yale university press mär 1999 (9 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What happens when the Internet is used as a forum for public debate Does the speed and power of computer-mediated communication foster democratic discourse and protest This fascinating book examines two examples of social action on the Internet in order to evaluate the impact of the Net on our social and political life.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Sketching a new portrait of the human self in this thought-provoking book, leading American philosopher Calvin O. Schrag challenges bleak deconstructionist and postmodernist views of the self as something ceaselessly changing, without origin or purpose. Discussing the self in new vocabulary, he depicts an action-oriented self defined by the ways in which it communicates. The self, says Schrag, is open to understanding through its discourse, its actions, its being with other selves, and its experience of transcendence.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The complex relationship between Mozart and his father has fascinated music lovers for centuries, and much effort has been spent examining the letters exchanged by the two men. This provocative book offers a new reading of these letters, placing them in the context of the stylized strategies of the eighteenth-century epistolary tradition and arguing that they reveal a rebelliousness deep within Mozart's life and work.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work explores the changing attitudes toward death and the dead in northern Protestant communities during the 19th century. It offers insights into the construction of an 'American way of death', illuminating the central role of the Civil War and tracing the birth of the funeral industry.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this even-handed and fascinating book, two leading tort experts explain to lay readers the strengths and weaknesses of our tort law system. They discuss tort law's compensatory and deterrent functions; its delays, fortuity, and high transaction costs (mostly in lawyer's fees); and its role in discouraging harmful - as well as, on occasion, useful - activities. Bell and O'Connell conclude with an objective review of such current reform enactments and proposals as no-fault insurance, caps on damages, and contingency fee reform.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This second volume on Norfolk provides a comprehensive survey from prehistoric times to the present day. The 17th- and 18th-century treasures of King's Lynn are explored, as well as the market towns of Swaffham and Wymondham. Castle remains and medieval churches are also explored.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Until recently, natural resource management of such commodities as timber and wildlife was driven largely by the desire to exploit these resources. During the past three decades, however, ecologists have warned that this approach to natural resource management could have unforeseen consequences because it ignored how ecosystems function within the landscape. Federal agencies that oversee forest and wildlife resources have begun to implement different schemes of ecosystem management, schemes that vary enormously among agencies. Contributors to this volume -- leading experts who are agency personnel as well as researchers -- now clarify the key elements of sound ecosystem management and offer prescriptions for implementing them.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A survey of the range of craft disciplines and key practitioners from the pre-World War I years to the 1990s. It shows how the crafts movement emerged in response to generalized anxiety about the production, commodification and consumption of objects in an industrialised society.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This translation is an important research tool for all philosophers interested in Aquinas's philosophy of mind and epistemology. . . .Every library of both undergraduate and graduate philosophy programs needs this work, and all of us interested in the history of medieval philosophy of mind should have this new translation on our desks. Highly recommended.'-Anthony J. Lisska, The Medieval Review.