricted, while flows of personal information often are not restricted at all. The author investigates the institutional forces shaping the emerging information society and the contradictions between those forces and the ways that people use information and information technologies in their everyday lives. She then proposes legal principles to ensure that people have ample room for cultural and material participation as well as greater control over the boundary conditions that govern flows of information to, from, and about them.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Chinese language programme that features a dramatic series filmed entirely in China. By combining a story line with a wealth of educational materials, it helps students progress from listening and speaking to the more difficult skills of reading and writing Chinese characters, building grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation skills along the way.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This original and provocative book looks at an important constitutional freedom that today is largely forgotten: the right of assembly. While this right lay at the heart of some of the most important social movements in American history--abolitionism, women's suffrage, the labor and civil rights movements--courts now prefer to speak about the freedoms of association and speech. But the right of 'expressive association' undermines protections for groups whose purposes are demonstrable not by speech or expression but through ways of being. John D. Inazu demonstrates that the forgetting of assembly and the embrace of association lose sight of important dimensions of our constitutional tradition.